Some light Sprx/Nova.

Revenge

"Nova, are you sure about this? I mean, this doesn't seem like something you'd normally do."

Nova sighed. Indeed, this wasn't like her, sneaking into a teammate's room with super glue. It was even less like her to drag Chiro into it. "Yeah, I know," she said as she headed for the jar of polish, frequently used to shine a set of magnet hands. "But he has this coming."

Chiro thought about why he could have this coming. "Oh, right, the ice thing."

"The ice thing" was a complex scheme crafted by Sprx to dump a massive amount of ice cubes atop of Nova. It had worked.

"Yeah, that, " she replied, unscrewing the polish cap.

"Still, I'm surprised you didn't just beat him up right there or something."

Nova visibly flinched, much to Chiro's surprise. "Well, uh, I was in a hurry, and that wouldn't have cut it this time!" Despite the harsh words, Nova still wasn't opening the super glue tube just yet.

"...This isn't about the ice thing, is it?"

No reply. She didn't even turn to him.

"You're not upset because you got a ton of ice dumped on you, right? You're upset because it was Sprx who dumped it on you, right?

Silence again.

"Nova?"

"..I know he likes to pull pranks and stuff like that, but he knows how much I hate the cold. I didn't think he'd ever intend to really hurt somebody." Nova's expression was almost morbid. "I just..."

"Uh, he didn't."

She turned to Chiro, baffled. "What?"

"Yeah, I thought you knew. He'd been trying for Gibson."

"What?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"I didn't know it was that personal." Nova gave Chiro an incredulous look at his reply. He caved at it. "That, and I was kinda hoping you'd figure out on your own that revenge wasn't going to help."

Nova blinked at the oddly mature answer from the youngest member of the team. "Yeah, maybe we both need to apologize and get over it..." She smiled warmly. "You know Chiro, you really have listen to Antauri well. He's rubbed off on you quite a bit. You're a wise kid."

Chiro laughed sheepishly. To him, being compared to Antauri was quite the high praise.

"Uh, hi guys?"

The trespassing duo winced, then turned to look at Sprx by the door. Nova rushed to grab the glue tube with her tail, effectively hiding it behind her back. "Uh..."

"Nova wanted to talk to you! Here she is! Now Nova doesn't need me to keep her company! See ya!"

Nova didn't get a chance to retort before Chiro had bolted out of the room. Still, she made sure to send "I take back the compliment!" glares after him. Despite knowing he would be getting these before he even spoke, he chuckled all the way to the command room.

Antauri was the only other one there. The silver monkey simply sat and watched the darkening skyline on the monitor. "Hey, Antauri!" Chiro greeted, falling into his own pod chair.

"Hello Chiro. I sense you're in quite a good mood."

"Ah, you know. Just glad we help people out is all."

"Hey, I'm sorry, alright?" Nova was caught off guard, not expecting to get an apology out of Sprx so humbly and swiftly. "I mean, I was trying to get-"

"Gibson, I know."

"You do? Yeah, but I guess it was still kinda stupid of me."

"It wasn't great of me to explode like that either. I really could stand to control my tempter outside of battle too. Forgiveness all around?"

Sprx paused, thinking carefully on a reply to that, making Nova tense with every passing second.

"What?" Nova finally blurted out.

Sprx took one more moment, the replied. "Yeah, your temper does stink, huh? On the bright side, maybe the ice helped cool you off? You didn't punch me, after all."

"Boom Boom Wake Up!"

Antauri heard what sounded like a battle cry and smashing metal in the residential area. He turned to Chiro. "Did you hear something?"

"Er," Chiro scrambled. "No! No way! Nothing!"

Antauri raised an eyebrow.

"Well," Chiro added, "nothing except the usual, anyway."