after the post human apocalypse we beamed down to what remained of the city, the piles of slag and craters, the dust and dirt, the ground up bones and the ghosts.
eve walked into the empty heart of the city filming as she went, i decided to wander around the old zoo, there wasn't much to see, a couple of fried elephants and a carcass of a dolphin with a permanent grin. no signs of life, just signs of death. i didn't bother filming, just recorded my bleak thoughts.
my suit registered the radiation levels were still lethal, we calculated it would remain that way for the next 400 years, certainly in the blast radius but the whole planet was inhabitable due to fall out and the radiation pockets that seemed to scatter the landscape. the only living things were the wraiths, but they were not really living. i mean not by normal scientific standards of what constitutes life, we called them ghosts.
i wandered up the hill towards eve, she was sifting through some hard drives she found, all melted and beyond repair, i could see her crouching over a pile of twisted metal and what looked like the shell of a large mainframe, cage to an ancient technology. she turned her head, stood tall and waved at me, i could see her smiling through her helmet screen, for a moment she looked quite serene, the red skies above her head, the black landscape behind. i was about to wave back when suddenly she was swallowed by a large black cloud that wrapped her from behind and she was gone.
as i ran i pulled out my gun, a silver smart weapon that looked like a long dark wand.
it scanned the area ahead and asked if i wanted to terminate the ghost or trap it?'
'i don't care, just get eve back.'
the gun sent a wave of energy ahead and i saw a ripple strike a large shape , green hollow eyes flared and it fell back, releasing eve who seemed to fall forwards from out of the shadows, she seemed unhurt. the ghost moved fast, it hovered above eve like an inky cloud, my gun sent another blast towards it and this time the ghost howled and retreated.
i grabbed eves arm, pulling her towards me, 'you okay.'
'yes, a little shocked but i'm okay.'
i scanned the perimeter for more ghosts, nothing registered.
'it's hard to believe these things were once human,'
'yeah but they have no humanity now.'
'what does that make them?'
'the enemy,' i said.