Hold: Malik absorbs or intercepts attacks, abilities, objects, or emotions. Time for each hold is limited, and the longer he holds something, the more mutated it becomes.
Release: He can release the power in original or twisted forms. A fireball might come back as lava. A telepathic blast might turn into a psychic feedback loop.
He can also combine held energies—for example, releasing an enemy's rage and his own kinetic charge together to explode an entire block.
Holding too many conflicting things causes instability. Memory loss. Shifts in personality. Ghosts of held powers whispering in his mind.