HELLOOOOOOOOOO!

OMG, GUYS I HAVEN'T BEEN TO YOU IN SO LONG! CURSE THE WRITER'S BLOCK!

Also, SoLow hogged the computer. -_-

SoLow: FOR SCHOOL WORK!

Me: It's not back to school time until next week. God, you're nerdy!

SoLow: College is different from school!

Me: AS LONG AS THERE'S SPARKY EDUCATION INVOLVED, I DON'T SEE THE SPARKY DIFFERENCE!

KFee: And she's still swearing like that

Me: WHATEVER! Anyway, I just wanna make a few notes about this before we get started. You HAVE to read MISSsweety63's "When Love and Fear Mix" otherwise this won't make sense. So go on . . . DO IT!

One Reading of "When Love and Fear Mix" Later (that is if you haven't read it already) . . .

Me: YAY! NOW LET'S GET THIS SPARKY DONE!

Chapter 1

Nightmares, Nightmares, Nightmares

"NO!" Nova screamed.

Frantically, she tried to climb to her feet. But they were too fragile to support her frail body which flopped the second she straightened her knees.

Above her, an all-too strong Mandarin laughed his manacial monkey laugh. "Had enough?"

Physically drained, mentally tortured, Nova tried one last time to raise her fist. She might as well have offered Mandarin her arm which he grabbed and used to hurl her around and send her flying, crashing hard into the black concrete wall of the abandoned castle.

She opened her mouth to beg for mercy but Mandarin grabbed her neck and whammed her against the wall again, squeezing the air out of her lungs like juice out of an orange. She gagged and spluttered for breath but he only shook her violently, yelling "Shut up!" before finally dropping her.

As Nova collapsed to the ground, Mandarin chuckled at her misfortune, his grin growing wider every time she gasped for breath.

"Enjoying your last breaths, are you dear Nova?"

"Mandarin, please . . ."

"Silence, weakling!" he snapped, stomping onto her now helpless figure. "You're a coward, you know that?"

Nova shook her head, desperate to soften him. "No . . . NOOOO!"

"A COWARD!" Mandarin spat. "Nothing more than a useless, helpless, cowardly little female . . ."

"MANDARIN!" Nova wailed, tears of hopelessness streaming down her face.

But her despair only made Mandarin laugh more and step on her harder. "You even cry! So pathetic! How the others managed to put up with you, I will never know . . ."

She attempted to open her mouth again but one swipe of Mandarin's sword was enough to keep her silent. "Don't waste my time."

All she could do now was listen to his torturous insults as they both prepared themselves for the kill.

Mandarin smile evilly and raised his sword. "I should have done this a long time ago. The Hyper Force doesn't deserve such a useless female like you . . ."

Nova scrunched up her eyes and inhaled her final breath.

"So long . . . COWARD!"

Mandarin burst into another fit of hideous laughter as he aimed his sword towards her chest. Nova opened her mouth to scream but nothing but an almost silent gasp came out. She would be dead in a matter of moments . . .

The sword impaled her chest, Mandarin's laughter and the word "coward" ringing in her ears . . .

The sword suddenly feld less sharp, more like a hand (two of them actually) and had stabbed- no, grabbed her shoulders. She could no longer hear Mandarin's laughter in her ears but Sparx's yells for her to wake up . . .

"Nova, come on! WAKE UP!"

Nova finally snapped out of it and jerked awake, taking a moment to remember where she was: the safety of her own bedroom. Yet she still couldn't understand what had just happened. Her body was covered in a cold sweat.

"Wha- I-" she stammed in confused fear. "Sparx, I-"

Sparx was already cradling her.

"I know," he whispered. "I know."

Nova blinked, more dumbstruck than ever. All she could remember was the word "coward". Shaken by the nightmare she just experienced, she threw her arms around Sparx and scrunched up every muscle her body could manage.

"Did she have another nightmare?" Gibson's voice was slightly more concerned than usual.

Sparx looked up, his black eyes grim. "Yeah."

Gibson frowned at this.

"What are we supposed to do, Gibson? This is the sixth night in a row now!" Sparx ranted. "The kid said that they should have just gone away by the second or third day and now it's day six! We're in the middle of a stinkin' war and Nova's been more traumatized than ever!"

"Sparx." The blue scientist was struggling to stay patient. "Calm down . . ."

"Is that all you've got?" Sparx snapped, squeezing Nova tighter with every word he spoke. "C'mon, Brainstrain! The one time when I ask ya to come up with somthing useful and you can't even understand what's going on!"

Before Gibson could protest, Sparx interrupted again. "Nova's scarred for a monkey's sake! She freaking TRAUMATIZED! By something I did to her!"

Nova looked up at him at this. "Sparx . . ."

"I know, I know," the red simian sighed. "I'm freaking the blazes out here."

"Sparx, don't start," Nova whimpered. "It's not your fault."

"How do I know you're not just saying that to comfort me, Nova?"

Nova gazed into his eyes. "Would I lie to you?"

That softened the red simian enough to calm down a little but not fully.

"Nova, why do you keep having these nightmares? Is it something to do with me? Because I wanna try and make it better. I need to know."

She cringed at the thought. "I . . . can't."

"Nova, please," begged Sparx.

The golden simian cringed again before tears began pouring out. "It's nothing to do with you, Sparx! But I can't tell! It's too scary to think about!"

Nova was really crying now, unable to stop the tears forming. Sparx embraced her but it had little to no affect on her. Desperate to find an answer, he looked up at Gibson, pleading him to do something.

Gibson knew when he was beaten. "Very well. I'll see what I can do."

OH MY SPARKY GOD, I JUST NEEDED TO WRITE THAT!

NConn: And why's that?

Me: BECAUSE MY SUGAR RUSH WENT WRONG!

KFee: Is it because SoLow hogged the computer? Or because the dentist numbed you so bad you couldn't go on a sugar rush for the next 4 hours?

Me: NO! IT'S BECAUSE MOJOS ARE STUPID!

KFee: O.O

NConn: O.O

SoLow: *facepalm* We seriously need to lure GiLaw off of YouTube

Please Read and Review and check out my other stories and until next time- I NEED TO CRY LIKE A HIGH-PITCHED SIX YEAR OLD- MOM, I NEVER WANNA WATCH A TOP 10 AGAAAAAAAAAAIN! D'X

(Seriously though, Spova is that underrated -_-)