M'Gann was flying through the hospital. Seeing as how the entire Team was probably doing battle, she made all the patients and doctors in the hospital go to sleep. At the moment she was on the 3rd floor. Malafe'ak had the advantage right now. Uncle J'onn hadn't taught her how to turn invisible for long periods of time just yet. It was no secret that she wasn't J'onn's real niece but he still accepted her. She did have one advantage over Mala however. He could use telekinesis, but he couldn't use telepathy. It was stripped from him by the elders of Mars for his crime. He had killed a Martian named Mattford Morse. Mattford was her father. The hell with the "rules of Earth" the Team had been teaching her. Malafe'ak was going to die tonight. Suddenly he dropped out the sky and landed on her back with his knees she crashed onto the floor. Mala grabbed a scalpel from a nurses' station and tried to stab her but she just phased through it. He backed up and smiled at her.
"Do you think this will make you feel better little girl," he teased. "Trying to kill me for killing your daddy". M'Gann simply glared at him. "I remember it like it was yesterday. I was escaping the Lanthet Police, and had made my way into the Star Zone. You and your daddy were at the annual Festival of Anora."
M'Gann could feel the pain of the memory she had tried to shut away for years coming back to her. The Festival of Anora was a celebration between all fathers and daughters on Mars. Her mother died very shortly after she was born, so it had always just been M'Gann, and her father Mattford. This Festival was her first so it truly special. The Festival was celebrated for a week on Mars. She was having the time of her life there. Anything she asked her dad for, Mattford smiled and gave it to her. Malafe'ak resumed speaking.
"I remember I was running through the Festival and you were in my way. I had a torch of everlasting fire in my hand. Dangerous stuff, it burns damn near forever. The only way for me to escape the police would be for me to set someone on fire. So I threw the torch at you with every intention of ending your life that day. Now any smart Martian would've just phased or moved out the way. But what did you do little M'Gann; you just stayed there like dumb livestock."
"SHUT UP," M'Gann yelled through tears. The entire hospital building was starting to shake. She was causing it too.
"M'Gann what's wrong," asked Connor.
"Are you all right M'Gann," said Wally in a strained voice.
"M'Gann, are-" started Artemis.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
She closed her eyes severed their mental link. But she was unaware of Malafe'ak; and when she opened her eyes he had a fire extinguisher in his hands. M'Gann saw it too late and was hit upside the head with it. She slammed into a wall, fell down and could see stars. She massaged the back of her head and was breathing deeply. As soon as she touched her head she could feel a wet spot. Fuck, she was bleeding. M'Gann removed her hand and saw that her hand was covered with blood. Blue blood. That pissed her off even more. Only one group of Martians on Mars had blue blood: The White Martians.
Mala smiled at her and said," did you cut yourself little M'Gann?" She got up off the ground and glared at him. She wanted to annihilate him. "So what did daddy do when he saw his little girl about to become a piece of barbecue? He did what any stupid parent does, he protected you. Mattford ran to you and pushed you out of the way. And in doing so he went up in smoke like a roman candle. How long did he burn again? Hmmm let me see... your daddy burned for a record breaking seventeen hours before he was finally put out." M'Gann shape-shifted into a polar bear and charged at him. Using his telekinesis Mala lifted all the chairs on the 3rd floor and they flew at her. She didn't even phase. She didn't care if they hit her. One hit her nose and immediately it started bleeding blue blood. She took a swipe at him but he dodged it and kicked her in the face. She fell on her back and shifted back to normal.
"And here's the best part of the story in my opinion. As he died, your daddy no longer had the power to keep up his little ploy. The entire planet saw him for what he was. A White Martian. And then suddenly nobody cared if a White Martian was dying from 8th degree burns. They were third class citizens and didn't deserve to live anyways." M'Gann squeezed her hands until her nails cut her flesh.
M'Gann flashbacks
She was back on Mars, her dad was dead and she too had returned to her white form since she was too stressed to keep up the facade. She couldn't have been more than 29 years old. Not even an adolescent on Mars yet. Everyone simply stared at her and her father's dead body, no one even trying to help.
Then one green teenage female Martian screamed," how dare THEY disturb the sanctity of the Festival of Anora?"
The girl started crying into her fathers shoulder. The little girls started throwing rocks at M'Gann. She was crying all she wanted was her father to protect her. But that was never going to happen. Never again. She remembered living on Mars for 19 more years of hell. Sleeping in alleys, eating whatever scraps she could get her hands on. She was lucky if she could go a week without anyone beating her. Then her salvation came. She was ironically in the Star Zone when it happened.
A woman appeared with her two children and barked," you're the same freak who ruined the Festival of Anora years ago. I was with my father that day. I was only 58. He died a week after the fiasco you caused you stupid bitch."
M'Gann had learned to take the punishment, the abuse, and the beatings. But not today. She lost her father to an evil man, and this woman was blaming her for ruining a stupid Festival. She lifted the woman by her throat and threw her up against a tree. Immediately people began swarming her and attacking her. All they saw was a White Martian attacking a Green Martian. M'Gann knew she was going to die today but at least she could be with her father again. She could die and be happy again for the first time in years. A Green Martian suddenly landed out the sky, and telekinetically blasted everyone away from her knocking them down.
One of the men immediately stood up and yelled," why are you protecting a White, Manhunter?"
J'onn simply looked at M'Gann and said," I am not protecting a White sir, I am protecting a scared child whom society has turned its back on."
The woman was massaging her throat and said," you're a fool J'onn."
J'onn ignored the woman and told M'Gann," no they are the fools. Come with me child." He flew into the air. He looked just like the man that had killed her father, but his eyes were kind and warm. She flew after him.
Months later they were on the Bioship headed for Earth. M'Gann was sitting next to J'onn in her Green Martian form and sadly asked," why did you save me that day?"
He looked at her and said," you would've died without my interference."
"I was ready to die."
"No, you were ready to die because you had nothing to live for, now you do."
"Do I? I'm just going to another planet where I have to hide or everyone will hate me for what I truly am?"
"You will find the best of friends one day who will accept you for you M'Gann. You'll even find someone who loves you for that."
M'Gann smiled and said, "thank you for everything Uncle J'onn."
End Flashback
M'Gann got up off the floor and wiped her eyes. She had found everything Uncle J'onn said she would find. She had the best girlfriends a girl could ever want, surrogate brothers who annoyed the hell out of her but she couldn't get enough of them; and the warmest boyfriend in the world whom she couldn't live without. When she got up she realized Malafe'ak had become invisible again.
"No more hiding Mala," she growled. Her eyes glowed green and she assumed her true Martian form. She would no longer be ashamed of being a White Martian. She instantly saw Mala flying with her White Martian vision and hit him with a telekinetic blast. He was blasted back and he turned visible.
"My god you are disgusting," Mala laughed.
"And proud of it," M'Gann said back. She jumped towards Mala and he said "fool" and simply phased. M'Gann still grabbed him and as soon as she did he turned solid. Now he had a look of horror on his face.
"How did you do that," he cried. She head butted him. He nose began bleeding green blood.
"Aww did you cut yourself little Mala," she asked mocking him.
Mala growled and saw a bottle labeled acid he flung it telekinetically at the back of M'Gann's head. She phased and the bottle smashed into his face. Mala screamed as his skin began to smoke, M'Gann turned solid again. She grabbed him and levitated into the air, and body slammed him through the floor. They fell through the third floor all the way to the ground floor. M'Gann landed on top of Malafe'ak and rolled off him. Once the dust cleared, they both stood up. He wasn't even in her league anymore. She shifted back to green M'Gann as he flew at her and tried hand to hand. But after a year of training with Black Canary, he was absolutely outmatched. When she finished with him. He was lying in a puddle of green blood. She walked over to him with a smile. It was time to end this.
Malafe'ak craned his neck off the ground and said," go ahead kill me. You are still nothing more than a common White Martian freak."
M'Gann smiled and resumed her true from once again. She lifted Mala by the neck and her eyes glowed green.
"I'm not going to kill you," she told him telepathically. "But trust me you son of a bitch, I'm going to make you wish that I had."
His eyes began to glow green the same as hers. They stayed in that position for about five minutes, then Malafe'ak shape shifted into a human with a hospital robe on and she dropped him on the floor. Then he started screaming and writhing. M'Gann had forced three things onto him mentally. First, she had forced him to shape shift into a human. Second, she wiped his mind of ever being a Martian. And finally, she implanted into his mind that he was a patient of this hospital with severe psychiatric issues. Suddenly M'Gann collapsed and began breathing really fast. Shit she thought. Way too much mental overuse. Mala may not have had mental powers to defend himself, but his will was strong so she had to use a lot more energy than she thought she would need. M'Gann could feel herself blacking out.
Just before she did she uttered," I got him daddy. You can finally rest." And then she passed out.