The year is 2053. We are now 20 years into the invasion. The residents of Sioux Falls — the neighbors, the passersby, the ones brave enough to keep looking as the gunfire erupted — have been proven correct, even if none of them are left to offer an “I told you so.” The Great Sighting of 1979 was real. And, it turns out, it was just a scouting mission. The UFO spotted above Motor Motel that night returned home and brought with it a tale of an inferior species waging war on itself with simplistic weaponry. Battle plans were created, then executed, and now the entire human race is fighting for survival, led by CAPTAIN LUANN SOLVERSON — granddaughter of Molly, great-granddaughter of Lou.
We pick up the scene mid-firefight at the Mall of America, which has been repurposed as both a fortress for the military and the country’s new capital. Bodies are strewn about the parking lot, both human and alien. CAPTAIN SOLVERSON is taking fire from the attacking spaceship. Not just any spaceship, either. This is the mothership.
CAPTAIN LUANN SOLVERSON: Oh my.
She returns fire. PEW PEW PEW. It’s no use. The forcefields are still up. Unless someone can disable them, no one on land will survive the onslaught. But then! A voice! DEX MILLIGAN — descendant of infamous Kansas City crime boss Mike Milligan, and just a civilian — appears.
DEX MILLIGAN: I’ll disable the force fields.
CAPTAIN LUANN SOLVERSON: Okay, then.
DEX springs into action, leaping from the hood of a smoking, overturned car and grabbing the bottom of a space sentinel that is returning to the mothership to reload. As it approaches, he swings toward the side of the ship and shimmies into an open space portal, where, on the way to the space control panel, he encounters one of the aliens. But DEX is unarmed!
ALIEN: Blurgle.
DEX MILLIGAN: Here’s an old Milligan family trick.
PEW PEW PEW. DEX produces a hidden blaster from inside his shirt sleeve and wastes the alien. He hurries to the control panel and shuts off the force fields. He sends CAPTAIN SOLVERSON a message on his iPhone 63c that it’s safe to fire. She replies that he’ll die if she fires now. He tells her he knows, but that she must anyway. There’s no time. The future of humanity can’t wait. She nods and takes aim. PEW PEW PEW. Her blaster’s ray hits the fuel source and sends the whole ship up in space flames. It wobbles side to side in the air, its panicked and dying crew leaping to the ground where the humans begin to pick them off. The mothership emits a belch of space smoke before crashing into the Mall of America’s parking garage. The battle is over. Many have died, some less valiantly than others, but the human race will go on. CAPTAIN SOLVERSON surveys the carnage around her.