Once the enamored farmers were paid off with unlimited pallets of blueberry yoghurt and dispersed to deal with wholesaler's everywhere, the aliens proceeded to storm the countryside and strike fear and alarm into every human heart.
The alien tanks rolled onward, unstoppable, horizon to horizon, crushing everything in their path, and gave a mighty jubilant yell each time a town or village was neutralized, the citizens prostrate and helpless
The only hindrance to total conquest was the occasional array of peasants with tractors who would stealthily find tanks trapped in settling ponds or irrigation ditches, load them onto flatbed railroad cars, where the tanks were then hauled far from succor to be consumed by ungulated pets or woven into patio furniture.
Despite these minor setbacks, North Dakota eventually fell to the embrace of a superior force.......