Kano clutched at his side as he contorted on the ground.

"Argh!" he grunted out in agony. He looked down at the rapidly expanding pool of blood coming from his chest and then winced. "I'm hit! I'm bleeding out! This is it!"

"No no no!" Tanya countered. She pressed her own hand over the entry site to staunch the bleeding. In her heavily accented Russian she commanded to him, "You WILL be alright! Do you hear me, Davida?" Two bangs sounded from the tree line and two small tufts of grass near Tanya and Kano rippled from the impacts. Tanya replaced her right hand with her left over the wound site and picked up her ray gun again. She covered Kano's body with her own as she aimed and fired two shots in the directions from which the projectiles had come from.

"Doctor Russell!" Tanya beckoned to Helena, but the chief medical officer of Moon Base Alpha was already on her way.

With renewed strength Helena got John back up, and together they hobbled to the doorway of the ship. Sandra covered their approach. When Helena keyed the door with her commlock Koenig gestured for her to set him down.

"No," he declared resignedly. "I'll stay out here and cover this side. Go help Kano!"

Helena put him down as gently as she could with glad admiration towards him that even in his state he recognized that Kano was worse off then he was. John put out his hand. "Give me your weapon. I dropped mine…out there." He gestured in the direction where he had left Paul Morrow and Chief Astronaut Alan Carter fighting the aliens.

Helena darted inside the eagle after handing off her ray gun. She scooped up her medical bag in a swift motion. From the speaker on her commlock she could hear Tanya beckoning her again in an loud and urgent but not panicky voice.

"Come quickly, Doctor! David is hurt bad!"

'Yeah, I know, Tanya,' Helena thought to herself. 'I could see the fountain of blood from the other side of the ship.'

Before exiting out the door again, Helena paused before the weapons rack. She picked up the sole laser rifle that was hung there and jetted out the door. She ducked under the command module section of the eagle and ran over to Kano and Tanya. Sandra was shouting out, "Paul!? Paul!?" as she covered the right side of the craft with Commander Koenig.

"Here!" Helena tossed the laser rifle to Tanya as she knelt down to tend to the writhing Kano.

"Yes. Oh, thank you!" Tanya received the larger weapon gratefully. She lifted herself off of Kano to give Dr. Russell access to him. Much of his blood was upon her shirt oddly matching the color of her red Mission Control sleeve. The spurting blood immediately resumed.

"Augh!" Kano screamed. He wisely clutched his own arm to the wound site. "It hurts so bad." Seeing that the medically white sleeved Doctor Russell was now by his side he managed to ask in an agonized but doubtful plea, "Can you stop it?"

"Yes," Helena responded. She was already donning electro-radiation goggles to examine through his flesh. "But I can't administer any pain shunts until I get that projectile out. Move your arm!"

Kano moved his arm in compliance with a loud moan. The blood was fairly overwhelming but Helena could see through it with the trauma goggles that gave her x-ray penetration of his chest. She administered a hypo spray of anesthetic to the whole area. It wouldn't do much for the comparatively large amount of pain Kano was receiving but it might stop him writhing a little bit.

Just then the side of the Eagle showered with a burst of sparks as a projectile fired from the forest ricocheted off of it. Helena was about to ask Tanya to do something about that when she saw that Tanya was already in response mode.

The insect like creatures were pretty well camouflaged with their natural coloration so they were difficult to make out in the midst of the jungle foliage. Tanya had been waiting with the laser rifle braced against her knee for a clear shot. She now made out the flash from an enemy creature's weapon. She re-aimed the crosshairs over to follow the length of the barrel back to the creature that had just fired on them. The greenish, almost spider-like body could just barely be made out as it made complicated movements to manually reload its primitive firearm.

Tanya hissed-out as she squeezed the trigger. "Oh. Now I see you...you mother-vlasovech!"