St. James Infirmary

"Jackpot!" Topo Rifiuti quietly giggled in excitement as she looted the purse of a elderly mare in the Coma Ward of Ponyville General hospital. Odds were this one didnt get any visits, so she took her time and stripped cabinet that held the mare's possessions before moving on.

The diminutive manehattanite's normally yellow fur was considerably darkened by the dirt, scrapes, and soot from city life, and her shock of short ginger mane was tangled and messy. The only thing that particularly looked clean about her was her bright, wide green eyes.

"Still all clear, Squeaks?" She glanced over to the rat sitting on a patient near the door, who in turned squeaked at a rat stationed on the floor, who squeaked out of the crack in the door. This was followed by a echo of squeaks back. The rat on the bed gave a claws-up, and Topo continued cleaning out house.

All the sudden she heard footsteps coming from the hall, and a fervent series of squeaks. The foal franticly shoved what loot she could into her saddlebags and shoved the empty bags under a bed, shewing the rats off into their holes in the walls.

"One job you dumb furballs! One freakin' job!" she muttered to herself as she crazily looked back and forth for someplace to hide. Just as the door was being opened, the filly squeezed into a empty file cabinet drawer.

She really hoped her tail wasn't poking out like last time.

Switchblade walked into the room and looked around, he could have sworn that he heard noises coming from the ward, he looked at the patient's beat moniter, still comatose. He then called out "If there's anypony in here hiding, come out at once, there is no point trying to hide seeming as I won't leave until I've found you." he checked the mare's purse, he knew that it was closed when he was there earlier, worried he checked her item cabinet, empty too.

The last place to check whether anything else was missing was the filing cabinet, he opened the first of three drawers, all there, he checked the next one, empty. Then he went to open the last one.

Topo heard the stallion’s commanding tone and grimaced (as much as a little filly could). Guards! She hated guards! Maybe when his back was turned she could find some scalpel and stab him, or poison him with some pills or something! Her musing were cut short as she heard him opening the file cabinets. She looked to her bag of goodies and shoved them deep down to the very back of the cabinet.

The second the Switchblade opened the last filing cabinet, Topo sprung from her hiding spot and grabbed onto his neck, ineffectively punching his chestplate and growling viciously. As intimidating as any pint size fighter could be, her punches didn't have much force and mostly fell flat, but she didn’t seem to notice.

Switchblade looked down at the filly currently trying to hit him, calmy he levitated her off him and hovered her at hoof's length from him, she smelt like garbage. He glared at her before realising that she couldn't see through his goggles, so resolved to put a serious face, he looked at the filly and said as calmy as possible "You know I was expecting a thuggish sort of criminal to steal from an elderly comatose mare, you kid have topped the list on evil. So here's what I am going to do, I am going to walk over to the drawer you were hiding in and see what else you were hiding, but as for you..." he put the filly on the floor and used an ice spell to attach her legs to the floor "freeze."

"Bummer, guy. Ya got me." She matched his stare with one of her own. Her nose scrunched up and her eyes grew wide with hate. "Go on, look. I ain't afraid a' you."

"But I aint gunna sit here and let you call me names" She started to scream in fury as she strained against the ice, a vein popped out of her forehead. After a few seconds, she collapsed onto the floor in a exhausted mess.

"Fine! Ya Buckin... Cheater..." She spat at Switchblade's hooves, losing steam. She took a second to lie, huffing and puffing on the cool linoleum ground. Her hooves stuck to the floor, she had to awkwardly fold them under herself. "Second this Ahm free of this crap ahm going to break you're freakin face..."