SuperCorp Chronicles

Chapter 125

"Are you sure you're ready for this J'onn?" Kara asked him as the martian braced himself for a reunion he never thought he'd have.

"How do I explain that I ran away and left them to suffer here." J'onn asked.

"I'm still trying to figure out how they're still alive, since keeping Green Martians alive doesn't line up with what we've heard about the whites." Alex said as M'att rejoined them with two of his soldiers, N'keyy and T'ill'all, walked up to them.

"M'yrnn J'onzz was the high religious leader of the green martians." N'keyy said.

"Not even the worst of our kind would kill the prime servant of our god H'ronmeer." M'att said.

"Which in turn saved his granddaughters as well. We saved them when we raided a white martian base near the D'orien Hive and found them in a green martian prison camp." T'ill'all said.

"But how did you know that J'onn was still alive?" Kara asked.

"We didn't. We weren't the ones who sent the message. It was one of your daughters. They both have very strong psychic powers and one of them seems to have inadvertently sent you a signal without realizing it." M'att said to J'onn's shock.

"I just hope they'll believe it's really me, since they likely think I died centuries ago." J'onn said.

"You'll get through to them J'onn and then we'll bring them back to Earth with us, since it's not safe for any Green Martian to be on Mars right now." Kara said.

"But you can't leave quite yet." T'ill'all said.

"Why not?" J'onn asked.

"We believe that while the white martians wouldn't kill your father, they did try to extract information from him. We need to know if they got any from him, especially the location of the Staff of Kolar." M'att said.

"That's a myth. A legend that Martian parents tell their kids to scare them into being good." J'onn said, clearly distraught.

"No, it's real and we believe the White Martians have found it." N'kkey said.

"What is this staff?" Connor asked.

"According to the stories, it, along with the sacred symbols of Martian religion, were gifts from our god H'ronmeer to his children, the first white Martian Phobos and the first green martian Deimos." M'gann said.

"Wait, as in the moons of Mars and according to our mythology, the Greek gods of fear and terror and sons of Ares, the god of war, whose Roman name was Mars?" Alex asked.

"Trust me, I was just as surprised as you are when I first came to Earth and learned all that. But anyways, the book of sacred symbols could be shared, but the staff couldn't. Deimos chose the symbols but Phobos chose the staff, which angered their father." J'onn said and M'att nodded.

"According to our lore, in the beginning, Phobos and Deimos were best friends as well as brothers and our peoples lived in harmony for a time. Until the gifts were given and then it turned into a whole Caine and Able kind of situation, the two brothers started fighting until H'ronmeer separated them." M'att said.

"Deimos and the Green Martians were allowed to stay on the surface while Phobos and the White Martians were banished underground." T'ill'all said.

"Then how did you meet M'gann's mother?" Alex was the one to ask.

"By the time I was born, the war had already begun. I'm younger than my cousins over there. But anyways, there was peace for generations until eventually the whites became tired of being forced to live underground and decided that they'd been forced into exile for long enough." M'gann said.

"They took up arms and attacked us without warning. The Green Martians were taken completely by surprise and weren't able to fight back properly. Perhaps if the whites hadn't shown so much dishonor in their attack, we might have had a chance to survive." J'onn said bitterly.

"We're not all like that J'onn. Most of us here agree that there was no honor in what the rest of our kind was doing to yours and while some tried to speak out, they were quickly silenced. Even Princess J'inn was forced to go into hiding on Earth when she dared to disagree with her family's philosophies." N'keyy said.

"I barely escaped with my life, let alone with M'gann in tow." J'inn said.

"Thank you for saving her by the way. I'd hoped that M'gann's birth could have served as a catalyst to end the war, but despite the fact that she is half white, the fact that she took the same views as her mother and I caused her to be marked for death." M'att said.

"Hopefully someday we'll be able to change things. But how did you change your skin to green, since it's not just a disguise, we can tell that you've actually changed your species." N'keyy asked.

"You remember how one of the methods our kind used to exterminate the greens was to use our blood to turn them into white martians?" J'inn asked.

"Of course." M'att said.

"Well, scientists on Earth found a way to reverse engineer it so that instead of turning green martians white, it turns white martians green. M'gann and I did so voluntarily to renounce the cruelty of our people." J'inn said.

"You turned yourselves green?" T'ill'all asked in shock that they'd do something like that.

"Without hesitation or regret." M'gann said.

"Enough. I think we've gotten sidetracked. J'onn, you can't put this off any longer. It's time to reunite with your family." Kara said and J'onn took a deep breath before he nodded and made sure he was in his martian form before he walked into the tunnel that led to the room his family was in.