Antius was an Uberquark from the planet Tiga in the galaxy of Sigma Alpha.
He stared through the visualiser of his transport module and groaned, it was bright starlight again, he hated starlight, he much preferred the soft moist precipitation whose mother clouds blanked out the harsh glare of starlight.
Antius hated the Zeotron Five Transport module he had been allocated, for one thing it was too unwieldy, and also underpowered, and away from the Federation area its lack of communicators was positively dangerous.
Antius hated thinking, at home he could always rely on telepathy for problem solving, there was always someone within range on the same wavelength but here away from the relays in deep space he was on his own, apart from his mate Mishna and she was about as useful as a Rock Edillarch with a bunion when he needed to solve a problem.
The first few planets in this system Arrol 238 had proved to be unsuitable for colonisation but in the third orbit as predicted was a very suitable planet, feeble radiation could be felt and abandoned primitive space vehicles littered the outer edges of its atmosphere and he had already been back home once to report it.
"Don't report it. Colonise it." Fellonius Ultina, Antuis's superior had screamed as he bashed his left head against a wall of hard baked earthern blocks, "What goes on in those heads of yours."
"Three hundred Millennia of selective breeding and you are the result." Felonius continued.
"He was bred for his Quong" said Mishna approvingly.
"I can see that he was not bred for thinking." Agreed Felonius as he stared longingly at Mishna, Mishna had also been bred for breeding, he envied Antius.
So Antius sat in his Zeotron Five, waiting for the starlight to fade, waiting for suitable hosts for his offspring.
There were no suitable hosts, many creatures had only four legs, and the ones with eight were far too small. Strange two legged hybrids seemed to be everywhere, rushing around in metal transporters or lurking in their strange habitation units.
A large transporter appeared moving slowly, Antius turned the anti vision to maximum, the energy meter moved down once more, and then the transporter stopped.
Even Antius knew he could not leave the anti vision on too long and in a fit of frustration he threw on his helmets and headed for the Carbon Lock.
He grasped the rear of the Transporter and pushed, the soft metal distorted under his claws but soon it was over the hill and out of sight of his module.
It was only later Antius realised he himself may well have been seen by the two legged hybrid in the navigation seat.
"It were like a Eight foot tall Grasshopper, with three heads wearing crash helmets." Archie Melton explained to the lads in Three Compasses later that evening. "It bent bed where it grabbed on."
"More likely you backed into a wall" said Sid Ormondthwaite, Bagley's only Police Constable. "Had thee been supping ale at time."
Meanwhile Antius decided the serious business of mating required their full attention, well, he kept the three eyes of his left head on the monitors, but otherwise he gave his full attention to Mishna.
Antius's Quong slowly emerged from its sac, slithering slowly across the floor of the module, he made the end do a circle, then the plunge manoever, (like the Indian Rope Trick in reverse) and several easy knots before as Misha laughed it lunged within her wombs, she cooed happily as he sprayed her pods and then as his Quong retracted they ate their favourite freeze dried rancid slugs.
Meanwhile in the Pub Archie Melton was eating something very similar, Mushy Peas, with Pie and Chips, washed down with a gallon of pale ale.
Antius watched as Misha's pods fertilised, one thirty second of a planetry revolution passed as they grew from white orbs to the dart like brown barbs ready for implantation.
As with all Quark species Misha had only four incubators so with two hundred and fifty six planetry revolution equivalents for each incubation compared with up to twenty pods which could be produced and fertilised per day the need for hosts for implantation was obvious.
Antius collected his offspring, placing them in the carrier designed for the purpose which secured between his wing stubs, an evolutionary leftover from when Quarks had been able to fly, and he set off to find hosts.
He found a horny four-leg, a quick stun stare and the beast fell quivering to the ground, he searched for a womb and finding only one orifice he placed his little one in as far as he could with his long back leg. He reassured it telepathically, and promised to come back when it hatched.
He found two more easily but then the others ran away.
He took the final brown dart and marvelled at how it could become a fully grown Quark in only two revolutions of the home planet.
"Get on with it I'm freezing" the little embryo told him telepathically, and Antius thought he should seek a host rapidly. He lumbered down the hill towards the lights, he would try a two leg.
He saw one, it stood aimlessly, he saw it was in mating attire, legs bare, a female, he smelled arousal, she was ripe.
He tried a stun stare, the two leg stared back, a smoking stick fell from its lips, "Oh Alfie, you are a card, where did you get that outfit."
Antius did not hesitate and with his left middle leg inserted his offspring into the orifice between the creatures legs.
"Oi pervert" the creature cried.
Antius backed away his duty fulfilled.
"Hey you come here, that's twenty quid you owe me, I can't work with this stuck up me."
Antius felt fear, he ran, a two leg in a small transport impeded him but he rose onto his rear legs and strode like a Dynosaur leaving the Daewoo Matiz screaming in his wake, or was it the navigator sat within screaming, he did not care.
He reached his craft and settled gratefully into the Carbon Monoxide and Sulphur environment. He relaxed, the telepathy showing three happy pods nestled within grazing and slightly confused beasts and the last one, unhappy, dissatisfied, the host angry, violated.
Thelma Diggle was seething with anger, It was bad enough Alfie Stubbins creeping up on her in his Loch Ness Monster Costume, but shoving a dildo up her ass and leaving it up, without paying was taking liberties.
She could not get the thing out either, it was jammed. She went straight round to the Flying Pig and tried to shift it as soon as Alfie had run off but she could not get a grip on it, and then Frieda Hilter started bellowing "Oi gerrout the bog I'm bustin fer a shit" and she had to leave it, it felt queer, but she admitted later, it were a bit of a turn on and saved wanking to get her self wet for punters.
She met Dicky Mason, by co op and he wanted a blow job, Thelma was anxious to know if she could still fuck with the thing up her back passage so she offered Dicky a discount fuck saying as she had a mouth ulcer.
Thelma never knew she was about to save mankind, she just wanted to see if she could fuck with a dildo up her ass, but as she led Dicky to the shed on Eric Motson's allotment and lay down she set in motion events of such magnitude that the Quark dream of colonising the whole universe was shattered for ever.