Betrayal!?

Crimebot was the first to wake up. He beeped. Ross stirred next to him. "What happened?" Ross asked Crimebot.
"We feel asleep," he replied.
"All of us? Including you?" came Ross' reply.
"I must have gone into diagnostic mode, which is like your human sleep," Crimebot whirred unhappily. "I do not know where Max went," he finished.

Ross and Crimebot looked around and saw several felled trees, with a sweat-soaked Max laying nearby. Ross walked over and shook him awake and then immediately had to block a deadly chop from a startled Max. "What the hell happened, Max?" asked Ross.
"I got tired of waiting so I fought some of these trees for awhile. I must have dozed off," Max replied. "I know I won, though, look at these damn trees! BOO-YAH!"
Ross walked back over to the cliff, shaking his head. "They've abandoned camp, we missed our chance," he said, angry at himself.
Crimebot rolled over to the edge with him. "We should go down there and take a look around. They may have left imporant clues!" he said, to which Ross nodded in agreement.

Entering the camp, Crimebot headed for the center while Ross looked through the debris of the tents, which the men in the camp had apparently burned down instead of just packing away. Crimebot blooped Ross over. "Take a look at this!" he yelled in his robotic voice.
"I'm standing right next to you!" replied Ross angrily.
"SORRY!" Crimebot yelled even louder than before.
"STOP YELLING!" yelled Ross.
"I CAN'T!" said Crimebot, yellingly.
"Oh," said Ross, picking something up from the ashes of the firepit. "This must be the cause of your yelling!" Ross handed Crimebot the device. Crimebot recognized it immediately from his days at the Robot Academy. It was a AED-RAC, or Anti-Eavedropping Device - Robots, Androids and Cybermen. It was designed to make any robots, androids or cybermen nearby be as obnoxious as possible, thus removing their ability to be stealthy and making it impossible for them to eavesdrop.

Crimebot crushed it in his robotic grip and his voice returned to normal. "Sorry," he said, but Ross assured it was ok. Suddenly, Max screamed out in pain! Ross and Crimebot rushed over to him.

"What is it, Max, are you alright?" asked Ross worriedly.
"I'm totally fine, of course," said Max, "I just wanted to show you guys this thing I found," he finished, handing a small round object to Ross.
"What is it, I wonder," said Ross, handing it to Crimebot.
Searching his database, Crimebot said, "I don't know, either, but it looks like a crest of some kind, and it's got three pins on the back, so it's probably goes into something, like a chest, and it probably acts as a key to open said chest. I guess," he pontificated.
"HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" yelled Max, "We're searching for a chest maybe, right? Maybe this mysterious object with a mysterious use goes with it!"
"Hm, you raise an interesting point, the thing we didn't find's shape in the dirt where it was could have been a chest!" said Ross. "Crimebot, can you find any tracks to follow?"

Of course Crimebot could, so it was actually a really dumb question, but Crimebot didn't point that out because he wasn't a big jerk like Unit 8 was back at the robot academy. Oh, how he hated Unit 8. He thought he was so good with his smug haircut. And that moustache! Crimebot howled in rage at the thought of his old robo-nemesis, Unit 8.

After twelve solid seconds of howling, Crimebot calmly turned to Ross and said "Yes, there are some footprints right there, let's go!" Ross, although confused, was happy Crimebot found some tracks and so stepped behind him and followed the metal-man forward into the tree-coated hills. So intent on following Crimebot, Ross didn't notice as Max pulled his pistol out from his coat and turned it on the back of Ross' head...