An angry Gorr (the God of God-Butchers) confronts the wounded
Thor and Loki, overcoming them with his black mental goo and nailing them to
large X-shaped crosses; he explains that his soul was bonded to the Necrosword
and when the sword returned, he came with it. Gorr tells them that the reason Loki
summoned him was that he was afraid to kill Thor himself; Thor responds by
shooting lightning out of his mouth and shooting the bad god into space. Thor
breaks free and summons Mjolnir back from the sun; it comes, passing through Asgard
on its way, picking up a sword. Thor calls on Loki to aid him in battling Gorr
but Loki only laughs. In space, Gorr summons the Necrosword and send it after
the planets….
Light years away, the Goddesses of Thunder are battling the
Necro-Ravens when the creatures suddenly retreat. They seize on Shadrack’s clue
to go back to the beginning: the beginning was a prayer from Midgard. Down
there, humans gather to bow and pray to the crucified Loki, who rejects their
piety….
The Necrosword flies through space, shattering planet after
planet, sun after sun. Thor arrives and Gorr traps him in black ooze, telling
him he is going to murder everyone on Midgard; angry, Thor breaks loose as Gor
explains how he intends to create a new race of humans who have no need of
gods. Loki arrives and grabs Gorr by the throat, telling him he doesn’t need
Gorr to kill his own brother; Gorr responds by cutting off Loki’s arm. Then
Thor clobbers their foe and tends to Loki who reveals that he did intend to
kill Thor and he summoned Gorr to kill him (Loki) afterward. The two gods are
then overwhelmed by an ocean of black ooze, Thor telling Loki that he lied:
Freyja never gave up on Loki, and then they sink into darkness and nothingness….