It was a dark and stormy night...
Okay, do the bad guys know he's a helicopter pilot? Do they know he's heading for the medevac ship or have they scattered?
I can start any 206L in under 30 seconds button-push to button-release. Quicker if my life is depending on it, say 20 or 25 if I don't care if it overtemps (and I wouldn't, believe me). Just hope I remember the dang ol' fuel valve. Dang ol' LongRanger pilots like to shut them off so they don't run the dang ol' battery down.
Once I get 40% N1 or so, the throttle goes to full and the collective goes half-way up. Damn the torque/TOT! Total time from button-push to skids getting air underneath, 30 seconds, max.
If they don't hear me until the engine actually lights off and it takes them 20 seconds to get to the helipad, I've got a chance. Slim chance, yeah, but a chance. I'm going to take some rounds, I know, but like I said, it's my life we're talking about here. I'm not on my freakin' Commercial checkride.
Maybe I make it, maybe I don't. But by God, I'll take that chance.