Made in Ferenginar

(slight AU) Tensions are high, politics raging. Some predict a Ferengi civil war, and Pel isn't even sure what she is anymore; a weird hew-mon gone haywire knows that they're being invaded by a sentient parasite. Quark's in the wrong place at the wrong time, as usual, but being dragged into a mess he considers Ferenginar's own fault may be better for him than he thinks.