The police, the Howling Commandos, the Red Guardian, and the Chicago Mutual Aid Society. Without any advance planning or agreement to cooperate, the four forces already on the scene spontaneously formed an alliance and launched a fierce assault on the vampires and werewolves.
...Well, all right. The NYPD officers were mostly just along for the ride. The black and white patrolmen had a presence, but contributed little. There were simply too many vampires and werewolves, though. In a place that could rightly be called a battlefield, the officers could not rely entirely on others to protect them. They had to fight to survive and find a way out, while looking for opportunities to use their radios to request more police support.
Not driving away was probably the only thing the two officers deserved credit for. Especially after they retrieved a shotgun and a rifle from the patrol car's trunk, they gained a slight advantage over the vampires and werewolves. They could drive their attackers back instead of merely being chased around.
Yet the vampires and werewolves hiding here seemed endless. They kept emerging from the shadows, ignoring the dead and wounded littering the ground as they charged the intruders in wave after wave.
Without the two Mutual Aid Society assassins providing sniper cover, the two patrolmen would probably have fallen long ago.
Meanwhile, Cross and Fox's situation unfolded just as Black Super had predicted at the outset. After they fired a few shots from concealment, vampires tracked them down, intent on eliminating the sniper team occupying the high ground.
As the spotter, Cross had even more combat experience than Fox, who kept firing beside him. He possessed not only quick reactions but also a veteran's cunning. The vampires kept thinking they could catch him by surprise, only for him to