Flare woke up the next morning rather groggily, but still remembered what happened yesterday. Grunting, he pulled himself out of his oddly fluffy bed. He didn't notice yesterday, he could feel something wrapped around his chest, so he moved his hoof to it. He stopped when he felt gauze over it. He thought for a second, and then grabbed the gauze in his magical grip and yanked it off. With a satisfying ripping noise, he continued to look for any other pieces of the blasted cast. After removing what seemed to be a nearly endless amount of gauze, he was now happy to have the ability to take deep breaths again. Finding a nearby trash can, he threw away the gauze and continued out of the medical area. A few doctors asked him what happened to his gauze, he replied that he didn't need it and that the wounds he has have been cursed to never heal. After saying that to the doctor at the entrance, he exited the medical bay and went down the hall to the left. On his way out he saw that it was close to noon, but when he looked out a window, all he saw was the moon and stars in the endless pool of beautiful purple.

When he walked around the corner he saw Midnight was waiting for him. She saw him and smiled.

"Hey! It's good to see you finally up Tall Boy! I see the medics removed the gauze?" She exclaimed with a smirk. Flare chuckled, Tall Boy? That was new. He walked over and she motioned for him to follow her. The two exited the castle and entered some kind of training yard, big lights were everywhere. Flare looked up, it was still nighttime, but the clock said noon... what was going on here? So Flare decided to ask.

"Hey, Midnig-" Flare was cut off when Midnight looked at him sternly.

"Out here it's Captain Midnight, so you'll answer me as such!" She exclaimed. Flare looked at her with an eyebrow raised, he wasn't amused, she sounded like Reaper. Flare gave off a low growl so Midnight didn't hear. Reaper, the queen, and ruling b@#$h of the underground. Midnight, however, looked at him surprised, no could resist that voice, yet he looked at her with barely any facial expression other than "Is that all you got?". She hummed, this was going to be interesting. Flare looked away and asked again.

"Captain Midnight, why is it night but the clock says it is noon?" Midnight looked at him, dumbfounded, but then remembered that he came from the underground, in an alternate universe.

"Well, we're vamponies, so the sunlight hurts us. A loooong time ago, some mare made the night last forever, her name was Nightmare Moon or something," Midnight stopped, causing Flare to do the same, she then stated, "We're here, this is what I was talking about when I asked you about hide-and-seek." In front of them stood a large, 5 story, grey, structure with very little windows. No lights were on in the building, Flare looked at it, confused. Midnight explained,"Us vamponies hunt in the dark, our army needs to be equipped to deal with that. But, they also need to know how to find targets in the darkness, so this building was made for that!"

Flare looked over, nodding. He decided to ask another more question, "Captain Midnight, what is your full name? I don't think I caught it." Midnight smirked and looked over at Flare.

"Wow, only two days in this world and you're already flirting with royalty! My full name is Midnight Bite~," She said teasingly, Flare's red eye disappeared with a look of embarrassment on his face. Midnight caught him off guard. Then, Flare chuckled, looking over at her, saying slyly," Well, who's the one who wanted to meet with me, all alone I might add?" Now it was her time to blush, she looked away, but smiled.

"You got me there, private!" She said, and the two started laughing at how this might look to an outsider. When the two calmed down, Midnight looked at him, her gaze now hardening.

"Well, the main reason you are here is that you are going to be the target my squad is looking for. You stay here, I going to go get them, got it?" Flare looked at her and nodded once more, not saying what her father had told her the previous night about no pony seeing him. Midnight walked off towards where Flare assumed was the barracks, he sat down and waited. A few moments later Midnight came back with thirty or so vamponies. She stopped in front of the building, her troops getting in a single file line. Midnight looked back at Flare, motioning him to move forward. When he was by her side, she barked," Alright troops! Today we are going to drill on finding a high profile target! This is Lunar Flarion, he will be who you are looking for! Get a good look at him!" She looked at her troops, fifteen male, fifteen female.

She looked at Flare and whispered," Alright, you head on inside and hide." Flare did as he was told and entered the building. Inside was a mess of different things, boxes, clothes, and picture frames large and small. Flare went up to the next floor and it was the same mess. He decided to stick to this floor. He found a cluster of boxes and moved them out of the way. After removing the boxes, he found a large hole, it was big enough to fit him so he went for it. Laying down in the large hole he moved the boxes back in place the way he found them.

Outside, Midnight was briefing her troops.

"Alright, you already know your objective! Today, since you won't be finding me, you can only use stun spells and other non-lethal tactics to capture Flare! Do you understand!" Her troops yelled in unison," YES, MA’AM!".

"Alright troops, MOVE OUT!" with that the troops went into the building, looking for the dark blue stallion.