Frostbite, whose team attacked the Anarchists before, challenges her to prove her worth, but Nova instead fights and defeats Gargoyle, a stone-like monster, and is immediately recruited into Adrian's team. Nova's first mission as part of Adrian's team involves staking out a library run by Gene Cronin (The Librarian), a weapons dealer to the Anarchists. Nova informs the Anarchists, attracting the attention of Ingrid. During the stakeout, Nova bonds with the team, particularly with Adrian. The next day, the team goes into the library after seeing Ingrid enter, meeting Cronin's mirror-walking granddaughter, Narcissa. Ingrid exposes Cronin to the Renegades and kills him, setting fire to the library. Narcissa escapes and Adrian vanishes, but the Sentinel saves Nova from the chaos. Captain Chromium and Tsunami put out the fire and find an unharmed Adrian. Later that day, the Renegades invade the Anarchists' tunnels, but they manage to escape to Nova's fake apartment. Adrian's team, including Nova, questions Winston Pratt, who covers for Nova by saying Ace found Nightmare at Cosmopolis Amusement Park. Adrian introduces Nova to Max, and she begins to take a liking to them both. However, Max injures himself inside his quarantine and Nova rushes in to save him, then Adrian rushes in to save Nova from losing her powers. Max is treated and Nova and Adrian's powers remain intact. Max later implies to Adrian that he knows his identity as the Sentinel. Nova inspects artifacts from the Renegades' past and learns that Ace Anarchy's helmet, created by her father to amplify his power, could not be destroyed. Ingrid comes up with the idea to fake hers and Nightmare's death to catch the Renegades off guard. Nova reluctantly helps with the plan, taking Adrian with her on a Nightmare investigation at Cosmopolis Park, where the two begin to become enamored with each other. The two enter an abandoned fun house so Nova and Ingrid can stage Nightmare's death. Nightmare appears to fight Ingrid in front of Adrian, and Ingrid destroys the fun house, apparently killing Nightmare. Outside, Ingrid realizes Adrian is the Sentinel. The entire Renegade council arrives and Ingrid prepares to destroy all of Cosmopolis Park with her bombs with them in it, but Nova finally shoots her dead. In the aftermath, Adrian implies to Nova that the entire trip was a date between them. Nova becomes nervous and runs off. She goes to the Cathedral where Ace