Malik Man

Chapter 8- The Battle

            Zayn's       P. O. V.

           Christmas Day

         My first Christmas with my new family, destroyed. Zayn, don't say that. You do this for the good of inisent and defenseless citizens. But still my Christmas is ruined. I think to myself while on the way to the jewelry store. I was flying between Avery and Niall. I glanced over at her, she had sort of a pissed off look on her face. I begin reading her mind. She's thinking pretty much the same thing as me at the time.

        Then, I glanced over at Niall. He also had a pissed off look on his face. I read his mind. Why did the Joker have to ruin my Christmas? I was supposed to spend this Christmas with my family as a normal teenager. But now I'm stuck here, with my family, fighting crime (which most teenagers these days would wish they were me but, honestly, I wish I were them), on Christmas day. Niall thought.

        I see that we're over top of the jewelry store and we all land on the roof. "I have a plan," I continued. "Okay, so, I will go in through the front and he'll think I came alone. One of you guys will be watching the door. When you see me walk in, all of you would go around back. Avery when you're in use your telepathy to tell me that your there. He will think that he can defeat me but he's never met me, meaning he doesn't know what I'm capable of. He'll be in for a huge treat." I exlpain, rubbing my hands together (kind of evily) at the end of my explaination. Everyone nodded in agreement. "Okay, did you just now come up with that?" Mr. Vision asked. "Yeah." I answered.

        With that I walked to the edge of the building. I turned toward the others. Avery was behind me to watch for their signal. I knelt down amd held on to the building. I dropped and landed right in front of the door. The roof was about 25 to 30 feet above me. I swung the door open. I could here a bell ring. I saw the Joker turn to look at me.

        "You think you can defeat me?" He said in a slow and creepy voice. "I know I can." I said confidently. "But you're just a defenseless citizen in a superhero costume." He said. "And you're just a bully out for revenge." I fire back. "You're going to regret that." He threatened. "I'm sure I won't." I say.

      The next thing I knew, we were fighting, hand-and-hand, without using my powers, I didn't need them. This guy was as easy as breathing.

      All of a sudden, I heard a door quietly close. I think it was the back door. I was dodging every move. Dang I love being able to read minds. POW!!! I had swung my hand in front of me, to dodge his punch, and quickly slammed my foot on his foot. "AHHH!!!" He screamed.

       One moment I was reading the Joker's mind, and the next, me reading his mind was interrupted by someone else's thoughts. Zayn, we're behind the counter on the ground, how's it going? Someone was thinking. "It's going good." I say out loud while kicking the Joker in the shin. By the way, this is Avery. Avery was thinking. "That's what I thought." I say punching the Joker in the chest. "Who are you talking to?" The Joker asked with a confused look on his face. "You do know the reason you're badly loosing this battle is because I can read your mind making me know your next move before you even make it, right?" I say.

       Then, I guess you know what I'm thinking right now? He thought. "Yup." I answer. Good because I'm going to blow up that counter. He thought while pulling out what looked like a knife, but I knew that it was a bomb. "LOOK OUT!!! HE'S GOING TO BLOW THE COUNTER UP!!!" I warn the others.

       The next thing I know, the bomb in the Joker's hand floats out of his hand and quickly floated through the glass window and onto the street. The Joker's head followed the bomb. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see the others quietly walking behind the Joker, staying in his blind spot. When the Joker turned around, he looked shocked to see Mr. Vision standing there. Mr. Vision, then, punched the Joker in the face which made him fall to the ground. After a few seconds, the Joker stood up and went to punch Mr. Vision in the nose, but because I can read minds (and because I was right beside Mr. Vision) I swung my arm in front of Mr. Vision and pushed toward the others for me to handle him.

        This is a time of need, I need to try. I thought to myself. If i can just reverse the effect of my mind reading power I will be able to think something and someone would be able to read my mind just like I can their's. I have to try hard this was they can communicate with me without me having to soeak out loud. I thought. Zayn, I can hear you fine. There is no need, I can help, and you do know that telepathy works both ways, right? I heard Avery thinking. No, I didn't know that. I responded through telepathy. Niall can hear the both of us, too. She said (if it's slanted, it's through telepathy). What's up? Niall jumped in. Avery, Niall, do you guys have the same powers? I asked. Yup. They both said. Except I have one more, super speed. Avery said. Just know that you have to tell us what his next move is, we can't read minds, we need you to do that. Niall says. Niall was kind of behind everyone else with Avery. Niall used two fingers on both hand to move the others out of the way. Punch. I heard the Joker's thought. Guys he's going to punch. I warned Avery and Niall. On it. Avery responded. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her close her hand, leaving two fingers up, and lift her hand up, I saw the Joker begin to rise along with her. "Ahh!! Put me down! I'm afraid of heights!" He screamed. I put my arm out like I was going to punch him but, then, flipped my arm (to where my ZAP!!! was showing). All of a sudden, there were lightning bolts shooting out of my tatoo and toward the Joker. They hit him and electrocute him. He falls on the floor, eyes closed, looking dead, with smoke rising from his hair and clothes. I turned around to see everyone standing there in amazement. "You guys didn't know that I could do that?"I said. "No." They all answered, except Avery. "I did." She said. With that, we all had left the jewekry store.