Gunfire. Reisel picked it out immediately, as did his inferiors, but they stayed rapt and waited for the order. Venomsquad had assembled, decked out in the best leftovers of Descorp gear they had, ready to chance any odds and fight for the night. They stood in a semicircle, keeping an eye on Reisel's back as he finished briefing them. Shouts from other militant men to keep in position at the border assured Reisel as he and Venomsquad departed that things would be alright. The Abandoned Slums and the Cursed Wood were direct neighbors save for a spit of barren land, with a single rotted strip of pavement reluctantly stretching into the dark trees. A battlefield if it would come to it, Reisel thought sparing the spot a last glance.
They moved onward, silently, keeping to the shadows. Venomsquad was trained and elite, there may only be four of them but they were four of the finest. It wasn't long after their initial break away into the godforsaken structures of the Abandoned Slums that gunfire could be heard. Reisel froze, Venomsquad taking defensive positions high out of sight. A single low pitched beep sounded in all five of the vampire's ears. It signaled that one of them was breaking away to scout ahead. Each squad member had a specific tone that would alert the others when he or she moved from camp radius. The blip accelerated as the member of Venomsquad drew further away. Two more blips sounded as they began to expand camp, one squad member clinging to the dark areas surrounding Riesel. There they waited for news, which was soon to come.
"Aliments acides, nord-ouest" Sounded through his earpiece, and with a uniform blip venomsquad and their royal leader flew to the scene.
A vehicle, abandoned. Overhead the sound of aerial approach thundered. There were bodies, there were drugs. Venomsquad didn't reveal themselves, but waited for the next command. Someone was downed, someone in gear unrecognizable by Reisel. A blip sounded in his ear as one of his men moved off camp. Sniffing gently, focusing on the blip, Reisel traced as the elite member swooped down to grab up a fallen and forgotten member of one side or the other. The armor cloaked the individual as he went about his task, though dust and debris began to cling to his lack of identity as he scooped the dressed corpse. Viewing the secondeye screenies that were sent to his viewer revealed some sort of insignia on the garb of the dead man. He studied it for another moment, having a feeling he had seen that somewhere before. But where?
The blip continued as the soldier progressed to drag the dead potential enemy into the darker shadows. He would not feed from him, no matter how tempting it was. It was frowned upon to do as such. The aerial crafts came closer.
"Sortez!" Reisel hissed into his comm. One venomsquad agents not in the field flattened herself into defensive position, weapons at the ready. The other two had moved off into the slums, in search of zomborgs. Each heard a high whine sound in their ears, then cut off immediately. Reisel had activated the nanite detonators. If the Venomsquad agents were apprehended or compromised, they would self destruct in a brilliant display. Another blip, damn these blips, sounded as one other activated a visual recording device. There they camped, weapons ready, unsure of which side was which, but watching the end all the same.