2610/Down in the Dumps

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Down in the Dumps
Date of Scene: 27 September 2017
Location: Unknown
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Captain America, Green Ranger




Captain America has posed:
Gotham at night heralds darkness that hardly relates to the absence of the sun. Crime Alley becomes a hub of activity after the sun has set. Its violence becomes notorious. In every respect, this is not place for heroes who stand in the light, yet ince meeting Tommy Oliver last week, Steve has been spending more time in and around Gotham looking for the sensei's students. But he's in a far more official capacity than he'd been a week before.

In his infamous red, white, and blue, with the shield attached to his back, Steve Rogers has been asking about the missing kids. So far few leads have been found, but it doesn't mean he hasn't been efforting in that direction.

Today, the trail brought him here again. This alley. This corner. The local shelter had suggested that kids matching the descriptions had rolled in here, and so Steve sits next to the homeless man who'd given him directions only a week before. He passes the fellow a cup of coffee--something purchased a block over, while he settles into his own cup. "Busy night," he observes as he sees people take to the streets.

Green Ranger has posed:
The sound of the night here is shattered with what is clearly the discharge of a fire arm in an alley. Followed by a young girl's scream and several more shouts, a couple of them are in pain, and a few. Those are those classic Martial art's yells used to disorient an enemy and distract them.

In an Alley Tommy is currently fighting for not just his life, but the life of one of his students. He found Mindy.

Sadly those thugs from the other night also found him. Right now he is delivering a vicious roundhouse kick to one of the thugs.

Defending himself Tommy is restrained, calm, and compassionate. But This little girl? one of his students, A girl he caused the pain of by killing her parents when Rita controled him. He's near ruthless.

Attacking with Quick movements, ducks, dodges, punches, jabs. And of course flips.

Some people think that he over powered the rangers due to Rita empowering him. No, he over powered the rangers because his humanity was stolen.

Captain America has posed:
The sound of a scream gets Captain America on the move. He leaps from his spot on the curb and sprints towards the sound of the scream. Blocks pass as feet beat hard against the pavement, making haste to find the source of distress. Cap's arms pump furiously at his sides, until one reaches to his back to tug on the shield, drawing it off with practiced movement.

Mindy, with her tiny frame, looks unable to defend herself against the three thugs that press towards her, cornering her against the wall. She's well-trained, and able to form some semblance of defence, but it's not without the trappings of youth and inexperience. Her own foot kicks out hard against one of her assailant's knees. Yet as she causes one to go down, another grasps her aforementioned foot.

As a slim and short young woman, she's tugged upwards, dangling from her foot to stare at the stranger with widened dark eyes.

//CLANG//

The sound of the shield hitting the fellow in the back causes the assailant to drop to his knees, and provides Mindy space to move backwards again. She slides closer to the wall. While she may be trained, she is still a child, and one quite outmatched at that.

Green Ranger has posed:
As Tommy will suddenly have someone rush him into the back hitting him trying to slam him into the wall as he uses practiced ease runs up the wall and flips over the thug behind him and then the guy runs into the wall as tommy pushes up and with three quick strikes, one to the right kidney, one chop to the neck and a third to his knee takes him down dazd and out of action.

The Clank catches Tommy's attention as he sees the guy who had mindy drop him and he smiles.

Reinforcements.

And he yansk his head back once, twice, and ducks a knife slash at him as he grabs hold of his arm and twists it at the wrist pulling his face down as he delivers a kick with his shin to his face.

The five guys who had hunted him down basically try to run down the ends of the alleyway to escape as Tommy takes stock of his situation and then moves over to where the young girl is. And she practically jumps into his arms.

"Tommy!" she cries out as he holds her tightly protectively. She's sobbing and scared, saying the Evil Green ranger is in gotham and he's gonna come for her and hurt her and her brothers.

The words strike tommy like a hammer blown as tears run down his eyes as he says. "He's not here he's not gonna hurt you I promise you." he says trying to calm her down. "I'm here I'll protect you."

Captain America has posed:
Following its release, the shield is chased by Captain America, running to close the distance between himself and the thugs. While Tommy cares for the girl, he ensures that they won't be facing the same thugs in short order. He ducks the knife coming towards him, reaching out to grip it and cause it to clatter to the ground.

He counters with a kick to the fellow's head and a slide to grasp the shield. The defensive tool acts as a weapon while Steve causes the thug to punch it and clangs it against the man's head. When the group finally retreats, leaving the alley quiet and barren, his blue eyes seek the pair, giving them a few moments before offering, "We should move. I think they'll be back," there's urgency in the tone, but unmistakable gentleness in his voice.

He ticks with his head towards the mouth of the alley. "I'm overnighting," but clearly not using the room, "a few blocks from here. At the very least we can form an action plan," away from all of the trouble of the streets.

Green Ranger has posed:
Scooping up Mindy Tommy has no trouble what so ever picking up the girl. As if she was little more than a feather to him. Tommy needs to consiously decide to use his enhanced strength as he will put an arm for her to sit on as her arms wrap around her sensei's neck and she just holds on for dear life. The young man follows Captain America as he knows who the Avenger is and will move quickly keeping up with out a problem.

Tomy's not even breathing hard as the Trio move to get to this Safe house. Moving carefully through the area Mindy starts to settle down as it becomes clear to the few who do take note that Tommy is carrying the girl, not abducting her. Of course the presense of Captian America Helps!

Captain America has posed:
It takes a few blocks of movement to get the trio to the safe house, and it's not much to speak of. It's SHIELD, but without any of the pomp and circumstance some expect of the agency--a small apartment in a large complex. The shag carpet (straight from the 70s) with its orange hue matches the garish wallpaper. There's little question though that the space offers come comfort with large couches (that most would probably see in a grandparent's home) and two rooms off the main space.

Cap leads the way inside and sets the shield on his back with a magnetic clang. The helmet of his costume gets removed, and Steve musses his hair before motioning to the couch. "Please. It's safe," or, at least, safe enough. "Rest as needed..." He shoots them both a flicker of a smile.

And then ever the host, he treads to the refrigerator in the kitchen. "There's not much, but I did put a pitcher of water in here earlier today... I mean, if you'd like a drink."

Green Ranger has posed:
It takes Tommy a moment to realize who he is and then says, "You were from the other day when the Thugs first accosted me." And Tommy will take her over to the couch and kneel down to put her on it as she seems to be settling down as she looks up at the now hoodless Captain America. Coming over to get her some water and then he allows her to drink. She's dirty and hungry as she swallows the water down. Tommy tells her not to fast or she might get sick. But then finally.

"Oh Tommy. Sammy and Jack, I lost track of them in some tunnels, Tommy." and she looks scared to tell him as Tommy puts his hands on her shoulder.

"Mindy what is it you can tell me I'm here to help." he says The dirt on her face covers a couple of bruises and cuts as she starts to shed more tears.

"Tommy Jake and Sammy have developed wierd powers like mutants." She says and then Tommy blinks as she says, "That's why we ran away, we heard the mitchels say they were gonna ship us off to some place called Cadmus..." she says with tears.

As Tommy processes this his fist clenches and he grits his teeth biting his lip as he stands up. He's so angery he is almost shaking as Mindy says, "Tommy please we already lost mom and dad don't make them split us up!" And Tommy once more comes up to hug her as he says, "I won't let that happen."

Captain America has posed:
"Yeah," Cap replies lowly. "Steve," he introduces again. But the story causes Cap to inhales a long breath. "You're safe now," he issues towards Mindy while he rifles through the cupboards of the safe house to find anything worth eating. An old box of cookies earns a skeptical eyebrow arch, and Steve tugs on it to check the packaging. While he may be a man from the past, he's already learned the importance of best before dates.

Seeing this one hasn't passed, he walks back to the sitting area with the cookies in hand and sets them on the coffee table, a silent offering for those present.

His blue eyes sweep between the pair and he allows his chin to drop. The future is not without its complications, and Steve continues to grapple with how complicated the world has really become. He can, however, offer some simple comfort, "I know this is hard." Steve has had these conversations many times over his life, "But if you can tell us anything about these tunnels, it might give us an idea of where to start looking for them. We're going to keep looking, but anything that can narrow the search would be good, even if it's a short-lived narrowing. I know your teacher wants to help and keep you together, but to do that we need to find them first..."

Green Ranger has posed:
Swallowing hard Mindy says, "When the Monster man in gold armor showed up with The Rock men of Rita he called out to find us. We managed to get down into some sort of tunnel that was opened before the fighting broke out. He said to find the three of us to draw out the Green ranger!" She says biting her lip hard. "The Ranger must have been looking for us. He showed up."

Tommy at this point comes down to look at her looking in her eyes as he says. "Mindy Mindy. Listen to me. The Green Ranger wasn't there to hurt you. He was there to save you."

Mindy seems a little surprised. "Mindy he found me and told me what happened to him. Rita captured him, put a magic spell on him. She made him do all those horrible things. Including when he had his Dragonzord Attack Angel groves." Tommy explains, "He's in pain, he suffers so much knowing what he was forced to do. That was why he was there, and why he's not here now. He knows you hate him, but he doesn't want to see you hurt anymore." Tommy seems trying to convince her of what happened.

"Now what happened with your brothers?" he asks as Mindy seems to perhaps not entirely believe Tommy but seems willing to try. "We we got seperated when some of the tunnel collapse. I went one way they went another." she explains.

Captain America has posed:
"Do you know where the tunnel was?" Steve asks slowly. He finally sits on one of the chairs in the sitting area, taking a perch that allows him to be able to watch the door and the windows at the same time. "Honestly, any details could help us."

His eyebrows lift slightly and his arms cross lightly over his chest at the mention of the Ranger losing his faculties. "Something similar happened to a good friend of mine. When someone has control of your mind, it can... well, it can make you do terrible things. We won't let anyone hurt you or your brothers, we just need to be able to help them..." Steve's chin drops towards his chest and he can't help but remember what it was like to venture into Bucky's mind to bring him back from the edge.

Green Ranger has posed:
As Tommy looks over at Steve when he mentions his friend being controled and he smiles at his words and then she nods and points out where they were were and the general area. Tommy has trained and educated her well in recalling education as he says. "Alright I'll go and find your brothers and once you are all together we can find some place better for the three of you to go, without needing to go to foster care." he says. He has no intention of allowing them to be split up.

And He stands emotionally drained as he looks around needing some water for himself. "Alright I'll go look for her brothers. Can you keep an eye on her please?"

Captain America has posed:
A small nod follows the question. Steve shoots her a lopsided smile. "I'm Steve," he finally introduces. "And, if you need something, let me know." A glance is given towards the back of the safe house. "There's two bedrooms if you want some shut eye. I'll stay watch."