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Jake and Hunter's doppelganger were sitting on the ground together in silence on the side of a mountain as they watched the dust still settling into the deep, empty bowl off in the distance that had taken the place of Cheyenne Mountain.

"What now?" Jake asked, "I imagine they got the message that you're a bit miffed with them when you made an entire mountain vanish, but we need to decide what happens next."

Hunter was quiet for a moment, then he said, "I have been giving it much thought while I carried you here. I am still in a precarious position until I disarm your Lagrange points and I must locate and intercept the rockets they said were on the way to the belts in their attempt to disarm me. I cannot afford to lose the drone controllers that are out there."

"I thought you said that that part of the process was done. Do you still need the controllers? With all of your imaging drones in orbit, I would think you had more than enough weapons to cover anything they might try back here on Earth. The drones out at the belts tossing asteroids seems really inefficient as a weapon."

The big cat chuckled and said, "You are indeed human, Jake. I was not thinking of using them as a weapon. It is interesting how your mind goes there first, though. I suppose it is ingrained in your upbringing on this barbaric world. I may have a use for them, but I will need some time to work with my computer to discuss the possibilities. I cannot afford to lose any assets at this point, regardless. I must save them if I can. I will launch a few drones along a direct path from the belt to your L2 and see if they can find your people's rockets. It should not be a problem."

"If you can find those rockets, and destroy anything parked at L2 also, you should be safe. They probably wouldn't have time to do any more than they did in terms of launching rockets. I'm surprised they accomplished that much in such a short time, to be honest. I guess it goes to show what American ingenuity is capable of when it's really put to the test. Rick never mentioned any other weapons out there, so you should be good now."

The tiger's doppelganger nodded and said, "I even recall him telling you that since they expended the three warheads to destroy my bacteria ships, it left them with nothing to put at Mars. I should be safe for the time being. I will simply need to keep a closer eye on things from now on. I will not destroy their ability to launch rockets, though it is tempting. I do not wish to interfere with your people's advancement in science or communication abilities, or the support of your people who are currently in orbit around your planet. I will simply have my drones keep a close eye on any launch activities from now on and see what those rockets get up to."

Jake nodded, then he looked around and said, "I suppose we should decide exactly what we should do right now. We're out in the middle of nowhere in the Colorado Rocky Mountains and it's gonna be pretty cold when night comes. I feel sort of vulnerable out here. We should try to find shelter at least. Can you carry me to a town or something? I have no money, no cards, no nothing, but I imagine we could use your doppelganger to 'borrow' what we need, assuming you're OK with committing a few petty crimes."

The cat chuckled and said, "At this point, Jake, nothing I do against your people would be a crime in the eyes of my people. Your entire world is forfeit if I so deem it. My people will see what your people did as a crime against our entire race, by your entire race. It will be a serious point of contention that worries me greatly in fact, and it is another of the things I have been quietly dwelling on these past few hours."

"You mean what your people might do as a way of punishing mine?"

The doppelganger nodded and Hunter said, "Precisely so. You have seen how much power is at my disposal. When my people wake on your planet, all of that power will be theirs. I fear what they will do with it when they learn of your people's transgression against us. They will not be in love with one of you, as I am. They will not have been immersing themselves in your culture as I have. They will not fully understand what wonderful people you are, and how you simply haven't outgrown the childish ways of greed and conflict yet. I will not be able to convince them to bend our rules for you. I know that for certain. I am not sure how I will be able to protect your people from them."

"Is there absolutely no way that you could just keep them in stasis until the planet's ready? Maybe if they wake up on a completed Mars, just like they expected to, they'll be more willing to forgive what the humans did. I know two more years is a long time, but is there no way to generate enough antimatter to do it? Your people's ships won't arrive for nearly a year, right? That gives you one year to produce enough antimatter to keep those stasis fields running for one more year after that."

The black doppelganger shook its head and said, "There would not be remotely enough time to generate the vast amount of antimatter needed for that, no. As I've said, the stasis fields are extremely inefficient and consume large quantities of energy. The amount of energy goes up exponentially with the complexity of the animal in stasis. The fields required to keep my people in perfect hibernation with fully functional brains when they awaken consumes an exorbitant amount of antimatter. Also, you're forgetting the animals. My people will need food. If we were to attempt to keep them in stasis and then waken them on Mars, we would need to have all of the plants, and then all of the animals alive and ready for them to eat. The stasis fields required to keep our food animals in suspension consumes considerably less than that required for my people, but even those use too much antimatter to be able to keep the animals asleep until the planet is ready for them. Generating that much antimatter is simply impossible. I will think more on it and discuss it with my computer, but it is a difficult problem. We'll have this discussion another time after I've considered it more."

Jake said, "Then I guess, like I said before, our concern right now should be basic necessities. For me, that is. Your doppelganger has no needs, but I'll need food and water and shelter at the least."

The cat nodded and said, "I will begin by sending your second skin over to you. It will take only a few minutes for it to reach this location from your home even at less than full acceleration. The suit can protect you in the same way my doppelganger was protected from the bullets of your people's weapons. It can also enhance your strength to match my doppelganger. We will have no problem simply taking anything we might need for you I think. We can let whoever we take it from know that they will be fully compensated by your government for double whatever it was worth. We'll inform your government of that fact later on. Anything either of us might need from here on out that can be provided by your people, the United States Government will be happy to provide it for us, or I will make them very unhappy indeed. In any case, I primarily want you wearing the suit for your protection."

Jake grinned and said, "Cool! I hadn't even thought of that! If I put the suit on and keep it activated in the same strength enhancement mode you've been using, I'd be just like Super Space Cat! I would be his super sidekick."

The tiger chuckled and said, "Yes, you would, though we really would be equal in all ways. We would essentially be a duo of your culture's super heroes incarnate."

"Oh my great, bloody God! I'm gonna be a super hero! We have to do that, right now!"

The cat laughed and said, "Give me a moment then, my love. I will inhabit my doppelganger at your home and use it to pack up your suit in one of the delivery drones and send it over here to you. At the speed it moves it will be only minutes before it arrives, then Super Jake will rise to fight injustice wherever he may find it. Of course, Little Super Jake will rise as well, I will see to that myself. His mission will be to have frequent, vigorous, and varied sexual relations with his beloved Super Space Cat."

Jake laughed and said, "Please hurry. That last part sounds like the best way to start the next phase of our adventure together."

The black doppelganger grinned, then snapped its fingers like a magician and suddenly collapsed into a heap of black silk-like cloth.

Jake chuckled at the tiger's showmanship. He was becoming more human by the day.

He watched the feed coming from the tiger, expecting to suddenly see the inside of his house, but instead it was just black.

"What is this? The suit is restricted by something," Hunter said, "It is unable to fully activate."

Jake thought for a moment and said, "You left it somewhere out in the open when I was taken away to the bunker, right? It's not in a cabinet or something?"

"You carried it in with you yourself, my love, don't you recall? I wasn't inhabiting it at the time. I believe you simply left it on the table in the kitchen," the cat said, "I don't like this. I'm switching the doppelganger to strength enhancement mode and fully engaging it once more. If it's trapped in a container, it won't be for long."

Jake suddenly heard the groaning and screeching of metal being stretched and then a loud bang, but the box in Jake's vision that showed the feed from the cat was still black.

"I don't understand this, Jake. I am free of whatever was holding the doppelganger, but I am in some other, larger enclosed space."

"The lights are off at home, no? Look around, maybe you just need to find a light switch."

"It's something more than that. The imaging sensors on the suit can see infrared as well if I set them in that mode, yet I see nothing. Wherever I am, there is not even the slightest trace of light," the tiger said. "One moment, I think I detect movement. I believe I am in a vehicle of some sort!"

Jake suddenly realized what must have happened. "Oh, shit! We never even thought about that! The moment they found out I was in league with you they probably sent men over to my house to search it! They might have found your technology there! They must have packed it all up and hustled it out of there. They're probably transporting it to some secure location. Whatever it is you're inside of, you need to bust out, now!"

"Yes, I cannot let them get their hands on my technology. It would be far too dangerous. I have been feeling around and have discovered the limits of this space. I am in the back of a very heavy vehicle of some sort."

"It might be an armored truck. Can you determine which way is forward? That would be where the cab is with the driver. You have to stop that truck!"

The cat said, "Agreed. One moment."

Hunter felt around again until he found the wall that was likely behind the cab, then Jake heard a loud roar as the muscular black doppelganger wound up and punched the wall. His hand went through it easily, then he growled and raged as he began to bend the thick layers of metal back to open a large hole.

Jake heard shouts of alarm and he could already see the image in the display lenses resolving to show through the hole into the cab of the armored truck. The man riding shotgun was pulling out what actually appeared to be a shotgun, and he was aiming it back into the hole. He was too late though as the doppelganger was already reaching through to grab the barrel of the gun. As the cat moved it away from his face the gun went off, and suddenly Jake could see through the windshield that the truck was careening off the side of the road. Hunter looked to the left and saw that the driver's head had been nearly blown off by the close quarters shotgun blast. The other man in the cab of the truck shouted in alarm as the truck went off into the ditch at the side of the highway at full speed and flipped and began to roll and bounce along the ground.

Jake's heart was pounding as he watched the chaotic feed from Hunter as the truck rolled and bounced and spun and began to break apart from the violence of the high speed crash. He was feeling panic and fear for Hunter, but it took him only a moment to remember that his tiger was safely in the spherical ambulator out there on Mars, and was probably just calmly waiting for the truck, or what was left of it, to come to a stop.

The cat reaffirmed that when he calmly said, "As soon as this crazy ride ends, I will have a look inside the truck to see what else they have back here. With luck they are transporting it all at once so I can collect it and get out of here."

"Be careful. That truck likely had a heavily armed escort. They'll be converging on it as soon as it comes to a standstill."

Things finally calmed down around the doppelganger and the big cat said, "I believe you are correct. I can hear the screeching of tires and some shouting already. I believe there are more of them up on the road. I will deal with them first, then attend to my technology in the back of this truck."

Jake watched the feed through the eyes of the doppelganger as it climbed through the big hole it had created and out of the wreckage of the truck. It looked back briefly and Jake could see that the armored truck had been nearly demolished. There was not much left of the cab and the poor guy riding shotgun had been nearly torn in half when he fell part way out the side window while the truck had still been rolling and sliding along the ground. Some of the wheels had even come right off the truck as the axles snapped. The back part must be an incredibly solid box, though. It was somewhat dented and deformed, but still completely enclosed. The paint job looked sort of army like.

The doppelganger then turned to face the highway that wasn't far away. The truck must have been rolling and bouncing along the ditch right beside the road.

Jake could see two large army Humvees stopped on the road. Several armed men had taken cover behind them and had their guns trained on the doppelganger.

"Stay where you are!" he heard someone shout at the black demon cat, "Surrender with your hands in the air, or we'll open fire!"

Hunter laughed and he a raised a big paw to show them the back of it, and he flipped his middle finger up at the soldiers.

Jake chuckled and said, "You've been watching too many human movies. You need to take this more seriously. Can your suit handle that many bullets coming at you at once? Those look like machine guns their holding."

"It can handle it, Jake, trust me. I could simply ignore these men and collect my technology and walk away while they shoot every last bullet they have at me, but I am in no mood to let this further transgression by your people pass so easily."

Jake saw the doppelganger turn and look at the wrecked armored truck again. He went towards it and picked it up and brought it right up over his head like it weighed nothing, then he turned and flung it with all his might towards the vehicles parked up on the road. Several of the men opened fire, but a few had the presence of mind to try to get out of the way. The heavy armored box smashed hard against one of the Humvees and sent it spinning across the highway, knocking down and running over the men who'd been behind it and firing their weapons.

The black cat then began to advance on the remaining men who were still using the second Humvee as cover. They opened fire, but the doppelganger simply kept walking towards them as the suit absorbed the energy from the bullets and they simply fell to the ground.

The black tiger reached the Humvee and the men realized there was no way to stop it, so they turned and began to run, but the doppelganger leaned back and grunted as it kicked at the side of the vehicle and sent it flying across the road. The Humvee smashed into the backs of the retreating men and took them along with it as it flew into the ditch on the far side of the road.

The cat then looked around at the injured men who were groaning and struggling to get up as well as those few who'd run to a safe distance and were now dropping to a knee with guns raised, and he roared, "Any of you who are still alive may yet have a chance to remain that way. Know that there is nothing you can do to stop me. If you simply leave your weapons behind and run, I will let you live. Otherwise, I am in the mood to crush your skulls. Go now, or stay if you wish to indulge me."

Hunter was once again pissed, and he was obviously in no mood to spare anyone, but once again he was giving them the chance to spare themselves.

Jake saw a few men get up and throw their weapons down. Some ran, and some disarmed a couple of others who were injured and helped them get up and began to drag them away to safety. Everyone who was capable was quickly making their way down the road, away from the dangerous demon.

The doppelganger then turned and walked to the large box that was the back of the armored truck and once again began to punch at it and tear it wide open, then he hopped in and began to search inside of it.

After a time Hunter said, "I have your complete suit and the two sensor socks. I also have the camera drone from your house. I do not see the translator box, nor the delivery drones. Do you think they would have transported those in a different vehicle?"

"I don't see why. They'd just pack it all together I think. Maybe they didn't find those. The translator box wouldn't look like much of anything since it was plugged in to my network router. It might not have struck them as anything more than a piece of home network equipment. Can you use your computer to check?"

"One moment..."

The feed was disconnected and Jake suddenly found himself alone in the wilderness on the side of a mountain in Colorado. In just a few moments the tiger reconnected and said, "It is still there. I believe you are correct. To them it simply must have looked like normal equipment plugged into your network."

"You need to get to it if you can. You can't let them get it. We need to know about the delivery drones, too. Can you figure out where you are?"

"The computer has already determined my location. I am not terribly far from your home, so they must have only just got through ransacking it not long ago. I must run there and see what I might find."

Jake chuckled and said, "I bet those guys were a bit surprised to find the black demon that had taken out Cheyenne Mountain suddenly tossing their trucks around back there in Pasadena. Now they won't be sure you can't just appear anywhere you want to at any time. I bet they'll be a lot more careful about what they try in the future. It sounds like you've got almost everything back at least."

"The only things still unaccounted for are the delivery drones," Hunter said, "They must not fall into your people's hands. I must get to your home and ensure they are still there."

"Can't you just simply launch them? Put them in orbit temporarily."

The cat said, "Yes, good thinking, my love. One moment..."

Once again Jake was disconnected. He waited and before long Hunter was back and sounding angry.

"The drones are not where they should be! I am unable to get them into orbit. I've taken a close look with my imaging swarms, and your back yard is empty. They are not there!"

"Shit! What can you do? Can you crank up the thrust and bust them out? Maybe they're in another of the armored trucks being carted off somewhere."

"I cannot risk it," Hunter said, "If something goes wrong and they smash about in an enclosed space, they may breach containment of their antimatter power sources. It would take a lot to do that, but it is too great a risk to take when I don't know where they are. Those drones have even more antimatter than the ones in my imaging swarm drones, which in turn have even more than what was in the small camera drone that I used to vaporize Cheyenne Mountain. If those delivery drones convert their antimatter to energy, I'm afraid an area much larger even than your Pasadena will simply vanish. Likely it would take all of your Los Angeles and your San Gabriel mountain range with it.

"I do not know if those drones are in a populated area, so I cannot trigger their destruction either, in order to remove them from your people's hands. It may be necessary to do so, but I would prefer to wait until they arrive at whatever destination they might be headed for. Perhaps it will be a more remote and secure location with no populated area nearby. I can deal with them by causing them to breach containment, but I will see if I can perhaps locate them first somehow."

Jake said, "There's still the translator box at my house. I don't think you should leave it there. They might have done their first sweep in a rush and tried to get everything out of there as quick as they could in case they got caught. They might go back to do a more thorough search now."

"Agreed. I will run there now and retrieve it, but I have a use for it first."

"What use is that?"

"Do you recall how effortless it was for my computer to make its way into the network of the organization called Microsoft? That was simply incidental, but if it really tried, it could worm its way into absolutely every computer system on your planet no matter how secure your people might feel they are. It can control everything if I simply command it to. No matter what it is, if it has a computer attached to it, my computer will be in control of it within a matter of hours. I will order it to make itself permanently embedded in the firmware of every computer, networking device, smart phone, vehicle, or appliance that is in any way connected to any network. It will also use your 'Internet of things' to extend its presence to every corner of your world so that it can never possibly be totally removed. I will shortly be in control of your entire infrastructure worldwide."

"Holy shit, you could do a lot with that much power. What do have in mind?"

Hunter said, "It appears your people have not yet learned their lesson, Jake. I believe another show of force is in order. I am becoming more frustrated and angry with them by the minute. I am quite fed up."

Jake began to get a nervous feeling again. The frustrated tiger could wipe out the human race if he became angry enough, but he didn't think the sweet cat had it in him. He could definitely do some serious damage though.

"What do you plan to do?" Jake asked, "Promise me you won't hurt anyone if you don't have to."

"Because of how strongly I feel for you, I will make you that promise. There is only one thing I can think of doing, but even that will not be sufficient to quell the feelings I have for your governments and their despicable ways. My people will see anything less than the death of all those they deem guilty, which in effect would be at the very least your entire government, as inaction on my part. I will likely be made to pay for that inaction when they awaken."

"What do you mean? Pay how?"

"That's not really important. In the eyes of my people, and in my eyes as well in fact, your people have committed a heinous crime against mine. Every part of me wants to follow the instinct that has been ingrained in me since birth. Justice should be swift, and it should come in the one and only form that my people believe is effective. My thoughts have been somewhat in turmoil over it and that is also why I was silent the whole time that I carried you out of danger. Because of my love for you, I know that I cannot proceed as I should, yet I know beyond doubt that when my people finally arrive here and emerge from stasis and discover what has happened, they will become quite angry with me for not doing what I should have done."

Jake said, "Surely they can be made to understand the way humans are? Justice is a complex process for us. It doesn't seem quite fair for your people to step in and dictate to us how justice should be served. You seem to understand the fact that Rick and Curtis were operating under orders, and they really didn't know they were condemning your whole species to extinction. They just thought they were putting the humans into a better position by putting the brakes on your colony plans to force you to the bargaining table. It's how my people operate."

Hunter nodded and said, "I see that, but mainly I am willing to accept it because of my deep love for you and the fact that I do not wish to lower myself in your estimation by doing something that you would see as simple murder, even though I would not see it as murder myself. I do not wish to do anything that would upset you or cause you to think less of me. However, I cannot allow your people to put mine at any further risk."

"So, what is it you intend to do?" Jake asked.

"I must try to make your governments less dangerous. I believe I will take a cue from your own culture. Perhaps a bit of a dressing down is in order in the form of that movie we watched at your home called 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'. The one where the aliens gave your people an ultimatum. I feel your people are too dangerous in their current state. They are even a danger to themselves. Now they are trying to steal my technology, no doubt to use as a weapon against me or my people, or perhaps even eventually against each other. I have had enough.

"I am going to disconnect from you for a while. I will be bringing my imaging swarms down into your atmosphere and spreading them out in order to make an announcement. I'm sure you've heard the loud buzzing sound of the pulse drives at full power. The computer can tune the pulses to audible frequencies and modulate them with my voice as the drones hover in the air. I will use the spread out swarms as massive loudspeakers that will be heard worldwide. Ever since my computer entered your Internet when you first connected the translator, it has been busy learning the primary language of every country on your planet and is now quite fluent in all of them, so I can speak to everyone at once. It is time I had a word with your people. I will return to you in time, but it may not be for several hours. Stay where you are."

The feed disconnected and once again Jake was completely alone on the mountainside. He looked around and hoped he wasn't in grizzly bear country or anything. He had no shelter, no water, no food, and no way to protect himself. He hoped the tiger wouldn't forget him out here.

Hours went by and the sun began to set. As the darkness grew, Jake saw the lights of a town not far down from the mountain he was on. There must be a highway down there somewhere in the valley, too, because he could occasionally see headlights moving along at speed. He felt a bit better knowing he wasn't too far from civilization.

Suddenly, while Jake was gazing up at a bright full moon that was rising higher into the night sky, out of the corner of his eye, he saw all of the lights of the town down below wink out, leaving only darkness.

Off in the distance he could suddenly see what looked like bright, yellow-orange rocket exhaust from large missiles making their way skyward. They looked like ballistic nuclear missiles! Did the United States just launch its nukes at someone? He wondered what the hell was going on.

He stood to look around to see if he could see any other missiles being launched. He thought he saw a couple more tiny specks of rocket exhaust very far off in the distance where there might have been more missiles hidden underground. He suddenly wondered if this was Hunter's doing. He said he'd be in control of everything within hours. Maybe that included the country's ballistic missile launch systems! What the hell was the crazy cat up to now?

The night sky suddenly began to shimmer with a sheet of faint bluish-green light all across it like an aurora as a low buzzing sound began to build up. It seemed to come from everywhere at once. Those shimmering lights in the sky must be the thrust cones from the ion pulse drives of the thousand of drones of one of Hunter's imaging swarms! The artificial aurora spread across the entire sky for as far as he could see.

Suddenly, Jake was almost knocked back on his ass from the nearly deafening blast of a deep, ominous, powerful, low bass horn that shattered the previously quiet night. His heart nearly stopped in fear and he could almost feel his bowels releasing as his fight or flight response kicked into high gear. The terrifying, vibrating cacophony of the horn seemed to come from everywhere at once. It reminded him of the scary sound the creepy, giant machines made in the remake of War of the Worlds just after they emerged from the ground and got ready to begin their march of destruction across the Earth. Hunter had certainly been watching a lot of movies over the past weeks and he'd clearly been paying attention and was using what he'd learned. The frightening sound went on for several seconds, sending chills up and down his spine, and then it finally stopped.

There was a long pause, then a deep, throaty, powerful version of Hunter's angry voice thundered down from the sky like the voice of God. It had an eerily rushing and breathy sort of sound and a bit of an echo. The fact that it was being modulated on top of the loud buzzing of drones gave it an extremely dramatic effect that sent more chills down Jake's spine. It sounded almost like a breathless, angry, and impatient god. He imagined the psychological impact of it was far greater for everyone else in the world since they had no idea what was causing it.

"People of Earth, You will stop whatever you are doing and you will listen carefully. I have temporarily shut down your power grids worldwide to remove any possible distractions so that you may pay close attention. I will return your power to you when I have finished delivering my message.

"I am an alien being belonging to a race that has faced extinction due to the death of our star. We have attempted to bring ourselves back from the brink by engineering your planet Mars to make it into a new home for us. Some of your people have taken it upon themselves to interfere. In their successful attempt to interrupt that process, the government of the United States of America has committed a grievous crime against us that could have caused the end of my entire race.

"My people do not recognize your borders, as we had no borders on our own world. They are a contrivance of greedy and intolerant people, which we are not. To us, you are all as one. Would that you all saw yourselves that way as well. Perhaps your world would be a much better place. In any case, all of the people of Earth must be made to pay for the crime that has been committed against us.

"I have promised the one I love, who is a member of your species and by far the best example of you to my eyes, that I will bring no harm to any one of you if I can avoid it. But, that does not mean that I will mete out no punishment whatsoever. Instead, I will punish your governments by removing the very types of weapons that were used against my people. I cannot allow them to attempt to use them again in any way. Your people's penchant for bickering and posturing and threatening each other is beyond childish. It is time for it to stop. To quote the comments of several of your people that I have seen on your Internet, it is time for your race to 'grow the fuck up'.

"My computers have taken control of all of the ballistic nuclear missile launch systems for all of the countries on your planet that have that capability, and I have triggered the immediate launch of all of those weapons. They are climbing into the sky at this very moment. My computers have adjusted their targeting and trajectories such that the missiles of each country will all be coming together at the apogee of their flight, at which point I will be detonating an antimatter explosion at each of those locations that will remove all of those weapons from existence by annihilating the very matter they are made of. You need not worry about any radioactive fallout. The annihilation will be quite thorough, and quite clean, leaving no radioactive material, or any material of any kind for that matter, behind. You will please keep your eyes looking downward, or even keep them covered completely, or risk total blindness from the flashes when those weapons are destroyed. As of this moment, none of your countries have any ability to launch those terrible weapons against one another, or against my people, and if you put enough pressure on them from this point forward, perhaps they never will again, even after all of this is resolved.

"The interruption of our planetary engineering process that was perpetrated by the Americans means that Mars will not be ready for my people when they arrive. However, it turns out that our biology is quite compatible with your planet and there would be plenty of food for us there. As such, in order to save my people, I will be diverting the ships that are carrying them so that they will land on Earth instead of Mars. We will be claiming a part of your world as our own, at least temporarily, until we can complete the transformation of Mars and relocate there at some point in the future when the engineering process is complete.

"That process will now take many more years than originally planned, so my people will have to live among yours until the time comes for them to complete their journey to Mars. Since this necessity was brought about by your people's interference, you will have no say whatsoever in this matter. We will take what we need from your world and you will not resist. I assure you we will take no more than the minimum that we need to survive. My people long ago forgot the ways of greed that your people still embrace. Nothing among us is owned in any personal way, it is shared by all. You can rest assured that the moment we are done with the corner of your world that we will be using, it will be returned to you.

"Your race has already shown its aggressive tendencies by committing what I see as an unprovoked act of war against my people. In order to ensure that my people will be safe from your governments during their stay on your planet, I will have to remove your governments' ability to wage war. I must eliminate the threat of the dizzying array of weapons that your people have at their disposal in order to help keep my people safe.

"I hereby demand that each and every government of every human country in existence surrender each and every weapon of war in its possession no matter how large or how small. Each country will select a location within its borders that is remote, covering an area with a radius of at least ten kilometers, and those with naval capabilities will also select a remote and deep part of the ocean, and they will transport all of those weapons, whether conventional, nuclear, or even biological in nature, and dispose of them at the center of those locations. I expect to see all aircraft, land tanks, missiles, bombs, cannons, ships, submarines and any vehicle or weapon who's sole purpose was to wage war, or to be used in defense of the country, to be turned over for destruction. You will have one month to complete this task. I will then detonate an antimatter explosion at the center of each of those locations to remove those weapons from existence.

"Should any country have any thoughts of withholding or hiding any of those weapons, or begin the construction of new weapons to replace those, I must warn you that I will simply have to destroy those weapons right where they are, instead, no matter what else may surround them. I have the ability to image every single square millimeter of your planet constantly and in real time, including the ability to detect radioactive sources hidden underground, and submarines hidden beneath the surface of the oceans. My computers have already begun monitoring every part of your planet and will inform me of any attempt to resist my demands. I likewise have the ability to sear each and every square millimeter of your world with the cleansing fire of an antimatter annihilation, and I will do so over any area I need to if that is the only way to remove your weapons.

"Starting immediately, if I see any country attempt to hide any weapon from me or fail in any way to comply with my demands, that country's capital city will be forfeit. If I see any country that does not begin to do as I have ordered within six hours, I will give a short warning to allow you to begin the evacuation of your people from its capital city, then I will vaporize it. I will then begin to rain destruction down on any and all locations within that country that house weapons of any kind. Given the propensity of your barbaric race to collect weapons, I can assure you that the devastation as I vaporize every location that has them will be tremendous and quite likely beyond your imagining.

"Due to further actions taken by the people of the United States against myself and my interests in the city of Pasadena in California, I have lost all patience with the human race and I will give no more second chances. My people have only one punishment for any crime committed against us, and that punishment is death. I will do my best to avoid the loss of innocent lives at the behest of my lover, but I will not tolerate any form of resistance to my simple demands. Disarm yourselves or face immediate and total destruction.

"The United States of America has already had a demonstration of my ability to unleash that destruction when I made their Cheyenne Mountain cease to exist. The rest of the world will witness it in the blinding flashes that will remove your ballistic weapons from existence shortly. Any other countries who doubt my ability and would like a demonstration of it, simply fail to begin to comply to my demands within six hours and I will show you my resolve by annihilating your capitol city first, then I will begin to lay waste to any part of your country that contains any type of weapons of war.

"It would be unfortunate to end innocent lives, but I will do what is necessary to protect my people, and I have come to the realization that your people respond best to a show of force. What happened at Cheyenne Mountain is only the smallest example of the destructive power at my disposal. I have the ability to create many times that level of destruction in a single blast, and I can do it more times than there are human cities, large and small, on your entire planet. This will be your first, and final warning. Comply or be removed from existence.

"I realize that the sudden loss of your ability to defend yourselves, as well as your ability to wage war, may begin to create some instability among your countries as power balances are upset. Understand this, as of this moment, all wars among your people have ended. If I see any act of aggression committed by any country against another, that country will be forfeit and will cease to exist. From this point forward I will tolerate no aggression of any kind.

"I have the power to destroy your entire race, which gives me the power to rule over it. You may consider your planet to be under new management. However, that management will be very hands off for the most part and I will step in only when corrections need to be made. I have no interest in governing your people. Nothing will change from your current methods of government be they democratic, monarchic, theocratic, or dictatorial in nature. You will be allowed to continue to govern yourselves exactly as you have been, but you will not be allowed to attempt to change your borders in any way. I will be watching.

"I may step in occasionally with further demands depending on the needs of my people. When I make those demands, you will comply. In order to be fair and protect the interests of your people as well as my own, I will have a co-ruler who is a member of your species. From this point forward, Jake Smith will be the highest ranked human in existence and he will stand at my side as my equal in all things. That way one of your people and one of mine will determine the direction of both of our peoples going forward for as long as we are forced to share your planet. Jake is the most wonderful male I have ever known, and I love and respect him deeply. Know that you are well represented, and that his interests, which in turn will quite often reflect your interests, will always hold sway over my heart.

"Should either one of us find it necessary to make ourselves present in your world, we will do so with the use of an indestructible suit that you may call a doppelganger. One will come in the shape of a black demon-like tiger that you may recognize as the Hero of Haines Canyon that has been shown on your news programs and all across your Internet in recently released video that was taken by bystanders that I saw there earlier today. That doppelganger is me. The other will come in the form of a black doppelganger of Jake Smith who you will recognize as the single most appealing human being on the planet. At least, you would if you were looking through my eyes. Should you see either of these two doppelgangers, you would do best to stand clear. Any attempt to interfere with them will result in unpleasant repercussions. Do feel free to say hello, though. Both of us can be quite friendly if you do not rub us the wrong way."

There was a slight pause in the speech, and then the godlike voice said, "I must ask everyone to immediately cover your eyes if you are not already doing so. You risk permanent blindness otherwise."

Jake was still looking down as Hunter had warned, and he covered his eyes with his hand for good measure. Suddenly the sky flashed so brightly it was like a giant flashbulb went off and lit up the entire landscape brighter than daylight. That had to be the American ballistic missiles coming together somewhere in near orbit and being annihilated in an antimatter blast from one of the tiger's imaging drones.

Jake couldn't believe what the big cat was doing. The entire human race completely disarmed, all at once! It was the end of all war, everywhere. It had to be, if any of the countries currently engaged against each other wanted to survive the next few hours.

It seemed quite clear to him that the cat meant serious business, and any country that wants to survive into the future had better see it the same way.

"The flash you have all just witnessed over those countries that had ballistic weapons was the annihilation of those devices using antimatter. They are all gone. You can rest easy now and know that that threat at least has been removed. At the current moment I can already see several countries that have taken my demands seriously and have begun to move their weapons of war towards a central location. Please continue to do so. For those countries who have not yet begun, you have six hours to evacuate your capital cities. If I do not see any move to comply within that time, those cities will be destroyed and the crater left behind in their absence will serve as a reminder of what will happen the next time you fail to comply to my demands. I will then begin annihilating all of your weapons immediately no matter where they might be located, unless you begin to move them to a central location as I have demanded.

"I am deeply sorry that it has come to this, but I would like to reassure those of you who are not a part of your governments that my people are a peaceful race, and it was our intention to not interfere with your planet in any way whatsoever. The actions of the president of the United States of America are what has resulted in this change. You have him, and only him, to thank for it. Know that I intend no harm to any one of you. I find your people to be quite beautiful and your culture quite interesting and in many ways appealing. If you apply pressure to your governments to ensure that they continue to comply, then business will continue as normal for all of you. You will still have your jobs to go to in the morning. Your bank accounts will still be there, untouched. Your children will still be expected to go to school. Absolutely nothing about your personal lives has changed, except that you are all a little bit safer than you were. I want nothing more than peace, prosperity, and happiness for all of you.

"I wish you all the best. Thank you. That is all."

Jake saw the lights come back on in the town down below. He thought it was over, but the sky was still shimmering, and the voice continued to boom down from the sky and said, "Though I am done addressing the world at large, I have one last message for the government of the United States of America that will be heard only by your people. You are currently in possession of three drone rockets that belong to me. You have two minutes to place those rockets in an upright position anywhere out in the open. I will light their engines to put them in orbit. If I do not immediately detect them gaining altitude, I will breach their antimatter containment and the crater that will be left behind will be a great many times larger than the one I made for you at Cheyenne Mountain. I suggest you do as you are told. You have two minutes."

At last the shimmering of the sky dissipated as the imaging drones returned to orbit.

Jake smiled. He liked his tiger angry. It was a huge turn on. The cat knew how to be menacing, but fair.

He imagined the people of the world likely all saw him as a dangerous enemy, but over time he hoped they'd come to realize what an amazing thing he'd done for them. World peace used to be nothing more than the pat answer when any beauty pageant contestant was asked, if they had a single wish that could be made to come true, what would it be. Hunter was making it a reality.

If all of the governments complied with the cat's demands, not a single person would need to get hurt in the process. It was incredible, and wonderful.

Suddenly, the black doppelganger once again began to rise up off the ground. The tiger came over and sat next to Jake and asked, "So, are you angry with me, my love?"

Jake said, "What? Why would I be angry? You're trying to accomplish something that would otherwise be completely impossible! You're going to single-handedly disarm every single country in the world! It's magnificent!"

"I am so glad you see it that way. I was worried that the threats I had to make might seem excessive to you. I realized that I simply cannot trust your people. Even the threat of destruction hanging over their heads might not prevent them from acting against my people in some way when they arrive. I just wouldn't feel safe as long as my people are stuck on your world with all of those weapons in the hands of your governments. The removal of those weapons seemed like apt punishment as well as a good way to improve the odds of my people being safe on your planet."

"It's brilliant! I'm so excited about it. Did you really already see some countries starting to comply?"

The tiger shook his head and said, "No, not really. There hadn't been enough time yet. I simply wanted to put some countries in the mindset of not wanting to be the last ones to start, so I wanted to give them the impression that some had already begun the process. One-upmanship seems to be a popular practice among your people, so I was hoping that making that remark would cause all of them to suddenly want to be the first to finish the task completely, and they would be worried that other countries already had a head start, so they would accelerate the process as much as possible to ensure that at the very least they aren't the last to get the job done."

Jake chuckled and said, "You seem to have learned a lot about humans and what motivates them already. Will you follow through with your threats to start destroying the capital cities of those countries that don't comply?"

"I have not yet decided. I am not certain that I have it in me to destroy an entire city. I think if any country does not comply, if they've evacuated their capital city, I will indeed need to destroy it, though I hate to even think of it. If they have not evacuated it, I will give them one final chance to do so, but I will likely have to destroy it at that point whether they comply or not. If I fail to do so, I will have shown the rest of the world that my threats were empty. I cannot afford that. That should not have to happen more than once and all other countries will fall immediately into line."

"I think you're right. You probably won't have to harm a single soul, yet you will have removed every single weapon of war in existence on this planet! It's a fitting punishment for our governments, but I think it's also the single best gift you could possibly have given our people. They'll realize it too, eventually. Humans don't like being bossed around, but so long as you don't abuse that power, they'll get used to it."

"Speaking of which, I apologize for naming you as co-ruler of this planet."

"Yeah, that came as a bit of a shocker. I've wanted to be a lot of things throughout my life, but king of the world was never really one of them. I suppose the way you've approached it will make it easy though. Let them do things as they've always done them, unless we need them to do something else for us, then they'd better just hop to it."

Hunter said, "I only came up with the idea even as I was giving my speech, but I thought it might be best to involve you. I realized the best way for us to proceed is with a representative of each of our people holding equal sway over both. It will show your people that their interests will be looked after by one of their own. There is nobody on this planet I could ever trust more than you, so you are my man."

Jake grinned and said, "You're damn right I am. For as long as you want me."

The tiger smiled back and said, "That will be a very long time indeed, my love. I'm glad you aren't angry with me. I was afraid you might find my actions too extreme."

"I trust you, Hunter. I know you're as good as they come. Your people have been betrayed by mine, so you're angry. I think so far you've been handling it just perfectly. I understand fully how much is at stake for you, and I want you to know I'm behind you one hundred percent. I hope it doesn't come to the point where any country forces your hand and you have to destroy a city that they refuse to evacuate, but I don't think it will come to that. If it does, you'll have my support in doing whatever becomes necessary."

"Let us hope it does not come to that. I have grown quite attached to your race and its wonderfully varied culture and I wish no harm to come to any of you."

"I'm sure they'll start to get attached to you, too. I'd actually love to get attached to you again right now, come to think of it. I wish we could have got my suit delivered over here."

Even as he said it Jake heard the telltale buzz of the ion pulse drive of a delivery drone and he looked up and saw it beginning to descend towards them.

The tiger smiled and said, "I was looking forward to that sort of attachment myself. You government didn't hesitate to comply with my demand. Whoever was holding those drones likely realized two minutes was not even enough for them to get away from the blast, so they released the drones back to me. Two are in orbit and I'll send this one back up as soon as we've retrieved the suit from it. I gave that whole speech from your home..."

"I'd rather you called it 'our home'," Jake interrupted.

The cat grinned and said, "I gave that whole speech from our home. When they released the drones, I immediately had them land there and I placed the suit in its canister in one of them and sent it this way. I placed the translator box, the two sensor socks, and the other small white camera drone and the control card in the second delivery drone and sent it into orbit. We can retrieve them at any time if we need them. With some help from my computer, I then managed to stuff myself while inhabiting the other doppelganger into the third drone and launched it into orbit as well. I did not want to leave any of my technology behind that anyone might try to get their hands on again."

"Terrific, now we have nothing else to worry about back there, and nobody even knows where we are."

"Yes," the muscular doppelganger said as it approached Jake and hugged him, then reached down and began to fondle his crotch. "Now, if you don't mind, I am feeling a great need that requires immediate attention. I would love it if Little Super Jake would come to my rescue."

Jake laughed and began to strip down quickly as he watched the drone touching down a few yards away from them. He ran over to it and pulled out the canister and dumped its contents. He quickly put on the suit and even as he was just pulling the mask down over his head Hunter was already activating it. Jake felt the familiar sensation of the fabric suddenly almost fusing right to his skin like it was a part of him.

"In order to keep us both safe, I have disabled the strength enhancement function of our suits for the time being."

Jake saw the black doppelganger suddenly transform before his eyes into the beautiful tiger he was more used to seeing as the visual texture overlay trick kicked in. Hunter's impressive penis was already beginning to grow with his desire for his partner.

Jake went to him and smiled as he slipped into the big cat's muscular arms and just held on for a few minutes. It felt like it had been an eternity since he'd felt his lover's warmth and fur against his naked skin and he relished the moment.

"I love you so much you wonderful cat. Somehow when I'm in your arms nothing else in the world really matters. We're out in the middle of nowhere on the side of a mountain in the middle of the night. Another mountain that used to exist right over there is gone now because of us. You made the entire ballistic nuclear arsenal of the world vanish in a blink just minutes ago. You named us co-rulers of this entire planet. Yet, to me, all that really matter is you're back here with me and I get to make love to you again. I don't care if we rule the world, or rule nothing but this patch of dirt we're standing on. So long as we do it together, I'll be in heaven."

The cat purred as he rubbed his furry cheek against Jake's cheek and he said, "That is all that matters to me too, my sweet man. I cannot wait until all of this is over and I may be discharged from my duties and can begin to think of nothing else for the rest of my life other than how to please you more. I love you, Jake, with all of my heart."

They embraced more tightly and they kissed the somewhat hollow kiss that came with no sense of taste and no sense of smell, but they could feel each other's passion building, and that was all that mattered.

The big cat brought one of his paws between them and it latched onto Jake's rapidly growing member and he smiled and said, "There he is! Little Super Jake has risen. I believe he would like a kiss, too."

The tiger went down to his knees and kissed the tip of Jake's penis, then he rubbed the side of his furry cheek lovingly against it. He moved his face down and kissed Jake's balls and then extended his tongue and began to lick them. He moaned as the familiar feeling came over him that made him want to eat his man up. He just couldn't get enough of him.

He reached up between Jake's legs and began to finger his hole. Jake moaned and moved his knees apart and positioned himself better to let the tiger have more access. Hunter responded by inserting the tip of his fat finger in, then slowly and inexorably he pushed in the rest of it while he moved his mouth back to Jake's straining member and sucked it in.

Jake moaned again as he began to rock his hips back and forth and began to build a rhythm. He loved to fuck his lover's mouth. The idea that this huge, over the top muscular tiger was kneeling before him and servicing his cock was a major turn on. The sensation at his anus as the cat's finger rubbed against it was working wonders too.

Hunter began to get more into what he was doing and he pulled his mouth briefly off of Jake's cock to run it along the underside and suck and lick at him there, then ran it back and forth along the top. He yearned to be able to taste and smell his man, but he would have to wait until they could truly be together for that. He sucked Jake's thick cock back in and pushed his head forward until he'd sucked it right down to the root. He began to speed up as Jake moaned more at the wonderful sensation, then the cat moved his other paw up and began to work Jake's big balls gently. He sucked harder and faster while fondling Jake's sack and he began to move his finger harder and faster in and out of Jake's rectum.

Jake's breathing became shallow and faster as he already began to feel his orgasm building. It never ceased to amaze him how fast things happened when he was with Hunter. He was so incredibly turned on by the tiger that he could never really last, except on those occasions where they repeated their play over and over again. Right now he was feeling his need so strongly that it washed over him like a tidal wave as he thought of how much he loved his big cat, and he groaned and then grunted as the massive shock wave slammed into him and he shot a massive wad of cum into the tiger's mouth.

Hunter felt Jake's big balls tighten up in his hand and then he felt the man's anus begin to pulse tightly against his finger and he knew that he'd already reached his climax. The cat loved that Jake was so turned on by him that his first orgasm always came quickly. He felt spurt after spurt of warm cum fill his mouth and he moaned and wished he could taste the real thing. He'd modified the coding of the suits so that the nano fabric at the end of Jake's penis acted like micro pumps that shot Jake's cum right through the fabric. He loved the fact that when he played with his man's cock and brought him off with his big paw, he could watch Jake's cum spurt into the air for him. He also loved that when he pleasured him with his mouth he could feel the warm fluid fill it. The pumps in his suit passed the cum through so he could virtually swallow it, just as he would relish swallowing the real thing.

He loved everything about Jake. He loved the way he looked and he loved the way he felt. He was so solid and so male. His skin was smooth and covered with soft hair in all the right places. He loved the way he smelled, though so far he'd only sampled it second hand from Jake's dirty underwear and socks. He'd never been as attracted to anyone of his own species as he was to Jake. The attraction was much more than just physical, it was emotional and it was even intellectual. He was completely and utterly in love with every part of Jake and it drove him mad with desire whenever they were intimate. He moaned as he lovingly sucked every last drop of Jake's seed into his mouth and swallowed it down.

One of the things he loved most about Jake was how much he loved to have Hunter take him with his over-sized cock. The big cat had never experienced that before Jake came along. Even in his early days of fumbling experimentation with his sweet pet as a young cub, he'd never taken it that far for fear of harming him. Jake loved it though, and he loved it most when the big tiger didn't hold back, so Hunter always happily obliged.

Even as he thought about how much he loved it, Jake came down to his knees and wrapped his arms around the big cat's neck and whispered, "Fuck me now. I want to have the most powerful cat on the planet make love to me."

He then lay back on the ground and smiled up at Hunter. The cat moaned with his urgent need and he moved over top of Jake and then moved in for a long kiss. He then moved back and reached under Jake's legs and lifted them up and hooked the man's calves onto his powerful shoulders. He worked into a better position and placed the big head of his cock against Jake's anus and he began to apply pressure. Jake moaned and pushed to open himself up while Hunter grabbed his own fat cock to keep it on target and began to push even harder until finally the man's anus began to open up for him. He moaned and pushed forward and reveled in the sensation as Jake's tight rectum began to swallow the massive tool that was invading it.

The cat pushed himself forward until he was fully inserted into Jake, and he held the position for a moment to allow his lover to get accustomed to it. He then slowly pulled back and Jake moaned at the wonderful sensation of having something so large pulled out of him. The cat paused and then pushed slowly back in again and he moaned his own pleasure at filling his man up completely.

After repeating his slow pumping a few times, he rearranged himself and moved more over Jake with his knees spread further apart so he could begin to fuck his man in earnest. His muscular ass came up and then he grunted as he thrust harder into Jake. He pulled back quickly and thrust hard again. He slowly increased the rhythm and the force of his thrusting as he began to truly let himself go.

"I love you so much my sweet man," the cat moaned as he leaned down and inserted his tongue into Jake's mouth. They necked furiously while the cat fucked him harder and harder until the tiger's huge balls began to tighten up and he felt the familiar surge of power that made his head begin to spin. He roared as the orgasm slammed into him and he shot the first long spurt of cum in a thick volley into his man. He moaned as he pulled back, then he grunted as he thrust forward again and shot another rope of cum as big as the first one. Again and again his body was wracked with spasms as he rode the powerful orgasm to its finish.

He finally slowed down and pushed himself all the way back into Jake and simply held that wonderful position for just a while longer as the last of his cum oozed out of his spent organ.

They necked for a while longer and then finally Hunter pulled gently out and let Jake's legs come back down to the ground, then he lowered himself down on top of his man and kissed him once more.

The cat rolled off of Jake and onto his side, but kept one of his muscular arms draped across his man and brought one knee up and across his legs and snuggled against him and began to purr with the pleasure that came from his satisfying release and the comforting feeling of his lover's embrace.

"I wish we could stay just like this from now on, out here in the woods," the big cat said, "It feels so much more like home to me out here."

"Maybe that's what we should do, then," Jake suggested, "I'm not sure it would ever be a good idea to go back home now."

"Why not? I believe your government might finally have gotten the message that I will brook no further shenanigans from them. They will not try anything. We will be left alone I think."

"By them, yes. But I think you've explored our media enough to know that we're going to be big news for the next while. You disarmed the human race and named yourself its ruler and then named me as your co-ruler. They know my name, which means by now they know where I live, and they'll be drawn to our house like flies to honey in the hopes of getting an interview with you. I'd guess there's probably dozens of news vans surrounding it already, hoping you'll make an appearance there."

"I hadn't considered that. I'm sorry. You've lost any privacy you had and you're just as much in the public eye now as I will be."

"Don't be sorry. It's not a problem. We can just stay hidden most of the time if we want. I don't actually get sentimentally attached to things the way some people do. If I never see my home again or any of the things in it, I won't even give it a second thought. You're all that matters to me. So long as I have you with me, it doesn't matter at all where we are. Let's find a nice place somewhere in a climate that would better suit you and let's make a home there together. I'm stuck here a while longer, so lets make the best of it. We can go on an adventure and explore some of the places on the Earth that might be suitable to settle your people. If you experience those places first hand it will help you make the final decision about where would be best to set the ships down when your people arrive."

"What a wonderful idea! I would love to do that with you. Let us become simple travelers of your world for a while. We'll move about as the black doppelganger duo and you can simply take what you need to sustain you. We'll arrange it so that your government will reimburse everyone we need to take things from very generously, or they'll answer to me."

"Sounds great. Let's start tomorrow."

The cat nodded and they both lay together sleepily for a while until the exhaustion from the intense day and the warm glow from their powerful orgasms dragged them down into slumber.