Upon the group’s arrival in Colmaton, Artemus put on a disguise and went uncover to see if he could gather information from the town’s criminal element on who they thought might be responsible for the extortion scheme via the railway gun, while West and Germania, who, despite her protests, were dressed up as a married couple who had just arrived from the eastern US and were looking for a new home, while the husband was looking to start up a business there, a small hotel, although the two had, upon their arrival, informed the mayor about the real reason they were in town. Once in town, James started to circulate among the business community, as he pretended to look for a place in town to place his proposed business, while the grey mare also went around town, trying to get to know the local women, especially those of the city’s elite, while at the same time, keeping her ears open for any gossip that might be related to the case. It would take a few days, but the trio would finally discover who was behind the attacks, West and Gordon’s old enemy, Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless, a rather brilliant mouse who had very big ambitions. They also discovered where the not so good doctor and his accomplishes were hiding out, at a camp that was placed a short distance east of town. The agents and Germania all decided to wait until nightfall to try to sneak into Loveless’ camp, to destroy the railway gun and to capture Loveless and his supporters, soon telling the mayor of their idea, mainly so that he could get in touch with the commander of the local military base, so that he can support their attack with some troops. That night, the trio snuck into Loveless’ camp, quickly overpowering the outer sentries, thanks in part to Germania acting a bit more feminine then she usually does, much to her disgust. The trio, as they expected the arrival of help from the military, soon found the railway gun, which was placed upon an, until then, unknown railway line, with the barrel aimed right at the center of Colmaton. The three quickly headed for it, planning to disable the weapon with some explosives that Gordon had made days earlier for that express purpose, but, they never got to the gun, as one of them tripped a hidden wire that released a device into the air that blew up directly above them, releasing some gas around the three that quickly knock them out. It would be a while before they finally woke up, soon discovering that they were all inside a tent, seated and tied up, and at the not so tender mercy of a loudly gloating Dr. Loveless and his goons, who was especially eyeing the angry mare. The mouse soon told them what he was up to with his extortion scheme: It was the first step of his plan to take over the Western US, by building up a large mercenary army, supported by several more railway guns, all of which would be paid for through the blackmail money. And when Germania asked how he was able to get the first gun, he told her that he had sent one of his people, after the war between her country and France, to find and copy the blueprints for the Krupp gun, and he had it built once his spy had returned with the blueprints, which angered the mare no end. She was soon to be angered even more when Loveless told the trio that while he planned to have both West and Gordon killed, he planned to keep her around, as his wife, once he have had her brainwashed into believing that he was her husband. But, when she tried to break out of her bonds, Germania discovered that she couldn’t, as the trio heard the evil little mouse laughing loudly in enjoyment before he told them that he had heard about the grey mare’s strength and that he had created a device that would neutralize it until she was no stronger than a normal femme. Then, before he left, Loveless added that, when she was hypnotized, he was going to make sure that Germania won’t realize how strong she really was, which caused her to release a low snort of anger, as the once again laughing mouse and his goons left the tied-up trio alone.

As Germania continued trying to break out of her bonds, having no intention of becoming Loveless’ wife, whether real of fake, West and Gordon began to converse with each other, as they tried to see if Loveless had removed their secret weapons while the trio had been out cold. West soon discovered that Loveless’ goons had not search his boots as he revealed his knife. After Gordon had hoped over to him, he used his knife to cut his partner loose, who then proceeded to untie both West and Germania’s bonds. Once she had gotten loose, Germania discovered the location of the device that was keeping her weak, which she quickly removed from her person, before using a pistol, which she had taken off of a nearby table, to destroy it, using its butt. After she had felt her strength returning, and the trio had finished retrieved their weapons and other devices, they exited the tent, and quickly headed for the railway gun, with Germania in the lead. After they had reached the gun, either koeing or killing some of Loveless’ goons in the process, the trio climbed onto the gun, and then separated, with West and Gordon headed for the engine, to unlink it from the gun, while Germania, who was carrying the explosive with her, headed for the gun itself, planning to destroy it, once she had placed the explosive in a spot that she thought would do the most damage. The grey mare soon reached the gun, only to discover that a rather large bull was protecting it, one of the mouse’s two main assistants, Voltaire. Germania, after she had secured the explosive on her person, charged the bull, soon knocking him hard against the side of the gun, before he hit her in the face, knocking her back. She would spend the next half hour fighting with Voltaire, exchanging hard punches with the bull, as she tried to wear him down. During the fight, she could hear pistol shots coming from the direction of the train’s engine, telling her that West and Gordon were having problems of their own, before she came up with an idea to finally put down Voltaire. Germania soon had herself positioned so that she stood before the gun’s firing mechanism, egging the bull on to attack her, which he did, destroying the device, while at the same time, trapping his hand inside it, as she got out of his way. Smiling, the mare proceeded to punch him hard in the face several times, one of which soon caused his hand to come loose, before she continued on with her attack. As soon as she saw that she had him on the ropes, Germania hit Voltaire with one strong punch, knocking him off the weapon, as he hit the ground, out cold. The mare took a few seconds to catch her breath, as she heard the shooting stop, seconds before she heard a train whistle, telling her that West and Gordon had obviously finished their half of the plan. She then went to work, soon placing the explosive device into the hole that Voltaire had created, before she turned on the timing device. Germania then got off the railway gun, before finding herself a place to protect herself from the expected explosion, moments before the explosive went off, destroying the railway gun. She soon got back up, and looked at the burning railway gun for a while, before she started to look around for Voltaire, soon seeing that he had run off. As she released a low snort of frustration, Germania heard the voices of West and Gordon coming from behind her. Germania turned around, and saw the two agents running towards her. As they got closer, she asked them if they had gotten Loveless, before she heard West mention that the little rodent had found some way to once again slip through their fingers, although they were able to catch most of his men. This caused the grey mare to release another low snort, before she remarked that at least they had stopped Lovelace’s scheme, which the two males agreed, before they went back to round up the minions who weren’t dead, so that they could hand them over to the authorities, while at the same time telling them the location of the now destroyed railway gun.

The trio, with the captured hoods, returned to Colmaton, handing them over to the local authorities, before the two agents took Germania back to San Francisco on their train, so that she could take a train back to Washington, while the three pondered how Loveless could have known that they were coming, while they, at the same time did not receive any help from the military. It would take a while before it finally dawn to them, that someone in the mayor’s office must’ve tipped him off, not realizing that it was actually the mayor himself, who had been helping Loveless and his goons by secretly giving them shelter, while the report of the town being threaten was made so that nobody would get suspicious if the other settlements in the area were attacked if they refused to pay the bribe, and Colmaton had been left alone. As West and Gordon made their suspicions known to their superiors in Washington, Germania took a train back to Washington, but not before foiling an attempt on her life by one of Loveless’ men who had escaped with him, by trying to kill her while she slept, only for him to end up dead as she punched him off of the roof of one of the railway cars while the train was going over a railway bridge. After arriving in Washington, and then cleaning herself off, Germania handed over her report to the German Ambassador, as she told him that the railway gun was no more. The Ambassador sent her report on to Berlin, while Germania, after participating in a party that was held in her honor at the German Embassy, would take the first available ship back to Germany, since the Exhibition was over, and that the exhibit that she had been assigned to protect had already been sent back to Germany, soon arriving in Kiel with little incident.

A year earlier, in the early summer of 1878, Germania would be recalled to Berlin by the Emperor and Bismarck, whereupon she would act as a bodyguard for the German delegation who were acting as hosts for the Congress of Berlin where the great powers of Europe, as well as a few minor states, would all decide on how to reorganize the Balkans in the wake of the recently fought war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, especially as Bismarck wanted to come up with a balance in the region that would satisfy the interests of Britain, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Ottoman Turks. During the Congress, she would meet for the first time the twelfth Italia, the eighth Princess Hun, and the second Marianne and that era’s Athena, while meeting for the second time that period’s Duchess Austri, who was still angry at her for slugging her with a pistol butt during the Battle of Sadowa, all of whom were acting as bodyguards for their respective delegations to the Congress, although Princess Hun was also there to keep an eye on the she-wolf to make sure she didn’t allow her emotions to get the best of her and attempt to confront the mare over such old wounds, which could possibly disrupt the peace conference. Bismarck, in an attempt to help cool things down at the meeting, ordered Germania to act as hostess for a luncheon between her and the other five female bodyguards, hoping that by their own example of getting along, that they could influence their leaders to get over their own animosities to come up with a good, peaceful solution to the present situation between the Russian and the Ottoman Empires over the Ottoman-controlled principalities of Bulgaria, Eastern Rumelia and Macedonia. Although reluctant to at first, Germania did as she was ordered, soon finding herself acting as hostess for the other five females, after first putting on a dress normally worn by the upper class females of the time. Germania acted as a surprisingly good hostess to the other five femmes, getting them to speak among themselves as somewhat reluctant friends instead of enemies, while at one point being able to have a private chat with the Austrian she-wolf, apologizing for slugging her with the pistol, but telling her that it was the only way she could think of to capture her without having to kill her, as well as informing the wolfette that, if not for her intervention, she might have been treated a whole lot worst during her short term captivity, as she knew that a few male soldiers would not have been reluctant about trying to force themselves on her if not warn off by their superiors. If took a while, but Austri would accept her apology, and then agreed that her captivity would’ve been a whole lot worst if not for her intervention, before she was willing to finally bury the hatchet by shaking the grey mare’s hand, much to Germania’s relief. The luncheon thus ended up a success, and in its way, help lead to the successful conclusion of the conference for Bismarck, while Germania hoped that she would never again have to wear such an outfit.

Once she had returned to the Crown Prince’s court, the mare would go back to the earlier routine of her following him, and sometimes both him and his wife, Crown Princess Victoria, to ceremonies and other receptions that Frederick would be sent to to represent the German Empire, as well as helping him in his project to turn the city of Berlin into a much more cultural city, as well as occasionally helping the Berlin police put a stop to criminal activity inside the capital. During this time, Germania would appear at the unveiling of the Niederwalddenkmal victory monument on September 28, 1883, while clothed in the outfit that she had worn while Schilling was working on her statute. While surprised to see that her statute had been placed as the central figure of the monument, the outfit that she wore to the ceremony would cause a sensation among her fellow Germans. Before she knew what was going on, the middle-aged mare would find her likeness in the gown being put on such items as postcards, stationary, paintings and other kinds of illustrations, even if some of them were of a more satirical nature, miniature statues, pottery, etc., and eventually a postage stamp, all being bought in large numbers by her fellow Germans. At the same time, copies of the gown were soon being bought by other German women, which especially caught her off-guard, as she did not expect it to be of interest to other females. Not long after the unveiling of the monument, Germania would find herself being invited to more ceremonies, with several of them coming from outside of Germany, and with many of them asking her to appear in the gown. Being at first very reluctant, she would go to some of them, mostly at the prompting of either the Crown Prince, the Crown Princess or the Emperor himself, including the Golden Jubilee of 1887, that was held for the Crown Prince’s mother-in-law, Queen Victoria of Great Britain, actually meeting the queen at one of the parties that was held at the Jubilee, while dressed in the gown. She would also appear at the American Exhibition that was being held near London that year, being among those who would witness the second of two command performances that was given for the queen by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, enjoying the show, along with the royals from all over Europe who had been invited to watch. Before the performance, she would help foil an attempt to kidnap the royal cousins, Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Prince George of Britain, helped by Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill.

A year after the Jubilee, Germania would be among those who would witness the death of the old Emperor, Wilhelm I, before she would become a witness to the coronation of his son as Frederick III, whom many German liberals hoped would transform their country into a more liberal state. As she stayed on, as a member of his new court, she would see him receive his mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, and the King of Sweden and Norway, King Oscar II, as well as attend the wedding of his son Prince Henry to the Emperor’s niece, Princess Irene of Hess and by Rhine. But, the new emperor’s reign would last only 90 days, as he was suffering from cancer of the larynx, soon dying in mid-June 1888. Germania would act as one of the pall bearers during the funeral, before she witnessed the coronation of Frederick and Victoria’s eldest son, Emperor Wilhelm II. Although offered by the new Emperor to become a member of his court, Germania graciously, but firmly, refused the offer, rather staying on a member of his mother’s court, staying as a member until she decided to go into retirement from public life in the late 1890s. Before then, though, she would retire from the German Army in 1890, doing so several months after Bismarck had been forced out of power as the Minister of both the Empire and Prussia in March of that year. Although she did not like the way that he had used his powers as the Minister of the new state, she had to agree that some of his policies did help the people of Germany in general, as well as the way that he allied Germany with the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, and kept the recent war in the Balkans between Russia and the Ottoman Turks from spreading. While she worked for the Empress, who was trying to find ways to help advance her late husband’s liberal ideas, Germania, who had married a cavalry officer whom she had met during the siege of Paris, in the early 1870s, would raise her family, two males and three females, all but one of whom would eventually emigrate to the United States by the eve of the First World War. At the same time, she noticed that Wilhelm was not as wise a monarch, as was either his grandfather or his father, or a good, if a little bit manipulative, political leader, like Bismarck, because of his bellicose attitudes towards the other states of Europe, or even the U.S., when he thought about getting Germany into a war with the later over the territories that she had conquered from Spain during the Spanish-American War of 1898. After Germania had retired, she would stay out of the public light, unless she was invited to a function that had no political implication until about 1910, when she was forced to stay home because of a stroke, watched over by the daughter who had decided to stay in Germany, as her husband had already died in 1905. The mare would live until early 1914, several months before the outbreak of the disastrous First World War. Although she died in Berlin, she would be buried in the same Lutheran burial ground outside Cologne as was buried her mother, as per her will, although first being given a very elaborate state funeral by order of Wilhelm II, although it was against her own will, as she had asked for a much more simple burial.

The present Germania’s most recent predecessor, the thirteenth one, would be the second and, so far last, wolfette, to use the name. That Germania, born in Berlin in 1920, was the second child and only daughter of an officer in the German Army, who had served in an Infantry division on the Western Front during the last three years of the war, before fighting in a Free Corps unit in 1919-20 against Communists agitators who were trying to turn Germany into a Communist state, like the Soviet Union, before being killed in a gun battle with a Communist group on the streets of Berlin in late 1920, and a homemaker mother, who would die in 1921 from the Spanish Flu. The now parentless girl, along with her older brother, who would later become the first Iron Cross, would be declared a ward of the state, since the two siblings had no living relatives. The young blonde she-wolf, and her older brother, would be well taken care of as they lived in a state-run orphanage during the 20s, never being adopted, as Weimar Germany went from chaos to a period of false economic prosperity, although, at times, she would be picked on by the other girls inside the orphanage, or at least she was, until her older brother, Georg, would teach her how to defend herself, which, after a few fights, would cause the other girls to leave her alone, as she showed herself to be a bit stronger than the other girls living inside the orphanage. As the two siblings continue to grow, they began to reveal themselves to be stronger than the other children, especially the she-wolf, as she showed an interest in sports, especially in gymnastics and track and field.

Early in 1929, the siblings would be adopted by a male wolf who ran a small scale financial company that dealt heavily in stocks and other financial services on the Berlin stock exchange, and his wife. Things were good for the siblings, until the repercussions from the financial crash in the US in 1929, which was soon followed by the withdrawal of the loans from the US in 1930 and then the bank failures in Europe around the same time, starting with a major bank in Austria, finally struck Germany, that would lead first to higher unemployment inside the country and then to a rather nasty political crisis, while, at the same time, leading to the heavy contraction of business for their step-father’s company, almost bankrupting him. As she and her brother went to school, while their new father tried to keep his company afloat, the two would see the constant fighting on the streets between groups that were loyal to either the Nazis or the Communists, although they also saw members from both groups occasionally fight with those who still believed in the Republic. Although not a Nazi, her brother would occasionally get involved in fights with Communist sympathizers, as he saw them as the main reason for both him and his sister being made orphans back in the ‘20s, usually winning his fights, although upsetting his step-father in the process. At the same time, the young she-wolf participated more in her gymnasium’s sports program, becoming a member of the girl’s track and field team, participating mainly in throwing events, such as the discus, the shot put and the hammer throw, showing herself, to the surprise of her team’s coach, to be a very strong wolfette, especially when he saw how well she could handle the hammer. By her junior year, as she won a number of matches for her gymnasium, the young she-wolf had attracted the attention of the German Olympic Committee, who at the time was trying to improve the team for the next Summer Olympics, that of 1936, which was to be held in Berlin. The leader of the committee soon got in touch with her step-parents, and after a long series of talks, they agreed to allow her to become a member of the German Olympics team, in exchange for them paying for the last year of her education at the gymnasium. A few days after her folks had signed the contract, the she-wolf found herself training for the next three Summer Olympics (1936, 1940 and 1944). The she-wolf would also be a member of the German version of the Girl Guides (Scouts), enjoying her time in the group.

As this was going on, several elections took place in Germany, with the Nazis becoming the main party inside the Reichstag, and the second largest party inside Germany, but not being able to gain a clear majority, as the political crisis, brought about by the Depression, continued to worsen, while the street fighting between the Nazis’ SA troopers and those street thugs who fought for either the Communists or the more moderate political parties, grew worst. Although the Nazis did not gain control of the government in 1932, as Hitler was defeated by then popular President, and hero of the First World War, Paul von Hindenburg, in the two elections for President that were held that year, they remained in control of the Reichstag, as their leaders caused some mischief, as they passed laws that favored their party at the expense of both the Communists and the more moderate political parties, while helping to sow even more political confusion. Finally, in early 1933, von Hindenburg reluctantly made Hitler the new Chancellor of Germany, after the resignations of first Franz von Papen, who would serve in that office for several months in 1932, and then Kurt von Schleicher, with von Papen as the Vice-Chancellor, who had expected, along with the rest of the more moderate politicians in the country, to control Hitler. But, von Papen and other politicos would realize that they had made a mistake when Hitler made himself the Führer of Germany, combining the offices of President and Chancellor soon after the death of von Hindenburg, got control of the military (whose leaders were more than willing to work with the Nazis than most people would know at the time, or for many years after World War II) via an oath that would make the soldiers willingly follow Hitler’s orders, his destroying most of his major political opponents through laws passed by his cohorts inside the Reichstag, with would include the creation of Concentration Camps to ‘rehabilitate’ his opponents, and finally, in 1934, with the Night of the Long Knives, which led to the removal, via death, of the ‘threat’ of then SA leader Ernst Röhm, and most of Röhm’s major followers (as well as the removal of many of the Nazis’ opponent, including the murder of von Schleicher). Among the other moves made by the Nazis was the elimination of such organizations as the Boy and Girl Guides, and placing their former members under the control of their own Hitler Youth organization, thus making the she-wolf, and her older brother Georg, who had been a member of the German version of the Boy Guides, members.

While Hitler and his co-horts were tightening their control on Germany, and putting out propaganda that they knew would influence the thinking of the people, the young she-wolf continued in the gymnasium, getting good grades in her classes and showing an interest in the literature of her homeland, especially the writings of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and several of Nietzche’s writings. She would also continue with her training for the Olympics, as she would participate in several sporting events held inside Germany, participating mainly in the javelin and discus toss, winning a few of them, although mainly being in the top ten, eventually placing herself into position to be put on the German Olympic Team for ‘36. At the same time, her step-father’s business began to turn things around, as his company started to take advantage of the Nazi’s anti-Semitic policies, especially those which helped to destroy the financial businesses of those who were either of Jewish origin or background, as his company would take over a few of those companies, promising to look after their buinesses until things improved for them in Germany, when in reality he would takecontrol of their assets and add them to those of his own company. During all this, the she-wolf’s body proceeded to get more muscular the more she kept herself in shape for the ’36 Olympics.

In the Spring of 1936, after participating in a track and field meet that was held in Hamburg, in which she ended up fifth in the javelin toss, third in the discus throw and first in the shot put, the she-wolf would be informed that she had been selected to be a member of the German Olympics team, although she would be one of the alternates, to participate only if one of the other females on the track and field team was not able to participate in the games. Hearing this made both her and her brother, who had been helping her out with her work outs, when he wasn’t either doing his school work or participating in the Hitler Youth group that he was a member of, happy, even if she would’ve preferred being on the actual squad. The young she-wolf, who would participate in a few more events, in order to prepare for the Olympics, would learn, upon her arrival at the Olympic village, that she would be an alternate in the discus throw and the javelin toss, while she would be given a chance to participate in the shot put. During the week before the official start of the game, the young blonde wolfette was being noticed by some of the other participants, thanks to her muscular physique, especially by those members of the German Olympics committee who also worked for the Nazi Party, as the Party had, since 1934, been secretly looking for a young female to take the place of the last Germania, as the grand children of the last Germania have either refused to return to Germany, or seems to have vanished from sight, to act as a symbol of the ideal German female, according to Nazi propaganda. After she had participated in the parade of nations at the start of the games on August 1, the she-wolf would spend most of the Olympics watching her teammates lead the rest of the teams that would participate in that year’s games in the overall medal count, until she and the rest of her teammates on the German track and field squad were told that she was going to participate in the women’s javelin toss, as one of the other female members was revealed to actually be part-Jewish (although in the late 90s it would be revealed that the female had actually been removed by order of Nazis officials to allow the she-wolf to participate), which came as a complete shock to the entire group. The she-wolf, as she participated in the event, would reach the finals, taking ninth place, as the event was won by fellow German Tilly Fleischer. When she participated in the women’s shot put event, she would end up winning the gold medal, beating out her nearest competitors, a couple of mare, one American and one Belgian. As she stood on the reviewing stand, being given the gold medal, the she-wolf would hear a loud cheer exit the crowd, while she also noticed the approving looks that she was getting from several of the Nazis leaders who had been watching the event in the stands.

Several weeks after the end of the Olympics games, as the she-wolf was at her gymnasium preparing for the next meet, she suddenly found herself being called into her coach’s office. Not knowing why she was being called, she went to the room, whereupon she was surprised to see inside the room with her coach a couple of men clothed in dark brown trench coats. The pair said that they were a couple of officials who had been sent to find her by State Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, before informing her that he wanted to meet her personally. Although the she-wolf was at first skeptical that the pair actually represented the Propaganda Minister, she agreed to see him in his office. The next day, the excited and a bit nervous young wolfette found herself waiting outside Goebbels’ office, before she found herself standing before him. After hearing him congratulate her on her victory at the just completed Olympics, he told her why he had wanted to see her: That he was really impressed by how far she had thrown not only the shot put, but also the javelin, even though she had ended up among the top ten finishers in the later event. As he kept on talking to her, she felt herself being entranced by his words, before she finally heard him tell her the real reason why he had wanted to see her: he intends to make her the new Germania, to show the female side of the new Germany that the Nazis wanted to create. The she-wolf was surprised by the offer, and at first refused it, pointing out to him that she was still in her teens, and might not actually be the femme that he was looking for to take up the honor, before being convinced by Goebbels’ soft sell to finally accept it, especially after he had told her that German science would take care of her concerns. Thus, a few weeks later, she found herself inside a secret lab inside Berlin, where a series of tests were done on her to check upon both her physical and mental condition, before later being injected with a needle which contained a formula that had been created to modify her physique. At first nothing happened, before it started to transform her teenaged body until she had the appearance of a canid who was in her early 20s, instead of her mid-teens, as well as giving the she-wolf a rather tall, very muscular, yet sexy looking body, along with a much more aggressive attitude. After the successful completion of her change, the scientists proceeded to put her through a series of test to find out what kinds of powers she now had. The tests, once they were done, would show that the transformed she-wolf now had high level super strength, moderate super speed, high level endurance, that her body could quickly heal itself, she could fly with little trouble, had very powerful claws which could cut through almost anything, and Luminescent and Umbra-inducing powers which could either lighten up or darken the environment around her. Once the tests have been completed, she was put through military-style training, in which she was taught how to best use her powers, as well as taught such skills to supplement her powers as hand-to-hand fighting, swordfighting, boxing, Greco-Roman wrestling, karate, swimming, running, horse riding, as well as how to handle and shot a rifle, a pistol, a submachine gun, a machine gun, knife and dagger, all the while having her mind filled with the anti-Semitic, anti-Communist philosophy of the Nazis until that she came to believe in its validity. Once her training had been completed, she was inducted into the German Army with the rank of Oberleutnant of Infantry in the month of February 1938, just in time to participate in the Anschluss of Austria, as Germans troops were sent to Austria to put into effect the forced union between the two German states to create a Greater Germany, leading a small unit that would go into the now former Austrian capital of Vienna, clothed in a field grey uniform of a German junior grade officer. She would make her official appearance during the Nuremberg Rally for that year, introduced to the audience by Goebbels himself, as she was clothed in the outfit that she would become more remembered for wearing: a strapless black leather bustier that was place atop a matching color leotard, a pair of below-the-knees, medium heel, black leather boots, a spiked black leather collar arouund her neck and a pair of metallic bracelets on her arms, colored silver. That October, Germania would be among the German troops that would enter the Sudetenland, which, until the Munich Agreement that was signed by Germany, Italy, France and Britain, had been a part of Czechoslovakia, but with a mostly German population, who claimed (or rather were manipulated into claiming) they wanted to become part of Germany, with the treaty itself signed to prevent a European-wide war from breaking out. The agreement instead angered Hitler, as he had wanted war, while making him think that the Western powers, France and Britain, would never show themselves willing to stop him.

After spending a month in Czechoslovakia, Germania was ordered back to Berlin, before being sent to Spain, to help the fascist forces of General Francisco Franco finally end the fighting with the Republican forces, mainly to give her some battlefield experience, but to also find the shadowy figure that had been attacking some of the airfields where the Condor Legion was based in Spain. While she was in Spain, Germania would see very little combat, but, she was able to come to blows with the saboteur, who turned out to be the fourth Mother Russia, who had been officially revealed to the world during the Munich Crisis, but had been secretly fighting in Spain, by the express orders of Stalin, to help the Republican forces. In what would turn out to be the first of many fights between the two female supers, they would fight themselves into a draw, with the she-bear being able to get away by creating a distraction, to the frustration of the she-wolf. As the rest of the Germans returned to Germany in March 1939, Germania would stay in Spain until Franco’s forces finally entered Madrid later that same month. The she-wolf then returned to Berlin, where she was put in training for a secret assignment.

Germania was still in training somewhere in Germany, when she was told to go to Berlin, where she was told that she was to go with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow, acting as his guard, as he tried to convince the Soviets to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany, so that the Nazi state would be free to attack Poland. The she-wolf, following her orders, flew to the Soviet capital city of Moscow with von Ribbentrop and his entourage, where the group met the Soviet leader, Stalin, and his main cronies, as well as his guard, Mother Russia. It took the will power of both femmes to keep from attacking each other, as the pair obviously wanted to continue their earlier fight in Spain, much to the amusement of premier Stalin, before the two sides signed the Non-Aggression Pact, with a secret protocol which would divide Poland between the two countries, and put the rest of Eastern Europe within the two countries’ sphere of influence. The blonde wolfette then went back to Germany with the Foreign Minister’s entourage, angered that she could not get another crack at the she-bear thanks to the treaty, as Mother Russia’s account of their earlier encounter during one of the dinner parties ticked her off as she did not recall it as having occurred like that (her having gotten the best of the she-wolf before leaving once her compatriots had finished their job of damaging the airfield). She then went back to the secret base to continue her training, thus being unable to take part in the campaign against the Poles, which ended with Poland being divided between Germany and the Soviet Union in the fourth and final partition of that ill-fated country. She would become especially angry when she was later told that the target she had been trained to face in combat, Polonia, the National Heroine of Poland, had been able to escape, first by going through Hungary to find temporary refuge in Romania, before being able to get into France at the start of 1940. She was even made angrier when she learned that Mother Russia was among the Russian troops that had moved into Eastern Poland on September 17 to take over that part of the now partitioned country.

Germania would continue with her training, although now in conjunction with a paratroop unit that was created for a special purpose, which was to capture the Dutch royal family, as part of a plan that was to attract the attention of both the British and the French to go into Belgium and the Netherlands, to lure them into a trap that would be sprung when Panzer units would burst out of what the leaders of the French military were convinced was the impregnable to armor Ardennes Forest. The she-wolf would spend the next several months working with the paratroopers until they were ready to be crash landed into the Netherlands, near the palace where the royal family resided, inside several gliders, while she would fly above them for protection. This would occur on May 10, 1940, on the same day that other German units were entering into Belgium and France, while other German troops had a month earlier overrun Denmark and were presently trying to complete the conquest of Norway, after repulsing the Anglo-French attempts to help the Norwegians. As the paratroopers landed, with orders to quickly secure the palace, Germania went to complete her part of the plan, to capture the Dutch Queen and her family. In fact, as soon as she had landed inside the palace, she saw the Dutch Queen, who was at that very moment running towards a car that was to drive her to safety. But before she could go after her, the she-wolf felt her face being hit by a strong right punch, which sent her flying straight into a wall. Once she had gotten over the initial shock, she looked in the direction of her opponent, soon seeing before her a costumed rabbit, who was wearing an outfit in the Dutch national colors with the seal of the House of Orange placed over her chest, and with an angry look on her face, and obviously ready to defend the Queen. With that, a snarling Germania got off the wall, and headed for the female lapin, who turned out to be the Dutch National Heroine, the sixth Hollandia, who was making her first public appearance. The two would spend most of that day fighting each other, until Hollandia, once she was sure that the Queen and her family had gotten away, thanks to the palace guards holding off the paratroopers, was able to trick Germania into running into a bookcase, which then fell on top of the she-wolf. Once that was done, the lapin femme made good her own escape, leaving behind her a pissed off Germania, who was soon able to get out from under the bookcase, while she remained in Holland until she was finally picked up by a British sub, several weeks after the Dutch Army had given up. Germania, in the meantime, would get involved in the fighting that would lead to the surrender of the Dutch Army, although sore that she had been kept from completing her mission by the female rabbit. As soon as the Dutch had surrendered, she was ordered back to Berlin. Upon her arrival, after being reprimanded for not being able to capture the Dutch Queen and her family, as well as not being able to defeat Hollandia, she was given a new assignment, which would have her dropped into Scotland, to help defend the spy network that they planned to set up within the Scottish Highlands, in order to prepare the way for an invasion of Britain. The blonde she-wolf followed her orders, and around the time that the Royal Navy and the little ships, under what cover that the Royal Air Force’s Fighter Command could provide them while they were rescuing the remnant of the British, French and Belgium forces that were trapped around the French city of Dunkirk, along with the spies that she were to protect, Germania was dropped into Scotland.

During the next several months, as the Battle of Britain raged over the skies of England between the Royal Air Force, which included pilots from the Dominions and colonies, the countries of Europe that had either been taken over or conquered by the Germans and a few American volunteers, and the German Luftwaffe, Germania and the spies under her charge set up shop inside an empty castle in the Scottish moors, making sure that nobody who got near the base could alert the local police about their being there, as they tried as best they could to send back reports to Berlin on how the British populace was reacting to the war, especially after the start of the Blitz in October, as the plan to invade Britain, Operation Sea Lion, was postponed indefinitely, and was to be simply used as a cover for the invasion that Hitler really wanted to put into operation, Barbarossa, against their present Soviet allies. As she and her charges stayed in the Highlands, rumors began to circulate among the local populace that spies and saboteurs (as a few attacks, all committed by those who were working for the Black Knight, who at the time was not yet working with the Nazis, but acting as a simple Black Marketer) were using the old castle as a base of operation. The rumors soon came to the attention of MI5 and their Double Cross operation, which was in command of all German spies in the country who had been turned to help the British, after having first been captured once they had been dropped into Britain. Worried that there might actually be a hidden German spy network that was sending out accurate information to the Nazis which could end up compromising the false information that their turned spies were presently sending the Germans, MI5 got in touch with Britannia, soon asking her to check it out for them, and to destroy the network, if it actually existed. Britannia took the assignment and went to Scotland by herself, as her friend Sekhmet was at the time training with one of the new Commandos units, as they were preparing for a raid against a German-controlled base in Norway, to go to the Highlands to check out the validity of the rumors. As this was going on, Germania, who had also heard the rumors, searched for, and soon found the actual cause for the rumors, Black Knight and his men. Taking a few of the spies with her, she attacked the armored-clad stallion, and soon overran his base, before making him an offer, either help her people, or be handed over to the locals, whom she was sure would just love to hand them over to the authorities. It only took a while before the stallion agreed to her suggestion, especially after he had gotten a good look at her outfit, thinking it would eventually end up with him taking over Britain once the Germans had won the war anyways. Meanwhile, Britannia, after getting in touch with the local police, as well as the commander of the nearby Army Base, who had also been trying to locate the saboteurs, started to search for them around the moors. The golden retriever femme soon found the castle, and was soon investigating the place, quickly discovering the spy network, and smashing it, before being attacked by a returning Germania. The two femmes soon had a long, hard fight between themselves, which, after a while, ended with Germania retreating, and several of the spies, mainly those who had help her handle Black Knight’s men, getting away. But, with the help of the British military and the heroine, Bo Peep, who lived in the area around Northern England and the southern Lowlands of Scotland, she was able to capture the spies, including their ringleader, thus putting the spy ring out of business. Meantime, Germania was soon able to get out of Britain, as she was taken out by submarine, ticked off that her mission was a failure, even if she was able to get Black Knight and his group to swear allegiance to Germany.

After she was dropped off at one of the U-boat bases on the French coast, the she-wolf was driven back to Berlin, where she was informed that she was to be placed in command of a panzer grenadier unit that was to participate in Operation Barbarossa, in spite of her failure in defending the spy network. Germania relished the opportunity to redeem herself, especially if it meant that she would get a crack at Mother Russia, as she was still angry at not just the poor outcome of their first encounter, but also for the Russian she-bear’s retelling of that encounter, at her expense, during the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact. But, before that, she would participate in the German invasion of Yugoslavia, being among the troops that would enter the bombed out city of Belgrade, and personally capturing one of the heroines of Yugoslavia, Serbian Archer, in a rather nasty battle among the ruins of the city. After the Yugoslav campaign, Germania was sent back to her unit, which was soon assigned to Army Group Centre’s Third Panzer Group, later the Third Panzer Army, where it was when Operation Barbarossa began, being part of the armored spearheads that headed in the direction of the city of Smolensk, which was halfway to the Soviet capital of Moscow. She would participate in all of the battles which would end with the First Battle of Smolensk, where a large number of Soviet troops and tanks were first encircled, then destroyed, with thousands of Russians afterwards being sent westward as Prisoners of War. The unit then headed north, soon fighting as part of Army Group North until the completion of the encirclement of the city of Leningrad, before it was sent back to Army Group Centre, as that group prepared for what was hoped would be the campaign that would end the war in the east, the attack towards Moscow, Operation Typhoon, which would begin on October 2. In spite of an early snowfall in November, the panzers, by the beginning of December, were on the outskirts of Moscow, when the Russians hit the Germans with a massive counterattack, which quickly caused the Germans to retreat. During the counteroffensive, as her unit was defending itself against an attack by a squad of Russian T-34s, supported by infantry, and refusing to give ground, when she suddenly heard a loud growl, before it was followed by a strong punch which sent her into the air for several feet before she landed in the snow. The now angry blonde she-wolf reappeared, soon finding who had struck her: Mother Russia, who was at that very moment crushing the barrel of a German anti-tank gun, as its crew ran. Germania immediately went after the Russian she-bear, which soon led to a fight between the two which would last almost the rest of that day. Although their fight ended up as another draw, the she-wolf’s unit would itself retreat as the Russian troops that the she-bear had been supporting would over run their position. By the time that the Russian offensive was finally stopped, in January, Germania had been ordered back to Germany by the high command, to avoid the possibility of her being taken prisoner by the Russians, although she wanted yet another crack at Mother Russia, as they planned to use her as part of a group that would directly attack the United States, which had finally entered the war the previous month, thanks to the Japanese Navy attacking the United States Pacific Fleet at its base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

After arriving in Berlin, she was told that she was being sent, via train, to the French coast, to board a sub, while being given secret orders which she was not to open until she had reached the sub. Germania did as she was ordered, soon taking a train to France, then going aboard a U-boat. Once she was in the sub, she opened the envelope that she had been given days earlier, and then proceeded to read her orders, which informed her that the sub that she was on was going to take her to the United States, and once there, she was to join up with a group of German-American Bundists, and start to unleash a reign of terror that was to disrupt the American war effort before it could really get into high gear, and use its resources against the Third Reich. After she had read her orders, she handed over to the commander of the U-boat his orders to take her to the U.S., before he begin his patrol along the Eastern U.S. coast to attack American merchant shipping. Germania, after the U-boat’s commander had read and understood his orders, went to the cabin where she would spend the next few weeks, as the U-boat headed for the U.S. The U-boat would reach the U.S. around the middle of March, and Germania was rowed onto a secluded New Jersey beach, several miles south of Jersey City, where they were met by several Bundists, who would take her, under disguise, to New York City, while the sub would leave to begin its patrol. As she spent the next several weeks hidden in New York City, the Bundists told her about their plans to simultaneously attack various sites inside both New York City and Jersey City, especially the port, which were vital to the U.S. war effort, to set it back several months. She was told that her part in the plan was for her to go to Staten Island and attack and damage the Statute of Liberty. The she-wolf, after hearing the plan, asked the Bundist leader if he was certain he had enough men to handle the job, and how certain he was that the Americans haven’t already found out about their plan, considering the number of mystery men she had heard about since her arrival. The leader of this group, a male stoat, assured her that he had everything planned, and that the authorities had no idea what was soon going to happen. But, unbeknown to both him and the other Bundists, one of their number was actually an FBI agent who had infiltrated the stoat’s group the previous spring, and had been informing the local FBI office of their plans, having already warned it of both Germania’s arrival and what her part in the attack was to be, as well as the actual date of the attack, with the FBI’s New York office then informing Washington. Washington told New York to keep an eye on the Bundists, as they had a plan in place to disrupt the attack.

So, when the day of the attack arrived, April 24, Germania, the stoat and two other Bundists, headed by car for the ferry that would take them to Staten Island and the Statute of Liberty, not knowing that the FBI, helped by both the New York and Jersey Cities police departments, as well as several supers, was making a series of raids to start rounding up the rest of the Bundists who were to be involved in the attacks inside both cities, thus breaking up the conspiracy before it could begin. Thus ignorant of the raids, Germania and the three Bundists drove onto the ferry, which proceeded to take them to Staten Island. The four had no idea that they had been followed onto the ferry by a couple of other cars, within which were seated several other furs, both male and female, who were all looking at their car, among whom included a rather muscular looking blonde mare. Upon the ferry’s landing onto the island, the last two cars exited the ferry first, soon followed by the vehicle within which sat Germania and the Bundists. But, as soon as their car had left the ferry and started to head for the Statute, the first two vehicles before them suddenly stopped, having first placed themselves in a blocking position, which caused the Bundist’s car to stop, as the furs who were occupying those vehicles got out, with the males getting behind them, as one of them yelled that they were FBI agents. At this point Germania and the three Bundists realized that the FBI had somehow gotten wind of their attack plans and were trying to stop them. The Bundists, Germania and the driver then got out of the car, before the Bundists started to pull out their weapons, intending to fight their way out, while the head Bundist told Germania to get going and attack the Statute of Liberty, as originally planned. She nodded, then started to head towards the Statute, when she felt a strong punch hit her face, which caused her to slam into and then through the walls of a nearby building. She shook her head, and then snarl loudly. The blonde she-wolf then ran out of the building, whereupon she saw in front of her the fur who had hit her, Battlestar, who had an angry look on her face, while demanding that she surrender. She told the blonde mare that she wouldn’t surrender, before she went on the attack. The two super femmes would spend the balance of that day fighting else other, which would include the two leaving Staten Island and fighting inside the city’s financial district, with their fight being recorded by a lot of civilians, until Battlestar finally got the upper hand, and punched her into the city’s subway system. Germania, at that point having had enough, decided to use the subway system to make good her escape, much to the disgust of Battlestar. The she-wolf then went into hiding, until she was able to get out of New York. Germania would then spend the next couple of months in hiding, first in northern New Jersey, than in southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, helped in part by the arrival of a group of German saboteurs landing in June, who were eventually captured as two of the would-be saboteurs turned themselves in, and then told the FBI where to find the others, all the while distracting the FBI from finding her. From her new location along the Jersey coast, she was able to get one of the still at large Bundists to contact Berlin, asking them to send a sub to pick her up and take her back to Europe. She was told to sit tight, as it would be at least a month before a sub would be sent to pick her up, especially after she had informed Berlin about the failure of her mission. She was then ordered by Berlin to attack the U.S. Army training base at Fort Dix and the coast guard station that was located near Atlantic City, to put both of them out of action. Germania reluctantly agreed to do the missions, although she thought that it would be a lot better if she just stayed undercover until the sub have arrived to take her back to Europe.

Less than a week later, Germania was seated in a car, which was parked a short distance from Ft. Dix, with several Bundists, as they were surveying the base to determine the best route to attack it, all the while being impatient to just get the attack over with. During the surveying, an attack plan was put together, which would have Germania leading a group that would attempt to enter the camp at its left flank, while another group would make a diversion at the front gate, while a third would try to enter the camp at its right flank, with the goal being to try and destroy as much of the ammo dumps and the buildings where the supplies were kept, as they could, before escaping. The she-wolf reluctantly agreed to the plan, although she thought that they should’ve done a longer reconnaissance on the Fort, collecting as much information as they could to send back to Germany via radio. But, like with the New York City attack attempt, the Fort Dix attack was exposed to the military authorities by the same double agent who had revealed to them the earlier attempt, so that on the actual night of the attack, Germania and the Bundists discovered that the base had been alerted, and were waiting for them. The group was soon in a major fight with the base’s soldiers by the time Germania’s group had arrived at the gate that was covering the left part of the base. But, before they could get close enough to the gate for her to use her powers to rip a hole in it, they were told by a commanding voice to surrender. The she-wolf turned her head, and soon found herself face to face with not only Battlestar, but with several other female heroines, all eager to take down both her and the Bundists with her. After snarling a refusal, she went right after Battlestar, while the Bundists tried to kill the other heroines with their weapons. Germania and Battlestar would spend the next couple of hours pounding on each other in front of the fort’s gate, while the Bundists were being defeated by the other heroines. Once she saw that the battle was fruitless, the she-wolf hit Battlestar with a strong right punch to the face which sent the mare through the gate and into one of the barracks, before Germania used her powers to cover the area around her in total darkness to disorient the other heroines as she flew away to safety, to go back to her hiding place and lick her wounds. When the Bundist leader later tried to confront her about her leaving him and his men behind, with most of them ending up being captured, she gave him her answer by quickly grabbing his head and then snapping his neck, before asking the rest of them if they had any complaints to make to her, soon receiving a resounding silence. She then told them that she would attack the Coast Guard base, as ordered, but she would do it on her own. All that she would require from them was information on the base and its actual location, and that she was to have it within a week. The Bundists, wanting to avoid feeling her wrath, did as ordered, soon getting her the information that she’d asked for. After receiving the requested information and looking it over, she came up with her own plan to attack the base.

Two weeks after the failure at Fort Dix, Germania began her attack on the Coast Guard base, with her first attacking a couple of tied up coast guard cutters, one of which would slowly sink underwater. After she had damaged a third cutter, Germania was preparing to attack the part of the base where the fuel and other important supplies were kept when she thought she was hearing the tide coming in. The she-wolf turned, and quickly lowered her ears in terror when she saw a big wave of water headed towards her. Seconds later, she was hit by the wave, looking like a drowned rat once the wave had receded. The wet and angry she-wolf then saw the person who had attacked her with the wave, Calypso. But before she could react to her presence, she was hit in the face with a very strong right punch, which sent her through the nearby radio shack. The now very angry she-wolf exited the damaged shack, finding herself face-to-face with an equally angry Battlestar, who was still pissed about the hit she had received from Germania back at Fort Dix. The wet blonde female lupine, after seeing the pair, decided that the best option for her was to break off her attack and get away, after first finding a way to make sure they would not be able to follow her. After looking around, she saw one of the guardmen who had not been able to find himself a good hiding place. With a wicked smile on her face, she ran towards him, got a firm grip upon his body, and flung him towards the water, sure that both heroines would rather rescue him than try to keep her from escaping. She was soon proven right, as both of them went after the guardmen, with Battlestar catching him before he could land in the Atlantic, while she flew off, soon being able to outfly Calypso, who had gone after her once the mare had placed the guardmen back onto shore, before finally landing somewhere within the Pine Barrens and hiding out in the woods until the mare and the bitch had both decided to give up the chase, while they both vowed to catch her before she could get back to Germany. Once the two heroines were gone, Germania left, and went back into hiding among the Bundists, until the sub that was to pick her up finally came in late September, and then took her back to Europe, landing her in Occupied France, just in time for her to learn that the British had defeated Rommel at El Alamein, forcing the Afrika Korps to retreat westward, while an Anglo-American naval force had landed troops in the French-controlled colonies of Morocco and Algeria, soon taking control of both. By the time she had returned to Berlin, the Russians had launched their counter-offensive against the Axis troops that were covering both flanks of the German Sixth Army as they tried to finish off the Russian forces fighting inside the city of Stalingrad, which included Mother Russia, who was a particular pain to the German troops fighting inside the city, quickly breaking through the lines, and then linking up, trapping inside the city hundreds of German and Hungarians troops. A tired Germania was thus sent on to Russia, to participate in the Germans’ own counterattack to relieve the trapped troops.

By the time that Germania had arrived in southern Russia, the German counterattack to relieve Stalingrad, Operation Winter Storm, have already become a major failure as the Russians have stopped the Germans in their tracks, before launching another attack which soon forced the German into a further retreat, headed towards the city of Kharkov, close to the start line of their previous summer offensive, leaving behind the troops that were still trapped in Stalingrad, who would all surrender to the Russians by the end of February 2, 1943. The blonde she-wolf wound fling herself into the fight, taking out her frustrations at her defeats in America on the Russians soldiers fighting against her, in the process helping to set up conditions for Field Marshal Erich von Manstein’s famous backhand blow against the Russians, which would lead to the Germans retaking Kharkov during the third battle for that city and then stabilizing the front, before the spring thaw finally ended the fighting. During the fight inside the city, Germania once again fought Mother Russia, this time being able to beat the she-bear, but being unable to capture her, as she was then attacked by the Hammer & Sickle, a male bear who originally came from the Ukraine. Although she was able to fight him off, their fight had allowed the she-bear to escape, before the male ursine did likewise, as he saw German troops starting to come up to support the she-wolf. As the front stabilized, the she-wolf would be sent into the rear, where she would participate in several anti-Partisans operations in the area that was nominally controlled by Army Group Centre, to keep the rear areas clear, while the Germans prepared for their next big offensive against the Russians. Germania helped to track down and capture or destroy several partisans units, although a couple of times she came face to face with Mother Russia, with her winning their first encounter, but being unable to capture the she-bear, then losing the second one, with her being sent to a hospital to patch up her wounds. After her fifth fight with the she-bear, Germania was sent back to her unit, to participate in Operation Zitadelle, the new German offensive, which was to pinch off and destroy the Kursk salient, that the Germans hoped would forestall the next Russian offensive, while at the same time shortening their lines.

Germania’s unit, which was part of the forces of Army Group Centre that would be attacking the northern part of the salient, acted as the spearhead for the army group’s attacking force, leading the attack on July 5. Early in the campaign, during a fight with one of the Russians units, she would be wounded in her lower right leg, which would lead to her being sent to a military hospital in the rear, where she would stay for the next couple of months, as the Kursk operation was cancelled, after having first been stopped by the Russians, as the Western Allies, who have already captured the remnants of the forces that had been sent to defend Tunisia, including what was left of the Afrika Korps, have landed troops on the coast of Sicily, while the Russian launched a counterattack near the city of Orel, north of the Kursk salient, which would lead to troops of Army Group Centre retreating to keep from being captured by the advancing Russians. Germania would return to action in time for her to participate in the fighting around the Dnieper River, which would end with the Russians retaking the city of Kiev. During the fighting, she would have her second fight with Hammer & Sickle, as she wounded the bear with a bullet in the chest, just missing his heart, a wound which would put him out of action for the rest of 1943 and most of 1944. At the end of the campaign in December, Germania would be ordered back to Germany, being told that she would learn the reason why when she arrived in Berlin. The she-wolf reluctantly did as she was ordered, and was soon back in Berlin, several days after a massive British air raid on the capital.

The blonde she-wolf, after her arrival in the heavily bombed German capital, went immediately to the Propaganda Ministry for a meeting, in which she was given the reason why she had been called back from the front: someone within the country had been sending the Western Allies the locations of the bases for their future terror weapons which they plan to launch against Britain to finally bring her to her knees, and thus prevent an invasion of their western Empire, and she was being assigned to find out the source of the leak, and stop it. The she-wolf was then introduced to the ones who were to help her find the threat, the Doberman brother and sister, Night and Fog. Upon bring introduced to the pair, Germania took a quick dislike to them, especially the female canid, Fog, as she considered the pair as nothing more than a pair of paid killers, and not patriots, like her, or her older brother, who at the time was in Italy, helping to stop the Anglo-American forces along the Gothic Line. She reluctantly left Berlin with the pair, heading for southern Germany, where the last message sent to Britain had been intercepted by the Abwehr. The three would spend January and February of 1944 trying to find the source of the communications, in the process breaking up several cells of the anti-fascist underground, as her dislike for the two canids grew as she was disgusted with the methods they used to extract information from the underground members that they’d captured, before they were handed to the Gestapo. The group would finally get lucky in the middle of February as, near Munich, they got from a recently captured underground agent the name of the person who had not only been feeding info on the secret V-weapons program to the allies, but had also destroyed several of the more important bases that were involved in the project: the American heroine, Blue Cross, who had been secretly dropped into Germany not too long after the end of the conference that had been held in Tehran between the Allies’ leaders to bring together their plans for the final defeat of the Axis, as well as her last known location, which was near the German Alps. The three went immediately to the location given to them by the underground agent, only for them to discover that not only wasn’t she there, but they had walked right into an ambush, which they were just barely able to fight their way out of, although killing a few of the agents. The trio then went back and requestioned the underground agent, with the Dobermans finally getting the real information from the agent, using once more the methods that the she-wolf did not approve of. Once they had been given where Blue Cross was hiding out, which was in southwestern Germany, not too far from the small city of Hammelburg, the three went there to capture her. Once the trio were in Hammelburg, they went their separate ways, to conduct a more thorough search for the flyer. Towards the end of February, the she-wolf caught Blue Cross’ scent, as she found her inside a house, where she was meeting with several local underground leaders. Upon seeing the group, Germania immediately broke into the house, planning to capture them all, before any of them have had the chance to escape. The she-wolf’s attack, though, was foiled by not only Blue Cross, but also by Perchta, who was one of the leaders at the meeting, and was using her magic to help BC keep the she-wolf on the defensive, so that the other leaders could escape. Once that had happened, the doe told the female kanga to get going, while she used her magic to keep Germania at bay, before leaving herself. Once the flyer had left, Perchta used one of her spells to freeze the wolfette where she stood, before finally leaving as well, as she knew that her spell would keep the she-wolf in place for about half-hour, giving her plenty of time to leave, which she quickly did. Once the spell had worn off, a very angry Germania exited the building, and started to search for Blue Cross, Perchta and the underground leaders who had been at the meeting, not realizing that the doe and the underground leaders had all gone to Stalag 13, to hide out with the Allies secret escape and sabotage group based there until the heat was off. But she soon regained Blue Cross’ scent, which led her into a nearby forest. The she-wolf, after she had landed, started to carefully walk through the forest, looking for the female kangaroo. It would take just several minutes for Germania to discover Blue Cross’ hiding place, and several more for her to flush the kangaroo femme out. But, it would take her most of the day to capture her, as Blue Cross refused to surrender, as she used her Umbra powers to blind her, before knocking BC out with a strong punch to the face. At this point, Night and Fog would appear, both of them claiming to have been attracted by the noise created by their fight, although the she-wolf didn’t believe their explanation. Germania was then told by the two that they would hand her over to the Gestapo, while she went back to looking for Perchta and the underground leaders, promising that they would help with the search once they were done. At first being reluctant, the she-wolf left Blue Cross in Night and Fog’s paws, as she began searching once more for the underground leaders, spending the next month being unable to find them, with no idea that they had been hiding out inside the local POW camp until she and the two Dobermans have finally left the area. By then, the news began to spread about her fight with Blue Cross, as well as the story that the female flyer had been handed over to the Gestapo, who would later announce to the world her execution at their hands after she had refused to reveal to them any secrets that she might have. But, this would later be disputed by a search of records after the war which would show that she had never in fact arrived at the Gestapo’s Hammelburg branch offices, and that, in fact, Night and Fog had never gone there, which have led to a still yet to be confirmed post-war speculation that the two canids, when given the opportunity, had killed the flyer after Germania had left her to their not so tender mercy, and then hid the body, and that the Gestapo had covered it up once they had been informed about it. Sadly, without an actual body to check the claims, all the talk was just that, talk. All that is known is that Blue Cross is dead, and that her friends and allies would become very furious upon learning the news, with a lot of them pinning the blame for her death upon Germania, even if she wasn’t the one to have done the actual deed.

It would not be until early October before Germania would finally return to duty, although she would not be at full strength for a while, as Hitler had in the meantime put into motion a new plan to attack in the west that he was convinced would spilt the Western Allies forces on the continent in two and force the Brits to once again evacuate Europe. The she-wolf would participate in the attack, now known as the Battle of the Bulge, fighting in the Sixth Panzer Army, which during the fighting would fight on the northernmost edge of the bulge, being held in placed by determined American forces that were placed along the very high ground of the Eisenborn Ridge, as the German attacks were eventually blunted, before they were pinched back to their original start line by the middle of January 1945. Shortly after that, the Sixth Panzer Army, soon to be renamed the Sixth SS Panzer Army, was transferred to the East, as it tried to help stop the Russian, as the Soviets took advantage of the Germans attacks upon the Western Allies in Belgium/Luxembourg and Alsace/Lorraine, both of which were defeated. Once more on the Eastern Front, Germania would fight first in Hungary, then in Austria, before being ordered back to Germany, to help defend Berlin against the expected Russian attack, in fact fighting against Mother Russia during the Russian advance towards Vienna, losing the fight, but avoiding being captured by the Russian she-bear, much to the latter’s annoyance. As soon as she was back in Germany, she was fighting in the area to the northeast of the German capital during March, before fighting inside her home city itself in April. The last known report about her is that she was among the troops that were defending the Reichstag, when she once again fought with Mother Russia, who, at the time, had been ordered to capture her. During their fight, after she had knocked away the she-bear, and was trying to intimidate several Russian soldiers, Germania was shot in the stomach by a scared Russian soldier, who had been there to help protect the soldiers who were to raise a flag atop the Reichstag, as a symbol of their victory over the Germans, even though the building itself had not been used since the suspicious fire of 1933. Other than Mother Russia’s account in which she claimed that she had taken her to a hospital as the soldier who had shot her was being disciplined by his superior, it is not known whether the she-wolf is eitherl alive or dead. All that is truly known is that neither the Soviet government, starting with Stalin, or the present Russian government, have ever acknowledged her death, and, especially when the Soviets were in control, have been playing mind games with her brother, Georg, who likes nothing better to do than to bury his young sister, if she is indeed dead, or know her present whereabouts if she is still alive, so that he can take her home.

Germania, Athena, Bo Peep, Hammer & Sickle, Helvetia, Iron Cross, Italia, Liberté, Mother Russia, Night and Fog, Perchta, Polonia Princess Hun, Sekhmet © 2013 Stanley L. Alston, Jr.

Britannia, Duchess Austria, Francia, Hollandia, Marianne © 2013 Train and Stanley L. Alston, Jr.

Battlestar, Black Knight, Blue Cross, Serbian Archer © 2013 Train