A thousand years after the attack on the Convoy, a lone white object flew through the desert landscape. "Almost there." It thought as it flew past some sand dunes. "Here we are." The floating objective came a across a line of destroyed rusting vehicles, the object shot out a blue beam on one of the many skeletons that littered the area. "No not him." "not him either." The object scanned a skeleton that was under a piece of the decaying vehicle. "There we go."
The first thing Ethan felt was pain, pain that started from his all the way down to his feet. "Fuck!" He screamed as bolted up.
"Calm down your fine." Said a floating object as it hovered it front in of Ethan's face.
"What the hell are you?" Ethan asked.
"I`m a Ghost, well your Ghost." The object said.
"A what?" Ethan asked confused.
"A Ghost, I`m was created by the Traveler, to revive people with enough light in them to help fight the Darkness."
"Traveler? Being revived? The Darkness?" Ethan asked shooting off several questions.
"I revived you from the dead." Calmly replied the Ghost as it floated up in down in front of Ethan's face.
"I was fuckin dead?" Ethan asked confused.
"Yes you were most likely killed during The Collapse." Bluntly replied the Ghost.
"The Collapse?"
"You don't really remembers anything do you." Stated the Ghost more concerned than before.
"No I don't." Ethan sharply replied as he stood up.
"We`ll get that sorted out when we get to Tower, but first we need to find a ship to get us there."
"Great," Ethan sarcastically said as the pair started walking away from the wreckage, "how do I find a ship?"
"We can check New Balkh."
"How far is the city?"
"About twenty-five Kilometers West."
"Great." Sighed Ethan as he turned 90 degrees to the right and started walking towards the city. "What is the Traveler?"
"It's a god pretty much that is able terraform entire planets."
"How?" Ethan asked astonished that such a being could exists.
"Through the light, it's pretty much a power."
"And what does this Power do?"
"It can make anything from the ability to create lighting, to healing people."
"So pretty much it can do anything."
"Almost, light can't produce money, clothes, food, drinks etc."
"Got it, you mentioned The Collapse, earlier?"
"The Collapse came after The Golden Age, billions of Humans died, and Humanity was pushed in the brink. Now there's only one city left The Last City."
"The Golden Age?" Ethan asked as he climbed over a Sand dune.
"It's when the Traveler came to Earth." The Ghost said as is floated next to Ethan's right side.
"The Collapse?"
"After the Traveler came to Earth, its enemy The Darkness came and tried to destroy it plunging Humanity into a dark age." Ethan didn't need to ask what the Last City was, judging by its name it was the last city one Earth.
"Tell me more."
Five hours later Ethan walked over a hill and came upon a city, of crumbling skyscrapers and rusting metal, at the bottom of the hill. "Holy Shit!" Ethan exclaimed as he walked down the sandy hill. Ethan wasn't surprised that it was destroyed but he was astonished by the amount of destruction.
"Look out." Ethan's Ghost said pulling Ethan out of his thoughts, Ethan looked up and saw a piece of building fall at him. Ethan darted out of the way avoiding the falling debris.
"Shit." Ethan said as he picked himself off the ground and brushed the dust off his armor. "Thanks."
"Welcome." Replied the Ghost.
"So where so should we start?"
"The Ship port."
"And where's that?"
"The tallest building."
"Goddamn it." Murmured Ethan, the Space Port was the most destroyed building in the center of city. Sections of the building were still on fire and had sections falling down towards earth.
"You ok?" Asked the concerned Ghost.
"Yeah." Sighed Ethan as he began walking towards the center of the city.
"Question why is the Space Port in the center of the city?"
"Because the center of the town is the business district and any tourist would have to walk through the district to get anywhere." Answered the Ghost.
"Got it." For the rest of the way the pair was silent.
When the pair inside the building the dim blue emergency lights illumining the entrance. "I`ll mark where the stairs are." On Ethan's HUD a diamond with a gray outlining the white center appeared, with 10m appearing under the shape. Ethan walked forward until he saw a dark gray door, with a black sign that said "stairs" to the right of the door, Ethan slowly opened the door and a high pitch "Squeak" echoed throughout the stairwell. Ethan walked in the stairwell, and it went as far as it he good see, "How many floors are there?"
"Two hundred." The Ghost replied casually.
"God damnit." Ethan sighed as he started walking up the light gray stairs.
An hour Ethan made it to the top of the building, with the sunsetting causing the Ghost to turn on its flashlight. "I`ll check if any of these work." Announced the Ghost as it flew away to search for a working ship. Ethan was left in complete darkness and isolation.
"With all this technology, and there's no night vision." Ethan thought. "Wait night vision." Ethan tried pulling down on an non excitant object on top of his head. "Well that didn't work."
"Hey I've got something." Shouted the Ghost as it flew in Ethan's direction.
"Good" Ethan said as the Ghost made it to Ethan, "Show me the way." The Ghost lead Ethan pass several destroyed ships. After a few hundred feet the Ghost stopped and shined its light on the vehicle. The ship was rusted in several places with some plates missing.
"We can't take this into the upper atmosphere but we aren't going that far." Exclaimed the Ghost as it continued to look over the ship.
"How do I get on?"
"Just climb onto the ship." Ethan did as he was told and strapped in.
"I`ll take over from here." The Ghost said as Ethan got situated. A few minutes later the ship took off into the night.
