The Angels search for a trail.

Angel company busily prepared itself for it's new mission. One platoon continued to clear the landing zone and would stay behind to guard the colony site. The other two platoons would attempt to track the **** colonists and mount a rescue. One section pushed out into the jungle fringes immediately, searching for trails left by the captured colonists and their alien kidnappers.

Perched high in the jungle canopy overlooking the landing zone two of the aliens observed the activity of Angel company's troopers and tried to make sense of these strange interlopers.

"These must be the owners of the female chattel we captured." The youngest of the alien scouts, Swift climber suggested. "They have armour and weapons. It looks as though they mean to pursue our warband and do battle for their females."

"So it would seem." Agreed Moves like shadow, his elder leader. "It seems strange though that these warriors left their females unguarded and untethered in their absence."

"Their ways are strange." Swift climber commented. "Some of the females fought against our raid remember."

The two aliens watched the troopers clearing the landing area, with their powered armour the troopers made light work of clearing the debris.

"Though these warriors are barely taller than their females they have great strength." Swift climber said, pointing out a couple of troopers pushing a damaged shuttle across the clearing. "Their bodies and limbs are larger too."

"Take my commands to the other scouts." The elder alien ordered. "Tell them to launch a feint attack against those warriors who search for the warbands trail then to withdraw and rejoin the band. That should make these creatures pursuit more cautious. You I want to return to me. We will shadow this warband and learn more."

Corporal Lopez and Trooper Stein moved cautiously through the jungle undergrowth. Trails leading away from the colony hadn't been difficult to find. Unfortunately there seemed to be several trails, the departing aliens seemed to be travelling in small groups rather than one large party. Here and there the odd item of colonists clothing or equipment lay abandoned by the trails.

"Hey Inez, My infrareds totally screwed in all this vegetation and heat." Trooper Judith Stein called out. "But the trail's clear enough."

"Yeah my IR's fucked too." Inez Lopez confirmed. "Catch a breath while I report back to Sergeant Green."

Judith leaned back against a tree and slid up the faceplate on her powered armour to take a drink of water from her bottle. At that moment the jungle came alive as around a dozen powerful green skinned aliens burst out from hiding and attacked the two troopers. Warclubs and spears were flung as the alien warriors dashed forward, the projectiles bounced harmlessly off the power armour apart from one lucky strike from a warclub that hit the servo motor on Judith's knee and rendered her lower leg immovable. As the trooper tried to turn to face the aliens she fell and a half dozen instantly swarmed around her. They started beating ineffectively at her thick armour with clubs and obsidian tipped spears, but **** the trooper to drop her weapon and cover her more **** faceplate with her arms.

Those warriors who faced Inez fared less well. With a fully functioning powersuit the young corporal met their rush like an immovable object, punching the larger aliens away easily. One alien leapt onto her back and it's jaws gaped wide showing a set of wickedly sharp teeth. The alien attempted to bite Lopez's shoulder, its teeth breaking as it bit down on the hardened armour. Inez hit the alien in the face and pulled it off her back before hurling the dazed reptillian into the undergrowth.

Other troopers began to converge on the area, drawn by the sounds of battle over their headsets. Bursts of automatic fire sprayed over the heads of the aliens soon scattered them back into the jungle. A cheer went up from the troopers as the aliens fled. A medic went over to trooper Stein, but Judith was unhurt apart from her pride. Inez was slapped on the back and congratulated and the corporal dug through the undergrowth to recover the broken teeth of the alien that had attempted to rip her shoulder open. The only sour note came when it was discovered that Stein's weapon had disappeared.

"Very impressive." Moves like shadows said simply from his vantage point high in the treetops. "These warriors are formidable."

"That smell." Exclaimed Swift climber, the nostrils on his elongated snout twitching. "A female!"

Down below Trooper Stein had been helped out of her armour so that the damaged servomotor could be repaired. The young trooper stood amongst her power armoured companions naked and sweating from the adrenaline rush of the fight and the jungle's heat. The female pheramones in her sweat were easily detectable by the aliens sensitive noses. Swift climber hissed softly as his phallus began to emerge from his cloaca, his body responding automatically to the faint tang of female pheramone. Soon his penis was fully everted, projecting stiffly from his body and glistening with lubricant.

"Incredible!" Moves like shadows whispered, his own penis rapidly distending. "Females that wear armour and fight? If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes I never would have believed it."

The two scouts watched the Angels with new averice, though alien these were still clearly females and as such were prizes to fight for.

"We must continue to observe these females." The elder alien decided. "We must discover how that armour can be removed. Once it is gone these will be as weak and as easily dominated as the first group that we captured."