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Jake and Hunter had a ton of fun for the following weeks with the doppelganger suits. Needless to say they enjoyed a great deal of sex together, but they also found that even if the tiger was the only one wearing the suit, it was a better way for them to interact inside of Jake's house. It took a bit of time for Hunter to work out some serious kinks, but the brilliant cat found a way to make it work that was a side effect of a fix he developed while working on a solution to a problem they'd discovered when they first went out for a run together.

There is a network of multi-use trails that passes behind Jake's house that follows along the outside of the city on the north side. Several branches of it extend northward and eastward towards the San Gabriel range and the trails were deep in the woods and it was Jake's favorite place to go for a run. Some parts of the trails are lit at night as they pass through public parks, though they weren't lit very effectively, so they wouldn't be too visible to anyone else who might be out there. They decided to try going for a run together on the night of the first day they had played with the suits, and it actually worked out quite well.

Hunter put on his suit and got into the 'ambulator sphere' machine that he would normally use for a cardio workout. The large sphere spins freely while the cat runs inside it and can turn and follow any direction his body turns. His display lenses would normally show him a virtual representation of his home world so that he could feel he was running on trails through the jungle of his home, and could follow every twist and turn of them. The tiger had told Jake there were four of the spheres in the exercise room and they had been installed only on the engineers ships in order to help them preserve their sanity and maintain their health while they were all cooped up inside an artificial space ship for the two years they would be stuck on it. One year while traveling through space from the Kuiper belt, where the engineers would be awakened, until it finally landed on Mars to be reconfigured into the base of operations, then another year while they reshaped the desolate planet into something livable.

It turned out the sphere worked almost perfectly with the suits, too. Instead of showing the cat a virtual representation of his own world, the lenses were actually showing him what his doppelganger suit on Earth was seeing and to the cat it was like he was right there beside Jake. Jake would not be wearing his suit, of course, but would be dressed as he normally does when he goes out for a run in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. In order to somewhat camouflage the cat, Jake simply dressed the big tiger's spooky black double in a large track suit that covered his entire body with the tail tucked down inside one of the legs. The suit was normally quite loose on Jake and he wore it only on the coldest nights, but on the cat it barely fit and stretched quite tightly from his extreme muscles, but it was good enough. It had a hoodie top so with the hood up it completely covered the doppelganger's head. He looked to Jake sort of like Luke Cage from the Netflix program, but even more muscular. There was nothing he could do for the tiger's large, odd-shaped feet and they didn't even bother to try to cover his paws. When Jake looked at the dressed up doppelganger with the visual texturing trick turned on there was a disturbing effect because the computers would try to overlay the tiger's texture on top of the black suit, but the clothes were there as well, so odd things would happen as the tiger moved and his fur would suddenly appear to come out through the track suit, then move back underneath it in various places all over his body. Jake asked the tiger to switch off the visual trick whenever his doppelganger had the track suit on. It was less disconcerting to just see a black cat in sweats than the constantly morphing clothes and fur squirming all over the cat's body.

The idea was just to fool any casual eyes that might see them from a distance at night. If anyone appeared to be approaching them they would simply turn off the trail before they reached them so nobody would get too close a look. It was dark and the trails were dimly lit, so the idea was simply to have the tiger look like an extremely dark skinned large man in a track suit running alongside another large man on a trail designed specifically for that type of use. It shouldn't draw any unusual attention at all.

There were a few odd issues that the genius tiger needed to fix at his end to bring the experience closer to perfection for him, but since he had so much time on his hands he was able to do it over the course of the next week. When they'd first gone for a run, they found that the sphere the tiger was in worked perfectly, until they encountered a large set of stairs that connected one part of the path to another section that was on a higher level up the side of a steep hill. When the empty tiger suit on Jake's side encountered a step, Hunter's suit's musculature would lock up so that on his side it also felt that he was stepping on it. The problem was, he really wasn't. When he moved to bring his other foot up, he would essentially be attempting to stand in mid air inside the sphere and he would nearly fall over as he tried to correct himself. It just didn't work right because there was actually nothing physically there for him to step up onto inside the sphere. He had to go up the side of the hill on the smooth ground beside the steps instead so that he would actually be stepping up the side of the sphere and it would properly act as a slope under his feet.

The brilliant cat worked all week on a solution and it turned out to work amazingly well when it was finished. He simply fabricated a large sphere made of the smart fabric and he stuffed it into the ambulator as a lining. In its default rest mode it held its spherical shape and hugged the inside of the shell. Once programmed it would work in concert with the sensors in the doppelganger suit on the Earth side to detect shapes and obstructions around it, and the fabric inside the sphere would take on any necessary shape to match.

Now when the doppelganger puts a foot down on a stair step, the fabric inside the sphere would actually come up under the real tiger's foot to simulate the stair step to catch his foot. When he brought the next foot up, the incredible strength of the nano-musculature in the smart fabric had no problem holding his weight on the simulated step while he brought the other foot forward to step on the next one up. If the cat stood still on that step the sphere would lock its position and wait for him to begin to move again. If the cat continued up the steps the sphere would turn as normal and the step the cat was standing on would move down while he brought his other foot up, like it was a stationary stair climbing machine. The fabric inside the sphere would then morph under the advancing foot to bring up the next step as the doppelganger brought its foot down onto the next step on the Earth side. It worked perfectly, even on very long flights of stairs and it made the world on the Earth side even more accessible to the cat.

The smart fabric lining in the sphere turned out to be the solution to the problems they encountered even within Jake's house when the tiger's doppelganger moved around in it. Hunter had no problem walking all throughout the house while in the sphere. He could reach out and grab door handles and the musculature of the suit would lock so that it felt like he was gripping the handle, so he could actually turn it and pull the door open and continue on into the next room. The problem came when he tried to do a very simple thing like sit down at the chair in front of Jake's computer in the hobby room. The doppelganger would get in front of the chair and then sit in it, then the musculature on the tiger's end would lock up and he would feel the chair under his butt, but it wasn't really there, so his own weight would cause him to fall on his ass in the sphere since there was nothing there to hold him up. The smart fabric lining in the sphere solved that issue. As the sensors in the doppelganger suit on Earth detected the chair coming into range, the smart fabric in the sphere on Mars would then reconfigure and reach up to produce the same seat for Hunter's butt and he would be held up correctly by the powerful nano-muscles of the fabric.

Jake could hardly imagine the level of sophistication it would take to program a system that could reconfigure billions of nano-muscle fibers to alter their shape fluidly inside the sphere to emulate all of the solid objects in the immediate environment surrounding the tiger's doppelganger double here on Earth. Hunter said he could hardly imagine it himself, but the way their more sophisticated computer systems worked, he didn't have to solve that problem himself. He simply presented his computers with the problem and they programmed themselves to solve it.

Jake thought it must look pretty amazing on the tiger's side. He would be in a black suit that was perfectly molded to every detail of his body, standing inside a very large sphere that was all black inside, that would turn under his feet to allow him to walk forward, but as he approached a table in Jake's house, the same table would suddenly rise up out of the fabric inside the sphere to present a solid obstacle for the real tiger to bump into just as his double on Earth was bumping into it. It was simply amazing.

Hunter's doppelganger could now go up and down stairs in Jake's house, sit on any of the furniture, open and close doors and cabinets, and pick up and manipulate any object in the house. When they were in this mode it was like they were a couple living together.

Obviously, Hunter had to turn off the suit when he needed to go and relieve himself or even when he needed to eat, but if he had nothing else to do he would often get inside the sphere, activate the suit, and simply hang out with Jake at his house.

Jake would not be wearing the suit on his side most of the time, except when they wanted to go into full interaction mode for sex. His eyes always had the display lenses in them though, so now most of the time he would keep his vision locked to the scene in his own world, and the computers on the tiger's side would dutifully overlay the texture of the beautiful, furry, naked tiger over the otherwise scary looking black doppelganger that was wandering Jake's house. To him it was now as though he really truly did have a seven foot tall, muscular, naked, furry tiger living in his house with him.

Of course Hunter couldn't spend all of his time in the sphere, so they generally only did that type of interaction when they wanted to relax and do normal things around the house that were well suited to that mode of interaction. Hunter would sometimes join Jake on the couch and the two of them would watch the big screen TV together.

Jake thought it was awesome to see the tiger forget his troubles and put his big feet up on the coffee table and lean back into the couch and relax while doing something millions of Americans do every single day.

The cat was absolutely fascinated by this window into the human culture and he loved to explore the Netflix library along with other streaming services Jake subscribed to. He gravitated towards certain things he liked most over time and his favorite things to watch turned out to be old science fiction movies like the original versions of 'War of the Worlds' and 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'.

He also seemed to absolutely love martial arts movies. He especially liked any of the wuxia style martial hero films he could find like 'House of Flying Daggers' and 'Curse of the Golden Flower'. The cat would get transported to another world and he became rapt as he watched the wonderful stories unfold. Jake's heart melted a little more for the incredibly sweet tiger as he watched the big, muscular cat surreptitiously brushing a few tears from his eyes when Master Li Mu Bai was dying in the arms of his beloved Yu Shu Lien even as they were finally admitting their deep, long abiding, and unrequited love for each other only when it was too late to do anything about it in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. The cat had known what it was like to yearn for something that seemed always out of reach, and that scene dredged those feelings up for him.

The big cat's interest in music was strong, too, so he also liked to watch any concerts and music documentaries that he found on any of the streaming services or on cable TV. Often, while Jake was at work, Hunter would light up one of his pipes full of space weed, which was what Jake came to call it after the tiger told him the name in their language had no direct translation. The tiger would take a few drags on the pipe, then settle in on Jake's couch in the doppelganger suit to watch one of Jake's many concert blu-rays with the sound system cranked.

The two of them also enjoyed playing video games together a great deal. They still both loved to play Rock Band in the hobby room, but thanks to the big cat's doppelganger there were other options available now too. Jake also had a PS4 connected to his big screen TV in the living room and with Hunter in the suit inside the sphere, and his doppelganger sitting right next to Jake on the couch and able to manipulate the game controller just fine, with the tiger feeling like it was right there in his hands, they could play certain games together. They loved playing games that had a local multiplayer mode. Rocket League became their favorite by far, but the tiger also fell in love with exploring user made local co-op levels in the cute and quirky LittleBigPlanet 3.

The more Jake discovered about the tiger's tastes and the more he got to know him as a person and the more fun they had together, the more head over heels he fell for the big cat. The tiger was becoming more and more 'human' to Jake, and their tastes and sensibilities and even their senses of humor seemed to mesh so well. Hunter was the absolute best lover Jake could have ever hoped to find, and it had only taken the death of an entire planetary system and a one hundred and sixty year voyage across empty space, followed by the cat happening upon a dying robot on Mars, for the two of them to finally come together.

In the weeks that followed that initial introduction of the doppelganger suits, they had fallen into a comfortable pattern of living together. It felt so good to simply be a couple in love and enjoying each other's company almost all of the time, that the rest of the world and the weight of the cat's responsibilities nearly fell away completely. They were in a state of near bliss, but they both knew it would only be a short break before reality impinged itself upon them again.

The tiger had an issue the same day they'd started using the suits that he needed to attend to briefly. He'd lost connection to one of the incoming ships that was loaded with the aerosol bacteria that would speed up the processing of the Martian atmosphere by working its way down from the top levels. He could afford to lose several of them so he wasn't too concerned, but he couldn't determine the cause for the loss of the ship. In the end he'd assumed it had actually collided with human space junk on its near pass to the Earth and must have been destroyed.

There were hundreds of the ships loaded with bacteria, and due to the timing they were actually passing close to Earth on their way to Mars. They didn't quite get close enough to be a danger to any of the humans' satellites, but they were close enough that they might have encountered ejected junk from the launch of one of those satellites during their close flyby, or possibly junk from one of the past missions that carried science instruments out to the Lagrangian points, or to Mars itself. In any case, the rest of the containers were still intact three weeks later as they continued to decelerate on their way to Mars, so the cat was not concerned. He would have to deal with their arrival in another few weeks, so his long vacation that he'd been enjoying with Jake would be interrupted, at least for a while.

Jake, too, had found out that there would be an interruption of their routine at his end before too much longer. The rains had begun to fall in earnest as the Martian atmosphere continued to thicken and warm, and it had begun to create clearer patches through the dusty atmosphere here and there around the planet that were being detected by satellites in orbit around Mars, like the Indian Mangalyaan satellite. The patches wouldn't last long at first and were more like the eye at the center of some of the violent storms that were occurring while the planet's temperature sought its final balance. The alien response team felt it was only a matter of weeks before they might be able to get a solid link to Curiosity again, and the site at Cheyenne Mountain was now ready for them, so they intended to relocate Jake to Colorado Springs within the next couple of weeks so he'd be in position and ready to work in the bunker when the link finally came back up.

The two lovers knew their happy honeymoon would soon be interrupted, but they weren't terribly concerned. They would still be in each other's heads, in a sense, through the small picture box mode that kept them in touch via the small white drones, or even through each other's eyes if they wished. All they were really doing was killing time anyhow until the ships with the animals in stasis would pass near the Earth in another few months and Jake could climb aboard one and use it to get to Mars to join Hunter for real.

The cat did not relish the idea of losing access to all of the stuff he'd come to enjoy at Jake's house, like the computer and the PS4 and the big screen TV, when the move to Colorado would happen. Jake suggested he simply create an additional doppelganger if he could, and send it across. The cat liked that idea and delivered one just a few days after hearing the suggestion, along with an extra of the white drones. Jake could leave one of the doppelganger suits here at his house, and take the other one along with the drone with him in his suitcase so that the two of them could still interact in various ways, including sexually, while he was living in a motel in Colorado Springs. Hunter could still occasionally inhabit the doppelganger at Jake's house while Jake was at work in the bunker. Jake had started to prepare a 'go bag' in case the link came up and they rushed him off to Colorado before he was ready. He didn't want to risk forgetting and leaving those items behind so he put the extra doppelganger and the white drone in the bag along with some clothes and things he'd need to have at a minimum.

With one of the doppelganger suits left behind at Jake's house for Hunter to inhabit, the cat would still be able to enjoy the games and TV and music while Jake was living in Colorado, and Jake would have a free house sitter. The idea was that during those times the white drone in Jake's house could follow the doppelganger around, and Jake could watch its feed through his display lenses so he would feel like he was back at home with the cat. It would even be a bit more of a mind-bender than usual since the two of them might be watching a movie together at Jake's house on the big screen TV, but in reality the tiger would be on Mars in a black sphere watching through the eyes of his doppelganger, and Jake would be in his motel room in Colorado watching through the eyes of the tiny white drone floating next to the tiger's black ghost.

He chuckled to himself as he imagined how strange that would look if someone walked into his house and saw a scary black tiger-shaped demon and a little white drone sitting at the couch and watching a martial arts movie together while chatting. It would even be funnier to see their reaction if, once caught, the black tiger would collapse into a small bundle of black silk and the drone would flit off to hide under a bed somewhere.

Things were still going swimmingly after a few weeks and they went out for a late evening run as they often did. They followed one of the running trails that dipped down into a small canyon. High above them was a busy highway that bridged the canyon on its way north and west along the base of the mountain range. They could hear the sounds of heavy traffic above them as they passed underneath and continue along the canyon. Their run was uneventful as they came up out the other side, did a large loop along another trail that connected to the one they were on, then around and back into the same canyon on their way home.

As they approached the point where they would pass underneath the bridge again, unbeknownst to them, a large semi trailer lost one of its wheels on the highway and it was bouncing along at over sixty miles an hour into oncoming traffic on the other side. They heard a loud bang followed by a sudden cacophony of screeching tires and car horns, then metal crunching on metal as a multi-vehicle pile-up ensued.

They both stopped in alarm and looked up. The ruckus didn't last terribly long before it finally settled down, but soon they began to hear the sounds of people screaming in pain and crying out for help. There had to be multiple vehicles flipped and crunched together up there and it was all along the bridge where it would be difficult for emergency vehicles to get to the people who needed help.

Jake and the doppelganger reacted instinctively by clambering up the slope near the base of one side of the bridge. It was a long climb and took a great deal of effort as Jake grabbed onto brush and trees to pull himself upward. He wasn't sure if he'd make it to the top in time to help anyone, but he felt he had to try.

They looked up and back as they climbed and they could see the flicker of fires breaking out among the wrecked vehicles. People might be trapped inside them and would need help getting out, but nobody would be able to get to them for a while.

They heard a small explosion and a great many screams come from further along the bridge out over the canyon and they looked back in that direction. There was a large tour bus that had broken through the guard rail on the side of the bridge and was hanging precariously out over the canyon. It looked like it was still properly supported and would not fall, but the wreckage that had collided near the back of the bus had burst into flames and was blocking any way out for the people trapped in the bus. The bus was on its side and a couple of people had crawled out one of the emergency exit windows and was standing on top of the bus, but even they had nowhere to go. The road around the back of the bus was in flames so they couldn't go that way, and every other direction would lead to a fall into the canyon and certain death. The flames were licking at the back of the bus and there was a danger that they might ignite its fuel tank. The people on top were screaming for help. It had to be terrifying for those still inside who were likely looking out the other set of windows straight down towards a long drop into the canyon.

"We must help them!" Hunter shouted, "They are trapped! Those poor people! They will die!"

Jake was already nearly completely winded and his legs were like mush from the long run before even trying to climb the steep hill leading up to the road. They still had a long way to go to get up the side of the hill and onto the highway, but he didn't see what he could do even if he could get up there. He would die in the flames trying to get to those people just as the people themselves would die if they tried to jump from the bus down into the flames that were surrounding it.

"I can't possibly get to them," Jake said, "I don't know if I can even make it up to the highway fast enough to do anything to help. My muscles are nearly drained from the long run as it is."

"I can do it myself, Jake. I can switch the suit into its strength amplification mode. It would not take me long to reach them. The nano-machine fibers should be able to survive the heat if I pass through the flames quickly. I can help those people, but I will be seen."

Jake became alarmed and said, "You can't be seen! Can you imagine what would happen?"

The tiger said, "I do not care! I cannot let them die! I must go to them!"

Jake thought quickly to try to find some other solution, but realized they had no choice. They couldn't leave those people trapped on the bus to burn to death if its fuel tank ignited. The suit was just an empty shell so even if it was destroyed, Hunter was in fact perfectly safe back on Mars so he couldn't be hurt. He would be seen, but that couldn't be helped.

Jake nodded and said, "Go. We can't let them die. You might be able to save them."

The cat said, "One moment while I make the change."

There was a slight pause while the cat switched modes on the suit, but Jake saw nothing change on his side. The cat was still just a really muscular looking black doppelganger in a track suit.

Hunter then said, "It's done. The suit is amplifying my own movements now and it might be dangerous, so I need you to stay back here and stay safe. Climbing the hill will be effortless for me now. I will go up and do what I can."

The big cat turned and began to clamber up the side of the hill at amazing speed, but he seemed to become annoyed by the restrictive track clothes he was wearing. He stopped and quickly reached down and, with his new found strength, he tore the clothes right from his body without hesitation and then began to run up the hill again.

To Jake, it had looked as though a black cat shaped version of the hulk was tearing off his clothes in anger. Now the admittedly pathetic camouflage they'd put on the doppelganger was gone, and the people up on the bridge would be seeing the creepy black cat-shaped demon full on, complete with a swishing tail. He wished the tiger had kept the clothes on to at least fool a few people if they saw him, but he realized a frightening, hulking black beast wouldn't really be all that much more shocking or news worthy than a hulking black beast in a track suit. It wouldn't make much difference.

Jake continued to follow up the hill at the best pace he could manage. There had to be a lot of people up there in that mess who needed help, and he couldn't just stay back and not pitch in.

As he was nearing the top he heard Hunter's voice in his head. The cat had switched the audio to the drivers in Jake's ears, and suddenly he saw the small picture box come up to the left of his vision and he could see that it was displaying what the doppelganger was seeing.

"Jake, there is a large container of some sort near the back of that vehicle with the people trapped in it. The flames are encroaching on that container. Is it dangerous?"

Jake looked at the picture and he saw what looked like a large tank from a tanker truck that was on its side. He could see a small amount of liquid leaking from a puncture at one end, but so far it had not ignited. He could see the bright red 'flammable' warning sticker on the back of the tank, though, so he knew it was volatile, whatever it was.

"Yes, if the flames get to it it could blow. It might burn everything in a wide area around it. It might even knock that bus the rest of the way off the bridge. You have to deal with that tank first or those people might not have a chance."

"I will remove it," the cat said.

"Check the other end first. If it's still attached to the truck that was hauling it the driver might still be inside and he might need help."

"I will," the cat said.

Jake continued to make his way slowly up the side of the hill. He was getting close to the top and he would be able to jump the guard rail onto the highway, but for now he could only watch through the small window in his field of vision that was showing what the cat's suit was seeing.

He saw hunter was approaching the back of the big tank. He looked to the side towards the large tour bus, and there were flames everywhere. He looked down and could see a puddle of the leaking liquid from the tank that was growing and making its way towards the flaming wreckage. He needed to act fast. He ran past the tank to the other end and found the cab of the truck. The front windshield had smashed completely and there was a large tire embedded in the passenger side. It looked as though this was the start of the whole chain reaction. The loose wheel had hit this truck dead on and it was likely the driver's attempt to avoid that collision that had caused it to flip on its side and skid out of control.

The driver was still inside, but he was unconscious. The cat quickly climbed into the cab of the truck. The man was pinned by the steering wheel, but the black demon cat simply grabbed the shaft of the steering wheel while putting his big feet at the bottom of the truck and he pulled hard and the shaft bent like it was made of putty. He grabbed the driver and climbed back out of the cab and ran over to a clear section of the road and carefully set the man down, then he ran back to the tank.

"I have never quite tested the limits of these nano-muscles, but now is as good a time as any. Can you see anyone down in the canyon on the trail?"

Jake looked down under the bridge to the bottom of the canyon, but could see nobody along the lighted trail.

"No, it's clear."

The cat approached the end of the tank that was closest to the edge. He bent down and grabbed the edge of it, then he lifted with all of his might. It came up quite easily and he began to maneuver it around so that he could lower it down onto the guard rail on the side of the bridge. He then ran around to the other end and leaned against the massive tank and began to push.

Jake was hearing through the doppelganger suit's pickups and he could hear someone shouting "What the fuck is that?! Some black thing is out there!"

He got up to the side of the road and looked back along the bridge and could see two men standing on the bus pointing towards Hunter's doppelganger. The men watched as the muscular black demon lifted while pushing the huge tank further out over the edge. Hunter must have switched the audio back so it was coming from the doppelganger's mouth again because the scary black cat then turned to face the men on the bus and yelled "Get down! There will be an explosion in the canyon! Cover your ears and brace yourselves!"

The cat then really put his back into it and heaved and pushed and began to actually run forward as there was a loud screeching of metal and the tank slid out and over the edge with such force that it followed a long arc down and away from the bridge as it fell all the way into the center of the canyon.

Jake quickly covered his own ears just as there was a muffled boom followed by a roar and brief blast of hot wind that came up from the canyon as it was lit up brightly from the hot fireball before it began to dim again. The ground shook and Jake was worried about the bus going over the edge, but it still looked stable.

"Help us!" one of the men on the bus yelled to the black entity, "There's at least twenty people inside the bus!"

The flames from the wreckage of the vehicles that had slammed into the bus and pushed it out over the edge were getting higher. The black shape that was Hunter's double raced towards the mess and ran right into the flames. In a moment one of the flaming wrecks went flying into the air and followed the same course the fuel tank had done into the floor of the valley. The cat hadn't taken the time to check if anyone was inside, but there was no point. If anyone was in there, they had been burning for some time and were most certainly dead. There was a loud crash as the first wreck hit the ground below even as the second wrecked vehicle flew into the air in a large arc to follow the first one into the canyon.

Only the large black cat was left standing there in the middle of the low flames that still burned from the fuel that had spilled from the wrecks. The flames would peter out eventually as they consumed all of the fuel, but it was still too dangerous for the people to jump down from the bus to the road and the tiger wasn't certain if the bus itself would erupt into flames if left in the middle of it.

The black cat shape looked up at the men who were standing on the side of the bus and said, "Get back inside the vehicle. Warn everyone in there to hold on tightly to something and keep their feet up and away from the windows at the bottom. I will pull the vehicle to a safe location. You can get out then."

The men nodded and climbed back into the bus to warn the other passengers.

The cat then grabbed onto the back of the bus and heaved. There was a loud groan from the stress on the bus's frame and then a loud screech of metal on asphalt as the muscular doppelganger began to pull the large vehicle back onto the bridge. He held the end he was pulling on up and out of the flames as much as he could while he maneuvered the bus away from the edge. He turned and began to pull it away from the flames into a relatively clear area on the bridge. The power of the suit was amazing as the cat just kept going as though there was hardly any effort involved on his part, and he pulled the bus all the way until it was well away from the danger and sitting in the middle of a clear area.

When he had it safely away from all of the other wreckage he gently set it down and then he banged on the bus and said, "You may safely emerge now! Please be careful and do it slowly and in an orderly fashion! Anyone who causes injury to anyone else will answer to me! If you are fit, help those who are not!"

The cat then dashed back down the road to where there were several other wrecked cars that had got caught up in the worst of the tangle. Other people who had managed to brake in time to avoid joining the pile-up and had simply smashed into each other's bumpers had got out and were standing well back, but a few who'd been watching the whole thing were inspired by the strange black creature to try to help and they began to run towards the mess too.

The large black cat reached one of the vehicles and used the suit's strength to pry the buckled door off of a van. He helped a couple of people out of it, then he turned and dashed further into the mess to see if he could help anyone else.

Jake began to run towards the pile-up to see if he could lend a hand, but Hunter said in his ear, "I can see through your eyes, Jake. I know you are anxious to lend a hand but you must please stay back. You cannot be seen here. Some of these people might have a recording device. It cannot be helped that I have been seen, but if word gets back to your government that a black, cat-shaped creature with unusual strength was on the scene, they may make the connection back to the tiger you saw in your first images from your robot. They may guess that there is alien involvement here. If you are caught in one of those recordings too, they might draw a line that connects the two of us, and you will be in trouble. There are only a few left who need help. I nearly have them all. There is nothing you can do to speed the process. I hear the sirens of your support vehicles on their way. They will be able to help the rest of these people."

Jake immediately stopped and turned around and ran back to the edge of the road while he said, "Good thinking. I'd be in it deep if they found out what we've been up to."

"Come just under the bridge to the other side of the road and I will meet you there. I wish to help the last few who might need it first."

Jake went slightly back down the slope and made his way along it just under the road. He looked way down into the canyon and there was still a conflagration burning down there. If that huge tank had blown while it was still on the bridge, everyone on it would have died for sure. His cat was a hero!

Jake watched the feed coming from the cat's suit as the doppelganger went about checking the rest of the wreckage on the bridge for survivors. Several were badly injured and bleeding and he carried them to a group of other people and asked them to assist.

There was another car that had low flames licking at it and after he'd carried the injured person who'd been in it to safety, he went back and tossed the wreck into the canyon to join the others so he wouldn't have to worry about its fuel tank bursting into flames and exploding.

A couple of times someone called loudly for help and the cat turned to face them and they waved him over so that he could pry apart wreckage to help extricate someone who was trapped. The people looked at him in awe and they couldn't believe what they were seeing, but to their credit they all stuck to the job of moving among the wreckage to help anyone else they could, while calling for the black creature's assistance where it was needed.

Before long the emergency vehicles were close to arriving and Hunter thought he'd gotten everyone who was still trapped. Several people had gathered near him as he stood and took one last look around, and they all began to cheer the strange black apparition that had saved so many lives.

The cat turned towards them and raised one muscular arm in the air with his big paw out to quiet them, and he shouted, "I have risked much to help you. You can help me in return by saying nothing of what you've seen. I will be in great danger if you reveal me to the rest of your people. Please help me by staying quiet about this. You all helped each other, that was all that happened here."

He then quickly turned and ran to the edge of the road and jumped over the side into the darkness. He asked Jake to stay where he was, and he made his way there to meet him.

"It is too dangerous for me to try to make my way back to your home out in the open like this. I no longer have the camouflage of the clothes. It's best if you simply carry the suit back.

Jake nodded and in just a moment the big, black, muscular tiger shape simply collapsed into a small pile of black silk, which Jake picked up and rolled up into a small bundle as he followed the edge of the canyon back towards the end where he could get back on the trail.

Jake was vibrating from the excitement of the events. The cat was still in his head via the audio drivers in Jake's ears, and the picture box to the left of his vision center now showed the feed from the white drone back in Hunter's base. The tiger was still dressed in his black suit, but he was making his way through his base back to his bedroom.

Jake couldn't contain himself as he connected back onto the trail and began to trot along it towards home. "You were so amazing!" he exclaimed, "A real live hero! You're not just a regular old space cat from outer space, your a super one! We have a lot of make believe super heroes in our culture, but you were the real deal! You courageously ran right into the flames and used your super strength to save all of those people! Super Space Cat to the rescue! It was incredible!"

The tiger chuckled and said, "It was like a very realistic video game to me in terms of the danger to my person. The suit would never transmit any dangerous sensations back here to me, so I could not feel the flames licking at me at all. If the weight of that tank had been too much and crushed the suit I most certainly wouldn't feel that either. In that sense there was nothing heroic about it. I took no personal risk, other than the risk of being seen and revealing myself to your government. I don't think they will be happy to find that the aliens have a presence here on Earth already if they learn of it. It was unavoidable though. Those people were in great danger."

"You saved them, Hunter. There's no doubt. They were stuck on that bus. The flames were growing from the fuel spilling out of those wrecks and they would have reached that big tanker. The explosion would have absolutely wiped out everyone still left alive on that bridge, not just the ones trapped in the bus, but the ones tangled up in all that other wreckage too. That was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life! I'll never forget it!"

"Unfortunately, those people are unlikely to forget it as well. Hopefully they will respect my wishes and keep quiet about what they saw," Hunter said.

"I think they'll have a hard time keeping that a secret. You looked so awesome. A big, sexy black beast running around tossing wrecks into the canyon like they were nothing! I feel so incredibly turned on by you right now. I wonder if you would mind if I made love to that heroic black cat just this once, with the texturing trick turned off? I want to get on my hands and knees and be taken by the hero of Haines Canyon. I want that amazing black cat to use his real super weapon on me. I want you so bad right now, I can't wait until I get home!"

The cat said in a husky voice, "I can hear the ardor in your voice and it's making my own blood boil with desire for you. I cannot wait either, so why should we? We've taken so many chances, why not one more? Go off the trail and find a secluded spot. Put the suit down, and I will take you right where you are."

Jake grinned. He'd always been a bit of a risk taker. It kept life interesting at times. Why not make love to his hero right here and now?

He turned off the trail and away from the lighted area. He moved back through the trees until he found a fairly clear area, sheltered from view from the trail, but still close enough to get a bit of light from it, as well as the light from the moon that was rising into the clear sky.

He placed the suit down on the ground and stood back. His cock was already beginning to swell as he saw the suit rise up while morphing into the form of the muscular black cat that had saved the day.

The big cat settled into his final shape and Jake walked up and dropped to his knees before him and began to worship his cock as he so loved to do.

It seemed so odd to be intimately kissing and caressing the massive cock and testicles of a jet black demon creature. With no suit fused to his own skin, Jake could not feel the cat's fur nor the heat of his body. It was an odd sensation. Almost like he was about to make love to a living, animated blow up sex doll.

"Get on your hands and knees, Jake," the big cat said gruffly, "I am full of desire and will not last. I must take you now."

Jake grinned and turned and pulled his shorts and underwear down and dropped to his hands and knees and the big black cat got behind him.

Hunter leaned in and kissed Jake's warm pucker, then he extended his long black tongue and began to work Jake's hole to begin to loosen him up. Jake used to need to warm himself up with the butt plugs, but he and hunter had been spending so much time doing these activities over the past few weeks that he was now practiced enough to take the cat's big tool without them. The cat knew all he needed to do now was work his man's hole enough to relax it and get it ready. The big cat drove his tongue as deep as it would go into Jake's rectum and the man moaned at the amazing sensation of the suit sliding along his anus as he squeezed the tongue with his sphincter.

The cat's ardor continued to build as he tongued his lover's warm tunnel. Finally he pulled his tongue out and carefully inserted one of the fat fingers on his right paw. He worked it in and out while Jake moaned his pleasure at the sensation, then Jake groaned as the big cat forced a second finger in. Fire began to build in the ring of muscle at Jake's hole as the cat forced his two fingers further and further in. When the cat had them fully inserted he held the position and waited until he could feel Jake begin to relax and breathe normally again. The cat then worked the two fingers in and out for while to get Jake used to the added girth.

Finally he pulled them out and then inserted the tips of three fingers at once and slowly and inexorably pushed them further and further up his man's backside. Jake took a deep breath and began to tense up as the fire began to build again, so Hunter stopped and held the position. As soon as Jake began to exhale, the tiger pushed the fingers in a bit further and held again. In time he had the three fingers almost fully inserted and he knew Jake was ready.

"You must wet me so that I do not do any damage to you," the muscular black shape said to Jake.

Jake quickly turned and began to lick at the thick tool that was about to invade his rectum. The cat moaned as Jake worked his large penis with his tongue. The second skin had the interesting property of becoming very slick when it got wet, so it actually wouldn't take much to get it ready. Jake knew the tiger was anxious to proceed so he spat on the large head of the cat's impressive penis several times and spread it around. He then spat on his fingers and reached back and wet his anus as much as he could, then he got back on his hands and knees and looked back at the muscular black apparition and said, "Fuck me, you incredible hero!"

The cat got up on his knees and moved into position with his large cock head pushed hard against Jake's anus. Jake took a deep breath, then began to slowly let it out as the big tiger forced himself forward and Jake's sphincter began to spread to accept the invader from outer space. There was a flash of fire yet again as the widest part of the head forced his hole to stretch to its limits, but as it passed through. Jake's anus closed down onto the thick shaft and the pain passed, to be replaced by the pleasure of all of the sensitive nerve ending firing at once as the muscular black cat slowly pushed the length of his amazing tool up into Jake.

Jake had never felt more full in his life than he did when Hunter took him in the ass. It was an amazing sensation to have that incredible organ forced all the way into him, then pulled almost all the way back out. His head began to spin as the tiger grunted with every thrust as he began to build up a rhythm.

Jake was so turned on at being taken by the big black cat that he could already feel the tickling at the base of his balls start to build rapidly. He felt his nuts begin to tighten up as his orgasm came closer and closer even without him touching himself. He couldn't resist reaching up with his right hand and grabbing his throbbing cock and beginning to jack it hard as the first powerful wave of electricity exploded out from his loins. He moaned and grunted as he felt the surge of semen rush up his thick cock and shoot out onto the grass beneath him. Again and again his body was pummeled with waves of electricity shooting through him as he moaned and worked his cock hard while feeling the huge log being shoved up inside of him and pulled out over and over again from behind.

The cat could feel Jake's tight sphincter begin to clench in pulses and he knew he'd pleasured Jake so well that his lover had already reached his release, and the thought of how much Jake loved to have him take him made Hunter's own orgasm begin to rapidly build up. He grabbed his man by the waist and began to slam himself into him harder and hard as he grunted louder and then suddenly his massive balls tightened up as his orgasm crashed into him and he roared as he pulled Jake into him and tensed and shot the first thick volley of cum into him. He moaned at the pleasurable sensation of all of that seed gushing out of him, then grunted again as he pushed Jake away, then pulled him back in again to slam his body against him once more.

Jake continued to moan as the last of his big load of semen continued to drip out onto the grass while Hunter shot everything he'd been building in his massive nuts right into Jake's rectum. The cat was going to have another large mess to clean out inside his suit, as he so often did.

At last the tiger began to slow down. The cat's orgasm began to fade as he pushed himself one last time fully into his man and held the position for a while as the last of the pulses of his pelvic muscle pumped every last drop of his semen out.

Finally the big cat slowly pulled all the way back, and his spent organ slid smoothly out of the Jake's snug hole.

Jake immediately got up and turned and got up on his knees and hugged the black apparition hard and said, "Thank you so much! That was amazing!"

The black tiger suit chuckled and said, "More so for me. I do get carried away by my desire for you. I hope I didn't hurt you. I know I am large and I didn't give you much chance to prepare this time."

"You didn't hurt me. I've grown accustomed to it with practice. You don't need to worry about being careful with me anymore. We should probably get going though. We don't want to risk anyone catching us like this."

The black cat shape nodded and suddenly collapsed into a pile of cloth again.

Jake chuckled and said, "I don't care how many times I see that, it's always gonna look totally cool, as is the fact that I'm being fucked up the ass long distance by someone who's actually on Mars."

The tiger chuckled in his head now and said, "Go ahead and hurry back home. I'm feeling very sleepy and content from that wonderful release and I look forward to curling up with you in bed."

Jake pulled his shorts and underwear back up and picked up the black suit and bundled it up again, then went back to the trail and jogged the rest of the way to his house.

He was really feeling the glow from the serious workout when he finally got home. It had been an exciting night topped with a fantastic release of his powerful need for his lover, and he was looking forward to crawling into bed with him now for a nice long sleep, now that they were both so thoroughly spent.

He entered his code into the electronic lock at the back door and went into the house, looking forward to a hot shower and then the bed.

As soon as he opened the door he realized the phone was ringing. He quickly ran to pick it up.

"Hello?"

"Mr. Smith, you were asked to carry your cell phone with you at all times. I've been trying to reach you for over half an hour now."

It was the team lead from the government's alien response team.

"I went out for a run," Jake explained, "I forgot to take it with me. What is it? Why did you need to reach me?"

"There's been an unusual sighting."

Jake's heart instantly began to hammer in his chest as he thought back to the scene of Hunter's doppelganger running around among the crowd of gawking people. All he said was, "Oh?"

"Yes, more than one person described a large, black, muscular, tiger-shaped being with inhuman strength at the scene of an accident that occurred earlier tonight. We're hoping someone has caught it all on video, but nobody has come forward yet. There are several who've given detailed descriptions though. The being they describe sounds a little too coincidentally like a tiger, like the one you photographed with the Curiosity rover's camera. They said it was unmistakable and had a tail, claws, fangs, and a tiger shaped head. They said it walked upright and was very powerfully muscled. They also said it spoke clearly in English to them. Those aliens may be even more advanced than we thought they were. They've somehow learned our language already. We believe there is an immediate threat."

"What? Why a threat? Did the alien hurt anyone?" Jake certainly knew the answer to that, but he waited to hear what the man was going to say about it.

"No, he didn't, but we worry about what he might have been doing in that location at the time the accident occurred. The sighting was not very far from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A team there has been busy with a project involving several rockets carrying weapons designed to protect us from the threat that the aliens present. We have reason to believe they may have tracked where the radio communications controlling those rockets was originating from. There may be an immediate threat to the installation. As a result, we're moving the entire operation immediately, before the aliens can act. We're gathering the teams together and heading for the bunker now. We're going into full lock down so we'll be living inside and you'll only have a cot and a foot locker. Bring only the minimum of clothes you'll need. A car is on the way to pick you up. It will be arriving within minutes. I expect you to be ready."

The line went dead and Jake groaned. Those ingrates at the bridge couldn't keep their mouths shut for even one minute. The tiger saved their lives and asked for one simple thing in return, but some of them apparently couldn't resist telling the whole story in full detail to the first person who'd listen.

"This is not good," he said to the cat who was still listening through Jake's pickups in his ears and would have heard the whole phone call.

"No, it is not, but it was unavoidable. We could not leave those people to die."

The front doorbell rang, so Jake went to collect his go bag and then went to answer it.

As he made his way to the front door he asked, "How much longer until the air over there clears, Hunter? We really need to initiate that first contact they've been waiting for and start the process of calming them down."

"It won't be long now, my love. The rains have been falling harder. Do not worry. If necessary I can switch the amplifier from the backup circuit on your robot to the main one and force the issue right away."

Jake reached the front door and he said, "I think that might be a good idea. We need to somehow try to start the process of diplomacy as best we can, as quickly as we can. I thought we'd have a lot more time to talk about it and prepare, but this heightened state they're suddenly in could get ugly fast, and there's no time to lose now. They think you're onto whatever fucked up plan they've been working on and that might be the trigger for them to actually launch it against you. We'll have to do the best we can to try to settle their nerves and we have to do it in a hurry."

"Go ahead and open the door then, my love. The sooner you get into position at your new location, the sooner we can begin."

Jake sighed as he reached for the door and opened it to see an air force man waiting to escort him to the airport.

It looked like Jake was actually going to be living inside a mountain after all, starting immediately, or at least, in the few hours it would take to get there.

Their wonderful honeymoon had come to a rather abrupt end.