MAFIA: Manticore Prime City

[Meanwhile] Outside of The Operating Room - (Rainbow Dash)

Dash: "As my brother was in surgery I decided to walk around to see what's going on till...I met a certain someone I never thought I'd see again..."

After she finished hugging the nice doctor, Dashie decided to explore the hospital a bit passing by Red's assigned hospital room. She then passed by the neighboring room next to it, Room 13, and she heard someone call out.

"HEY, YOU!!" Dashie tensed up, she recognized that voice anywhere. "I saw you get in here!"

The rainbow maned filly shivered and walked back a bit, walking inside Room 13, seeing the being laying in bed. "H-Hey...Zero..."

Zero was the one in bed, wearing a long hospital patient smock, her hair was not in a ponytail and instead was down past her shoulders. She also had a white square eye bandage that was covered with tape over her right eye due to Red injuring her there a few months prior.

She looked at Dash through her left eye and growled. “It is you...one of the first criminals to ever get away from me...”

Dashie decided to toughen up, sticking her chest out and trying to be brave like her big brother. "H-Hey...you brought that on yourself by being a meanie to us...and we're not criminals, we were going to pay back what we took when we can."

“You stole a bunch of items from multiple ponies...I was doing my job little girl...and I don’t care if you’re gonna pay them back...I have to take you in!”

"I'm sorry...but it looks like you can't at the moment..." Dashie then pointed to her own right eye with two fingers. "How's your eye?"

Zero gave a small snicker, before furrowing her eyebrows. "My eye? How about you take a look!” She moved her hand up and opened bandage to show Dashie her new long vertical scar over her right eye, she then opens her right eye to show the filly that her dark green iris has changed to a lighter green, which meant it's now lighter than her left eye's dark green iris.

"He's sorry about your eye...but you wouldn't leave us alone and he wanted to protect me...and if it wasn't for you...my brother wouldn't be at risk of losing his hand!"

The female changeling gave a sarcastic chuckle as she put the bandage back on her scarred eye. “Gee thanks...that’s what I need... a fuckin apology and also if he wanted to protect you...he would’ve let me take both of you in...but no, you just had to run away and what do you mean ‘my fault’, he was the one who broke his fuckin hand in the first place!!”

"Because you wouldn't leave us alone and creatures kept trying to separate us...it's why we left the orphanage so we wouldn't be separated..." Dashie talked back. "The last thing our parents said to us was for him to look after me and he takes that seriously..."

Zero was getting hysterical when she heard what Dashie said. “How dense are you little shits?! You’ve been making bad decision after bad decision!! First, you leave the orphanage, then began to steal, then you run from the law along with injuring my eye!!! None of them would’ve happened if you just stayed at the orphanage!!!!”

She then scoffed, turning her head away from the filly. “I never lost criminals in my life...yet I was bested by you kids...you guys just don’t know when to realize you‘re nothing without parents...”

"We dealt with this long enough, if you hadn't been so mean when dealing with us...we would have come along without a word and no one would have gotten hurt..."

“Grrr...I already told you!” The changeling turns to look at her again. “I don’t have the power to know if you’re going to a foster home or not...in reality...I was worried about you and your brother...”

Dashie walked towards Zero's bed and sat down in a nearby chair. "You have a funny way of showing it..."

“Don’t give me shit ya little cretin...sure I may have been a bitch when I first met you guys...but when Red told me how you lost your parents and would rather be on the streets than in a foster home. Sure, I felt terrible...but I still had a job to do...”

"And thanks to that...your eye got hurt and my brother's hand became infected and leaking this yellow stuff that smells bad..."

Zero rolled her left eye. “Again...all of this could’ve been avoided if you were good kids and came with me to the guard station...but nooooo you decide to be difficult and put all of us in the hospital...”

"Well, what can ya do?" Dashie asked. "We're both stuck here..."

Zero gave out a final sigh and pointed at a desk to her right. "Pour me some water would ya?"

Dashie looked at the desk and walked over to it, picking up a small plastic water pitcher and pouring the injured changeling a cup of ice-cold water, slowly putting it in her hand to which the PI nodded. "Now...I have to think about how I’m gonna pay for my hospital bill...so would you now kindly get out?”

Dashie's mind clicked when she heard Zero was having some money troubles and figures that she and Red do owe her a solid considering it was their fault she has a big scar over her right eye. "Ya know...we actually might be able to help you with paying...we recently acquired some money..."

Zero gave a small chuckle. "Look at that...went from thieves to muggers...but either way, no matter how much money you stole, there's no way in hell that a couple of kids would have enough for my hospital bill...I owe them well over $15,000 bucks..."

"Well actually, why do you think we're here?" Dashie asked. "We have enough money for Red to get his wrist...if we didn't, we wouldn't even step foot here because of lack of money and it's not like we can escape after his surgery..." She then took out a huge wad of cash from her pocket, which made Zero's left eye widen as the little filly put down $15,000 on her bed. "Here...we have plenty to spare, even though we paid back everyone we stole from."

The changeling picked it up, looking at it with complete concern. "W-Wait wait wait...where did you get this pile of cash?!"

"Me and Red stole it from a briefcase that a griffin was carrying into an alleyway...he looked pretty shady actually...he wore a suit and I got a good look at his I.D. in his wallet when Red dropped it due to his wrist pain, it said he was...Gallus Griffinstone...er...something..."

Zero's ears immediately perked up when she heard the name she said, chuckling nervously. "D-Did I hear you correctly? Cuz it sounded like you said 'Gallus Griffinstone' for a second."

"Yeah, that was his name..."

Zero felt the world around her go black and white as her eye widened before she spoke in a calm hushed voice. "L-Little f-filly...y-you might want to l-listen to me as I tell you this...." She then inhaled deeply before flat out yelling at the 10-year-old. "CAN YOU AND YOUR BROTHER BE ANYMORE FUCKING STUPID!?!?!?”

Dashie started to cry as she shivered in fear. "W-Why are you y-yelling at me...w-w-we just wanted to pay everyone back and g-get Red some h-help..."

Zero put her hand on her head. "No, Kid you don't understand...Gallus Griffinstone is a high ranking member in the Sombra Crime Family...and I heard a rumor poking around that he was going to attend a deal and was carrying $100,000 in dollar bits..."

Dash arched an eyebrow. "Who and what is the Sombra Crime Family?"

The injured changeling looked at her with her left eye. "Sombra is the Don of the Sombra Crime Family...he's one of the most powerful mafia families in all of Manticore Prime City...he's so powerful that he's sometimes called 'King Sombra'...he is a monster, he kills anyone who ever does anything wrong to him or his business....and when it involves creatures stealing his money...he shows NO MERCY!!”

Zero then put her hands on Dashie's shoulders. "YOU AND YOUR BROTHER ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER!!!"

Dashie, who was still innocent minded, was still confused. "I don't get it...why are we in danger?"

The female changeling groaned in annoyance and looked straight into her eyes. “Listen to the words coming out of my mouth...” She then spoke slowly to the pegasus filly. “You. Stole. 1 hundred. Thousand. Dollars. From. The. Mafia!!!!!”

"What's a mafia?"

The changeling growled, feeling like Dashie was doing this on purpose before she calmed down and breathed heavily, she then dumbed it down a bit since she was only 10. "They are big bad meanies who are very angry that you and your brother stole money from them and now they want to hurt you and your brother...”

After Zero said that, Nurse Redheart opened the door to her room to peer inside. "Zero...about your payment-" She stopped herself when she saw the changeling with the rainbow-maned filly. "Oh, Rainbow Dash there you are...your brother just got out of surgery."

Dashie beamed and ran over to the nurse. "Is he okay, can I see him?"

"He's fine...the doctors managed to save his wrist and get all the infection out, but he's still asleep from the gas...he's in his room now."

Dashie smiled. "Yay! thank you!" Before the pegasus ran out of the room, she looked back and walked up to Zero in her bed. "Thank you for keeping me distracted..."

Zero looked at her with a blank expression before she gave her a small smile, the first one she ever gave to anyone of the Dash siblings. "Anytime Dash..."

The rainbow pegasus then ran out of the room as Nurse Redheart walked up to Zero. "I didn't mean to...but I overheard something about...money being stolen and the Sombra Mob..."

The changeling nodded. "Yeah... it's her and her brother Red...they're in serious trouble..." She picked up the money Dashie put on the bed for her hospital payments and gave it to Nurse Redheart, who counted it and put it in the breast pocket of her nurse blouse.

The changeling started to think before looking back at the nurse. "If it isn't too much trouble...I need my phone, I need to make a call."

Redheart nodded and walked over to the closet to Zero's jacket, taking out her phone and giving it to the changeling. As the white unicorn walked out of the room, the changeling opened her phone and dialed a number. "Zero...Private Investigator Badge 525...I have a message for Detective Dual Blade and Detective Virtus Darkpaw."