Disclaimer- I do not own or have any connections with Power Rangers. Power Rangers and all related names, belong to Saban and/or Disney, I don't know which.

Authors Note: Takes place during Dino Thunder after "The Passion of Connor", but will not introduce on DT characters until later.

Never Ending Cycle

By Wiffyboy2003

Chapter One: Trouble

Terra Venture City was its usual busy self. The people were going to and from places in their rushed way, while the birds and rodents scurried along with their day-to-day business. People of all ages were making their ways home after long days at work, or a hard one at school.

Leo Corbett watched all of the hustle and bustle from his window. Leaning against the wall, Leo savored the moment of the day; his daughter was at preschool, or was at least on the way home, his wife Kendrix was making the afternoon snacks for Rachel when she got home, and he had the time away from the police station in order to just watch the beauty of the city unfold.

The house that Leo, Kendrix, and the kids lived in was exactly the kind of house that the both of them wanted. After saving the destroyed space colony's citizens from Trekeena and destruction, and returning the Quasar Sabers to the stone that they came from, both the citizens of Mirinoi and Terra Venture thought it necessary for them to do something to say thank you for all they had done for them.

After many attempts to say no, the former Galaxy Rangers finally gave in. Damon was built an Auto Repair shop in the newly built Terra Venture City on Mirinoi, Kai was given a high spot in the city's government, a position that Commander Logan was glad to give, seeing how well he was in the job on the colony. Maya built a public zoo for the city, which she runs and owns. Mike retired from working in the big part of the city and opened up a bar, while Leo and Kendrix were given a house. The original plan was to build separate house's, but seeing how the two were engaged by the time one was finished, they decided to live in the one house.

"Mommy," Rachel's cry broke Leo's trip down memory lane and snapped him back to reality.

"Oh hi Rachel how was your day at school today," he heard his wife ask as he left his perch on the widow sill, and entered the kitchen where his family was.

"It was great. Today, we drew pictures of or favorite animals. Can I show you," Rachel asked with a look on her face that said that she actually thought her mom was going to say no?

"Sure, but will you show daddy to," Kendrix asked, looking passed her daughter and at her husband.

"Sure, come here Daddy," her excited voice pretty much commanded.

"I'm coming honey," Leo answered, walking to his family. Crouching down beside Kendrix, Leo took a look at the picture that was Rachel's hand.

"I drew a lion and a cat, my favorite animals of all," Rachel explained, which was a good thing to Leo, seeing as how both looked like cats to him. He covered his confusion by replying, "Its lovely, honey. In fact, it is so lovely, I think it deserves the refrigerator, don't you Mom," Leo turned his head; looking at his wife for the response he knew was coming.

"Absolutely, Dad; lets do it right away," and with a smile Leo took the paper that was now being presented to him, lifted up one of the magnets on the fridge, and slid it under.

"Their," he proclaimed turned around to his family and put an arm around Kendrix, "now everyone who comes here can see what a wonderful artist we have. Pulling her husband and daughter into a bear hug, Kendrix kissed the both of on their foreheads, and on the lips for Leo's sake.

"Ew," looking up at the 4-year-old in his arms, Leo grinned at the look of disgust on Rachel's face.

It was when he saw something in the window behind Rachel that he thought his heart was going to stop.

In the window stood a black and red robotic face peering into the room, with a white glove pointed strait at him.

"Psycho Red," Leo gritted through his teeth in a combination of shock and anger. Kendrix looked at him as if he had just grown an extra head. "What," was all she said, or more likely then not, was all she could say, after all, the last time she came up with a Psycho Ranger, she wound up dead.

Looking in the direction her husband was looking, Kendrix discovered that he was right. Psycho Red was still standing their, pointing at Leo, all most saying for him to come to him.

"What is he doing here? I thought he was destroyed on Terra Venture," Kendrix hissed, taking Rachel from Leo's arms, and placing her on the ground.

"We thought Psycho Pink was destroyed then, as well, but look what happened," Leo replied back.

"Mommy, Daddy, what's going on," a newly frightened Rachel asked, tugging on Leo's pants.

"Nothing, sweetheart," Leo said, looking down at his daughter, trying to calm her down. He could see that it wasn't working, but he kept the charade up for her sake. "Mommy is just going to take you to uncle Damon's, while I do some stuff around here, O.K."

"That's right, Rach. Uncle Damon will let you play with his racing game while we are their," Leo looked back to the window while Kendrix was saying all of this, and saw that Psycho Red was still standing their and pointing.

"But, I don't want to go, I want to stay with you daddy," Rachel cried!

Not wanting to deal with this at the moment, Leo leaned into Kendrix's ear and whispered, "Please go now."

"But what about you," Kendrix asked, ignoring her daughter, who was pleading to stay. "The last time you faced Psycho Red powerless, Andros saved you from certain death. And this time, I don't think he will be here to stop him."

"I know that," Leo said, raising his voice a little; he calmed himself and continued. "I don't plan to fight him. I plan to get my morpher, hide it in my pocket, and go out to meet him. I will distract him, and then run to the Quasar Park for my saber," Leo explained to his frightened wife.

"Leo, that is so dangerous. He is probably faster then you, and will catch you in seconds."

"The plan has flaws, I know that, but it was the only one we have. And right now, I only want to protect you and Rachel." He was right and Kendrix knew it.

"Your right," Kendrix admitted with a sigh of defeat, "Rachel's safety is what is most important. But that doesn't mean your not important, either," Kendrix shot back, resting her head against her husbands shoulder. "Rachel loves and needs you, Leo. And so do I, for that matter, so don't get yourself killed, O.K.," Kendrix smirked.

"I'll try to resist the urge," Leo joked, a smile on his face; but the smile disappeared as he turned to his daughter.

"Rachel, I just want to let you know that I love you and that whatever happens is going to happen for the best interest of you and your mom, O.K.," Leo asked his daughter, who was way to young to be given a talk like this.

"Alright, dad, I love you," nodding and kissing Rachel her fore head, and watching as Kendrix picked her up, picked up her keys, gave Leo one more kiss for luck and love, then went out the door.

With a sigh, Leo turned around to face the beast who had turned his perfect day a complete 180 and into a nightmare.

He was still their staring at him, but now, Leo guessed since he was the only one left in the room, wasn't pointing at him anymore. Leo began walking toward his room and the safe that contained both his and Kendrix's transmorphers, all the while, never taking his eyes off Psycho Red.

With the transmorpher firmly wrapped around his wrist, Leo exited his house through the back porch, where Psycho Red was still waiting, sopping next to a pair of patio chairs.

"I see you went and got your little power morpher," Psycho Red commented, pointing at the device on Leo's wrist. With a slight chuckle, he continued. "Well, it's not like you can use it with out your saber, can you."

"You'll soon find out, now won't you," Leo replied, not even bothering to ask the thousands of questions that were floating in his brain the moment he saw his enemy in the window.

Raising his wrist so the morpher was at the level it was whenever he morphed, Leo shouted out his morphing call, "Go Galactic." To his pleasure, he saw Psycho Red start to move forward. But instead of pressing the button to morph, like he usually did, he picked up the two chairs next to him and threw them at Psycho Red.

Not even staying to see if he made contact, the moment the chairs were out of his hands, Leo was jumping off of the porch and landing on the ground. The disgruntled cry gave Leo the answer he needed to know if he had hit or not as he started running toward Quasar Park.

Dodging people, trees, dogs and cars, Leo ran as fast as he could in the direction of the Park. All the while Leo was wondering what was taking psycho Red so long to catch up to him. The strikes of the chairs, the possibility of falling down, and the shock of seeing your prey gone, shouldn't have slowed him down for more ten 10 seconds.

Not taking the risk to turn around and look, Leo jumped/climbed the fence of Maya's Zoo to cut through it and take the shortcut to the Park. Hopping over, he immediately heard the sounds of guards and people shouting for him to stand still; but Leo didn't have time to stand still, he need ed to get to his saber.

Forgetting all about the guards and people around him, Leo started once again in the direction he knew the park was. Avoiding anything in his way and not thinking about anything but getting to the saber, Leo ran head first into someone, sending both of them to the ground.

A voice shouted to the other person, "Oh my God, are you all right", completely ignoring Leo. Leo finally got a good look at the woman she knocked over, as she replied, "Yes, Roy, I am fine, thanks," the woman told her helper.

"Maya," Leo asked, in a voice that practically screamed of relief; relief for finding someone who could help him.

"Leo," Maya said, getting a good look at her friend. "Oh my god, Leo what are you doing here?"

Before Leo could get a word out Maya's friend, Roy, butted in.

"You know this man, Maya," Roy said, in obvious disgust, most likely angry at the fact that Leo had just knock the woman down, and was getting praise.

"Yes, Roy, I do," Maya said in a voice that Leo could hear meant to be quiet; it seemed she to heard the sound of disgust in her partners voice. "Leo and I are dear friends and have been since we first met on Terra Venture," Maya explained.

Not waiting for a response from Roy, Leo began talking, "Maya, you have to help me. It's Psycho Red. He's alive and after me."

Leo watched as the color faded from Maya's face as she asked, "What?"

"I will explain on the way, but we need to get to Quasar Park and to the sabers," Leo pleaded, knowing that he would need some help to defeat Psycho Red, and Maya was just the person to help.

It took a couple of seconds for Maya to take all of that, and when she finally did, instead of responding with words like he thought she would, she just grabbed him by the wrist and took off running in the direction of the sabers.

"Hurry up Leo; we need to get to the sabers before Psycho Red finds you." In another situation Leo might have said something sarcastic and dumb, but at the moment, he wasn't in the mood.

As he said he would, Leo explained as much as he could to Maya on the way to the park. When they had finally jumped the fence to the park, Maya had asked all the questions she had needed to ask and now, the two of them started to follow the concrete path to the sabers.

Not long after settling in on Mirinoi, the people of the city thought it would be a good idea to open a little park for the rangers. It wasn't that big, just enough space for statues of each of the rangers and Galactabeast's, including Karone, Mike, and the Torazord. All of this was built facing the sabers in the stone they resided in, only taking down enough trees to build sidewalks around the area, but still enough for the native's of Mirinoi to be happy.

At the moment, there were a handful of people their, looking at the statues of Kai and Kendrix, and others were looking at the sabers in the rock. No one gave the Leo or Maya any sign they knew they were their, and when they approached the sabers, nothing happened to stop them.

"This is strange," Leo whispered to Maya, trying not to gather attention to them selves. "It has been at least ten minutes but I still haven't seen Psycho Red since I left him on the porch."

"Are you sure you say him. I mean, you could have been hallucinating," Maya said, adding her two cents into the reasoning.

"No," Leo responded, dismissing Maya's idea, "I thought I was hallucinating to, but when Kendrix saw him as well, I knew he was real."

"Well," Maya continued, "maybe he left."

"Or, maybe," a robotic voice sounded out from behind them, "he raced here before you got here, Red Ranger, to make sure you didn't get your powers back before he did what he wanted to do with you."

Turning around, Leo and Maya came face to face with their enemy, while the entire park visitor's began running away from the monster.

"It look's like you two are in a whole lot of trouble," he cackled, pointing his newly summoned Psylo Saber and slowly walking towards the two.

"I don't think so," a voice coming from behind Leo and Maya shouted.

Turning a round just in time enough, Leo and Maya saw Kai leap into the air, grab onto his Quasar Saber, and pull it from the stone. Landing, Kai gave a mighty slash to the chest of Psycho Red, causing him to stumble back in pain.

"Kai, is that you," an astonished Leo asked, thankful he arrived when he did.

"Yeah, it's me Leo," a smiling Kai said, running over to rejoin his friends.

"How did you find us," Maya asked, the same emotions as Leo running through her ever since she say her friend in blue.

"Damon called me after Kendrix and Rachel arrived at his place. He told me everything that happened and where you," pointing to Leo, "were going, so I ran as fast as I could to get here," Kai finished explaining.

"Well, it's a good thing you're a fast runner," Maya joked, trying to make light of the situation.

"Lot of good it will do you," the not yet down Psycho Red said, rising to his feet, pointing his saber at the three rangers; the area that Kai had struck was remarkably undamaged.

"Three against one or 50 against one, I can still destroy you all," he said with a confidence in his voice that proved he meant it.

"We'll just see about that, now won't we," Leo asked, the same confidence clear in his voice. He looked at Maya and gave her a nod which she returned, and the two of them turned around, grabbed their respective sabers, and pulled them from the stone.

A familiar surge of energy traveled through Leo as he shouted to his friends, "Ready!"

"Ready," was the reply!

"Go galactic!"

Another familiar energy surge traveled through Leo as he went through a metamorphosis of power, and transformed into the Red Galaxy Ranger once more, the same with Kai and May next to him, only with blue and yellow.

When the transformation was complete, the three rangers stood facing their enemy, Quasar Sabers in hand, ready to fight.

If it were possible for Psycho Red to smile, he would have been doing so. Looking at the three costumed fools seeking to conquer over him was just too much for the super powered maniac. And the fact that he would be walking away with one of them was even better.

"Ready to give up," Maya shouted, pointing at her enemy, knowing perfectly the answer she was going to receive.

"You're joking, right," Psycho Red laughed. When the laughing stopped, Psycho Red got his serious tone up and said, "Let's do this."

With out any further hesitation, Psycho Red charged the three heroes in red, yellow, and blue. And on the ranger's side of the field, the rangers charged with a shout into the battle.

With the first blow of Psycho Red's saber to Maya's chest, the battle officially had begun. Leo swung his saber at him, but was blocked and punched out of the way. Kai was up next as he used both his quasar saber and his transdagger to deliver several slashes to the back, but was knocked to his feet by a back swoop kick. Looking up after, he saw the point of a saber about to become very friendly with his head and rolled away.

"Take this," Maya shouted, blasting Psycho Red with her trans blaster, allowing Kai to get completely out of the way. Leo jumped up and slammed both of his feet on to Psycho Red's back, sending him stumbling forward. As Leo was once again charging to deliver a hit from his saber, Psycho Red quickly turned around, just as Leo was about to connect, and rammed his fist into Leo's gut, causing him to collapse to his knees, hands clutching his stomach. He didn't have very much time to recover, as Psycho red raised his knee into Leo's helmet, knocking him onto his back.

"Oh yes, you really are showing me something, Red Ranger," Psycho Red cackled, bringing his hand, hand not fist, down towards Leo. Just as he was about to grab Leo's suit, they heard three shouts of "Quasar Launcher", there was a defining boom, and Psycho Red was jumping out of the way. He was lucky enough to miss one, but he got hammered by the other two, and was sent sprawling to the ground.

"Leo," a voice that belonged to neither Kai nor Maya asked, picking him up by the shoulders, "are you alright."

Leo finally got a good look at the man who was helping him. This man just so happened to be dressed in another version of his ranger costume, but was green where his was red.

"Damon," was all he was able to say.

"Yeah, it's me buddy," Damon replied in his cheerful-no-matter-what-the-situation voice he loves to speak in.

The first question that came to his mind when he was finally able to think was his family.

"Kendrix, Rachel; what happened to-"

"It's alright, Leo, it's alright. I knew you were going to need more help, so I dropped them off at Karone's and came here. Kendrix wanted to come, of course, but I knew you would be pissed at me if I did, and I just don't need that today, O.K.," Damon told the Red Ranger.

"O.K.," Leo said, calming down, "thanks," Leo finished, holding out his hand for both a pick-me-up because he was still on the ground and as a sign of friendship. Accepting it, the Green Ranger clasped, his hand with Leo's and lifted him up.

Their bonding moment was stopped, however, when both Kai and Maya were both thrown to the ground in front of the two, smoke coming off of their chests.

"Kai, Maya," Damon shouted, bending over to lift Kai up to his feet. Leo did the same for Maya, holding her back so she wouldn't fall over.

"Man," she wheezed out, "he really is strong. We could barely even touch him."

Kai nodded his head in agreement, seemingly unable to say anything out of exhaustion and fatigue.

"You rangers are pathetic," Psycho Red said, causing Kai and Maya to become fully erect, forgetting all about their tiredness, and ready for round two.

"I might as well just get what I came for and get out of here, because if this is the best you can do, there is no need for me to continue. You obviously are no threat to anything evil, so there is no point to this," he finished, making his point clear by blowing up the ground behind the rangers, sending them flying forward in a furry of grass and dirt.

The four rangers landed roughly back to the ground. That, plus all of the damages from battle received earlier in battle, caused all of them, even Damon who hardly was in the fight, to demorph.

Now looking at four weakened humans and not four super powered rangers, Psycho Red stalked over to them, stopping over Leo.

"Now to take what I came for," hunching over, Psycho Red grabbed Leo by the collar, and lifted him to his feet. Sounds of protests could be heard from the other three rangers, but they were in no condition to do anything about the situation. Leo struggled in Psycho Red's grip, trying to break free, but, like his partners, he was to tired, and the grip was to strong to do anything.

"I hope you like the trip, Red Ranger," Psycho spat to him, raising Leo up to eye level, "because it is the last one you will take for a long time." Leo rolled his head back into a dead look, falling unconscious.

With that, Psycho Red brought his feet together, and both he and Leo disappeared in a flash of red.

"Leo," Kai moaned, reaching out to where his friend last was, before he lost conciseness. Maya and Damon soon followed the lead given by Kai, and drifted into darkness.

A rough shove and a hard floor meeting his face was the first thing Leo felt when he regained conciseness. The closing of a door and the sound of footsteps walking away that made Leo realize that he must be in some sort of prison.

Resting his tired body on his equally tired arms, Leo lifted himself off the ground and to a sitting position. Getting a good look at his surroundings, Leo realized he was right; he was in some sort of prison. If you call a big plastic looking square with air holes on the sides a prison. The walls were perfectly see through, but he could tell that there was a wall their blocking his path.

Leo was just about to look for some way to get out when a voice from the corner said to him, "Don't bother trying to find away out. We tried for hours before we gave up."

Leo spun around in shock, trying to find the voice that was too familiar to be a coincidence. Moving closer to the corner where the voice came from, Leo found his suspicions were correct.

"Andros?"

"I'm here to, Leo," a voice next to Andros said.

Looking to the left of Andros, Leo found the face of, "TJ?"

Theirs Chapter 1 you guys, enjoy. I hope to have Chapter 2 up soon.