Author Note
Thanks to Carthienes for the Omake that became part of the story.
Jump Chain 12 - BTVS 4
Part 11
Bajor. Halloween Universe.
"I guess banking is the same anywhere" I mentioned to Raven and Jane, the only two of my companions who'd wanted to come here with me "There are never enough tellers".
Not long after returning to Deep Space Nine with the USS Voyager in tow the Federation government had wired me a generous sum of Federation Credits. Although it was stated on more than one occasion in the Trek shows and in the movies that the economy of the future was very different, and that money no longer existed on Earth from as early as the late 22nd century or in the Federation as late as the 24th century, a medium of exchange did still exist within that period.
All known examples of credit used in the show as far as I could remember were via transactions outside or on the periphery of the Federation, such as when Starfleet Officers went to Quarks bar, as within the Federation you didn't really need money, but in reality, the Federation did trade so with other organisations as such in need some form of currency. So within the Federation, you could still work to acquire credits if you so desired, and you might do if you planned to travel or do business with people who weren't part of the Federation.
Like this world for example. Bajor was the homeworld of the Bajoran people and capital planet of the Third Republic of Bajor. Throughout much of the 24th century, it was occupied by the Cardassian Union. Following Cardassian withdrawal in 2369, the planet became affiliated with the United Federation of Planets, becoming a member world in 2376. In this universe, the Occupation hadn't actually happened, but the Bajorans remembered it and the planet still seemed to have been stripped minded for resources.
Other things worth knowing about this world was the seventh planet in orbit of the Bajoran star, and it was located near the Bajoran wormhole, a gateway to the distant Gamma Quadrant, in the nearby Denorios Belt. Its capital city was called Ashalla, and planet had many moons which made for a very interesting night's sky.
Since I did business with many groups and races in this galaxy the Federation Credits were of limited value to me and so I'd travelled to the Central Bank of Bajor, which was the main banking and financial institution on the planet Bajor. They had a currency based on lantium and that was accepted far and wide since all the different organisations and races needed something to use as money.
I didn't know the exchange rate between Federation Credits and lita just yet, but I did know from my files that thirty-five-thousand lita was a fair price for twelve hecapates of land in the Kendra Province, and that province looked like a nice place to go live if you wanted to settle down, so I figured that the Federation had paid me well enough for the safe return of their officers.
They'd not paid for the ship Voyager, but since I'd not been contracted to return the ship and it wasn't mine to sell I didn't care about that. Besides towing the ship hadn't been much work and it could pay off later since Starfleet was now more likely to do business with me in the future if they thought they would get good deals from my group.
"Better than Gringotts" Raven commented.
A while back I'd taken my magical apprentice to the goblin bank on Halloween Earth. It still served as a bank, even if it looked far more like a fortress. I'd opened up accounts for both Raven and myself in that bank, in case I ever returned to that planet and it was Raven's homeworld and that meant if Jump Chain failed she'd be sent back there or might go back after the chain ended. If so I'd wanted to make sure that she had some resources to call upon.
"Yes the Bajorans are more friendly," I said.
I felt sure that once I showed them how big my Federation account was, and that I was willing to exchange those credits for lita at a generous exchange rate, that they'd treat me much better, and if this place turned out to be acceptable I might store some other forms of currency here in their vaults.
The Gothic Consortium was an expanding business so it made sense to set up accounts in banks across the galaxy so that I would have plenty of money to spread out if needed. Business ventures often required investments and there were many chances to make some profitable transactions on Deep Space Nine so having an account here on Bajor that I could access made a lot of sense.
"Can we can do a little sightseeing after this?" Jane asked me.
That seemed like a good idea to me.
"According to what I've read there are parts of the Eastern Province that contain lush green valleys covered in wildflowers," Raven told us, clearly having memoried quite a bit of info about this world before setting foot on it "and hundreds of small, crystal clear ponds that are interconnected by waterfalls".
I too had read up about this world's points of interest.
"There's a few places we could go" I was now saying "The Bajoran State Museum, The Monastery of the Kai, The Temple of Iponu".
Jane did not look pleased, but Raven was actually smiling at the idea of going to see those places.
"I want to see the Bajoran Archaeological Institute" she mentioned.
While that might turn out to be dull I was willing to indulge Raven and take her there. After all happy companions mean a happy Jumper. As for my foster daughter, I felt sure that she'd find some way to amuse herself.
"Think I'll go and wait on the ship," Jane said, "I brought some holodeck programs when we were at the station that Faith wants to try out".
I really didn't want to know what those two would do in the holodeck. I somehow knew that I wouldn't approve.
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The Phoneix. Halloween Universe.
Tali'Zora vas Thunderchild, not be confused with her younger counterpart Tali'Zora vas Phoenix approached her lover nervously, wringing her hands as she thought about what she had done.
"Spank me, Captain." she requested without much in the way of preamble.
Gothic turned his gaze on her, those eyes seeming for a moment to bore deep into her soul before he spoke.
"What have you done, Tali?" he demanded to know.
The alien woman rubbed the fingers of her hands together, a telltale sign of how truly nervous she was.
"I arranged for Rannoch to be returned the Quarian people." she blurted out, "In exchange for further support for the Gothic Consortium".
The Jumper was not happy to hear this.
"That wasn't your decision to make, Tali" her lover's voice was tinged with anger and disappointment, "We don't have the forces to retake Rannoch from the geth!".
Even with the support of the Migrant fleet, and their ships weren't in a good state for a fight, the three Battlestars would have a hard time defeating the Geth fleet, which had no doubt been upgraded with new tech, and even if the war in space went well they'd have to take the planet by force. Sure they had a large mech army, but wiping out the savage darkspawn who had primitive tech and weren't that organised outside of a Blight was what not the same thing as taking on a highly organised race of advanced machines.
"We don't need them," Tali said as she tried to focus on her rehearsed speech, "Once the Consortium became involved, Padme did, and we both knew that the geth can negotiate".
If anyone could talk a machine race into a diplomatic solution with their hostile builders it would be the former Senator.
"The geth offered to return Rannoch if we can work out a deal to share the systems and resources in that part of the galaxy" the combat engineer went on to say "and the Admiral Board agreed to let us negotiate the terms because they assumed that we'd fail".
She had more to say.
"The geth need help to build their Dyson Sphere" Gothic was now being told "and we have the technology to help with that".
While the Geth wanted to progress on their own they were logical enough to understand that in this hostile universe that they would need help. Once they had their Dyson Sphere up and running the Geth would be able to isolate themselves for the most part. The sphere would be well-armed and protected by the Geth fleet.
"And you know how Padme can get when she finds a cause to get behind, she's already got everyone else to agree to this" Tali informed the Jumper "she just needs your approval to sign off on this, officially".
It would be a big commitment for the Gothic Consortium as the Geth wanted a lot of raw materials and some valuable technology in exchange for the quarian homeworld.
"And just what do I get out of this, Tali?" Gothic asked his anger paling to curiosity.
Tali felt less nervous now since it seemed as if the Jumper would be willing to go along with this.
"Aside from this becoming a massive PR boost for the Gothic Consortium that will put the company on the galaxy map" Tali answered "We'll have the first choice of any contracts with Rannoch. That will require building more support ships, but with the magic that makes them bigger on the inside we don't need massive ships for that and you've already built a small cargo ship that we can copy".
That mostly added to Gothic's workload without offering much in return so the alien babe knew that she would need to sweeten the deal.
"In exchange, we'll have the support of the Quarian people," Tali told her lover "That means as many quarian engineers as we need for our Battlestars and the support ships. With all the work we'll have and with all the attention, we'll get from this we'll have more work than we can handle, and this will open up new markets for us so that we can all the tech you want to buy".
She could tell that Gothic was coming around to the idea, so she figured that now was the time to mention the biggest incentive.
"Then there is my sister," she said, unable to fight the smirk that crept onto her face.
Sure, Tali the Younger would have to agree to follow them on Jumpchain, but Tali the Older would convince her and this would benefit her, she'd been missing her lover's touch and she knew that human men liked twins and that would get her more attention. After a few more weeks in Gothic's company, any Tali would willingly follow him anywhere and everywhere, and pretty much do anything he asked. The Jumper would not be able to resist twin sisters, although they were technically even closer than that, and they could have lots of kinky fun together.
"Over my lap" the Captain of this ship ordered.
It was somewhat awkward to climb over his lap since Gothic was sitting in his command throne on the bridge, but she managed it and a warm smile spread across her face as she felt the thrill of pleasure that shot through her as Gothic brought his hand down sharply on her shapely rump. She knew that younger self would enjoy this sort of thing as well and it was such a small price to pay for getting a whole planet.
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Fort Knox. Zombie. Buffy Verse.
Upon meeting with Tali, who had returned to my Battlestar to discuss her people returning home, I'd realised that restoring the quarian civilization was going to require a lot in the way of time, energy and resources, perhaps more than anyone else had so far relaised, and since I didn't want to spend too much of my time handling that I'd decided to hire other people to do most of the work for me.
Since the Gothic Consortium looked as if would be growing into a major business, one even larger than I'd planned for, I would have to find people who could be trusted to run it once my companions and I ended our time in the Buffy Verse. Since only the dimension I'd started the Jump in would be frozen in time once I left it could be a long time before I could return to the Halloween Universe and I didn't want Since the Gothic Consortium's resources falling into the wrong hands while I was gone.
As part of this plan to hand over the Gothic Consortium to others, I would have to find people who could build the new cargo ships for me, which my magic users could improve upon, and then fly them around, leaving me free to do some fun exploring and to gather the research materials required for the next Jump. Sure I could clone crew, but I would need quite a lot of support staff for the rebuilding of the quarian civilization.
Since the quarians were getting so much help from me they could handle the labour for me. They'd already promised me as many engineers as I needed so I would make use of them. I'd set up a big base for the Gothic Consortium on their planet as well as whatever else we needed to support the organisation and have quarians run it for me.
While the Gothic Consortium would remain a separate organisation from whatever government it was the quarians set up on their planet the two groups would be well connected, and since they already had a massive fleet adding a few Battlestars to it wouldn't make a huge difference as long I didn't leave all the coolest tech installed as that might make them too powerful.
Since setting up a new civilization, supplying its many needs, hiring new crew, paying for resources, renting the services of certain experts, and buying the materials the Geth need to finish their Dyson Sphere, would be pricy I'd come up with a way to rapidly make a lot of money.
This involved Latinum, a rare silver liquid used as currency by many worlds in the Star Trek universe, most notably the Ferengi Alliance. Latinum cannot be replicated and while the reasons for its rarity were unknown it didn't really matter. Latinum is usually suspended within the element gold to produce the currency known as Gold-Pressed Latinum. Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, according to canon include the Slip, the Strip, the Bar, and the Brick.
Since I could not replicate the material and trying to get it from the Matter Furance resulted in a mess since it was a fluid making it rather impractical to harvest that way I'd turned to a magical item that I had acquired many Jumps ago. The Mage Stone, a magical stone once wielded by the renegade sorcerer Tauren. It appears to be made out of Baltic amber and is held in metal shaped into a claw.
The ancient and very powerful magical tool was capable of true transmutation, which is to change the very essence of things, and unlike a transfigured substance the latinum made by the Mage Stone would transform back into the metal it used to be. As such when I used it to create latinum it made real latinum and I had the raw magical power to make quite a bit of the stuff. However, I still needed gold to bind it with.
While gold could be replicated and was easy to acquire I needed a lot of it and fast. So I'd come to the version of Buffy's world that had been overrun by zombies when the mask of some dark god had become active. I'd destroyed the god's mask and defeated the zombies last year, upon Raven requesting that I do so, as such the zombies had lost their animating force, and while this was good news for any remaining humans in this world, assuming that there were any, it was also good news for me as it meant I could safely bring some of my companions to this world to help me loot the gold.
We'd come to Fort Knox, which was a United States Army post in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It was also adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, a very secure place used to house a large portion of the United States' official gold reserves.
For 60 years, Fort Knox was the home of the U.S. Army Armor Center and the U.S. Army Armor School (now moved to Fort Benning), and was used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the American tanks of the day; the last was the M1 Abrams main battle tank. The history of the U.S. Army's Cavalry and Armored forces, and of General George S. Patton's career, is shown at the General George Patton Museum on the grounds of Fort Knox.
The United States Bullion Depository, the part we were interested in, was a fortified vault building located adjacent to the Fort Knox Army Post. It is operated by the Department of the Treasury. The vault stored over half of the United States' gold reserves. In my world, it would be very hard to break into as it was protected by the United States Mint Police and is well known for its physical security, but in this world this wasn't an issue.
The depository was built by the Treasury in 1936 on land transferred to it from Fort Knox. Early shipments of gold totalling almost 13,000 metric tons were escorted by combat cars of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Regiment to the depository. It has in the past safeguarded other precious items such as the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
Over the years, Fort Knox has safeguarded many other historically valuable items including the Gutenberg Bible, the Gettysburg Address, the Magna Carta, and the crown, sword, sceptre, orb, and cape of St. Stephen, King of Hungary. These last few items were returned to Hungary in 1978.
I was not interested in that sort of thing I'd come here for billions of dollars worth of gold as it was a lot easier to loot this place than it was to replicate the gold or mine it, that would take time and energy. By coming here all I had to do was gather it up and then when I need more money I would simply bind the lantuim to the gold and use it the more civilized parts of the Halloween Universe that accepted as a form of money.
Plus the gold bars by themselves would be quite valuable on those worlds that valued the metal, and I planned to replace any existing marks on the material with the phoenix symbol of the Gothic Consortium. Plus I could do the same with other metals that I had access to that had use as currency, such as naquadah and mithril.
This wouldn't be the first time I'd created my own money, I'd done so for the two confederations I'd set up, as such I was hardly a novice and I understood that while having tangible money that everyone agreed on having value it would be important I would also need to have accounts full of electronic currency. Something I'd gotten a start on after being paid well in Federation Credits for bringing The USS Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant.
Since everyone human on this version of Earth was dead, or possible hiding somewhere, no one stopped Ahsoka, Faith, Fred, Jane, Amy, Cameron and I (the people who were free at short notice) from entering the deposit. Leaving us free to take whatever we wanted.
"Okay ladies you know what to do," I said, "You have your capsules".
Since gold wasn't a complex substance quite a lot of it could be stored in a capsule and those capsules, in turn, could be stored in larger containers that much bigger on the inside, so I'd be able to store a lot of gold without taking up much space at all within the Cosmic Warehouse.
"Go to work" I ordered.
While the ladies went around moving millions of dollars worth of gold into spaces small enough to fit in their pockets I thought further about restoring the quarian civilization. This project would still take a lot of time and energy even if I could pay for it. Sure the quarians could turn junk, spare parts and a bit of Element Zero, into space ships, but they would need help in setting up proper societies as they were a culture used to living in space, not on the surface of worlds.
At least I could leave most of the work to Padme and the older of the two Talis, and I could use my new wealth to hire as many experts as they needed. I figured that the United Federation of Planets owed me one and should have some people who could be spared who were well versed in setting up new colonies.
Normally I would put Miranda in charge of such a project as she had a way of getting things done that shouldn't be possible to organise, but she was taking some well-earned time off with our adopted daughter Violet Parr so I would have to outsource. In my experience, if you threw enough money at problems someone would sort out the issues and take the money.
Since I needed the money first before I could do anything else I took out some capsules and began joining in the massive amounts of looting going on around here.
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The Phoenix. Halloween Universe.
I'd called Padme to the office I kept on the ship so that I could talk to her one on one about the deal she'd made between the quarians and the geth over sharing the space that had once belonged to the quarians, or at least their historical documents mentioned a claim, and they felt as if they had a claim. In reality, the quarians of this universe had never lived on their homeworld since they'd only been created a couple of years ago, but that didn't stop them from wanting their planet back.
Thankfully for everyone involved, the geth didn't need the planet and were willing to allow the quarians to reoccupy their home planet and some of their colonies. Since the quarians lacked the population to inhabit all the planets they believed they had a claim to and since the geth didn't need them the species had plenty of room for expansion, and they could even allow other groups to set up on these planets, but that would be in far future.
While I had no problem with any of that, and wouldn't have minded helping out if I'd been asked to help broker a deal, what upset was that had Padme had sorted out a deal between two hostile factions, and sure she'd not actually committed me to anything if I'd refused it would have really upset the quarian people and Tali, both of them. Plus it would have damaged my reputation so I'd been forced into spending a lot of time, energy and resources into a peace settlement.
Sure I had ways of ensuring that this wouldn't be too much of a drain on my time and efforts, but I shouldn't have had to make those arrangments. When I'd given Padme a ship, a crew and one of my apprentices, I'd not minded if she went and performed charity when not helping the Gothic Consortium grow, but I'd not given her permission to go and alter the politics in this galaxy in such ways.
"You should have at least consulted me before committing to this course of action" I was now saying to Padme "You leave me no choice but to punish you".
Padme started to get up.
"You have no right..." she started to say.
Before she could finish I spoke again.
"I've given you a lot of resources and leeway when it comes to your charitable work" I stated "and I told you that I didn't want to interfere with the development of this galaxy's civilizations in any major ways. You could have started a war between the quarians and the geth if things went wrong".
That last part shut her up. I was sure that she'd considered that and had been careful when approaching the geth, but that wasn't what really upset me. Sure Tali, the older one, had also gone behind my back, but she'd been my companion for much longer and had done much to help me, so I could forgive her more. Besides Tali had come to me to admit her deeds and to ask for forgiveness. Aside from all that the quarians were here people and she couldn't have turned her back on them. Padme hadn't even bothered to call me.
"I don't think you're going to work out as a companion," I said.
Padme shot to her feet.
"I did not give you permission to stand or talk" I sternly stated, "Unless you want me to return you to the Halloween World colony you will only do what I command you to do".
While I could read her mind if I was willing to put a lot of effort into it I didn't need to know what she was thinking. On one level, Padme would be furious, thinking that it was wrong for me to treat her this way, but I could also sense her guilt. She knew that she had done wrong.
"You risked one of my ships and its crew in this venture," I said to the former Senator "Not to mention Ahsoka, if things had gone wrong I know she would have died protecting you".
As I spoke I circled her as best I could with the couch in the way, and I must have looked like a tiger moving around its prey. I looked down at the once queen as she was much shorter than myself. I stopped moving and stroked her cheek with the back of my hand. She looked very helpless and sweet at this moment.
"Now, are you ready to do as I say?" I demanded to know "Do you want my forgiveness?".
After Padme hung her head, she slumped her shoulders in submission and nodded her head. If she'd asked to be returned to the Halloween World I would have her go without any issue, but she'd chose to stay here with me as a companion and that meant she had to learn her place.
"Yes, sir" she replied.
Her tone of voice pleased me.
"Very well. Remove your clothing" I ordered.
Padme slowly stood up and started to remove her consortium uniform. As she did she laid each item of clothing carefully on the nearby table, that was next to the couch she'd been sitting on. I moved to go and sit back behind my desk as the woman from Naboo undressed.
She was careful to keep her head bowed in submission as she pulled off her boots, small socks and black trousers leaving only her red thong and blue shirt, that she had worn under her uniform jacket, to cover her. I was pleased to see that she showed almost no modesty as she stripped in front of me.
The former Queen of Naboo hesitated, but only for a moment, then pulled the shirt over her head revealing her breasts. Finally, she removed her panties and stood naked in front of me. She kept her head low, eyes averted and made no effort to cover herself, offering her body.
I let my eyes take in the sight of her nicely shaped breasts, the smooth contours of her waist and hips, and to the bare pussy, that she kept smooth for me. I made her turn around for a moment so that I could check out her butt, she kept herself in good shape, and it looked as firm as ever.
Though she kept her head down and tried to appear submissive, I could tell that she felt some arousal right now. A normal human like her, I'd not messed with her genetics much, would not be able to hide her feelings from someone with my impressive mental powers. Even if she could have shielded her mind the way she stood before me told me all that I needed to know.
"Bend over the arm of the couch" I commanded.
I walked around behind her and admired the view for a few moments. Like all my companions it didn't take much effort from her to arouse me. If she'd had any trouble in that regard I wouldn't have offered her a place as a companion in the first place.
Once I had my cock out I pushed her thighs apart and placed the head of my dick against the pink opening to her pussy. Then without warning, I rammed the erect organ deep into the former queen's warm and wet depths, burying it to the hilt inside her.
Although Padme was aroused, she was not prepared for the suddenness of the penetration and squealed in pain as my cock stretched her open and invaded her most intimate place. But that was fine she'd come here for me to punish her not to give her a good time.
With that in mind I pulled out, and instead of re-entering her warm, wet pussy as she wanted, I did a quick bit of magic to keep things from getting too messy, and then placed the head of my cock against her anus before I started to push it in.
"No, please, not there," Padme begged.
Of course, I didn't rape her ass. I wasn't that kind of person.
"You need to be punished" I reminded her "and its time you showed me who your master is".
She spent a few moments thinking about it.
"You're right, sir," she said, "I do need to be punished. It was wrong of me to use your ship and crew for such an important mission without your consent. I will be more careful in the future".
I admired her ability to get people to listen to reason and her passion for peace was also something worthy of respect, but she had a habit of risking her life needlessly and she was too trusting. Hopefully, by accepting me as her master she'd be more careful in the future. And fucking her ass was a good of way showing her that she couldn't go and do whatever she wanted. I'd been too generous with her in the past.
Not that any of this mattered to me when I began to fuck her tight ass, she squirmed a bit but didn't try to push me away as I began to fuck her butt. I was careful not to cause too much pain, as hurting her wasn't the point, I wanted to submit to be and feel somewhat humiliated as that more than any soreness would serve as a reminder of whom she served. I did like a certain informality with my companions, however, it was important for them to remember who the Jumper was and that this was my adventure.