3 stories in one week, WOOT!

Just don't expect this, I'll probably forget about this account in a month and everyone will be like "who was that girl? where did she come from? where did she go? and why did she suck so much?" LOL! your easiest and hardest critic is yourself! BUT ENOUGH WITH PHILOSOPHY!

STORY TIME! :)

-grungekitty

Chapter 1
waking and confusion

Nova was asleep, that much she could tell. She also thought she was in a healing tank, she was probably in the sick bay. Of course! there was probably a fight, she was probably injured, Gibson was probably working on getting her better, and SPRX was probably by her side, maybe the rest of the team, depending on how badly she was hurt.

how bad WAS she hurt?

She tried to remember the fight...

BANG! someone hit her on the head, she turned and saw SPRX with his magnets extended, which he had just used to hit her head hard enough to leave one nasty dent

wait, WHAT? SPRX? No way!

Nova fought harder to remember

WHACK! Chrio just lighting kicked her. she flew across the room.

Wait Chiro? this CAN'T be right!

she was on the ground as she watched Antauri lunge at her, then black.

what's going on? did the hyper force turn evil? Were they being controlled? Did SHE turn evil and not remember? this is stupid! She was going to open her eyes and see the hyper force all looking at her with worried faces, ready to explain what had happened.

Nova had to wait a while before she was well enough to get her eyes open though, so she let herself find sleep again.

When she felt well enough, she slowly opened her eyes, and was almost shocked enough to faint!

Instead of a focused Gibson and a worried SPRX in the sick bay of the super robot, she saw a concerned Mandarin in some lab she had never seen before.

He looked relieved, shocked, and scarred all at the same time, mostly relieved though. When he noticed her eyes open, He quickly drained the tank and let Nova out.

"Mandarin?" Nova thought "Maybe I DID turn evil. Whatever! I'm better now! and I'm gonna beat the ever loving monkey parts out of him for turning me evil! even if it WAS temporary."

"What. Am. I. Doing. Here." She managed through clenched teeth, before she beat him to bits, she needed answers.

"Let me start out by saying that no, I'm not good, and no, you're not evil. At least, as far as I can tell." Mandarin spat back out at her.

This surprised Nova, she hadn't even considered that Mandarin could have gone good.

"*sigh* I couldn't just leave you there. now, can you shed some light on the question of 'WHY ON EARTH WAS THE HYPER FORCE ATTACKING YOU?'" Mandarin said

Nova was still a little shocked, but she managed to let out a reply

"I was actually hoping you could tell me. I don't remember."

"Well I can't say that I'm surprised, SPRX-77 can do some real damage swinging those magnets!" Mandarin said

Nova didn't speak, she simply gave a quizzical gaze.

Mandarin sighed and hit a few buttons on the keyboard in front of him, a few seconds later video started playing on a big screen on the wall.

It was in the main room in super robot, the camera wasn't in a spot that the they had any security cameras. Then Nova noticed herself come flying in, landing on her back. The rest of the team followed her, Otto flung an energy saw at her, she was barely able to Dodge, it was obvious that they had been fighting awhile, and that Nova was losing. Gibson somehow got behind her and used his spin shocker on her, direct hit, this pushed her next to SPRX, she looked at him with hurt and hopeful eyes, SPRX hesitated for a split second then took advantage of her weakness and whacked her hard on the head. Then Chiro's kick and Antauri's lunge followed. Then an alarm went off, the team looked mad that they had to leave Nova before they could finish her off, but decided that she wasn't going anywhere on her own and went to their battle stations. Then Mandarin came down the yellow tube with a worried face, picked up unconscious Nova, and left back up the yellow tube.

Mandarin stopped the tape.

"*sigh* I was monitoring you guys so I could attack when you were at your weakest when I noticed the fight. I couldn't just let them kill you! So I put an attack drone on auto pilot and jumped out on to the neck of the super robot, I went down your tube so they wouldn't realized that I had gotten in, they would just think that you had just gotten up." Mandarin said in an upset voice.

then he switched to a sly smile "to tell you the truth I was quite worried for you dear Nova"

Nova was too lost in thought to realize the past Mandarin had just made at her.

Mandarin frowned, was she ignoring him on purpose? Then his temper took over

"HAS YOUR SPEECH ESCAPED YOU? ANSWER ME!"

he was breathing hard in an attempt to calm himself

Nova felt scared, the kind of scared she hadn't felt in years, the fear she felt when Mandarin yelled, being the second youngest on the team, she had always felt small in a way. The whole team handled Mandarin's rage in their own ways. Antauri would usually try to calm him. Gibson would sit and listen in silence, and then when Mandarin was done, carried on his way. SPRX would do a couple of things, he would yell back, comfort other members of the team, but sometimes, he would sit there, like the most obedient team mate in the world. Her and Otto always ran like children when Mandarin yelled, and when they couldn't run, they stood there, knees buckled, fist clenched, just waiting till he was done. SPRX would sometimes play big brother and hid with them until Mandarin's anger passed.

For a moment, it felt like Mandarin was her leader again, that his anger meant more danger than any fight, and that he could have ordered he to do anything at that moment and she would have done it, no questions asked, just trying to avoid his wrath.

She instinctively looked for a place to run, finding none she stood, knees buckled and fist clenched.

Mandarin recognised this posture.

Both Nova and Mandarin alike were surprised, for both had thought that Mandarin had lost this control and Nova had lost this instinct when Mandarin had turned evil, but apparently, they were wrong.

Nova realized that Mandarin WASN'T still her leader and that his wrath meant nothing, then snapped back to normal posture.

Mandarin was still shocked at this reaction.

"you are quite cute when you're scared" Mandarin finally broke the silence with.

Nova caught this one, she almost slapped him, but I part of her said that that was just what he wanted, so, for once, she held back.

"Sorry" he said with a smirk

now Nova noticed that his appearance had changed, he looked more like himself, whatever that was.

"What happened to the bone" Nova said with venom in her voice.

"I no longer serve Skeleton King." he replied

"why?" Nova asked, a little more concerned than she meant.

"because I had lost sight of what was important." Mandarin said very seriously

Nova just stared

Mandarin began again "*sigh* when I first 'turned evil' as you so carelessly say, I only thought I...WE, should rule Shuggazoom instead of protecting it. I thought that there would be peace with us in charge."

"There IS peace!" Nova interrupted

"MORE peace then!" Mandarin said bitterly "at first, when I joined Skeleton King, I only agree to send him you 5, in exchange, he would leave Shuggazoom alone. After that, I figured I would destroy him from the inside, but being so close to REAL evil for so long, it tainted me, Skeleton King had me."

"So what changed" Nova said in a cold emotionless way

"I don't know." Mandarin said "One day I just woke up and realized what I was doing. So I fled, I stripped myself of all the evil Skeleton King gave me. including the armor."

after what seemed like hours of silence Nova talked

"I need to go back to the robot" she said in a strong, determined voice

"Very well, but take this." Mandarin said while handing her a small device with a button on it.

Nova just stared at it.

"It's a distress beacon, if you get in over your little head, press the button, it will send me your location, don't worry, I can't track you unless you press the button." Mandarin said

Nova knew her team would frown on her accepting it, but she didn't know if what she was going back to was even still her team! She needed the back up.

with the resolve to take the device, she opened a small compartment on her hip that acted like a pocket, and placed it genitally inside.

and without a word, she left.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHA! cliff hanger

and if you can't tell

the beginning was written before I got so many emails telling me that people don't think I suck :)

anywho, I plan on this being VERY vague, unless I get high demand for a prequel and/or a sequel :)

and don't worry SPOVA'S COMING!

Mandova makes for good stories, but SPOVA FTW

it's obvious that that's what the writers had in mind :)

so...

SPOVA!

-grungekitty