Disclaimer- Same as always, I don't own Power Rangers, so stop asking. The only thing I own is Major Hamen

The Never Ending Cycle

By Wiffyboy2003

Out of Time

Low crime days are days of confusion at Time Force Police Agencies. The men and women never know weather or not to be grateful that they don't have to risk their lives that day or if they should be afraid that the criminals are planning something.

At the moment, Alex Collins didn't care. He was to busy trying to solve a problem of his. If he couldn't, it could be disastrous. Someone, or thing, had opened a time portal to this century. He had no idea what it was, seeing as Time Force technology couldn't tell them what enters or exits the year.

At the moment, he had no idea where the being had gone to, and that was a problem.

"This is not good," Alex said to nobody in particular.

"What isn't, Commander Collins," a voice from his doorway enquired.

Alex quickly spun around the posture that all Time Force trainees had been tought when ever meeting a commanding officer. And there was none more higher up the Major Hamen.

"Stand down, soldier," Hamen ordered Alex. He removed himself from his salute and extended his hand for the commanding officer to shake.

"What do I pay this visit to, Major," Alex asked carefully; if some one, even him, were to insult the Major, that person could find himself without a job.

"Well, Commander, I thought it would be appropriate for me to come down and see how you all are doing here at Time Force, and now it is your turn to face my wrath," Major Hamen answered with complete seriousness in his voice that it caused Alex to actually be afraid of his commanding officer.

"I'm kidding, son," the Major laughed, slapping Alex on the back as a sign of playfulness. "You really need to lighten up, Collins."

"Yes sir, very funny. And I will keep that in mind, sir," Alex remarked, trying to calm himself down.

"Good, now, what is it that had you so crestfallen when I entered the room," Hamen asked his commander?

"Oh, that sir, that was nothing, just a minor glitch," Alex lied, trying to dust the subject under the carpet and forget about it.

"Alex, don't lie to me. I want you to tell me what is going on, and why you are trying to hide it from me," Major Hamen stated, seriousness in his voice that Alex knew he couldn't have faked.

"Yes sir," Alex admitted to his defeat and stepped away from the table, allowing Hamen to view the virtual map of the city, and the red dot he had been watching.

"What is this, red blip on the screen, solider," the Major asked, confusion and worriment in his voice.

"This," Alex pointed to the dot, "is a thing or person who has entered our year through a time portal."

"A time portal," the Major shouted! "It traveled through time." Seeing Alex's upset face and head slightly nodding, Major Hamen was the one who was put into fear. "How did he get here?"

"I don't know," Alex admitted, "all I do know is that he appeared here not more then ten minutes ago and has been coming in this direction the whole time."

"Here, why here; and who in the past knows about Time Force and Time Travel," Hamen asked, none of his questions being answered with enough good news to satisfy him.

"Not many, sir, but, I do know of two" Alex said hoping to help his commander.

Looking at Alex as if he had just grown another head, Hamen said, "You don't mean the two Time Rangers from the 21st century?"

"I do," Alex answered.

"That's absurd, Alex. I know that you don't care for him for claiming Captain Scott's," Jen had been promoted to captain of Time Force a couple years after her mission in the past after Captain Logan retired, "heart while their, but do you honestly believe that Wesley Collins would jeopardize the time line after all he did to preserve it," the Major inquired, extremely skeptical.

After a couple of seconds, of silence, Alex lowered his head in defeat. "No, he wouldn't. He knows better."

"Good, now," he said, turning his head back to the holo-table, "lets get back on task."

Hamen was stopped from going back to the task, as the wall opposite of the two had just exploded inwards. The table was sent flying through the air, with concrete, glass, and dust, as he and Alex were shot through the open door, the Major landing on top of Alex.

Screaming of people all around and the wail of the emergency sirens covered Alex's voice as he shouted "What the hell just happened." No one answered him; At least no one human.

"I just happened," a robotic evil voice answered.

A confused Alex and Major Hamen watched as Time Force officers gathered in front of them forming a human wall. Grabbing onto on of the officers arm, Alex whispered, "Get the Major out of here, right now." Letting go, the officer nodded and went over to Hamen and said, "Lets get out of here, sir, and let the officers here do their jobs."

"Why go," the voice asked sinisterly from the other side of the smoke and dust. "The fun is just about to begin, and I don't want any of you to miss out on the excitement."

Not a second later and a laser fire emerged from the dust, and hit the officer trying very hard to get Hamen to join him; he fell dead with a hole in his chest.

The other Time Force officers had opened fire with their chrono blasters and never saw or heard their partner hit the ground. After what seemed to be hundreds of rounds of fire, the Time force officers all stopped to wait.

"Did we get him," one of them, Alex couldn't tell through the smoke, asked?

"I don't know," another responded.

"Why doesn't some one check," Major Hamen suggested, stepping to Alex's side. Alex was about to suggest he go and wait, when a mighty boom sounded off. LAex jumped at the Major, pushing him into a room that had become empty of all people after the first attack.

When the explosion subsided, Alex opened his eyes and saw that the Major had passed out from the landing. When he thought it was safe, Alex slowly raised his head to inspect the damage. The sight he saw caused him to nearly retch.

All of the Time Force officers that remained in the hallway were now just smoking and burnt skeletons and flesh. Every last one of them was dead.

"Now that's better," a mechanical and malevolent voice hissed from the remains of Alex's office. Walking through the smoke, Alex got a better look of the thing who had just ended so many lives.

At first, Alex thought that he was some sort of human, but he could see clearly as he moved closer intruder, that he was as sure a robot the day was long. Red and black covering him, the android was in clear sight of the crowd, armed only with a saber.

"Who are you," Alex shouted, trying to take control of the situation as best he could? "What do you want?"

"I am Psycho Red, and I am here for you, Alex Collins," Psycho Red said, answering Alex's questions with no comment or remark, which Alex found odd.

"Why me, robot; what do you want me for?"

"Need, Collins; not want, need," Psycho Red corrected. "And I need you because you once were the Red Time Force Ranger. And that means you must come with me." He ended his explanation by putting his hand behind his back and pulling out a familiar velvet-red box.

Alex stood attentive, looking at the object in the intruder's hand. He grabbed the chrono blaster from the fallen soldiers hand next to him. Raising it up to eye level, Alex shouted to Psycho Red, "Put down the object and your weapon, Psycho Red, and surrender peacefully. If you don't we will have no choice but to open fire."

"But Alex, don't you want to see what it is I have in my box," Psycho Red taunted, tightening his grip on his saber. "After all, it is yours."

"Mine," Alex questioned, lowering his weapon slightly? It suddenly hit Alex why the box looked so familiar; "My morpher."

"This lovely little object," Psycho Red started, getting the attention back on him, and who had just removed the Red Chrono Morpher from the box, "is, as you know, the morpher worn by Wesley Collins," Psycho Red explained to those who could see him through security cameras and TV cameras. "When the other for Time Force rangers returned to this century after capturing Ransik, Wes continued to use his morpher for Silver Guardians related instances. When he grew older and retired, he put away his morpher for good. But he didn't get rid of it. No, what he did was write a message to his descendents saying that that it should not be opened until the year 3001, after an important mission had been finished. Only then could the rightful heir open it and use the powers that laid inside."

"But I have seen no need to use it before," Alex said after Psycho Red finished. "That is why I never told anyone about. But I believe I will use it now once I have it."

"You want it, Red Ranger, you can have it." Psycho red was about to throw the morpher, but he was cut off by a sharp and powerful double blast to his back, sending him falling forward.

"Not so fast, criminal," a deep, commanding female voice shouted from the broken wall behind Psycho Red. All eyes were on the hole as two spandex clad figures jumped through. One was a male in blue with two identical sabers in his hand. The other was a female in pink with a white cannon in her hands, pointed at Psycho Red's head.

"Jen, Lucas," a surprised and shocked Alex exclaimed, "it's about time."

"We got here as fast as we could Alex," Lucas said, not moving his sabers from Psycho Red's chest.

"Alex, were here."

Alex turned his head toward the direction of the voice and couldn't help but smile as he saw the two remaining Time Force Rangers running toward him. "Trip, Katie, am I ever glad to see you."

"Don't worry Alex," Katie said, placing her hand on Alex's arm for comfort "We are here now and we will make this guy pay for what he just did. Isn't that right Trip," Katie asked her friend to her right.

"Right Katie, lets go," that said, Trip ran into the office and to join his friends in holing the cyborg.

"Right behind you," Alex said with confidence. Alex looked at Katie, nodded, and ran through the door.

Psycho Red was still on his knees with a V-weapon at his head and chrona sabers at his back. His Psylo Saber was long forgotten on the ground.

"Alright Jen," Alex congratulated the Time Force captain, "Good job."

Hearing the name of the Pink Time Force Ranger, Psycho Red couldn't keep himself from speaking. "Jen," he said, getting the full attention of the five people in the room. "Jen Scotts."

"How do you know my name," Jen asked, the grip on the weapon in her hands not loosening.

"So you are her. Well this is just too good to be true."

"What is that," Lucas asked, his patience running thin?

"You are all the other Red Time Ranger talks about in his cage, when he isn't planning to escape that is," Psycho Red said, with what would have been accompanied by a smile if his face wasn't permanent at the look of shock and the sudden stillness of her body.

"What are you talking about," Trip asked?

"You aren't talking about-," Alex started before Jen cut him off by saying, "Wes."

"Yes, Wes. Last time I checked on him, he was waken from a dream screaming your name," Psycho Red bragged about his captive.

"What have you done with him," Jen demanded, hatred for her enemy and fear for Wes all boiling up inside of her.

"Not just him, my dear, but the Quantum Ranger, the Red Turbo Ranger, and a whole bunch of other Red Rangers, all of whom are in my position, waiting for the moment I make my plans clear," the cyborg laughed, taking great pleasure from what he was saying.

The rangers were stunned to say the least. This creature had killed dozens of their Time Force companions in this century and was collecting Red Rangers in the 21st, Wes and Eric included. Taking this opportune moment of distraction, Psycho Red raised his hands to Jen and Lucas' chest and fired a laser blast.

"Aaahhh," the two shouted as they were thrown back against the wall. Trip and Katie got over their initial shock and charged Psycho Red, Chrono Sabers out and ready. The two of them slashed at him, striking on the mark.

Lucas was the first of the two down rangers to get to their feet, and after making sure Jen was alright, leapt into the fight. Chrono Saber's separated and ready, Lucas attacked in a V formation. Psycho Red blocked one of the sabers with his wrist, but was hit with the other. Jen was once again on her feet, V-weapon in her hand as she charged her enemy. Firing a couple shots at Psycho Red, Jen got up close and personal in the time it took him to dodge them all. She dropped her weapon and brought her hand back to slam him with. Getting the full blunt of the hit, Psycho Red shot back, dodged a double attack from Lucas and Trip, shot a hand blast toward Katie, and side kicked a charging Alex.

Alex was thrown back, and being the only one not morphed, it hurt a hell of a lot more then it usually would have. This was getting out of control. It was obvious to him that they were losing. Every attack launched was blocked, returned, or taken the blunt of; Seeing Trip fire five rounds from his V-3 and Psycho Red just stand their and take it all just proved his theory.

"We can't take much more of this," Alex admitted to himself, not knowing if anyone could here him. He was about to get back in the fight, he spotted something on the ground near him. It was his Wes' morpher; his morpher. It took him awhile for him to snap out of his trance, but when he did, he knew whet he had to do.

"V-Weapons," the four Time Force rangers called out their four cannons, firing from all sides of Psycho Red. He just stretched his arms out too his sides, spun around and sent the four attacks right back to where they came from.

Seeing his friends collapse to the ground was the last straw for Alex. Diving for the morpher, Alex straightened up right and strapped it around his wrist. Looking at the morpher and then to the battle, Alex shouted, "Hey, Rust Bucket," getting Psycho Red and the rangers attention. "I hope you can deal with five rangers instead of four. Time for Time Force," Alex shouted, bringing his finger to his access button!

"Yes!"

"Alright!"

"Just what I wanted," Psycho Red said, excitement and joy in his voice instead of the fear and worriment the rangers anticipated.

"Why are you cheering," Trip asked, "Were going to beat you now."

"I wouldn't count on it," Psycho Red responded. "Take a look for your self."

He was right, they found out soon enough as though Alex did morph, but behind him a time portal opened up.

"What's going on," Alex asked, not having any clue what just happened.

"My time portal to the 21st century has opened up. I installed it into your morpher, Alex, so I wouldn't have any problem at all getting home. And now all I need to do is get you into the portal and I am finished with this century."

"What," Alex gasped?

"That's right, now get in," Psycho Red shouted as he hand blasted Alex at his feet, knocking him backwards into the portal.

"Oh no, nooo," Alex hollered, falling in the hole!

"Alex, no", Jen shouted after her ex-fiancé. The four Time Force Rangers raced toward the portal, but were blasted off their feet by Psycho Red.

"You're not going anywhere, rangers," Psycho Red said, pointing at the fallen rangers.

"You won't get away with this, Psycho Red," Katie confidently said, rising to her feet along with the other three. "Let's get him."

Rushing forward, the rangers held their Chrono Sabers out front. Psycho Red just shook his head mumbling to himself, "Fools." He raised his hand toward his Psylo Saber and it flew to him, hilt in hand. He brought it behind him and shouted, "Psylo Saber Whip." Bringing his weapon forward, the tip of it shot off on an energy chain and hit each of the rangers, forcing them to dimorph and knocking them out.

"Well, Time Rangers, it's been fun, but I've got to time fly," waving a sarcastic goodbye, Psycho Red entered the portal, which closed behind him, leaving the rangers unconscious on the ground, dried blood and dirt covering their bodies.

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