Chapter 14

It was late Thursday night when the shuttle touched down on the driveway. The horses were all back in the barn and taken care of, and business on the ranch had returned to normal, which had Joe in a good mood.

Everyone at the ranch had already eaten supper, so everyone settled around the fire pit in the courtyard, and Kat asked, “How did things go and when are you going to leave for Atlanterra?”

They told them about the tours, so they were going to watch it when it aired. Then Mark outlined his new business ideas and the Plan B shuttle idea, if they kibosh’d using the airports.

Joe was glad to hear that there may be some other options for getting people up to the embassy, rather than just going through the visitor centre. It was a very popular money maker for the ranch and it wasn’t bothering the ranch anymore, but the added traffic was not something they built the road system in the area to handle. He had received messages from the county and it had been worrying him, although he hadn’t voiced his concerns to anyone until now.

Solara suggested, “If they’re worried about the roads, tell them we can upgrade the roads free, just tell us what needs to be done.”

Joe nodded his head, as Kat said she would get Mark the contact info for the accountant they used for the ranch, as he’d be able to help them with setting all the business stuff up.

Mark liked the idea of using their accountant, Charles, as he had met him many times over the years, since he was also the accountant for their old business.

There was also some heady discussion about what the exchange rate should be between Federation credits and Earth-based currencies and whether they should compare it to Canadian or US Dollars or Euros. They decided they should base it on Canadian Dollars since that’s where their headquarters was going to be, but that the accountant would get the final say. Mark then thought there was another business they’d have to set up ... some sort of bank.

To come up with an exchange rate, Liyana suggested that they compare similar items on popular online ordering platforms to their counterparts on DropShip, which was more or less the Federation version of those services, but that it would take more research for another time. So Mark asked Cricket if she could look into it?

The mention of DropShip had everyone asking questions about Atlanterra of which only Maren, Gyges or Liyana could answer, but Liyana just said to wait until after they got to see Atlanterra, before they try to explain it.

After Maren, Liyana and Gyges had left to return to the embassy, they all went downstairs to the playroom.

It turns out that after Joe and Kat got renewed; they had a lot more energy, so they had been well using the playroom now that it was right under the lodge. Even Maria and her daughter were there!

Sofia bee-lined to the dildo shelves and grabbed the one she liked and then set it up on the machine she was going to use. Maren and Annabelle had stripped each other, settled onto another bed, and were amid a torrid make-out session. Maria and Kat both pushed Joe back onto a bed and had him stripped in no time. T’Soona and Jason were naked, as expected, and T’Soona was riding atop Jason on a nearby bed.

Solara was stripping off her clothes as she smiled at both Mark and Rayven, “Now we get to try something I’ve been wanting since you turned Rayven.”

She laid back on a mattress as Mark and Rayven lay on both sides of her, sucking and playing with her breasts. Mark had been fingering Solara’s pussy as she was making him slowly increase the number of fingers working in and out of her. He was currently at 4 fingers as Solara was writhing from both his and Rayven’s ministrations.

Solara tucked Mark’s thumb into his palm as he pushed a bit more, and his hand sank into her pussy as she gasped for air.

Rayven looked and said, “Oh wow!” as Solara was stroking her cock while Mark continued to pump his fist in and out of Solara’s wet pussy. The wet sloshing sound mixing with the sounds of sex all around them.

“Fuck me, Rayven,” Solara said as Rayven settled between her legs and slid her cock into Mark’s palm inside of Solara. Mark gave her cock a few strokes before withdrawing his hand and moving behind them to watch Rayven’s pretty little ass and pussy as she fucked Solara.

With his cock already fully erect, Mark began rubbing his cock on Rayven’s pussy as she fucked Solara. He positioned himself so that on Rayven’s out stroke the head of his cock would slide into her pussy, causing her to moan.

Solara then asked, “Mark, can you fuck my pussy as well?”

Rayven spread her legs wider to give Mark some room. Mark positioned his cock between Rayven’s legs and used her cock as a guide to Solara. Once the head of his cock touched her taint, Solara let out a moan. Mark pushed forward as Solara moaned while her pussy stretched open to accommodate both cocks. Rayven also groaned with the sensation of Mark’s cock sliding alongside hers.

Slowly, they figured out a rhythm that allowed both of them to fuck Solara’s pussy. Rayven’s pussy juice coated Mark’s stomach as he toyed with both her pussy and her ass in front of him. He started taking longer strokes and actually withdrawing completely from Solara before reinserting himself beside Rayven. On one of his withdrawal strokes, he quickly raised his cock and sank into Rayven’s pussy, causing her to gasp and moan. He then withdrew and went back into Solara. He then did a few alternating strokes between Solara and Rayven’s pussies. He could sense himself getting close to orgasm and Rayven was already on the verge, so he sank back into Solara and began fucking a bit faster.

The added sensation of Mark’s quickened pace on Rayven’s cock soon had her squirting into Solara and upon feeling the telltale twitches of her cock, and added warmth of Rayven’s cum, caused Mark to erupt into Solara, who by that time was delirious and in an almost constant state of orgasm. After the initial big squirt into Solara, Mark withdrew and sank into Rayven, making sure her pussy got some of his cum as well. When they withdrew from their coupling, Solara was just smiling as her legs remained splayed wide open for everyone to see her gaping, leaking pussy.

Upon glancing around the room, Jason had already cum inside T’Soona, who was dipping her fingers into her pussy and then alternating between herself and Jason to lick her fingers clean. Joe was fucking Maria, while Maria and Kat were in a 69 position and Joe looked like he was about to cum.

Sofia looked like she might have passed out on the machine with the dildo still fucking in and out of her little pussy. She had a big smile on her face and her hands were resting on her pert little breasts. She just looked so innocent.

Annabelle and Maren were cuddling on the bed after guiding each other through many orgasms.

Joe suddenly moaned as he came and as he withdrew Kat began eagerly licking the cum out of Maria’s pussy.

They all rested for a few minutes, letting their blissful orgasms soak in.

Eventually Sofia got up or woke up, went and got a bunch of towels and began walking around and handing them out. She really was an attractive teenager and no longer shy about being naked around everyone.

Soon everyone cleaned up and headed to bed.

“Mark, wake up. Mark!” Annabelle was nudging Mark trying to wake him up so they could join the family for the workout.

Mark groggily woke up as Annabelle looked at him with concern, “Are you feeling OK? You’re always up before me.”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” he said, “living in space stuff really isn’t for me, there’s no distinct days or nights. My internal clock is so messed up that my body doesn’t know whether it’s supposed to be awake or go to sleep, and that was only after two days in space.”

Rayven was just waking up as well, also kind of groggily, “I know what he’s going through, I remember going through this when I first left Atria. They told me when you live in space you have to pick a clock and live by it. The absence of distinct days and nights will fuck you up.”

The trio got out of bed, got dressed and went down to the ballroom for the workout as it was still dark outside. Mark could keep up, but was still yawning at the end of the 45 minute exercise.

Joe asked, “Are you feeling OK? You’re usually a lot more alert than you are today.”

Mark explained again, “Living in space messes with you, as there’re no days or nights, but I’ll be back to normal after breakfast.”

Maren, Liyana, and Gyges showed up just as they were beginning breakfast.

Breakfast was French toast and bacon. The smell of bacon woke everyone up with grumbling tummies, as the smell permeated the halls around the entire lodge since the kitchen windows were open to the courtyard.

During breakfast, Kat’s phone dinged. She looked at her phone and laughed, “Charles and Lynn will come right over and to save them some breakfast. Actually, having Lynn available might be beneficial to you as well. You could probably use a lawyer for setting up these businesses.”

Charles was a business accountant and his wife, Lynn, was a corporate lawyer for most of the local businesses in the county and a few businesses in the city. Mark knew both of them through IT work on Joe and Kat’s business before they sold it.

Before they arrived, the alarm in the office went off, showing it was time to get the chores done.

Joe, Mark and Gyges went out to do the chores, while the kids went to go get ready for school. Annabelle decided, since they were going to be on Earth for at least another week, she might as well go to school, so she had less to do on her own.

When they finished the chores, there was a cream coloured Cadillac Escalade parked in one space, along the tree line to the right of the lane. As the men entered the lobby, Charles and Lynn were sitting at a table talking to Kat and Liyana.

Mark did a quick Internet search and found the phone number for Calgary City Hall. He called the number from the office phone and got a receptionist, “Hi there, I’m Mark Phoenix ... yes the one with the aliens from TV ... yes I’ll be leaving for Atlanterra soon ... the embassy is nice, but I prefer being on the ground ... Listen is there any chance I can get a meeting with the mayor or at least a city planner after 2PM today or sometime tomorrow?”

They then put him on hold for a couple of minutes.

“Hello Mr. Mayor, I wasn’t expecting to talk to you ... Did your assistant explain why I was calling? ... Yes, I’m considering Calgary to be the headquarters for a few new businesses that I’m going to be setting up ... Yes, I was hoping to speak to a city planner also ... I’m looking for land that you either can’t build anything else on, because of contamination, or something that has a building you’d like demolished ... Yes, we would want to build our own building using Atlantean technology for efficiency and security ... Yes, all the employees in the building will be locals, although there will also likely be a lot of alien visitors coming and going from there also ... Really? ... Great! I’ll be there!” Mark said as he hung up the phone.

Maria had cleared the table and brought some coffee cups for Joe, Mark and Gyges and made sure everyone’s cup was full by the time Mark sat down and announced, “The Mayor says, I’m a foreign dignitary looking to employ people from his city, so he is extending his day and will meet with me at 4PM today. He also said he would bring someone from the city planning department with him.”

Then Mark extended his hand to greet the couple, “Charles ... Lynn ... good to see you again. It’s been a while!”

Charles was a rotund, balding man in his early to mid-60s, his wife Lynn was about the same age although in a bit better body shape, she had more grey in her hair, but overall didn’t look too bad for her age.

Charles started the discussion, “So Mark, Kat tells me you’ve got some business ideas ... and by the sounds of it, you’re meeting with the mayor of Calgary this afternoon about them. You’re not wasting any time, are you?”

Mark stated, “Nope! Experience has taught me that anytime you have to get government involved, it’s going to take time to get anything accomplished. I plan to be leaving this solar system soon and may not be back for a while, so I want to get as much done as possible before I leave.”

Charles asked, “So you’ve got a couple of businesses you want some help to set up?”

Mark replied, “Yes I do, several of them actually. I’m also glad you’re here, Lynn, as I will probably need a lawyer as well. Before I start, how much do you know about what’s been happening with me in the past few weeks?”

Charles explained what they knew, which was pretty much everything, including his divorce from Alice, moving to the ranch, meeting the aliens and was about to become the king.

They surprised Mark, “Good! You know pretty much everything until we finished the embassy. That will save some time. To fill in the last bit, I’ve met with a couple of government officials and we’ve been discussing possibilities of using airports as our embassy drop-off and pickup points, and I’ve put a bug in their ear, about me starting up some businesses on Earth, using Atlantean technology, to let them see the benefits without actually giving the technology to them, which we simply can’t do.”

Charles held up his hand, “Just a second, let me dig out my laptop. Something tells me I’m going to need to take notes for both of us,” as he pulled out his fabric briefcase with padded computer compartment.

“Oh good! Full battery!” Charles said as he booted up his laptop.

Mark stood up for his speech, since he always worked better on his feet, “As you know, I’m soon to be the King of the Atlantean Federation, but I’m also a Canadian citizen, and the only one from the embassy that has any local currency. So I’m wanting to take all my money and start up a few businesses that will generate local currency for the Federation.

The first business I must setup is a bank, some place where we can exchange local currencies for Federation credits. I have someone looking into a currency conversion rate by comparing items on Earth to similar items in the Federation.

The second business is going to be a transportation business. It could be a private airline type business if we can get permission to use airports for our shuttle pickup and drop-off points, otherwise it’ll be some sort of private charter service we’ll do using either buildings or designated locations for pickup and drop off. I’ve already got some Federal government guys working on that.

The third business will probably be the one that generates most of the income the bank and other businesses will eventually need. It’s a subscription based security business, using our drone technology with scanners to detect weapons and dangerous substances, so we can inform their security personnel of the violations. We will sell this service to anyone who wants security, whether it’s a business or public venue, as long as it’s got a defined boundary. With terror attacks on airports, schools, government buildings, and public events, why wouldn’t they want our security?

The fourth business is an identification business. It’s probably not going to be huge at first as I think it may be a tough sell, but you never know. The problem with this business is its only going to be a onetime fee per person, identification is permanent!”

Charles and Lynn’s eyes were wide, realizing Mark’s plans, so he added, “If you think this is beyond your capabilities, let me know, otherwise I think we could all be quite profitable.”

Charles and Lynn looked at each other and both acknowledged, “We might have to hire some help, but we can handle it!”

Charles asked, “Are you going to be on the up and up with these businesses?”

Mark nodded and said, “Definitely, I expect to be paying taxes, wages, and whatever else. To start, I’m wanting to have a single building, probably in Calgary, as our world headquarters. We will build it with Atlantean technology, so it won’t be requiring stuff like electricity, water, sewer and all that stuff, so we may fight the property tax a bit. It’s also going to be a very secured building and we’ll require the identification system to work there!”

Lynn spoke up immediately, “That might not be legal! Just to get a job you can’t force someone to do something that will be with them for their entire life, even after they leave your employ! That would be like telling someone we only hire people with tattoos, so you need to go get a tattoo to work here.”

Mark thought, “Cricket, can we do facial recognition?”

Cricket answered, “Of course, I already do it with the regular people that come to the ranch, they don’t have medibots.”

Mark shrugged his shoulders, “OK I’ll concede the identification requirement, we can do facial recognition instead and certain areas of the building will be extra security that will require the identification system that will be the areas with the actual Atlantean technology, so likely it will be Federation citizens employed for that.”

Lynn shook her head, “I’m not sure they’ll be able to work, unless they have work visas to work on local soil and take local jobs. There’s not really any precedence set for working with extraterrestrials, but I’m thinking it would be much like the foreign worker policies.”

“OK, how about this then?” Mark thought for a few seconds, “How about all the employees in the building are locals, but we keep the secured Atlantean technology in space and treat it like outsourcing. Kind of like how a lot of companies outsource phone support to places where labour is cheap?”

Lynn thought for a second, “That could work. You’re still going to be breaking a lot of new ground, as you’re creating an interplanetary audit trail, not something they can issue a warrant for, if they had to. A big part of that will be how we set up the bank!”

Charles said as he was thinking aloud, “You may not even have to set up a bank. You could almost set it up like a small currency exchange place you see in malls and airports ... Never mind, I guess you would need a bank if you ever wanted to use public currency exchanges. Maybe we should look into those crypto currencies?”

Mark laughed and suggested, “I’m going to let you think about the best way to set up the bank. We just need it stable and secured, so if it means buying a lot of gold stocks to secure the money then so be it.”

Charles got a phone call, and it was another of his clients. Sensing that the meeting was pretty much over, Mark stated, “I’ve given you lots to think about. If you need to get ahold of me, the best way is through email as we’re linked into the Internet now, so I’ll be able to get email even when I’m not on Earth.”

Mark then stood up and shook hands with both Charles and Lynn.

After the meeting, Liyana and Mark were lounging in the courtyard along with the rest of the girls, just looking up at the sky. There was still no snow on the ground, but the skies were clear and blue and there was a definite chill in the air, so they were glad they now covered the courtyard.

Liyana said, “You really impress me Mark, you think so fast on your feet. You would say something you have obviously thought about, but then they would explain why you cannot do it that way, and seconds later you would have an alternative idea that accomplishes the same thing, but addresses their concerns.”

Then she got up, slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it fall to the ground, then knelt beside Mark’s lounger and started undoing his pants and whispered, “All this politicking has got me horny. Just lie back, my King, and let me take care of you.”