- In the near future, young children are persuaded to help an imaginary friend named Drill to play a game called Invasion.
- Eight-year-old Mink plays a new game with the other children in the neighborhood; Invasion. It involves putting together odd devices from kitchen utensils and working out mathematical formulas. When Mink's mother Mary takes an interest, she soon realizes that there may be something more sinister going on then a mere children's game...—Gislef
- In a suburban home in the near future, children search through the bushes. One girl's mother, Mary Morris is at home on the computer talking to her husband Henry on the monitor. He says that he's going off to work, and Mary goes back to work designing on her computer.
Henry drives away, calling goodbye to his daughter, distracted. She barely notices him, and runs into the house and collect kitchen utensils. Mary is there getting a mug of coffee, and Mink tells her mother that she's playing an exciting new game; Invasion. Mink runs out with the utensils and joins the other kids, while two boys, Eddie and Joel, ride past on their bikes. Joel wonders what the younger children are doing, and Eddie dismisses the kids as dumb. The kids go into the bushes and Mink digs in the dirt.
Mary is in the house back at her desk.
Mink and the other kids set up a device with the kitchen utensils. Joel and Eddie ride up, and Joel asks if he can play. Mink tells him that he would just laugh at them and spoils the invasion. Eddie encourages Joel to ride away with him.
Inside, Mary is watching a newscast about how the nations of the world have disarmed and Earth Mutual Defense now holds all weapons.
Mink and the other kids take mathematical notes. Mary calls Mink into lunch, and she says that she doesn't want to eat because the world is going to end. Mary figures that her daughter is still playing a game and humors her, and goes back inside. Mary has one of the other girls write down a mathematical formula, then runs inside, grabs a hexagon-shaped utensil, and tells Mary that Drill is waiting for her and he's "new". Once Mink runs out, Mary goes to the window and watches Mink join the other children.
In the bushes, Mink adds the utensil to the other utensils, and she and the other children smiles. When Mink goes in for lunch, she gulps down her food and prepares to go out. Mary tells her to sit down, and Mink says that it's life and death, and Drill is waiting for her. When Mary asks what the game is about, Mary says that aliens are invading and Mary would just laugh at Drill, ruining the invasions. The girl says that Drill and his people weren't able to invader Earth, and they have to have someone help. One day they thought of children.
Mink says that Drill talked about four dimensions, kids under 9, and imagination. Mary tells Mink to get the invasion over with and then come in to take a bath, Mink responds by saying Drill told them they wouldn't have to take breaks after the invasions, could stay up late, and watch all the TV they want. Drill also said that adults were dangerous because they don't believe in Martians, and Drill's people would let children run the world.
Mary finally has enough and threatens to talk to Drill's mother. As Mink goes, she says that Drill mentioned "logic" and "impressionable", and wishes that Mary believed in Martian. The girl tells her mother that she won't be hurt much, and goes back outside.
The children go back to playing in the bushes, and Eddie and Joel ride up. Mink says that she and Drill will kill Eddie first, and says that come zero hour, he'll be dead. Eddie rides off in disgust, taking Joel with him.
Mary goes back to working at her desk, and gets a call from her sister Helen. Mary sees her nephew rummaging through the utensils, and he says that Drill is his friend. Helen says that one of her friends in the Midwest has kids that are playing the same game. Mary hears a girl screaming and runs out. Mink says that her friend grew up all of a sudden, and now she can't play. She says that she can't quit now. Zero's hours is five o'clock. Mary comes over and asks Mink what happened, and Mink says that Drill is stuck halfway, and if they can get him through then the others can follow him through. The girl plays with a gyroscope and then it disappears, and Mary runs inside, terrified.
Mink and the other kids go back to playing, and a blue light appears in the bushes.
As five o'clock approaches, Mary crouches in the darkened house, Henry pulls up outside. He calls to Mink, who shushes him and Henry figures she and the other kids are playing hide 'n seek. He goes inside and asks Mary how her day was, and she wonders if children ever forgive them for putting down rules and closing their ears to what the children say. Henry figures that she's having a bad day, and the children start making a commotion outside. Mary wonders if they have something electrical, and tells Henry to tell the children to put off the invasion and zero hour.
Henry peers out the window, and Mary takes him up to the attic as Mary yells at Joe that she told him he'd be first.
In the attic, Mary closes and locks the door behind her and Henry, saying that they have to be safe. Her husband asks what the problem is, and then says that it's too late anyway. Henry insists that the door is locked, and Mary breaks a nearby mirror with the key, then sits, looks at it, and cries. She tells Henry that at midnight, they'll sneak out and escape, then tells him to be quiet so they don't come up and find them.
Henry searches and finds the key, and Mary hears the phone ring. She figures that they got Helen, and yells at her sister to run. They hear glass break downstairs, and Henry yells at whoever is making the noise. Mink yells, saying that Drill should follow her, and then asks where her parents are. A blue light appears under the door, and then the door disintegrates. Mink peers through the hole at her parents and says' Peek-a-boo" while shadowy figures come up behind her.
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