West POV

I locked up my Pelican's rear door and moved to the boxes and crates that the women had found on the mountain, I would have thought that a few crates of guns and ammunition or a couple of lovely mongoose bikes being in those crates.

There were about 6 crates, and a big container crate, "I'll leave the biggest till last, now, let's see what goodies we have in these crates" I say whilst rubbing my hands together, and as I thought, weapons and ammo, "hmm, Battle Rifles, these can fire 3 rounds a piece and are accurate with the scope, not really for extreme ranges but effective in close to medium range combat" I said, there are 2 crates with Battle Rifles, each crate contained 20 rifles, then I opened 2 crates of ammunition for the Battle Rifles, each crate had 2400 rounds loaded into ready magazines, and had 2000 spare cartridges under that, the last 2 crates had 50cal machine gun turrets, these were triple barrelled, same type as the ones on our warthogs. They also came with 2 belts of 200 round each.

"Not a bad haul, ladies, there is a decent amount of weaponry, a considerable amount of firepower, but now it's time for the grand prize, I'm hoping for a warthog, but these containers can have anything in them, from alot of guns and ammunition to a vehicle or engine compartments" I said to the girls, each looking at the crate with excitement, but I saw a number and name on the crate, it was faded from entering the atmosphere, but I could have sworn I saw this crate before.

I break the latches and push the sides down, I saw what was in it before anyone else did, "oh my god, it's is the..." I said in amazement.

The sides of the container, with the roof piece being the final part to crash to the floor, revealing the suit (as seen in the picture on top of the page) the women looked at the suit and back at me, "what's that ?" Asked Maria in amazement, "this is the T1 Prototype Battle Suit, only 5 of these were made, 3 were never fully completed and the fourth one was used in combat, but the pilot used the Self destruct protocol, as he was initiating the COLE Protocol, this is the only one as it was not at the armoury when the explosion from the self destruct destroyed the whole compound, and the related data of the suits" I say, "it looks like your armour" said Veronica, "it is, as it is a high tech piece of equipment, like my armour, it can turn you into a one man army, but requires special training for proper use or you could end up getting yourself badly hurt or even killed" I replied.

After dealing with the weapons and putting them in a safe place to where I could keep an eye on these weapons till I find a way to deal with them, maybe I would teach everyone how to use these weapons, and send more people to search for more weapons and ammunition and even explosives, "so, when will you be teaching us how to fight with those weapons ?" A voice said from behind me, I turn to see Maria leaning against the back of one of the ammo crates, "who said I would show you to use those weapons ?" I said in a mocking tone, to which Maria replied, "since you are staying in our village, also, we have sent more people out to collect what ever has fallen a few miles in that direction" she said in a rather polite manner.

"*sigh* get me tomorrow, I'll teach 20 of you the basics on how to use and shoot the Battle Rifles, now, you should be going to sleep, I'm going to explore the nearby forest, I'll be back by morning" I said and grabbed my Assault rifle and the Shotgun, I was about to move, I felt a hand on my shoulder, "you should really rest, you.. You can stay at mine for the night, if you'd like to" Maria said, "I would love to, but I'm a soldier that needs to act, as that is what I've always done because my entire life has been about war and fighting" I say and walk off, "don't think about following me, and don't worry, I'll be here in the morning" I say, then take off in a full sprint for about 5 minutes.

*************** SKIP AHEAD MOST OF THE NIGHT *********************

I had just about enough of patrolling and making out the area when a small rustling in a bush about 10 metres away made me activate my active camo, I haven't made a sound for the whole night, it had been completely quiet so someone is moving about out here, as the animals haven't been near this forest, I waited, my grip on my weapon was tightened and steady, then I saw it, movement, it was was heading towards me.

I go prone and waited to see what was coming my way, I would have never guessed, a group of girls, and a couple of males, all of them had bows and arrows, there was 4 girls carrying 2 poles, with one wild pig on each pole, a hunting party.
I got a good look at the party,they wore white to greyish clothing that seemed good for a warm day, as in shorts and white vest jacket, they even had white paint placed on their faces and were extremely quiet, then one girl, had no face paint, stuck her hand up, ordering the rest of the group to stop, "we'll wait here for the night, gather some wood, we'll have a small fire to cook our food, then set up watch so everyone can get some sleep, we are only 4 miles from the cave, we will finish that trip tomorrow" she said in a clear voice, full of authority.

The bad thing is that I'm practically in the middle of the group right now, I doubt that their bows will do much damage to me but I really don't want to fight them if I don't have to, I waited till the group put there attention to the fight or to sort out a watch, then I tried to make my move, I slowly moved away when something flashed on my hud, my active camo didn't fully recharge, probably damaged from the ship when it exploded, I must really take this armour off to find any problems.
But back to the main problem, this was gonna turn into a Spartan 1337 moment, the camo deactivated and all the group turned to me, shocked to see me appear from fin air, then they all pointed their bows at me, "god damn it" I said, in barely audible voice.