Cowboys and Aliens Ch. 15

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Mark asked, "How many assistants do I get or need?"

Angela said, "Most monarchs have an entourage of friends and family, but they usually start with one personal assistant just to bounce ideas off of, but your assistant should be someone that's with you most of the time and they should know the workings of the government. You can always add more if the workload is too much."

Mark said, "Liyana!"

Angela said, "There you go, you're all set. The highest ranking official of Security, Medical, Emergency, Legal, Education, Infrastructure and Finance are your advisers."

Mark said, "That makes sense, I should probably arrange meetings with most of them in the next week or so."

Liyana then said, "If we're going out to the islands, I would recommend packing something to eat. I think some of the islands have a picnic table and drink dispensers on them now, but I'm not 100% sure."

Mark then asked, "Who all is going?"

Annabelle, Angela, Laruun, Rayven, Solara, T'Soona, Liyana, and Gyges all put up their hands. Maren was going to fly home to surprise her parents and Candy was off exploring the countryside with one of the security personnel from her planet.

They all went in to talk to Jeff about making them some lunch for their picnic outing and Jeff said they would deliver the picnic to the boat house when it was ready.

The group walked down to the boat house and saw there was a selection of life vests in various sizes as well as 10 pedal boats, a few canoes, a couple of ocean kayaks, a bunch of paddle boards and even a couple of windsurfing boards.

Angela said, "There are nine of us, so someone is going to be alone in a boat."

T'Soona said, "Actually I don't need a boat, I can fly, plus my legs would probably be too short to pedal anyway."

Angela said, "We'll need 4 boats then."

They each paired off, Liyana and Gyges, Solara and Laruun, Annabelle and Rayven, leaving Mark with Angela. They then all found vests that fit them and within a few minutes a man showed up with a hover cart containing 4 picnic baskets.

They boarded their boats and each boat took one picnic basket as there was a little spot behind the seats to store stuff, then they set off toward the first island. The boats weren't speedy by any stretch of the imagination, but they were faster than Mark and Annabelle ever remembered the ones on Earth going.

Within about 10 minutes they had reached the first island. It was a pretty big island and, due to its proximity to the palace, it was probably the most heavily used island. It had a dock, several picnic tables, a couple of cabanas with patio furniture and even a washroom.

They wandered around the island for a few minutes, until Angela said there were only three islands with docks, picnic tables and washrooms, this one, the crater island at the end, and a scenic skinny island about halfway. Most people went for the crater island and stopped at the skinny island for a break. It was a group decision to go to the crater island today, but to stop at the skinny island for lunch. So off they pedalled.

They reached the skinny island in the middle, where the lake narrowed, this island had less tall trees than the other islands. Likely due to the reduced sunshine as a result of the shear cliffs on both sides, the lake itself was maybe 25 metres across at this point. It was very scenic though, as there was a natural arch bridge that spanned the lake above the far end of the island. As Angela had said, there was a dock, a washroom and 2 picnic tables on this island. Otherwise it was just grass, some hedges and a few small trees.

Lunch was a selection of sandwiches and they got drinks from the drink dispensers near the picnic tables. Jeff must have guessed they would go to the crater island as there was enough food for two meals. Everyone ate, then rested a bit, to let it settle then returned to the boats.

There were less islands on the latter part of the lake. A few of the islands couldn't have been more than 15 square metres in size.

The end of the lake doglegged right and once you got around the corner, you could see the crater and the big island in the middle. The lake here was probably close to two kilometres in diameter and the island was probably just under a kilometre wide itself.

This island was still mostly mountain and very rocky, although there were large trees, shrubs and grass around the base and it looked like several bushes that had grown up the sides. It had three floating docks as it was probably one of the most popular destinations on the lake. They all tied up their boats and moved the picnic baskets to a shaded area so they wouldn't warm up, without realizing the baskets were temperature controlled. Then they went off to explore the island.

There was a picnic table near the docks, just off a path that circled around the entire island. Along the path there were a few trails leading up the hill. There was more vegetation than they expected, but everything was lush and green. There were several picnic tables on the perimeter path, scattered around the shoreline.

They took one of the paths that went up to the top, which had numerous large trees, surrounding an open grassy area and providing shade to several picnic tables. There was also a covered cookhouse, complete with a food synth and washrooms. Obviously a popular place for parties or events.

T'Soona came flying up to them, "I think I found something, you guys need to come check it out! Go down that path over there!" She said as she pointed toward the path that led away from the rest of the lake.

T'Soona fluttered ahead of everyone as they scrambled down the path. The incline was steeper on this side so he doubted many people would use it, with much easier paths leading towards the various docks.

T'Soona landed at a spot in the path where it turned to traverse the slope and stopped about halfway, where the right side of the path was a steep cliff. She just stood there beside a tree with a grin until everyone had arrived.

Mark asked, "What did you want to show us T?"

T'Soona smiled and stepped behind the tree and disappeared.

A collective 'Whoa!' was said by everyone, then T'Soona popped back out, "I found a cave!"

Mark went to stand beside T'Soona and you couldn't see anything, it just looked like a shadow behind the tree. He stepped behind the tree and disappeared, one by one they all followed until they were standing in a dark gloomy cave.

T'Soona pulled Mark over to the side of the cave. "It doesn't work for me, put your hand here!" As she pointed to a flat spot on one rock.

Mark placed his hand on the spot and a door opened up, followed by a collective gasp as they entered the door and found a secret hideaway.

Mark asked Angela, "Did you know anything about this?"

Angela said, "I've been to this island 3 other times, but I've never found this cave."

They looked around and found 4 beds, two virtual reality setups with suspension harnesses, food, drink and clothing synths. There was also a table and chairs.

Angela said, "I bet this is where the Prince and his buddies come to hide out."

Angela went to the headboard of all the beds and hit a button on the side of the headboard. The bed immediately made itself.

Annabelle was shocked, "Do all beds do that?"

Angela said, "They should! Wait, you guys didn't know how to reset the bed?"

Annabelle exclaimed, "No, this would've been nice to know, so I wouldn't have had to sleep in a puddle of cum. Between these two I'm always sleeping in cum," she said pointing to Mark and Rayven.

Angela laughed, "You guys are funny, and so not like normal royalty."

Mark smiled, "Normal is boring! I think weird suits me better."

Solara said, "Hey guys come look at this!"

Solara sat at what looked like some sort of computer system and it wasn't password protected, likely because the Prince didn't think anyone would ever find out about this place.

Liyana and Angela sat down and went through the computer. After a half hour or so, Angela said, "He's also been selling technology to two non-federated planets, Virgohn and Hytros. The Prince has credits hidden all over the place, so far I have found roughly 400 billion credits!"

Mark said, "Document the sources and transfer the credits into accounts that we control. Then, once we deal with the Prince, we'll take those credits and donate it to charities or scholarships or put it to some public use. If he gets off on some technicality, I don't want this guy continuing to live a life of luxury on ill-gotten gains. We'll pay a visit to these planets he has been selling technology to, I want to see what they're doing with it."

After a minute or so he asked, "Do we have an embassy or ship around either of those planets?"

Liyana said, "Not that I know of, Earth is the only planet that has an Embassy."

Mark was confused, "If an embassy is in orbit, why wouldn't we put an embassy around every non-federated planet we find? Just like Earth, I'm guessing a certain percentage of their population would like to leave, plus by having an armed embassy around each planet, we'd be able to monitor them and see if they've encountered other space travellers."

Angela said, "An embassy is only 50 personnel or so, so it definitely would have advantages, we also have a floating version of our embassy!"

Mark said, "A floating version? Why wouldn't we have used that on Earth, it would've been easier to get people to something floating, rather than in orbit!"

Liyana said from the computer desk, "We thought about that, but Earth has more ocean going vessels, including military warships and submarines, than any other planet we have ever encountered, so we figured we'd have less impact on normal life by being in orbit, and further away from the military threats."

Mark shook his head, "Yeah, I can see your point."

Angela then added, "The problem with putting an embassy on the other planets, is that the senate just met, you won't be able to propose something like that until the spring session."

Mark said, "That would be fine, but I am in charge of security correct? I'll need to sit down with the General and go over a few things, until we get an embassy around each planet, I'd like to have some ships patrolling around those planets."

Mark then spoke to Cricket, "I have an idea for future embassy's. Can we make something similar to the Earth embassy, but as an actual ship, complete with engines, light drive, weapons and fighters, but make them white? I like the idea of them being in orbit away from military reach, but I also like the floating aspect. Maybe partner the two in some form, make a floating port that planes and ships could reach and then use that as the shuttle terminal."

There was no response from Cricket, which Mark thought was odd.

Liyana then spoke up, "I've transferred all his credits, except 10 from his account."

Mark smiled, "Good, can you see who he has been selling the technology to?"

After a few minutes, Liyana stated, "I have 6 names and I think these are addresses."

The first order of business was to get ships routed to Virgohn and Hytros as soon as possible. "Angela, who is my security advisor?"

Angela said, "That would be General Marsbe."

Mark looked at Angela and raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, he's my dad," she said with a smile.

Mark tapped his wrist band and said, "Call General Marsbe."

A circle spun around the face for a few seconds, then displayed 'no signal'.

Thinking it was like being in a basement, Mark walked out to the cave entrance and to try the call again.

Cricket immediately spoke up, "I couldn't detect you as being on the planet! The cave must have some shield that prevents detection."

This time Mark's call went through and the General's hologram appeared.

The General said, "My King, I am delighted to speak with you. To what do I owe the pleasure of this call for?"

Mark asked, "Well your daughter said I should talk to my security adviser. How are you doing? ... and... Do we have any ships with weapons in the vicinity of Virgohn, Hytros or Earth?"

The General laughed as he looked at the display on his desk, "I am fine, the embassy around Earth has some fighters and we do have a Destroyer within a day of Virgohn, but nothing near Hytros. Why?"

Mark said, "I've just learned the Prince has been smuggling our technology off-world and selling it to Virgohn and Hytros. I intend to visit those planets just to see what technology they've been sold and then either deactivate, confiscate or destroy it."

The General said, "That slimy little bastard! I'll deploy ships to those planets right away. Anything else sir?"

Mark said, "Actually General Marsbe, I had a thought occur to me, even if the non-federated planets haven't asked for it I think we should have at least one ship patrolling around all non-federated planets simply to monitor the development of the planet and to be on the lookout for any bad guys and other space-faring species."

The General said, "I'll get right on it! Anything else sir?"

Mark said, "That is all General, thank you for your time," as the call ended.

Mark went back inside, looked around the cave and said, "So what should we do with this place?"

Mark never saw it coming as Rayven and Annabelle tackled Mark back onto a bed and Annabelle straddled his upper torso, while Rayven worked on removing his pants. Soon Annabelle was stripping off her clothes and, as soon as she got off Mark to remove her pants, T'Soona was sitting on his face.

Mark loved her cherry flavour as he gratefully licked her little pussy. Soon she got up and Laruun, who was now naked, sat on his face. He had never eaten Laruun's pussy before, it was a little different tasting than a human pussy, but wasn't bad. She was definitely enjoying it as she was purring quite loudly.

While his face was being sat on, the girls had been taking turns sucking his cock. Suddenly he felt his cock slide in a nice warm pussy, and he moaned, "Oh that feels good!"

Mark could hear Rayven and Annabelle going at it, T'Soona would've been tighter and Gyges was fucking someone, probably Liyana.

Laruun finally extracted herself from his face and Solara moved from Mark's cock to his face, he had never licked Solara's pussy either he realized. She was definitely wet and it had a hint of mint to the flavour. She was quite tasty, as Mark readily licked her clit and worked his tongue in and out of her.

His cock went into another warm pussy as he was getting closer to orgasm. The taste of Solara's pussy was absolutely heavenly. His cock tingled a bit and grew until Mark could feel the extra tightness of entering a womb. He heard a moan as she kept fucking him.

Soon the sounds of orgasm came from across the room, Gyges had just erupted into or on whoever he was with. Rayven soon came in Annabelle or whoever she was with. Solara soon came from Mark's skilled tongue, her cum was a bit stronger mint taste, but absolutely delicious.

Mark soon followed suit and began erupting deep inside the pussy that was riding him. Solara got off and Mark was looking at Angela, who appeared to be having a huge orgasm, as her pussy was being pumped full of Mark's cum.

Angela was breathtakingly beautiful, she was about 5'8", very athletic body type, firm C-cup breasts with nipples so faint you could barely see them, long dark brown hair with a streak of red in it and a nicely trimmed landing strip above her sex.

Angela stayed impaled on Mark's cock as everyone recovered from their orgasms and gathered around the beds. Mark's hands rested on Angela's hips as he said, "As I was saying, before I was interrupted... What should we do with this place?"

Liyana said, "Well it's been a secret for who knows how long, I say let's just keep it a secret for a while longer, but I'd monitor this place just to see who else knows about it?"

Mark said, "Everyone in favour of keeping it a secret for a while longer?"

Everyone nodded yes, so Mark instructed Cricket to send one of the drones out to monitor this island.

Mark grabbed Angela's ass as he lifted himself to a sitting position and gave her a kiss, then he lifted her up turned around and laid her back on the bed and withdrew from her. She had a pretty pussy too, it was bright pink from arousal and was leaking cum.

Laruun dove right in and began to clean up her pussy, soon bringing Angela to another climax in front of everybody.

Once everyone was ready, they cleaned up the cave a bit, and reset the beds. On the way out of the cave, Mark touched something on the wall and another door inside the cave opened up.

Everyone went inside and, as they entered the dimly lit cave, the lights intensified and it dawned on them what they were seeing a prison of sorts with one cell that had 4 small single beds, a toilet, a food synth and drink dispenser. There were two girls that appeared to be about 12 and 15 years old in the cell.

As soon as the lights brightened, they shielded their eyes, both girls were naked and appeared to have bruises covering most of their bodies.

Liyana and Angela tried to open the door, but they couldn't, so Mark tried and the door opened for him.

Angela said, "It might have to do with his royal blood, because of it, the King can do many things that others can't. Further confirmation that you are the rightful king."

The girls cautiously approached the scared girls. When they finally realized they were being saved, they started crying and hugging the girls. The younger girl, pointed to a tunnel opening near Mark and sobbed out, "Maisie."

Mark went down the tunnel she had pointed at and found a young girl, maybe 8 or 10, naked in a pillory that was anchored to the floor by a post. The girl hung in the pillory very limply and Mark wondered if she was even still alive. Her body looked very pale and emaciated, there was dried blood down the insides of her thighs and fecal matter on the floor.

If Mark had to guess, the Prince, or one of his friends, had robbed her of her virginity and, in their arrogance or haste, just left her there to die.

Mark undid the pillory and lowered her to the floor. He lowered his ear to her mouth and watched her chest, she was still breathing, but barely.

Mark picked up the girl and carried her to the other room, where the two other girls, Taissia and Roberta started crying.

Taissia, the older girl, said, "They took her 3 days ago... is she dead?"

Mark told her, "She is still alive, but in desperate need of medical attention. We need to get her back to the palace ASAP."

They seemed relieved that she wasn't dead, but Mark asked, "Are there any others they needed to save?"

Taissia said, "It's unlikely there were anymore still alive."

The way she said that, gave everyone an eerie sense of foreboding.

They wrapped Maisie in one of the blankets from the beds and Mark carried Maisie, while the others helped Taissia and Roberta out of the cave and up the steep trail.

Knowing Maren had gone to visit her parents, Annabelle asked how they were going to get the girls back to the palace? They really didn't want to bother Maren, and not knowing how far away Maren's parents were.

Cricket told Mark, "Maren is back at the palace."

So Mark contacted Maren and asked her to come out to the crater island with the shuttle fast. Within a minute, Maren was landing the shuttle in the open grassy area. Mark carried Maisie in and laid her on the floor, and everyone else sat in the seats.

Realizing they still needed to get the boats back, Gyges, Solara, Rayven and Laruun said they would take one back each, while everyone else went back in the shuttle.

When they reached the palace, there was only two medibeds, so Maisie was put in one, and Taissia went into the other, since she appeared to be the most bruised.