Chapter 3: The First Polygon Crusade
The Tribe known as "Pristina" has been attacked by weird crystalline apparitions. We've heard of these things. They started appearing just before the Cataclysm. Their presence was called by some to be a sign of the apocalypse, and perhaps they were correct.
They come from things called "Subspace Portals". They're one-way gates to another dimension. They hadn't been sighted by any member of the federation since it's founding, up until today.
Scouting Teams found the portal they're coming from. It's on the middle of a northern peninsula. In fact, it blocks passage to the north.
There were four obelisks made of a substance resembling obsidian. In the center of the square was a black sphere. Swarming out of the sphere were small, flying insect-like creatures called "Shadow bugs". A mass of shadow bugs would occasionally break away from the swarm and huddle together, before transforming into a fighting polygon.
Police Officers came to the south. They called this group "Bear Team". They carried truncheons with them. As the world was sent back to the stone age by the cataclysm, these truncheons were relatively advanced weapons now. The group leader's name was Teddy.
A polygon stared at the Police Officer. It resembled a human man in shape. It was made of what appeared to be some kind of purple translucent crystal, but it was glowing softly. One could make out what appeared to be a light source in the middle. Black light, to be exact.
The polygons, seemingly hesitantly, started moving towards the police officers. They slowly began to speed up, until they were in a full-on sprint.
The Police raised their batons, anticipating the attack. Though the enemy was unarmed, they were far from defenseless. All of them appeared to be skilled martial artists. Not to mention, with their bodies being made of a rather hard solid substance, it hurt quite a bit to be punched by one.
They didn't seem to have any structure in their bodies, but hitting one hard enough with a baton proved lethal enough. They would collapse to the ground and dissolve.
But, despite their valiant attempts, the Polygons were winning this fight. The real problem was that, with that portal, they could spawn new polygons to replace the old ones. Ted called a retreat.
As they were retreating and being chased by the Polygons, he noticed one of them suddenly shatter. It was hit by an arrow! Teddy looked past the attackers and saw, on the other side, a bunch of archers!
You see, the Federation had sent in a boat to go in and sneak around the back of the portal. This boat was carrying the archer team, and deployed them behind the other side of the peninsula. In addition, they sent in another team of truncheon-carrying officers.
Ted shouted "Hold the line! Advance!". His team obeyed, moving forwards. Being attacked on both sides and from above, the Polygons found themselves dying faster than they could be replaced. A few police officers began to tie ropes to the obelisks, and, as the rest were fighting them off, they pulled them to the ground.
The obelisks shattered upon hitting the ground, and the portal shrank until it disappeared entirely.
The first Polygon-Federation Battle had been won.
