Maybe Love

It was turning out to be a long day at the Hub. After two battle zones, one early in the morning and one late at night, and their vehicles needing repairs from almost total destruction, Vert had enough. The team leader was in his room desperately trying to fall asleep, when Sage called him.

"Vert, can you come and see me in the Hub?" Sag asked over com-link.

Vert sighed. As much as he wanted to see Sage, he was just so damn tired. Secretly, Vert has becoming very attached and maybe even attracted to Sage. But she was an alien. There was no way they could possibly be together. Plus, was there any possible way Sage could even have feelings for him the way he feels about her? Does she even know what love is?

Vert slowly got up and walked down to the Hub. When he got there, Sage was looking over the vehicles' statuses. Vert did not want disturb her work. He walked over quietly, making sure not to let Sage hear him and just watched. She looked amazing. If she was human, she would be hotter than Agura and Grace combined. Vert cleared his throat and finally made his way to her.

"Hey Sage, what's up?"

"Hello Vert. I called you down here to discuss the Saber's repairs. It received the most damage out of the team's vehicles and I was wondering if you wanted me to repair it for you?"

"No Sage. I can handle it tomorrow morning. You do so much for the team already."

"It is me who should be thanking all of you. You all gave up your personal lives to help me and save my people."

Vert took one step towards Sage. He could not keep his eyes off hers.

She's so beautiful. Why did it take me so long to see this? What am I saying? We could never work. But maybe we could try and prove that right?

Vert grabbed Sage's hands and inched so much closer to her.

"Vert?"

"Sage, maybe you should take a break for awhile. I could take you out somewhere. If you wanted that."

Sage would have blushed if she could.

"Vert...I would...actually like that."

Sage was uncertain if what she said was correct. Vert had never acted like this towards her before. Sage thought they had a leader and intelligent assistant relationship or something of the sort. She still was adjusting to this planet's social ways.

"Really?" Vert replied with excitement in his voice.

"As a date?"

"No...I mean...if you want it to be a date, I'm okay with that."

"If a date means something else than what I thought it meant, you don't have to."

"What are you talking about, Sage?"

"I always hear Stanford saying that he will get a date with Grace. Then, Zoom and Spinner would always say he wouldn't. I always believed that it meant going out and being with them for awhile and with others."

"Well Sage, a date is when two people like each other and want to get to know each other more. Most people go out to water maybe go out and do something they both like to do."

"Oh. Well in that case, I guess I could take a break and go out with you."

"How about tomorrow when everyone else is asleep. I heard from Zoom that driving around the Salt Flats at night can be really fun. Especially when it's a clear sky and you can see the stars. "

"I would like that."

Vert let go of Sage's hands and walked back to his room.

But, over hearing Vert and Sage's entire conversation was Zoom, Spinner, and Stanford.

"Are they going out?" Spinner asked the other two.

"I don't know Spinner, but we gotta find out." Stanford said.

"So, they'll be driving around Salt Flats tomorrow night." Zoom said to himself.

"Maybe we could get our little ninja to spy on them during their date." Stanford said smirking

Spinner and Zoom smile in agreement.