In December 2022, biology teacher and former Green Beret Dan Forester fails to get a job at the Army Research Laboratory. Meanwhile, soldiers from the year 2051 interrupt the World Cup by appearing on the pitch and announce that in November 2048, aliens called White Spikes appear in Russia and wipe out most life on Earth within a span of three years. The nations of the present day send their militaries into the future through the JumpLink, a rudimentary wormhole device brought by the future sold