The Yew Squad

## Plot

The 'Yew Squad' were a group of cats that lived near and amongst the clans from late 2018 to the end of 2019. They began turning up after the return of Redstrike, a former Breezeclan warrior who'd left some moons ago for previously unknown reasons. Upon his return, he revealed he'd left through shame as his son, Littlefeather, had tried to kill his daughter, Cobbleflight, many moons ago when they were just kits. This was a cover up for his own actions. Redstrike was smart and had been witnessing the clan many days prior and had worked out the Littlefeather had a very bad reputation amongst his clanmates already and it wouldn't be hard to get them to believe him. Sure enough, they did.

Redstrike was actually a member of the Yew Squad. Their 'leader' was called Mittens and she had plans to infiltrate the clans, Redstrike was her first step. She recruited many other members from the clans in her time, her most famous being Emberfall and Batpaw.

But what where their motives and how did they go about them? Well, the motive that they pushed forwards was they wanted equality for all cats, clancats shouldn't be so racist and should be helping and sharing the land with other. However, whilst this was the reason the lower down members were joining, the ones in charge actually wanted to take control of the clans and form their own 'super-clan' of many, many cats.

Anyway, the Yew Squad began planting Yew berries in the clans prey to poison them. At this point, they clans didn't know of their existance, so all the blame went onto Littlefeather. This caused havock amongst the clans, that was until Littlefeather was killed by none other than Redstrike. Then there was extream confusion as to what was happening. Quite a few cats had died, such as Cobbleflight, but the Yew Squad still wasn't presenting themselves. They were still trying to build up numbers before a confrontation.

They had began in this time to set up a camp as well, behind the waterfall of rock falls. They trained their often and brought new recruits their to see what was happening.

It was only after Mittens herself had sucsessfully infiltrated the clans, and given up her child to the Breezeclan did the truth of the Yew Squad begin to spill, although they were suspected of long before this point, they weren't sure *which* cats were doing it, they had just presumed they were rouges. Then the threats began. In some places, cats were forced to give in. Gladeclan gave up a significant amount of their territory after their medicine cat was almost killed. Despite this, they later came back and kidnapped the medicine cat anyway in hopes of more land, which they didn't get.

There was lots and lots of drama surrounding the Yew Squad, with many betrayals on both sides. Redstrike came back to the clans side and he and Specklestar left the clans to find out more information for quite some time.

After a long series of events, with many deaths and lots of arguments, it all ended in a massive battle in Rockfalls. Mittens was murdered by Limpetpool in this battle, and at this point most of the Yew Squad decided to flee. Only some remained loyal members, now lead by Mittens' sister- Nala. However, they didn't get very far with anything.

The Yew Squad did have plans to infiltrate the Dark Forest and possess a Farclan apprentice known as Minnowpaw and their siblings, however this never played out partly due to plot reasons but partly because we had a site change around this time and since we were coming back to an old site we had many old roleplayers rejoin us who'd missed out on so much we thought it'd make more sense to just leave it there and start a new.

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## In Chatrooms

The 'Yew Squad' was never actually the official in game name for this group of cats. They didn't actually have a name and in roleplay they were just called 'the rouges'. However, out of game, people began calling them 'The Yew Squad'. I have litrally no idea where this stems from but it caught like wildfire and they just kind of became known as it, despite it not being their real name.

Many jokes were made about the Yew Squad, more specifically their leader Mittens (nicknamed Murder Tits by some) and Batpaw who is litrally the edgiest soul on this planet. And of course, Aex and Redstrike were in a constant war of 'who is the sexiest cat in the country'. They were both later conquered by Proudbark who has had too many girlfriends to count at this point.

Many people cried over Cobbleflights death. We love a good character. RIP Cobbleflight, forever in our hearts. Leafwater stinky.

## Main Members

As well as these guys, we also had a random assortment of rouges. But these are the main ones...

* Nala
* Mittens
* Redstrike
* Alex
* Emberfall
* Batpaw

## Plot Masters

In most major plots, we have a group of people who try and dictate and steer it in a certain direction. For this plot, it was

Anniken

Barney

Madlad