Passion, Power and Dinosaurs

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Power rangers or the Disney corporation. This story is nothing more than a way to show my appreciation of the series.

Chapter One

Awakening Strength

Battling Zeltrax was never easy; the cyborg had exceptional fighting skills, especially with that annoying sword of his. Of course since he had "evolved" into an even more powerful form thanks to sapping the life force out of a 100-year-old tree, things were just got really sticky for Conner. Zeltrax was once black, now he was more of a red, with lots of spikes stocking out of his armor. How a cyborg was able to evolve into that thing was a curious matter for Conner. How a cyborg had been able to evolve at all, that was beyond Conner's mental capacity.

'Why can't the monsters we fight be something simple and easy to beat, like a giant pig that does nothing but eat. Or a talking pumpkin that makes stupid raps?" thought Conner to himself as he dodged another one of Zeltrax's energy blasts. Of course the energy blasts were the least of his problems, at the moment he also had worry about not harming Krista, a hostage who had been around when Zeltrax attacked.

Dr. Oliver and the others were busy at the moment, as Mesogog had chosen that exact time to unleash a tyranodrone attack on the science facility, at the local university. Something about stealing a positron generator, like he knew what that meant.

So at the moment, only the Red ranger was available to take on Zeltrax, who had come back from the dead just to exact revenge, man did that guy need a hobby. Krista, Conner's love interest, had the bad luck of being around when he attacked. So not only did Conner have to come, but he had to somehow fight Zeltrax without revealing his secret identity to Krista.

"Give it up, Zeltrax, there's no way I'm going to let you win." Said Conner as he pulled out his thundermax saber and charged.

"You really don't know when to quit do you?" asked Zeltrax as he dodged a slash from Conner's sword, before kicking him in the gut. Conner went down, hard. "I have big plans for this girl, if you thought I'm powerful now; just wait until I drain her life force. Then not even Mesogog can stop me!"

Before Conner could react, Zeltrax had already gone through a red Invisaportal, along with Krista. "Damn, I can't let him do that to Krista." Said Conner, before he turned to his communicator. "Hayley, can you find out where Zeltrax ran off to?"

"Yeah, with his new form, he has a unique energy signature, easier than finding a red sock in a drawer of white socks. I'm sending in the Raptor Rides, and transmitting the coordinates into your communicator." Replied Hayley

"Got it thanks!" said Conner, as he spotted a red raptor running towards him. "Let's go!"

Meanwhile…

'Just how many tyranodrones did Mesogog have?' wondered Ethan as he dodged a spiked claw, before kicking the tyranodrone in the gut. 'I mean one or two, yeah that's imaginable, but hundreds? Maybe even thousands? This is just ridiculous, and how does he feed them all, do they even need feeding?' Being a ranger wasn't easy, besides having to constantly deal with strange monsters, Ethan was left with a lot of unanswered questions, leaving him very frustrated as he charged into battle.

The tyranodrones kept coming, and Doctor Oliver kept beating them down, with his brachio staff. Jumping into the air, the good doctor proceeded to stab his sword into the ground causing a powerful shockwave to occur blowing away several Tyranodrones in the process.

"Drago energy arrows" shouted Trent as he used his dragosword to draw several arrows in the air before, shooting them at his enemies, defeating several of them in the process.

"Super Dino mode!" shouted Ethan and Kira, as the visors in their helmets let out a savage roar, and the white markings one their suits extended, into sharp spikes. In this form it was simple defeating the tyranodrones.

"Well that was easy." Said Kira, as she and the rest of the team powered down into their civilian forms.

"Not quite, the Positron generator isn't here, we'd better get back to the lab and think up of what to do if Mesogog uses that kind of technology." Replied Doctor Oliver, he had been stuck in his ranger form for so long, that Kira had almost forgotten how he looked like. Of course finding a way to make him demorph was anything but easy, it was downright dangerous; it was tough having to find the right energy source to power a demorphing generator.

Meanwhile…………

Conner finally found Zeltrax, climbing a huge mountain with Krista to his side; problem was he couldn't get to them. His wounds hadn't fully healed yet.

"Krista!" shouted Conner, as he ran towards the mountain.

"HELP!" screamed Krista in fright. Of course she had every right to be scared; Zeltrax was climbing the mountain with one arm, and while being held in Zeltrax's other arm was just downright scary.

"Didn't I tell you to stay away?" shouted Zeltrax as he shot a stream of parallel eye-beams at Conner causing a massive explosion behind Conner, knocking him to the ground.

"Ugh. I can't beat him." Said Conner softly; doubt ran through his mind, until he remembered Doctor Oliver's words to him.

'Passion just doesn't happen. You make it grow. There's a whole world of power in you waiting to be unlocked, beyond Super Dino, beyond Triassic, but first you have to convince yourself that you deserve it.'

Getting to his feet, Conner felt a new kind of power surging inside of him, burning his insides; it was begging to be released. "Ok, now would be a really good time for this power to come out."

Conner let out a roar of rage, as flames of yellow and orange energy erupted from inside of him. His ranger suit immediately changed into its super dino mode, before transforming into its Triassic form. The golden morpher on his wrist also transformed into a completely different form. Where there was a Tyrannosaurus, there was now a

Styracosaurus morpher, decorated with colors of red and gold.

"WHAT?" cried Zeltrax in shock.

"Battlizer activate," shouted Conner, the surge of power was incredible, as Conner was consumed by a burning yellow aura, which manifested into the form of a crimson armor, which covered his chest and shoulders while his arms and legs were given golden wrist and ankle guards. "Super Fire Power!"

Conner had never felt so much power before, it was indescribable, and every single fiber of his body knew that Zeltrax didn't stand a chance against him. Somehow in the back of his mind, he knew that Zeltrax knew this fact as well, maybe that's why he tossed Krista off the cliff. "Super Stretch Arms" shouted Conner as his hands extended an incredibly long distance before catching Krista in them and pulling her back in.

The first thing that Krista did when, she realized that she was in the arms of the red ranger was blush, a really red blush. "Are you ok?" he asked in a soft voice. Krista turned even redder.

"Yeah." She said. "I'm just a… little shaken up." She felt herself being lowered onto the ground; as she landed on her own two feet.

"Get out of here, I don't want you getting hurt." Said Conner, "I still have a job to do."

Krista nodded before running to hide behind a huge boulder as Conner charged into battle. There was no way she could miss this.

Meanwhile…

Hayley was monitoring the activities of Mesogog, of course she was really supposed to be at the Cyber Café delivering adolescent teenagers their cups of coffee and smoothes, luckily for her she owned the place, and just the other day, she had made one of her workers, a girl she was fond of named Maria manager. In the process, she had a lot more free time, and Maria got herself a bigger paycheck, it was a win-win deal.

Hearing the low rumbles, of two Raptor cycles, and two Dino ATV's Hayley knew for sure that the other rangers were back.

"Hayley, I've got some bad news." Said Tommy, as he hopped off of his ATV. "Mesogog has gotten a hold of the Positron Generator."

"Well, we'll have to deal with the problem later, he's sent the White Ranger Clone and Elsa back to Reefside University to obtain something else." Replied Hayley, as a beep on the map on her computer screen caught her eye. "My guess is that they're after that new Subatomic particle Laser that just arrived."

"No rest for the righteous." Muttered Ethan, before Kira elbowed him.

"Let's go guys." Said Tommy as he turned around and hopped back onto his ATV and sped off, the rest of the rangers followed shortly.

"He's kinda right." Said Hayley to herself as she switched to see Conner's battle with Zeltrax.

Conner's battle…

"Take this!" shouted Zeltrax, as he slammed his spear into the ground causing boulders to fall down at Conner. "What!"

Conner quickly remedied the situation by leaping from boulder to boulder, as if they were giant stairs, in the process he got to Zeltrax a lot faster. "Triassic shield and sword."

A bright red light glowed in Conner's hands, as a shield made out of a Styracosaurus's head appeared, while a short sword which resembled a tail appeared on his other hand.

Zeltrax and Conner exchanged several blows, while Krista watched in complete awe, how could he face off against such a foe, and not be scared like that? Wasn't it terrifying that this wasn't a game? That somebody could actually be killed in all of this?

Conner quickly dodged a sweep kick executed by Zeltrax by jumping up into the air, and delivering a flying kick onto him causing him to go flying off the cliff. Conner immediately jumped off after him. "Super stretch kick!" Conner's leg extended an incredibly long distance before driving itself into Zeltrax's belly and driving him straight into the ground with bone-crushing force, before extending back to it's normal length.

Zeltrax struggled to stand; he hadn't even taken this much damage when he fought Tommy Oliver. "Ugh."

"I'm not done with you yet!" shouted Conner as his shield and sword rolled together, before erupting into flames , a string of flames extended into Conner's hands. "Dragon Yo-Yo!" The shield and sword had combined to become a mace as Conner used it to repeatedly pound on Zeltrax.

"Time to finish this." Said Conner, as a pair of cannons appeared on each side of his shoulders, two handles extended down from the barrel of the cannons. "Triassic Mega Cannons. Battle Blast!"

A parallel stream of red energy shot out from the cannons hitting Zeltrax dead on as the cyborg toppled over, before reverting back into his normal form. Panting Zeltrax stood up refusing to give up. "T-This isn't over. Tell the Black Ranger that!" he said before disappearing into a red invisaportal.

Once Zeltrax had gone, Conner nearly toppled over himself. "Guess I over exerted myself. " he muttered. "Power down!" A faint glow covered Conner before he returned to his civilian form.

Unknown to Conner, Krista was till watching him; she let out a soft gasp as she saw him return to his civilian form. "Conner?" she asked in shock, no way this could be the same dense and insensitive jock who only pretended he cared, just so he could get a date with her. There was just no way. The guy who pretended to be interested in doing the right thing just so he could go on a date with her, and the red ranger who just saved her lifer were one and the same? "I don't believe it." She whispered softly.

A/N: Hope you like it, it's not over yet, and didn't I tell you that it was going to be a rare pairing?