"-_- What... what exactly did he do to me?" Eric questioned uncertainly.

"He turned you into an adorable little child. <3" She picked him up and rubbed her face into his, "D'awww who's a cute little mutant? Who's a cutie pie?"

"Celeste!" he complained immediately, "I AM NOT AN ADORABLE CHILD! Put me ddooowwwnnn" his voice unintentionally sounded like a childish whine.

Loki rolled his eyes.

Celeste had started throwing him up in the air but stopped when she felt something bump her leg. "Hm?" Her staff had 4 furry little legs and was bumping into her. She looked up at the chaos, "OH right." She blushed forgetting about everything else. She set Eric down and picked up her staff and did the same action which made her voice boom throughout the school grounds.

"Now hear this. Stand down everyone. Buddy system up and meet in the front yard."

Thor came around the corner and couldn't help but let out a great laugh at the position Loki was stuck in.

The rage in Loki's eyes was evident and growing. His fingers began to twitch as he fought the spell that bound him there and then suddenly his body burst to flames and from the fire he stepped towards Celeste untouched, "Did you really think you could capture a GOD?! I AM LOKI!" he yelled angrily, "and you will treat me with respect and honour! Or I will destroy you and your precious little school" he waved his staff around and the buildings began to tremble.

"No, not capture. More like distract." Miss Ambrose stated as Thor's hammer went flying into the side of his face.

Loki went flying into the top corner of a building, smashing it apart and sending debris falling below. Normally that wouldn't be an issue, but the girl who had given Eric a cupcake was standing there.

Before he even knew what he was doing, Eric bolted towards her, shoving her harshly out of the way as it all fell on top of him instead. He was completely buried.

"MAX!" She yelled. Bolting toward the rubel. As that part had a part of the spell that held the barrier up, it soon came down.
"Max. Max!" She yelled, and actually pulled Loki from the rubal and pushed him aside.

Thor was there to grab him, "Going somewhere little brother?"

Miss Ambrose stood back and slammed the ground with her staff, her hair flowing about her as pieces of the debris slowly began to float covered in a pink glow.

"And miss our lunch date?" Loki quipped, though clearly irritated at his brother, "Never." suddenly he was surrounded by green smoke and vanished.

Soon the rubble was cleared away enough to reveal Max, curled up under a metal beam that had somehow wrapped around him in a protective shell. He looked up at Celeste with half-open eyes, "... ow" he groaned and passed out.

The ticking of the clock, a cool gentle blowing in the window. Miss Turner sat beside the hospital bed in the infirmary. She rung out the face cloth and dabbed Max's little forehead.

He had a broken rib and a sprained wrist from all the activities but otherwise he'd be alright. His grey-blue eyes opened slowly, staring at the ceiling for a moment, "uhg..." he mumbled, "that was one awful dream..."

"Not a dream." Miss Turner said after a moment.

Eric blinked a few times, then sat up sharply, wincing at the pain in his ribs, "No! nononono" he leaped out of bed and found the nearest mirror to stare at himself. He could barely see over the counter in the attached bathroom, but he could see enough. The bright eyes of a child stared back at him, no wrinkles, no furrowed brow or grey-white hair. "I'm... I'm... A CHILD?! NO! No freaking WAY! No one will respect me like this! I'm never going to live this down"

"Yes they will respect you." Miss Turner walked into the bathroom and knelt beside him, "Class 2-3 is working on a cure...Everything will be ok." She smiled sweetly.

Eric looked at her, "... why are you here?" he asked suddenly. Why would anyone be visiting him in the infirmary?

"Every else is rebuilding. Miss Abrose is yelling at Shield.. You saved my life." She wrapped her arms around him, "Thank you."

Eric didn't know how to respond to that, he rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "well... your cupcake was really good -_-" he replied, having nothing else to say on the matter. Had he really saved the life of a homo sapien? He looked at her, "Wait, shield it here?" he got to his feet, a little more carefully this time because his ribs really hurt, "owowow" he cringed, it was a little painful to breathe but he was determined to go out and see what was happening.

"Your ribs are broken. Here." She picked him up and took him to the window. Down in the courtyard, Miss Ambrose and Nick Fury seemed to be having Who can yell the loudest fight.

"It's my ribs, not my legs" Eric complained, "I've seen Summers deal with Fury plenty of times, I need to go down there"

"You're hurt and too much movement is bad for you right now... Shallow your pride and accept help. I'll take you down." She stated. "After you eat some soup." She set him down into a chair and pulled out a thremus.

"-_- despite appearances I'm not a child, I think I can take care of myself" he tried to get up again but yelped as he put too much pressure on his wrist. "T_T"

"I know you're not a child. You're my teacher. But you're acting like now due to your low blood sugar." She stated in a calm not judging voice. She blew on the soup in the themus cup, "Here, drink this and I can give you some pain killers." She handed him the cup.

Eric looked at the soup skeptically, "... you're a very strange homo-sapien" he stated as he cautiously took the soup, sniffed it and sipped it. "<3_<3"

She smiled, "I'll take that as a compliment...Good? Is it too salty?" She asked getting up and going to the cabinet to get him some medicine.

"It's..." he cleared his throat, "uh, very good. Thank you."