Odinson (the unworthy Thor) and Beta
Ray Bill have met at the site of the missing Asgard. Bill offers Thor
his hammer to replace Mjolnir but Thor declines. They are then
attacked by drone planes dispatched by the mysterious being who stole
Asgard. When it seems as though they are winning the battle, the
villain detonates a nine million-year-old bomb from his collection
and Thor is clobbered....
Thor dreams that he is being crushed
under the weight of Mjolnir; a multitude of hammers fall from the
sky, pounding Odinson into a massive crater. The face of Gorr, the
God Butcher, appears, taunting him with the thought that the gods are
useless....
Thor awakens to find himself a captor
of the Collector who takes him to the stolen Asgard. However, it is
not Asgard that the Collector covets but the hammer of the Ultimate
Thor which is there. The problem is, none of the Collector's minions
can lift the hammer without being destroyed by lightning from the
hammer. The Collector therefore wants the Odinson to reveal the
secret to lifting the hammer. But this Thor doesn't know. The
Collector brings out the last surviving Dauterian and threaten to
have him killed if Thor does not come through. Suddenly the power of
the hammer fills the room and as Thor is about to take the hammer,
Collector shoots him and orders his men to chain him up with the body
of the dead Dauterian....
Epilogue: A cloaked figure enters the
Triskelion and approaches an imprisoned villain. The mystery man
needs the prisoner's help but can only offer him a tribute. The
prisoner is revealed to be Thanos, who has a tribute in mind....