Cowboys and Aliens Ch. 24

Growing Pains

Mark wasn't really upset that they pulled the gun on him, in fact he was expecting them to do it, that's why he let them keep the gun in the first place, he just didn't expect it to be the Admiral himself. He had suspected they were looking for something to exploit and wanted to give them a glimmer of hope only to dash it and hopefully make them believers. We'll see what happens later when the Admiral recovers.

He walked off to find the girls. It was fairly dark out already as the sun had gone down behind the mountains quite a while ago. Fortunately there was some street lights scattered around the parks, ponds and fountains as he found them sitting on the edge of a fountain with their feet in the water.

Taryn and Cleo were still with them and Cleo was describing what she was looking for to move. She wasn't much of an ocean or flat land person, she loved to hike, so she had been looking for trees and mountains if there was a river or lake nearby, that was a bonus.

She had described the location of three places that had her eye so far. One of the places she liked was in the Gaia River Valley on the western side of Mount Hymettus in the Mestor region. It was lush forest there, a small lake and some waterfalls. Another place she liked was nestled in the Leukippe River Valley that ran west to the shore from between Mount Pnyx and Mount Cleito in the Elasippus region, the last place was on this side of the mountains in the Ampheres region in the foothills south of Poseidon's Garden.

The girls decided they would check out those areas tomorrow, then Annabelle described what she was wanting for her parents ranch. She wanted something inland, with trees and meadows, a river and close proximity to foothills. From what she had seen in the hologram she's figured she would find what she was looking for in the central portion of the southern side of the island. One spot was near the base of the Meteor Plateau near the Pleione River in the Atlas region that looked promising and another in the neighbouring Autokthon region and yet another in the southernmost Mneseus region, all were around the base of the Meteor Plateau, which dominated the southern portion of the island.

When they asked Taryn where she would like to live, she said, "I'm still not sure I want to settle here, I've been liking my life in the security service and constantly travelling, but if I was to move here, I'd just want to live near people I know and it would need to have quick access to the port, since that's where I would be working, but I also like hiking and lakes, so the place Cleo just described in the Mestor region sounds like it would be a good spot to check out!"

Cleo looked at the time and then said, "Since I'm taking first shift in medical tomorrow, I'm going to head to bed. I really like how there's basic quarters upstairs in the temple."

Annabelle was surprised, "Really?"

Mark said, "That's convenient, "

Cleo said, "Yes, they are what are called active barracks, because medical is one of those jobs that always has at least one person there around the clock! They're just basic rooms, but they're convenient."

Taryn then realized the time and said, "It doesn't look like I'm going back to the embassy tonight, so I might as well go find a place before they're all taken."

Cleo laughed, "There's over 30,000 residences, plus all the rooms in the palace and only a few hundred people here, I think it'll be easy to find a place to stay, but you're welcome to stay with me tonight, if you want."

"Mmmm that sounds like a good alternative too," Taryn said, as she grabbed Cleo's hand and they walked off toward the temple.

It was now dark and with the mention of bed, everyone began yawning as they started walking back to the palace courtyard and up the elevators. Mark, Annabelle and Rayven were behind the others so their elevator left before they could get on.

As they were going up the elevators, Mark mentioned that he was going to go have a shower before bed. Going from a frigid climate to a tropical one does take some time to get acclimated and he had perspired more than normal today, despite the fact that he did have a shower with Cass and Beth this morning.

Apparently everyone had the same idea as everyone convened in the bathhouse. Despite all the naked flesh, everyone seemed content to just wash themselves in the incredible rainfall shower, since this was the first time they saw it. When the shower was off it just looked like a normal stone ceiling and floor, although the floor was slightly graded toward an almost invisible drain that ran down the middle of the shower area.

Once they finished their shower, Mark went to his office just to sit down and check on the feedback from the website. Again there were dozens of messages and most look liked like they were from the gullible hypocrites, but nothing of any value he could see at a quick glance. If there was something he missed, the breakfast club would let him know in the morning.

Not having taken much time to look around before, Annabelle and Rayven followed him into his office. Rayven laid out on one of the sofas in the meeting area and commented on how comfy it was, while Annabelle went and sat on his throne, which was on its own white stylobate, with two columns against the wall on either side and an Atlantean flag on a flagpole on each side. His trident was hung on the wall in the corner and his crown was on blue pillow on a table beside the trident. The throne itself was a white material that looked and felt like padded leather on the seat, back and armrests with gold arm supports and legs and the Atlantean symbol etched into the seat back in blue.

Annabelle looked so regal and beautiful sitting upon the throne in all her naked glory.

Mark's cock started stiffening as he looked at the beautiful teenager as he walked over to the throne, got down on his knees, bowed to her and asked if he could taste her royal nectar. Annabelle laid back a bit, spread her legs so her calves were resting on the armrests and said, "Of course, my King!"

Mark slowly kissed his way up her legs and then proceeded to taste the pretty peach exposed to him. She tasted delicious as he extended his tongue deep into her to extract more of her essence.

After bringing her to orgasm with his tongue, they got up to switch places and noticed Rayven was fast asleep on the sofa.

As Mark sat on his throne, Annabelle positioned his cock at her wet slit and proceeded to straddle him, fortunately the throne seat was wide enough for Mark and her legs. They slowly made love upon the throne, just enjoying their embrace and the feeling of being joined together. Annabelle kept gyrating her hips to keep Mark's cock hard within her and Mark was happy to suckle on her ample breasts swaying in front of his face and kissing her soft lips while looking into her blue eyes.

They lost track of time with their slow sensuous love making and when Annabelle glanced over her shoulder to see Rayven still soundly asleep, she noticed all the clocks on the wall behind Mark's desk and decided they should probably go to bed too.

After a blistering passionate kiss, she whispered, "Cum in me, my King, fill my pussy with your royal seed!"

Mark's cock tingled and Annabelle got a big smile on her face as she felt his cock grow inside her, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath as the head slipped through her cervix and into her womb. With her king right where she wanted him, she repeatedly impaled her womb with Mark's cock and, with the added tightness, it didn't take long before Mark erupted deep inside her.

They stayed upon the throne as Mark's cock shrank back to its normal size, but was still embedded within her, keeping his cum from leaking all over the throne. As they got up, Annabelle cupped her pussy and started to clean herself and then proceeded to give Mark's cock a good cleaning with her mouth.

Mark then picked up Rayven off the couch and they all went downstairs to the royal bedroom.

They must've been more tired than they thought, as the next thing Mark knew, it was morning.

With their clocks now set to Atlantis time, Mark saw it was now 6:00... his body was back to waking up early.

He extracted himself from the bed and went to his office to get some coffee from his desk and then went out to the balcony. It sure was scenic looking out at the mountains to the West as the sun was coming up, illuminating the mountains and making them appear as if they were on fire, compared to the relative darkness still in the city.

At about 6:15, he saw a lift fly by. Curious, he watched it land and Cass and Beth started unloading their stuff onto the ground, while Zack was activating the construx for their office as the building started constructing itself a few metres away from them.

Since breakfast wasn't ready yet, Mark called a lift, but he figured he'd have to go to the ground to get on it, so he made his way down to the palace entrance, where, sure enough, a lift was waiting for him that had 'PHOENIX' on it, so he got in.

Travelling in a private lift was controlled by the wrist device of the person who called it. To go to a private business, you could just click SEARCH and select name or category and start typing in your query, once you had two letters typed, it would start showing you matches and you could just scroll through and click the one you were looking for. Your favourites were always listed at the top of the list, then businesses local to the city you were in, then eventually the businesses elsewhere on the island. With only one business on the island at the time it was easy to find 'Phoenix Security' and the lift rose into the air.

Since they really were just on the other side of the water ring, it took less than a minute to get there. Mark actually felt a bit of shame for ordering a lift, when he could have just as easily walked the short distance.

Mark was surprised by the time the lift got around the palace and could see the office again, it wasn't just a little office like the base that he was starting to construct before he went down to meet the lift.

This office was actually a huge communications array, with a rectangular office as the base and what looked like an observation deck at the top. It reminded Mark of the Space Needle in Seattle, except this tower had two wide supports that swept up about 30 metres, before they started twisting together, eventually connecting to the round building at the top. In all the building and tower were close to 120 metres in height.

Cricket said, "I've redesigned the communications array on top of the port function more or typical Earth-based communications with ships, planes and boats. The primary communications array for Atlantis should be land based and part of the island, so I gave the kids a couple of ideas and this is what they came up with."

As he landed in front of the building, they had the company logos beside the main entrance. Right below the Phoenix Security logo was another logo that looked like the planet Saturn with a rocket creating the rings that said, 'Outta This World Website Design' and a third logo that looked like some kind of vector line art sphere that said, 'Intergalactic Hosting'. Mark laughed at the names, but thought, "How clever! The kids are really embracing this space stuff."

The breakfast club greeted him as he exited the lift and then everyone started grabbing computer equipment and packing it into the office.

The office itself, was very open and bright. There was literally glass on all four sides, with offices or meeting rooms in three of the corners and the fourth corner was where the entrance and reception desk was. The rest of the office area was just a maze of empty cubicles with a hover elevator in the very centre.

Since everyone was carrying computer equipment, he followed the kids, but was surprised when the kids started unloading their computers into three cubicles enclosed by a single cubicle wall that surrounded the desks and the hover elevator.

Mark asked why they didn't build themselves offices, but they just said that wasn't the way they worked.

While they were setting up their computers, Mark asked, "How come you built the office this size and with all the empty cubicles, if it's just going to be you three?"

Beth said, "Atlantis is awesome, we're all betting Henry and Amelia will eventually move here, plus you said you were about to roll out more technologies. Even if we leave the sales and support staff working out of their homes, we may still need people to support each of those businesses from here and we expect the web design business will be growing soon."

Zack then explained, "The office base is designed to be expandable, we could make the base a longer rectangle, or we could add offices above the base, between the tower supports."

Then Mark chimed in, "Don't work yourselves too much, the Atlantean way of life is to live a relaxed life, not work all the time. Do as much as you can via websites and email and let your support staff field most of the calls. All you need to do, is support your support staff and maintain the websites."

Mark didn't want to sound like a nagging parent, so he changed the subject by asking them, "So what's on the agenda for the rest of the day?"

Cass replied, "Finish moving into our rooms in the tower and then I want to go sight seeing a bit. I've heard lots of people say Poseidon's Garden is incredible. I hope you don't mind that we built our rooms into the tower?"

Mark said, "I don't mind, but I think you three should find real homes rather than being tied to your work, you're eventually going to have relationships and want to start families. You all have brand new lives now, free from your past!"

It didn't take long to setup the three computers in the cubicles, so they all went back outside to grab the rest of the belongings that they had brought, which really wasn't much. They now had clothing synths, so they didn't bother packing very much clothing and they really didn't have many other possessions. Each person could easily carry their own stuff as Mark followed them into the building empty handed.

Suddenly Zack stopped and asked Mark, "Could you take my stuff up and just put it in my room? I just had an idea for the battery business website and want to write things down while it's fresh in my mind."

Mark nodded and took the two boxes and one bag that Zack had, as Zack sat down at his desk.

Mark, Cass and Beth got in to the elevator and it started to rise.

They had done a nice job of the living quarters, it wasn't an overly large place, but functional. The half facing the palace was split into 3 bedrooms, then the other half was a living area with home theatre, couches, table and chairs. They said they built all the bedrooms on the East side, so they would get the early sun and would help wake them up and not sleep in. When it was suggested to build the communications tower, we figured if we built our residence up high, no one could ever block our view of the palace or the mountains.

Mark dropped off Zack's stuff in his bedroom. It was a nice room with a king size bed, an en-suite washroom and a walk-in storage room/closet with clothing synth. The outer wall was a floor to ceiling window with the privacy feature turned to partial tint.

Mark then exited Zack's room at the same time Cass and Beth exited their rooms and Beth said, "Want to see something neat?"

Mark said sure, as the girls ran into Beth's room and jumped on the bed, their skirts rising enough to show Mark neither were wearing any panties. The girls then rolled over so their sex was near the edge of the bed, Cass was on top and Beth's legs were hooked in front of Cass' legs, causing their nether lips to blossom open like the beautiful flowers they were. Cass looked back over her shoulder and said, cum in us quick before we go to breakfast!

Mark undid his pants and proceeded toward the bed as Beth reached around and spread Cass' pussy open for him. After a couple of rubs through her wet slit, he slid deep into the teenager as Cass moaned. After a few strokes he then repositioned his cock at Beth's wet slit and pushed deep into her, much to her delight.

He kept alternating between the two horny teenagers, eventually bringing them to orgasm on his cock. As he was nearing his release he decided to deposit it deep into Cass for the first pulse, then switch to Beth for the next pulse, then back to Cass and so on and so on.

When Mark was sure both cunts were thoroughly coated and mixed with his cum, he withdrew and the girls immediately repositioned into a 69 so they could lick the cum out of their friend's pussy.

Once they were all cleaned up, they went down to the office and collected Zack before heading to the palace for breakfast. It really wasn't that long of a walk to the West path and then across the water which brought them to the city centre nearby the Communal Meal Pavilion, or CMP as everyone was calling it. All total, about a 10 minute walk, during which they saw a number of lifts already moving about as the city was waking up and hungry.

Mark and the breakfast club showed up for breakfast at the CMP, as people had started calling them, just as the girls got there, since they saw the office being constructed and then when they had started walking back.

The Admiral and his men had just gotten their breakfasts and saw Mark and the gang get in the queue.

With the new office and communications tower and then the spontaneous threesome with Cass and Beth, Mark had almost forgot all about the Americans, as he asked, "Cricket, did those guys do anything last night?"

"They wandered around the city and the Admiral came to talk to me some more. Mostly asking questions about Atlantis and Atlantean culture and gods... nothing too serious though."

"Mr. Phoenix, after you get your breakfast please come and sit with us?" The Admiral asked sounding much more sincere and relaxed than yesterday.

Mark nodded and proceeded down the queue line with the girls and the breakfast club. Once dished up they sat down at the table with the Americans.

Mark asked, "Did everyone sleep well last night? Admiral Caldwell, how are you feeling this morning?"

The Admiral replied, "I'm fine and I would like to apologize for my attitude and the actions of me and my men yesterday. You welcomed us to your island before you've even had a chance to explore it yourselves and have shown us nothing but respect. Will you forgive me?"

Mark said, "Of course, no harm was done. I hope you've learned your lesson."

The Admiral then announced they would be returning to the states after breakfast.

Mark was surprised as he thought they were going to stay a couple of days, but said, "You are welcome back anytime, just call ahead. It'll be an entirely different island the next tine you return."

Then the girls asked Mark how the new office was, since they had seen it from the palace. It was kind of tough to miss.

Mark answered, "Actually, the office is awesome, we needed a communications array on the land so the kids went with kind of a pseudo-Space Needle idea, but with their living quarters at the top."

The Admiral then asked, "Is that what that huge tower behind the palace is? We didn't see it go up, but it wasn't there last night!"

Mark replied, "Yes, we were told to leave Canada, so that is the new office and it needed to be a bit bigger as we'll now be working around the globe."

Admiral Caldwell, realizing he was the primary reason they got kicked out of Canada, wisely said no more. The rest of the breakfast conversation was about what everyone was going to do that day.