Mark jerked awake as he felt Nisse move behind him. Reality began to dawn on him as Nissie pressed her bare breasts up against his back.

"Umm, master, good morning" she whispered. She stretched her thin smooth body out to her full length, her breasts proud, her nipples standing out from them as the blanket slipped off them, exposing them to the cooler air of the room.

"We have a lot to do today before we get to the next contract. I was reading up on it, this particular planet has some rather unique properties to their atmosphere and gravity."

Nissie waited for him to explain, "this place we are going to, has a gravity almost half what you are used to, we will have to wear weights on our waists, so that we don't float upward and get hurt." For some reason, Mark was thinking that this was another prearranged attack on him and Nissie by Tantka. A worried look crossed his face as Mark began to prepare, adjust and started to put together more apparatuses for the work on the planet.

Mark was still uneasy, remembering the weapon that the fake leader had pulled, obviously Tantka had gotten deeper into the data bank than they thought. The weapon had been buried somewhat deep, and as he knew, Mark's security measures were some of the hardest to crack.

Approaching the planet a few days later, Mark had briefed Nissie on everything he could to try and keep her safe, along with extra power units and instructions on how to use them. Nissie was still amazed that he had taken the time to show her, after all, she was just a slave, a tool for him to use, she guessed that Mark was different after all.

Each time he did something like that, she was always expecting him to be like all other slave owners, could he really be sincere about not wanting her as a slave? As she thought before, Mark was a mystery and she was no closer to figuring him out now, then she had been when they first met.

Mark was really worried now that they were on the planet. He knew that Tantka, could have almost anything in place to take him and Nisse out, he had plenty of time to get ready. Taking a speeder to the capital building, he sighed again didn't these damn people have any pride at all? There was trash in the streets, not one of the vehicles they passed was operational, no signs were lit up it was almost as if they were in a ghost town with people in it. The president of the planet met them at the door as they entered.

"Come in please, we have been waiting on you!" He said, his excitement obvious, leading them to a plush room, Mark had Nissie thank him as he pulled a scanner and went around the room.

He had been afraid of that, finding micro explosives, energy disintegration beams, and a few plasma charges, he started disarming them one at a time. An hour later, he finished then flipped on the nullifier, as he pulled a new device out that Nissie had never seen before. Walking slowly around the room again, he shook his head as he started to find even more micro explosives.

Mark smiled as he thought that Tantka was finally starting to get smarter, these, no one would have found if they hadn't a scanner like his. After another hour Mark finally breathed a sigh of relief, damn it, he was going to have to do something about him.

Sitting down he looked at Nissie, she had been taking notes the whole time and was looking worried at Mark. "Did you find everything?" she asked

"I believe I did, this is the most intense scan that can be done, with the extras I threw in to enhance it," He stated as he sat back and contemplated what he was going to do next. Walking out of the room the president's assistant was waiting for them.

"Mr. Mark needs to be taken to the main frame of the planet wide comp." She stated, tight lipped, irritated at what they had just went through in the room.

The man's head bobbed up and down as he led them deeper into the building. Mark sighed at the mess he found there, half the circuits were gutted as if someone had pulled them out in an attempt to repair them. Problem was it was a terrible job and looked like a half hearted job at that.

Restoring power to the room after an hour, the real job started, tracing the lines and circuits, repairing them, then testing them before moving on. After twelve hours he had almost half of the main frame put back together. Hooking up the shields to the city power, he continued to work. Twelve more hours later, he was putting the last of the circuits in when he noticed that there was an extra part on the circuit boards.

Pulling his second scanner again, he found that it was another micro charge set to go off when the main frame was activated, Cursing under his breath, he started scanning again, finding another three charges at strategic places throughout the main frame. Another hour and he was finally finished with the preparations, Mark took a deep breath as he started the main frame, slowly increasing the load on it, all appeared to be well.

Looking at the programs that hadn't been updated in many years, mark downloaded his anti-hack programs and anti-virus programs, running through the whole system. Finally after twenty seven and a half straight hours of work, Mark was prepared to bring the system back on line. The repair bots began to stir as they rapidly restored the building along with the utility bots.

Stepping out into the hallway, Mark felt bone weary this was the worst he had seen a comp, had it just been the bots then it mightn't have been so bad. This was the first time he had had to almost rebuild a comp since he had been in school. Nissie stepped out behind him, shouting as her gravity power unit failed and she had started to drift to the ceiling.

Reaching for her leg, he pulled her back down, her skirt settling over his head and her crotch settling on his face. Breathing in her scent he moved her panties to the side and feasted on her slit, her gasp of pleasure apparent.

Standing there for at least twenty minutes, he put her through three orgasms before he reached for the power unit and lowered her to the floor. Snapping in a new unit, they walked back to their room. Mark released the shield and scanned the room again. Breathing easy he laid down with Nissie and fell asleep.

A pulsing alarm was going off as Mark leapt from the bed, crouching beside it looking at his wrist comp. It appeared that two bots were trying to get in the room. Damn it he hadn't thought of that, as he accessed the main comp and shut down the bots. Suddenly there was a hissing sound, mark threw a shield wrap at the bots as they exploded inside the shield. the whole building shook as Mark prayed that the power unit in the wrap was enough to contain all of the blast. A few moments later people and soldiers came running, while Mark scanned the area making sure that there wasn't any residual radiation, toxins or harmful vapors left from the exploding bots.

Nissie had taken cover behind the bed, shaking in fear from the force of the blast. After giving the all clear and retrieving his now spent, burnt out shield wrap, sighing, he now realized that the Tantka was getting worse.

The little bastard wasn't going to give up any time soon. Walking over to Nissie, he helped her off the floor assuring her that everything was now ok. Shakily she rose from the floor and realized, just as Mark did, that they were both naked. Shrieking, she ran for the bathroom as Mark grabbed a pair of shorts much to the chagrin of the many female onlookers. The shorts didn't offer much covering as his 9'' cock, had been at full staff, watching Nissie run away.

In the bathroom with the door closed, Nissie contacted her friend in the brothel or rather the owner of it. She had bought out the previous owner just a few years ago. The woman's face appeared on the screen.

"Nissie, hon, what's wrong?" Se asked seeing the terrified look on her face.

"That dickless bastard, tried to kill me and Mr. Mark, how are things on your end?" Nisse asked as she tried to get her shaking under control.

"We have implemented well over three fourths of the plan you and I discussed last week, have you told him what you are doing yet?" The woman looked intensely at Nissie, she was amazed the girl was willing to take the risks that she was. Suddenly her eyes opened wide, "Oh my god! you're in love with him aren't you? I thought I'd never see the day that this happened!" 

Nissie blushed the deepest shade of red she ever had. Was it that apparent? Sighing, she should have known that she couldn't hide it from her, she was her sister after all and had been around her most of her life. Her sister was enraged, try to kill her sister, her only family?! Trying to calm down she clicked off from Nissie and called her assistant, giving orders.

"I want to know everything he doe s if he takes a shit, I want to know about it. I want as much video as you can get." Se growled at him. He knew not to say anything as he had seen her this way before, and that time wasn't very pretty at all.

Mark assured the president and the assistant, that everything was ok now, he had run sweeps and hadn't found any other explosives nearby. Many of the spectators started to wonder away, as the repair bot nearby waited to fix the hole in the floor where the explosive bots had been. Talking to the officials a few moments longer, he turned and went back in to the room heading for the bathroom. After activating the shield again, he opened the door to the bath room seeing Nissie slumped on the floor, still shaking, he reached for her and held her as she finally started to calm down.

"You feel like a shower?" Mark asked as he caressed her face and rubbed her shoulders.

"As long as it's with you, I won't be as scared," she sighed breathing in his scent and calming further.

Stepping in Mark marveled again at the smoothness of her body, at the perfect proportions that it held, as she clung to him while he started the shower. Turning her, he started to wash each part of her body as he felt the tenseness leave her body. Rinsing them both off Mark helped her out, toweled her and himself off, then took her to the room. Instead of getting dressed, Mark just held her as she was still a little shaken from the days events so far.

"I have to call the head master, will you be ok here for a few minutes?" as he looked deeply into her eyes.

"Yes Mas ... Mr. Mark, I need to make a call myself" she replied as he turned and walked to the bedroom.

"Hello again sir," Mark started grimly, "I'm sure you know why I am calling"

"We were just informed, Mark have you formulated a plan yet?" The head master looked at the grim faced Mark, the tension apparent on his face.

"I believe I have, but it's dangerous and I am almost afraid to implement it." Taking a deep breath he shook his head, "It appears, we will have to use to eradicator virus."

The head master gasp out, as his mouth dropped open, "you know that the council has expressly forbade anyone to use it. It's the most dangerous program ever written, though I thought it was brilliant. It is still uncontrollable even with all the safeguards you wrote in."

Mark nodded, "I know sir but, if I can't come up with something soon, he just might succeed in killing me, as hard as that may be, it is still a possibility." 

Meanwhile Nissie was having another frustrated conversation with her sister. "Please tell me you have all that you need, I want this little prick dead," Nissie said as she shook while looking at the image of her sister.

"Nissie hon, I have every resource on it, as for your plan, I have started it a little early, I want this bastard too, no one threatens my family." Looking at Nissie shaking, had enraged her to the point that she wanted to wrap her hands around the little bastard's throat herself.

"Don't worry Nissie, we're going to get him, I'll kill him myself if I have too. I have quite a few high powered people that owe me a few favors, I think it's time I called in a few of them in." An evil and sinister smile played across her face as she had come up with a devious and underhanded plan of her own.

"Sis, I am terrified, this ass has tried to kill us three or four times if it wasn't for Mark I might be scared out of my mind." As she shook again.

Her sister made note of that, she'd have to give Mark a big thank you, herself.

"Don't worry Nissie, I'm getting things in place, hopefully by the end of the week it will be where we can end this.

Then you can get back to worrying about Mark and you, not your life in constant jeopardy." her sister stated.

Signing off from here sister, she called her assistant, "what have you found out about the mark?" She asked the fury apparent on her face.

"Well, from what we have gathered, he stays alone and secluded almost all the time, except for two times a week. During those times he makes forages for food and short companionship. From what I have gotten from the girls, he uses them very roughly and repeatedly, during the night for hours." He sighed, as he really didn't want to invite her wrath with his next words, "It has also come to my attention, that he has disfigured three of the girl's faces and only laughed at them as they screamed and begged him to stop."

Watching his mistress's face, he prepared for the fury he was sure was about to erupt. Surprisingly when she remained calm, he knew then and there that all should be afraid, as this was when she was the most dangerous.

Laughing she looked up, "Perfect," a wicked smile arising upon her face, "I've got just the girl for him."

"Also, mam, we have deduced that he only goes after the uh humm... , " he was again afraid to utter the words, "as he was heard to say, the dumbest, most stupid but most beautiful whores that he can find. He was also heard to say in passing that, they didn't deserve their beauty, they were too ignorant to appreciate what they had and deserved to be punished for it."

He saw a momentary flash of anger then, as suddenly, it was gone as he slightly trembled. "Again, perfect," as she sat back formulating and redefining her plan more. "Now, I really do have the perfect girl for him," the rage flashed in her eyes again as her assistant shrunk back more, "and this girl he won't find all that easy to hurt," laughing she sat forward whispering, "or get away from."

Mark was almost at his wits end, but he now knew that there were four friendly, up to date, equipment and program systems, that they would be completely safe in, they were well beyond the reach of Tantka and that as they journeyed deeper into the systems, Tantka might have a better chance of killing him and Nissie. Nissie had kept in contact with her sister trying to pry information from her, but all she got was she had many, many people working on it, which was beginning to frustrate the hell out of Nissie. 

Boarding the liner, Mark had the ship completely shut down, then he began to pull all manner of devices from his pack that he had worked on the night before. Starting in the engine room, he soon began to find micro fractures in the reactor core. Repairing those, he next moved on to the engines, there he found that the regular engines were ok.

Passing a scanner over the hyper-drive, he found the impurities in the fuel. This would have caused cascade failure in them, leaving them stranded too far for anyone to rescue and even Mark wouldn't have been to repair it in time.

Checking the other systems, he found the usual micro-charges set to go off, but it was the graviton explosive he found at the entrance to the engine room that surprised him.

Clicking his com, he called the head Master, "Sir I have run through the ship on a first scan and found something you should know about," Mark said, as he hefted the graviton charge for him to see.

The old man's eyes grew large then narrowed in anger, "that isn't supposed to be anywhere but here on empire world and central. The only ones allowed access to it are high ranking members of the imperial forces, and the three people who were in on the development of it. I know it wasn't me nor do I think that you would attack yourself with it, the only other one who had the plans was my assistant and thank goodness he's out today."

"You might have to truth scan him," Mark uttered tight lipped, the truth scan could be extremely painful and if resisted too much could destroy the mind, leaving one an almost gibbering idiot.

"I know you have a great distaste for it, when all the students were scanned two years ago to find out who cheated. It had been your suggestion that we build a new one to make sure ours hadn't been tampered with. I also know that many things were revealed about your past, you want to stay there, as far as I'm concerned nothing came from that scan but your loyalty."

Mark breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that what the old man said went. "I know that sir but if your assistant tries to resist, we might lose the only hope for evidence against Tantka." The head master's head nodded in agreement.

"Mark I think you should come back to empire world, at least til we get this finished, that way he'd have to come after you here and with the resources we have that would be virtually impossible."

Mark shook his head, "no sir, I am further out than almost anyone has been in a long time, I know I am not completely out of his reach, but we are to the point now, that if he wanted to get to us, he would have to leave central, come here to carry out his plan and leave undetected and that won't happen."

The head master looked at Mark for a moment longer, the worry apparent on his face, sighing, "I don't like this Mark, you are the brightest we have produced in over thirty years, the four systems you have been to and repaired are already back in the federation trading and finally building up to where they were many years ago. This is the true testament of your work, that they were accepted back in so fast. Be extremely careful."​

Working another four hours Mark found all that had been sabotaged, repairing everything, he stepped through the doorway towards his room with Nissie in tow. Entering the room Nissie hung at the doorway almost afraid to enter after the last time they had been so close to death. Mark pulled his scanners out and ran over the room checking every centimeter slowly, looking for anything out of the ordinary. Cursing he reached for the nullifier and clicked it on.

"Nissie tell the captain that we have a situation and I need a no grav holding box," she nodded as she ran down the hall. Moments later the captain and the head engineer showed up with the container.

After loading the explosive into the container, they moved it away as three bots emerged to start the deactivation process. An hour later the ship lifted, and was under way to the next system that Mark had a contract with. Laying down Mark was thinking of a plan to take care of his Tantka problem, when his wrist com went off.

"Hello father, are things going well there?" Mark asked surprised that he had called this soon after their visit to the planet a week ago.

"Yes Mark, thanks to you the planet is almost back to normal, the traffic has increased and they are almost ready to try and start exporting again. I just wanted to thank you again and let you know that the system you are headed to, I will be there within the next two weeks." Mark nodded his head and thanked his father before clicking off.

Mark knew that he would have to hurry there,