The drive to the heart of the empire was a long and mostly peaceful one, as Otto was halfway out of the commander hatch watching the road, as so was the rest of his crew. The Panther tanks up ahead were making sure that nobody was going where going to sabotage this operation Otto was assigned too. The air was thick with unease some of the soldiers who were sitting on the Tiger where looking towards the tree line, Otto turned to see and looked through his personal handheld telescope and looked and noticed several figures in white.

Otto: Halt, Ziel 3 Uhr, laden, Smoke, das sind diese Atlas-Bastarde! (halt target 3 o'clock load Smoke, it's those Atlas bastards!)

Everyone stopped what they were doing as a Smoke 88mm shell fired from Füry, hitting the ground at 400 yards covering their position, and giving the princess's modified military truck booked it, and so did the two half tracks, as one half track rear guard lock and loaded his mg42 and opened fire as tracers and AP rounds flew into the air and struck several Atlas troops, red mist spraying everywhere...

The back doors of the remaining four half tracks opened and imperial soldiers ran out and got to cover as dust rounds were coming from the tree line, as two soldiers got down and one opened fire with his MG-42, firing lead into the tree line clearly hitting his targets.

The others who had Kar98k rifles carefully aimed for their targets, and pulled the trigger sending the 7.92x57mm Mauser rounds into their targets a loud "crack" was heard as a Atlas soldier with body armor cracked where the bullet hit as a fountain of blood sprayed out where it hit and he collapsed so much as not saying a word before he collapsed dead. Otto watched before a few dust rounds bounced off the front of the Tiger's turret and he went under and closed the hatch.

The two Panther tanks fired with their 75mm guns into the tree line as two explosions rocked the tree line and then opened fire, killing any remaining atlas soldiers who could have survived the counter attack. After about two or five minutes everything goes quiet, no more gunfire, or tank fire firing into the enemy position... Otto sighed in relief seeing the engagement over he radioed everyone including the group who drove away from the scene... once everyone was back into their vehicles and where in position, took off again...

(Two hours later)

Theresa sat in her seat looking outside as she held her hands together before sighing, catching her bodyguard attention.

Stormtrooper: you need anything ma'am?

Theresa: no I'm just fine, but can please hand me a Fanta please.

Stormtrooper: of course give me a moment ma'am.

He looked through the small storage unit in the truck before he pulled up a glass of Fanta a orange glass with a bottle cap sealed on, as he pulled out a bottle opener and a "pop" happen and he happily handed it over, her hands gently holding the glass with both hands confused on how to drink it...

Stormtrooper: oh let me show you how you drink this.

He gently lifted the bottle with one hand and put it bottle on his mouth and then started drinking a few sips before pulling it down and letting her try.

Theresa try it and sipped it and her eyes widened with the amount of flavor it had, the trooper grinned seeing her enjoying the soft drink of Fanta.

(This is the 1940 glass of Fanta)

(It's amazing how much Fanta changed as a German drink)

Stromtrooper pov

As I sat with my comrades in a half track, some talking about when the war was over, and coming home to their wives and children, and love ones, of course the veterans didn't say much. Me it was for my dear Roon. I looked at the picture of her for a good minute before I tucked it inside my military inner pocket.

As I heard by commander tell us that we would be staying at a recently abandoned hotel for the night, me and everyone grabbed whatever he had and hopped off the truck and walked towards the hotel.

(The very next day)

Otto pov:

Otto: na Scheiße.

I looked at what appeared or was an infantry soldier who rank was a sergeant, the smell of iron was apparent as pool of blood shrouded the corpse.

The officer looked pissed, I didn't want to ask questions on who did it, but a spy could be in our ranks. Which could be bad news for everyone where on this secret mission. But currently someone caught a deserter entering camp, and was currently being interrogated, revealing his identity as Jaune Arc a 3rd year Huntsman in training turned Ranger by the Arcadian Army.
I heard that he was the Prince of Arcadia because his father was a powerful individual. But currently I had no idea how he got here...

Otto: es wird eine lange Woche und wahrscheinlich wird es von jetzt an noch schlimmer ... (it's going to be a long week and probably going to get worse from here...)

I spoke under my breath, before I turned and walked away from the crime scene. And I looked around and noticed that the Princess was watching me with interest. Maybe she had fallen for me? Or perhaps it was something else? Either way it creeped me out, and turned and walked away towards my "home" (a/n: many tankers during ww2 called their tanks home during the war.) which was being refueled and ammunition replaced with the empty shells with fresh from the factory AP, HE and smoke shells. Brand new fresh belts of MG 34 ammo was being loaded into the tank.

When I heard soft footsteps come close i turned and noticed that Theresa was standing right next to me looking at the Tiger 1 tank in all details, from battle marks from where the shells bounced off the thick armor to the machine gun rounds littered across the armor.

The sound of marching was heard as everyone turned to see a column of German soldiers marching down the road towards the battlefield all singing a song about a little flower called "Erika" as two soldiers were flag bearers holding the Nations flag

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Otto and Theresa thought that probably over 500,000 men were marching down the street, which would probably scare anyone seeing a massive line of troops approaching... some of our troops were cheering for them saying "go kick their butts out of Das Deutsche Reich!" Some were singing along with the marching soldiers.
Otto watched without saying a word, but knew something big was coming...