Cowboys and Aliens Ch. 30

Magellan

Mark woke up at his usual time, along with the sun, and extracted himself from between Rayven and Annabelle. Took care of his morning ablutions, then went up to his office to get his morning coffee and look through the daily reports.

Once he sat down, Cricket notified him that during the night, one of the new sensor beacons detected life. It was the one that she predicted had the greatest chance of success, since it was the closest one to the area that they were found and it lined up with their direction of drift.

Not wanting to get hopes up and end up travelling from one side of the universe to the other, he messaged the Destroyer from Earth, since they were the closest, plus there was still a Battlestar in orbit, and sent them off in the direction of the new find. They would reach it in roughly three days time.

With no other attention worthy items in the reports, he took his coffee and wandered out to the balcony to check up on the breakfast club.

As if on cue, Beth flipped the covers off, exposing her nude teen body to Mark's eyes. She came to the window and looked to the balcony outside his office. Once she saw him, she did some wake up stretches in front of her window, it was nice to watch a nubile young teenager doing nude exercises. It gets the blood pumping!

After her stretches, she sat down and used her fingers to masturbate for a bit. Then she got up and from her bedside table she pulled out a fairly large dildo with a suction cup on the base and stuck it to the window and proceeded to fuck herself.

Shanda snuck up behind Mark and saw what he was watching and then commented, "Wow, that's a pretty big cock for such a little girl!"

Mark explained who Beth was and that she did this for him almost every morning he was in the city.

When Beth finally came, she waved and blew Mark a kiss, as Mark returned the gesture. Then she wandered off for her morning shower.

Mark usually had a raging hard-on after watching her, so he went for his morning shower at the same time Beth did.

Shanda followed Mark to the bathhouse, and as they both got undressed, Shanda saw his erection as he was turning on the shower, "Let me take care of that for you!"

She joined him under the shower and proceeded to make sure his cock was nice and clean, as well as hard. When she was satisfied, she stood up, turned around, bent over and positioned Mark's cock at her slit.

Mark grabbed her hips and slid into her warm depths.

Shanda was no stranger to large cocks and he slid in easily, which is probably why Annabelle had no problem fisting her last night.

Once Mark was seated inside, she straightened up and brought Mark's hands around to play with her breasts as he fucked her.

After a couple of minutes of fucking under the shower, Rayven and Annabelle had shown up with their morning coffees. They disabled the outer force field, grabbed some balcony chairs and sat down to watch the show.

Now that they had an audience, Shanda got a bit more vocal and was soon cumming on Mark's cock. Mark felt the tingling sensation as his cock grew just a bit more, making Shanda cum even harder as the head of his cock pushed through her cervix and into her womb. After that, it only took a few strokes before Mark began squirting his cum deep into the ebony beauty.

As their orgasms subsided and Mark extracted his cock, a flood of cum flowed out of her pussy and down the drain.

They cleaned themselves up and exited the shower. Annabelle guided Shanda back into a lounge chair and proceeded to use her tongue and fingers to extract the remainder of Mark's cum from her pussy.

Rayven was rubbing her cock under her robe and watching Annabelle and Shanda when Solara came upstairs. As she started her shower, she asked Rayven if her pussy could help with her problem.

Rayven joined Solara under the shower, using the same position as Mark and Shanda used and it didn't take long before both were cumming.

Once everyone had dried off and gotten dressed they went downstairs where Cordero, Liyana, Gyges, Laruun and Marta were sitting around and drinking their morning beverages. Once their drinks were gone and the cups put in the recycler, they left the residence in search of breakfast at the meal pavilion.

It was during breakfast that Mark told everyone that the sensor beacons had detected a potentially habitable planet in the area that was closest to where Shanda and Cordero were found. He then said not to get their hopes up until it could be verified and that he had sent the closest ship, but it would take them a few days to reach that system.

Cordero said, "I can handle a few more days here, Atlantis is like being on vacation. True, my family is probably worried about me, but the prospect of returning home means we'll likely be questioned and quarantined for a few days. Partially because of the accident, but also because we've interacted with other species."

Shanda then smiled, "I have full faith that they will find our home and I hope when they bring us back, that our planet considers joining the Federation! If they don't want to join the Federation, can I join the Federation?"

Mark smiled, "I hope they consider joining the Federation also, but even if they don't, we will establish an embassy there, so that people can choose for themselves whether they want to stay on Magellan or emigrate to a federated planet."

The first evening they went and saw a movie followed by a sports bar and the second night was another soccer match featuring Acropolis against Autokthon. Unfortunately Autokthon was one of the weaker teams, so the game wasn't as exciting as the other one.

As the game finished, Mark reminded them that sometime tomorrow the ship should reach that system.

The next morning, as Mark had just finished going through his morning reports, he received a message from the recon ship. The message included a bunch of pictures of the planet and, since they detected no other space traffic, they had taken a cloaked shuttle down to get some closer views of some of the cities and the more unique buildings on the daytime side of the planet.

Mark thanked them, told them to keep monitoring and to stay cloaked until he could verify if this was Magellan or not.

Mark found Rayven fucking Shanda on the balcony. Mark figured they were probably watching Beth masturbate, but she was gone by the time Mark looked. As he returned to watching Rayven and Shanda, Rayven began cumming, Shanda spun around and tried to catch the last couple shots of cum in her mouth, but most ended up on her chest and face.

Mark just relaxed on a lounge chair drinking his coffee as they went to shower.

Cordero soon joined him on the balcony with his coffee. Mark showed him the images he had been sent and Cordero immediately confirmed it was Magellan. He pointed out one building, that looked like a castle, and said it was the government building in Aspona, the capital city where they lived.

As everyone else eventually made their way out to the balcony, the images were shown to all and Shanda reiterated pretty much exactly what Cordero had said moments before.

Mark notified the recon ship that the planet was, in fact, Magellan and he gave Captain Kôté the go-ahead to reveal themselves, make contact and inform them that they had rescued Cordero and Shanda, they were both in good health and that they would be delivered home in a few days.

Mark then informed Commander Topos, that they had found Magellan and that they would be coming up, after breakfast, to take them home.

Liyana notified Samira, who came for a quick interview with the visitors, as well as Mark, before they departed for Magellan.

Everyone ate breakfast and the only people coming with Mark on this trip was Rayven, Liyana and Athena. Liyana had felt guilty that she hadn't been there when Athos joined, because her primary duty was as a Federation ambassador and Gyges felt Athena didn't really get to go on a mission since it was pretty much just a retrieval.

As they boarded the Poseidon, which was now docked to a new Sentinel, Mark got a call from Captain Kôté of the recon ship, "Sir, we've revealed ourselves and made contact like you requested. They asked if we could provide video evidence that they are OK."

"That's an odd request, unless they either think we're bluffing or holding their people for ransom. Can you contact them and patch the call through to the Poseidon?"

"We'll try! They're pretty stirred up about something."

Mark assembled everyone in the boardroom and a couple of minutes later there was two people on the other end of the call, one was Captain Kôté and the other must be from Magellan.

Cordero and Shanda recognized the man immediately, and Cordero greeted him, "Director Rosen, nice to see you sir!"

"Cordero, Shanda it's good to see you both! We had been told you were killed!"

"Who told you that?"

"Right when you disappeared, another ship appeared in the same vicinity. They said your ship collided with one of theirs and both ships were destroyed. If we didn't find some way to compensate them for the loss of 10,000 men plus the ship, that they were just going to treat it as an act of war and attack!"

Mark then interjected, "Director Rosen, my name is Mark Phoenix, the King of the Atlantean Federation. Do you have an image of the people that made that threat?"

The director pulled up a tablet with a picture of the Empire leader they had let survive the attack at Athos.

"Sir, those guys call themselves 'The Empire' and they've caused issues on many occasions, they like to bully and use intimidation tactics and if they don't get what they want they won't hesitate to attack, especially if they think they have the upper hand. They are bluffing as you can see!" Mark said as he gestured toward Shanda and Cordero.

He then continued, "Captain Kôté is in orbit around your planet now. They will remain there and be on the lookout for the Empire. We are bringing your people and your ship back to you, we should arrive in three days."

"I look forward to meeting you and seeing the return of our people. What do we do if they show up before you get here?"

"Well, I can't see him forgetting what happened the last time he tried to attack a Federation ship, so if he sees one of our ships, I would hope he's smart enough to turn back!"

Mark then looked at the Captain, "Captain Kôté, you saw the report of what we did on Athos, correct?"

"Yes sir!"

"Well, if they show up, tell them that Magellan is under the protection of the Atlantean Federation. Then do something similar to what we did at Athos, using cloaked fighters. Try not to engage them in battle, unless they fire first, then it's open season!"

"Yes sir, anything else sir?"

"That's all for now, we'll see you in three days. Be safe!"

The call then ended and Mark gave the Commander the OK to get underway.

Three days later the Poseidon was approaching Magellan. It was a very Earth-like looking planet with 6 distinct land masses all surrounded by oceans.

Captain Kôté called immediately, some ships are hiding in the asteroid belt, we're just keeping an eye on them.

Commander Topos redirected the Poseidon to where Captain Kôté was. Sure enough hiding amongst an asteroid belt between Magellan and the next planet was a dozen Empire ships moving slowly around in the belt without exiting.

They contacted Magellan and said they were there to be compensated for the destruction of their ship and the loss of 10,000 men. It was an open broadcast the Atlantean ships could link into it, so suddenly the leader was looking at the Director and Mark.

Mark smiled and waved, "Hi again, remember me?"

"What are you doing here, we found this planet, it's ours!"

The Director said angrily, "It is not yours! Besides you lied to us! These nice people from the Atlantean Federation have returned our people and our ship completely unharmed, so if you lost a ship, that's your problem!"

Mark thought, "Cricket, cloak and deploy all the drones and surround each ship with at least 10 and put the rest between them and the planet."

The leader scowled when his bluff was called, "So, is this planet going to join your pathetic Federation too?"

Mark shook his head, "I have no idea, we just got here and haven't discussed anything yet, but that is a possibility to discuss."

"So you're going to defend this planet when they aren't even part of your Federation?"

"Of course, we will always defend those that can't defend themselves. I'm not sure if Magellan can defend itself or not, but since I don't see any other ships here, I'm just assuming they can't."

"You pathetic dreamers, you only have two ships today, we have you outnumbered! Surrender!"

"Are you really that stupid? Don't you remember what happened on Athos, we only had 3 ships there? By the way, how did your superiors react, when you were the only ship that returned from that epic failed attack?"

The leader was visibly angry, but was trying hard to keep control, finally another Empire guy came onto the call. "My apologies for my brother in arms. After his failure at Athos, he was offering this planet to appease our lords."

The Director was just watching everything that was happening, but wisely staying out of the conversation, even though you could tell he really wanted to say something.

"I'm sorry, but just because a planet has no defence against attacks from space, that doesn't give you the right to just come in and subjugate them by force!"

"It gives us every right! If they cannot defend their planet, then they are weak! Because we are technologically superior and strong... we should rule them!"

Mark just shook his head in disbelief, then held up one hand, "So let me see if I understand... you find a planet, you attack it for no reason and, if they can't fight back or you beat them... you declare yourselves their rulers and subjugate them. Is that the way it works?"

"Yeah that's how we do it!"

"So how many worlds do you 'rule'?" Mark said miming the air quotes.

"The Empire consists of 4 planets! How big is your feeble Federation?"

Mark made the motions of pretending to count on all his fingers, and once he reached ten he shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know, more than that though!"

Mark saw the look on the new leader's face as he was trying to figure out how to find more planets, so Mark decided to crush his dream, "I have an idea! Based on your way of doing things... why don't you take us to your planet?"

"Why? So you can surrender and join us?"

Mark had a big grin on his face, "No! I want to attack you and, when we win, we'll take over and rule you!"

The fact that Mark said it with a smile and not a hint of fear, told the new leader that he should proceed with caution.

Mark then stated, "Eventually we will find your planet... in fact, all of your planets. So you could save us all some time and just take us there."

"What do you want with our worlds?"

"Absolutely nothing! My goal is just to make sure any people living on them are able to live safe, happy and prosperous lives, free of war and oppression... Come on guys, take us to your leaders!"

They were taking a long time to respond to that remark, so Mark then thought, "Cricket, you have full authority to destroy any ship that fires at us, but they have to fire first!"

Since they didn't seem to know what to say or do, Mark said, "Well? What's it going to be boys? I only see three options... you can return home empty handed, you can take us back home with you or you can try attacking and be destroyed. Make your choice!"

Eventually the ships moved forward out of the asteroid belt, they still hadn't said anything. Finally the new leader said, "Let the Director talk!"

When the Director was front and centre on the call, "Your people are weak and could use strong leadership, we can provide you with that leadership."

The Director laughed, "We're fine just as we are, thanks, but if we had to pick a strong and powerful leader, we would have to choose the Federation, they seem to be the strongest between you two."

"Pathetic!" was all the leader said as they turned their ships and started moving away.

Mark instructed Captain Kôté to cloak and follow them as far as they could. Once they got past the asteroid belt, the Empire ships started jumping into faster than light. Captain Kôté moved under the last ship and attached his ship to the underside of the massive starship, just in front of the engines. When the ship jumped, they were taken along for the ride.

Realizing what they had done, Mark had Cricket sending beacon seeding ships in the exact direction they left, hoping they were too arrogant and stupid to do short course altering jumps, before picking their final destination.

Mark spoke to the Director, "Sir, we'll be in orbit and have your people and ship returned soon."

"Thank you, we'll see you soon," the Director said as the call ended.

They boarded one of the shuttles and used a tractor beam shuttle to carry their ship down to the surface where Cordero said they should go, which was the space centre.

It was a secured location, but they figured that they probably had nothing that the Federation hasn't already got or seen.

As they landed there was a number of security guards present as well as the Director.

Mark extended his hand in greeting, "Director Rosen, it is a pleasure to finally meet you. I'm Mark Phoenix of the Atlantean Federation."

The Director shook his hand, "I am so very grateful that you showed up when you did."

"Captain Kôté could've handled them on his own without our help, but we were happy to assist, plus the first Empire guy knows me."

"Where is Captain Kôté, I would very much like to thank him as well."

"Now that we are here, Captain Kôté and his crew have departed on a mission. We will relay your thanks when we see him next."

"He followed them didn't he?"

"Yes, he did, when they said they had 4 worlds, we owe it to the people to make sure they're being treated properly."

As they walked across the concrete roadway or runway towards a building that looked like an airport control tower you could tell the Director was thinking deeply about something, but not voicing whatever he was thinking. When they were almost to the building he felt he should explain what's waiting inside.

"The Magellan Space Agency is a globally owned cooperative with no single nation having more say or power than any other. After the threat a few days ago, the heads of every nation have been here discussing things. So all of the leaders of our entire planet are inside, and though I was the only one in the video, they were all witness to what just happened."

"That's good to know. Thank you Director!" Mark said as they entered the building and went directly past security and to the elevators, but instead of going up, the Director pressed the B button and the elevator started moving down... and it went down a long way!

"Cricket, you have a drone following me right?"

"Yes, two of them actually!"

When the elevator doors opened, they hopped in a cart type vehicle and it started down a long corridor. Mark thought it was probably a massive underground circle as the corridor seemed to have a constant curve to the right.

The cart stopped at a door that looked a lot like a vault.

When it opened up there was another hallway that opened into a luxurious, three level almost hotel-like residence with six sides and hallways down each corner.

There were four men and two women waiting inside and there were several other men, women and children on the second floor balcony that surrounded the area. Everyone was dark skinned, although there was some different shades, but no one looked Caucasian.