Throwing shit at the fan

4:28 AM CST (10:28 UTC)

With the activity finally down in both Minnesota and Colorado for the night, albeit having taken much longer than expected due to New Year's festivities, the Plutonian forces were ready. Nucleina joined in around 4:15 to help out as well, and did a quick review of the dastardly plan. While Gene and Jessica performed a final roll call and status check with the crew, Lilly magically dried her blouse and bra faster, and buttoned back up to be less distracting. Lilly summoned a comfortable lawn chair, to sit next to the other station on the other side of the platform and to watch the big screens up front, mildly annoying the two women working there for a few moments.

At last, everything was ready.

"Aaaaaaaand... Go!" Gene commanded. With that, countless magical wormholes opened up at every military base, town hall, and the State Capitols in both states, immediately setting off thousands, if not millions, of alarms all over the country, especially in DC. As soon as the wormholes opened, which looked similar to black hole gravity distortions, legions upon legions of armed beasts, supernaturals, werewolves, and skeleton armies began pouring through, capturing supplies, tanks, arms, etc. At the same time, airborne wormholes opened up at every Air **** base in Minnesota and Colorado, and out came dragonwraiths, shadow dragons flying at tremendous speeds, breathed blue fire of millions of degrees, vaporizing all the fighter jets, bombers, and helicopters they could find, taking care not to melt or vaporize the ground or ignite the atmosphere.

Naturally, the Plutonian Empire encountered stiff resistance, especially at larger complexes. Within several minutes, the most important locations had been secured. The next stop was capturing and securing airports. The Plutonian forces then spread across the states at lightning speed, using magic wormholes as necessary, dispatching and capturing resistance as they went. The small town airports were easy, but the more difficult ones were the main airports of the states; invading and capturing them required utmost delicacy to avoid harm to innocents. The last bit was securing and disabling nuclear missile sites, to reformat with Plutonian software and hardware

By now American reinforcements were taking action, but it would end up being exercises of utter futility, for magical, statewide forcefields were put in place the moment the invasions started, lining every last border, cutting off every last road, covering their whole skies, and dragonwraith patrols rapidly circumnavigating each state.

Back at Neuve Pluton, Gene, Jessica, and Nucleina were all keeping track, visiting each station, giving advice, intervening as needed, etc. Although Nucleina was there, she could not bring in Belle Hadean military reinforcements as the planet was still being kept in the dark about what she was doing, contributing to countless conspiracy theories there, none of which were correct. But Nucleina did have more direct say over Delta Trianguli's supernatural military, many of whom particilated in the Plutonian invasion. The supernatural residents of the Sol system refused to pledge loyalty unless the Plutonian Empire officially existed, which would not happen until before Noon.

By 5 am, Minnesota and Colorado were under Plutonian control. The American reinforcements quickly learned that the states had somehow become impenetrable. Security footage of the sudden monster invasions were leaked and would eventually go viral. Images of skeleton armies and monsters, suddenly patroling the cities, and towns of the two states, and easily defeating any resistance like hot knife through butter, shocked the world. Some speculated it may have been connected to the mysteriously impenetrable new island that formed in the South Atlantic throughout the past five years. Many people woke up earlier than they would have due to countless breaking news alerts and from concerned friends and loved ones calling in to check on them. Armed civilians, militias, and law enforcement also fought back, but were easily defeated as well. Prisons and jails were also raided by the Plutonians, releasing all non-violent offenders, but keeping all the violent ones locked up. People and officers not fighting back, and the ones that tried but had reservations about it, had to be repeatedly reassured that the Plutonians were NOT out to get them, and that more information would be out by noon as to who they were with and what happened.

In DC, the President was furious, blasting Twitter and blamed the invasions on liberals practicing witchcraft, as well as the seemingly incompetent governors of the two states. He threatened to launch nukes at the two states but had to be repeatedly talked out of it by his staff. Eventually, fingers started pointing across both sides of the political aisle.

By 8 am, things had calmed down enough for Nucleina to take the helm with Jessica so Gene could go home and get some sleep. Gene and Lilly said their good nights as they each went home; Gene to his small home down the street from the Plutonian Capitol, and Lilly to the hotel they were staying at. Lilly set up a temporary time bubble around Gene's house before leaving however, to help him get the relaxation and sleep he needs to prepare for the rest of the day.