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The gloob thrummed and the light was tending toward ultraviolet when it smelled her. An incubator! Excellent! It sent an exploratory tentacle towards her. She emitted a very energetic set of waves at around 3kHz. It knew from prior experience that this signalling often preceded flight, so it grabbed her with its exploratory tentacle before that could happen. She struggled, but it had anticipated this as well and was already bringing in a manipulative tentacle to assist its exploratory tentacle in bringing her closer to its main trunk. This maneuver completed, it could bring all of its manipulative tentacles around to wrap around her bony not-tentacles. Even with their hard, bony insides her not-tentacles were no match for its muscular manipulative tentacles. They wrapped around those bony protuberances and she struggled fruitlessly in their grasp.
It wrapped a manipulative tentacle around her waist, pulling her tight against its trunk. It tucked another one into her open mouth to muffle those signalling energy waves. It knew that this was how this species signalled others of their species. It had several sensory organ rich exploratory tentacles and many tough, muscular manipulative tentacles, but it only had one impregnation tentacle. Extra individuals of this species could only complicate things. It couldn't impregnate more than one at a time and they often became aggressive when seeing one of their own being impregnated.
But none of this mattered, because now her signalling organ was stuffed full with the end of a manipulative tentacle. It could feel her hard, sharp food grinding tissues as she attempted to bite down on the intruder, but its manipulative tentacles were covered with a thick protective skin. It was sort of like a massage. Almost pleasant.
Another oddity of this species was it's near lack of fur, despite the coolness of the planet on which they lived. There was some on the head and near the crotch, some under the arms, a touch on the legs but not anything like what was necessary to keep this species anywhere near their optimal operating temperature over most of the species range on their home planet. Somehow this species had managed to avoid freezing long enough to hit upon the solution of stealing other species fur and making fur like coverings out of plants and other materials on their planet.
It often found that this species usually had the opening to their incubation organs covered. It had no idea how this species managed to impregnate each other with their own young. Perhaps that was why so few of the incubators were incubating when he found them. It was amazing that this species wasn't dying out for lack of reproduction.
None of that was its problem though. Its problem was simply that the covering must be removed in order for it to impregnate this creature. Using a manipulative tentacle it pulled the covering off and tossed it aside.
The preliminaries taken care of, it got down to work. It pulled out its impregnation tentacle. This tentacle barely had any muscle at all and the skin was thin and stretchy, not thick and protective. The end was already slick with lubricating fluid and it deftly slipped that end into the creature that squirmed in its manipulative tentacles. It quickly found the neck of her incubation organ, but it kept slipping away from its attempts to penetrate it. It pulled its impregnation tentacle out and wiped some of the lubricating fluid onto an unused manipulative tentacle. Then it pushed the now lubricated manipulative tentacle up into the incubators excretion organ. The muscles at the end of the organ spasmed sharply around its manipulative tentacle. It could feel the vibrations from the incubators signalling organ increase significantly through the manipulative tentacle there, but fortunately that tentacle attenuated most of those vibrations.
The incubator's sight-organs were leaking salty fluid copiously. This was another strange trait of this species. This was a land species, yet the individuals leaked water oddly like the oceans of their planet. The leaked water had no apparent useful effect, but it had noted that nearly every individual incubator of this species did this during impregnation. Perhaps it had something to do with their own impregnation rituals.
It pushed the impregnation tentacle back into the incubator, up against the neck of the incubation organ. It flattened the end of the manipulative tentacle in the incubators excretion organ so that it could cradle the incubation organ through the other tissues, holding it steady. Now it began slowly opening the neck of the incubation organ. The vibrations from its signal hole increased and the incubator squirmed even more vigorously in the hold of the manipulative tentacles, but the tentacles held fast. Slowly the almost non-existant hole opened to the pressure of the impregnation tentacle. The incubator's body tightened and arched. She no longer moved against the manipulative tentacles with purpose, trying to escape. Now she moved in paroxysms, like a seizure. She whipped her head back and forth. Her spine arched backwards and forwards. The vibrations from her signalling organ became random and changed frequency often. None of this bothered it as it continued to slowly pry open the neck of the incubation organ.
Finally, the neck of the incubation organ had been sufficiently opened and the tip of the impregnation tentacle entered the incubation organ. It sent an egg through the hollow impregnation tentacle. The egg made a small bulge as it moved through the tentacle. It slowed as it entered her, due to the greater resistance of her body. The vibrations from her signalling organ increased again, but she moved only weakly. The egg passed through the impregnation tentacle, stretching her tissues, slowly stretching the already stretched neck of her incubation organ to pass through and settle in her incubation organ. Then the impregnation tentacle excreted a sticky, clotting liquid that would plug the open neck of her incubation organ until it closed naturally on it's on over the next few days.
Its work done it pulled out its impregnation tentacle and tucked it back into its protective trunk. It lower the incubator to the ground and let it go. The incubator collapsed on the ground, panting, shaky and in shock, unable to move. This was what always happened after it impregnated an incubator, so it was not concerned. It oozed away to eat and rest before finding another incubator to impregnate.
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