C-WE #2: Take Us To Your Leaders

Written shortly after C-WE #1

From Take Ten #16-4, "Construction Phrase": Select one word from each of six columns in order to construct a six-word phrase with which to start your story. [The seed phrase used, as well as the selected famous landmark and superhero, are in bold.]

The aliens adamantly demanded cookies with milk after they had been taken to the obligatory leader (in this case the President himself), but this was Cold War II; the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (plus China) or USSR+C had risen again (on the foundation of the dead bodies of its resisting citizens), was in a state of perpetual distrust and complete lack of negotiation (other than via nuclear warhead), and as it happened, possessed the only glass of milk and plate of cookies left on Planet Earth. Every other set had been requisited for war preparations, and with rationing in effect, no company dared produce them. The only milk&cookies remaining were under quintuple guard in a dour little cube in (and extending under) the Red Square. So how were the aliens going to get their milk&cookies? This was a matter of great importance, as the aliens threatened to destroy the continent they'd crash landed on if their demands weren't met--and who would protect the world from the hideous threat of communism then? Luckily, the the First Lady had a secret identity. Not even her husband knew she was really Wonder Woman, but now she was forced to tell him, and formally requested that she be allowed to search for milk&cookies. The President, knowing full well the location of the only milk&cookies on the planet, and the dangers inherent in their acquisition, tried to dissuade her, but she would not be moved. It was her duty to the United North American States (UNAS), she said, to keep it from being vaporized by alien particle cannons. And so Wonder Woman (aka the First Lady), departed on her epic quest, the details of which are so incredible, intense, and action-packed (not to mention ultra-secret classified) that they cannot be recounted here--not even whether or not she succeeded.