As I'm crawling on my hands and knees through the vents, I kept thinking about what I would do, how I would stop Laurence. Nothing came to mind.

You have no idea what you are doing.

Shut up, you're not helping.

Neither is your disrespect toward-

Say 'king' and I'll be the one trying to kill you.

Loki growled, but said nothing. Something rocked the vent.

Loki…was that you?

Are you really that ignorant so as to ask that question?

The vent rocked even more.

What the hell's happening?

Stop thinking, keep moving!

I crawled faster, which felt a little silly. And to make it worse, I fell through the vent bottom. And if you don't think that's bad, try falling into the enemy's office. Right in front of him.

"Ah, Child. Glad to see you again. I knew you would come crawling back to me."

Oh GOD.

"Oh come now, don't be so cruel."

I stood up, then cried out. Crap, I fell on my leg wrong.

"Oh, Child, what have you done to yourself?" Laurence bent down. "You're hurt. You poor," He rested his hand on the side of my face. "Poor child, defenseless. Oh, but don't worry." He stood and pressed a button. "I'll take care of you."

The carrier shifted to the right violently and all the lights started to flash red. I slid to the wall. As that happened, windows broke, people were screaming, and I heard a roar.

And there goes my arm.

Amara-

Laurence turned around. "Who was that?"

I held my arm. Crap again.

"Who was that? Answer me!"

Ah, so the monster can still hear his master. How quaint.

Laurence froze. …Loki?

Master, primitive being.

Laurence stared in disbelief. You were supposed to be dead.

And you were never supposed to be alive.

Laurence smirked. And what are you going to do now, 'Master'? Try and stop me?

No, she is.

Laurence looked dead into my eyes. I bit my lip. "Yeah, what he said."

"And what are you going to do? Since 'Master' is now in your brain, you must not be getting any peace."

I lifted my good leg and kicked him in the knee. He let me go and fell backwards.

I stood on one leg and tested the other one. Good, it's not broken.

"But it's about to be!" Laurence dove and knocked me over. I hit my back on the wall- okay, it was the floor now. I tried picking myself up, and ended up pressing another button. The carrier jerked the other way, and I ended up landing on Laurence. Or, what used to be Laurence. Laurence's body had grown, his brain looking as if it would bulge out of his head. His blue eye had grown to the size of a baseball, and his hands were abnormally large.

Now you can see why he is a monster.

I sprang up and held on to the desk. Luckily, it was bolted to the floor in the same spot.

"Wait, Child! Please, don't leave me!"

I turned around. His hand reached up, then fell to the floor. "Don't leave me."

It's own body is collapsing under its own weight. It can't move.

"Child, Amara, please! Don't go with Loki! I-I'll do anything for you! Please, don't go!"

"Child!"

I looked around. "Steve?"

"Child! Where are you!"

"In here!" I cried out. "Help!"

"No, wait! Stop!" Laurence said. His body lost all its skin, and now it was all muscle. His hand reached up and grabbed my ankle. Tightly.

Now, everyone knows that I'm not a screamer, but seeing just muscle and teeth and arms bulging out of a shirt with no lips or eye sockets and fangs?

I screamed at the top of my lungs. The doors fell open, yes, fell open, and Steve came in, climbing over the door sill.

"Child! What-What the hell is that?"

"Get him off me!" I kicked at Laurence's hand.

"No!" His voice had warped. I could hardly understand him. Steve pulled himself into the room and gave one firm punch at Laurence's hand. The creature screamed and fell back.

Steve grabbed me by the waist and jumped out the office window to the floor below. Everything was a disaster, papers everywhere, computer screens all over the floor.

"Child, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I'm fine, but we need to get out of here. Now."

We waddled toward the next door and started running, myself half-limping.

"You mind telling me what was that thing in there?" Steve asked.

"Would you believe me if I told you that thing was Laurence?"

Steve stopped. "You're kidding right?"

CRACCCKKK! The floor above us was about to give. "I don't think we have time to kid right now. Run!"

We sped up, just as the wall fell. And what was on the other side of the wall?

You probably guessed right. Laurence looked a lot worse. He was all red-ish green, and I guessed the shirt ripped, explaining the remaining cloth. He was crying out.

"Child, no! Bring her back!" The creature ran toward us, and Steve pushed me to the side while getting thrown to the roof.

"Steve!"

Steve fell right back down, landing on his back.

He groaned.

"Oh god, are you okay?"

"Back away from him!" Laurence's monster hand swung, and I ended up getting thrown to the side and hitting my head. Laurence towered over me, and gave me a fangly smile. I looked up in horror. He was as big as the other guy Banner always talks about.

Speaking of the Hulk…

"RRRRRRRAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"