Chapter Two: Venus

Alarms sounded within the jumpship, waking Karen from her deep sleep as she leaned in and grabbed hold of the controls, a planet was in view now and Ghost's body opened up to display data, Venus.

Karen read the data Ghost had given to her as she realized that the jumpship was almost out of fuel, so she decided to land down on the planet and hopefully find fuel.

The Jumpship shook as it entered the atmosphere of Venus before the clouds parted to reveal a broken down city below.

Karen looked at it and frowned, "Not a good sign…" She muttered, studying the surface slightly before landing in a clearing beside some broken down buildings that once used to be an office of some kind.

Stepping out of the ship, she landed on a field of grass, nature was taking back the building as she looked up at it, curious on what it used to be.

Ghost flew beside her, he was damaged, that was for sure and Karen though his voice box or something had been damaged in the process as well.

Stepping inside the building carefully, she looked around at the inside, desks and computers were strewn about everywhere on the floor, either smashed or intact, but this used to be someone's work place, a place to earn money to support a family…now just an empty husk of what it used to be.

Ghost followed behind Karen, looking around as well and wondered if Karen would remember anything of her past life…most Guardians didn't when they "woke back up"
But Ghost just kept moving along with his companion, despite not being able to speak for the time being.

Karen walked through the halls of the building, checking each room for something useful she could use for her ship, or just in general, be used for protection.
She couldn't find either one as she walked through the other end of the building into a clearing where a statue stood of an angel, reaching up into the sky, looking up, she saw a mountain in the distance erupting, Maat Mons, or at least she thought she remembered the name.

She just decided to sit against a boulder, or concrete that fell from the building and just sighed.
Karen had no idea where to go or if there was any fuel on this god forsaken rock, but she needed to find something here.

Ghost sat beside her and just looked around, Karen couldn't help but rub Ghost softly like a cat, a long ago instinct she still remembered, catching herself though, she pulled her hand away as Ghost looked at her.

"I'm sorry about that…old habit." She said softly

Ghost didn't mind it though as she stood up and sighed again, "Let's look deeper, maybe we'll find something in another building." She said, smiling softly before continuing forward.

Meanwhile in the shadows, something watched as Karen moved through the city, unwavering in its silent pursuit, it could smell the light upon her, and it desperately wanted what she had.