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When Jake left his office after watching the tiger's fantastic "day in the life" video, he got an idea of how he might do something similar for the big cat in return. It certainly wouldn't be as fancy, since he had no access to the type of automated drone technology the tiger had, but he could certainly do something.

He stopped at an electronics shop on the way home and purchased a GoPro camera. He brought it home and plugged it in to begin charging it so it would be ready in the morning. He intended to make a similar video showing the cat some of Jake's world. He thought it might help the cat feel better to see real, crowded life going on right next door on the next planet over, so he would know he wasn't the only living person in the universe.

Tomorrow was the day that Jake would have to go to Colorado with the alien response team, so he wouldn't be able to spend the day with the cat, but he could at least use the time to create the video to give to the cat the day after.

He went to bed early to get rested up, then got up extra early the next morning. He quickly set the GoPro up on his nightstand and lay back down on the bed and got under the covers. He reached over and started the camera recording so he could pretend to just be getting out of bed and his video would start the same way the cat's had done.

He sat up and stretched, and smiled at the camera. He had his Android tablet on the nightstand and he picked it up and showed it to the cat. It was paused on the video frame where the cat was cumming hard while he had the rubber version of Jake's penis firmly lodged up his backside. Jake had used the video to jack off the night before to help him get to sleep quickly.

He grinned and winked at the camera. He tapped out a message for the cat on the tablet. He couldn't do a translation to tiger language, but he assumed the cat could do it. He simply wrote, "Thank you so much for the video. I loved it!"

He held the message up to the camera briefly, then he brought up the drawing he'd tried to send the cat yesterday that showed the Jake emoji followed by the two interlinked hearts, followed by the tiger emoji and the word "love" written underneath.

He showed that to the camera, then smiled and blew a kiss like the tiger always did for him and then he put the tablet down again.

He then made an obvious show of picking his dirty socks up off the floor, showing how dirty they were underneath to the camera, and then putting them back on his feet. He winked at the camera and then stood up to show the cat he was still wearing his dirty underwear from the day before.

He then slipped on a pair of casual slacks and put on a shirt and tie. Today was the day he'd be meeting with the team again and they would go to Colorado to tour the facility at Cheyenne Mountain.

He picked up the GoPro and brought it with him as he went out into the hall and then into the bathroom.

As a bit of a tit-for-tat exchange he kept the camera on while he urinated to show the cat that they both started their days in much the same way, then he flushed, washed his hands, and headed out into the kitchen.

He set the GoPro on a shelf on the back wall of the kitchen that would give it a view of the whole room while Jake went about getting his breakfast ready.

On the same shelf next to the GoPro was his mini stereo system. He turned it on and tuned it to the same alternative radio station he'd heard the cat listening to in his video. He backed up and winked and smiled at the camera, then turned to go and make himself some coffee.

He had a Jura coffee machine and all he needed to do was put his oversized mug under the spout, then press a button to get a strong cup of coffee. He tended to need a lot of coffee in the morning, and it needed to be strong, so once it finished, he hit the button for a second strong cup. When that was done he then hit the button for a shot of espresso to top it up.

He wasn't actually terribly hungry, but he did need some energy to get his day going, so he munched on a power bar while he made some toaster waffles. He covered the waffles with butter and maple syrup and brought them to the table to sit and eat.

He sipped at his coffee while he surfed the Internet on his tablet for a bit. He checked his personal email. He'd gotten one from a friend who had a penchant for always sending him links to videos of cats on YouTube. Some of them were pretty funny so Jake followed the link and watched the video. He was cracked up by what he saw. It was video of a cat playing with a Hexbug robot, which is just a tiny, plastic, six-legged, motorized robot toy. The cat was fascinated by it as she batted it around on the floor. As Jake watched it he realized it was an absolutely perfect video to show the tiger.

He smiled as he typed up a quick message on the tablet that said, "Our cats use robot technology too," and held that up to the GoPro camera for a moment, then he switched to the cat video and held it up to let the tiger watch the whole thing. He wondered what the big tiger would make of that. It was a great way to show the disparity in technological advances between their two worlds. Out there on Mars a cat was terraforming an entire planet and manipulating hundreds of intelligent robots to do much of the hard work for him. Back here on Earth a cat was rolling around on the floor, batting at a little toy robot that was mindlessly trudging around on someone's kitchen floor. Earth still had a long way to go, he thought as he chuckled to himself.

At the thought of the cat on Mars, he realized he had time to boot up his laptop so he could check to see if the tiger was there in the hanger this morning. Maybe they could do a quick exchange of greetings at least before he needed to head out to work.

He quickly ran to get the laptop, then brought it back into the kitchen and turned it on. He kept the GoPro running and turned the tablet so the tiger could watch the display as he sent out the script to get Curiosity to start taking images in a loop. It would probably be interesting to the tiger to see exactly how Jake had been doing it at this end.

Several images went by with nothing happening, then suddenly the tiger was in the picture and smiling up at the camera. The cat was holding up his tablet that had English words written on it that said, "Hello, Jake Smith. I am pleased that you've contacted me. How are you today?"

Jake was happy to see him, and he was thrilled that it looked as though they could put the emojis behind them and actually use words now. The computer had clearly continued churning away at the English dictionaries and was now doing a nearly perfect job of translating. The somewhat stilted words from yesterday's video that had been taken the day before had already been replaced by complete sentences after two more days of processing by the translation program.

He picked up his Android tablet and quickly typed in a message for the video he was making. He turned towards the GoPro and showed it the tablet that said, "There he is! Look at that amazingly beautiful, brilliant tiger! He's solved the language problem already!"

He put the tablet back on the table and quickly typed up a response on his laptop for Curiosity to draw and sent it out. It would save time to simply use the rover to write the text on its tablet to avoid the whole video downloading procedure. The image that came back six minutes later showed the robot had drawn his message for the cat to read, "I am so happy to see you. I'm thrilled that we can talk now. I loved your video! Please just call me Jake."

The big cat was grinning in the image after having seen Jake's message and Jake could see he was tapping out a message on his own tablet. He waited for the next image from Curiosity and the cat's tablet showed, "I am glad you liked the video, Jake. I enjoyed making it for you. I hope you will enjoy the gift I sent you."

Jake suddenly realized this was his chance to find out from the cat when it would get here. He quickly typed, "I can promise you that I will enjoy it immensely. Can you tell me exactly when it will arrive?" and sent the script off to the rover.

The cat's response was, "I have learned your time from your entertainment transmissions. It will arrive at precisely 8:13 PM your time."

Jake smiled. The cat had been listening to the radio enough to learn how humans slice up the time of each day. 8:13 tonight should be perfect. At this time of the summer the sun would have just set. The grounds out behind the building have no lights so nobody would be out there at that time. It would still be light enough to see well enough to collect his prize, and the fact that it wouldn't be completely dark night would mean less chance that anyone might notice a blue-green thrust cone from a tiny spaceship coming down. He could just hang around at the office a bit later than usual, grab it, and then rush home.

He sent the response and said, "Thank you. I'm really looking forward to it. After watching you workout so hard and sweat so much, and then pleasure yourself, I can only imagine how amazing the contents of that canister will be for me."

The cat was grinning up at the camera in the image that came six minutes later and the tablet he held up said, "It is uncanny how alike our tastes are. I look forward to what you will be sending back. Did you understand my request?"

Jake typed up the response and said, "Yes. I haven't washed yet and I've been wearing the same socks and underwear since the day we exchanged our intimate videos. I'll send them back for you."

He waited again for the long delay to get the image back from Curiosity showing it had drawn his message. He wasn't going to have much more time before he'd need to head out to work. It was torture trying to hold a conversation with six minutes between each sentence, but at least it was giving him time to finish eating his waffles and drinking his coffee.

The image that finally arrived showed the cat holding up the tablet and it said, "Excellent! I have programmed the drone to take off shortly after you close the hatch on it. Please stand clear of it."

Jake typed the response. "I will. This six minute delay is torture. I can't speak any longer. I have to leave for work. I won't be available today."

He waited the six minutes and the laptop beeped and the image showed the cat looking sad. The tablet he held up said, "I am sorry to hear it. I was looking forward to conversing with you now that we can truly do it. I have solved the problem of the six minute delay and sent another shipment to you yesterday with some technology that I think you will be most pleased with. It will arrive tomorrow. We can discuss the details then. Have a wonderful day, Jake. I love you."

Jake's heart nearly melted on the spot. It felt so good to see those last three words written out in no uncertain terms. He felt the same way. He sent one last message out. "I love you too. You're stunningly beautiful to me. You're in my heart and I'm thinking of you always. I'm excited that you've solved the delay. Let's talk early tomorrow. I'll have something for you, too."

He waited for the response, hoping the cat hadn't shut the rover's tablet off before his script could run. The laptop beeped and he smiled as he saw the image that came back. The cat was once again blowing a kiss at the camera. His eyes were shining like they were welling with tears a bit. He held his tablet close for Curiosity to see. "I am thrilled beyond measure to see those words! It means more to me than you can know that you are thinking of me. I will make sure we have a great deal of time tomorrow! We will both be enjoying the items I've sent to you this time, I assure you. I cannot wait to find out what you'll have for me!"

Jake waited one more minute to see the next image from the rover and it showed the cat was gone and the tablet was turned off, so he sent out the script that would aim the camera up at the ceiling again so the cat would know he was gone too.

He was truly excited that the cat had solved the problem of the six minute delay. Whatever prototype he'd been working on in the workshop in his video must be finished and ready, and he'd already sent it off. He couldn't wait to get it, but for now he needed to get going or he'd be late for work. The government team would be picking him up at JPL and they'd be heading off to Colorado first thing.

He suddenly remembered the GoPro had been watching the whole exchange, so he typed up another quick message on his tablet and said, "I really do love you, you wonderful, amazing cat! Will you come to work with me now?"

He winked at the camera, then he went and got his backpack and put his tablet, laptop, and smart phone in it. He grabbed the GoPro on his way out of the kitchen and he held it facing forward so the cat could watch where he was going as he walked through the house.

He went out to the garage, where he had his mountain bike hanging on the wall. He set the GoPro on the roof of his truck so the cat could keep watching while Jake pulled the bike down, opened the garage door, and leaned the bike against the door frame. He went back and got the GoPro and attached it to his helmet so the cat could watch the entire trip to work. It would only take around twenty minutes and it might be interesting to the tiger to see how humans move around.

He hit the button to close the garage door while grabbing his bike and moving out onto the driveway. He hopped on the bike and headed out. The trip was uneventful, but probably at least somewhat interesting to the tiger as he would get a chance to see what a typical human neighborhood looked like. The neat rows of houses, the manicured lawns and flowerbeds and the trees might be a nice change for him from the gloomy, brown, dusty Martian landscape.

Jake passed neighbors watering their lawns who smiled and waved and said 'Good morning' as he rode by. He passed people walking their dogs, school buses picking up kids, and sleepy looking people getting into their cars to head to work. These were all the normal day to day things that the cat must be missing terribly while stuck alone in his artificial base on an empty world in a hostile environment.

He hoped the cat wouldn't be upset to see all of this life that he couldn't take part in himself while he sat alone and watched the video. He seemed so much like Jake that he was confident the cat would be interested to see it, just as Jake would be if he were in the cat's place. He would use it as inspiration to remind him why he's doing what he's doing out there.

Jake suddenly realized the GoPro was recording audio too. One of the dictionaries he'd sent to the cat included hundreds of thousands of English words pronounced in audio wave files. If the cat's computers could do image recognition so easily, they could likely do audio translation too. Even if they weren't at that stage yet, there was no doubt in his mind the cat's computers could do it, so eventually the tiger would be able to replay the video and get the translation of anything Jake said aloud.

Though he felt a bit foolish doing it, he began to speak to the tiger while he rode along on his bike. "I hope you aren't upset by seeing all of this life while you're stuck out there on Mars all alone. I hope you'll see this as inspiration. I want to remind you that this is why you're doing what you're doing out there. Or, at least, that's what I assume you're doing out there. You're getting the planet ready for the rest of your people to arrive and move in, right?"

Jake reached a controlled intersection and stopped to wait for the light to turn green. He made a point of panning the camera on his helmet around by turning his head to show the tiger the streets with vehicles and people and the buildings and trees around him. He panned it past a small park across the street that had the sun rising behind it as he said, "Someday, thanks to you, your people will be riding under a blue sky along streets with neat rows of houses beside them. They'll have manicured lawns and trees and flowerbeds just like these. Children will be going off to school and parents will be heading off to their jobs. Your planet will one day be bustling with life, and it will all be because of the hard, lonely work you're doing out there right now. I'm so amazed at what you're accomplishing for your people. I'm impressed with you beyond words."

The light changed and he continued to ride on, while describing what he was seeing to the cat. People were giving him strange looks as he rode by saying things like, "That's a school for children," or "That's a grocery store," or "That's a bus to move people around the city," and so on.

At one point he nearly rammed into someone as they popped their car door open and stepped right out onto the street without first checking their side mirror, so Jake had to slam his brakes on hard and skidded to a stop just in time to avoid colliding with him. The man flipped him the bird and said, "Watch where you're going ya jerk."

Jake simply looked straight at him to capture him in the GoPro video and said, "That's an asshole." He realized immediately he might cause the tiger some confusion since he'd actually already showed him that an asshole was a part of his anatomy in a previous video, so he thought he'd better clarify and said, "Asshole is really the word for that part of the body I showed you before, but when a person acts in an unnecessarily unpleasant way towards others, even when they're the ones at fault, just like this man did, we call them an asshole as a fitting insult."

The man's eyebrows went up and he looked at Jake like he was insane or something.

When he continued to just stand there Jake added, "Sometimes we follow that up with getting off our bikes and beating the shit out of them if they don't get out of the way."

The man slammed his door shut and hurried around the front of his car to the sidewalk to get away from the crazy person.

Jake chuckled and rode on, describing everything as he went while ignoring the looks he was getting. He didn't care what people thought of him. It felt good to be talking to his tiger, even if it was only a recording the cat wouldn't receive until tomorrow.

Before long he was turning onto the JPL campus and he rode right up to the rack where he would park his bike. He got off and locked it up. He wondered if the cat would find that strange. Did they have thieves in their world or had they gotten past that?

"We lock things up so they won't get taken," he said aloud, just in case the cat was curious.

"Christ, Jake. You're losing it even more. Now you're talking to yourself?"

Jake looked over and saw Rick walking up from the parking lot. He rolled his eyes and wondered how it was his boss always seemed to be coming up to him at just the wrong moment lately. Once again he'd been caught doing something that must make him seem insane.

He chuckled and said, "Yes. I'm losing my mind." He pointed at the GoPro attached to his bike helmet and said, "I'm recording everything I do now, and say everything I'm thinking out loud so that after I've lost it completely, I can remember anything important I need to know later on by just watching the video."

Rick's eyebrows went up, but he just said, "Oh? I see."

Jake hadn't forgotten how useless Rick was when it came to humor. It usually went right over his head. He decided to get under his skin a bit while saying a few more things for the tiger's benefit when he watched the video tomorrow. He faked a bland, robotic voice and said, "You are my boss. Your name is Rick. We work here at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States of America. Is that correct?"

Rick's eyes narrowed, "You know it is, Jake. You're starting to freak me out a bit."

Jake realized the cat's translator might have a hard time dealing with colloquial turns of phrase, like when he'd called the man an asshole earlier, so he decided to have a bit more fun with Rick while explaining to the tiger what his boss had meant. He cocked his head to the side and in the same robotic voice said, "Freak me out. That means that you are not enjoying the way I am speaking to you. You find it unsettling and you would like me to stop. Is that correct?"

Rick just looked at him strangely and began to shift a bit on his feet like he was uncomfortable, so Jake started to laugh and said, "Sorry. I was just messing with you."

Rick smiled and said, "You're one strange dude. Has anyone ever told you that?"

Jake said, "It's early yet, so you get to be the first one to tell me that today, but I'm sure there will be others."

Rick nodded as if that seemed likely to him too, then he said, "So, are you ready for another day of sitting around your office twiddling your thumbs and hoping to finally hook up with Curiosity again?"

"Not today. We're taking a trip over to Colorado Springs to check out the new secret location for the alien response team."

"Jesus Christ, Jake! You're not supposed to be telling me that! What part of 'top secret' are you having trouble figuring out?"

Jake flushed as he realized Rick was right. He wasn't supposed to be talking about it at all. He was in serious breach by divulging the location to his boss. He could get in big trouble.

Rick smiled and said, "Ha! I can do humor too, see? I found out they were setting up the new site at Cheyenne Mountain yesterday. They're going to be keeping me in the loop from now on, too. My new team will be preparing a different type of response in case it becomes necessary. There's talk of moving our operation to the facility soon, too."

Jake frowned. It sounded like Rick was saying he was going to be the one working with the rockets carrying the nuclear warheads the government would use if they ever decided they needed to take on the aliens someday.

Rick noticed the change in Jake's composure and he quickly said, "Don't worry. It's only in case of emergency. We need to protect ourselves and keep our world safe. Don't you agree?"

Jake said, "No, not really. Why the hell does everyone always assume the worst? The only thing we really need to protect ourselves from, is ourselves. I'm sure we're completely safe from the aliens. The real question is, are they safe from us?"

Rick said, "Come on, Jake. We're talking about an alien race that has the power to destroy us, and there's nearly nothing we can do if they choose to do that."

Jake became exasperated and said, "You're thinking like a typically paranoid human! I'll bet you any other race out there, including the tigers, aren't always thinking the worst of everyone else before they think of anything else. I doubt they're anywhere near as aggressive and dangerous as we are!"

Rick looked taken aback and said, "Alright, take it easy! We're just taking precautions, that's all."

Jake just said, "Whatever. I have to go."

He turned to head into the building, but another voice called his name from out in the parking lot, "Mr. Smith, we've been waiting for you."

He looked over and saw the leader of the government team standing next to a large minivan with the door open. He could see other members of the team sitting inside it and waiting for him.

"Sorry, I didn't realize I was running late. Could I just go inside and drop off my bike helmet and backpack in my office?"

"There's no time. Just bring them along. There's a plane waiting for us at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. It'll take us at least a half hour to get there. Let's move."

He waved Jake over impatiently and then got into the van. Jake ran over and hopped in with them and the van headed out.

"What's that?" the team lead said as he pointed at the camera attached to Jake's bike helmet.

"It's a GoPro. I like to record my bike rides sometimes."

"Just make sure you keep it turned off. I don't think they'll appreciate you bringing a camera into an Air Force nuclear bunker."

Jake nodded and turned the camera off. The trip to the airport was short and they were quickly hustled towards a C-12 Huron twin engine Air Force passenger plane that was waiting for them on the tarmac.

As they approached the plane Jake surreptitiously turned his GoPro back on. He'd attached the helmet loosely to the outside of his backpack, so he angled it forward so the tiger would get to see another low tech piece of human equipment. He'd probably be quite interested to see the plane.

The engines were already firing up as they approached, and they quickly boarded and before long the pilot had got clearance and they were rolling down the runway.

Jake lifted his backpack up and slowly turned it to show the tiger the complete interior of the plane, then he moved it over beside himself and situated it so that the camera was looking out the side window and downward a bit while they took off.

The flight would be nearly three hours so Jake shut off the camera once they'd reached their cruising altitude. The GoPro could easily hold over six hours of video with the size of memory card he had in it, but the rest of the flight would be boring.

He napped briefly while they flew, then engaged in boring chit chat with other members of the team for a while before they finally felt the plane beginning to come down again as they approached Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs.

He turned the GoPro on again just to catch the transition from flight to landing. He kept it on as they got off the plane.

They were led into a couple of vehicles that carried them from the base all the way to the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station where the bunker was located.

There was a fairly serious looking security checkpoint there, so Jake quickly turned off the camera as they approached it. He was asked to surrender his backpack and collect it again on the way out, so he handed it over.

A guide approached them and took them inside the facility. He started out by giving them the tourist spiel of specs that Jake actually found interesting, but it was fairly brief. He told them that there were fifteen buildings in total in the complex, and that they had actually been built on top of more than a thousand giant metal springs that were used to protect the buildings from movement caused by earthquakes or explosions. The facility had also been certified to be able to sustain an EMP blast. There were a great many pieces of computer and communication equipment that the facility depended on, so a powerful enough electromagnetic pulse, like that from a nuclear detonation, would render the whole place useless if it hadn't been protected against them. The bunker had been built to withstand and deflect not only the pulse, but also the concussive forces of a thirty megaton nuclear explosion from as close as two kilometers.

The guide assured them that the bunker was impenetrable and they would be perfectly safe there. Jake assumed the guide had never had it explained to him that the aliens the government was trying to protect the team from had used asteroids to melt and drill through the solid crust of a planet and right down to its core. He didn't really think there was anything about this bunker that would help it survive that sort of treatment. It all seemed pointless to him, especially since he knew the tiger was actually an incredible sweetheart, not some aggressive alien bent on domination.

The tour continued and they were shown fitness centers, a store, a cafeteria, and a medical facility. There were many cots in one area and Jake asked where their living quarters would be.

The team lead chuckled and asked, "Where did you get the idea we'd be living in here? Nobody does that. We'll be staying in Colorado Springs and coming and going as needed. I suppose if anything actually happens, we might get locked in here, but that would only be for a very short term I would think."

Jake nodded his understanding. He was happy to hear he'd only be underground for a part of each day. That would mean he could actually still use his laptop when he went back to wherever he would be living to connect through the back door to Curiosity and the tiger.

The tour brought them around to the areas of the facility their team would have access to. They were shown the computer equipment they would be using to gather and analyze the data, and the equipment that was being interfaced to the dishes that would be communicating with Curiosity. He was asked if there was anything else he might need that might not have been covered yet, but he could think of nothing.

The rest of the day was quite boring. He'd been interested to see the bunker, but really, it was just a complex of buildings that happened to be located inside a mountain. Once inside it didn't really seem all that special and he became distracted again thinking about his tiger and what he might be up to at that moment.

They had another series of long meetings where they discussed procedures they would be implementing. Jake ignored most of it since it didn't really involve him. He wasn't even really sure why he was brought along on this trip today. All anyone needed to do once things got rolling again was to point to the computer he'd be using to run the rover, and he would sit down and do just that. The rest was up to everyone else.

He hadn't really given much thought yet to how exactly that would all go down. By then he would have known the cat for months and they would have developed even more of a relationship. The tiger would be completely fluent in English via the computer translator and would already probably know a great deal about human culture by listening to the radio for months along with all of the discussions he would have had with Jake by then. How would they handle the formal "first contact" that the team was expecting would happen? As far as the rest of them knew, they'd be dealing with an alien creature who knew absolutely nothing about the human race. Jake would have to try to coach the tiger on how to handle his communication with the humans.

It occurred to him that the tiger had already shown he had a great sense of humor. Jake and the cat could have a whole lot of fun with it if they wanted to. He could feed the cat lines to give the government team once the main link was back up. The team leader would likely start out by saying something formal like, "Welcome to our solar system" in order to appear to be cordial, while at the same time making it clear to the alien that this whole system belonged to the humans and they were just visitors. Then, just for fun, the cat could respond with something like, "Hey, uh, thanks. We thought this place would be way cooler" or "Where's a good place to eat around here?" or "Dude, where's my spaceship?" or maybe "We thought this planet was gonna be a lot bigger, can we take yours instead?"

He chuckled as he thought of the reaction that might get, but then decided if any English words were going to be spoken by the cat, they should stick to something safe and simple like "We come in peace" so the government would feel a bit more at ease right out of the gate.

No matter how it went down, Jake would likely have trouble keeping a straight face through it all while he sat there operating the rover. The response team would think they were the first humans to be making official first contact with an alien race, and they would likely go out of their way to maintain a high level of dignity and decorum while communicating with the official alien representative. Jake would know the alien they were talking to is actually a totally gay, pot smoking, buggy racing, dildo using, sock sniffing, weight lifting, raunchy, magnificently sexy, incredibly lovable cat with a great sense of humor. It would certainly be interesting for both Jake and the cat to be a part of that first meeting.

It was fairly late in the afternoon by the time they were done and they left the complex. Jake collected his laptop on the way out and immediately turned the camera back on. He would probably be getting a lot of useless footage, but he could edit it later as the tiger had done to the video he'd made for Jake. He needed to keep it down to less than an hour and a half in order to fit it into Curiosity's memory.

They were hustled back to the plane at the Air Force base and it carried them back to Burbank.

The team lead took them all out for pizza and beer, and they finally dropped Jake off at JPL in the evening.

He went inside and setup his laptop to see if the tiger had time for him, but he suspected the cat wouldn't even be watching for Jake since he'd told him he wouldn't be available today. He waited for several images to come back but the cat did not appear in any of them, so he signaled Curiosity to aim its camera up again.

He looked at his watch and saw he still had well over an hour to go before his special delivery from the cat would make its arrival. He decided to do something similar to what the cat had done for him. He would work up a bit of a sweat just before taking off his socks and underwear and sending them back. He always kept riding clothes in his backpack in case he decided to break up his work day with some trail riding, so he may as well kill the time with a quick ride right now.

He set his bike helmet up on his desk with the GoPro camera facing him. He looked into the camera and said, "I need to change for my workout."

He took off his tie and shirt and set them on his desk, then he took off his loafers and his pants. He opened up his pack and took out the bike shorts and t-shirt he kept in there and put them on and switched to his trail shoes that would engage his pedal clips. He put on his riding gloves, stuffed his work clothes into the pack, then looked straight into the GoPro and said, "Time to work up a bit of a sweat. Let's go for a bike ride!"

He picked up the helmet and put it on, then headed out to get his bike.

One of the things he enjoyed most about where he lived was how close it was to the San Gabriel mountains. Just behind JPL he could access several trails. He followed one for a ways until it eventually hooked onto the Arroyo Seco trail. This was normally considered an intermediate trail by most people who ride it, but after some recent washouts it had changed to become more challenging. It's over seven miles long with lots of rocks and sand and five creek crossings. Jake wanted to give the tiger a good dose of nature and greenery to take his mind off the dull Martian landscape, and the trail is quite beautiful and heavily treed so it would be perfect.

He pushed as hard as he could. He'd ridden the trail countless times so he knew it like the back of his hand and he was going at breakneck speed along some stretches and whooping and shouting as he tore up the trail. He kept on riding as hard as he could until he realized it was time to turn around. The trail was heavily treed and shaded, so as the sun began to set it was getting dark in a hurry. He needed to turn around and head back so he wouldn't get caught on the trail in complete darkness. He had a light on his bike, but it could only do so much, and he wanted to be back at JPL in time to pick up his delivery.

The even faster, downhill ride back made the rest of the trip much quicker. By the time he left the trail and headed back towards JPL, it was a little later than he'd intended, but at least he was sweating like a pig. It would be just fifteen minutes before the appointed time for the drone to arrive. He hurried back to the main building and locked up his bike.

He rushed into the building and to his office. He needed to get his socks and underwear off, but he didn't really like the idea of stripping naked out on the JPL grounds, so he wanted to do it in the privacy of his closed office.

He set the helmet on his desk again and adjusted the GoPro so it was aimed out into the area he would use to strip. He moved out in front of the camera and faced it and smiled and waved.

"I'm sweating quite a bit. I hope that's alright," he said as he winked at the camera.

He proceeded to take off his shoes and set them aside. He removed each of his sweaty socks and held them up to the camera as the cat had done for him. He took a quick sniff and then winked at the camera before he put the socks into his backpack. He slid down his damp underwear and stepped out of them. His cock was already stiffening just from the idea of what he was doing and he played with it a bit for the cat to see, but said, "I'm not going to do this just yet. Not until you're inside me."

He winked again and then put his underwear into his pack. He put on a clean pair of socks and underwear from his pack and then put on his shorts. He put his pack on, then grabbed his helmet and put it on his head. He walked out the side door of the building and began to trot to the back of the grounds towards the wooded copse the tiger had showed him in the video. It was only about five minutes before the drone would arrive if the cat's timing was accurate.

Jake reached the woods and went through to the clearing the tiger had circled and he waited. As the time approached he looked up and he already thought he could see a blueish-green twinkle straight up overhead that was getting brighter.

"I'm so excited right now," he said for the benefit of the tiger, "This is the first time I've received a personal package from outer space. Not only is that in itself amazing, but if anyone had ever told me that the first package I'd receive from outer space would be the sweet, dirty socks of the most appealing person in the entire universe, the same socks that he'd peeled off his big feet after a long day of work and a heavy workout, I would have called them crazy. I guess it would sort of take a bit of crazy to do something like that. You're just the kind of crazy I love, and I really can't thank you enough for this. It's the best thing that's ever happened to me in my life. In fact, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me."

Jake noticed he could start to hear a loud buzzing sound and the twinkle he'd seen was getting much brighter. The drone was coming in fast, but it must have already done most of its decelerating out in space or the thrust cone would be even longer. He could see it clearly now as it came down right on target.

He stepped back a bit into the trees to make sure he wouldn't be in its way. The thrust cone lengthened a bit as the drone approached and the sound got a bit louder while the drone slowed down more. He hoped nobody who might still be at work at JPL would notice it and come looking.

Just as the craft appeared as if it were going to slam into the ground pretty hard, the thrust ramped up further and the drone settled to a hover mere inches above the ground. Jake looked at his smart watch just as the pod touched down and he saw the time switch from 8:12 to 8:13. He chuckled and said, "Right on time! Right to the second! I think I'll recommend your delivery service to anyone else who needs dirty socks and wants to get them precisely when they're promised."

He walked up to the drone and as he approached it the side panel popped open. He was so excited he was actually shaking a bit as he reached in and pulled out the canister.

Jake said, "This all seems so surreal somehow. I'm holding in my hands a canister that was last in the paws of a big, intensely beautiful, extremely intelligent tiger on Mars just two days ago. Inside it are his sweaty, dirty clothes. The universe is such a gloriously, magnificently weird thing!"

He cracked open the container and was almost immediately greeted with a very rich scent from the sweaty garments that had been cooped up in it for two days

He pulled out the dildo the cat had placed in it last and held it up. It was hefty and long. It had to be close to nine inches and extremely thick. He marveled at the size of the balls that had been included as part of the mold of the toy. They were easily twice the size of his own, maybe bigger, and his were a bit larger than average. The cock felt incredibly imposing in his hands and was covered in thick veins. The head was exposed and Jake quickly rubbed his thumb along the back edge. He could feel a definite roughness there. It would certainly be an interesting sensation. "Whoa! This baby's gonna hurt! I'll need to do some warmups before I can take you I think. It really is a thing of natural beauty. I wish I had the real thing in my hands right now."

He put the dildo in his backpack and then pulled out the tiger's shorts. They were covered in damp spots. Some of them were sweat, some were the cum the cat had wiped up with them when he'd cleaned up his mess. There was a light scent of extremely male crotch sweat coming up off of them. Jake was in heaven. He didn't want to get too caught up right now in case anyone had seen the drone come down and might be looking around for where it landed, so he quickly stuffed them into his backpack.

"I can't tell you how badly I want to just get lost in the incredible scent of these, but I'm not sure if anyone saw your delivery coming in and is out here somewhere searching for it, so I need to get going."

He pulled out the large socks. He couldn't resist one quick sniff. He held them up to his face and inhaled and his eyes rolled up into his head from the pleasure of it. They were rich and heady and incredible. He knew this fetish was lost on most people, but he actually felt bad for anyone who didn't enjoy this sort of thing. There was really nothing else like it. He was vibrating from it already and his libido was on fire. He moaned and then put the socks in his backpack.

He checked that there was nothing else in the cylinder, then pulled his own sweaty socks and underwear out of his pack and stuffed them into the container. There was so much room in there that he suddenly got the idea to add one more thing. He peeled off his pitted and sweaty t-shirt and added it into the cylinder and closed it up. "I hope you enjoy these as much as I'll enjoy yours, you sweet, crazy, amazing tiger."

He carefully placed the cylinder back inside the compartment of the drone. As soon as he closed the hatch on the compartment he heard it latch shut with a snick, so he immediately stepped well back to get out of the way. Nothing happened at first so he continued to move away until he reached the treeline again. Suddenly a blue cone appeared beneath the drone and it began to lift off. It rose slowly for about three feet and then the cone grew longer at a rapid pace. The hissing it was emitting grew to a loud buzzing shriek that quickly died away as the drone rushed up into the sky and quickly became a speck that then vanished. The acceleration of the thing was incredible.

"I wish I could have just climbed into that thing and ridden all the way over there to make that delivery in person, but I think even if it was big enough for me to fit in it, that level of acceleration would turn me into a messy puddle at the bottom of the rocket. Remind me to ask you what sort of fuel you're using that gives your tiny engines such an incredible amount of power. Antimatter is all I can think of that would be light enough weight, while creating that much thrust."

He zipped up his pack and put it back on his bare torso and then he walked back out of the woods towards the building. He looked around, but saw nobody. He continued around the building to the front and went to the bike rack and unlocked his bike again. He got on and rode home as quick as his legs could go.

When he got home he rushed into the house and pulled his pack off. The GoPro had nearly run out of charge so he needed to plug it back in to charge it up before he could continue. It gave him a chance to get ready. He didn't want to bore the cat with his "warmups". He went into his bedroom and opened his toy drawer. He lubed up one of the bigger butt plugs he had and while breathing deeply he slowly and carefully inserted it. It always hurt a bit when he used this one, but not for long. The idea was to get loosened up for the biggest butt plug he had. That one easily matched the girth of the tiger's penis. He wanted to be able to take the dildo without too much pain so he could get straight to enjoying the hell out of it.

After a while he switched to the biggest plug and he kept it in while he put away the clothes from his backpack and pulled out his tablet and laptop. He put the tablet in his bedroom on the nightstand, then brought the laptop into the kitchen. He really wanted to say thanks to the tiger again for his gifts and let him know he'd received them and sent his gift to the tiger right back, so he booted up the laptop and checked in on Curiosity, but as expected there was no sign of his kitty at the other end.

He went to the bathroom and removed the big plug and cleaned himself up a bit, then he went and got the GoPro and proceeded into his bedroom.

He turned the camera back on and set it on his dresser pointed down towards his bed so most of him would be in center frame.

He smiled at the camera, reached for his pack and pulled out the big dildo and the tiger's dirty socks and shorts and threw the pack aside. "Now at last I get to feel almost as if you're right here with me like I wish with all my heart you were."

He proceeded to lift the socks to his face and inhaled deeply. His eyes rolled back in his head as he moaned his pleasure at the incredible aroma of the big cat's feet. His erection rapidly inflated to full mast as once again his body began to vibrate with his the fiery desire for the big furry cat that the scent of him was awakening.

"Good, God. You smell so good to me I can't believe it!"

He reached for the shorts and held them up to his face with his left hand as he began to play with his cock and he inhaled once more. The scent of the muscular tiger's crotch was strong and heady. Jake kept moving the shorts around to different spots to sniff at them. The best smell was located in his usual favorite area right where the cat's big balls would meet his inner thigh. The smell of his personal musky sweat was so strong there it made Jake's head spin. He imagined himself rubbing his nose right in that spot while the cat was still wearing the sweaty shorts just after his workout and it made Jake moan again.

He found some damp patches on the side of the shorts that could only have been made when the tiger had wiped up his massive puddles of cum using the shorts, and Jake impulsively licked at them and groaned with his desire to be licking up a puddle of the real thing right off the cat's belly. He could already feel himself nearing his orgasm as he reveled in the amazing personal scents of the tiger. He couldn't believe how great the cat smelled.

He looked over at the camera and said, "You smell so amazingly good to me. I've never enjoyed something so much in my entire life. I can't thank you enough for sending these to me. I'm close to popping already just from the scent of you, but I have to feel you inside me before I bring myself to the finish."

He went to the drawer on his nightstand and got his lube. He worked a great deal into his hole that had already been loosened by the large butt plug. He put a good amount onto the replica of the tiger's big penis and spread it around while he marveled at the girth of it. He thought about how he was going to approach this. He decided the easiest was to place the dildo on the floor pointing up. It only had the front half of the tiger's balls represented so it actually had a very wide, flat back part that would keep it balanced on the floor. As he looked at it closely he saw there was actually a cup-like depression on the back part of it.

He stood and went to the GoPro and angled it down slightly towards the floor. He backed up and smiled and said, "I want to imagine you're on your back and I'm sitting down onto you."

He put one last dollop of lube on the end of the big latex penis and then placed it on the hardwood floor and pushed down to try to get the air out from the depression and seal it to the floor. He then pulled up on it and was happy to see it acted like a big suction cup. It was held firmly in place.

He maneuvered into position, then smiled up at the camera and began to lower himself down onto the tiger's big cock. Even with his hole loosened up and ready it was a bit of a struggle to get it in, but at last his sphincter spread wide and sucked the cat's big cock head in and Jake moaned loudly at the sensation of being spread so wide. There was a bit of fire so he held still as soon as the big head was all the way in and his hole had closed on the shaft behind it.

He breathed deeply, then he began to slowly lower himself down. The sensation was amazing as the wide head with the slightly rough edge bumped into his prostate and forced its way past it. He groaned as he continued to come down until at last he reached the limit and was nearly sitting right on the floor with the cat's big balls pushing up on his butt cheeks.

He held that position for a few moments to get used to the amazing size of the cat's cock, then he looked up at the camera and smiled and said, "I've never been so completely filled up in my life. You're amazing! I wish this was really you beneath me, but for now this will do nicely."

He then took his cock in hand and began to work it as he lifted himself up and the big tool began to slide out of him. The sensation of that massive organ being pulled out of his backside was amazing. He moaned and groaned as he worked himself faster and began to push himself down again and the huge member fully invaded his rectum once more.

He reached over with his left hand and grabbed the dirty socks and shorts off the bed and pushed the whole wad onto his face and inhaled deeply through his nose. He moaned and groaned as he began to bounce up and down faster and faster while jacking away at his cock.

He didn't last long at all. With the incredible scent of the tiger filling his nostrils and the sensation of his big cock hammering at Jake's rectum, the familiar tingling at the base of his nuts began to build fast and hard.

He grunted as the electrical storm of a massive orgasm exploded through him and he tensed as his big balls tightened right up and he shot a huge volley of cum straight up into the air that came down and landed on his arm.

He groaned his pleasure and then grunted again as another spurt shot out. Again and again the waves of his powerful orgasm hammered away at him and his head was full of the tiger as he rode out the sensation.

At last the hammer beats of his orgasm began to slow down and so did Jake. He settled back down onto the latex version of his tiger and stayed there as he slowly worked his cock and drew out the last of his cum until there was nothing left.

"That was amazing," he said, "Thank you so much for these gifts. I'll be enjoying them over and over again."

He set the socks and shorts aside and lifted himself completely off of the big dildo, then quickly went to the bathroom to clean himself up.

He came back into the bedroom, then climbed into bed and looked over at the GoPro that was still recording from the dresser.

"I want you to know I'm always thinking of you. My heart is so full of you right now it feels ready to burst, and it aches for the loneliness you must be feeling. I wish I could do more to help you feel you aren't alone. I'm there with you in spirit and in thought if not in person. I've never seen anyone with so much responsibility as you, and I'm impressed with how well you're handling it. I wish I could somehow bear at least some of your burden so you wouldn't have to take it all yourself. I love you so much you sweet, wonderful, crazy, incredibly beautiful cat. I can't wait to talk to you again tomorrow. With luck, my dreams will be full of you so I won't even need to miss you before I see you again tomorrow. Goodnight."

He reached over and turned off the bedside lamp, and he drifted off to sleep almost immediately.