After a few hours, I was able to get Chrysalis to calm down and properly think about the issues with assassinating someone in the middle of the hospital, "Okay, I concede we won't kill him... yet," She told me as we sat on a bench on the side of a park trail, "But if he did recognize me, my daughter is dead if he can communicate with another infiltrator," I nodded listening to her.
"I understand that, but I can't execute him I don't have a defense if I do it in the hospital," She raised her eyebrow I explained with a sigh, "In the street, he attacked us and then attempted to attack me directly it was self-defense, but at the hospital where he is bed-bound I shoot him or kill him, it is murder," I say straining murder, "understand now?" I asked she nodded affirmation. I quietly changed my blaster to stun I couldn't kill here, outside of severe need, safer to stun.
I entered the hospital, under the guise of visiting the general again, luckily the changeling was being held in the room next to the general. I placed my comm-unit against the wall and had the audio feedback through my helmet. "Inspector," I heard a male say, "the strike from the corporal, as Redheart has told me, caused severe damage to the changelings' brain, I do not believe he will have any useful information,"
"All I need is to know what happened in the street, I have several witnesses that say it yelled changeling before it attempted to attack and I want to know why," A female this time said, "But if the changeling can't speak, we'll load it up and have it sent to Canterlot, I'd like to speak to this 'corporal', doctor," she said, the doctor agreed and I heard one of them leave the room and I put my comm-unit away.
I slouched next to the general, just observing her monitor watching each line, I didn't know what they meant but it must have been good since no one was rushing to her side. "Excuse me are you Corporal Sixty-Three?" A woman asked, I looked her over, she was clad in a black suit contrasting the alabaster feathers and yellow beak of her face, "I'm Inspector Quinn with The Bureau of Royal Investigations," she told me after I nodded my head, "I have a few questions about the event in the market this morning, do you mind answering them?" She asked me.
"Of course not ma'am, I'll help however I can," I told her sitting up straight.
She smiled and asked her first question flipping open a notebook. "Why did you leave after the event? Most creatures would have waited for the authorities to arrive."
"I'm just used to taking care of a threat and moving on to the next objective," I explained, "Never really had to wait for authorities to show up, there never were any." I gave in further detail.
"Okay, and how about the reason it yelled changeling?" She asked looking back at me.
"I'm not entirely sure, he just came up sniffed the air, yelled, and tried to attack us, I stunned him and those six mares came up, while they distracted me the changeling jumped at me and I shot him," I told her stretching my arms and legs before sighing and removing my helmet to rub my face, "It has been a few years since I had to think about taking a life, all I have been fighting are droids," I said.
"Droids? What are those?" Her question was joined with a raised brow.
"Machines, robots, programmed to kill and tear the galaxy apart, I was trying to preserve the republic, I don't know what happening up there now," she nodded along with my statement.
"Alright thank you, don't leave town until I can get this all sorted out, understood?" I gave her a crisp nod and looked back to the monitor. I sat there for a few hours before electing to get up and head back to the market and pick up a tarp, Roseluck probably didn't want to talk to me after all, holding my helmet in my hand I made my way towards the door.
"Thank you for visiting Corporal," I turned around to see the General sitting up and removing the pieces of medical equipment that were connected to her. "I was able to hear tidbits of what you said during your last visit, but let us leave," She said before a team of doctors lead by Redheart pushed into the room with a cart.
"Lieutenant," I greeted, "What's with the cart?" I asked pointing at the rest of the team.
"We thought that Tetztail flatlined," Redheart said looking at the sitting form of the general, "I-i will get her personal effects," She said stumbling out of the room.
"Well now, once I have my saber and robes I shall join you, my friend," Tetztail said standing up and stretching, I would have caught up with her if not for a sudden commotion in the room next to us.
"FOOD!" I heard something yell accompanied by the sound of a chain rattling, and the tell tale sound of a changeling's transformation. I turned, drawing my blaster turning it to lethal, and putting my helmet back on. I got a good stance and kicked in the door of the room I was met with the changeling holding what appeared to be a guard down and sucking some sort of pink mist from him. I took aim and shot three times, directly into the infiltrators' eye. His eye sizzled causing him to freeze shortly before collapsing onto the chest of the stallion.
"I guess I can trust you don't work for them," I turned towards the source of the voice, the inspector from earlier, "Is it dead this time?" She asked as a doctor rushed in checking the changelings' pulse.
"Time of death 1632," He said standing up moving the changeling with him back onto the bed.