Life in the wasteland

Crow returned to his home, four days after he killed Ash, the leader of Python's Fang. They are the group he betrayed for money. As he got closer to his hiding spot he spotted two cars parked in front of his cave.

Crow parked his bike and took his rifle. "Raiders? No... their emblem isn't from any raider group or bandits..."

Some of the men went out of the game bringing some of Crow's belongings. They also pushed a large box out and hooked it to their cars.

"So it's a new group then." Crow ejected the rifle's magazine and put in a special bullet. He then shot it at the box. Conveniently they started moving after the Tracker was placed.

"Now to check what is left." He folded the rifle and drove toward the cave.

Entering the cave it was almost empty, only leaving some metal scraps. "looks like they didn't find it." Crow checked the ground below his bed.

Removing the bed it revealed a metal box, in it is a brand new exo-suit in pure black with no power core. Crow took the box he got from Ash and took out the power core in it, placing it in the exo-suit.

This exo-suit is the replacement for his which is already worn down and old. Although it isn't the newest model it is still quite new, equipped with a stealth unit and a radar jammer.

"This felt a bit different, I might need time to get adjusted to this new suit." He said after switching suits.

He then went on to scrap the old suit and took whatever that is still useful like the shield generator, temperature equalizer, power core and the night vision unit. After that he went and added it to the new exo-suit, essentially upgrading it. The suit's appearance is now closer to the old suit, if described in one word it would be 'chimeric'.

"Tch, the weld is not that good. if only they didn't take my generator, I wouldn't need to waste this power core." he sighs and looks around. "what else is left..."

After looking around the cave he found nothing. "They really took everything huh? even the empty battery. well whatever, where are they now?" He went to check with the panel from the bike. "south east, so they are resting at that oasis, the sun is setting. Let's get going then."

That night at the Oasis.

Two men were staying watch, one of them had cybernetically enhanced limbs and the other wore thick power armor powered with a large power core on his chest.

"Hey Mark, why didn't we just go to Eden instead of stealing stuff and selling them at the black market? I heard living in the slums over there is better than living out here in the wasteland."

The man sighs. "Haaah... how many times do I need to tell you, that place is just a myth, it's probably a trap set to lure people."

"But, you know... maybe that place really exist, why don't we just go there-"

"Lex! Look, do you think in this time of age someone is going to be charitable enough to give food and water out for free? Think Lex, THINK!"

"but well, I do get what you mean. If a place such as that really existed I wouldn't mind betraying the black market." He the men chuckled. "Well it's almost time, wake Ryan and Tim, we're switching."

The man named Lex went inside the makeshift tent, but then.

BOOM!

A plasma grenade exploded from inside.

Mark, seeing the explosion, stood up and took the rifle beside him. "WHOSE THERE! SHOW YOURSELF!" As he said that he felt something cold right behind his head.

It was Crow putting his folded rifle right behind his head like a hand cannon. "Heh! Fine you win, just quickly finish me off."

"Alright" Crow replied before pulling the trigger putting a hole right at his forehead.

As his body fell to the ground the person from before came back, having half of his body burnt from the grenade. "YOU! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS! YOU COULD HAVE JUST TOOK THE ITEM AND LEAVE US ALONE!" he shouted.

"hah." A slight laughter came out of Crow.

"What's so funny?!"

"You're one of those I see."

"What?"

"Do you think your group will do that? returning the item you stole to the owner?" Crow said while wiping the blood on his helmet.

"Ugh..." The man seemed hesitant.

"Of course you won't" Crow ejected the empty shell.

"Kuh..." The man fell down as his cybernetic leg stopped working.

"Well then see you in the afterlife." Crow pointed his folded rifle at him.

BANG!

The night went silent with only the sound of fire burning.

"Now to see what they have." Crow started looting the corpses and the remains of their campsite.

There he got an old model of a power armor along with its power core, scraps from cybernetic limbs, some weapons, his box, two cars, one a medium sized cargo truck and another car with a mounted turret on the back. There are also two power generators, one powered with solar power and the other from heat, which was his. although the food they have could only last him for about one week as for the water they were refilling it at the oasis.

"Looks like the ate all the food from my place, with this amount of food and the size of their group their base should be one or two day far, but them being from the black market doesn't look like a good idea if I go after them." he stood there silent for a while wondering what to do next.

"Alright it's decided, I will go sell some of their stuff and trade it for some food, a city around one week away is probably that one huh? Well then let's pack things up and get going before others come."