Disclaimer: I do not, have not, and will not have anything to do with Power Rangers officially. This is as close as I am going to get, so that means everything here except for the children and their parents belong to Saban and/or Disney.

Author's Note: I am aware that Wes and Jen never kissed at the end of Time Force (A fact that I was cursing the writers to hell for some time afterwards.) But for the sake of argument, let's just pretend they did.

The Never Ending Cycle

By Wiffyboy2003

Chapter 4: Amongst Yourselves

"Having fun, Wes," the woman in Wes Collins' arms asked as the two of them gazed out at the city lights from the balcony of a clock tower?

"Any time I am with you is a fun time babe," Wes replied, not taking his eyes from the beautiful sight before his eyes.

"How many times have I asked you not to call me that? You know how much it annoys me," the woman stated, not meaning a word, and Wes knew hat all to well.

"I say for the very reason that I know it doesn't annoy you, babe" Wes replied, not able to look away from his wife.

Twisting her head to get a look at her husband, Jen Collins gave birth to the same smile that Wes had seen for years, but still makes him breathless every time he sees it.

"You are just the biggest pain. You know that right," Jen said, trying to be very serious, but her smile blowing her cover.

"I know," he shot back, "But, I know that you love me for it, so I won't stop being a big pain until five years after I am put into the ground."

"Five years," Jen asked with a baffled look on her face? "Why five years after?"

"Because, when I die, which I don't plan on doing any time soon," Wes quickly put in after seeing his wife with the 'don't say that' look, "You and the family will have to pay for funeral arrangements, the caterers, the guest list, the-"Wes was cut off by the fact of Jen's lips being pressed to his. After mentally shaking the shock off, Wes started to reciprocate.

"Let us get off the topic of death and money," Jen said after breaking the kiss, "and let's go do something a little more exciting."

"Like what," an excited Wes asked, giving a guess to what she had in mind?

"Well," Jen answered, moving her fingers up to her chin, rubbing it as if she was thinking of something, "I was thinking that we do that thing that we did the night of the eighteenth, you know when we-".

"Yes I remember," Wes quickly cut in, not wanting to hear what it was, but getting really excited at redoing it.

"So what do you think," Jen asked, rearranging herself so that she was straddling her husband, knowing full what his answer was either going to be yes or no, and if it wound up being no then Jen would be forced to get a divorce on the count of Wes being gay.

Luckily for both of them the answer was "Yes." Reuniting their lips again, Wes picked Jen up from his lap and began to carry her up the clock tower stairs. Jen had to wrap her legs around Wes to stop from falling, a move that neither of them had a problem with.

The two moved toward their bed, Jen detaching from Wes and falling flat on her back. With a smile, Wes began to slip his red t-shirt over his head. When it was fully removed, Wes was shocked to see that Jen was in the same state of dress as he was; only she had a white cotton bra on and he has bare from the waist up.

"Wow, I knew you moved fast, but not that fast," was all he could say as he climbed in to bed next to his wife.

"Oh, honey, you don't now how fast I can be," was all she said as she brought her lips to Wes' once again.

They lied their caught up in each other. When Wes finally broke off, Jen whimpered.

'God, I love her,' was all he thought as he sought to stop her whimpering by kissing down her neck.

"Eemm, god, Wes that feels so good. Wes, Wes, Wes, Wes," Jen chanted over and over again.

Just then, when he was really getting into it, Wes heard a mighty crack from above.

Whipping his head upwards, Wes saw that the roof to their home/clock tower had been completely removed. The sky above was covered in red.

"What's going on Wes," Jen said from behind him, fear clear in her voice.

"I don't know, but don't worry," Wes said, smiling at his wife, trying to calm her down. "Everything will be fine."

It seemed to have worked; Jen looked less frightened then she had before. Then her face changed again to complete horror.

"Wes, watch out," she shouted, pointing behind Wes!

Turning around, Wes had enough time to scream as a giant black hand completely drenched him in darkness.

Wes opened his eyes and instantly noticed 2 things: 1) Jen was no where in sight. 2) He wasn't drenched in darkness but was in some sort of light filled box.

"Jen," Wes whispered, fully waking up from his mild coma, sweat dripping all over his forehead.

"Sorry friend, no women are here," a familiar voice said from behind him.

Wes turned toward the voice and found, "Aurico?"

"Yes, my friend, it is me. Long time no see huh. Although, I wish it were under better circumstances," the Auqitarian finished, extending his hand forward to help his friend up.

Accepting the offer, Wes found himself on his two feet.

"Where are we," Wes inquired the Alien Ranger?

"We are not quiet sure. Psycho Red seemed to have brought us here in a way so we could not see where here is," Aurico answered, hoping to have helped his friend.

"We, us, who else is here," an even more confused Wes asked.

"Look behind you," Eric's voice shot out.

Turning around, Wes found himself looking at his fellow former Red Rangers.

"Andros, Leo, TJ, your all here too," the Time Force Ranger asked, shock and confusion all present in his voice at the surprise of seeing these three behind him, along with Eric, himself, and Aurico.

"Yeah, he got all of us as well," Leo replied with a look of disinterest, almost as if he was expecting Wes' arrival.

"What's going on you guy's; what are we doing here," Wes demanded from his fellow prisoners.

"We don't know what we are here for," TJ spoke up, in a harsh tone. Starting up again, but in a softer voice this time, he continued, "But we do know who it is."

"Who"?

"Psycho Red," Andros said as he started the explanation. "When my team was the team of the time, our enemy, Astronama," TJ gave him a look, knowing that he said Astronama and not Karone on purpose, "made five robotic warriors to try and destroy us; One for each ranger except Zhane, the Silver Ranger." Wes was about to interrupt, but Eric elbowed him in the ribs to shut him up.

"We destroyed each one, and when they returned as ghost's and then found a way to become solid again, myself and he other Space Rangers turned them into card keys, thinking we would never see them again."

'They were wrong," Leo interrupted Andros, clearly wanting to continue the story.

"The five of them were once again restored by my team's enemies a year later. With the help of Andros and the other space rangers, we were able to destroy three of them. Two survived: Psycho Pink and Psycho Red.

"Wait, if Psycho Pink survived as well, does that mean that she is going around collecting pink rangers," a worried Wes asked, thinking that this would be the first time in nearly four years he was happy that Jen went back to the year 3001.

Leo didn't say anything. He cracked the knuckles in his fists and gritted his teeth, as if what happened then still pissed him off years later.

"What happened," Aurico asked? Clearly he didn't know what happened either.

TJ clasped his hand on Leo's shoulder and said, "I'll tell the rest of the story if you can't."

Leo shook his head, put his hand on top of TJ's, silently thanking for the offer, and lifted it off.

Leo continued from Wes' question, "No Wes, Psycho Pink is not collecting pink rangers. She was eventually destroyed. We didn't know that Psycho Red survived, and I never thought of him or any of the Psycho's except Psycho Pink."

"Why that one," Aurico asked; Wes wanted to know as well? "I mean, I would have thought that you would remember the one that was assigned to destroy you, not the pink."

"Because, after she survived our first attack on Terra Venture, Psycho Pink found this super strong sword; the pink ranger on my team and the pink space ranger, my wife Kendrix and TJ's wife Cassie, went after her," Leo stopped, chocking up at the part that still sent him to sleep crying some nights.

Seeing that he couldn't continue, TJ stepped up to the bat to finish up.

"Cassie and Kendrix found Psycho pink just as she found the Savage Sword, the weapon that she was after. Psycho Pink defeated the two pink rangers, forced Cassie to demorph and lose her morpher. Psycho Pink ran the sword through the morpher, drawing its energy into the sword for more power."

TJ stopped and tried to remember exactly what happened next and how to tell it to these other rangers who weren't their. "Psycho Pink grew, but the other Galaxy Rangers and Space Rangers were there to destroy her. But Cassie's powers were dying, thus she was dying. Kendrix," TJ stopped and looked at Leo, as if asking for permission. He then looked back to Wes and Aurico who wanted to know what happened and were looking at him like kindergartner's would look at a teacher telling a really good story. Eric was slouched in the corner, not looking at any of them, but TJ could tell he was listening by the fact that ear was tilting his ear in hi direction.

"Kendrix," TJ continued, "died to give Cassie her powers and her life back. That, Eric," TJ said his louder then needed in order to get his attention in case he wasn't listening, is why Leo here hates Psycho Pink more then Red; Pink killed the woman he loved."

Wes nodded his head, finally understanding why Leo was acting the way he was.

"I am guessing," Eric said, the first thing said by him since Wes woke up, showing that he was paying attention, "That you said that she was your wife, Leo, and that we met her once means she came back to life?"

Leo just nodded his head, not wanting to talk about this any more.

"That still doesn't answer my other question," Wes said, wanting to get off the topic for Leo's sake. "What are we doing here?"

"Like I said before, Wes, we don't know," Andros answered with no sign of annoyance in his voice. "All we do know is that Psycho Red is alive once again, in a way that we don't know either, and that he is collecting Red Rangers for reasons we don't know."

"We also know," Aurico added, "is that he is extremely powerful and that we need to be careful around him. We do not know what else he is capable of."

All the other rangers, including Eric, who was cradling his bandaged hand, nodded in agreement with the aquitarian.

While the rangers were talking, they didn't see Psycho Red spying on them from the entrance of the cave the rangers was trapped in.

"Fools," Psycho Red muttered, looking with disgust at his captives. "They think their unity and head nodding will keep them from being part of my plan. Talk amongst yourselves as long as you want, rangers, but you will never find out or stop my plan."

Turning away from the caves entrance, Psycho Red began walking down one of his tunnels.

"It will only be a matter of time before I have all of them in my grasp. Once I do I shall be able to move onto Phase Two. And won't that be lovely," he cackled, bursting into insane laughter.

Entering his chambers, Psycho Red walked over to a machine in one of the corners of the room.

Fiddling around with the control panel, Psycho red flipped the final lever and a sort of doorway opened next to him. He gazed in awe at the thing that would be his link to the seventh and hardest to reach Red Ranger.

A time portal.

"Look out, 30th century, Psycho Red is coming and I am going to turn your get what I am after."

With that said, Psycho Red jumped through the portal and closer to achieving his goal.

This chapter was about setting up for the next chapter and to let you know how the rangers are doing in the situation they are in. It is pretty obvious who Psycho red is going after, so, thanks for the kind word's and advice and TTFN