AUTHOR NOTE: digisovereign happened to inform me that he'll be re-posting a re-done version of, the story that inspired me to make Dimension Cross and Galaxy Lost, his "Psycho Naruto" story.
A few weeks after Naruto had started training Trakeena, Naruto heard about some scew-up plan to destroy the Quasar Sabers Furio had come up with, all that happened as a result of that scheme had been the rangers getting their hands on some weapons called the Transdaggers. From what Naruto could tell, Furio was nearly on his last leg as far as Scorpius so much as letting him live. Your enemies getting something powerful and useful as a result of what you did? Not a good thing. So with that, Naruto decided to help the guy out. He wasn't on friendly terms with Furio, but they weren't on bad one either. And Furio was a way better guy to deal with than Treacheron.
Besides, he might get to beat on the Goodie-Goodie Rainbow Whimps again. And he hadn't beaten on them since his debut since all he'd been doing since then was training Trakeena to be able to fight. So why not?
"Hey yo, Fur-i-o!" Naruto called, and said general turned to see who was speaking to him.
"Psycho Green...what do you want?"
"Heard about your bad luck, so thought I'd help turn it around. Between us both those rangers'll have their hands full."
Furio scowled "I do not require your help!"
"Uh-huh...tell that to Scorpius. Think about it, what do you have to loose? I know I knocked you out before, but the reason the Psycho Rangers even exist is to destroy the good rangers...you tried to take on the Red Ranger and as a Psycho, I couldn't have that. So I HAD to put you down for the count like that. Look, you've been working for the big bad bug a long time now, right? You should know what he dose to those who fail him too often. I'm offering my help to keep you from ending up six feet under, do you really want to reject in or get back into Scorpius's good graces?"
Furio growled as he though that over, he had to confess the point was valid.
"Very well...should Trakeena allow it, I'll have you accompany me."
Nruto nodded "I'll check with Trakeena...no telling how she'll take this. If she doesn't like it, take a monster or two with you, I'd go with Chaemeliac and Harlychoke if I were you."
Furio nodded, if Trakeena didn't agree, he wouldn't be able to count on the Psycho Ranger being there to support him, so he'd bring the monsters just in case of that. This guy knew how to plan ahead. As a General, he knew just how vital that skill was.
With that, the two went their seperate ways. Furio to get the two mentioned monsters in case they were needed, and Naruto to get permission to join Furio with his latest destroy-the-rangers mission.
A few hours later, the group out to defeat the rangers arived at Terra Venture. Furio's arivl was marked in lightning-like bolts of electricity while Naruto's was in a black and green fireball.
"Huh?" Furio said, noticing an extra, "Why did you bring Trakeena?" he demanded.
Naruto sighed "Ultimatum. She came with or I wouldn't have been able to join you guys and I've had to be cuffed to Treacheronfor a year..."
Trakeena smirked at her guard, Treacheron loathed Naruto with every fiber of his being since the time he'd been beaten by her Psycho Ranger bodyguard, and in all honesty, Naruto had started to feel the same seeing as Treacheron's latest attempt to get back at him had him try to strap Naruto to the engens of the Scorpion Stinger to fry him. Not only that, but she promised to lay off teasing him for a year's worth of time in space, and due to relativity, that was a bit of time. Also, she wanted to test her training. So far she'd gone through Puddies, Tenga, Piranhatrons, Cogs, and other foot soldiers and was currently testing her skills against holograms of Goldar and Rito Revolto.
Furio grumbled something about spoiled brats, babysitters, and a warrior's place before the Galaxy Power Rangers arrived where the trio of villans were.
"Sup Red, ya miss me?" Naruto called out cheerfully, pulling out his personal Psycho Ranger weapon, a pair of spike-knuckled trench knives with serrated blades. The spikes on the knuckles had the exact same poison that Sasori had used to lace Hiruko's wepons and the iron sand of the Sandaime Kazekage's human puppet mixed in with the metal. while the blades of the trench knives were seven inches long and had a special trait of their own.
"I hope you've gotten better, Little Red Ridding Hood." Naruto said coyly as Trekeena and Furio laughed at what Naruto called Leo.
"Your so tough, then take me on then!" Leo snapped.
"With pleasure! But first I want to avoid a repeat preformance, so excuse me if I test the waters first before I dive in...Kage bunshin no jutsu!"
Leo looked on as four exact duplicates of the Psycho Ranger appeared all around him, each of them announcing their precence with a poof of white smoke.
"Alright, let's go!" roared the original Naruto, raising a closed fist into the air to punctuate his words, right before rushing off towards his waiting opponent. After a brief shout of 'yes boss', his clones were quick to follow their creator's action and sided up with him on each side.
Naruto and his four clones were quickly aproaching Leo on speeds that no normal human could possibly match. The Red Ranger couldn't help but frown as he decided to take the fight to Naruto as well as Trakeena too on the Yellow an Pink Rangers and Furio challenged the Blue and Green Rangers.
Naruto and his clones saw the incoming rush of the Red Ranger. As he aproached them, they instantly started to put Naruto's plan into motion.
Once Leo close enough, they broke their formation. The two clones that were running at the left and right sides jumped aside while the original Naruto and the two copies that were closest to him leaped straight into the air, everyone effectively dodging the ranger.
Naruto smirked as his clones brought their hands together while they were all still in midair. They started to go through the seals necessary for performing the Henge no Jutsu and in a poof of white smoke, they both turned themselves into a pair of giant shuriken of which the blond Psycho Ranger was quick to grab onto after tossing his trench knives into the air, right before sending one of them spinning towards his enemy with a mighty throw before catching his wepons and standing back to see how well the Red Ranger did.
Leo dove to the side and thus managed to avoid getting his head cut off, but he heard a poof and the shadow clone, now back in its usual form, had used the ground as leverage and was now flying through the air and well on its way to make its knee connect with the back of Leo's head.
Leo managed to narrowly avoid the attack, while at the same time using it against his adversary. During the short time required for the clone to regain its momentum, theRed Ranger didn't hesitate to deliver a roundhouse kick that connected with its temple.
The clone was immediately destroyed. The quickly dissapearing white smoke being the only evidence that it had even been there in the first place. Leo narrowed his eyes as he briefly pondered upon this strange phenomenon. Not only had the green bastard managed to duplicate himself, but the duplicants had then transformed themselves into weapons. The feeling of his heel connecting with the doppelganger was unmistakenly real. But while these clones were indeed physical entities, the way it had "died" prove that they weren't exactly made of flesh and blood either. Leo eyed two of the remaining doppelgangers as they quickly aproached him from different angles. The ranger managed to skillfully avoid the attack by somersulted through the air while simultaneously smashing his heel into the unprotected back of the Kage Bunshin, destroying it just like he had done with the other one.
Leo barely had time to breath once he had his feet on the ground, before the third one pounced. It had come so quickly that he barely even had time to take note of it and was only saved because of the reflexes that he'd acquired through the intense training he'd put himself through after his first clash with the Psycho Green Ranger as he used the clone's shoulder as leverage to jump away during its attack. If he had reacted even a tenth of a second slower than he actually did, it would have been him and not the ground that would have been hit by the bunshin.
Naruto's doppelganger instantly went on the offense once it had gotten its bearings back in order. Using its hands as leverage, the clone jumped back onto its feet right before spinning around and aimed a swift kick to connect with its opponent. Leo brought his hands up and caught the oncoming limb before spinning on his heel and flinging the clone away.
The clone cursed audibly and landed on it's feet at the last second by altering its movements while still being in midair. After spinning itself around, the bunshin then proceeded by slamming its foot down onto the ground. And with the help of some strategically applied chakra, leaped into the air, flying straight over Leo's head before gracefully landing behind the Red Ranger.
Leo didn't hesitate for even a second as he quickly sprung into action. Like a silent predator he pounced and unleashed a rapid, and deadly, combo of slashs, punches and kicks upon the shadow clone's body. As the furious attacks hammered its body, causing it to dispell. As the white smoke quickly started to dissipate into the air, Leo examined
his surroundings, searching for the original and he didn't have to wait for long at all before finding him.
Having had three of his four shadow clones destroyed, the true Naruto finally entered the battle.
The Red Ranger narrowed his eyes and fired a rapid barrage of blows upon his attacker. and the Psycho Green he'd faced burst into a cloud of white smoke that completely eveloped the ranger and at the same time effectively obscured everything from her view.
With an irritated gesture of his hand, Leo easily dispatched the annoying veil that had been cast over his eyes and was once again ready to take on the Psycho Ranger...only problem was that he was nowhere to be found.
With a snarl on his face, Leo started to look all around herself, wondering where the hell the blond could have gone until her gaze was once again brought back to the place where she had last seen her opponent and noticed something. By craning her neck slightly, she now saw that on the exact same place that Naruto had been previously standing, there was now a fairly large hole that went straight into the earth.
For a split second, Leo did nothing but stare at the sight, waiting. Then, as quickly as he possibly could, he suddenly jumped back, luckily for him just in time to see the Psycho Ranger burst through the ground in front of him with a raised fist that would have connected with his jaw if he had moved any slower. The uppercut couldn't have missed him by more than a couple of centimeters and judging by the wind that came in its wake, lightly slapping Leo in the face, he came to the conclusion that the punch most likely would have shattered his jaw if it had been allowed to hit its intended target.
Time seemed to almost slow down around the two of them for a moment as they flowed through the air. They were both so into this duel that they hardly even noticed anything that took place around them, being solely focused on each other as the two rangers locked eyes under their helmits...until the Psycho Green Ranger suddenly burst into yet another cloud of white smoke that quickly dissolved into the air.
Before Leo could even voice his shock, the ground behind him exploded with a loud bang and the real Naruto revealed himself as he jumped out of the hole he'd created. Naruto channeled wind-chakra into his fist and smashed it into Leo's stomach, a tornado forming from his arm she went flying.
Leo managed to right himself and landed in a crouch while clutching his stomach.
"Nice...you can actually keep up with my clones a little bit this time...you've been training! Guess that means I can show why these trench knives of mine are a Psycho Ranger's wepon arfter all!"
Naruto revved the hilts and the blades like one would the handel bars of a motercycle or a moped and as he did, the blades turned crimson as freshly spilt blood. As he did that, Naruto rushed forward and lept into the heart of the rangers and started slashing as them, to which they all dodged until he mannaged to deliver a horizontal slice to Kendrix across the middle of her back.
As soon as that happened, the Pink Ranger fell to the ground screaming in raw, unbridled agony. Sighing, Naruto plunged his hand into her back and with a sickenly loud snapping, tore out the section of her spine just under where he'd inflicted the injury to her back, exposing what his trench knives had done as the section of her spine to the open air as where the section of her spine where the injury done by his trench knives had been smoked and steamed af if a soldering tool had been used on the bones.
As soon as she did, Leo, Kai, Damon and Maya all seemed to snap and attacked Naruto, who lept back and away to avoid them.
The rangers crowded around Kendrix"What'd you do to her!"
"A special type of perpetual fuel-injection system that laces my trench knives' blades with a acidic napalm-like plasma, just gotta rev the hilts of my wepons to send the stuff into the blades. Ho...two last things: One, these spilkes on my knives have a extreamly leathal poison mixed in with them, and two...staying at long range won't do you any good! Watch,"
The spikes on his trench knives fired like missiles and zoomed at the rangers, who grabbed their commrad and dove out of the way seeing as they didn't want to risk if he was bluffing about the poison, but as soon as the spikes embedded in the ground, they exploded and the rangers were sent flying from the force of the blasts as emerald green energy formed into the shape of spikes and solidified into a fresh set of spikes on the hilts of his trench knives.
"Oh...I knew I forgot something: unless the spikes hit a living being, they explode upon hitting something...like it? Also, if I hadn't done that to her, the acid napalm plasma would have burnt through her spine and moved on through her vitals and out her front, killing her in the process...doing that to her spine was a necessary evil to keep her alive, think about that before you lable me a Barbarian." Naruto asked as even Trakeena and Furio winced at the capabilities of the blond's wepons and a what he'd done to the Pink Ranger. That was harsh.
"Why'd you pull out something new at this point?" Kai demanded as he pushed himself up.
Hearing that, Naruto paused and chuckled and before long it had grown into an insane, maniacal chackle.
"Something new? Surely you jest! Hahaha...Don't you get it? These trench knives are my own personal weapons! I've had them since I became a Psycho Ranger, but I was being NICE to you Goodie-Goodie Rainbow Whimps last time I fought you and used my predecessor's wepons!" Naruto laughed.
"But why would you...?"
"There's a very thin line between easy and boring. The game's no fun if you don't have competition." Naruto said.
Leo glared at the sadistic bastard he was starting to see as his own true, personal nemesis. So this whole thing was some twisted game to him?
"Take this guy down HARD!"
With that, the rangers summoned the Galactabeasts and fromed the Megazord.
"You're toast Psycho Green!" Leo said as the Galaxy Megazord took aim at Naruto, but he was already gone, having fled with Trakeena and Furio while the Megazord was forming.
Naruto paced back and forth in the trainning room of his ship while Trakeena and Furio had returned to the Scorpion Stinger. How was he going to get control of the playing field again? He outclassed the rangers no problem in terms of ability, that much was clear...not to mention he'd yet to use any skills taught to him by the Psycho Rangers that preceeded him other then one Psycho Dash when he'd first encountered Treacheron and use of Hammer Space to store and draw his weapons. But he was no match for a giant robot. Sure, if the Galactabeasts were normal robots, he could have simply used the ability that Psycho Yellow had taught him of transforming himself into a computer virus to infect the Zords. But the problem was, these Zords were actual living beings that became mechanical by being exposed to the power of the Transdaggers, they were organic, a computer virus could't effect them. This required study on the past ranger teams before Naruto himself was a Psycho Ranger. Surely this Zord issue wasn't a new problem. There had to be a way of dealing with it.
He checked his ship's files and cross-referenced the term 'Zords'. It was mostly junk as far as Naruto's needs went. After hours without any success, hw was ready to smash the stupid consol out of frustrtion and was about to do just that when something caught his eye.
"Huh?" he said as a new file caught his attention "Hello, hello...what is this?"
He looked over the file and a vicious smirk slithered onto his lips and he laughed. This was perfect! Sasuke's ranbow-colored allies were toast! And with this, Naruto would be able to destroy all of Terra Ventur if he had to in order to see Sasuke die!
He rushed to the cocpit of his ship and took off to where the file said where what he was going to go look for's former owner had a base, maybe there'd be a clue there.
On the file was the name and details of the subject it was on. At the top was one word.
Serpentera.
