Youthful Loki is secured to a chair as King Loki, his future self, explains their tortuous history. Young Loki proposed to the All-Mother to become her agent in exchange for Old Loki’s crimes being deleted from history and memory in a bid for redemption. The villain then takes us to a future desolate Earth where a much older Thor vows vengeance against him; Loki sneers and says that he merely pulled the plug on a Midgard destroyed by its inhabitants. Thor attacks and Loki raises the Avengers from the dead to take him on….
Back to the present: King Loki mentions several adventures from past issues and brings the story ahead ten years when Loki’s defeat of Ultron is enough to wipe out his debt and set him free. So why would he go back to being evil? Evil Loki had manipulated young Loki into freeing the evil one, who then offered the All-Mother a stable future with Thor on the throne—but only if Loki is the bad guy. So why all this? Because no matter how many acts of heroism he does to redeem himself, he will always be thought of as the God of Lies and never trusted. Kong Loki allows his passion to burn as a literal fire inside his young counterpart—which will lead to Evil Loki’s triumph….