Rusty - Doggie Adventurer
Woof Woof !
My name is Rusty, I'm a small scruffy dog and I lived with my small scruffy friend Sparky when he was five. However, something important happened one day and I had to run away from home and hit the road on a life of continual travel and adventure. In the event we were not reunited till many years later.
I was in a shop in Birkenhead, working undercover as a soft toy to expose a multi million pound intergalactic corporation dealing in illegal soft toy slavery. As soon as Sparky saw me in the shop he scooped me up and yelled, "Rusty!" He knew it was me in spite of the passing years and my change of appearance. It was like we had never been apart.
Turns out Sparky had already begun a campaign of liberating bears and other soft toys from their shackles in shops around Liverpool and across some parts of the world - and he'd already heard about some of my missions and campaigns too.
Sentient living soft toys generally enjoy a happy carefree life throughout most of the universe, but in parts of this galaxy increasing numbers of them are being hunted down on their home worlds, paralysed and shipped off for sale on worlds like Earth, where they are much sought after and, in most cases, ignorant of their plight.
It is common knowledge that the special properties of moonlight at night time on Earth - and other worlds - has been known to temporarily dispel the effects of paralysis on these poor creatures who will often awake and come back to life in the middle of the night while their "owners" are fast asleep in bed. However, even then, whatever games they play, adventures they undertake, or picnics they go on, few will remember who they truly are or where they originally came from.
In this operation we joined forces and successfully freed all the slaves in that shop. One fleeing owner set the shop to self destruct, to erase all evidence of the corporation behind them, but despite the destruction there was enough evidence still to bring the company down forever.
Now, back on Earth and reunited with Sparky, I've joined up with the Mad Wirral Bohemians to spread the word of peace and harmony to all living things - though that often means still having to take off on lengthy adventures and travels across the universe.