September 9th, 1944.

"We were pushing forth; we decided to split into three teams. We were no longer in France but we had to keep fighting in the streets. Cars choked the streets so we had no straight path through. We were getting bogged down. One step closer one more house we have to knock down. The grind is taking a toll on us." Cloudpaw mewed. Cloudpaw entered the camp as Thornpaw greeted him.

"We have sensed a large number of dogs in the city of Aachen." Thornpaw mewed.

"But the dogs have surrendered a while ago, why are they still fighting?" Cloudpaw asked.

"Yes but we told Fireheart who decided to tell Bluestar." Thornpaw responded.

"Bluestar there are dogs that we are fighting with Shadowclan cats." Fireheart mewed.

"We had orders! We were supposed to take this city in half a moon if it's part of the god damn mission, we do it!" Bluestar shouted. It was clear that the coordination was beginning to break down. The apprentices were moving some packages as they were chatting. "HEY PICK UP THE PACE!"

Mousefur had a piece of mail as she gave it to Cloudpaw. She puts it on the package that Cloudpaw was carrying.

"It's for you Cloudpaw." Mousefur mewed sweetly. He soon puts down the letter as he opened it.

"What does it say?" Ashpaw mewed. Cloudpaw opened the letter to read it:

Dear Cloudpaw

I've heard about your victories in France and when you wrote back you said you were on the road heading out of France to Belgium. As far as I am concerned, I'm glad you are all right with my brother. I miss the both of you so I'm taking a visit to check up on how you are doing with Fireheart your uncle. I will come September 9th at 13:30 hours to drop off some sweets for you and your platoon, catch me when I come.

From your loving mother, Princess.

"What was the letter about?" Swiftpaw asked.

"My mother is coming to Aachen." Cloudpaw mewed.

"Oh Someone's mommy is coming to the frontlines. OH!" Swiftpaw teased Cloudpaw.

"Don't make me hit you with my Carbine." Brightpaw threatened. She looked over the letter. "She wrote Princess in her signature, that's one way to be so formal. I'm sorry but she might be cutting you loose."

"Hey it could be like Onewhisker's girlfriend. He doesn't open her letters but she is still his girl." Thornpaw mewed. Swiftpaw slapped Thornpaw in the back of the helmet. "What was that for?" Fireheart and Bluestar were walking along together seeing the apprentices horsing around.

"QUIT SCREWING AROUND!" Fireheart shouted. "We hit the mansion tomorrow morning at 0700 hours. So pick up the pace." Fireheart left as he went to the gate. A jeep being driven by Sandstorm with a brown and white kittypet in the seat next to her as there was lots of packaging in the back.

"Everybody's got their limits. Everybody." Ashpaw responded seeing the jeep.

"We got some company." Whitestorm mewed. The Kittypet got out of the jeep as she began to move the packaging to Bluestar.

"Who are you?" Bluestar asked.

"That's Princess, she's my sister." Fireheart responded.

"So you're sister came to visit?" Darkstripe teased. "Once a kittypet, always a kittypet."

"Shut up Darkstripe or you'll get court marshalled." Whitestorm threatened.

"So Fireheart I've heard your victories and I'm so proud of you and Cloudpaw. I was worried when that fire happened." Princess responded.

"I know but we always keep moving forward." Fireheart mewed hugging his sibling. Cloudpaw soon walked over to greet his mother.

"Cloudpaw! You're getting fluffier by the day. I bet all the she cats will be coming to you." Princess mewed giving him a kiss.

"Thanks." Cloudpaw smiled as he looked at her,

"So what did you bring Kittypet?" Bluestar asked.

"Me and Livy have been making peanut butter cookies with Chocolate chips and Butterscotch chips." Princess mewed unpacking the cookies.

"Those look good." Longtail smiled as he took the cookie and ate it.

"Don't mind Longtail's sweet tooth and Fernpaw's as well." Fireheart muttered.

"So is that all you brought?" Bluestar asked.

"Yeah I was only paying a visit since I was going to take a journalist trip to help document the war." Princess responded. Soon a jeep drove in. Speckletail was alone as she was frantic.

"Snowkit's gone!" Speckletail shouted.

"What happened?" Fireheart asked.

"We were out on patrol and then something came along and snatched Snowkit up and puts him on a jeep and drove off!" Speckletail shouted as water welled up in her eyes. She soon collapsed as she sobbed over her lost trained kit.

"Fireheart, double the patrols, we must find Snowkit." Bluestar ordered. Fireheart soon gathered some cats as soon joined him. It was night time when they returned.

"Any sign of Snowkit?" Speckletail mewed.

"We couldn't find him, Shadowclan must have gotten him." Fireheart mewed as their search was in vain.

"I don't want to train anymore kits! I feel like I have failed!" Speckletail cried.

"Don't worry, the elders are more than welcome to welcome you." Bluestar mewed. "For now on you will be promoted to First sergeant. You will be doing logistics so I hope you're ready."

"I will be." Speckletail replied. Soon her M1A1 Thompson was stripped as she was joined to help the Elders.

"We will have a rough next few days ahead of us." Bluestar mewed.

October 19th 1944. Aachen, Germany.

"Cloudpaw!" Fireheart mewed. Fireheart, Bluestar, Cloudpaw, Ashpaw, Fernpaw, Brightpaw and Swiftpaw were soon moving their way through the city as they were all under attack. Bluestar sprayed at the building with her M1A1 Thompson.

"Everyone up and over." Fireheart called Cloudpaw soon fell down from pure exhaustion.

"Don't worry Cloudpaw, I got you!" Ashpaw shouted helping Cloudpaw over the sand bags. The artillery fired as the shells came around their position.

"What do we do?" Brightpaw shouted afraid.

"We should have pulled out before One-eye sent us into this position here." Swiftpaw mewed clutching his Rifle.

"Well we should get call in the armor." Fernpaw shouted.

"Be quiet so I can think!" Fireheart shouted as everything went silent. "Okay Cloudpaw, Bluestar go to the field phone to call in the armor support. Fernpaw you and Brightpaw will cover us."

"On it!" Cloudpaw shouted as he began to run over with his Rifle by his side. Fernpaw began providing cover fire as the Shadowclan cats began to close in all around them. Cloudpaw soon reached the field phone as he turned it up. Bluestar skidded over as she grabbed the Field phone as she began to call into it.

"This is Cat Company 291 we are under attack by a Shadowclan attack requesting Tanks and reinforcements." Bluestar called over. "Okay over and out.

"What is it?" Firestar asked as he reloaded the M1 Carbine

"It will be here in 10 minutes, tell everyone to make a stand at the theater." Bluestar ordered.

"Okay all apprentices come to the theater; we are making a stand until the tanks arrive." Fireheart ordered. The other 4 apprentices raced over to the theater while Bluestar and Fireheart covered their retreat. Soon their armor support arrived but it wasn't their tanks.

"Panzer 4's and a king tiger." Fireheart called as they began to open fire on the infantry. The Panzer 4 fired shattering a piece of the theater.

"Anyone got any Rifle Grenades on them?" Cloudpaw asked.

"I only got 2 on me." Swiftpaw mewed handing him the Rifle Grenades. Cloudpaw attached one of them as he hoped to hit a tank with them. He fired as the grenade flew far. The whirling came down as it hits the top of the Panzer 4. It didn't do much damage. The Panzer 4 fired, the shot tearing through much of the Theater. Cloudpaw used the last Rifle Grenade on him and he fired it. The rifle grenade flew into the air as it came crashing down blowing up a couple of Shadowclan cats.

"How good is everyone on ammo?" Fireheart asked.

"I've only got 2 clips of ammo left." Fernpaw mewed.

"They better show up soon." Ashpaw prayed as he reloaded the last of his M1 Garand ammo.

"We're running low on ammo." Swiftpaw mewed as he reloaded the last of the ammo as well. Cloudpaw did the same.

The Panzer 4 soon fired as another shot cause the roof of the theater to collapse in at the right side. Soon another shell hits the tank in the side as Bluestar looked out. A bunch of M4 shermans and an M3 lee soon appeared as they destroyed a couple of Panzer 4's. The rest of the tanks retreated as they fell back. Mistyfoot and some others have come as Bluestar got out of the wreckage.

"Leopardfur, Mistyfoot you've came to our aid." Fireheart mewed excited. Mistyfoot soon tossed them the ammo that they requested.

"What about snacks?" Fernpaw asked.

"Nope just the ammo and It's Leopardstar now." Leopardstar responded.

"What happened to Crookedstar?' Ashpaw asked.

"Crookedstar died from his sickness a couple of weeks after liberating Paris." Leopardstar responded. Stonefur soon got out of the M3 Lee.

"I've always been interested in Tanks ever since I was a kit." Stonefur admitted. "And I'm Her second in command now."

"Congrats Stonefur." Fireheart responded.

"Now is not the time to congratulate each other, we must push to where our main Objective is, the Hotel Smallear was talking about." Bluestar interrupted them.

"So where are you off to?" Fireheart asked.

"We agreed to help Tallstar and Ravenpaw flush out some resistance at the plaza 5 blocks away from here." Mistyfoot responded. "Then we'll make our way to the Hotel."

"Okay we're heading to the Hotel as well." Bluestar responded.

"Okay so we'll see each other at sundown?" Leopardstar mewed.

"Correct." Fireheart responded. "We must get going so it was nice meeting up with you."

"Okay see ya." Mistyfoot responded.

10 minutes later, the cats were just in sight of the Hotel. Many Shadowclan cats were busy patrolling the hotel as the cats soon began to draw out plans for the attack.

"Okay, Me, Bluestar and Swiftpaw will go in first while the rest of you flank around from the side. Whitestorm and his patrol will show up to reinforce to make sure that the hotel is secured. Riverclan, Windclan and Ravenpaw will meet with us when the sun goes down." Fireheart began to lay out the plans. Soon they split into two teams.

"Ready to kick this show off?" Cloudpaw asked the other apprentices, they nodded their head yes. Cloudpaw soon took a satchel charge and planted it to the side of the building. "Fireworks going off now." He soon pushed the charge down as the side of the wall blew up as the Shadowclan cats were confused on what was going on.

The four apprentices soon snuck their way into the camp as they began to fire off their shots on the awaiting Shadowclan cats. Many of them were taken by surprised so they sprayed their heavy guns in the apprentices direction.

"Mg42! Get down!" Cloudpaw ordered the other apprentices. Fireheart, Bluestar and Swiftpaw soon flanked their way and began to shoot at the cats taking out the Mg42 nest. Cloudpaw looked up to see the guns were silences. "Okay let's keep moving to help out Bluestar." Cloudpaw announced as he began to lead the Apprentices in a flanking attack. Fireheart looked on to see that some of the shadowclan cats were dropping thanks to the apprentices.

"Okay we can move up now." Fireheart ordered. They soon dashed across the main floor of the hotel when they reached the basement entrance.

"Cloudpaw, you Brightpaw, Fernpaw and Fireheart will take care of the basement; we'll guard the door for you." Bluestar ordered. The four cats entered the Basement as Fireheart looked around.

"Do you hear something?" Brightpaw asked.

"No, that is why I am suspicious." Fireheart answered her not knowing when they were going to walk into an ambush. Fireheart looked around to hear the squeals of voices echoing in the room. "There might be kits down here. Cloudpaw, still got those cookies on you?"

"Yes I have." Cloudpaw answered as he held out a cookie. "Kits where are you?" Soon a kit ran up to him as it grabbed the cookie.

"Hey don't go near them!" An older she cat shouted over.

"What is going on?" Brightpaw asked the she cat puzzled.

"We're not going to hurt you." Fireheart mewed to the nervous she cat.

"We're lucky there's only two of them." Fernpaw mewed.

"Uh you might want to check this out." Cloudpaw mewed as he turned on the lantern. Inside were a bunch of kittypets ranging in ages sizes and colors.

"I didn't know they were in there." Fernpaw mewed realizing it.

"There's about 12 altogether." Cloudpaw responded as he counted them all.

"Okay, we need a plan to get these kittypets out." Fireheart responded.

"We can just wait here until those reinforcements arrive." Brightpaw suggested.

"But what if the Shadowclan cats come down and wipe us out?" Cloudpaw mewed thinking there was is a chance of that happening. Soon Ashpaw came running over.

"Shadowclan reinforcements, they're here." Ashpaw shouted as he ran back up to help the two cats.

"Okay Shadowclan is here, Cloudpaw you escort these kittypets to the back lines, we'll deal with Shadowclan ourselves." Fireheart mewed giving orders. Soon the other cats came rushing up the stair to aid Bluestar.

"Okay Kittypets follow me." Cloudpaw mewed as all 12 kittypets began to follow him. He soon exited the basement as he began to look around for a route of escape. Bluestar was helping Swiftpaw man the Mg42 they came across earlier as the other cats formed a line firing into Shadowclan's ranks. "Come with me now." Cloudpaw soon began to lead them to the flanking route he created earlier as the Kittypets followed with him in mass. He soon got out of the Hotel as he Raise his M1 Garand and popped 3 shots into a Shadowclan cat wielding an Fg42.

"Cloudpaw what are you doing with kittypets?" Whitestorm asked as he and his group were approaching the hotel.

"We found them in the basement, can Goldenflower get them out of here?" Cloudpaw asked.

"I see what I can do." Goldenflower responded. "Willowpelt, help me get these kittypets back to base." Goldenflower called out.

"Yes Goldenflower." Willowpelt responded as Cloudpaw soon turned to help finish off the Shadowclan counter attack. The remaining Shadowclan cats soon retreated as Ravenpaw fired a Bazooka killing off two of them.

"I didn't know you were holding this position?" Barley asked as he saw the cats retreat.

"We just got here and Cloudpaw was evacuating Kittypets." Bluestar responded.

"Okay good because we were busy helping Tallstar flush them out not to far from here." Barley responded. So I guess we'll call that a day?" Fireheart asked.

"We'll call it a day." Barley responded.

"I know." Bluestar yawned tired.

Soon it was dark and Darkstripe got up as he nudged Tawnykit and Bramblekit as they began to lead the two kits into the streets outside the hotel. Fireheart soon got up as he went to go follow Darkstripe. He took his M1 Carbine as he went after Darkstripe and the two kits. Darkstripe soon arrived as a Familiar voice called out.

"Darkstripe you have my kits?" The voice called out.

"Yes I do." Darkstripe responded. The cat came out of the darkness and it was Tigerstar. "Is everything ready to Operation Greif?"

"Not yet, we're still making our tanks and troops." Tigerstar mewed.

"How long is this going to take?" Darkstripe asked.

"Another 6 to 7 weeks. I want to wait until they are deep enough into the country where we can drive their lines in half." Tigerstar responded.

"6 weeks?! We might not have enough time until then, they are at the very edge of our door step and will cross the Rhine in a matter of days." Darkstripe responded.

"Be a little patient Darkstripe. The grief will soon be launched when ready." Tigerstar responded. He turned and walked away as Darkstripe went back. Fireheart soon followed him. What could this mean?