Bitter, sour hate flooded up Nova Storm's throat and choked off the snarl that wanted to come out. Her vents were coming fast and ragged and she slammed her pede into the wall again and again, denting it almost in the shape of-

"Yeah!" She gasped, vents rising to a shriek that wasn't coming out of her mouth for once. "Yeah, I know it was dumb! It was dumb and reckless even with him planning everything out and- and yeah!" Slam, crunching metal and flaring optics, "We were potentially trading living people for some dead afterburner I never even actually met who can't even care anymore or get mad about it, but- but lines in the sand, no more, it-"

She shook her head and jerked it up again, baring her teeth, but it wasn't really at him at all. "I messed up, and she left! I always mess up, and you- you don't! Things are easy for you, it's effortless, cause you're better than me! You've always been better, and-"

She stumbled back as the shriek drowned out the too fast whirl of her twin spark, Skywarp's spark, then lurched forward again, terror and guilt and grief all wrapped up in snapping teeth. "You still aren't good enough! You're better and it isn't enough!"