Desert Meeting

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Aurora Episode 26

Desert Meeting

(Last Revision: 27-Apr-96)

by Sharon Best

(This chapter is a bit of a 'flashback', picking up where Chapter 22 left off. It describes the events that occurred as Chris and Bo raced to Nevada, their initial plan being that of helping with the rescue effort. While they never do contribute that way, they do encounter a group of violent Kintzi, a race of cat-like creatures who are in the employ of the Arions, the super powers of the Kintzi proving to almost be more than Bo and a Terran Black-Ops military team together can handle.

After the battle, Bo goes to work for a Terran-led alien defense team while Chris begins to consult with them. This all occurs, of course, before he gets involved with Sh’Lyra and helps rescue Aurora and Monique as described previously in Chapters 22 - 25.)

The High Desert, east of LA (3-Apr-96)

They left the windows open as Bo drove the Cadillac at full speed up the I-15, the car never below 120 mph except on some hills. The warm desert wind whipped their hair wildly as Chris turned to admire the blonde highlights in Bo’s long light brown hair, highlights that danced in the bright sunlight whenever he was able to open his eyes. He was very grateful that his face and chest were starting to hurt less now as he rapidly healed: his enhanced physiology kicked in to do more than just protect him in the first place, his healing rate was now bumped to a hundred times that of a Terran.

He looked across the seat at Bo to notice that the red bruises had now left her face completely. But what really caught his eye was what the wind was doing to her short denim skirt, constantly teasing it up to reveal nearly all of her thighs. He was startled to realize that Bo looked a lot younger than she had the last time he had seen her on a TV special. In fact, her legs looked exactly like those of a very fit woman in her early twenties. Her slim but strong legs looked like someone who was REALLY into rollerblading, the distinctive ways that blading shapes a woman’s legs being pretty hard to miss.

Chris shook his head, realizing he had been hanging around the fitness models that worked for Fairchild too long - he was comparing the shape and condition of every woman he met against those gorgeous models, and those models worked out many hours every day to stay in that kind of condition. Few women could hold a candle to them, but Bo easily could, despite her known age.

He realized he shouldn’t be surprised, he himself had been growing a bit of a gut and more than his share of gray hair before Fairchild had given him that mutagenic drug, and before she had so eagerly reinforced it during their initial shared intimacies. He now looked a lot like he had when he was 25, except that his body was tighter and leaner, and looked a bit like a professional dancer, although more heavily muscled. If he could drop twenty years off his looks, than perhaps Bo had as well.

His thoughts continued to drift as his eyes ranged between the blurred terrain rushing by and the uplifting view of Bo’s strong gorgeous legs. He was continually astounded at the genetic technology that the Velorians and Arions seemed to have at their disposal, that ‘technology’ so easily ‘exported’ via their bodily fluids during intimate arousal! In a way it was clear why their ‘makers’ had done that, allowing their potential partners to survive the enthusiasm of their strong bodies. But given what he knew of Velorian reproductive behavior, sexual intercourse was simply a recreational function, all new life being created in their massive genetic labs. The only conclusion he could come to was that the ‘Gods’ that had created these races had themselves enjoyed sexual activities, or had at least wanted their creations to enjoy something that could only be called ‘supersex’! Maybe the ‘Gods’ themselves had wanted more powerful playmates, and perhaps this explained why the Velorians were not only invulnerable and super strong, but were all so perfectly beautiful. Maybe the ‘Gods’ desired - maybe even needed? - such characteristics in their offspring!

He shook his head. Whatever the cosmic reason, he was certainly fortunate to have become involved with these superwomen. Not only was he physically as strong as twenty men now and very difficult to injure, but he was able to bring pleasure to these powerful women, his ‘genetic gifts’ hardly being confined to his muscles! Quite the contrary, if he was ever really down on his luck and had to make a buck, he knew the porn film business would pay handsomely for the characteristics he could bring to the screen!

While that pleasant fantasy was flirting with his thoughts, he looked ahead as they topped a rise and headed out onto a long concrete bridge that crossed a deep arroyo. He suddenly sat up straighter in his seat, Bo turning to look at him, as he stared at a puzzling black line that crossed the roadway a couple hundred yards ahead.

“BO! STOP THE CAR! THE BRIDGE IS OUT!!!”

She snapped her head back around to the front as her foot smashed down on the brake petal: far too strongly! The pedal tore right off its hinge, her foot smashed through the floorboards, the car merely lurched for a second, and the brakes released as her strong leg tore the brake pedal assembly completely apart!

They both stared helplessly, eyes as big as saucers, as the car sailed right over the edge of the missing bridge span, tilting downward only slightly before the front of the car impacted directly against the ragged end of the concrete roadway on the other side! They were going so fast that the entire car crumpled, the engine thrust all the way back into the trunk as Chris’ and Bo’s bodies tore through the steel of the car to impact directly against the concrete itself. The gas tank instantly exploded, the twelve foot long car compressed to a mere four feet, and the wreckage tumbled noisily into the arroyo. It appeared that their only memorial was to be a huge ball of flame exploding at the bottom.

*

Jim Patrick, his wife Karen, and their kids were slowly working their way across the arroyo in their 4-wheel drive when they saw the flaming wreck fall from the collapsed bridge. Amazingly, the car had seemed to be going TOWARD the radiation Hell of Nevada, not into California like anyone sensible.

“Oh God, Jim,” Karen breathed, “that almost happened to us! Those poor people!”

“Well, I know it’s little consolation, Karen, but I’m sure they didn’t feel anything, not the way they smashed into that other span. They must have been going over a hundred!”

“When we get back up there, I want to put some kind of sign up, something across the road to make sure nobody else drives off the bridge. I wish you would have waited for me to do that on the other side before we drove down here!”

Jim didn’t say anything. His wife was right, they had been in too much of a hurry. But he was constantly afraid the wind was going to change at any time and begin to blow from behind them. It wouldn’t take long for that radiation back there to catch up. They had have their kids, Jenny and Aaron, to worry about.

They had grabbed both of them from the high school immediately after the flash and the shock wave had come through, were only alive because they were a full 50 miles from ground zero (if they could believe the radio report), and their house had only been slightly damaged. Mainly they feared the radiation. Jim had grown up in Nevada and had read a great deal about the early bomb tests that had been held almost in their backyard. His parents had told him how they had climbed into the hills near their town to watch the night-time above-ground tests, how the bright flash followed by such beautiful colors had entertained them on many occasions. The fact that they had had to wash a funny white ash off their cars the next morning had not alarmed them. After all, the US government wouldn’t do anything to endanger their health: they had been assured of that by the Atomic Energy Commission people who had talked at their school that one time.

However, both of Jim’s parents had died in their forties, victims to a variety of unusual cancers. It was many years after that before the government had reluctantly acknowledged what the people of Utah and Nevada had slowly and painfully learned the hard way: the fallout from those bombs was deadly!

It was two hours after the wreck had fallen into the bottom of the arroyo, the charred remains now cool, when the first groans of overstressed steel could be heard. Aaron was walking well ahead of his Dad’s Ford Explorer, searching for a navigable route to cross under the bridge and climb up the shallower bank they had seen to the south. He gave the burned-out hulk of car a wide berth, not wanting to see or especially to smell the death that he knew it contained. He had just passed it when he heard the sound, a groaning scream. It wasn’t a human sound, it sounded exactly like steel bending under incredible forces.

Suddenly, he did see a section of blackened steel bending outward, a person’s arms forcing it to the side, and the steel tearing apart as if it were nothing but aluminum foil! He stared at a woman sliding out through the hole she had just torn in the wreckage, only a few tatters of burned clothing covering her body!

She didn’t notice Aaron at first as she turned and grabbed the compressed tangle of metal that had once been a car, the muscles of her back and legs flexing amazingly as she lifted half of it off the ground by literally tearing the car in two, then reaching downward to lift an unconscious man from the wreckage, his clothing also nearly burned away. She laid him gently on the ground with one arm while still holding the compressed remains of the car over her head in her other hand for a moment. Then, shrugging her shoulder, she tossed the wreckage casually aside, bending down to pick the man up in her arms as she turned around. Her eyes finally met Aaron’s, and a funny smile spread across her face as she walked toward him, carrying the man as if he was lighter than a feather!

*

Jim was working the Explorer around one of the huge boulders at the bottom of the arroyo when he saw his son leading someone back toward him. He quickly stopped the vehicle as Karen jumped out, her unusually keen eyes immediately noticing their burned and torn clothing; she immediately assumed they must have been burned in the explosion.

Jim was amazed as they came closer, noticing that the woman was carrying a large man in her arms, almost as if he was weightless. She was walking lightly on her feet much like a dancer would, almost as if she was weightless herself! Yet the man had to outweigh her by 50 pounds!

He rushed from the truck, running up to reach under the man, to take him from the woman as Karen quickly ran back to get a blanket from the car.

“You don’t need to carry him, he isn’t heavy for me. I don’t want you to hurt yourself or anything,” Bo said as the man rushed up and helpfully tried to take Chris from her arms.

“Nonsense, it will be a lot easier for me than for you. My God, I’m surprised you carried him all the way here. Aaron, why didn’t you offer to help?”

“I did, Dad, but she wouldn’t let me. Besides, she is a LOT stronger than she looks. You should have seen what she did to that car. She ripped it apart with her bare hands!”

Jim shook his head, glancing angrily toward his son. “I’m sorry, miss, but my son has always had a fascination with Supergirl and other characters like her from the comics. His imagination sometimes runs away with him. Here, let me take him.”

With that, he slipped his arms under the man, lifting upward as he saw the woman shrug and step back, the sudden weight of the man surprising him: he was even heavier than he looked! He staggered backward a couple of steps before feeling something give in his back, the pain shooting upward as he tried not to drop the man. He was halfway to the ground before the woman leaned down to take him, lifting him effortlessly upward once again.

“See Dad? It’s what I told you. She is a LOT stronger than she looks: a lot stronger than even you!”

*

Karen had watched Jim try to lift the man from the woman’s arms and had seen the clear signs of his back going out again. Damn, why did he have to try and help everyone! He needed to stay healthy to get them out of here!

Rushing up, she tossed the blanket to her son as she reached to support her husband, his back bent over halfway as he seemed unable to straighten up, pain very clear on his face. Wrapping her surprisingly strong arm around his waist, she took most of his weight on herself as she led him slowly back to the truck.

Aaron meanwhile had run ahead to open up the back tailgate of the Explorer. “Here, just lay him down on the back here,” he said to the woman. He was still smarting a little from what his Dad had just said about his fantasies about Supergirl in the comics. If his Dad knew how much time he had spent in the Supergirl MUD’s on the Internet he would really be concerned. But he knew something that his Dad didn’t, something that was clear to anyone who paid attention to the sighting reports that were communicated on the net. There were alien superwoman on this planet, even if they weren’t public about it. The phrase that he and his friends used was ‘They walk among us’, often laughingly as they applied the term to an especially gorgeous blonde.

The last few days of being cut off from the net and from TV had been frustrating. Aaron’s gut reaction was that if these women were as real as he and his friends thought they were, then they might have gone public during the nuclear disaster!

And now his hopes were realized! He knew at least one thing was almost for sure, the woman suddenly standing beside him was the physical incarnation of the woman of his dreams! Being a fairly immature 16, he had not yet discovered real women, having been content so far with trying to discover what he could of these alien women that he was really sure existed, his SuperWomen!

Yet now his fantasy had not only come to life, but was standing right there beside him!! In addition, her being essentially nude was not lost on him, and her body was far more gorgeous than even the exotic drawings and imaginative graphics files that he had traded feverishly on the net!

“Aaron, quit staring, you lech. Here, give her the blanket.” The voice of his twin sister Jen made him notice the blanket his mother had tossed him and remember his manners as he quickly wrapped it around the woman. Jen walked around the back of the truck herself to cover the unconscious man with another blanket, her eyes noticing that he wasn’t wearing much clothing either, most of it looking like it had been burned off.

Meanwhile, Bo turned and offered her hand to Aaron, her handshake almost firm enough to hurt despite her attempt to hold him softly. “By the way, my name is Bo. Thanks for trying to help me back there. I hope your Dad will be OK!”

“Thanks, I’m Aaron. And don’t worry about my Dad, this has happened a few times before, he just needs to get to his chiropractor and take it easy for a few days. Of course, taking it easy isn’t exactly in the cards right now. I’m not sure where we’re going to go now. I hate to tell him this, but his idea of looking for a way out of this arroyo on the south isn’t going to work, it sure looks like the way forward is blocked. At least I couldn’t see any way out.”

*

Karen was still supporting her husband as they finally reached the truck, getting yet another blanket as she helped him to lay down on the hard-packed sand next to it, trying to coax the kinks out of his back as she straightened him out. Aaron walked over and began to tell him what he had seen down the narrow arroyo while Jen took Bo around to the other side of the truck.

Jen pulled out a very short pair of denim shorts and a backless stretch Lycra top, two things of hers that she thought might almost fit Bo. Stripping off the remnants of her burned clothing, Bo turned to face her as she noticed that the girl’s eyes were being more curious than polite.

Jen had seen how the woman had carried the man and was wondering how she could be that strong. Jen herself was a serious gymnastics competitor: at 16 she was finally nearing the top of her sport, at least on a local level; almost too late to make it in the nationals. In fact, the entire family had just come back from watching her compete in the Nevada State high school gymnastic championships.

Bo smiled at her as she pulled the tight top on. Jen had secretly purchased it from a booth during the competition because its daring style was uniquely tailored for someone with a muscular body like her own. She had just recently discovered how some of the boys were starting to react to her body, to the dramatic hard musculature that her years of gymnastic training had sculpted across her body. While she didn’t really have very large breasts yet (her mother had told her that all her exercise was delaying her maturity), she still had dramatic curves all over her body, at least if she flexed a little! Curves in places where other girls didn’t even have places!

Of course, the top looked completely different on Bo, her even more dramatic muscles offset startlingly by her perfectly rounded D-cup breasts as they filled the elastic top nearly to the breaking point. While the top may have been appropriate for the muscular chest of a young gymnast, the cut of the Dannskin top was completely wrong for such a well-endowed woman. As it was, the only thing keeping her from falling out of the deeply cut top was the firmness of her nipples catching the edge of the fabric!

Leaning down, Bo slipped on the light blue cut-offs, the fabric stretching very tightly over her firm hips, her long shapely legs seeming to go on forever beneath the tiny shorts. She was pleased that she could still fit so comfortably into the cut-offs of an athletic young girl like this! Not bad for a woman nearing 50!!

Tossing the burned scraps of her old clothing away, she gave Jen a little smile before walking around the truck to find out what Aaron was talking about, her keen ears picking up something about an obstacle that was blocking the way.

*

“I tell you, Dad, there’s a huge boulder right in the middle of the gully, and the sides are way too steep to get around it. We have to go back.”

“We can’t go back, son, the radiation will be coming this way soon. Besides, we almost rolled over getting down the gentler eastern side of the gully, and the west side is a lot steeper in that direction. All I can see is we’ll just have to walk for it and hope somebody will pick us up on the other side.”

“Jim,” Karen said softly, “you just threw your back out and you can’t walk. We have to find another way!”

Bo walked closer after checking to see that Chris was sleeping peacefully, her keen ears overhearing the conversation.

“Ah, excuse me, can I interrupt for a moment? I think I can help you get your truck around that boulder. I, uh, can do, well, some unusual things, things that your son would know about but perhaps you don’t. And I’m sorry about your back, I never should have let you try to carry my friend, he’s heavier than he looks.”

“Tell me about it,” Jim groaned as he shifted painfully. “I have no idea how you could have managed to even drag him, let alone carry him like that. My wife and daughter are both pretty strong, even stronger than I am, but I’ve never met another woman that could lift that kind of weight before!”

“Actually, I can lift a lot more than that. In fact, that’s what I wanted to talk to you about. It will be dark in an another hour or so and this is a bad place to be camping, what with those dark clouds in the north. A good cloudburst and this whole gully could be full of water and rolling boulders. The flash floods are pretty intense out here in the desert.”

“Honey, you don’t have to tell me, I’ve lived here all my life. You got any good ideas on how to get out of here?”

“Yes, Jim, I do, if you will permit me. Jen, I need you to quickly clear out the back of the Explorer, make enough room for two prone men to lay out. Jim, I’m going to help you into the back of the truck. Then I need you, Aaron, to show me where you said that boulder was. Karen, you need to follow us in the truck. Any questions?”

“Yes,” Karen said. “What about your friend, is he going to be OK? And did you guys see that terrible crash a few hours ago?”

“Well, we were in that crash. My friend and I are, how should I say it, we’re rather resilient and hard to injure. And yes, he’ll be OK. I expect him to be awake and very sore in just a short while.”

“But, but how could you survive that?! We saw the truck fall into the arroyo! And the fire!” Jen blurted out.

“Ask your brother, Jen,” Bo said with a smile, “he seems to know a lot about me already.” With that, she gave Aaron a wink as she knelt down beside Karen and slipped her hands under her husband, effortlessly lifting him up to carry him over to the truck as Jen ran ahead. The rest of them could only stare as he seemed to float along light as a feather in her arms.

“My God, Bo, do you lift weights or something?” Jen asked when Bo reached the truck, surprised to see any woman besides her mother using so much strength.

“Not exactly, but I have a feeling that I’m about to.”

She set the man down while Jen helped him get as comfortable as he was going to get in the back of the truck. Turning, Bo walked back to slip her arm through the arm of a very surprised and mesmerized young man. “So show me this boulder of yours, Aaron.”

*

Karen watched the two of them walking off, her son’s obvious enchantment with this beautiful woman clear in his face, his body looking very much like a man’s now as he strode beside her, taller than she was by at least two inches. It wouldn’t be long at all, she thought to herself, before his interest in women became more than just fantasies. Shaking her head, she put the truck in gear as Jen climbed into the passenger seat, quickly catching up with the two of them around the next bend in the arroyo.

Bo and Aaron were standing in front of a huge boulder, one that was at least fifteen feet across and nearly perfectly round. It had obviously been rolling down this arroyo for eons as it slowly worked its way to the sea, each flash flood shoving it just a bit further.

“Well, Aaron,” Bo said as she turned to meet his eyes, “your Dad said you had a fascination for Supergirl. If that’s true, then I guess you’re in for a treat. You see, I’m going to lift this boulder out of the way of your family’s truck.”

Aaron swallowed hard, somehow knowing that she could really do it, something in the way she looked and the way she moved told him that she was immensely strong. But standing beside the incarnation of a youthful fantasy is not something any Terran boy he knew had ever done before, and he was having more than a little trouble keeping his eyes off of Bo, especially when he looked down to see the way her firm breasts were filling his sister’s new leotard. “My God,” he thought, “it looks like it could tear wide open any second!”

His roaming eyes were not lost on Bo as she took his arm in hers again and led him around to the other side of the boulder, finally turning to face him.

“Well, Aaron, how do you think I should lift this thing? I’m kind of new at being this strong, and I don’t have the flying power that my friend Kirrin has. I have no idea how to balance this.”

“Ah, how strong are you, Bo? I mean, that thing must weigh a couple hundred tons!”

“Hmmm, really? Maybe I’m not strong enough then. I haven’t really measured my strength, Aaron, but I’m sure that I’m at least a thousand times stronger than you are. Does that bother you?”

“God no, it’s wonderful. I’m just a little in awe of you. I’ve been trying to find out about you aliens for the last year, there have been a lot of unsubstantiated reports and stuff. I guess you guys are really secret and everything.”

“Not any more, Aaron. In fact, I just did a TV show where I showed everyone my special abilities, it was just a couple of days ago. Looks like you missed it.”

“A TV show! Argh… and we had to go to this stupid contest for my sister! I haven’t been near a TV or my computer for days. My friends must know more about you than I do!”

“Well, Aaron, maybe they do, but I’m standing here with you and not them. Let’s just say that I’m now a public figure. I know there are other woman on this planet like myself. I personally know two of them, one who calls herself PowerGirl, she’s an enhanced Terran like myself. I also know a really violent and screwed up alien named Kirrin.”

“Oh, there are others, Bo! My friends and I track the sightings and we know of two more. They call themselves Aurora and Supergirl, they were both on TV last year during the big LA earthquake rescuing some people from under a collapsing bridge, but everyone said it was staged. At least that’s what the authorities wanted everyone to believe. But my friends and I got the raw uncut video tape they filmed on the scene. Believe me, nothing was staged there. Unfortunately, nobody much has heard from them except rumors since then. At least until a few weeks ago when those publicity events started about Supergirl and a new movie she’s making.”

“Be careful, Aaron. I used to work in the movies, and all that Hollywood publicity is usually a sham, special effects and all.”

“How can you say that, Bo? I mean if you’re real, they are too. I saw the videos, no way they could be faking that. No, there are some other women like you here on Earth, trust me!”

Bo didn’t know if she was relieved or upset by this, she hadn’t really paid any attention to those press accounts and had been so busy since her own remarkable transformation that she hadn’t even thought about it. If they were anything like Kirrin, then Earth was in real trouble. On the other hand, if they were like that, there would already be a lot of dead Terrans turning up and getting into the news. No, it was clear that events were just starting and whoever these other women were, they had been keeping a low profile.

“Well, enough speculation. Let’s get this boulder out of the way. I suspect I can’t lift it all at once and couldn’t balance the thing even if I could. Besides, the sand here is pretty soft. Let’s see if I can reduce it to smaller boulders.”

“Bo, there’s a crack, maybe you can wedge it apart. There, where it’s weak.”

“Good idea, Aaron. Here, let me try it.”

She turned her back to him to examine the huge boulder more closely. The thing was the size of a small cabin and very smooth, all except for the one inch crack that Aaron had seen, that ran only about two feet down the front of it. She began to work her fingers into the crack, the rock crunching as it gave way before her fingernails. She stopped when she suddenly felt Aaron standing next to her again.

“Aaron, you need to stand behind me in case any rock fragments fly out. I’m going to use a lot of muscle on this in a moment.”

As soon as he stepped behind her, she began to pull her arms outward, the huge rock suddenly vibrating as she used many tens of tons of force to try to force it to split into two pieces. She pulled harder and harder, suddenly startled as she felt someone’s hands on her shoulders. She turned her head to see a very flushed Aaron, his hands traveling wonderingly over the harder-than-steel contours of her bare flexed shoulders and down the cut-out back of the leotard, his fingers tracing the amazing clefts between her fully flexed muscles, his touch very hesitant, yet so appreciative.

She said nothing, enjoying his light touch, as she turned back and concentrated on splitting the massive boulder, her arms, back and shoulders really straining. The rock began groaning and cracking, gratifying Bo as the super muscles of her back and shoulders finally began to prove they were stronger than this mere Terran rock. The huge boulder suddenly gave off an earthshaking groan as it cracked louder and louder.

At the same time, she felt Aaron now leaning against her back, his youthful arousal brushing very clearly against her buttocks, his hands still tracing her upper body. She knew she should say something, but she was gritting her teeth in the effort to split the rock and couldn’t speak. Suddenly, two things happened at once. The boulder itself suddenly split apart, two rounded sides falling outward to shake the earth. And at the same time, she heard a loud rip and felt the front of her borrowed leotard split open!

Aaron couldn’t even think when he heard the leotard rip, his imagination leaping around to see, and his hands automatically reaching around to surround her amazingly firm breasts as they spilled out of her top, his hands closing to hold a woman’s breasts for the first time in his life - and the firm breasts of a superwoman no less! His body felt like it was going to explode as they felt so soft, yet so firm. And so BIG!

Bo herself was trembling as she opened her eyes, her muscles spasming from the effort. She was also surprised and shocked to feel the presence of the boy’s strong grip on her suddenly bared breasts! Looking up, even she was a bit embarrassed to see Karen and Jen staring back at her through the wide split in the boulder, their surprised eyes gaping at how Aaron was holding her!

*

Karen didn’t know whether the fact that this woman had just split this rock apart with her bare hands was more shocking, or if it was the sight of her son standing there holding her bare breasts! She could see the flush growing in Aaron’s face and knew what was about to happen to him. She might have been a mother, but she was first of all a woman, and she knew men!

Grabbing her daughter’s arm, she pulled her to the left a bit, giving her son some privacy. “Here, Jen, you’re strong enough to help here. Start moving these smaller rocks to the side so we can drive forward.”

“Mom, speaking of rocks, I think Aaron is about to get his off! Did you see the way he was holding her tits?!”

“Jen, Shhh, give your brother some privacy. Besides, that isn’t how I’ve taught you to speak!”

“But did you see his face and how he was squeezing her? Why doesn’t she knock him into the next county or something?”

“You might be surprised, Jen, that some women understand boys at that age, and she is obviously being kind to him. You know how hard he’s been working to find out about these aliens. I thought it was mostly a bunch of adolescent fantasies until today myself, but try to imagine the impact on your brother at finally meeting one of these super women!”

Jen found she did understand, sort of. As she lifted a hundred pound rock up and rested it on her shoulder, strong gymnast’s muscles working, she ran her other hand over her own chest, feeling how her hand was still larger than her own growing breasts, wondering if she would someday look like that woman. She also wondered what it would feel like for a man to hold her that way!

*

Meanwhile, Bo had stepped to the side and turned around, Aaron’s hands still holding her as his fingers explored her, squeezing her admittedly firming nipples as he stared down at them in fascination! She didn’t say a word as she reached down to remove his right hand from one breast, guiding it up to her arm, slowly flexing her bicep as his hand surrounded it. She then snapped her arm to a full flex, her dramatic bicep suddenly growing too large for him to completely surround with his hand, and the contrast between her soft breast in his left hand and her bicep in his right, the bicep of a supergirl, became too thrilling for his young body. The fantasies he had had of such a woman exploded inside him, his tortured gasping was suddenly loud as his body overtook his thoughts, and an orgasm surged through his young body as he slowly sank to his knees, suddenly shamed, but still burying his face between her gorgeous thighs!

Bo slowly kneeled down in front of him, and he felt reassured by her lips gently touching his, the dramatic release from his year of fantasizing now reality, although he hadn’t even unzipped his pants!

“Are you OK now, Aaron? Don’t be embarrassed, I know I create a rather dramatic reaction on men, I always have. And I know this is very special for you, what with your research and all.”

“Oh God, did anybody see me?”

“No, Aaron, only me and I’m your friend. And I’m glad I saw. OK? Now come on, I need to get you guys out of this arroyo before a flood comes. Those clouds are starting to look really ugly to the north.”

*

The next hour was a busy one for all of them, Bo smashing and tearing the boulder into pieces that weighed ten tons or less, her strong arms lifting each of these as she threw them twenty feet to each side. The rest of them moved the smaller rocks, eventually clearing a path that the truck could navigate, everyone’s eyes almost constantly on Bo as she continually amazed them with her strength.

*

The darkness was nearly complete when the Explorer finally gained the west bank of the arroyo, the four-wheel drive augmented by Bo’s strength as she had nearly carried the truck full of people up the steep west wall. She finally collapsed in exhaustion as Karen and Jen made some dinner, Jen finally thinking to give her a halter top to cover her torn leotard, and Aaron sitting close beside her as they gazed down into the arroyo.

A sudden loud roaring started to swell closer and closer from the north, a six-foot high wave of roiling water suddenly sweeping through the arroyo, boulders nearly as large as the one Bo had shattered rolling along in the fierce churning waters! Karen and Jen walked over to stand beside them as they saw how narrowly they had just escaped death. Nothing could survive the maelstrom they saw below them!

They viewed the violent brown waters below them for a while before Bo turned, her sensitive hearing picking up some shuffling footsteps, suddenly pleased to see Chris walking gingerly forward to sit on the other side of her, his body painful and bruised, but obviously not broken.

“My God, Bo, look at that turbulence. I had no idea what the roar was that woke me up, but that is amazing! Look at the size of those rocks tumbling along in it!”

No one replied, but they were all thinking about the fact that they had been down there only an hour before.

Chris broke the silence again. “Well Bo, Jen here tells me you’ve been busy while I was out of it. Anything I should know about?”

Aaron listened as he looked at Bo and then Chris for a moment, suddenly realizing that this man was probably her boyfriend or husband or something and that he was somehow ‘super’ as well. It suddenly occurred to him that the man might be pissed at what he’d done, the way he’d touched her! Would she say something?

“Nope, just routine, Chris. I had to split a boulder apart and move it out of the way to help these folks out of there. But unfortunately, we are back on the west bank and Nevada is still on the other side. But at least I was able to help some folks today. And in one case, in a very special way.”

She noticed Karen’s womanly smile in the glow of the lantern as she glanced at her before turning to finish making dinner. The sight of her son sitting so close to this remarkable alien woman somehow felt very right, memories of her own youth suddenly filling her thoughts.

* * *

Chris was feeling a lot better after dinner, his amazing recuperative abilities again healing him at super speed, and his sense of humor returning as well. Karen went back to the truck to be with her husband while the remaining four sat around the fire. It was Jen this time who seemed curious about Bo, despite the fact that she made it a point to sit very close to Chris.

“You said you were a normal woman before, Bo, and I think I’ve heard of your movies, but how did you get to be like you are today? And how strong are you anyway?”

“Well, this woman invaded my house a while ago, she was an Arion, one of the four known races of superbeings. Of course, since everything I know came from that woman - her name was Kirrin - it might not be completely accurate. But this is what I understand.”

“The race she was from, the Arions, are a militaristic race who have been at war with another race, the Velorians, for hundreds of years. The Velorians are blonde and blue-eyed, and for some reason, she said she had never heard of a male Velorian, they all seemed to be female. That part doesn’t make sense: how would they reproduce?”

“Anyway, to go on, the Arions by contrast are always dark-haired and somewhat shorter, they are also usually not as strong as Velorians, although that distinction would be lost on a Terran; the average Arion Prime woman is at least a thousand times stronger than a Terran man!”

“Also, there are two kinds of Arions, the Betas, who are maybe 3 or 4 times stronger than Terrans, and the Primes; they are the ones a thousand times stronger.”

“The two other blonde women you described earlier sound like Velorians, Aaron. And I’m afraid I don’t know much at all about the two other races. She said one is called the Kryptonians - yes, just like the comic book - and the last are the Kintzi. She didn’t say anything about Kryptonians other than to say that they were a pacifist bunch and that some early Kryptonian visitor to Earth had met this comic book creator and convinced him to write about them. Something about ‘paving the way’ for future contacts or something like that.”

“Anyway, the last group are the Kintzi. She said they are friends of her people and that they look like very large humanoid cats, yet they also have the strength of nearly a thousand men. Very dangerous creatures I gathered, ones that do a lot of the ‘behind the scenes’ stuff for the Arions.”

Aaron felt like his head was going to explode, not believing that he now had all this information. And wouldn’t his cyber-friends love to know! But he had no way to tell them sitting way out here in the middle of the desert! At least he was going to create an awesome stir when he got back on-line!

“You didn’t say anything about yourself,” Jen said. “How did you get so strong?”

“Well, let’s just say that being close, very close, to an Arion Prime can cause some changes in a Terran. They apparently have the ability to induce limited mutagenic changes in us. Remember, we are all descended from Earth, except maybe for the Kintzi, and we have a lot of genetics in common. The Terran genome clearly has vastly greater potential than scientists have ever suspected, although to be fair, I think there were thousands of years of gene manipulation on other planets involved to enhance certain aspects, mainly strength and resistance to injury.”

“In any case, I now have that potential, and so does my friend Chris here but to a lesser degree. We actually just met on the way out here. Apparently, however, the Terran male form is not as susceptible to these changes. Chris, you’re what, maybe ten or twenty times as strong as a normal man?”

“Hmm, maybe, give or take a little. I’m also pretty hard to seriously injure, but not impossible. At least bullets and violent car wrecks don’t seem to be enough to do it. But Bo here is truly amazing, Jen, she must be a hundred times as strong as I am, and a thousand times more than you guys. She also hardly seemed bothered by the car wreck!”

Bo laughed. “Don’t let him fool you, I was out cold for at least a couple of hours. But I guess he is right in a relative sense. I think I’m only about half as strong as Kirrin was, but as you saw today, I’m still pretty dangerous!”

They talked for a while more, Aaron asking increasingly personal questions as Bo became less and less comfortable answering them, at least in front of Jen. She finally stood up as Aaron followed, walking out of the range of the fire to enjoy the incredibly bright light of the full moon, the desert landscape seeming bright enough to read a newspaper by.

Aaron’s twin walked off the other way with Chris, her arm slipping through his as she held herself close to him.

“Its really weird being with you guys,” Jen said as she leaned close to Chris. “With all my gymnastic training, I’ve always been stronger than guys my own age, I’m even stronger than my Dad and my uncle. Actually, I’m a lot stronger than they are but I don’t want to show off, it already makes them feel a little funny as it is.”

“What does your twin brother think of it, your being stronger than he is?”

“Well, I think it bothers him a little, but on the other hand, he really has a thing for strong girls. He and I arm wrestle sometimes and now I can beat both of his arms with one of mine. Every time we get up from laying on the rug and wrestling, he’s a little wet down there, it shows through his pants. So I know he has a thing for strong girls, even if I’m just his sister. I’ve been trying to fix him up with one of my teammates, but they don’t like him very much. He’s too weak and geeky for them.”

Chris chuckled, remembering his own initial fascination with Aurora, fully understanding how Aaron must feel. Jen continued talking.

“What I think is really cool is the fact that you are so strong, Chris. I don’t always like being stronger than everyone else. Can you show me something you can do that other men can’t?”

Chris stopped to look at the girl, her short brown hair and big blue eyes looking so cute. He knew she was going to be a beauty as she fully matured, her experience with men just beginning. He was going to have to be careful!

“Well, what would you like me to do?”

“Ok, put your arm straight out at your side, shoulder height. Don’t let me move it.”

Chris obliged her, tensing his muscles as she bent down on her knees, grabbing his arm with hers, and proceeded to do a pull-up, her legs bent behind her. His arm didn’t move even a fraction of an inch.

He heard her gasp softly as she did pull-up after pull-up, and his eyes looked down to see surprisingly round biceps as she seemed to effortlessly do thirty pull-ups, the last one only a little slower than the first. He was impressed: she was really strong!

“I’m amazed, Chris, your arm feels like a steel bar. And I bet you didn’t realize I could do that many pull-ups. Actually, I can do more than 150 now in one session. I can even do a few one-handed ones. Here, watch this.”

At that, she dropped an arm to her side as her right arm flexed, her body slowly and smoothly rising upward, her lips brushing his skin as her head rose above his arm. She held herself for a moment before she slowly lowered her body.

“My God, Jenny, I’ve never seen a normal woman or girl do that before. Are you sure you don’t have some Velorian blood in your veins?”

Her laugh was charming as she insisted that she just worked out a lot, even more than her gymnastic coach realized.

“I can really lift a lot of freeweight now, in fact, I was able to bench press 800 lbs the other day! I only got in five reps before somebody came into the gym and I had to stop, but there aren’t many men that can do that, maybe none. And as you just saw, I can easily curl twice my own weight, that would be 250 lbs. How much can you press, Chris?”

“Ah, about 3000, maybe 3500 lb on a good day. Did you really say you bench pressed 800? That’s impossible!”

“Why? You can do 3000 and it sounds like Bo can lift 200,000. Why can’t I lift 800 or so?”

“Why? It’s because you are a normal girl, and the rest of us are all enhanced in some way.”

“How do you know I’m not ‘enhanced’?” she asked as she stepped closer. “How can you tell, anyway? Just maybe there are some alien genes in me as well.”

Chris felt himself getting a little flushed as he took a couple of steps back away from her, suddenly reminded of how he had first felt when Kara had held him: at that time she had only been a couple of years older than this girl was now.

“So, Chris, you didn’t answer my question. How do you tell an enhanced girl from a normal girl? I need to know!”

“Well,” he stammered, “its pretty obvious in the way their bodies feel, they have a dramatic contrast between soft skin and unbelievably large and hard muscles, and their muscular expansion is several times greater than a Terran female.”

“Oh, you mean like this?” With that , she raised her arm and flexed her muscle, her bicep exploding into a very well-defined mound of steely flesh, a muscle far larger than anything he had expected, even for a gymnast!

His hand rose up to surround it as he saw the girl smile at the stunned expression on his face. My God, it almost felt as if he was holding Kara’s arm, the muscle nearly as large and surprisingly hard. Yet squeezing her tightly with his enhanced grip, he could feel just a bit of give, something that he had never felt in a Velorian’s arm. No, she wasn’t enhanced like they were, but she was still somehow far beyond any reasonable limits for a 16 year old Terran girl!

“My God, Jen, your bicep is wonderful. How did you ever…?”

“I do 130 lb dumbbell curls; once in a while I max out at 160 lbs. Do you like what you feel? I once curled over 390 on a bent bicep bar!”

“Ah, that is very impressive Jen. Hey, we should be getting back, we must be a half mile from the campsite now, and it’s getting really late,” he said, getting a little nervous about his reactions to her.

“You don’t believe me do you?!”

“Jen, be serious, you are just a Terran girl. There are very few male bodybuilders who could touch those numbers, maybe none! But look at you, you don’t have a quarter the mass of one of those men!”

“Hey, it’s quality, not quantity!” Jen burst out, suddenly not wanting to walk back toward the campfire. Chris was special, he was enhanced, and his girlfriend was one of those superwomen. But she was special too, he just didn’t know it yet!

Chris was just starting to turn when she stepped very close, her arms wrapping around his neck as she pulled his lips down to hers, her passionate kiss startling him as she jumped up and wrapped her strong gymnast’s legs around his hips, holding him tightly as her kisses became deeper and more passionate.

“Oh, Chris,” she murmured, “I’ve never been close to a man that was stronger than me, I want to show you things that no man has seen, I want to be close to someone who can appreciate me, who is so much stronger than I am. I can feel so helpless in your arms. Hold me, please!”

Chris was shocked, the strength in the embrace of this young athletic girl impressing him despite his better judgment, and the contours of her strong young body doing more to him than ‘impressing’ him! If it wasn’t for the fact that his normal lovers were Velorians, he would have been astounded!

Yet he now knew enough to realize that this girl was indeed special. There was no other way she could lift those kinds of weights, unless she was pulling his chain. Maybe she really wasn’t as strong as she claimed.

“Ok, ok,” he murmured between her passionate kisses, “we’ll stay a few minutes. But only if you can prove to me that you can indeed do what you say. And if you can do that, we have some serious talking to do!”

He felt her arms relax as she stepped back, the hard points of her firm nipples now so pronounced under her thin top, the fabric tenting upward so visibly in the bright moonlight, that he had to deliberately look away. The last thing he needed now was to start thinking about this young girl that way!

“I’ll tell you what, if you can lift this rock over your head, then I’ll believe everything you said. Otherwise, I’ll just chalk it up to youthful exuberance and we’ll call it a night. Deal?”

With that, Chris deliberately selected a large rock that he knew was about 1000 lbs, his body flexing dramatically as he lifted it, struggling to keep his balance as he found it took some muscle even for him to get it over his head. He finally succeeded before setting it slowly down again in front of the girl.

Jen was feeling more alive that she had ever felt before, so much energy surging through her body that she felt tingly and moist under her panties. She knew she was turned on, and this always made her feel a lot more energetic and stronger, something a couple of her boyfriends had required a chiropractor’s visit to try and mend after they had made-out in the back of the movie theater! Even though she had learned to control herself a bit recently, she was now very interested in just letting it all loose tonight!

“Ok, Chris, I’ll try to lift it. But this top is a little small for that: I flex pretty strongly when I work that hard and I don’t think you want me to come back from our little walk with my top ripped open do you? Would you like to take it off for me?”

Chris was really in trouble now, the feeling of forbidden temptations almost more than he could bare. She was only 16!

“No, Jen, if you have to take it off, why don’t you do it? I’ll just sit over here for a moment.”

With that, he sat down on a large rock, trying not to watch too closely as Jen stared back at him with a little smile on her lips, her hands loosening her tight T-shirt from her shorts as she pulled it up, the soft grid of her perfect abs clearly visible in the moonlight. She paused as her gymnast’s stomach was bared, her hands calculatingly tracing the curves of her tiny waist, her eyes trying to hold Chris’, the emerging woman in her somehow knowing just how to move her hands to force him to stare at her.

She began to pull it higher, the rounded bottoms of her firm breasts now very visible, the fabric finally letting her nipples snap free as she raised it above them, the dramatic size of those nipples shocking Chris. He had never seen a Terran woman who looked like that, let alone a girl!

Jen suddenly pulled it the rest of the way off as she tossed it to him, the warm fabric carrying the wonderful scent of her young body. He found he simply couldn’t take his eyes off her now as her hands closed around her pert breasts, their perfect firmness so unlike a Terran woman’s. No, she was something else, that was for sure!

Jen felt so incredibly sexy as she saw him staring at her breasts, her fingers teased her large nipples until she could see his pants growing tighter, quickly realizing that she knew exactly how to turn this superman on!! This made her feel even more wildly on fire, her arms seemingly weightless as she reached behind herself to stretch, pushing her chest deliberately forward as she watched his eyes grow wider, her arms slowly raising up into a bicep pose to watch his eyes moving between her chest and her arms, both obviously impressing him.

She suddenly turned to the side and reached down, almost unable to get her arms around the huge rock as she instinctively knew it was a lot heavier than she had lifted before. Yet she felt so alive and energetic, especially since she had taken her top off to let him look at her!

She began to strain upward, the huge rock not budging an inch at first, seemingly far too heavy for her. She grabbed it a little lower and bit her lip, throwing everything she had into it. Ever so slowly, she felt it moving, the hard rock scraping across her erect nipples, sending little electric tingles down across her stomach, as she struggled with the weight, finally getting it off the ground.

*

Chris saw an amazing display of muscles rippling across the young girl’s back and shoulders, her body now looking even stronger than he had first thought. Yet the rock didn’t move at first, confirming that despite her dramatic musculature, she was just a Terran girl, albeit with the dramatic muscles of a top gymnast.

“Jen, don’t hurt yourself, I understand you were just trying to impress me. It’s OK, just come back over here and get dressed again before…. Holy Shit!”

Chris was stunned as she started lifting the huge rock into the air, slowly straightening her legs as she struggled to keep her balance just as he had struggled, the huge rock moving up to rest against her bared chest for a moment. He saw her shift her grip a bit, sweat suddenly visible even in the moonlight as she strained at it. She suddenly bent her knees for a moment as she threw her body under the massive weight, her arms and legs straightening at the same time as her shoulders and quads both exploded into gorgeous deeply-cut muscles!

And the rock, well, it was still moving upward, her arms finally straightening, her legs following as she turned to look at him, a combined look of pain and triumph in her face. She held the thousand pound rock over her head for a few more seconds before it started to bend her backwards as she lost her balance. Her body slowly fell backward to land with a ‘Pluff’ on her back in the sand, the rock digging a deep crater as it hit hard enough to shake the ground!

Chris was on his feet in seconds, reaching down to take her hand as he pulled her to her feet. Her arms immediately hugged him as he felt the points of her warm moist breasts and her incredibly firm nipples pressing against his chest, a feeling that he was very familiar with. She had fallen down on purpose! It was all he could do to restrain her as she began kissing him passionately again.

“Oh, Chris, mmmm, I’m just about as strong as you are, at least right now when I feel so tingly. Mmmm, Oh, hold me, show me what a real man is like, a man stronger than me!”

Chris felt himself hopelessly weakening when he suddenly heard another voice, an older woman’s voice.

“Jenny, honey, let go of Chris and put your top back on. This is not the time or the place for this. Let him go right now, honey!”

Chris stiffened, both from the sound of her mother’s voice and the sudden painful tensioning of Jenny’s arms, her body freezing in place as she held herself to him. He reached down and unlocked her arms from behind him, her face so needing as she looked up at him, her eyes begging him to continue, her body so very turned on! Despite the damping presence of her mother, it was still all she could do to hold herself back.

She finally abruptly grabbed her T-shirt from Chris’ hands, angrily pulling it on as she glared at her mother, some barely contained choking sobs audible for a moment as she ran back toward the distant campfire, not looking back at either of them as she ran as fast as she could.

Chris started to stand up and tried to find something to say, but Karen casually waved her hand, motioning for him to sit down again.

“Don’t worry, I saw what was happening, Chris. I’ve been here for the last fifteen minutes making sure she was OK. No, don’t say anything, I understand what was going on. You were doing a pretty good job of resisting her, and respecting the fact that she is only 16. But she is definitely becoming a woman, that’s for sure, and I saw you finally weakening a bit there. I figured your willpower needed a little reinforcement!”

Chris didn’t know what to say as he saw Karen’s broad smile as she sat down beside him, her reaction so calm and understanding despite what had been going on.

“Your daughter is very lovely, Karen, but it is her strength that really amazes me. Do you realize how much that rock weighed?”

She said nothing as she stood back up and walked over to the rock, reaching down to smoothly lift it upward herself, her body obviously straining a lot harder than Chris’ had, but she made it clear that she was even stronger than her daughter!

“About 1100 lbs, give or take a few. Jen is getting pretty strong, don’t you think? Unlike a Terran girl, she’ll get a fair amount stronger until she is 18 or so. In fact, I’m sure she will be a lot stronger than I am: all that gymnastics work before she began to really develop her strength will carry over to her adult strength.”

“’Unlike a Terran girl’… OK, what’s going on here?”

“Well, I thought you had already figured part of it out. Neither Jenny, Aaron nor I are Terran, we are Arion Betas. And in case you are wondering, my husband Jim is a Terran; he isn’t the father of the twins, he and I got married when I was already pregnant.”

“But how - why are you here on Earth? I thought you folks were busy trying to screw things up, putting your people in power and so on. Yet you seem to be living a normal life.”

“My first husband and I were part of a survey expedition, our ship crashed in the desert in New Mexico back in the late 70’s. My husband was killed and most of our equipment was destroyed. Only three of us survived, one man and another woman. We tried to contact our mother ship, but after a few months, we just gave up, figuring we had been abandoned. I met Jim at that time, he was stationed at a base near there, and we fell in love, despite the fact that I was obviously pregnant. Imagine his surprise when he found out later that his wife could lift the front end of his pickup truck off the ground, pregnant and all!”

“So, you guys just live normal lives and are raising otherwise normal kids out here in the desert?” Chris asked, surprised to find that he wasn’t defensive about being in the presence of an Arion. If Karen was typical of the Betas, then they were far different than the Primes he had met.

“Yup, we’re just a red-blooded All American family now. Except for the fact that we’re 3 or 4 times stronger than anyone around us. At least until we met you and Bo. Oh, and by the way, whether you know it or not, Bo’s ‘enhancements’ definitely came from an Arion Prime that she was more than a little intimate with. But I suspect that you already knew that.”

“Yes, I know,” Chris said. “For me, my enhancement came in the arms of a Velorian Protector, the one who calls herself Aurora.”

Karen looked frightened for a moment. The thought of this man being friends with a Velorian Protector was terrifying! They killed Arions on sight, at least if the rumors were true. But then who can trust rumors, especially twenty year old ones.

“You mean between her legs don’t you?” Karen smirked, regaining her composure after a moment, also her sense of humor. “I studied mutagenesis before I signed up for this mission to Earth. I am very familiar with how such genetic changes occur. What most people don’t know is that the final resulting enhancement occurs in a single transformation, the degree of enhancement being very strongly influenced by how much ‘access’ one has to the mutagen during a few days’ period. I would say that you were pretty restrained with Aurora, Chris, but that Bo was probably doing nothing else but spending ‘quality’ time with Kirrin during those days, the peculiarities of two femme’s lovemaking working in her favor. She got an incredible dose!”

Chris considered that for a moment, realizing that his initial lovemaking with Aurora had not been strongly oral, and only now did he realize that the rather small degree of his enhancement was due to that. If he had only known, Hell, he could be Superman now! Especially since he knew how much Fair enjoyed that type of lovemaking! Damn!

“One thing I have never known,” Chris asked, “is whether it is possible for me to pass on any of those mutagens myself. Or Bo for that matter. Are we the end of the line or only a link?”

“Chris, one of the several reasons that I stopped you a few moments ago is that you can indeed pass on additional mutagens, but not in sufficient quantity to do much for a Terran female, or for a male if that was your preference. But I have to tell you that Jenny would be very susceptible to you that way: you could probably increase her strength by a hundredfold if you were ‘enthusiastic’ enough together. After all, Primes are not born but are instead ‘made’.”

“But not yet, Chris. I’m not ready to grant her those abilities yet, not until she wins a major gymnastic event on her own. She already has a big advantage just with her Beta physiology, and I couldn’t let her compete at all if she was a hundred times stronger than she is now. It would not only be unfair, it would actually be dangerous to the other girls.”

She turned to face him, her hand taking his as she smiled. “Besides, you might not be able to keep up with her, Chris. She is already a very strong and energetic girl, very much like her mother. But she is still a virgin and I intend to keep her one for a while yet. No Terran boy is truly physically capable of changing her ‘status’, but I need to know how to find you when the time is ready. You are the only male I know of that can help her, and she has shown no interest so far in being with a woman.”

Chris was staggered, the implication sinking in that this woman was asking him to someday do stud duties for her own daughter!

“I, I don’t know what to say, Karen. I mean, I would be honored to help, but this discussion is kind of pointed, if you know what I mean. And on a subject very inappropriate for a young girl’s mother and a man she has just barely met!”

“I know, Chris, you would love to run off into the desert with her and break rocks with her backside as you release your rather dramatic manhood inside her young body. Don’t worry, I know what Velorian mutagens do to a man, and to a man’s libido. You may not be very strong compared to a Prime or a Velorian, but I am sure you are very dramatic in your own special way and are nearly impossible to injure, especially from being ‘crushed’. Remember, I’m a doctor and I studied this subject for ten years before I came here. I may be ‘pointed’ and ‘inappropriate’ regarding my daughter but I want her to rise above other women, to be a superwoman in her own right, even if she becomes only half as strong as a normal Prime. She should be able to approach Bo’s strength, and Bo is a VERY impressive woman.”

With that, she stood up and reached for Chris’ arm, starting to lead him back toward the campfire.

“Come on, we both have some apologies to make to a very angry and embarrassed young woman. But do me a favor, don’t walk off with her alone again. She is incredibly attracted to you, and her genetics and her birthright are asserting themselves wildly right now, at least when she is with you. Besides, you don’t have the willpower to really resist her charms, that much was pretty obvious back there. She would seduce you in a moment if you were left alone again. You seem to have a significant weakness for strong women!” Chris met her smile as he began to wonder about any hidden meanings in her words, suddenly noticing that she was still a strikingly good looking woman despite her age.

*

The two of them walked slowly back to the fire, Karen talking of Jenny and her aspirations for her, for her career as the amazing woman she would someday be. She wanted her to grow up to fight crime, to use the special abilities she would someday have to help other people.

Chris, still amazed at this remarkable woman and her ambitious plans for her daughter, could only nod. He wondered how many other people there were like this: first Sue and Martin and their kids, now this family. How many more of these aliens walked hidden and silent among the Terrans? How many more children were being raised on Earth but not native to it?

There was no one else at the fire when they finally arrived. Looking around, they heard a strange muffled cry far in the distance, almost human-like, as Karen and Chris both suddenly looked at each other, realizing that they had forgotten about Aaron and Bo. They both remembered how taken he had been with her charms!

Despite the fact that Aaron had been slow to develop his own strength, he would someday be as strong as Jenny. Karen had the same aspirations for him as her daughter, aspirations to help enable him to stand above other men the same way she hoped to help Jenny. She suddenly was frantic as she wondered if the process had already started!

“Oh God, Chris, I forgot about Aaron. If he and Bo are together, if they have already started the transfer of mutagens to his system, we can’t stop it now, until he absorbs all his body can withstand. Come on, let’s find them; maybe it’s not too late. Otherwise, we’re stuck here for at least three days while the ‘transfer’ proceeds. And if so, I hope Bo is VERY fond of my son, because she will need to be VERY busy the entire time! Believe me, I’ll see to that! He will NOT be cheated out of his birthright!”

Karen dashed off along the bank in the other direction as she searched for her son. Chris was about to follow her when he saw Jen walking toward him, coming from the direction of the truck. The sway of her hips clearly telegraphed that she was still as interested in him as before. He took one long look at her as she started to lift her T-shirt up again, her gorgeous flat stomach just becoming visible as Chris turned and fled towards her mother, searching for Bo and Aaron. It wasn’t even safe around the campfire anymore. Damn, that young Arion girl was sexy!

It didn’t take long for Karen to find the two of them, sitting together along the rim of the arroyo as they watched the dirty water rush by just below their feet. She noticed that the water must be ten feet deep now, the flash flood upstream must have been a doozy! She was relieved to see the two of them sitting relaxed and talking. Aaron’s hand was resting on Bo’s tanned thigh, but otherwise the scene looked pretty innocent.

“Oh, glad to find you guys,” Karen blurted out. “Did you folks hear a weird cry a little while ago, almost a human one?”

Aaron spoke up excitedly. “You mean the one that made our skin crawl? Yeah, and Bo saw the creature that made the sound: her eyes are better than mine.”

“It was bizarre,” Bo said equally excitedly. “It was kind of like a big wolf or something, but much larger than I’ve ever heard about, it must have been 4 feet tall at the shoulders. It was walking along the other side of the arroyo, pacing back and forth and looking at us. I could swear it was staring back at me, its eyes even seemed to glow in the dark! And then it howled in a way I’ve never heard before, kind of like a mix of human and wolf. Really creepy. I just hope the water doesn’t go down during the night, otherwise that thing is going to be in our camp, I can tell you that!”

Her description of the beast sent a chill up everyone’s back even though they couldn’t see it themselves. Bo’s description was more than adequate, enough so that Aaron bravely decided to stay up and stand guard when they got back to camp. Bo volunteered to stay with him, Chris and Karen exchanging concerned glances. Chris nodded and took Bo by the arm and led her around the other side of the truck, quickly relating to her what Karen had told him about their backgrounds and her plans for Aaron and Jenny. Bo immediately looked angry.

“Chris, what the hell did you think I was going to do, take that kid off and rape him? I’m a lot more mature than that, besides, he’s infatuated with me, not the other way around. Remember, despite the way I look, I’m really pushing 50 and I’ve been around a bit. Cut me some slack, OK?”

Chris felt like an ass, realizing that he was still reeling from his encounter with Jen, angry with himself that she had almost succeeded in seducing him, and in front of her mother no less! In fact, he knew she would have succeeded totally if Karen hadn’t shown up. Fortunately, Aaron obviously wasn’t having anything like that effect on Bo!

*

Bo walked stiffly away to join Aaron on watch over at the side of the arroyo while Chris gratefully took the blanket that Karen offered and curled up near the fire. Karen came back after checking that Jim was peacefully asleep, his painkillers finally working. She curled up in a sleeping bag on the other side of the fire, Jen putting her bag deliberately very close to Chris, her eyes glaring at her mother as she dared her to say something.

Karen didn’t: she and Chris now had an understanding. Besides, she was only five feet away, able to provide reinforcement if need be. Her real problem now was what she was feeling about Chris herself, the remarkable bulge she had seen her daughter creating in his pants was burned into her mind. A man who was the result of Velorian mutagenesis. How fascinating! She lay very still for an hour, waiting to be sure that Jen was asleep. She finally rose and walked silently over to Chris, kneeling down to whisper in his ear.

Chris, are you awake?”

He stirred slowly, half awake. “I am now,” he whispered back.

“Follow me. There’s something I need to show you.”

Chris slipped out of the blanket, Karen picking it up to carry with her as she took his arm, leading him back the other way along the bank. She walked quickly, the moonlight reflecting from her dark shining hair as she moved with athletic gracefulness. They finally stopped behind a small mound as she turned to face him.

“Chris, this is awkward, but - but I’m just going to say it. I have been on this planet for more than 16 years and, well, I, I mean…”

Chris raised his hand to cautiously brush his finger across her lips, and her eyes held his as her hand suddenly reached up to hold his very tightly as she kissed his fingers. He had already guessed why she had led him so far away from the campsite, understood what she was having trouble asking, knew very well what she needed, what only he could give her. He was, after all, the only man he had ever heard of who had been enhanced to please women whose needs were far greater than those of Terran women!

He said nothing, but stepped back a couple of steps while slowly undoing the buttons of his shirt, and smiling as he saw Karen’s eyes gazing hungrily at his growing expanse of chest as he opened his shirt with slow deliberation. He slid it gracefully from his shoulders, almost feeling like the exotic male dancer that his body resembled, his hard-chiseled musculature drawing a gasp from Karen, and then another as his smooth tanned body slowly became even more dramatic as he gradually flexed for her. He slowly raised his right arm into a bicep pose, his huge 22” arm growing, his hard peaked bicep finally standing out dramatically for her.

Karen felt her body burning inside, her nipples tingling wildly, and she was sure she was wetting her jeans! She knew Chris was even more powerful than an Arion Beta, a true superman in her eyes. She stepped closer, her hands spreading out across his deep muscular chest, her fingers tracing upwards across his shoulders. She couldn’t help but be drawn to his amazing arm, his huge bicep soon filling her hands, her grip finally bold and unrestrained as she held a man for the first time without holding back. She felt no give in his hard muscle, his body seemingly carved from a single block of steel!

Her thoughts suddenly turned to the other steel that she wanted so desperately, her breath coming faster as she felt his other hand expertly undoing the backwards buttons of her denim blouse, gliding lower, button by button, pausing briefly as she felt his fingers move between her large rounded breasts and purposely flexed her pecs to squeeze her breasts together, momentarily trapping his hand in her deep cleavage.

Chris paused as Karen then stepped slowly backwards, her own fingers purposefully opening the last button as she removed her blouse, the bright moonlight clearly displaying the wonderfully strong contours of her body, a body that looked as strong as her daughter’s, but far better endowed. She stepped forward to grasp his hands, guiding them insistently upwards to cup her large firm breasts.

She gasped softly in pleasure as her hands closed tightly about his, encouraging him to hold her more firmly. He began to massage her breasts very deeply, probing her like no Terran man ever could, his fingers powerfully stroking her huge hard nipples as her breathing became ragged and fast, her arms suddenly surrounding his neck to pull him closer.

Oh, Chris, hold me tighter, as tightly as you can, ohh, yes, YES, ohhh…!”

Her body shook softly as he used all his strength, seeing how much it pleased her, thinking how long it must have been for her, realizing that this was perhaps an unusual aspect of Arion lovemaking, this powerful yet very intimate embrace. He slowly lifted her from the ground by just her breasts, her legs wrapping around his waist as he brought her nipples to his mouth, his soft lips and then his teeth exciting her. He finally bit down hard on one nipple as her body exploded in passion, her arms and legs flexing urgently to thrust her breast deeply against his face as he held her nipple so tightly in his teeth, her body unexpectedly climaxing powerfully against his!

Her orgasm seemed to go on and on as he lowered his hands to surround her firm rounded ass, his fingers suddenly gripping more strongly than even denim could withstand, her jeans tearing loudly as he pushed her butt up against a huge boulder. Her fingers were instantly undoing his pants, the fabric of his jeans also tearing slightly as she moved too quickly in her excitement. Reaching down to hold her hands, he smoothly overpowered her Arion muscles, forcing her arms behind her, pinning them to the huge boulder. He felt her straining against him, yet he was far stronger than her. Her body struggled violently against him as her face and eyes and moans eagerly urged him onward, her body thrilled that she was at last being overpowered and ‘taken’ in the Arion style: reveling in that pleasure for the first time in 17 years!

Chris’ dramatically-enhanced manhood rose upward as he pressed himself against the front of her sturdy jeans, the fabric ripping loudly as his steel hardly noticed such a minor obstacle, his long, slow, inexorable, and finally complete penetration into her body extending her near continuous orgasm to new heights, her cries completely unrestrained in the night air, her ass now pressed powerfully against the rock from the forces that were being unleashed so deeply inside her alien body.

He then thrust himself against her with all his strength, knowing that he could not hurt such a woman, even though her body was helpless beneath his own. He felt her cuming again and again as he found himself finally approaching his own orgasm, his body now out of control, and this time with no need for control. He was just on the verge of his own explosion, Karen’s eyes tightly shut as her body was again slammed so wonderfully against the rock with nearly a thousand pounds of force, when Chris suddenly felt something new. He felt a pair of small soft breasts pressing unmistakably against his back, slender strong arms reaching undeniably around his neck, and soft kisses delicately invading his ear!

This new and unexpected sensation was more than he could contain, his body exploding as his cry joined Karen’s, the huge boulder moving and crumbling slightly as new forces joined his own strength, pressing him forward even harder!

Their shared orgasm went on for several minutes, the soft high cries of the woman in front of him being enhanced by the higher and softer cries of the woman behind him, Chris so pleased that Bo had joined them. He had wanted to get closer to her ever since they had met!

His legs finally gave out, Karen and he both collapsing to the ground as he deliriously felt Bo’s soft kisses caressing his ear. His manhood, every bit as capable as Velorian science could make it, raged back to full strength as his mind was still recovering from the powerful release just completed. He swung around, ecstatic to be about to share Bo’s body now. Eyes closed, he felt her strong arms holding him, her legs spreading around his hips to greet him, preparing to take him so deeply inside herself. He opened his eyes to enjoy her expression at the moment of penetration. But staring at him were not Bo’s gray eyes, but the gorgeous baby blues of Karen’s daughter, Jenny!

* * *

After being asleep nearly two hours, about 2:00am, Aaron woke up, feeling a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see Bo leaning over him, suddenly alarmed as he realized that he had fallen asleep on ‘guard’ duty!

“Aaron, wake up. The water has gone down and I just saw that ‘thing’ cross over just to the south of us. I need you to go back and wake everyone up in the camp while I try to find its tracks, find out where it is going.“

Bo raced off into the night as Aaron rose sleepily to his feet, remembering Bo’s earlier ominous description of the beast. He was still rubbing the sleep from his eyes when Bo ran back toward him, glancing back over her shoulder.

“Shit, Aaron, that thing is coming straight at us,” Bo said, a tremble in her voice. “Whatever it is, it can sure move fast, I swear it can sprint at 50 miles per hour, I was barely able to keep my distance from it. It definitely saw me, and was clearly stalking me!”

“Bo, calm down,” Aaron said softly. “You’re a super woman now, how could a mere animal hurt you? I mean, Chris was telling us how bullets just bounced off your bod back when those gang members stopped you in LA, how could a few claws and fangs hurt you?”

“Aaron, dammit, I may be just a city girl, but that thing is not your normal desert wildlife. It is definitely something else, and something far worse.”

They both turned and ran, Bo’s arm sweeping Aaron along so fast that his feet flew upward, his body not even touching the ground. The air rushed by him as they suddenly arrived back in camp, both of them horrified to see no one sleeping by the fire!

“Oh God, Aaron, where are they?” Bo cried out in fear and frustration as she spun around again and again in a circle. “Where is Chris, he would know how to fight this thing! CHRIS!

Aaron ran over to the truck, his Dad still laying in the back, but now struggling to get up. “What’s wrong Aaron? Why are you guys shouting?”

“Dad, there is some kind of wolf creature coming but I can’t find anyone except Bo. Mom, Jen and Chris are all missing!”

He saw his Dad trying to get up, pain suddenly clear in his face again as he collapsed. “Oh damn it, Aaron, I can’t help. But there is a gun under the front seat, a 45, get it, QUICK.”

Aaron ran frantically around to the front door to fumble around under the seat for a moment, finally finding the large 45 Auto. He dropped it once before finally getting a good grip on it while running back toward Bo. He saw her trembling beside the fire, her face a mask of terror as her body shook violently, her legs looking like they were about to collapse.

“Maybe its afraid of the fire, Aaron, maybe it won’t come into the camp?!” Her voice was high and thin, the terror taking over her body.

She had no sooner spoken than Aaron suddenly felt her hand gripping him painfully, her breath gasping as she pointed back toward the truck. There, glowing from the darkness beside the rear wheels, were two yellow eyes, each of them as high as the rear windows of the Explorer!

Aaron raised the gun in his shaking hands, suddenly realizing that he would likely hit his Dad in the truck if he missed the beast. He lowered the gun, grimly knowing he would have to wait for a better shot.

*

Bo tried to say something, but her mouth seemed dry and frozen, no sound coming out. She felt her legs trembling so badly that she could hardly stand, a primal fear somehow overpowering her as she saw those unblinking eyes staring back at her as Aaron bravely walking closer to the dark shape. Pausing halfway to it, he reached down to start to pick up a large stick that was laying on the ground.

Suddenly, there was an incredible blur of movement, a huge gray beast suddenly leaping toward him, wide-open mouth displaying six-inch long fangs. Fangs that were instantly lunging for Aaron’s neck as he jumped back up and pointed the gun toward the hurtling form.

There were three loud reports from the gun, the creature’s roar nearly breaking their eardrums as it twisted its body to the side, missing Aaron as it extended its leap to land directly on top of Bo!

There was a sickening thud as she was smashed onto her back, the creature suddenly slashing at her throat, jaws closing about her neck as it lifted her high into the air and began shaking her violently! Her arms flailed around, trying to find a hold on the beast, but it flung her too violently for her to get a grip. The beast finally threw her up in the air and released her, her boneless body crumpling into an unconscious heap just outside the light of the fire. The beast now turned, staring again at Aaron as it walked slowly toward him.

He was too terrified to move, the white face of the beast now revealed in the firelight, looking like a crude caricature of a human skull, no skin covering it, just hard bone and teeth. The eyes were deeply inset and surrounded by bony protrusions that protected them. Its menacing growl grew stronger, the sound strong and low enough to shake the very ground they stood on.

Aaron fired again, the bullets striking the beast’s face as they bounced off the hard bone, only bright flashes marking the impact points. As had happened with Bo, Aaron’s fears began to overwhelm him as the beast slinked ever so slowly forward, his legs finally collapsing to drop his face down to the level of the beasts fangs. His body felt too weak to move, the creature somehow controlling his mind, filling him with primal fears and anxieties he had never known he had, its massively fanged jaws dripping hot saliva only inches from his face, the creature’s low growl continuing to shake the earth.

*

Chris was simultaneously dismayed and thrilled to see Jenny holding him, his body almost irrecoverably poised to take her like he had just taken her mother, her strong arms and legs nearly overpowering him as he felt her virginal nether lips spreading apart around the head of his manhood. He gasped loudly and struggled to push her away, but the immutable look on her beautiful face and her strong gymnast’s legs melted and overpowered him in his weakened state. He felt her young body starting to open wider for him when he was suddenly twisted violently away from the girl, landing on his back on the rock strewn ground as a woman’s strong legs squeezed his hips.

“Damn it, Chris, I said to leave her alone. You want to fuck someone, fuck me! Oh My God Chris, please fuck me, fuck me AGAIN!”

He felt a surge of strength and anger. Damn it, this woman may be right, but she was not going to be in control! He rolled her onto her back, slamming her hands to the ground over her head as he thrust into her again, the rocks literally shattering beneath her firm body as he showed her his powers as a super man, again and again!

*

Jen was frustrated once again, tears flowing down her face. Her mother had brutally taken her lover from her when she had almost had him! Why?! Every man back in their hometown always gave her Mom ‘that look’ when she walked by. She could have any man, why did she want Chris, he was HER friend, not her goddamn mother’s!

She ran back toward the campsite again, completely forgetting her clothes, her tears blinding as she ran toward the vague brightness of the fire.

She was almost there when she heard the loud gunshots, three of them! She stumbled over a rock and fell on her side just as she saw Bo’s body being thrown up in the air by a huge gray beast! She scrambled back to her feet, her legs feeling like lead now as she walked slowly forward, the atmosphere suddenly frightening as it seemed as if there was a force or a field surrounding their campsite, one that filled her with dread as she ‘pushed’ through it.

Jen saw her brother crumpled onto his knees, Bo’s unconscious body ten feet away. She also saw the huge beast as it slowly opened its massive jaws, fangs reaching slowly forward toward her brother.

Her legs suddenly felt light again as something snapped in her head! She launched her body twenty feet forward in a single leap to land on the beasts back, her hands surrounding its massive neck as she tried to strangle it with all her youthful strength!

*

Chris and Karen were instantly interrupted from their deep passion by the crashing sound of the gunshots. They were on their feet in moments, Chris hopping to get his pants on as Karen dashed topless toward the campfire, her torn jeans barely hanging on to her lower body. He raced rapidly behind her, catching up as they both reached the campfire at the same time.

Chris stopped dead in his tracks to see a huge wolf-like creature spinning around and around, Jen’s nude body securely on its back, her hands gripping its throat as her strong legs squeezed around the beasts belly, holding on for dear life. Neither he nor Karen hesitated, Karen rushing to help Bo while Chris grabbed the gun from Aaron’s limp hand and stood to face the beast. He tried to get a good shot, but it was moving at such a blur that it was impossible for him to aim properly, and if he fired, it would be a complete tossup whether he hit beast or Jen! He tensed as the beast suddenly leaped up into the air, its massive weight crushing down fully on its own back as it crushed Jen beneath its body. Her arms fell limp as she passed out, but the beast leaped back to its feet almost like a cat!

It immediately leaped at Chris, jaws closing about his arms as he tried to thrust it away, the powerful snaps of its teeth very painful to him despite his near invulnerability to physical harm. It took him only a dazed second to realize that this beast was something that had not been spawned on this planet, it was clearly alien, both in appearance and powers!

Its teeth slashed at him again and again, finally finding him open as the horrible jaws closed about his neck, the immense pressure of those 6”-long fangs instantly choking Chris’ breath off, everything going dim as he felt a wave of blackness sweep over him, the night suddenly feeling silent and peaceful. The last thing he felt was his body dragging across the ground as he finally yielded completely to the grip of the beast’s massive jaws.

*

Karen slapped Bo’s face twice using all her considerable strength. She saw the woman’s eyes trying to open as she slapped her yet again. She was just about to administer another when Bo’s hand flashed out to catch her wrist, bending her backward as Karen felt her awesome strength for the first time, astounded that any woman could be that strong! She was bent painfully backward until her legs collapsed, falling to the ground as Bo finally released her.

“Damn it, Karen, I’m awake. You don’t have to pound the crap out of me!”

“Bo, the creature, my daughter, is she OK?” Karen babbled as she jumped back to her feet, immediately seeing Jen lying unconscious on the ground and Aaron struggling back to his feet. She looked around wildly; there was no sign of Chris or the beast.

Turning to face Bo again, she saw the woman’s eyes moving up and down her body, suddenly remembering that she was more than half nude. But it was the profound wetness between her legs that obviously drew Bo’s interest, her heavy jeans shredded from activities that anyone could easily guess at.

“Well, I hope you and Chris were having fun while we fought that beast. And why is your daughter running around nude at the same time? You don’t mean that you were ... you and your daughter both ... Karen!”

“No, Bo, it isn’t what you think. But yes, Chris and I got together. Do you have any idea what it is like to be many times stronger than all the men around you, never able to let yourself go?”

“Yes, Karen, I know exactly what that is like.” Bo breathed a little sadly.

“Oh, yes, I guess you would, sorry. Anyway, Jen came and tried to join us, I pushed her away, she is too young for a man such as him, she is not ready yet. However, I was, well, a little out of control and wasn’t as ‘motherly’ as I should have been. I’m glad she came back here to help you.”

Aaron walked closer, his eyes trying to avoid his mother as she stood almost nude near the fire, reserving his gaze for Bo; she was not much better clothed than his Mom after her fight with the beast and a lot more interesting for a son to look at!

“Jen saved my life,” he said. “That ‘thing’ was about to eat me when she jumped on its back and distracted it.”

That’s my daughter,” Karen said to Bo softly. “Very brave but not always very wise.

“Does anybody know what direction they went? “ Bo suddenly asked, knowing the ‘tender’ scene here could wait until after she rescued Chris. Aaron pointed to the left and she bounded off into the night, running across the brightly lit desert at more than 100 miles per hour.

*

Karen picked Jen up in her arms and carried her unconscious form over to lay her on the tailgate of the truck, covering her with a blanket. Jim’s eyes saw how Karen looked, her nude upper body and torn jeans; he had also seen that Jen had been nude as well. He had figured it was from fighting the beast until his nose told him otherwise, the smell of sex was strong on both of them, and mainly on his wife!

“My God, Karen, what have you been up to. Did you and that mutant go off together? Were you FUCKING him?”

“Shhh, Jim, Aaron will hear and Jen could wake up any moment. This does not involve them, or at least not Aaron. We’ll talk later, we have a lot of talking to do. But for now, I need to help Bo and Chris: the beast ran off with him in its jaws!”

Jim lay back down as he saw his wife slipping out of her rags and into her exercise leotard. She spun around and ran off into the night without another word.

He was not proud of his thoughts during the next hour, part of his mind wishing that that mutant intruder had been eaten by the beast, another part of him realizing that it had only been a matter of time until something like this was going to happen. He knew he had never been able to bring pleasure to his wife, solitary masturbation had been her only release, and she had been unwilling to even talk to him about it, about her unusual needs. Now that she had met a man who could finally meet those needs, this was the inevitable outcome. After all, after being married to an Arion for 16 years, he thoroughly knew that their libidos were as strong as their muscles!

*

Bo caught sight of the beast loping along the top of a ridge about a half mile in front of her as she sprinted toward it, rapidly closing the distance. She saw the beast drop Chris to the ground, its snarling loud enough to mask the sound of her running feet as they pounded the earth. She saw it sniffing and biting lower on Chris’ body, somehow more interested in his lower body as it licked and bit at him tentatively. She finally leaped over the last of the boulders in her path as she landed on bare feet not six feet from the beast.

“Okay little doggy, if you want something to eat, eat this!” With that, she leaped forward to engage the beast, her fists swinging toward its bony head.

The beast moved incredibly fast as it ducked beneath her lunge, its jaws closing about her lower body as a huge fang found a easy entrance point. It bit down with a strength that could bite through steel girders, the woman’s body giving softly for a moment until it gave no more.

Bo flexed her lower body at the same time as she felt a razor sharp fang penetrating her. She gasped in surprise, but instantly smashed her fists down on the beast’s shoulders, its legs suddenly collapsing as she fell on top of it. The beast shook its head violently while keeping its hold on her, the penetrating fang now sending undesired signals through her body. Or perhaps not so undesired at all! The beast had overpowered her before, but those tingling signals made her stronger as she spread her legs on either side of the beast’s jaw, pressing her lower body deeply into its mouth as she wrapped her strong legs around its head. She deliberately welcomed her growing arousal, feeling it enhance her power, feeling it overwhelm the beast’s mental attempts to reawaken her fears, and then began to flex every muscle in her lower body, her fingers also reaching down to close around the bony protrusions of its head, bone cracking under the strength of her super muscles! She was almost climaxing as she squeezed harder and harder, hardly noticing the beast’s now frantic attempts to control her mind, her legs becoming steel girders as the muscles of her inner thighs flexed with their full power.

It was only seconds before the inevitable occurred, the steely legs of this inflamed superwoman proving stronger than even alien flesh and bones, the beast’s skull collapsing noisily, the sound of rending steel and breaking glass from between her moistened thighs reminding her of the alien origin of this beast!

She finally collapsed on top of Chris’ unconscious body as the beast fell crushed and dead to the ground. She was still laying there recovering five minutes later when Karen ran up, puffing loudly from her five mile sprint. She checked to make sure Chris was breathing OK, his neck bruised but the skin unbroken. Helping Bo to her feet, she looked down on the body of the slain beast.

“Oh, shit, I know what that thing is,” she said to Bo. “The Kintzi have a few ‘pets’ that they let loose on Earth once in a while. If this is what I think it is, it’s called a Kraven. It’s a wolf-like creature from some planet that the Kintzi conquered years ago. They raise these wolf-like creatures as pets now, the full powers of the Kintzi required to keep them controlled. If this thing is running loose, you can be very certain that there are Kintzi around.”

She had no sooner said that than they heard a loud cat-like screech coming from the direction of the campsite, Karen’s blood suddenly running cold. Jim was lying there and the Kintzi were there; and they HATED Terrans!”

*

The Ops team had been tracking the two aliens all night, their nightvision equipment and nearly silent electric vehicles had allowed them to keep up with the amazingly fast moving aliens while still staying out of sight. They had sent many amplified telephoto images of the creatures back to the command post where they had created a huge stir. The huge pictures that were now displayed on the command post screens looked like sentient house cats that walked on their hind legs! Even the striped fur looked much like a tabby!

Yet these creatures were far more than cats, their nearly 6’ height and seeming ability to leap several hundred feet straight up into the air was testimony to the amazing muscles that were hidden beneath their fur.

Katarina’s team was only tasked with observing them, it was thought unwise to try and confront them until they understood the aliens’ abilities and weapons.

Katarina was dug in on top of a sandy ridge now, the aliens about a half mile ahead of them as they stood on the bank of an arroyo, the remaining water from the flash flood still a few inches deep in the bottom of it. They saw they ‘cats’ apparently arguing, looking uncomfortably down at the water. Katarina smiled for a moment, wondering if these ‘cats’ were like a Terran cat, afraid of water?

She was still pondering that thought when the first of the cats, the one that seemed to be the leader, suddenly jumped high in the air, his leap soaring upward for nearly a thousand feet as he easily cleared the 300 foot wide arroyo! Katarina was so startled that she momentarily dropped her night vision glasses, quickly picking them back up to see that the other one had matched the jump and both were now on the other side of the arroyo. My God, she thought to herself, they have super strength!

She motioned to her team to mount back up before leading them down a gully that led to the arroyo, the cats quickly running off to the north along the bank at the same time.

*

It was nearly 30 minutes later when her team managed to gain the east bank of the arroyo. Despite having ATV’s, the bottom of the arroyo had been almost like quicksand and the east bank had been steep. They had just turned to head north when they heard a wild screeching, a cross between a high growl and the sound of a cat in heat. Quickly snapping her nightvision gear back on, Katarina saw the heat bloom of a campfire. She also saw something far more ominous as the aliens rushed into the campsite and grabbed a teenage boy and girl who were standing beside the fire!

She grabbed the shoulder of the sergeant standing next to her.

“Joe, tell the men: everyone is authorized to engage the aliens using deadly force. They captured two people, just teenagers. We have to save them if we can. Let’s go!”

With that, Katarina twisted the throttle on her own ATV, the electric motor humming as the wheels spun in the soft sand, quickly picking up speed as she raced toward the fire.

*

Shevin was shocked as he ran into the campsite, amazed that these two Terrans still lived after the Kraven had attacked! In fact, he saw none of the usual signs of blood and torn flesh that always marked a Kraven’s attack!

They had been following the beast for the last few hours, watching it feed on rabbits and coyotes, proving to be a devastating predator here on Earth. They had been thrilled as it had moved toward a group of Terrans they had seen on the other bank of the sandy stream, hoping that it would eat its fill now so that they could return it to their ship by dawn. It was unfortunate that the Kraven would only eat food that it had caught and killed, something that was difficult on an Arion ship. But Earth was perfect, there were so many prey here, these Terrans being the most fun to hunt!

Seeing no sign of the Kraven other than its footprints, he grabbed the young girl that stood beside the fire, the shocked look on her face as she saw his appearance amusing him. The Terrans were always shocked when they saw the beauty of the Kintzi form, their own ugly hairless bodies obviously an embarrassment to them. They were usually even uglier than the Arions!

The girl struggled with him for a moment, Shevin momentarily surprised as she proved to be stronger than the Terrans he had met before, but his strength was still vastly greater, nearly 800 times that of a Terran man. He used more of his own strength on the girl, hearing her cry out as her shoulder gave way, knowing he had dislocated it. He wasn’t concerned, she had only to give him a few moments of sport before she was going to be dismembered anyway! His claws were far more powerful than even a Kraven’s teeth, so the girl would soon be just so much torn flesh.

He saw his partner, Flatnok, lifting the boy off the ground by his neck, one razor-sharp claw moving slowly across his neck as he played with him, getting ready to slit his throat. It was reputed that Terrans tasted very good, especially when grilled under a layer of ripe fruit, but they didn’t have time for gourmet cooking now, nor any fruit. They had to retrieve the Kraven and get back to their ship in less than four hours.

He looked back down at the girl as she lay on the ground, wondering about the crude jokes the Arions told of mating with these Terran women, how their bodies opened up like a gutted trout when they had sex with them, their soft bodies unable to contain the steel of an aroused Arion Prime. He felt disgusted, wondering why anyone would even want to have sex with one of these ugly hairless beasts! The Arions were a sick bunch, that was for sure, but at least they paid well!

He reached for her again as the night was suddenly split by Flatnok’s victory howl as he prepared to rend the boy apart. His own voice joined his partner’s, the joy of a good clean kill was about to be theirs!

*

Bo was running across the desert at her full speed, reaching nearly 300 miles per hour as her legs and arms were a blur, moving a hundred times per second. She had never run this fast before, her feet hardly touching the ground as she felt the slipstream from her rapid passage sending billows of desert sand up all around her. The campfire rushed up at her as she saw a huge cat-like creature, its reddish fur glowing like blood in the firelight as it reached down toward a very terrified Jenny! Bo threw her body forward, smashing her right shoulder into the beast’s midsection at more than 300 miles per hour!

Bo felt a stunning collision, a clang nearly like steel on steel echoing across the desert as she hit the beast so hard that she saw stars for a moment. She landed next to the beast nearly a hundred yards beyond the campsite, the creature showing its cat-like heritage as it sprang back to its feet, launching its body right at her as she lay on her back.

*

Flatnock was shocked as a tanned blur had flown into the campsite, the ringing impact against his partner convincing him that a Arion Prime had just attacked him. He was disoriented, not understanding why an Arion would oppose them, wondering if these Terrans were under their protection. He hesitated, his claw barely drawing blood as he had just started to tear the boy’s throat out. Maybe he had better wait until Shevin got back before he killed the boy.

*

Bo screamed as the cat’s claws raked her nude body. Despite her invulnerability she FELT that! She kicked upward, the cat suddenly launched a half mile into the air as her normally beautiful thigh flexed to its full power. Scrambling to her feet, she ran beneath the creature, her powerful fist completing a roundhouse blow that hit the cat just as it fell on top of her.

*

Shevin was shocked as the second blow hit him, throwing him against a boulder so hard that it shattered behind him. He knew he was facing an Arion Prime but had no idea why she was fighting him! Besides, there had been no report of any Arions in this part of the desert! No matter, the blood lust was now filling his body, making his fur stand on end and his ears flatten. He gave off a hissing growl as he sprung toward the woman, smashing full into her body as he pinned her to the ground. Bunching his paws into steel-like fists, he smashed her face again and again, a feeling of triumph filling him as her eyes went blank. He had sparred with Primes before, but they had always been better fighters than this! This was too easy.

Yet he had no mercy. Anyone who attacked him was going to die, Arion Prime or not! He suddenly decided to do something he had always wanted to do, reaching down with his steel-hard claws to grab the woman’s large breasts! He had always wondered about these hairless energy organs, wondered if they felt anything like the furry breasts of a Kintzi female. He was suddenly surprised to find not only that they did, but they were a lot larger than any Kintzi female he had ever mated with!

He hissed in pleasure as his claws bit deeply into them and he tore his arms out to the side, fully expecting to rend such soft flesh to tatters. He was shocked when her body not only resisted him, but her eyes snapped back open to meet his as her legs reached up to surround his waist!

He redoubled his strength, tearing upward to lift her upper body off the ground. At the same time, the breath whooshed from his lungs as her legs suddenly crushed in against him. He suddenly knew he was in trouble: this Prime was clearly stronger than he was!

*

Flatnock saw a man running toward him, his speed very impressive for a Terran. The man didn’t hesitate as he launched himself forward, his body striking Flatnock so hard that he dropped the Terran boy.

Chris was stunned as he plowed into the cat-like creature, its body feeling like it was made of steel as Chris bounced off his body and fell on his back onto the ground. The creature snarled menacingly as it leaped forward, its powerful claws swiping down his body, slicing his clothing off as the claws tore his skin slightly. Chris felt a burning like fire as he knew that the creature’s claws had to be stronger than sharpened tool steel to tear his skin. He was suddenly afraid as he knew that he was facing a super being of some sort!

*

“So, you like my tits do you?” Bo yelled at the cat creature. “Why don’t I help you hold them!”

With that, she gripped her hands around the creature’s claws, not holding back anything as she squeezed his clawed paws against her invulnerable breasts with her full strength. She was rewarded with a hissing moan from the creature as his claws sunk deeply into her softness, the snapping of bones clearly felt through her breasts as its clawed paws were finally crushed as the softness could compress no more. She slowly rotated her body, keeping her legs around the beast’s body as she finally tore its broken paws from her chest, hooking her ankles together as she suddenly concentrated on crushing this ‘thing’ between her legs. Her inner thighs flexed to their full power, near diamond-hard muscles squeezing inward on fur-covered steel, the outcome a predictable one. The slow noisy crunching of alien bones and pulping of alien muscles spurred her onward, a wild and unexpected rush of arousal exploding from between her legs as she felt the creature’s body collapse between her legs, unable to control her own enhanced reaction as a powerful orgasm swept her body, providing her with ever greater strength as her powerfully gorgeous thighs met, the creature’s body rended into two bloody halves by her long legs!

The effect on Bo was intense and the resulting orgasm was not a brief one, several minutes passing as she lay among the remains of the creature before she finally got herself back under control. Rising unsteadily to her feet, she began to run slowly and a little bowlegged back toward the campfire, her legs still pumped from her exertions.

*

Meanwhile, back at the campsite, Chris found he was clearly overmatched by the creature, his body smashed to the ground repeatedly as the creature almost seemed to be playing with him. He tried to get away, almost succeeding each time before the creature lunged again, pouncing on his back to immobilize him. He was starting to get really scared when he suddenly heard the sound of nearby gunfire, the beast’s body suddenly jerking wildly as powerful bullets struck its back.

Chris was nearly deafened by the creature’s wild thundering roar, a sound reminiscent of a male lion, yet much louder as it echoed across the desert. He saw his chance and kicked upward with all his strength, the cat-like creature tumbling in mid-air to land lightly on its feet. He braced himself for the next attack only to be surprised as the creature turned and leaped toward a man who had appeared near the edge of the firelight.

*

Katarina’s team had attacked in force, six men with assault rifles running forward to engage the creatures to buy time for a two man team to set up an anti-armor rocket launcher. She helped support the men with fire from her sidearm, suddenly shocked to see one of the creatures up close for the first time! It looked almost like a morph between a sentient house cat and a man, the creature often walking on its hind legs, yet clearly capable of still sprinting on all fours much like a Terran lion. Its large yellow eyes glowed in the light of the campfire as those same flames revealed a mouth filled with cruel fangs.

She watched in horror as one of the creatures suddenly sprinted on all fours toward one of her men, the stream of bullets ricocheting wildly into the night as they bounced off the creatures steel-like body. The creature ran right into the man, knocking his rifle from his hands as it attacked with claws and fangs, the man’s body rendered into a torn and almost unrecognizable pile of flesh in mere seconds, parts of the soldier’s body spread out in a ten foot radius around the beast!

Despite the horror, Katarina’s training kept her moving, saving her reaction to what she had just seen until there was time for it. She ran toward the campfire, lifting the unconscious girl over her strong shoulder as she ran behind a large boulder to hide her. Turning, she ran back toward the fire, only to see the ‘cat’ staring directly at her, claws extending from its paws as it waited directly in her path!

She fired the remaining two rounds in her sidearm at the beast, the bright ricochet from its chest eliciting only a soft hiss from the creature. She saw muscles bunching under reddish fur as it prepared to pounce at her, the vision of the first soldier’s body suddenly fresh in her mind as she recalled how the man’s limbs were ripped from his body by those powerful claws.

Katarina dove at the creature’s feet as it pounced, a ripping of clothing along her back being the only contact as it flew over her as she landed heavily on her face in the sand. Quickly turning her head and spitting out the desert sand, she saw the beast turning to attack again, suddenly knowing that she wasn’t going to trick it a second time!

*

Chris had been astounded to see a tall woman in military fatigues run into his campsite to pick up Jenny and carry her into the darkness beyond. He was even more surprised when she ran back toward the fire again, one of the cat-creatures suddenly blocking her way. He didn’t pause to even think as he turned and ran toward her, impressed as her quick rolling dive forced the beast to leap over her. He finally reached her and shoved the woman aside, launching his own invulnerable body directly at the creature, their bodies colliding with a sickening THUD.

Chris was stunned by the impact, it felt like he had just thrown himself against a stone statue or the side of a building, the tightly coiled muscles of the creature’s body having the same hardness. He was suddenly lifted off the ground as fangs and claws raked painfully across his body, his skin feeling like it was being deeply rendered even though he knew better. He struggled with all his enhanced strength, yet the power of twenty strong men seemed to have little impact on such a creature, his fists merely bouncing off the beast’s steel-like face and shoulders. He finally wrapped his legs around the cat’s neck, squeezing it with all his strength. The cat hissed loudly, jaws opening as its fangs snapped closed on Chris’s body, his dramatic manhood suddenly crushed between fangs that no Earthly substance could resist!

Chris howled in pain as he felt his body being shaken from side to side, his legs flying open as his crotch was savagely attacked by the creature, his body suspended in air by the fangs that tore at his balls. Surprisingly, the pain was less than when the creature had earlier raked his body with its claws, Chris suddenly reminded of the purpose of his genetic enhancement, the organs now under attack having been specifically enhanced to withstand the inner steel of a Velorian’s body. He knew that if they could withstand the enthusiastic and loving forces of a young supergirl, then this alien creature, despite its fangs, its rage, and its strength, could not harm the flesh it was now holding, flesh that had been created to satisfy far greater forces!

*

Katarina looked on in shock as the cat creature tore at the nearly nude man that had come to her rescue, his body seemingly unable to combat the beast, yet claws and fangs seemed unable to hurt him either! She was sickened as the creature attacked his manhood as the man tried to crush it with his legs, and amazed as he seemed unhurt when the creature finally spat him out to land beside her. Before she could react, she felt herself swept from her feet as the man lifted her over his shoulder, running with surprising speed to carry her near the edge of the arroyo. He set her gently down before turning to run back toward the fire, the contours of his strong body very visible to Katarina as they were reflected in the moonlight.

Katarina found she could barely stand as she struggled to walk, her foot suddenly slipping as she realized she was at the very edge of the arroyo. Her arms flailed wildly as she tried to regain her balance, realizing too late that she was falling over the edge toward the wet blackness below her.

*

Meanwhile the creature had engaged the remainder of the advance force, the torn flesh of human bodies now littering the landscape, their weapons twisted into scrap metal. Bo now attacked the remaining creature just as the anti-armor rocket launcher had been set up by the few survivors on Katarina’s team. She was grappling with the creature, trying to get a hold on it such that she could bring her amazing muscles to bear. Yet this creature was more skillful, denying her the deadly embrace of her arms or legs. She felt herself tiring, her breasts tingling hungrily as the remains of her stored energy gradually became depleted. She felt the creature’s clawed grip on her wrists slowly overpowering her, its fangs biting down once again to take her left breast into its mouth, the cruel bite actually hurting this time as her breast seemed softer and more sensitive to the beast’s steely fangs! Suddenly, she was nearly blinded as a bright streak raced out of the darkness, an explosion of sparks flying into the night as the creature’s body was smashed against hers with incredible force.

*

Flatnock had been growling in satisfaction as he had felt the Arion female’s body slowly yielding to his, the occasional spark arcing between her erect nipples a clear sign that she was running out of energy. He knew how to fight Arion Primes, the men never able to maintain a fight as long a Kintzi. However their women, at least the well-endowed ones, were often more than a match for him in their sparring sessions. He knew how these women stored energy in those silly looking protruding glands, organs that were usually so vulnerable to teeth and claws! His teeth were ravaging one of her glands now, the soft flesh feeling so satisfying as he chewed on it, hoping to tear her soft yet nearly invulnerable flesh. He was almost beginning to hope he could accomplish that impossible task when a powerful blow struck his back, a knife of hot agony slicing deep into his body, his chest suddenly feeling filled with fire! He released the woman, staggering to turn around as he looked down to see a growing stain of blood covering his chest. Yet the blow had been to his back!!

*

The pencil thin stream of superheated gas from the shaped-charge had overcome Kintzi flesh, much as it could overcome ten inches of tank armor. The 10,000C stream of gasses had penetrated the creature’s chest cavity from the back, cooking its internal organs in a few milliseconds. The men on the launcher stared at the cat as it turned toward them, the beast taking a few staggering steps while it looked down at the dark blood that was spreading across its chest. They saw a surprised look in its eyes just before it fell face-first into the sand.

*

Katarina crawled her way back up the steep bank, grateful that the pool of water that she had fallen into had softened the impact of her twenty foot fall. She regained the top just as the man who had saved her rushed over to take her hand, effortlessly lifting her over the edge of the steep bank.

“God, I’m sorry I left you so close to the edge, are you OK?”

Katarina’s face was close to this man’s as she reached out to steady herself against him, her hands holding his waist tightly.

“Ah, yes, I guess I’m OK, just surprised that I’m alive. What were those things and how did you survive them, they attacked you, I mean the way they attacked, your, ah, body and…” Her voice trailed away as she looked down, the moonlight enough for her to see a portion of his nude body below where her hands held him. She felt a little tingle rush through her body. This was a VERY impressive man!

She saw the man grinning as her eyes rose back up to meet his.

“As opposed to ordinary men, that, ah, particular area is the hardest part of my body to hurt. My girlfriend sort of ‘insists’ on that!”

Katarina had no idea what he was talking about as she forced herself to step away from him, her thoughts suddenly inappropriate for a field commander during combat. She turned and ran toward the fire, suddenly sickened as she saw the bloody torn remains of her advance team. She could only count the legs and arms, finding enough to account for six men; the size of her entire advance team! She staggered against a boulder, vomiting as she leaned weakly against it, the aftereffects of combat catching up to her. She was slowly sinking to her knees when two strong hands held her shoulders, lifting her back to her feet as if she was weightless. She turned to see the man that had saved her! She couldn’t help herself, her arms flying around his neck as she held herself to him, his powerful body feeling like sculptured steel against the softness of her own.

*

The rescue helicopters took nearly an hour to reach them, Bo having gathered everyone together by that time, afraid there were more Kraven or Kintzi still roaming around. They ran through the noise and blowing dust to enter the helicopters, Katarina now back to normal as she took charge, splitting people up into two groups. They were finally airborne just as the first rays of sunlight peeked over the horizon, a new day starting in the desert, a new day starting for the secret Black Ops team that Katarina led, or at least for the remains of it. The Kintzi’s bodies were lying in bodybags at their feet, yet Katarina could only stare at the woman and man she had met in the desert, their abilities, especially the woman’s, so much greater than human.

She leaned forward to shout above the sound of the engines.

“Would you both like to stay with us at our base? We could really use help figuring out how to combat these cat-like creatures, the ones you call Kintzi. There have been reports of them from many locations, and any human and Kintzi contact seems to leave a lot of torn human bodies around. We really need your help in stopping them. Will you help us?”

Chris started to say something about rescuing people before Bo’s hand closed very tightly about his. “Yes,” she said, “we’ll be glad to. Won’t we Chris?”

He paused before nodding. Maybe it was time to involve some specially trained Terrans in the fight. God knows he and Fairchild weren’t doing a very good job of fighting the Arions and Kintzi on their own. He reached out his hand, three races, Arion Prime, Terran and enhanced-Terran, all meeting as the three of them held each other. Yes, perhaps it truly was time to include Terrans in the fight for their own planet!

Sharon Best
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