Garrett and Jackie walked with the hunter over to the teleporter.
"I'm James, hunter."
"I'm Garrett, army, and this is Jackie."
"You're with the military?"
"I was."
"Good, so you know how to use weapons."
"Yes. Both of us were caught up in some combat earlier today."
"You were down there already today?"
"Affirmative. Wasn't as bad as I was told it was."
"So you had a good partner?"
"No. We were alone."
"How'd you get down alone?"
"Oh. We landed on Ragol on a different ship. We found it on another planet."
"So you're going back to this ship?"
"Yeah. We need to get some things. You can help yourself to some weapons from the armory if you wish."
"See you on the surface."
James hit a pad on the teleporter and several seconds later Garrett was on the surface of the planet again. James was taking out a pair of the laser swords.
"You two don't have weapons and you survived alone? I don't suppose you have gotten a level rating yet from the guild."
"I don't think so. And we do have weapons."
Garrett took out his Kalashnikov and Jackie took out her M4. Garrett checked the clip and chambered a round.
"I've never seen one of those before."
"That's because it came from back on Earth."
"Earth?"
"My planet."
"Does that use photon technology?"
"No lasers here."
Garrett could hear what he suspected was the electronic grid turning on. However, there were three of the large clawed beasts that had tunneled into the area that the three were in. James began to run towards the creatures, but Garrett quickly took aim at one of the creatures and shot it in the head. Jackie, whose M4 was set to fire three round bursts, fired three rounds into another one of the creatures as soon as it entered the room from a tunnel that it had dug. Garrett quickly fired two more shots and downed the third beast.
"Damn. Either those are very powerful guns or you've got a very high level rating."
"Oh, you haven't seen a powerful gun. If I had my Desert Eagle I could cut your head off."
"Desert Eagle?"
"It's a powerful handgun. There were very few guns on Earth that used lasers and photons."
"Oh. So the Desert Eagle was your most powerful gun?"
"No way. It was my most powerful handgun, but still the Berret sniper or the old M60 light machine gun or the Remington six-guage shotgun or the LAW antitank rocket launcher were far more powerful."
"So you had a lot of weapons."
"No. Most of those were the army's weapons. I only ever got my hands on the Remington and the Desert Eagle and this Kalashnikov out of the army."
"Oh. So, where is this ship?"
"Follow me."
Garrett climbed up into a tree and looked out. He could see where the hundred foot tall trees had been flattened by the ship, leaving a gap the shape of the ship. The tops of the fuselage and wings shone brightly in the sunlight. Garrett jumped out of the tree and began heading off in the direction of the ship. Jackie climbed over the hill and followed him.
"You have to stay inside the protected area!" James yelled.
James was only answered by several shots and the sounds of falling animals. He climbed over the wall and saw that Garrett and Jackie were waiting for him.
"No. No you don't. We have these guns, and these guns say it isn't dangerous here."
James followed Garrett and Jackie through the forest. Garrett stopped every few minutes and shot at distant beasts that were in their direction. He continued to walk forward, only himself and Jackie, with their firearms, seeing action.
"James, why are you using a sword? Shouldn't you use a gun?"
"I'm not very accurate, and I'm not used to working with rangers."
"Actually, I'm not with the Rangers. I was with the Green Berets."
"I mean rangers as in people that use guns primarily."
"Oh. But don't you have a gun that you can use?"
"I don't have one with me."
Garrett took out the rifle that he had taken from the ship and put it into James' hand.
"Can you use that?"
"No, sorry."
"What do you mean you can't use it? You just point and shoot!"
"I was only trained on how to use handguns and mechguns."
"Why don't they train you to use every weapon?"
"Because I chose to be a hunter instead of a ranger."
Garrett took the rifle back and put it back into his inventory. He continued on, firing occasionally at beasts that they came across. After walking for nearly a mile, the Gallea came into view. Garrett continued to walk until he reached the ship's door. James was shocked to see such a large vessel just sitting on the floor of the forest. Garrett walked in and began transferring things into his armor to bring them to his apartment. He instructed James to go to the storage room that contained the armory and told him to take out any weapons or armor that he wanted. James returned, saying that he had taken a handgun and a brand. He now held a blue sword instead of the green one that he had previously held. Garrett and Jackie had transferred everything that they had wanted to take into their armor.
The three left the ship, closing the door once again. They followed a trail of bullet holes in trees and of pools of blood from dead animals until they reached the hill that opened up into the room where the teleporter was. There were more animals here, which Garrett allowed James to kill with his handgun. James was right about his accuracy, as several shots just sailed by the three beasts and struck the ground around them. The laser rounds also did not have much effect on the beasts, as when they hit they just caused shallow craters from burning. For contrast, Garrett shot a single round into the head of a beast. The heavy uranium shell flattened out, causing the shell to exit through the back of its head and leave an exit wound several inches across.
Garrett returned through the teleporter with Jackie and James. He went back to the residential area and took out each of the things he had brought with him, placing and arranging it in the four rooms in the apartment for the rest of the day.