Chapter 9 M'gann or Megan Part 2
Wally stared at Robin, the 13 year old was talking to Garfield. A look of exasperation was obvious even through the mask.
"Just apologize" Conner said, interrupting the speedster thought process.
"How did you?" Wally questioned, Conner chuckled to himself.
"Super hearing, remember? I know how you feel about him and it's okay, honestly it's cute" Conner smirked. Wally's eyes almost flew out his head, he just heard Superboy use the word cute.
"Kid Flash, you have to think about Robin's boundaries, it's like M'gann invading my mind without permission. Remember how I reacted, to hearing her voice in my head?" Wally thought back, to the day the team was formed. When they didn't know much about Superboy or Miss Martian. He was a kryptonian cadmus clone, she was an alien from a distant planet. She didn't know telepathy was kind of invading privacy.
"Just talk to him" Conner patted his back.
*Outside*
M'gann telekinetically pierced the ground, with wooden stakes.
"Well you're certainly a timesaver" Marie said attaching the wires. M'gann stared at her idol, she couldn't believe she was standing there, with Marie Logan. Star of Hello Megan, the one she based her looks on.
"So how was it? Being Megan" M'gann asked enthusiastically.
"Being Megan? it was fun I guess" Marie stated uncaring.
"Do you remember, when Megan had to make cookies for the bake sale except she felt it'd be much faster to bake one big cookie and" M'gann started to ramble.
"Look,Hello Megan was just a job, that girl you saw she is not who I am at all" Marie glared at her admirer. M'gann ecstatic face fell, disappointed by the words of her hero.
*Inside*
"So anyone else find it weird, about my mom and Miss Martian?" Garfield stated to the room.
"What about them?" Conner asked him.
"That she looks like my mom when she starred in Hello Megan" Garfield explained.
"Hello Megan is a T.V. show?" Wally questioned the new information. Robin stared at the 8 year old, wide eyed.
"I just thought it was something she said all the time" Robin shrugged.
"Yea on the T.V show, way before we were born, only one season can't even find it online….I'm sure she had a tape around here somewhere" Garfield said looking around. Robin's eyes widen as he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up seeing Wally's bright green eyes.
"Hey,can we talk?" Wally gave him an awkward smile. The younger of the two shook his head, they walked outside, a few feet away from Marie and M'gann.
"What do you want KF? If you're gonna hit on me again" Robin growled warning him. Wally raised his hands, offering peace.
"I come in peace…...look Robin, I like you alot, and sometimes I just want to touch you, or kiss you or flirt with you. So i'm sorry if I don't choose the best times to show you but ugh" Wally sighed defeated.
"Yea….look maybe I overreacted, I just don't want anyone hurting you because you're with me" Robin pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Rob, you're letting the bat get in your head, nothing is going to happen to me" Wally held Robin's hand. Superboy rushed out of the house staring at the sky.
"AIRCRAFTS COMING IN FAST!" he warned his teammates, he could hear the ships soaring through the skies, and see how far they were from the house.
"Stay put" Robin pointed to Garfield, the boy stared at the hero, as they ran around Marie.
"Where is my son?" she asked in a panicked tone.
"I ordered him to stay inside" Robin informed her, she gave him a dumbfound expression.
"HE'S EIGHT HE DOESN'T DO ORDERS!" she growled agitated. Garfield pulled open the barn doors letting the oryx run out.
"MOM!" I let the animals out" Gar smiled, impressed by his own accomplishment. Bullets struck the gas tanks, near the barn causing an explosion. The explosion was strong enough to obliterate the barn and send the kid flying.
"GARFIELD!" Marie called out horrified, seeing her only child fly across the air, severely injured. M'gann launched into the air, she flew as fast as she could grabbing Garfield.
"I TOLD YOU THERE WOULD BE CONSEQUENCES!" Marie glared at Robin. Taking her son from Miss Martian's arms.
"Always, let's get him inside" they rushed into the house. Superboy leaped a few stories in the air, punching through the assault plane. The debris of the planes crashed into the ground. Miss Martian glared at the two planes coming towards the house, she flew in front of them her eyes glowing green. She clapped, this action caused the planes to crash into each other. The three heros quickly rushed into the house, Marie was checking his Gar's vitals.
"He needs a blood transfusion, are either of you O negative?" she asked the couple.
"No" Robin informed her sadly.
"Neither am I, it's the hardest to match, I kept a supply in the barn" Marie pinched the bridge of her nose, worried about her kid.
" I can run him to the nearest hospital" Wally suggested.
"No you can't, he's to unstable to travel, plus even at your top speed you won't get there fast enough" Robin said, checking his holo screen.
"What blood type is Superboy?" she asked desperate. Robin shook his head losing hope.
"He's Kryptonian and Miss Martian…" Robin started by was interrupted by the female.
"May be able to help, my shapeshifting works at a cellular level, I think I can remake my blood to match his" She hesitantly explained.
"Please try" Marie pleaded with the Martian.
" I need to concentrate, No distractions" M'gann said wiping blood from Garfield's face.
"GET OUT ALL OF YOU NOW" Marie shoved the boys out of the room. M'gann's eyes glowed a bright green, she stared at the blood on her blue glove covered fingers. Soon her eyes changed from a bright green to crimson red.
"Okay I'm ready" she said.
*Meanwhile*
The boys stared wide eyed at the Hello Megan show. Marie Logan, looked identical to M'gann back then, minus the green skin. It is quite obvious M'gann is hiding something. Conner couldn't help but feel slightly used, Megan's boyfriend Conner, looked just like him. Only shorter, weaker and an outdated haircut. Why would she, make him out to be like a boy from a old sitcom. Memories flooded to his mind, M'gann giving him the name Conner Kent on their first day of school.
"Maybe it's a coincidence" he said hopefully.
"Yea real coincidence" Wally rolled his eyes, his heart skipped a beat as he heard Miss Martian enter the room. They all looked at her like deers caught in headlights, KF quickly switched the channel.
"It's done….is that Harjavti?" She asked staring at the TV. The boys stared at the president announcing his plan, the audience seemed infuriated.
"Wait a minute" she grabbed the remote pausing it. She glared at the television, getting closer to the appliance.
"That's Psimon" she growled, clenching the remote. She turned to her team pointed at the hooded man behind the president.
"The psychic we faced last time we were in Bialya?" Conner stated, memories flooded to their minds, of the team stranded in the desert, with months of their memory erased, by that villain.
"Ugh I can still feel the headache, from his psychic blast" Wally groaned, not happy to face the telepath again.
"He is stable, I think it worked" Marie explained, as she walked into the living room.
"Good, because we have our mission, Miss M, KF stealth mode" Robin said walking towards the door. Wally pressed his Flash insignia and the yellow and red suit turned primarily black. Miss Martian telepathically commanded her biosuit to change to her stealth mode. The team entered the bio ship and flew to the president's office. Robin lead them through the ventilation systems.
"Alright he's alone" Robin informed them, M'gann pulled on her hood, she suddenly became transparent. They all leaped from the vents, Robin ran over grabbing the president's shoulder.
"Where is my daughter….where is Psimon?" he asked, he was out of it, agitated and confused. Suddenly soldiers burst into the room with apocalyptic weaponry.
"Well Well, american heros here to assassinate the president, unfortunately we arrived too late to stop you" The general smirked.
"Those weapons are from apocalypse" Conner said through the mental link.
"They kill him, we get blamed than Queen Bee rules Querc" Robin rationalized in his head.
"I found Psimon" M'gann said through the link, she flew out of the room.
"I'll get her" Conner thought.
"No, the mission is Hargavti" Robin said pulling out birdarangs. The soldiers shot at the president, Conner jumps in front of him taking the hits. Wally ran by at top speed grabbing the weapons off of them quickly. Robin threw his birdarangs at soldiers attacking, they struck the weapons and blew up. Wally rammed them down at superhuman speed. Conner grabbed the general and flung him into the wall hard.
"Well that was easy" Wally smiled at the room of unconscious soldiers.
*next room*
M'gann shrieked, she was sent flying as a powerful blow was delivered to her mind.
"Don't you think that if you could sense me than I could sense you now too?" The man cockily said. He pulled the hood off his head and chuckled.
"Bet you also didn't think I'd use your weakness against you, Psimon says show who or rather what you really are" He smiled at her sadistically.
"NO, NO NO THIS IS WHO I AM" she screamed, her skin pales and started turning white, eyes became completely red as she grew in size, fingers fusing to form two long ones and a thumb. Her hair sank into her skull and her hips became sharper, her face and head changed shape completely. The young martian roared, horrified at her true form. She gasped hearing her friends her allies coming. The thought of them seeing her in this state was unbearable.
She sent a psychic wave at them knocking the three boys unconscious. Psimon stared in disbelief, a smirk forming on his lips.
"Psimon says well done, brain blasting your own team, you're going to great lengths to keep your secret. But it is useless, it's already been recorded" he said, the monitors showed her as a white martian.
"NO!" M'gann screamed, horrified at her own appearance, she sent a psychic blast at the man which he easily redirected. She was sent crashing into the sand.
"Wha? Sand?" she picked up a handful of sand. She smiled at her humanoid green hand. Her outfit was similar to her stealth tech one, except it is navy blue with a white cape, belt and X symbol. She looked around the sandy terrain of mars.
"Must you lie to yourself in your own mind?" Psimon asked condescendingly.
"IT'S NOT A LIE THIS IS WHO I AM!" M'gann called out, infuriated by the male telepath. A green energy beam came from her forehead, he blocked it with a red sphere.
"And they say I'm pathological" his forehead began to glow red a burst of crimson energy slammed her into a metal structure.
"Lets dig down, see what you're really afraid of" a black energy sphere formed around him, it struck the young girl, she let out a pain filled shriek. M'gann looked around the dark room saddened by her white martian appearance. Artemis, Kaldur, Wally, Robin and Zatanna jumped back, terrifies by her.
"STAY BACK" that comment stung.
"Yes, Yes obviously your teammates will abandon you" Psimon laughed at her pain.
Red Tornado, Batman and Black Canary towered over her.
"You should have told us the truth" she said betrayed.
"I don't see how we can trust you now" Batman turned his back to her.
Her Uncle J'onn appeared across from her.
"I'm sorry M'gann but there is no place on earth for you"
"Than you're kicked off the pep squad and exiles to mars" Psimon's laughs echoes, the terrain turned into mars.
"No please" M'gann said her voice breaking. She sees Conner with his back to her. A tense aura around the boy of steel.
"Love you? I can't even look at you" he growled at her walking away. She openly sobbed her heart breaking.
"You'd do anything to prevent that huh?" Psimon he asked mockingly. The psychic appeared in front of the martian.
"Yes I would" she said, her voice holding a lot of malice. The entire room began to shake, glowing cracks forming on the ground around her.
"Now Now…. You wouldn't do anything to hurt me" he smirked smugly, but concern formed on his face as her forehead began to glow.
"YOU DON'T KNOW ME AT ALL!" her screamed echoed, a green energy blast emitted from her forehead disintegrating him. All that was left of the man was his screams. The landscape change to the room in the president's house. Her teammates were still unconscious from her psychic blast. Psimon laid on the ground, eyes wide opened and drool leaking from his mouth.
" That's what you deserve" M'gann said with a lot of hate in her voice, her body became a more feminine human one. Her white skin turned green and her eyes formed irises and pupils. Her long amber hair returned to her head. The young martian smiled at her appearance, content with the form she has chosen for herself.
"Now" she turned to the monitors, the pieces of technology that captured her form. She let out a scream, a telekinetic shockwave came from her, striking the screens. The monitors shattered, pieces of glass hitting the floor. She gave her work, a satisfied nod, before going to help up her teammates. Conner groaned awake holding his head.
"Ugh, there's the headache" Wally groaned, he held his head frustrated by the attack. Robin put a hand, on Wally's knee and smiled at him, Wally smiled back.
"What happened?" Conner asked groaning in pain.
"Psimon brain blasted you guys, don't worry I handled him though" the boys looked horrified at Psimon's comatose state. The team handed him over to the authorities and returned to the Logan's house. They stared at the T.V watching M'gann's performance as Queen Bee.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN The PRESIDENT WON'T SEE ME, HE INVITED ME" The martian screamed disguised as Queen Bee.
" NOT OF MY OWN FREE WILL!, QUREC WILL NEVER SUCCUMB TO THE CONTROL OF YOUR TYRANNY" Harjavti screamed at the villainess.
"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS HARJAVTI MARK MY WORKS" the dark skinned woman stormed off. Robin turned off the television smiling.
"Mission complete" He chuckled to himself, Wally zoomed in next to the boy wonder carefully kissing his cheek.
"Finally, now I can kiss you all I want" Wally laughed, Robin pushed the older boy's face away playfully.
"M'gann, you saved my son's life he calls you his blood sister now and I agree" Marie held M'gann's glove covered hands. M'gann gave her hero a bright smile.
"Yea now that, that's all done with" Wally sped over to the Television grabbing the VHS tape, he waved it in M'gann face.
"Something you wanna tell us?" he asked boldly. She let out a deep sigh, she pulled a lock of hair behind her ear.
"Growing up on mars wasn't exactly fun, I was alone and watching the television broadcast my Uncle sent home, especially Hello Megan. It made me feel better, I don't know whether it was the similarities in our names or how Megan's problems were solved in 28 minutes. Either way, she helped me through a lonely childhood so when I came to earth, and adopted a human identity, Megan seemed like the logical choice" M'gann explained herself to her friends.
"I am honored" Marie smiled at her son's savior,Robin looked into her amber eyes and gave her a look of understanding. Soon realization set in, he couldn't help but ask.
"That begs the question, what do you really look like?" he asked slightly hesitantly. She stood up gulping, she couldn't help but remember what Psimon showed her. She had to lie again, she couldn't face rejection. Her head grew slightly bigger as well as her brow. Her eyebrows disappeared and hair sank back into her skull.
"Bald M'gann, still hot though" Wally complimented her, Robin punched him hard in the arm.
"But you're hotter" he tried to save himself. Robin shot him an annoyed look.
"M'gann, you don't have to change for me" Conner held her, she pulled back her hair returning, head shrinking and eyebrows reforming.
"This is for me….This is who I am, on the inside" she placed her hands on her chest. Everyone gave her a look of understanding. Conner softly kissed her.
"Alright, we should get going" Robin stood up.
"Let me say goodbye to Garfield first." M'gann excitedly ran to the younger boys room. Her blood ran cold as she opened the door. She saw Queen Bee laying next to the sleeping boy.
" Quite the impersonator aren't you?" she asked smugly. M'gann's eyes began to glow green, indicating she was about to attack.
" Don't try it, it would be unfortunate if poor little Garfield had an accident if I go missing, nothing guarantees his safety" She stroked his cheek. The glow in her eyes dimmed, she became scared to even move, out of fear the dictator would hurt her blood brother. She stood up and walked to the martian, a sadistic grin on her mouth.
"Now, you'll do exactly what I see, if you don't what your team finding out what you really are" Queen Bee whispered to M'gann. She stared at her horrified by the threat.