[The roof bends precariously under the cyborg's weight. However.. from above, Raiden gets an view of the scene unfolding below.

Whatever it was searching for in the ground, Loki's curious gaze only spots it rising from between the vines and sloughing over the form of the gardener and her daughter...

The beast beats once, and then twice against the glowing, cross shaped barrier that materialized in front of it and then with an enormous heave, clockwork hands curl around the edges of it, and sizzling, rips it apart.

It surges forward, limbs dragging it towards the assembled group at uncanny speed.]