A new world, a new threat, and a new friend

"Here is my person comm details, if you need help send me a message and I'll come running." Elise says softly as she taps her two fingers to your wrist and a stream of pale cyan light streams into your Chronometer, which doubles as a data storage device and a few other handy tricks when caught in a bind, most slavers will allow their slaves to keep them, as a cruel reminder of the passage of time as they carry them to their horrible fate. You look up into Elise's bright orange eyes, her hair has taken on dark brown tint, that reminds you of the hard wood furniture of your old home.

"Thanks Elise, for everything, I really should pay you for the passage, let alone all the advice and other fun things you provided me." You say with a wry smile as you bite your bottom lip and think back to the quickie you manage to squeeze in the shuttle ride down to the world, you can still taste Elise's cum in your mouth, as you decided not to travel to the new world with your snatch filled with Elise's seed, just in case she tried to trick you with any last parting gifts to try and make you stay with her, not that you'd mind too much, as you look deep into those sunset orange eyes and find yourself getting lost in their calming gaze.

"Well a very wise man whom was my own mentor once gave me advice much the same to yours, and also gave me a head start, now I'm not a religious or even spiritual person, bar the superstitions all space faring follow, but I like to live by the principle of passing on one good turn to another, and maybe one day they'll do the same, besides you were a lot better value that some soulless sex bot, and much better than those classy whores." Elise says as she sticks her tongue out at you teasingly. You laugh and punch her lightly on the arm.

"Stay safe captain, I'm going to try and practice my skills and what you taught me, and maybe spend another few nights in your cabin with some stories of my own to share." You reply back as smile and embrace Elise tightly and enjoy the feeling of her warm and pleasantly scented body. Elise returns your embrace one of her hands runs through your long red and luxuriously soft hair, that Elise had helped treat with some shampoos which should help keep it nice and easy to maintain even with the harsh living you sometimes must endure for your freedom.

"You too Val, take the money you were meant to pay me, get yourself some comfy place to stay, and then look for a person by the name of Shade, consider that your first test, and if you need some money, remember there is legal work passed in the taverns we captains like to frequent, most of it is bounty work, but hell that could help you if you run into anyone on the run too." Elise says as she breaks the hug and kisses you on the lips before stepping back and turning to face her navigation officer who has been waiting patiently checking through the manifest of the goods they were dropping off, and picking up. "Well Rinn getting antsy so I better get going, I'll be back in a couple of weeks for some shore leave here, if all things go well, I'll ping your comm when I arrive, so don't be a stranger." Elise says as she runs her hand over your cheek and looks deeply into your blue eyes and smiles.

You watch Elise leave staring at her ass as she walks away, and feel slightly sad to see her walk off, It really was a hard choice to leave, but you need to get this wanderlust out of your system. You adjust your clothes, a simple set of of Cargo shorts which show off your long legs, and gives you ample hiding spots for your tools, your opted for a classic old world army olive, which goes well with your tight white blouse, the rest of your possessions are packed away in your many pockets or a simple unassuming knapsack slung over one shoulder, inside neatly packed away are your more stealthy attire as well as a few other trinkets, ornaments and mementos you allowed yourself to keep.

The world you landed on is a Jungle planet colonized fairly recently, well relatively recently being still older than you, but not established long enough for it to be civilized beyond the space ports taking the valuable jungle woods to be machined into fancy and robust furniture and other luxurious goods. Elise warned you not to cross what counts as the law here, as they tend to sell any trouble makers. This helps cement the idea not to break their laws, but as they are unofficial and so remote from the core worlds, there is no effort for the real law to stop them, despite slaving being outlawed across the core systems and any of the frontier worlds close enough to police.

The planet itself called Verbena, has little in the way of life beyond the spaceport, which houses a thriving dock, as well as a number of office buildings for Mega corps that operate here. There are shops and residential for those workers, with the senior office staff affording nice penthouse apartments atop of the tall complex at the center of the office blocks and residential areas. Most look upon the tall glass tower and feel the oppressive feeling of their bosses and betters looking down on them, whereas you spy opportunity, plenty of valuables and good things to lift, but the risk would be not making an enemy so close to your only exit, so any robbery or heist will require a lot of planning and information gathering first. Outside of the Space port is the vast expanse of massive jungle tree's which are harvested for their lumber, and the odd research station to study the fauna and flora, in the hopes they can discover something they can sell to the many Pharma Tec conglomerates, with the rush of gene modding both sanctioned and illegal cosmetics, there basically a group of Xeno biologists on ever frontier world trying to find the next breakthrough compound, that will extend the lifespan of the which of give them better fighting ability, despite the fact many of them will probably never fight themselves.

You decide to head into the captains bar that Elise pointed you to, to inquire about rooms, and also listen into some of the local gossip, maybe find a nice bar girl to share your bed with, maybe you could even try your luck with some of the locals. Your thoughts of the prospects of your bedfellows for the night are rudely interrupted as the door swings open violently catching you off guard, and send you falling backwards, thankfully your nimble form and highly trained reflexes prevent you from falling backwards onto anything important, but the **** of the blow carries you back a good foot, and you manage to spring back to you feet quickly as you recover. You look up with anger in your eyes at the asshole that did this and look upon a tall and muscled bound man wearing military fatigues, you manage to bite your tongue when you see the insignia of a bloodied blade on arm, which you recognize to be the symbol of one of the mercenary groups that count as the law around here, hired goons of one of the Megacorps, and the stripes on his lapel, with the way he carries himself tell you that this man is dangerous. He looks down at you with his cold calculating eyes, they are a pale blue, and his stare cut through you, and makes you feel exposed, as you imagine him trying to calculate the many ways he could kill you if you pose a threat.

He slowly moves his arm out to you, as he offers you a hand to help you up, you hesitate, but reach up and take a hold of his hand, and with that he pulls you to your feet with little effort, which leaves you looking up at the 6"6 monster of a man. "Sorry there Maam didn't see you there?" The man says in a voice filled with false pleasantry.

Your instincts kick in, and you smile and bow politely to the man. "It's Ok sir I should of been more mindful of myself, thank you for helping me to my feet mr....." You reply in a voice of false sincerity, as you pause to try and get the stranger to give his name.

"How rude of me, Colonel Robert Grimes of the crimson daggers at your service." The colonel says as he returns a gesture of pleasantries. "Allow me to get you a drink miss...." The colonel continues as he also pauses to allow you to give your name. As he puts his hand around you and moves you inside, the action makes you shiver, but you also notice the overwhelming strength of this man as he leads you into the bar.

"Thank you Colonel, please call me Val." You say politely as the colonel gestures to a stool by the bar, and takes a seat next to you, you watch his eyes roam up and down you body, to the untrained eye you'd be forgiven to see that he's simply checking your body out, and the false look of lust in his eyes sell it well, but you know better than that, you know can tell be the way his eyes scan past your perky boobs or nice heart shaped ass, but scan your curves, and hairline the places you might hide weapons or any other kind of devices a man of security need concern himself with.

"So Val, what brings a hot girl like you to a dive planet like this." He asks as he finishes his scans and lowers his guard to a more neutral stance.

"Oh well actually keep it a secret, but I've run away from my daddy to see the sights." You reply with a girlish giggle. "So I heard the the trees and flowers here were pretty and being studied, so I was hoping to get signed up with one of the research outposts and get away from my daddy, and his family line this and that." You say back playing the part of run away, hoping this might gel with the impression the Colonel has of you.

"Haha yeah we get a few of your type around here, although I'll warn you now that unless you got a degree, then the best you'll get from the science teams is a glorified secretary role where the head nerd can keep you as some trophy while he fantasizes about you." Colonel Grimes replies, as he takes off his military cap to reveal the short blonde hair, as he mops his brow with a handkerchief, before stowing it back in his top pocket.

"Oh really, that doesn't sound so good, guess I'll either stick around the bar, maybe waitress until I can get a lift off to somewhere a bit more inhabited." You say with a voice of false sadness.

"A girl like you Val, you're too pretty to be busting your hump serving drinks to folks like me and my men." Colonel Grimes replies with a mischievous look in his eyes.

"Oh I don't know, I'd get all the eye candy I could want, if your men are as half as good as you that's still miles better than any of the scientists." Your reply as you try and flirt with the Colonel in the hopes it'll sell your story and maybe coax some useful Intel from him. Most men have a soft spot, for pretty girls and he seems to buy your story.

"Well that might be true, but if its adventure you're looking for you could always work for me, now I'm afraid it won't be very glamorous, but I can show you the sights and the outside area, if you'd be my Personal assistant for the remainder of my tour, It's about 2 weeks left before I swap out, and my last PA got his toe shot off in a stupid drunken bet." Colonel Grimes says in a alluring tone, and makes a joking gesture of a gun to his feet when talking about his previous PA. You sit and consider his offer, you'd imagine that Colonel Grimes would be keeping an eye on you, but you'd be inside the security team, so you'd in theory be hiding in plain sight, although the Colonel scares you, you can't put your finger on it, but something about him is messing with your fight or flight reactions and right now they scream at you to run.

"That sounds really tempting, can I have a night to sleep on it?" You ask as you bat your eye lids at the Colonel as you continue the charade of being captivated by his forceful and commanding personality.

"Well any other girl and I'd say no, or tell them they could have the night in my bed to think about it, but you seem like a nice girl Val, so I'll give you some papers to fill out, if you want to use a false name to avoid you daddy's detection that'll be fine I'll rubber stamp it, and you can swing by my office at Geogen, you cant miss it, it's the giant spherical glass monstrosity." Colonel Grimes says as he takes out a small data pad and passes it to you. "You can return the pad here or at the office depending if you accept or not." The colonel continues, as his comms unit crackles to life.

"Colonel Grimes, This is Foxtrot Team, we've located the principal, looks like she broke loose again, not sure how but she'd been recaptured and placated." A harsh female voice says from the Colonels comms unit on his neck.

"Copy that Foxtrot, up her to 2 guards to maintain a visual on her at all times, and then two guards to watch them. Thankfully she's never gotten away too far, but I don't want to chance it." The colonel replies as he drains his glass of a very strong whiskey before smiling and nodding to you as he leaves the bar. You look back to your own drink and the data pad and then begin to wonder about what the hell the radio call was all about.

"Well looks like the colonel's taken a shine to you." The bartender says suddenly causing you to jump in your place, as you look up to the source of the husky voice, and see a busty black haired lady with a tight shirt, straining against her massive chest. Her eyes are an pale yellow color. "Relax he's gone now, you can rest easy, he either bought your story or doesn't care to pry as he could handle you, in either case you're safe, now can I get you a softer drink or maybe some supplies, I also overheard your in need of a room." The husky voices woman continued.

"That sounds amazing, but who are you if you don't mind me asking." You reply in a voice as you slowly try and rebuild the composure that was demolished between her and the Colonel.

"A friend, I hear people call me Shade, Elise told me you might drop by, she said to make it a challenge for you to find me, but given your entrance I thought you could use some help." Shade replies in a plesant tone as she extends out a hand for you to shake. You feel a sense of relief wash over as you shake her hand and find yourself back in the company of someone you can partially trust, or at least give you some sound advice. "We'll talk in the back, where you might find yourself more comfortable." Shade says as she opens up the bar and nods to one of the serving girls who smiles and goes behind the bar as Shade leads you to a doorway into a closet, but then opens a hidden door and leads you through to a cozy wooden room, with lots of nice looking furniture and expensive looking art pieces and decorations.