In the year 2217, almost every task that was once performed by humans has been automated, now no one works. Everyone lives a life of leisure, and just order the machines around. There are regular flights to Alpha Centauri B by the wealthy, and time travel is a favorite vacation form of entertainment for everyone else.
Due to medical advances there are now four categories of people, male, female, intersex, and furry.
Tests have been developed to identify the unborn whose sex will not match their gender; they are then given drugs while they are still in the womb that alters their DNA, and changes their gender to intersex. They can usually pass for male or female. All of them have breasts, a cock, and a pussy. Men's balls are internal same as a woman's uterus.
There are also tests that identify those who would become a furry, and drugs are given to them in the womb that changes their DNA so they become human-animal hybrid, with a bonus ability to shape shift to human.
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"I'm rifling through bins of bras trying to find my size in the color I want," I said to my buddy Kitsune, who happens to be a fox girl.
We were communicating through our mental link. I was shopping in old town Atlanta at Atlantic Station. Kit was south of old town near the Transport Portal Terminal, which used to be Hartsfield-Jackson Airport when airplanes were still used "You know we could always go shopping in Buckhead. The lingerie boutiques there have everything," said Kit absentmindedly.
"I hate going there by myself," I said, with a shake of my head. "There are too many people shopping up there."
"OK sweetie. I will go with you and help you find something cute," she said, taking a comforting tone.
"Thank you baby, I love you," I said, sending her a smile through our link. "Meet me at Five Points Station. I'm walking to the tube station now."
"OK, give me a second to pay for my stuff, and I will get on the tube too," said Kit. "Who are you getting this for anyway?"
"It's for a dominant cat tail girl I just met. She told me to surprise her, and wear something sexy." I said with a happy smirk. "She's no one you know, but I hear she has the hottest pussy around, ha ha ha. By the way, I'm on the tube now; I'll see you in a couple minutes."
Kit closed her eyes and took a deep breath before she spoke, saying, "Obviously you intersex men didn't get any of our female sensibilities."
"Ha ha, I get to talk like a caveman as long as I have a cock no matter how small it is," I retort.
"Intersex women have a cock too," said Kit, clearly not on board with my logic. "Seriously though, why are you chasing after cat tail kitty? I'm hopping on the tube now, see ya in a minute."
"I already told you," I said, and then I giggled.
She sighed dismissively, and said, "It's just that I thought you were strictly a fox kind of guy."
"You don't know everything about me," I laughed. Then I gave her a cheeky grin.
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I stepped off the tube in the Five Points Tube Station in old town Atlanta, and head toward Kit's tube when suddenly there was a 'POOF,' and this guy appears in front of me, looking around wide eyed." Somehow I avoided tripping over him.
Kit saw the man appear out of thin air, and quickly ran over to where we were standing. She had a startled expression on her face as well. "Earth to Kitsune," I say. "Close your mouth girl, before a bug flies into it. Try to compose yourself, please."
Then I hear her in my head. "Is that creature a man from the past," she asked, looking absolutely befuddled. "They look a lot different than men do now don't they?"
"Yeah, that's what they looked like in the travel brochures I've seen," I responded.
He was a dark skinned guy, in our time most people are a shade of bronze. Anyways, he was cute, with a nice smile, a deep voice, and he was bigger than males are in our time.
"Hi, I'm Gerald," he said, looking around at the throngs of people scurrying about. Where the hell am I?"
After Kit kicked me, I said, "Hi, I'm Nahaul, this is my friend Kitsune, you're in the Five Points Tube Station in old town Atlanta."
"What, old town Atlanta, what are you talking about, and why is everybody dressed like that?" asked Gerald, clearly approaching panic mode.
"Calm down," I said, grasping his forearm with my hand. "You're here by accident."
"I'm where by accident?" asked Gerald, moving ever closer to being terrified.
"You're in the future," I said, biting my bottom lip.
"You're shittin me," said Gerald, now he's about to lose it.
"Where were you just before you were here?" I asked.
"I was in the Five Points Marta Station, just about to step onto the train," he said.
"Um, what year were you in?" I asked, now bracing myself for what I knew was coming.
"2017, why?" responded Gerald, now with a look on his face that said 'I don't like where this is going.'
"Do you believe in time travel?" I asked, with a questioning expression on my face.
"Yeah, in the movies, or on TV," he said, now stone faced.
"What if I told you that you are now in the year 2217?" I asked clenching my teeth. This entire time Kit hadn't said a word.
"I'd say no fucking way," said Gerald, cocking his head to the side, looking straight into my eyes.
"Well that's where you are, believe it or not," I said matter of factly. "How else do you explain this?" I gesture with my left hand and them with my right to indicate where we're standing.
Suddenly he looked bewildered.
"But don't worry, we can fix it. Time travel is a routine thing for us. I'm sure some worker at the transport terminal pressed a button to return someone from a trip back to 2017 at the exact time you were in the same coordinates as that person.
"The transport worker was careless, they are supposed to make sure no one is in the cone around the coordinates when they push the button," I explained. "You can be sent back, that's the good news."
"OK, I'm feeling you on that, but you're implying that there is some bad news," he said skeptically.
"No, it's not bad news per se, It's just that, the time, space continuum thingy might not permit a transfer back to 2017 for another week, so you could be stuck here for a few days, that's all," I said, with a reassuring smile.
"C'mon with me and Kit, we'll take you to a transport office to work things out. I'm sure they will pay for your hotel until you can be sent back to 2017. Once that's sorted, you're welcome to hang out with me and Kit."
No sooner than the words were out of my mouth, Kit kicked me again. I said, "Ouch, that hurt," then I glared at Kit with mock anger.
"You mean I'm stuck here for a week? Is there a Cop somewhere I can talk to" Gerald asked, his panic returning.
I gave up trying to handle the situation, and said, "C'mon, let's catch the tube to the Hartsfield-Jackson Transport Portal Terminal. You can talk with somebody there who can explain it all.
"Kit I will catch-up with you later." Then I gave her a goodbye kiss.
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Moments later we stepped off the tube in the huge Transport Portal Terminal. "We need to go to the customer service office for 'Time Transport," I said, leading the way.
When we went into the office, there was a surprisingly large number of people crowded into the smallish office, seems the people working the transporters today had a bad shift. I looked into the pupil scanner to be assigned a number, and then we stepped outside the crowded office to wait Gerald's turn to be served.
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Suddenly Gerald seemed to lose it. "Oh hell naw, I've got to be dreaming, I need to wake my ass up, WAKE UP," he screamed.
"Shhhh, people are looking at us," I said, trying to get him to calm down. "I will try to explain everything as best as I can. A lot has happened the last 200 years.
"I tell you what, once we get your situation sorted in there, 'I gestured to the Time Portal customer service' we can look at a viewing portal. You can put any date range or keyword for a significant event into it, and it will show you what was going on at that time."
Gerald was agitated, and I suppose I can understand that he was too upset to read literature from the travel bureau. He insisted that I tell him enough to make him understand.
I don't know how many times he said what the fuck over the next few minutes, and I was only telling him the little bit of history that I know. "Gerald" I said, "To put it simply, all of the technological and scientific dreams and fantasies, and some of the worrying things that existed in 2017 have happened. We don't die from the diseases that people died from in the past. Unfortunately there are new diseases though, so we still can't live forever. You have already seen some examples of our technology; it took us a minute to travel from Five Points to Hartsfield-Jackson. Vehicles still exist, but only the less well-off own them. Most of us only work one day per week, workaholics work two or three days."
"There are regular flights to other planets, and of course we are able to travel through time."
"Um, as you have seen, most of us have the same skin tone now, and that's a good thing, right. On the other hand, there are more types of people. In addition to male and female, we now have intersex and furries. Even though I look like a genetic female, I have 'XYZ' chromosomes," I said, as I watched his swing of emotions.
When I said that, the look on Gerald's face was priceless. "What did you say?" he asked, sounding and looking incredulous.
"I am intersex, that means that I have breasts, a cock and a pussy, so does Kit but she only has 'XXZ' chromosomes, she is also a furry though,'" I said as plainly as possible.
This time Gerald raised both hands in the air, and raised his voice excitedly, looking at me, stuttering he said, "What did you just say, you have a "Y' chromosome, and you have a, a, a, penis and a vagina?"
"Yeah, and Kit is a furry," I said with a giggle.
'Hold on, the clerk just called me, Gerald you're next, let's go back inside.
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A half hour later Gerald's dilemma was resolved, with one minor detail. Conditions would be right for him to return in about three hours, but the time that he has spent in 2217, would be lost forever when he returns to 2017. If he wants to return to 2017 at the exact time he left, he will have to wait until the proper time to be transported, which will be seven days from today.
Gerald looked relieved, for the first time since I almost ran him over, but he also looked disappointed.