Wazzup my favourite people? GiLaw's here and it's time for a new story!

And yes as you've probably noticed, it's nice and quiet here . . .

("I KILLED SOLOW!")

NConn: You did what?! :O

Me: I was just kidding! She's in college . . . *sips RedBull*

NConn: Okay then O.O

Speaking of lieing, I've got a fic for ya! And a theory!

I'm pretty sure most of you have noticed this by now but I have a theory that Nova isn't the tough fearless warrior she makes herself out to be. She still has her feminine traits and she has her squeamish side and nasty past with Mandarin.

This also explains why she breaks down so often in my fics. Yes, I'm a sucker for sweet Spova fluff but let me tell you if she DIDN'T have her feminine traits, squeamish side, etc, she would be a LOT tougher in my fics!

And if you don't believe me, just check out my story on FictionPress- BlueDiamondJJ, you should know where I'm going here ;)

NConn: You're acknoledging fellow authors now?

Me: You're gonna shut up now?

NConn: What does SoLow do when GiLaw goes on a sugar rush gone wrong?

Me: She runs for her life

NConn: D:

ALRIGHT, LET'S DO THIS!

Chapter 1

Hiding Something

She thrust her fist again and destroyed another canon while dodging the crazy weapons that surrounded her. Behind her back, a mechanical saw seeked the opportunity to strike her while she was distracted. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted it and used her jetpack to shoot over it, allowing her to grab the arm that held it and rip it clean from the wall.

And that ended her training session.

Nova exhaled loudly and lowered herself to the ground to face her teammates watching her from behind the glass, staring at her with neutral if any facial expressions.

"Well?" she demanded.

For a moment, there was an awkward silence. The room was so quiet, you could hear a penny drop but the atmosphere was so tense, no one would have noticed it.

Nova glared at her male teammates, sweat trickling down her forehead. Why weren't they responding? She'd just escaped a serious training session unscathed for the third day in a row!

Actually it was more than that . . .

The yellow simian had been pushing herself a lot lately. Like a LOT a lot. To the point where it was starting to get a little scary. But there was no reason for her to do so- at least that's when the others presumed. There were still monsters attacking the city every now and again but it wasn't anything big.

Come to think of it, when there WERE monsters attacking the city, Nova seemed to be getting a little too aggressive with them. She had began beating them up to the point where you'd actually feel sorry for the monsters despite the amount of destruction they had caused. On a number of occasions, Antauri had to use his mind powers to put the bullying to a stop.

This aggression had been going on for almost two months now.

None of the males knew where this aggression was coming from.

But what they did know was that Nova was pushing herself way too hard.

All of them were concerned.

But none of them felt more concerned than Sparx who couldn't help feeling something was wrong with her. I mean, her aggression had come right out of nowhere and none of them had done anything to provoke her- at least he hoped not. There wasn't any reason for this.

But there had to be a reason behind her actions. That's what Antauri said.

And Antauri was always right, wasn't he?

The red simian pulled a face and glanced anxiously at the golden one who was almost growling. She seemed agitated as she waited for the others to respond.

"Nova," Antauri began finally. "We all know this and I think you know it too. We agree that your fighting has been much too violent lately."

As he said this, Sparx couldn't help notice her face shifting. The more Antauri spoke, the angrier her face became. If this has been training against the cold, she probably would have blown up the Robot by now.

Yet somehow she managed to control and hide her fury and swallow bravely. "Go on," she murmured bitterly.

"You must realize that as much as we are against wrongdoing in Shuggazoom, it is important to know that with strength comes boundaries," said Antauri.

"What's the deal? They ARE bad guys!"

"Well you HAVE been getting pretty nasty with them lately," said Chiro.

"Poor bad guys," Otto whimpered. Even though this was more to himself than the others, they all still stared at him as if to say 'What the blazes?'.

"So?" Nova demanded.

"Nova, we must protect the city, we all know that," Gibson explained, "but we have to lead by example while we do so. We cannot come across as savages just because we take dislike to villainery!"

"I'm not acting like a savage!"

"Can't you see for yourself that your temper seems to be getting the better of you?" Antauri asked calmly.

"Can't you see that I'm pushing myself?"

"Yes, we can see that," the silver simian replied. "But-"

"No! No buts!" Nova snapped, suddenly storming out of the training room. "I'm not stopping! If I do, you'll just tell me to try harder!"

Antauri straightened, getting a little stern now. "Nova!"

"The training's over! I'm leaving!" she shouted, not bothering to even glance at him as she stomped to her yellow tube. Antauri called her name but she ignored him and shot up.

The silver simian sighed, calming down before turning to face his teammates. "Give her the time she needs."

Sparx pulled a face and stepped up to him. "You know, you could've at least TRIED and given her SOME encouragement!"

"I understand," said Antauri. "But she must realize that she cannot go on fighting the way she is."

"Well haven't you thought that maybe she might be fighting like that for a reason?" Sparx asked.

"I have tried to acess her mind to find the problem," said Antauri. "But she will not let me. I know there is a reason behind her anger but I cannot acess to it."

Sparx exhaled loudly. "Right. I'm talking to her." Without giving any of the others the chance to respond, he turned off and rushed to his red tube and shot upstairs to the hallway with their bedrooms.

Her door was shut. Yet Sparx could hear some kind of scratching noise going on in there. Softer than scratching but still.

"Nova?"

As soon as he called her name, he heard a snapping noise.

Then frantic movement.

Concerned, he wasted no time in opening the door, only to find her lying on her bed. But she didn't look too relaxed. She looked pretty startled actually, her body shaking, her bright pink eyes watching his every move. It almost looked as if she were . . .

Sparx frowned. "Alright. What is it?"

"Huh?"

"What's under there?"

"Mind your own business!" she snapped a little too quickly.

Sparx stepped back, tacken aback by her harsh tone. "What is it?"

"Nothing," she muttered a little bitterly, shifting uncomfortably.

"Nova, I know you're hiding something! We all do!" Sparx exclaimed.

"You're just being paranoid!" she snapped, getting agitated. "Leave me alone, will ya?"

An idea came to Sparx's head.

"Antauri wants to see you anyway!"

Nova glared at him. "Well then why didn't he come up for me then, huh?" she demanded in an aggressive suspicious tone.

"Because he wanted us to meet in the command centre," Sparx lied. "Also, he felt that you wouldn't listen to him. He felt that I was the only one you'd respond to in some sort."

Nova frowned, growling a little. "Riiiiiight . . . Gimme a minute."

Sparx nodded. "Okay then . . ."

For a moment there was silence.

"ALONE PLEASE?!"

Sparx cringed. "Oh! Right!" he muttered quickly, stepping out. As soon as he did so, Nova stood up, ran over and slammed the door on him.

Great. Now he couldn't watch her. He could hear her though, moving around the room. There was lots of shuffling going on, a few silent moments. A few tearing sounds . . .

Next thing she opened the door and casually stepped out. She stood there for a moment and gave Sparx a death glare.

"Are you coming?"

"Yeah, one sec. I just need to, um . . . get something."

Nova lowered her eyebrows. "Okay then . . ."

With that, she headed off but Sparx couldn't help noticing how she was really taking her time getting away.

She knew he was onto her.

He had to wait a while until she was completely out of his sight.

There was no time to lose. If Nova caught him routing around in her room, there would be blood and murder.

Sparx went to open her bedroom door. It was locked. A little encouragement from his magnets quickly took care of that.

Now to discover that secret.

He rushed over to her bed but there was nothing there. She must have taken the time to hide whatever she was hiding. The question was where was she hiding it? More importantly, why?

Under her bed?

Nope.

Under her couch?

Nothing.

Under the carpet?

How could you hide something under a carpet, that would be WAY too obvious!

Somewhere in relation to her training stuff?

No, it was all laying perfectly in place. Besides, how could you hide something in a dumbell or a punching bag?

Sparx whirled around, looking frantically for a hiding place. But it didn't look like there was anywhere to hide anything. He sighed loudly. She was good. Disappointed, he glanced down at one of her scattered soft toys and gave it a kick . . .

BANG!

"OW!" Sparx scrunched up his eyes and nearly doubled over in pain. Not even from whacking his toe, mostly from the shock of it. He'd never have expected that such a soft squishy looking thing would be so-

Hang on!

He picked up the toy. It felt hard. There seemed to be something inside it that shouldn't be there.

Bingo!

Sparx tore open the toy, noticing that as he did so, it sounded just like the tearing sound Nova had made in the room a few moments ago. Opening the toy, he spotted something inside it.

It was a notebook.

He pulled it out and glanced at it in confusion.

A notebook?

This was what Nova was hiding?

He just didn't get it.

All the anger and aggressive behavious was because of this?

There was no way that a simple notebook could be that personal unless . . .

Sparx gasped to himself as he finally realized:

This wasn't a notebook!

It was a diary!

AAAAAAAND I'm gonna leave it there! Gotta love the suspense!

NConn: It's okay I guess :/

Me: I'M BORED!

NConn: Bored?

Me: LONELINESS AND LACK OF REVIEWS MAKE MY SUGAR RUSH GO WRONG!

NConn: You're . . . lonely?

Me: I THINK I'M MISSING SOLOW! Okay, my sugar rush has DEFINITELY gone wrong now . . .

Please Read and Review and check out my other stories and until next time- HEY! YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID! LACK OF REVIEWS MAKE MY SUGAR RUSH GO WRONG! EVEN WHEN IT'S ALREADY GONE WRONG!