Chapter 11

The Universe conspired against itself and the beginning of times is lost and confused and only one Space Traveler accompanied with the first Transgender AI and a retired God must explore the Universe

Eleven.

Entering and exit the Cosmoway it´s quite a complicated challenge especially if you’re being chased by a couple of Bounty Hunters being this exactly the situation of the last survivor of the race that humans named them as "The Grey Ones", ancient inhabitants from the Planet Oloviano that succumbed to his complete and utter destruction and for reasons concerning this story I do not have the authorization to disclose it…yet, but what I can do tell is that the Grey Ones or Olovians, whatever you want to call them, had to seek another planet to call home and in their options there was planet Earth. What only matters for purposes of this story is that Bael, the last gray I mentioned a while, could not stand the urge to go to the bathroom making it very difficult to focus on escaping the bounty hunters. He had a super important mission and being the last of his kind always adds a pinch of stress to the heroism equation.

The Bounty Hunter duo that was chasing Bael was formed by some unusual partners in crime that have been stuck together since they first met eyes. Their current rather peculiar appearance and genetic configuration is the result of a cosmic phenomenon called "Transmutation by Approach and Crossed Looks" (TACL) which happens each 231, 578, 477 spontaneous births of a small creature known in the circles of Transciology as Kuriusux. This is a pretty little creature by the common standards of what you can find in the Universe, its size is no more than an adult human palm, purplish color and fluffy shape that makes you want to squeeze it until it pops the cute and big wiggly eyes and no matter what it does you will always want to rub its belly.

The TACL phenomenon refers to the exact moment when any two pair of eyes of any two beings cross looks at no more than one meter from each other synchronized with the spontaneous birth of the two hundred thirty-one million five hundred seventy-eight thousand four hundred seventy-seven Kuriusux birth, these two creatures who had exchanged a look will suffer from a transmutation between their original form and whatever other third entity might be hovering the nearest. In the last TACL registered one of the many transmutations that happened refers to the moment when a human was fishing quietly in the costs of the Redundant Archipelago of Planet 404, named so because it was found by mistake when someone tried to open simultaneously multiple files on a computer from the Observatory Pico de Gallo. The referred fisherman was accompanied by his faithful friend Hector, a being belonging to the Canidae family race known as Chihuahua Dogs who rested with his mouth on the edge of the boat, in the precise moment of the culmination of the TACLE phenomenon from the deep of the ocean one Odontocete Cetacean more commonly known as Orca approached the boat from the bottom to give them a tremendous bite when Hector crossed looks with the Orca and the transmutation happened. Being that a human was near them, they both suffered from an anthropomorphization filled with colored lights, sparks, wind and some other really amazing special effects worthy of big budget films (the Universe suddenly likes its phenomena to have a dramatic and artistic touch).

After the sparky event both awakened together in one of the beaches from the archipelago, they spent several days trying to figure what had happened. From that time, they experienced a series of very intriguing, mysterious, and dramatic events always peppered with the predatory nature of an Orca and the chronic neurosis of a Chihuahua Dog, stories worthy of being accounted in an additional dossier of this story.

But back to what concerns us. The persecutors of Bael performed all sorts of manoeuvres to catch him, the leader of this audaciously persecution piloting was Danny with its advanced sense of whale navigation system that included a highly improved version of a sonar that cetaceans use in their natural state, however after having the transmutation its natural skills got intensified obtaining something like "Orca Sonar V.2.0 " that allowed him to launch Cosmo-Sound-Waves and efficiently analyze his surroundings expanding his senses. But not only his sonar got improved, obviously this shape and size got reconfigured resulting in a kind of wereorca with a humanoid figure resulting in a mixed imposing figure that forced him to always order his clothes to the guild of "Intimidating Tailors."  This group are the only ones who manufactured clothing with anthropomorphizing dimensions with all the authorized specifications and garments to provide a dangerous and vandal and most of all, intimidating look and feel.

Opposed to the size and shape of Danny, Hector retained the delicate shape of Chihuahua Dog with all the constant nervousness and annoying voice pitch that Danny could ignore most of the time, but during this chase his partner was taking Danny to the point of despair.

- Ándale Dan, the gray ese is getting away, hurry up, push it, puuush it. -said Hector frantically allegedly acting as co-pilot- Dan, I’m telling you he’s escaping, look he´s spinning all over the way and you ain’t doin anything, - barked the altered Chihuahua as he rushed toward the front panel of the ship, -really Dan, you're not listening to me when I say that we’re losing the skinny one and the bounty.

Danny closed his little eyes for a moment letting exhale some steam through his blowhole trying to focus on a rather risky move that he was planning just a few moments before his partner got altered standing and howling at his seat. The orca was measuring how to intercept sideways at Bael’s ship and thus getting him out of his constant movement of pirouettes when suddenly the sound on the ship went out and everything around him started to move much more slowly as if it were floating within the gelatinous filling of the Space Glacier at the Medusa Corinth System, even the incessant barking of Hector got lost in this kind of Sticky Bubble of Thoughts and Danny went into a trance when the waves of his sonar system returned to him and he could discern where Bael was heading, he got the coordinates of a planet from which his ancestors came from, other whales call it Planet Ocean since it´s covered with three-quarters of water but incongruously its numerous inhabitants called it Earth. He knew a shortcut that would help them intercept it. He came out of his trance realizing that Hector kept barking and barking only to turn around opening his big mouth.

- Shut up and sit down, let me do my job and you should be helping me rather than jumping around, do something useful and enter the coordinates that I’m going to tell you. - Hector saw him with his big black round eyes and his tail stopped moving, he wiped from his face the slime splashed by his partner and with the tail between his legs entered the coordinates for the Planet Ocean, or Earth or Ptorik 4, name given by The Grey Ones.

Author's Note

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