Story continued from THOR (1998) #8.
Spider-Man and Thor are facing the Dark God Tokkots, who has
split himself in two to fight dual heroes. Meanwhile, a sickly Aunt May is
searching for Peter at the crowded and chaotic scene, aided by the helpful
Officer Barry McCormick; she needs the prescription Peter forgot to give her
and she is just realizing that may not have been a smart move on her part….
Spidey shoots a web to stop Thor’s errant hammer and he is
yanked away by the momentum as Thor is felled by a blast from the baddies. As
Thor recovers and speeds to catch the falling copter, Spidey manages to grab
onto a building’s parapet and Mjolnir swings around, wraps the webbing around
the twin baddies and it snaps, the hammer hitting the ground. Thor leaps into
he air to catch the copter, bringing it down to a soft landing, courtesy of the
cushioning webs provided by Spider-Man….
As Officer McCormick sits with Aunt May, Hannah Fairmont
recognizes her from the hospital and stops to offer help. Tokkots (times two)
realizes that the heroes care for these humans and they burn the ground away
around May, Hannah and the cop, leaving them stranded on an island in the
middle of the street. Spidey sees this and heads off to help Aunt May and leaps
over onto the island as the Tokkots attack. Spidey leaps to engage one enemy in
the air while Officer McCormick shoots at the other one, his bullets having
little effect. And then Thor, having recovered his hammer in time to prevent
his transformation back into Jake Olson, calls down lightning on the baddies.
Thor traps his Tokkots in a wind vortex while the other seizes Spidey by the
throat and demands Thor surrender and return to Asgard with him or he will
crumble Spidey into dust. And then Pete’s pager goes off and the monster cannot
bear the sound of it…
[At the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson is nagging Glory Grant
to keep trying to contact Peter Parker.]
…so Spidey seizes the advantage, threatening the villain
with the little device before punching his lights out. The two captive Tokkots
panic and teleport back to Asgard while Thor vows a reckoning….
Aunt May and the others trapped are rescued and Peter
regrets not watching over her. Jake Olson looks at her prescription and assures
Peter they can take care of it in the ambulance. Hannah wants to reconcile with
Jake. Peter thanks Jake for his efforts and says, “If there is any way I can
repay you.…” And Jake responds, “I feel as though you already have….”