Hello everyone, it's the first time I write such a long story in English (my mother tongue being French), so if you notice mistakes, you know why. I hope you'll enjoy my story.

Edit (13/03/13): As I noticed there were many shameful mistakes, I decided to correct all 23 chapters. So now you should be able to read without cringing at my bad English. But that's not all: I also took this opportunity to fill in some plot holes. So I really hope that people who stopped reading my story will enjoy discovering this edited version. Also, if you've already read it, it's not necessary to read the new version but I would be very grateful if you could tell me whether this edit was useful or not. Thanks ;)

Part 1

Chapter 1

Today had been a hard day: I took care of newborn leopards, helped with alligators' vaccines, and got rather seriously bitten by a tiger. Even though working at a zoo had always been the job of my dreams, it was very tiresome. Right now, I wanted nothing more than going to bed and not waking up until next month. Besides, working in Germany when I barely knew how to speak German didn't help matters. Hopefully, I could rely on my special power to get some answers. Since I'm seven years old, I've developed an ability not only to read minds but also to control them. So I can communicate without talking and take possession of somebody's brain to do whatever I want with them. But I had learned that if I wanted to keep my power a secret, I had to use it as little as possible.

I parked my car, and on my short walk to my ratty apartment, I came across a huge stone building. It appeared a grand reception for rich people was held in there tonight: there were red carpets everywhere and lots of luxurious vehicles parked around. I've been living here since two months but I've always been too tired to go and see what this edifice was. Not that I really cared about it, but as it seemed rather famous, I felt stupid about not knowing. However, it seemed now was not the right moment to get in and investigate. Indeed, a crowd of screaming people was running out of this place as if they had been told a bomb was inside.

I was curious enough not to run away with them. Instead, I stayed in the square across the building to try to understand what was happening. Soon, I spotted the source of this mess. A weird-looking man was wearing a black and green armor and a golden helmet with gigantic curved horns. He was also holding a kind of scepter with a glowing blue stone incrusted in it. Aside from his video game character costume, I immediately knew he was responsible for this panic because of his suspicious behavior. Indeed, he was the only one to walk calmly. I eventually got the proof that I was right when, as he was crossing the street, he sent what looked like a blue mass of energy on a police car to destroy it. I was so stunned by such an unreal scene that I stood there gaping for at least thirty seconds. Was that magic? If so, it was nothing like my power. When I realized the evil magician was coming toward me, I snapped out of my shock and turned around, intending to escape. However, I quickly noticed the madman had surrounded the group of people I was in thanks to clones of himself.

"Kneel before me," the man with the leather armor ordered.

As everyone was still desperately running to find a way to escape, this time, he shouted.

"I said: KNEEL!"

Everyone obeyed instantly, including me. As the man came closer, I could finally see his grin, the proof he delighted in humiliating us. I was tempted to try my power on him to stop his delirium, but not only I feared it would have no effect on him since he was a magician, but I also couldn't do it before all these people. Anyway, I didn't even know what he wanted, and if I could survive without revealing my abilities, I would go for it. Besides, in view of what he was capable of, discretion surely was the best way to stay alive. Moreover, the madman didn't look like he was about to kill us all. Not yet. He just kept smirking at us, looking clearly satisfied with our obedience.

"Is not this simpler?" he asked as he began to walk among the kneeling crowd. "Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."

'Such a sick megalomaniac,' I thought and rolled my eyes.

I would have laughed at his nonsense if he wasn't glaring at me right now. Swiftly, I dropped my head forward to stare at the ground and hoped he wouldn't kill me on the spot before I had enough time to try to defend myself. Hopefully, there was another suicidal person. I looked over my shoulder and saw an old man standing.

"Not to men like you," he contested.

When I looked back at the horned psycho, I noticed a dangerous smile on his lips. Unlike me, this guy had the guts to openly challenge him and offer him a show. There was no way this would end well and I did not want to see someone die under my very eyes.

While the maniac in leather replied, "There are no men like me", I tried to take control of the other man's brain. I did my best to keep calm, but my fear was too strong. The man felt it in his head and fought against my intrusion. As the old man grunted and was about to grab his head, I prayed the wannabe world ruler wouldn't caught me rising my hand in the old man's direction. I focused my power on him and finally brought him back down on his knees in the safety of the crowd. Now he was safe. Too bad I couldn't tell the same about myself.

"You thought I would be blind enough not to see you?" the magician angrily asked while pointing his spear at me.

He was about to kill me. But I wouldn't let him. As I stood up, I gathered all my power to send it straight at him. I easily got into his mind, but when I went to take full control of him, I just heard him think:

'Is that all you've got? You really disappoint me.'

He then pushed me so roughly out of his head that it made mine hurt. Never before had I been rejected to the point of being forced to leave a mind. I had expected him to resist me but not to utterly defeat me. It was the first time I failed at taking control of anyone. And now I was about to pay for my weakness with my life.

The psycho send a mass of blue energy toward me. I closed my eyes and waited for the pain to come, but all I heard was an echo. As I opened my eyes, I saw a man wearing a blue spandex. Seriously, was is Fat Tuesday already?

I immediately regretted thinking that remark when I realized this guy had just saved my life. It seemed that the white and red shield in the newcomer's hand had send the magic back at his invoker. Much to my satisfaction, the magician was the one to kneel this time.

"You know, the last time I was in Germany and saw a man standing above everybody else, we ended up disagreeing," the man in blue stated as he walked to the horned one.

I quickly thought about running away, but I was too scared of drawing the madman's attention to me again.

"This soldier. A man out of time," he commented while standing up.

"I'm not the one who's out of time."

A plane lit up the place and a female voice said:

"Loki, drop the weapon and stand down."

Then everything went very fast. The man by the name of Loki send an energy ball at the airplane which hopefully dodged it. At the same time, the superhero threw his shield at his opponent's face and the crowd began to run and scream again.

Now that they were fighting, I could discretely flee from this place so that this weirdo would never find me and my power ever again. Even if I would have been delighted to see the mad guy getting his ass kicked, it was far too dangerous to stay. As if too prove that fact, another magic mass came toward me just when I started to move. Thankfully, Mr. Spandex was fast enough to save me again.

"I strongly advise you against trying to run away."

"You will leave this woman alone!" the soldier shouted while running at his adversary to punch him in the face.

There was a cracking noise and blood oozed from his nose, but it didn't daze him. He counter-attacked immediately, using his scepter as a spear. The other one dodged the blow and struck him in the stomach with the edge of his shield, backing him off. Then the sound of a flying engine coming closer at a dangerous speed could be heard, and in no time to see what it was, it collided with the man in leather, sending him off twenty feet further. As everyone stilled, I finally saw the machine was none other than Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man. I was so astonished to see him there for real that I forgot to escape before attention was drawn on me again.

"Will everything be OK, ma'am?" the guy in blue asked me when he noticed my shocked expression.

"Yes, thank you so much for saving me," I sincerely answered.

"Always here to serve," he replied with a Colgate smile.

"Hey, Captain, stop hitting on the lady and help me to get Lokitty in the plane. I wouldn't want him to scratch my armor."

Loki grind his teeth when he heard his name distorted in such a stupid way. Even though he was sitting on the ground with his hands in the air and without his scepter and helmet, he was still intimidating me with his naughty smirk full of dark promises.

"What? You too think she's a hottie?" Tony inquired so shamelessly I had to repress a blush.

"Well, I'll let you take care of him. Bye."

I was afraid Loki might spill the beans about my power, but I didn't want them to notice something was wrong with me. So I walked away at a normal pace instead of running as my heart prayed me to do. It turned out I should have listened to it.

"I would not let her go if I were you. She hides a great power."

"Which one? The power to make you fall in love?" Tony mocked him.

"She's a telepath. She got in this very person's mind," he indicated, pointing at the old man who was watching him getting arrested.

I was feeling very nervous, but I was careful to show no sign of it. I hoped they would laugh at him.

"What do you want? Buy time? Stop fooling around and get in the airplane," the one Stark called Captain ordered while making Loki stand up.

I was relieved to hear this, but it was short-lived. Indeed, the old man was coming our way. I couldn't walk off or make him go away: it would look too suspicious as Iron Man already spotted him. Mind-telling him not to approach was also out of question, and taking control of him while talking to the heroes was too risky. It looked like I had no choice but to pray he would not testify against me.

"Even though there are men like you, there is also a justice in men like them," he said to the magician with a satisfied smile.

"Sir, can you help us to make him look more of a fool than he already does by telling us this young lady didn't do a thing to you?" Tony asked to mock Loki who, to my great regret, still looked confident.

"I don't think she did anything to me. I have some blurred memories about earlier, but..."

"See? He just wanted to get me into trouble because I rolled my eyes at his stupid speech."

"But," the old man repeated with an authoritarian tone. "I remember she reached her hands out to him. It was rather strange."

The more the man in leather exulted, the more I glared at him. At this point, I had little chance of getting out of this mess. Still, I wondered why he said I was a telepath. Maybe he thought I just told the old man to kneel, and that I was merely looking in his mind to check if was about to kill me. All I knew was that he was extremely suspicious. If he really wanted revenge, he would have said I was not only a telepath, but also a mind-controller.

"Really?" Tony asked. "Then maybe the wannabe king was right. Anyway it's not as if we cared."

"We do, Mr Stark," a woman interfered.

She was a tad smaller than me, and yet she looked far more like a model than me. She was slender, she had red hair, and she was wearing a black leather catsuit which gave little work to do to imagination.

"She's on our watch list."

"What?"

I didn't believe for a second I was watched by anyone. I had always been very careful with my power, so how could anyone know about it?

"SHIELD has been looking for someone with mind powers for a long time and it appears you are our main target, Miss Trix Nash. You will have to come with us."

I couldn't help but gape and blink at her in bewilderment. I wondered how much they knew about me, but obviously they ignored the extent of my power. So the situation was not desperate yet. Only time would tell.

"I suppose I can't refuse."

I finally gave in and reluctantly followed the redhead to the plane. Loki's glee was so strong I could feel it without even reading his mind. Who knew what else was in there?

It seemed I would have to wait for a long time before I could get some sleep.

So, how was it? I couldn't resist using the original lines of the movie, so downloaded the subtitles, I don't know how people got them, but they're very useful. Reviews, please ?