A/N: Oddly enough, even though Nova's my fourth favorite character (Otto's third XD), I actually had a lot to say about her. Hopefully it wasn't too much...

Four: Nova's afraid of losing her nerve.

Nova wakes from her nightmare.

It's been one week since Mandarin used Valina's powers to reduce her to a spineless coward.

She's always been the fighting spirit of her siblings.

Should an opportunity to either fight or erupt arise, Nova will be the one to jump.

(Though it is to her credit that she reins in her emotions when Antauri or Chiro order her to cool off.)

But that night was different.

She'd been battling all-out, bludgeoning monsters left and right, when her very heart had trembled.

Everything-the machines they were fighting and people she'd known her entire life-became unfamiliar to her in the blink of an eye.

Terrified, she'd run from the heat of battle.

And Chiro…

She'd heard his voice and glimpsed his shadow as it stretched across the floor. In looking up, she'd seen a monster and screamed.

He spoke softly to her all the time nonetheless, and at last she recognized her beloved child for who he was.

Running to and clutching him, she'd shakily admitted her cowardice and allowed the tears to come.

She was the fighter, the strong one, the simian who refused to back down when everyone else gave up.

Granted, she was surrounded by family, and it wasn't like she was facing her fears alone—the others were being assaulted by horrors equally as terrible as or far worse than her own.

But that hadn't made being a coward any more enjoyable.

So when they ran into trouble and she turned tail again…when she'd taken Sprx and left the others to fend for themselves instead of protecting them like always…she had never hated herself more.

It was several minutes later when she and her red companion found Antauri again.

She'd been thrilled.

Surely her eldest brother would know what to do, would know who was behind this fiasco and how to take him down!

But then he'd shouted for her and Sprx to stay back lest they be killed by his uncooperative metallic body, and her world had come crashing down.

She'd almost lost her head when the red monkey had told her to switch off the silver monkey.

Shut him…down…? She couldn't do that! This was her confidant, her best friend, her big brother!

But Sprx said there was no other choice, and something in the way Antauri's lifeless eyes bore into her told her just the same.

And though she had been reluctant indeed, shaking like a leaf and crying bitter tears all the time, she'd done it for the good of all of them.

But as she clenches her fists, turns on her bedside light, and looks at the group picture of the Team on her nightstand, she smiles.

As long as she can retain her courage and protect her family from harm, as long as she is able to help them defeat Valina and Mandarin and win this fight once and for all, she knows she'll be all right.

A/N: Is this one okay? I felt like the ending didn't...click like it did for the others...

As for calling Chiro 'her beloved child,' many people see Chiro and Nova as having a Mother-son bond (like the Antauri and Chiro Father-son bond), and to be honest I see that sometimes as well. Thus, that was a tribute to it.

Think I should do one for Mandarin, too? I wasn't planning on it, but since he has a fear, too...? And what about the Super Robot? Almost forgot him. XD Is this one

Thanks for reading, as always!