Once again, Thor Odinson escapes from
his cell aboard the Collector's ship, struggling to reach the
enchanted hammer of his ultimate counterpart. Once again, he broods
over his unworthiness, imagining Odin and Gorr the God Butcher
taunting him. Once again he is recaptured and chained in his cell....
In his cell, he makes the acquaintance
of his neighbor, Loki's Hel-hound Thori, also a possession of the
Collector. Thor bursts his bonds once more and tries to escape his
cell, when Beta Ray Bill, having escaped his own cell and recovered
his hammer Stormbreaker, takes down the guards. Bill frees Thor and
mentions the other hammer he spied and Thor's mind is overcome by
jealousy and he flies into a berserker rage, seeing Bill as a rival
and wanting the hammer all to himself....
A mystery ship docks with the
Collector's ship and the visitors kill the crewmen who come to
inspect it. They are Thanos' agents Black Swan and Proxima Midnight
with the mysterious cloaked figure who requested a boon of the
conqueror. They follow the trail of the hammer and come upon the
Odinson and Beta Ray Bill fighting over Stormbreaker; Proxima tries
to seize the hammer but the cloaked figure stops her (while trying to
shield his identity from Thor) and leads them to their real quarry.
They confront the Collector who is brooding over the unreachable
prize. A fight breaks out, finished quickly by the hammer itself,
driving all back from it, awaiting the coming of Thor Odinson....
And in the prison area, Bill, the goat,
and the Hel-hound join Thor who is determined to claim the hammer, no
matter what....