Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers and never will have anything professionally to do with it.

The Never Ending Cycle

By Wiffyboy2003

Chapter Six: Trying to Help

Buildings and people were blurs in the eyes of all the passengers on the Reefside Charter Bus. It was a rather rare time for the teenagers and adults to see a city at peace and not under any sort of attack. Being in Angel Grove and not Reefside helped them to see what a town that was home to teams of Power Rangers could look like after the evil was fully gone. A lot of the people weren't paying attention to anything on the other side of the metal wall. To them if you've seen one tree then you've seen them all.

But to Conner Mcknight, it was something he couldn't look away from. As the leader of the Dino Thunder team, in battle any way, he would usually look at a peace of land as either a place where future destruction will take place, or where evil was destroyed. But seeing another city and its beautiful parks gave him another perspective.

Conner was cut off from his from his thoughts by their teacher making an announcement.

"I hope you all have enjoyed your visit to Angel Groves Museum of Prehistoric Life," Dr. Tommy Oliver said, a little louder then usual as he tried to get control of his class. "I know I have."

Conner laughed silently at his teachers words. Of course he would enjoy the visit, he was from Angel Grove.

"I hope all of you had remembered to pick out a dinosaur for your project like I told you to," Dr. Oliver reminded any one who forgot. "If you haven't, you must see me before you go home today and I will assign you one of the ones that have not been picked."

"Can I get the pterodactyl," one of the forgetful students in the back asked.

"Sorry, Homer, but the pterodactyl has already been selected by Kira," Dr. Oliver gestured to the girl in the seat next to him in a yellow and black sleeveless shirt and white baggy jeans. "You should have gotten to it before she did Homer. Now, like I said before, come to me before you go home to be assigned a dinosaur. End of lecture." Sitting down, Tommy heard his students slowly grow louder in volume.

"Nice job controlling the mob, Dr. O," a black boy in a blue jean jacket and a blue shirt commented.

"Thanks Ethan," Tommy said, not really buying his sucking up.

"And have I told you how great you are dressed today? Your choice of black top and brown jacket was clearly the right choice as you look like a million sucks," Ethan continued, hoping his teacher was buying it.

"Nice try, Ethan," his friend next to him added, "but you will have to talk with him at the end of class just like everyone else who forgot the assignment dose."

"Trent's right, Ethan," Tommy agreed with the White Ranger. "You should have gotten to the Triceratops first, like I know you want, because Devin has it."

"I did get to it first," Ethan whined, "I just didn't ask for it first."

"Theirs your problem," Conner added in to the conversation. "I saw you at the skeleton and you were showing off to the paleontologist your quote-unquote knowledge of the triceratops."

"Oh, okay mister wise guy," Ethan shot back, "I suppose you were just proper on the assignment and told Dr. O before hand you wanted the T-Rex, and didn't brag."

"Actually he did," Tommy said, shutting Ethan up as he showed Ethan his clip board with the words 'Conner Mcknight' with 'Tyrannosaurs' right next to it.

"Damn," was all Ethan could say.

Laughing at his friend, Conner was about to turn his attention back to the city when he got a good look at Kira. She was busy talking to Dr. O at the moment, so he knew she couldn't see him, but with her hair tucked behind her ear and her face clear of any marks, Conner could clearly see her. And at the moment, only one word was flashing in his mind, "Wow."

"Wow what," Trent's voice interrupted his thoughts?

"What," Conner asked, looking at his friend, a little worried? He knew perfectly well that Trent had a thing for Kira, and the risk of him finding out that he also had the same thing for her too was something that Conner didn't want to think about. Because not only might the news ruin their friendship, but it could cause a rift in the team that he did not want to think about.

"You said wow, and I asked what you were wowing about," a curious Trent asked.

"Oh it was, um, ah, nothing. It was just a," 'think Conner, think,' "a big bird in a tree. That's, right, a big bird in a tree," Conner said, hoping his friend would buy it.

Thankfully for him, Trent turned his head back to the front, although it was obvious he didn't believe a word Conner had said.

'Phew, that was close,' a relived Conner thought, turning his head back. He got one more good look at Kira and all of her beauty before looking out the window; he didn't want to start up what happened with Trent again.

Meanwhile, at Psycho Red's base, a confused Alex finally got his bearings. Having fallen through Psycho Red's time Portal hidden in his chrono morpher, Alex no had no clue where he was. He had a pretty good guess though. Psycho Red had mentioned going to the 21st century, so that was a pretty logical guess.

Another thing that Psycho Red had said re-entered his mind. He said that he was collecting Red Rangers, and one of the ones he already has was, "Wes."

Looking around the room, Alex discovered that he was in some sort of cave. And a hand built one, at that, given the unnatural indentations in the walls, which Alex could only guess were made from laser blasts. On one of the walls were many machines, all of which Alex had no clue as to how to use them or what they were for.

"V-1!"

Still morphed, Alex touched one of the buttons on his chrono morpher and summoned his weapon into his hands. Taking aim at the machines, Alex opened fire at them. The results were not good; their seemed to be some sort of force field, which deflected the shots all over the place.

The explosions on the ceiling caused pieces of the rock to fall down. Alex dived away from harm and certain death with ease. The crumbled stone slammed home on the ground and stayed their.

"That was close and loud," Alex said to no one but himself. He feared that the noise had alerted whatever lived here of his presence.

Luckily for him, and a few prisoners, he was heard loud and clear. All of the caged Red Rangers heard the sound and looked in the direction of the noise.

"What was that," Eric asked, not really expecting an answer.

"I don't know," TJ replied, "but do we want to find out?"

"What ever it was, it can either mean Psycho Red is using the cave as target practice, or some one is here to save us," a hopeful Andros said.

"Let's hope it's the latter and not the former," Wes joked.

"Why don't we find out, gentlemen," Aurico suggested.

Looking at Leo, Aurico gave him a nod of approval, than turned to Andros, he nodded again.

"He's right," the Red Space Ranger agreed. "We can take the risk. Let it rip Leo." Andros told his successor, giving his okay.

Nodding Andros back, Leo turned to Wes on his left and said, "Here goes nothing." Turning his head to the cave entrance, Leo began to holler. "Hey, down their!"

Just as Alex was about to leave the main chambers, he heard Leo's distress call. Turning swiftly toward where he belived the voice was coming from, Alex shouted back, "Who's their?"

"That voice sounds very familiar," Wes whispered, but only Eric was able to hear him.

Replying back, Leo shouted, "I am Leo Corbett. My friends and I are being held prisoner by a robot, and we can't get free! Will you help us?"

"Let me guess, this robot is half black and half red and carry a saber," Alex asked the voice?!

Leo was silent a few seconds before he asked, "Are you a Red Ranger?"

Alex was stunned at the question, but it caused him to start moving toward the Leo. "Yes, I am! And I am going to take a wild guess and say that you and your friends are rangers to!"

"You would be right," Leo continued, happy that they had someone who could undoubtedly free them.

It wasn't long before Alex found his way through Psycho Red's tunnels and found himself in his prison ward.

"Oh my god," a very familiar voice hit Alex's voice as he came into view of the prisoners, "Alex?"

"Wes," Alex asked, very confused at the moment. Pressing a button on his morpher, Alex demorphed and ran over to the cage.

"Holy crap, Wes," TJ gasped at the almost identical men in front of him. "The two of you look exactly alike, except for your hair."

Wes just glared at TJ and shot back, "Don't' remind me." Turning back to the man on the other side of the wall, Wes continued. "I was constantly reminded by Jen for the first half of our mission how different we were, despite how much we looked alike."

"Well its not like it matters now, does it Wes," Alex spat at his ancestor. "I mean, after all, she doesn't say your name now in any more then a wish and a memory."

"Oh I bet your just loving that I am trapped like this, because you know that if I weren't, I would kick your ass," Wes said, smiling at the thought that he had just knocked his 'perfect' descendent down a few pegs.

"You know what, Wesley, I am loving this. Because I now I get to see you pay for stealing Jen away from me," Alex shot back, not about to let Wes win.

"I didn't-" but was interrupted by Eric. "Can you guys do this later!? Right now we need to get out of here before that crazy tin can gets back!"

Glaring at one another while contemplating Eric's words, Wes finally admitted defeat for now, "He's right. We have been stuck here to long, and we need to get out of here, get our morpher's, and get back to our planets and family's. Will you help us, Alex?"

Looking at the rest of the hopeful people and aliens in the cage, Alex finally nodded, "Yes I will help you."

Preparing to morph, Alex brought his hands together and shouted "Time for Time Force!" But as he was about to press the morph button, a hand shot from behind and ripped off the morpher from Alex's wrist.

"What the," turning around, Alex found himself thrown against the cage wall. He felt six bodies press up against the wall, wanting to help him but unable. Opening his eyes, Alex found himself looking at what could only be described as a manikin painted red from head to toe.

"What are you," Andros asked the being?

The thing didn't respond, but instead pressed a button on the table panel next to him. Instantly Alex knew he shouldn't be up against the wall. He found himself sinking inwards, almost as if the wall was trying to swallow him whole.

"What's going on? What's happening," Alex squirmed as he got sucked deeper in the wall. But, like quicksand, struggling seemed to make him sink faster until he was fully inside the cage.

He felt TJ and Aurico at his side, lifting him onto his feet.

"What the hell just happened," Alex asked anyone who could answer.

The red manikin didn't answer, but instead walked, however stiff his legs were, to the cabinet where the morpher's were being held. Opening the doors, the now seven captured rangers saw that eight of the eighteen holes had already been filled (Author Note: I know I said 19 in chapter 2, but I miss counted the morphing objects by one and meant 18). Placing Alex's morpher between TJ's turbo key and Aurico's morphing button, the manikin closed the cabinet doors and walked out of the cave.

"That must be Psycho Red's servant," Leo said as he watched it hobble off.

"Either that," Eric added, "or that is one of his foot soldiers."

"It's a possibility," Andros agreed, "but at the moment lets worry about how we are going to get out of here and not Psycho Red's freaks."

TJ nodded in agreement and looked at Wes and Alex, and asked them, "Do you think that the two of you will be able to work together long enough to get out of here?"

The two Red Time Force Rangers just looked at each other. Not saying anything or looking at anyone, the two of them stuck their hands out and briefly did what Eric would call shake hands.

"That's good enough for now I guess," Andros nodded at the exchanging of mild trust. "Now let's get some rest and well start planning tomorrow."

Laying down where he was, Andros closed his eyes to the sound of feet shuffling and people getting prepared to sleep. All this was happening, and Andros could only think of his family. Ashley and Henry must be so scared and worried. 'Don't worry, guys,' Andros thought. 'I'll be home soon, I promise.'

The End of chapter six. Sorry that it was so short, but I want to save the next capture or captures for next time and give it there own chapter. The Dino Thunder characters in the beginning will have to do with next time so, I just wanted to introduce them now and get it over with. Thank you so much for all of your kind words and praise. I don't deserve them but I thank you anyway. TTFN till next time.