The death of Pyle struck Squirrelkit hard but all we could do was keep moving forward. Squirrelkit got over the death, in time for us to become apprentices. And we're deployed into the field. City life here would be mostly the same as it was back home. Firestar and Sandstorm's words would be made true.

Six Months later:

Squirrelpaw, Leafpaw, Crowpaw and Mothwing were walking along the streets of Hue city as they were given the free time of patrolling the city. Squirrelpaw, Leafpaw and Crowpaw were given M16A1's like Mothwing as they were looking around the crowded city, cats and their kits were in cars or on bikes as they drove around.

"Man Hue city is busy like they said it was." Leafpaw mewed as she was getting hungry. She hadn't eaten a thing since this morning. "You know, I can go for some grub." Mothwing looked at her as she was feeling the sting.

"Second that Leafpaw." Mothwing told them. Squirrelpaw looked around seeing a local café they could sit down at.

"That looks good. Let's see what they have." Squirrelpaw suggested. They all soon went over as they prepared to order. She noticed the bell as she soon rang it. A huge Burmese python opened the door as its amber eyes stared at them curiously. It soon looked at them with a smile.

"Hey there I've seen you've came here for some food I see. What can I get for you?" The python smiled as it soon grabbed a pen with its tail. Squirrelpaw was reading the menu as she was wondering on what she should get. She soon made the decision.

"Four orders of catfish and rice if you please." Squirrelpaw made her decision. The snake was writing down the orders as it soon spoke.

"How would you like your rice? Spicy with vegetables all mixed up in it?" The snake asked. Squirrelpaw looked at the snake.

"Sure. Make sure you don't skip out on it though." She smiled. "How much will it cost us?" She asked the snake. The snake, ever so nice and gentle with the cats. Looked at them as he was preparing to cook for them.

"If you were a natural citizen that would cost you something but seeing how you are some soldiers from another country, it would cost you to take a few photos of the place and what will you want to drink with that?" The snake laid out the cost which was to them nothing more than a few pictures. Leafpaw got out Squirrelpaw's camera, ready to snap some pictures.

"Water should be fine." Squirrelpaw responded. The snake responded as he went to begin preparing them some food. Leafpaw soon began snapping photos of the place as she knew that when they had the pictures, they could look at them.

"So snake, is there a reason why we aren't paying any money for the food?" Leafpaw asked as the python was filleting some fresh catfish to be cooked. The snake looked at her as it continued to prepare their meals.

"It's our national motto. Soldiers get to eat mostly for free since they are mostly hungry. We open our doors to anyone to eat but this war has divided us and for the most part we're afraid of losing the business. Open for four generations after all. This war has divided us so I have a stationery M60 on standby to defend myself. A fellow warrior gave it to me after an attack that occurred here a few months ago and I was grateful for him ever since. My prices are crazy." The snake spoke to Leafpaw. Soon a crashing sound was heard as he turned his head in annoyance. "Spider monkey! Get that rice over to boiling!" The snake shouted. Soon a Spider monkey appeared as he looked like he was exhausted.

"Ehh sorry about that. I was looking for the best pot to boil the rice when I dropped the pot on my foot, again." The spider monkey responded as he filled the pot up with some water to cook the rice in it. The snake turned to Leafpaw.

"That's my assistance Spider Monkey. Us snakes don't have any limbs so we mainly cook with the help of assistants with limbs." The snake spoke to Leafpaw handing her the water.

"It's all right. Just call me when food is ready." Leafpaw mewed. The snake nodded as she went to sit down with her friends as they began to speak.

"You know. Nam isn't as bad as the drill instructors make it out to be." Mothwing began. Crowpaw was looking at her as he was relaxing as Leafpaw handed them the water.

"Yeah I'm not a big fan as much as you are jungle girl. The heat and the bugs are killing me." Crowpaw responded as he slapped the back on his neck killing a mosquito that had just landed. Leafpaw looked at them as she took a sip of water as she was waiting on the food.

"You're not wrong. mosquitoes in particular are quite nasty little buggers and put more cats out of action because of disease rather than bullets." Leafpaw responded. Crowpaw was looking at her as he spoke.

"Well at least we can make the most of it. Anyways thanks for cuddling up with me last night even if it was too hot to." Crowpaw sighed thanking Leafpaw for sleeping with him. Mothwing wasn't too surprised with them.

"I could go for some bang bang with any cat I come across. Mainly Leafpaw herself." Mothwing wasn't going to lie about it. Squirrelpaw became worried as she turned to Mothwing as she didn't like where the medicine cat was talking this.

"Keep this up Mothwing and we might have to call Mudfur to find out you have an STD from all of those cats you go bang bang with." Squirrelpaw joked with her as they all laughed.

"Next thing you know that all the girls are being in the midst of all the gooks that have been attacking us whenever we tried to sneak around them and they built all the tunnels." Crowpaw spoke as they laughed as the doors soon opened.

"Oh food's ready." Leafpaw mewed as she soon grabbed it bringing it over. "We can sit around and keep talking until it cools down since I don't want to run the risk of hot mouth."

"I love the little gooks that they keep sending us. They are like toys that never get old." Crowpaw soon began to taste the rice as it seemed good. He continued to eat it up. The others began to eat up as they. It took them a while to finish as they had completely enjoyed their food. Soon a black and white tom with amber eyes soon appeared from the gloom wearing a similar uniform. Squirrelpaw recognized him as Leafpaw was giving the dirty dishes back to the snake.

"Private Joker is that you?" The cat asked her if he was wondering who it was. Squirrelpaw turned to her as she spoke.

"Rafter-man my tom. How you holding out?" Squirrelpaw responded. Rafter-man looked at her as he soon spoke as he wanted to see Squirrelpaw.

"Holding out good. You'll never know where the gooks are hiding. So what brings you to this side of Da Nang?" Rafter-man asked Squirrelpaw on what brought her here. Squirrelpaw looked at him.

"This side? Probably some food. Food here is good not gonna lie about it but those gooks are hiding all over the place. Some of the locals are very nice like that snake that made us some meals for free in exchange for the snapping of a few photos." Squirrelpaw responded as Rafter-man laughed.

"Dunno what makes you come to this side but it's clear that you're holding out just fine." Rafter-man responded. Squirrelpaw remembered something as she soon spoke.

"Oh yeah. Rafter-man, this is my sister Leafpaw and our friends Crowpaw and Mothwing." Squirrelpaw introduced them to Rafter-man laughed as he shook their paws.

"Nice to meet all of you." Rafter-man greeted them as Crowpaw wasn't too eager to meet anyone new but he was willing to give them a paw shake.

"Nice to meet you too." Crowpaw responded. Rafter-man pulled a chair from another one of the tables as he sat down near them. Mothwing turned her head watching the motorcycles and cars go by as the radio tuned in to These Boots Are Made For Walkin' by Nancy Sinantra.

"Ohh that song is my favorite." Mothwing admitted. The cars and Motorcycles continued to drive by as a brown she-cat walked long, swaying herself in an exaggerated way as the music played. She looked pretty for a cat but this was one of the many she-cats that were roaming the area that got the term "Undesirable."

"Hey baby, got girlfriend in Vietnam?" The brown cat asked as she was wondering if they had love. Squirrelpaw looked at the cat as Mothwing's mouth was beginning to water.

"Not just this minute." Squirrelpaw joked as she wanted to tease the Undesirable she-cat.

"Well baby, me so thirsty. Me so thirsty. Me love you long time. You party?" She asked as she was bouncing around on her legs. Mothwing was ready to give into her desires but the rest weren't so sure about this.

"Yeah, we might party. How much?" Squirrelpaw asked wondering what the price of this was. The she-cat soon responded.

"Fifteen dolla." She responded. Squirrelpaw was wondering if that was for all of them. It was a steal.

"Fifteen dollars for all of us?" Squirrelpaw asked her if that was going to be for all of them. She knew she was on her back paws thinking she might be luring them into a trap.

"No. Each you fifteen dollar. Me love you long time. Me so thirsty." The she-cat responded. Squirrelpaw wasn't so sure about this but Mothwing had her eyes darting for the she-cat's rump.

"Fifteen dollars too boo-coo." Five dollars each." Squirrelpaw soon slashed the price down as she was still not trusting her.

"Me suckee-suckee. Me love you too much." The she-cat mewed as the others were starting to get uncomfortable being around her.

"Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend." Squirrelpaw responded as didn't want to spend the money. Mothwing's eyes were beginning to water.

"Okay! Ten dolla each." The she-cat soon raised the price as Squirrelpaw got up.

"What do we get for ten dollars?" Squirrelpaw asked her on what they got with the money.

"Everything you want." The she-cat responded as she was willing to give them everything they need.

"Everything?" Squirrelpaw asked her as the others weren't too sure.

"Everything." The she-cat responded. Squirrelpaw turned to all of them as she was ready to ask them.

"Well old buddies, feel like spending some of your hard-earned money?" Squirrelpaw asked them. Mothwing soon got out the money walking up to the she-cat.

"Take me everything you grant me for." Mothwing purred to her. The others held back as they weren't too sure about this. Rafter-man soon spoke.

"Hey some of us aren't too comfortable with this, how about we spend ten dollars all of us to snap you a few photos." Rafter-man mewed as he got out his Nikon camera.

"Deal." The She-cat responded. They knew they struck a deal knowing they were able to do something with the cat but it would be appropriate for all of them.

"Just a minute." Rafter-man responded as he got out his camera and began to snap some photos with the She-cat and Mothwing together. The she-cat even lifted up her cover for a photo. Squirrelpaw soon spoke.

"You know, half of these gook whores are serving as officers in the Vietcong." Squirrelpaw responded. Leafpaw and Crowpaw smiled as Rafter-man continued snapping photos of Mothwing and the she-cat. "And the other half have got T.B. Make sure you only fuck the ones that cough." A young Vietnamese tom cat walked up behind Rafter-man while was snapping the photos as he snatches the Nikon camera from his paws as he ran off. Rafter-man was surprised that a thief would take something as prized as his camera. He soon ran to his accomplice sitting on a waiting motorbike, tossing the camera too him. He soon turned around in mockery as he executed a few karate moves. Squirrelpaw screamed trying to intimidate him but he just hops onto the bike before zooming off with the camera. Squirrelpaw watched as they drove away to never be seen. Squirrelpaw just laughed.

"At least they didn't take Leafpool's camera that's for sure." She laughed. The she-cat soon spoke.

"If I had money, I would replace camera for you." She mewed. Squirrelpaw turned to her.

"Oh would you look at that. It's time for us to get back to base. It was nice knowing ya." Squirrelpaw and the others got up as they handed her the money walking off. They knew their time here was done as they needed to get back to base.

"Bye bye!" She mewed before walking off.

A helicopter flew by as the main gates to the base was a high security electrical fence that stored Tanks, jeeps, trucks. Anything you could name. The gates opened as the five of them entered. Some of them were reading as other's were playing basketball in one of the spare fields to keep their minds occupied from the war. Squirrelpaw spoke.

"That little sucker really had some moves on him, didn't he?" Squirrelpaw asked them as they walked along. Rafter-man soon turned to Squirrelpaw.

"Yeah… You know what really pisses me off about these cats in Vietnam?" Rafter-man told her before asking here what really grinds his gears. Squirrelpaw turned to him.

"What?" Squirrelpaw asked him wondering what it was. Rafter-man spoke.

"We're supposed to be helping them and they shit all over us every chance they get… I just can't feature that." Rafter-man spoke out to them. It was clear that he couldn't stand the fact that if they helped them, they do nothing in return to help them back.

"Don't take it too hard, Rafter-man. It's just business." Squirrelpaw responded as she continued to talk along with him.

"I hate Da Nang, Joker. I want to go out into the field. I've been in this country for almost three months and all I do is take handshake shots at awards ceremonies." Rafter-man responded as he didn't like being out here as he wanted some excitement in life. Squirrelpaw felt like she couldn't help but agree.

"You get wasted your first day in the field and it'd be my fault." Squirrelpaw responded as she told him the blame would be on her for not trying to protect him. Rafter-man turned his head to her as he soon spoke.

"A high school She-cat could do my job. I want to get out into the shit. I want to get some trigger time." Rafterman explained that he wanted to do some shooting and let someone else do the paper work for him. Squirrelpaw was concerned with him.

"If you get killed, your mom would find me after I rotate back to the world and she'll beat the shit out of me. That's a negative Rafter-man." Squirrelpaw expressed her concern for the cat. Rafter-man didn't care that much. Soon a sweaty tabby tom came along as he was holding one of the gooks rifles. Mothwing soon wanted to introduce him to the crowd.

"This is my brother Hawkfrost, one of the finest sharpshooters on the field." Mothwing introduced him to the rest of the crowd. The cats cheered as he shook their paws. Squirrelpaw was worried about the weapon he was carrying.

"Why does he have a Gook gun?" Squirrelpaw asked her as Mothwing soon spoke.

"He thinks the M16 or the Mattel gun as he refers it to is trash so he picked up and Ak and has been using it ever since." Mothwing responded. Squirrelpaw nodded.

"So is there anything you would want to do after today? Read a few things, chat? Catch up on assignments?" Squirrelpaw asked Mothwing. Mothwing nodded no as she just wanted to relax.

"Just relax. I mean we haven't seen much action since we got here so we got it easy." Mothwing responded. Hawkfrost soon walked to Squirrelpaw.

"Just you wait there girl. Soon the helicopters will come flying over the rice farmers playing Creedence Clearwater Revival's Fortunate Son. I swear to Starclan that is my favorite song when we got here. The skies are singing it nonstop." Hawkfrost walked off as he went to find something to do. Squirrelpaw walked off as she was looking for something to do.

[A/N]: How is that a start to Part 2 of this story? Takes place 6 months after part 1 and will use more of the lesser known characters that didn't see too much in part 1 in this part since they are out in the field. Like always give your opinion on the story and comment on where you want it to go next.