In the far future, Zarrko the Tomorrow Man is trying to
adjust his equipment so he can watch the fight between Thor and Gladiator but
no matter how much trouble he puts on his techs, nothing works right…
…as Gladiator kicks Mjolnir so that it lands at the airport.
He then hits Thor so that he crashes down into a truck. Amanda Fairmont looks
inside and discovers Jake Olson on fire; she uses the stacked linen to try to
put out the fire while calling 911. Gladiator arrives looking for Thor but he
is yanked out from behind by Thor Girl who recovers from his return blow and
delivers a beating to him. Meanwhile, Christine Collins arrives with the
ambulance, recognizes Jake and sends Mandy away. She curls Jake’s hand into a
fist and strikes it on the ground but he is not transformed into Thor; she
concentrates to locate Mjolnir….
The trolls led by Ulik use the mask of invisibility to
invade Asgard, surprising Heimdall. Sif hears his clarion call and Balder confirms
it. Sif commands Balder to find Thor while she leads the charge; Balder
reasonably suggests that as she is the one who can teleport, perhaps it should
be the other way around. So she sets off for Midgard….
The defeated Gladiator seeks only a means of escape so he
drops a water tank on Thor Girl and uses his cold breath to freeze her in
place. He then looks for Jake but he is gone and he guesses it is the hammer
Thor will try to retrieve, following them to the airport. Christine has arrived
there with Jake, locating Mjolnir on a runway. She curls Jake’s hand around it
and taps it on the ground just as Gladiator comes crashing down, driving Thor
and Gladiator into the ground where the God of Thunder tries to learn why his
erstwhile ally is now his enemy. The combatants leave the hole to find
themselves in the path of an airliner coming in for a landing….
At the hospital, Jake’s mom comes in looking for him,
surprising Jane Foster and Hannah Fairmont. But they are interrupted by an
emergency call from Keith Kincaid’s room. Then Mandy rushes in, claiming that
Jake has been badly burned….
In Hel, Hela shushes the whiny Volla, and summons one of her
minions, entrusts him with a mission and sends him out….
Jane dashes upstairs to find her husband has suddenly
awakened from his coma but something seems…off….
In Asgard, the heroes battle the trolls and Ulik reaches
Odin in his Odinsleep in order to kill him but Balder stands in his way. A
battle commences….
Sif arrives on Earth to find the frozen Tarene. She breaks
the ice and immediately Thor Girl is off looking for Gladiator. They head for
the airport where Thor and Gladiator have accidentally flipped the jet on its
roof. They must seize it, flip it back, and place it safely on the ground…and
then stop its momentum so it doesn’t crash into the terminal. An angry Thor
unleashes a blast on the reckless Gladiator who withstands it, seeing it as
confirmation of Thor’s dangerous qualities. Thor pounds him then Thor girl
arrives to pound him some more. Sif arrives to tell Thor he is needed back in
Asgard…
…where Ulik has defeated Balder to approach the All-Father,
who awakens (off-stage) clobbers the troll and appears on Earth, announcing his
return to Thor and Sif. Gladiator tells Odin he knows what is coming and begs
him to kill Thor. Odin is surprised to find Gladiator knows of “the reigning”
and teleports him back to his own time. Odin scolds Tarene for dressing in a
garb far beneath her dignity as the Designate. He then denounces Thor for
neglecting the needs of Asgard to adventure on Earth so he changes Thor into
his mortal form, Jake Olson with all of his burn injuries, and departs….
Back in the future, Gladiator informs Zarrko that Thor is
too strong for him. Zarrko then indicates the result of this: the surrounding
society, a wasteland inhabited by the hungry and the dying….
Christine Collins hurries back to her apartment as her
disguise spell is about to end. She steps through her magic Mirror of Mysolljh to reveal the
Enchantress….
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