When the peacock green stallion awoke there were no birds, no wind just the occasional whipping sound of Trixie's magical lightning inside the semi-sphere of the damned. Derpy was already awake and ready to go her wing was better now and she no longer had to limp thanks to the peacock stallion's enhanced recovery spell. Derpy was stood in the door way cradling Hammy in the door way, he didn't need his special talent to tell that Hammy was loving all the attention. The small pig was waving his little trotters around in the air playfully at the grey mare and making happy oinky noises as she tickled his stomach with her hoof. The peacock stallion smiled.

After a few moments the grey mare noticed the peacock pony watching her "morninz" she said "we really should goz to HQ nowz theyz will be worriedz", "ok Derpy" he sighed "we can go now if you want", the peacock coloured stallion paused for a second then asked "what is it a HQ for?", "the rebellionz ofz course, the one fightingz against Trixie's oppressive rulez all the other ponies are hidingz there tooz", "oh" Critter-call replied. The grey mare put Hammy down and asked impatiently "canz we goz now?" Critter-call nodded and followed Derpy to a large building that seemed to be the town hall. When they walked into the building it was empty, the stallion was very confused until he saw Derpy trot over to a small trap door and lift the door open with her mouth. The stallion began to notice the faint sound of music coming from beneath the floor it was some form of hoofstep he could tell as it went wub, wub, wub, woo, woo, wub, wub, wub, wub and every so often it would make a low sounding bwow noise, he actually found the music quite to his liking it was quite backgroundy, not to obnoxious that you were forced to listen but it was definitely there.

As him and the grey mare decended the staircase he could see that there were ponies everywhere of all shapes and sizes and over in the corner at the disks was a more prominent pony with an electric blue mane and sunglasses, her cutie mark depicted two linked semiquavers. Derpy trotted up to the pony and said "hiez Vinyl-scratch, can you let me and him through he's with me" the white mare smiled in relief to see that the grey mare was ok and nodded, then let them through the door next to the disks, she seemed to be acting as some kind of doorpony for the members of the inner rebellion. As the two ponies went through the door there were about five other ponies, a white Pegasus with blood red eyes, he was way too muscly it was almost suspicious considering pegasi where not supposed to be as physically able as earth ponies and his wings were way too small to possibly carry his hulking physique making them rather pointless. There was also a red earth pony with an orange mane who's cutie mark depicted an apple of some sorts, there was also a shadowy looking hooded unicorn whose cutie mark showed an ouroboros, the shady unicorn seemed familiar but he couldn't figure out where from. At the end of the room there was a spiky maned pegasi, whose cutie mark depicted a shooting star she seemed to be the leader of the rebellion and what seemed to be her second in command a slightly meeker pegasi with a long straight mane whose cutie mark depicted three butterflies, or maybe they were dragonflies it was hard to tell from this distance. It really was quite an odd band of ponies to say the least.

After Derpy Hooves had reassured everyone she was ok and a few moments of idly standing around awkwardly the spikey maned mare called for a meeting of the small band of ponies. As the carefully crafted speech was given her second in command stood by her side, but her hoofs were about a hoof behind the hoofs of her leader, as if she was trying not to draw attention to herself so that her leader would not have the spotlight stolen. Ditsy Doo/ Derpy Hooves was the closest at the front of the crowd, she looked adoringly at her leader in a respectful and friendly way as though she saw the group as a family rather than, well a group. Behind Ditsy Doo/ Derpy Hooves was a large muscular stallion that he had come to know as Big Macintosh, as Derpy had gone around to everyone and he'd overheard the names of the ponies which was actually kind of relieving, he had a brief and I mean brief convocation with the red earth-pony, that went a little like this "nice place" the peacock pony had stated and the red stallion had simply replied "eeeyup". Next to Big Macintosh was the suspicious white, overly muscled, tiny winged Pegasus and on the other side of Derpy Hooves/ Ditsy Doo was Vinlyl Scratch. The only other pony in the group was in the far corner of the room, shrouded by shadows was the shady looking unicorn, the only pony he hadn't learned the name of because Derpy Hooves/ Ditsy Doo was obviously avoiding him, as if he brought back a pained memory, even now she was as far away from him as possible while still being as close the leader pony (Cloud-chaser) as was physically possible, as far away as she ponily could be. To be blunt she didn't seem to like this guy, Critter-call wondered why and he was sure he had met this disturbing character somewhere before.

At that moment the peacock stallion realised the speech must be finished because there were eruptions of cheering and the stomping of hooves on the ground and the suspicious Pegasus yelled "yeeaaaaah!" at the top of his rather loud voice and Cloud-chaser was looking very proud of herself. Ditsy Doo/ Derpy Hooves trotted over to the peacock stallion "you have to sign this document to become an official member of the inner rebellion" she said and passed him the quill "please doz it" she added shyly. The peacock pony quickly scanned through the terms and conditions and noticed the names at the bottom he saw all the names including Ditzy's, he realised he had mistaken in his head how to spell it, it was signed Ditzy Doo with Derpy Hooves in brackets so he now knew that Ditzy Doo was her true name and Derpy Hooves was more of a nickname given to her. The peacock pony rather liked the name Derpy he thought it was cute so he would continue to use it anyway. He signed his name in the next available box, but then he noticed a name that he did not recognise, he knew it had to be the shady unicorn it was signed Blood Moon the hoofwriting was jagged and sharp and it was rather scary and made him feel rather uncomfortable rather like the stallion that signed it. The peacock pony began to think to himself "why does Derpy not like this Blood Moon?"

Just then his thoughts were interrupted by Ditzy removing the clipboard from his hooves, she then trotted off happily. Critter-call wondered why the grey mare was so happy all of a sudden but then again Ditzy was a very peculiar pony so he dismissed the thought entirely.

The green stallion thought he would investigate this Blood Moon character he slowly walked up to him cautiously there was a look in the stallions eye that made him very uncomfortable, so did the sheathed blade and the throwing knives under his cloak, but nothing was more edgy than the look in his eyes under that shadowy hood. "What do you want?" The dark stallion asked, Critter-call answered with a question of his own "why doesn't Ditzy Doo like you?" He asked calmly the dark stallion sighed with a growl "it's a long story"," well I've got time" the peacock pony would have replied, if he hadn't have quickly been interrupted by the dark stallion angrily adding "and it has nothing to do with you" . The peacock stallion thought it best not to question the stallion with the blade any longer as he quite liked his flank the way it was he did not need to get it handed to him. The dark stallion seemed to be some kind of assassin from what the peacock pony could make out maybe he had killed someone close to Ditzy Doo, but without the evidence he wasn't going to start wailing accusations around at the dark stallion at the fear of his head being cut off or his brain carved out. The stallion's spine crawled at the thought of the many ways he could get sliced to pieces by the dark stallion in the corner of the room.

The rest of the day went as a normal day should, but as the green stallion got ready for bed he couldn't stop thinking about the dark stallion it clawed at the back of his mind constantly making him squirm and occasionally his thoughts would anger him if he thought about the possibility he had hurt someone close to Ditzy Doo.

At that instant he realised that he had nowhere to sleep and he was defiantly not sleeping outside tonight, too creepy outside, not to mention if Trixie was to find him she probably not be most happy and would probably attack him and he really wasn't in the mood after talking to Blood Moon.

Just then Derpy Hooves came along and said "doz ya wanna sharez ma roomz?" The startled stallion instinctively nodded. Derpy took Critter by the hoof and took him to her room so that they could rest.