Author's note: This is my first story and I am excited to try my hand at writing again so I would love it if you The reader will leave creative reviews (good or bad, but please no hateful or nasty reviews) I am setting this story in the AU of Power Rangers meeting Marvel Characters. I do not own the Power Rangers or any Marvel Characters in this story.
The sounds of cars filled the streets at all hours of the night as the city that never sleeps is lively with locals and tourists. One local in particular moved to the city to attend Empire State University for Foreign affairs and minor in public speaking. 22 year old Trini Kwan has had a wonderful time living in the city after being an ambassador for peace during her four years in high school. After high school and her commitment to the Teen Peace Conference had ended, she decided to go to college and applied to many, but ESU interested her the most with it being in New York City and some of the landmarks in the city like the Baxter Building, the Twin Towers, The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building, and the Daily Bugle. Now in her senior year in college, Trini was preparing for life outside of school and thought about doing some more charity work while she would be touring for different organizations to build up their foreign relations with other countries. She had always felt a sense of duty ever since her days as a Power Ranger. Her agility, skills, and sense of maturity were some of the qualities that led to Zordon selecting Trini as his first Yellow Ranger here on Earth back in 1993 when Trini was a freshman in High School.
One fall evening, Trini was enjoying a tour of the famous Baxter Building, home to NY's own Fantastic Four. It was the last tour of the night when Trini managed to meet Dr. Reed Richards and his wife Sue as they were leaving to catch the Broadway showing of "The Lion King". The tour ended with a stop at the gift shop where Trini bought a T-shirt for her best friend Kimberly Hart, who is currently coaching an all-girl gymnastics team down in Palm Beach, Florida. After purchasing the shirt, Trini suddenly got a craving for some cookies and crème ice cream. As she was walking out of the Baxter building, she decided she would head to the 24 hour Friendly's Restaurant that was around the block for her ice cream craving. As Trini was walking to Friendly's, she was passing on by an alley when she heard the sounds of an altercation coming from the alley. Trini stopped and headed down the alley to see if she could be any help to someone. She was closing in on the noises and the more closer she got; she made out 3 men standing and a man on the ground. The man on the ground was getting kicked and beaten down by two men while the third one was just standing off to the side.
"You know you could be at home with your daughter, but what did you have to do? You had to go and stiff the Kingpin of what you owed him didn't you? The tall man on the right in the Yankees windbreaker was telling the beaten man while his partner, dressed in a NY Jets windbreaker, was kicking the man in the stomach and kidneys. The third figure, dressed in a long leather trench coat and wore a skull cap on his head, stood off to the side and looked like he was the man running the show here. Trini looked on for a little bit longer before she had enough of the brutality and decided to break it up.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" Trini shouted. She got the all 3 men to turn to her and see who it was that was screaming. The two thugs beating down the helpless man stopped, looked at the petite young woman and then turned to the man with the skull cap. The man told the thugs, in his thick Irish accent, to grab Trini and bring her to him. The men advanced on Trini, who got into a fighting stance. With the quickness of a cat, Trini threw a roundhouse kick to the closest attacker right in the head, and followed it up with a spinning back fist right across his face. The man in the Yankees windbreaker fell to the floor, stunned and confused what happened. The Jets fan started to run at Trini once he saw his partner fall. He was about to wrap her up in his grip and drive her to the ground. But Trini was faster then the man was, spun clockwise away from her attacker, as the man passed right by her and his head collided with the brick wall of the building. The Yankee fan managed to climb to his feet and sneak up behind Trini while she was dealing with his partner and grabbed her from behind and lifted her in the air once she was done spinning. Trini, being a student of different styles of marital arts, kicked her attacker right above his kneecap and sent him crashing to the ground, letting her go. The man was in terrible pain screaming and rolling around, holding his knee.
"You broke my kneecap you fucking bitch!" the Yankee fan said in his thick New York accent. Not liking what he called her, Trini came right up to the man and back handed him hard right in the temple, knocking the man out cold.
"You dirty cunt, I am gonna hack you to bits!" exclaimed the second thug as he took out his switchblade knife and again started charging Trini. Trini was ready though and when he got close enough to her, she threw another roundhouse kick to disarm him. Without putting her foot down, she shifted her weight and turned the momentum into a side kick which was managed to reach the guy's nose and break it easily. Blood was going everywhere on the thug as he got up and took off running, leaving his partner and the man in charge.
Trini relaxed a little and started to come off her adrenaline rush. She thanked God that they didn't have more then just knives on them. The third man, who was standing off to the side, started clapping Trini's performance. The clapping startled the young woman and she turned to face the noise. The dark stranger reached up with his right hand and took off his skull cap. He let the cap fall to the ground as he took his right hand again and lightly touched his forehead, then licking his fingers. Trini thought it was the oddest thing someone could do but it didn't matter to her as she got back into a fighting stance. Trini was ready to defend herself when the man started to laugh at her.
"You are good baby, but me, I'm magic" and with that sentence, the man flicked his wrist and threw what looked like a playing card right to Trini's throat. Trini was completely not ready for the attack and got hit with the card because it was so fast. The object struck Trini to the right of her windpipe, missing the windpipe so she can breathe but the card had hit a major artery. Trini grabbed her throat to try and keep the bleeding to a minimum before she could get the medical help she needed, but she was having trouble screaming for help. The stranger started walking to the wounded woman. He bent over and picked up a glass bottle, smashed it against the wall, and stopped right into the view of the street lights out from the streets.
"Sorry love, the Kingpin said no witnesses." And just like before with the playing card, the man flicked his wrist and tossed the broken bottle right to Trini's chest. The man watched the bottle land square in the chest, right above her breasts, plunging deep into her heart. Trini fell to her knees in pain. She looked at the man's face, which had a smile across it, while she fell to her back dying. She grasped for air, clenching onto her life. The man had what looked like a target engraved into his forehead; he again touched his forehead and gestured to the dying woman with his right hand. He walked over to the dying ranger and said the last word Trini Kwan would hear before she died.
"Bulls eye"
