MAFIA: Manticore Prime City

[December - 4 months later] Streets of Manticore - (Red) [13] & (Rainbow Dash) [10]

The streets of Manticore were all paved in clean white snow, beautiful Hearths Warming Decorations were hanging in shops and everyone had on coats, hats, scarfs, and gloves to beat the harsh cold Manticore.

Spike: "Wait, wasn't 14 years ago in December the coldest winter Manticore ever had, how did you two survive it?"

Red: "Dash and I stole supplies from Rarity and Fluttershy for the winter, ya know...warm blankets, jackets, sweaters, scarfs etc...it was still freezing but we managed to get through it. "

Dash: "Not to mention that we stole a first aid kit from Fluttershy to try and fix Red's broken wrist but we were kids not doctors...so we wanted to take Red to the hospital but again, we had no money we just stole supplies."

Red: "This was actually the month where we did manage to steal money."

Red and Dash, who were now full-blown thieves at this point, was scoping out a griffin, who was wearing an expensive suit and a briefcase, walking nonchalantly down an alleyway.

"Alright Dash...you remember the plan?" Red looked at Dash who was now 10 years old.

"I got it, big brother...I knock out the guy with a flying kick and we take his money..."

"Exactly...we need to pay for those treats we stole..." He looked at his hand, which was fixed a bit but was wrapped in a make-shift bandage.

"What do you think is in the briefcase?" Dash asked.

Red shrugged his shoulders. "Probably just business stuff...what we're after is his wallet..."

The rainbow pegasus nodded. "Okay..."

The filly then unfurled her wings and flew up into the air, the red teenage pegasus walking up to him slowly as the griffin kept walking. Red looked up and saw Dash flying above him, giving Red a thumbs up when she got into position.

"Hey uh...mister?" Red called, the griffin turned and looked at him.

"What do you want kid, I'm busy..." The griffin asked, he was annoyed.

"Uhm...I was wondering if you know where there's a nearby train station?" The griffin rolled his eyes.

"Get lost kid..." When the griffin turned around he was met with a hard downward kick from Rainbow when she flew down from the sky, the griffin spitting out some blood and teeth as he collapsed to the ground and groaned.

Red smirked as he ran towards the downed griffin and grabbed his wallet from his suit pocket. "Come on Dashie!"

"Wait, Red...I want to know what's in this guy's case..." Dash said, looking at the black case the griffin dropped.

Red sighed. "If you're that curious, then let's take it with us..." Dash squeed as she grabbed the case and she and Red proceeded to run away from the alleyway.

From behind them, the griffin coughed and took out his phone, calling somepony. "Boss...the money...it's gone..."

[10 minutes later] Red and Rainbow's Abandoned Rooftop Hideout

The Dash Siblings sat down under their small tarp as they looked at the haul they pulled.

"Alright...let's see what Mr. Birdie got in his small perch." Red chuckled, he was gonna open the griffin's wallet but when he put his bandaged up hand on the wallet he got a sharp pain from his hand and he dropped the wallet. “Ow! Bitch!”

Dash looked at him with concern. “Red, you ok?”

“Y-Yeah...my damn hand still hurts...”

Red’s hand was back in place, was sewed up, and bandaged up after he broke it from getting it out of Zero’s cuffs, but it still hurt like hell whenever he used it despite it was fixed a few months ago.

“But you snapped it back in place and we sewed the broken skin back together with the first aid kit we stole from Fluttershy a few months ago...how does it still hurt after a few months?”

“Dash...we aren’t doctors...I did try to put it back in place as best as I could, my bone was sticking out for god’s sake! I need a doctor...but the thing is we don’t have the money for it...so let’s just hope this griffin has enough bucks for a hospital trip...”

With the wallet laying on the ground, the red pegasus used his good hand to open it, he looked inside and sighed when all he saw was an ID Card and expensive credit cards. "Damn it, there's no money in here...just useless credit cards...well this was a bust..." He then closed the wallet and just put it to the side.

Dash smiled and motioned her head to the case. "Well...maybe there's something interesting inside of the case..."

Red sighed and moved closer to Dash and the briefcase. "I doubt it...I mean the only things normally found in briefcases are either papers or business charts..."

"Well let's see..." The rainbow maned filly laid the case down on the ground and pressed both the buttons near the handle, the briefcase clicked open and with a final push from the filly, both of the sibling's eyes bulged out of their heads and sparked brightly with shock.

Inside the briefcase was a whole bunch of $100 bits, all of them neatly placed in rows of five. The Dash Siblings' eyes continued to sparkle as it was like the Lord had sent them a blessing from all the struggling they have dealt with.

"R-Red, We're rich!!!" Dashie finally said, jumping up and down like an excited puppy as Red pushed some strands of his mane away from his eyes. "Oh my god Red you know what this means, we can pay back everything we stole from Pinkie along with the first aid kit from Fluttershy and also...We can take you to the hospital for your hand!!”

Red slowly stood up and looked at Dashie. “Awesome...c’mon, let's go pay off our debts first...” Red closed the case and picked it up.

"Let's pay a visit to Pinkie first."

”Alright, let’s get going.”

Red: "And with that, me and Rainbow paid back every single store owner we stole from granted they were happy we finally got to pay them back, but as we've been doing that, my hand was getting swollen."

Dash: "So we went to the hospital after paying back everyone...we still had a good amount of money left."

[3 hours later] Manticore Central Hospital

Red and Dashie arrived at the hospital, the automatic doors opening to show a large waiting room with a few ponies, dragons, griffins, and kirins waiting to see a doctor for their injuries. A female kirin who sat at the front desk looked at them as they approached her.

“Hey, there little ones.” She looked behind them and then around them, looking at them confused. “You lost? Where're your parents?”

Red looked back with the corner of his eye. "Our parents are outside looking for parking..." He lied, the receptionist blinking as he continued. "But could someone have a look at my wrist? I broke it a while ago and to not worry about our parents...I tried to fix it myself but they found out and brought me here"

He then lifted his swollen bandaged up wrist to show the receptionist and she sighed, buying the lie. “Kid, shouldn’t you know better to never try to fix a broken wound yourself, it could lead to it getting a serious infection...” She pushed an information paper that was on a clipboard toward them, the rainbow pegasus picking it up. “I need your parents to sign these please...”

Red looked at Dashie with the corner of his eye as he gave a smile. "Dashie...would you mind finding mom and dad so they can sign the papers, please...I don't want to lose my place while waiting..."

Dashie nodded. “Okay big brother...“ The rainbow pegasus went outside the hospital with the papers to the parking lot to ‘find their parents’ but Dash was signing all the information herself.

After a while, she walked back into the hospital with the papers completely signed, putting down two random names for their guardians just in case if anyone acknowledges that they’re dead.

She put the papers on the desk and the receptionist looked them over before nodding. “Okay...just sit down and wait, I’ll call you up when it’s your turn.”

"Thank you miss," Red says, going to sit down on one of the waiting chairs with Dashie sitting next to her, giving her a small hug. "Thanks, Sis...I just hope no one we know comes in because then all this would be for nothing..."

Dashie looked at the front desk and she sees the receptionist go off of her computer to another room. The rainbow filly looked at her big brother. “How about we find out?”

Dash walked over to the side of the desk to look at the computer, seeing all the names of the patients one of the names was familiar to her and she was already checked into a room.

Dashie jogged back to her brother with a bit of a scared look. “R-Red, Zero’s here...she got checked into a room 2 months ago!”

Red gasped. "Ah fuck...we need to avoid her...if she sees us then we are screwed!" He grunted in pain as his hand gave a small twitch. "B-But we can't just leave my hand like this getting worse....and I need to find out why my arms and legs have been getting heavier at times..."

Dashie looked at him with a cute angry expression. “Big Brother, no cussing.”

Red chuckled and ruffles up Dashie's mane with his good hand. "I know...I just forget to not cuss at times"

The receptionist came back to her desk and called out. “Red and Rainbow Dash?”

The rainbow pegasus looked at Red. “Looks like we’re next...”

Red nods and smiles at her as they head into the examination room.

Red: *Chuckles a little and looks at Rainbow* "You were cute back then...anytime I swore you would have this cute look whenever you were mad at me"

Dash: *Scrunches up her muzzle and puts her face on Red's arm*

Spike: *Chuckles* "My Dashie is always so cute, so what happened at the hospital?”

Red: "I'm getting to that...but let's just say that...the doctors being shocked at the state of my wrist would be a understatement..."