Moonspear Rush in, we have to rally and win boys

She was a leader, yes... but not there. And her threats shouldn't have been directed there, no matter what her intentions. It was Towhee's decision if Screech went home, not Hydra's, and he didn't take kindly to the fact that she'd leveled threats against his previous home. Even if she hadn't intended it that way.

"Because I would have listened to you," he said, quietly. She wouldn't have judged because there would have been no need to. Her need to be right in this had lost Screech an eye, and had brought to Gannet's fore that he would always come second, even to her family that was months dead and buried. None of them saw him as an equal, and nothing he did would change that. He had a hard time believing she would fight if her father saw fit to keep him low... and he didn't care.

Rank wasn't what he wanted. He just wanted to belong.

He'd thought bringing it forward would make him feel better, but it only made him feel worse. Hydra was his only friend here, and if he didn't have her, then what did he have? He almost caved then, and apologized for even bringing it up, but he couldn't. He wasn't wrong to be upset. He knew he wasn't wrong.