[Jizz was fucking Phlatyllis doggie-style when they received the distress signal, from far away, on another planet. Waves, vibrations, emitted through space to where they were. He pulled out of her, and she moved aside.
"Fuck!" he growled, his head then swaying back and forth. "Do you sense that?"
"Yes, I do," she said. "From a...Peter Balls?"
"With a name like that, he could be one of ours," Jizz said, concentrating on the message as intensely as his lover was.
The following was Peter's message, as Jizz and Phlatyllis felt its vibrations making contact with their intellectual faculties:]
Call me Peter Balls. Please help me. My family and world are under attack from a predatory alien intelligence. I have a long, complicated story to tell you, so please bear with me.
I'll start my story, as hard as this is for me to believe, from before I was even born; I'll be able to tell it as if I were a spectator there, seeing as I've developed the same mind-expanding consciousness as everyone else who's been exposed to the little floating green things I'll be telling you about later.
['Little floating green things?' Jizz said. 'He's definitely one of ours. Let's continue listening.']
I'll start right at the beginning, at the very first moment of relevance. Picture this scene:
My soon-to-be father, Lieutenant Ellis Monroe, laughed as he was reading his ebook, an old story that now would be from almost two millennia ago.
"I didn't know William S. Burroughs was so funny," Commander Ansel Proctor said, looking out the window into space.
"I'm at the part where he's telling the story of the man who taught his asshole to talk," Monroe said. "His loquacious anus is demanding equal rights."
Both Proctor and Lieutenant Levar Arthur, the third man on their spaceship, laughed. "Why read a thousand-year-old story, Ellis?" Proctor asked.
"Hey, don't knock it," Monroe said. "It's an old classic."
"What's that up ahead?" Arthur asked.
"An electromagnetic storm?" Monroe said just after looking up from his ebook. "A wormhole?"
"I don't know," Proctor said, frowning as he looked out ahead, leaning forward with curiosity in his eyes.
"Don't you think it's time we turned the ship around and went back to the mothership?" Arthur asked. "I know you don't like any of those people we have to work with, but..."
"I don't like people, period," Proctor said with a pout. "Present company excepted, of course."
"Look, that disagreement you had with Captain Becker..." began Monroe.
"Captain Pecker, more like it," Proctor said, then began accelerating towards the electromagnetic storm.
"Hey, c'mon, Ansel," Monroe said. "It's our job to find a habitable planet to replace the Earth with."
["'Replace the Earth with'," Phlatyllis said. "I'm not sure the teller of this story is one of ours. The Earth was almost as bad off as when we came to this once-red planet."
"Let's just keep listening," Jizz said.]
"To exploit and destroy all life on, as we did on the Earth," Proctor said. That storm was up close now.
"Proctor, you're going to get us killed!" Arthur said.
"We're already dead, in spirit if not yet in body," Proctor said. "Maybe we'll find a habitable planet on the other side."
"Not likely," Arthur said. "C'mon!"
"There's just as small a likelihood of finding a good planet out here as there is on the other side of that thing," Proctor said. "And I'm in command here, in case you both forgot."
"We know you're despairing of the Earth, and of the politics on board the mother ship," Monroe said, "but..."
"The same politics as on Earth," Proctor said. "Kill and dominate. I'm not helping them."
They were almost in the electromagnetic storm now.
"Alright, I'm taking over," Monroe said.
"Are you disobeying a superior officer?" Proctor said, then pressed a few buttons.
"We don't wanna die!" Arthur said. "And you're disobeying Captain Becker's orders!"
"Fuck him!" Proctor said.
Arthur and Monroe struggled with Proctor to take control of the ship. They knocked him to the side, but he'd just set the shuttle to autopilot, using his password so the other two couldn't switch it back to manual.
"What's your password, Ansel?" Monroe yelled. "Tell me, before I beat it out of you!"
"It's too late," Proctor said. "We're going in."
They heard a voice from the mothership from the intercom. "This is Captain Becker to shuttle XX19. Turn your ship around and return immediately. You have been given no authority to continue as you are now. Return to the mothership immediately!"
The shuttle entered the electromagnetic storm.
["Entering an electromagnetic storm," Phlatyllis said. "That sounds familiar. I wonder if it was the same one as..."
"Will you stop interrupting?" Jizz said. "Let's just hear the rest of the story."]
The three men screamed as their ship spun around and around. As the lights flashed in the windows, the men saw the distorted image of a talking man. He looked like their captain.