Dave went to get his food, expecting no mysterious problems whatsoever, perhaps unwisely.

There was no problems. You have acquired your food. Soon, everyone did and the group was eating happily. It was quite good for fast food.

...which Dave hadn't had in literally years.

"Yeah, okay, new favorite place," said Dave.  "Most excellent."

"Yeah, it's great," Red Shift said.

"What did the two of you get?" Dave asked the other two girls.  He considered stealing samples... or asking for them.

"Just some fries and the avocado bacon burger," Scion said.

"I got the cheddar mushroom melt burger," Tinker said.

"It all sounds good," Dave admitted.  "It is SO amazing to be back home.  With, you know, humans.  Good food.  Music.  Furniture for people with human shapes.  All of that."

And girls!  And GIRLS!  But it seemed impolitic to go that far.

"It does sound like it was quite an ordeal," Scion said.

"Well, there were upsides," said Dave.  "But I hadn't realized how much I miss everything about this place until I got back."

"It's good you're back then," Tinker said.

"Oh, yes," said Dave.  "While we were fighting for the cause, well, it kept me busy and I put up with whatever.  But now... now, so many things I missed so much are around me again.  And that's amazing."

"What'd you miss the most?" Scion asked.

"Other humans," said Dave.  "None of the people I met out there look anything like us at all. I missed other humans most of all... especially girls."

"Sorry, I missed that last bit," Tinker said.

Dave sighed.

"...girls," he admitted.  "I very much missed having girls around."

Red shift grinned and reached over and ruffled your hair.

"Fair enough, but is there any truth to all those hot alien girls in science fiction?" Scion asked.

"One hundred percent false," said Dave, "in the places I was.  It's a huge galaxy.  There might be hot aliens out there somewhere.  But I met absolutely none of them."

"Oh, so like, alien aliens?" Scion asked.

"I think I mentioned the gigantic spiders," said Dave.  "Okay, not actual spiders, but, you know, close enough.  The whole 'bipedal' thing was pretty rare to start with.  Turns out moving around on three or four legs or no legs at all is fairly common.  Internal skeletons aren't remotely universal either, just to give you a taste of it.  I mean, great people!  Very cool, interesting worldviews, lots of cool societies.  But no cute girls at all."

"There'll be some eventually," Tinker said. "Oops, I shouldn't say stuff like that."

"Planning on going out there?" Dave asked.

"Not really, I mean, Earth itself has a whole lot of stuff to see and do already," Tinker said.

"It certainly does," said Dave.  "But you did drop a hint, and you're a high-tech heroine, right?"

"Yes, and I'm from the future," Tinker said.

Dave digested this.

"Well, that would account for it," he said.  "Same places I've been, or different places?"

The galaxy was huge, after all.