Volstagg, having been tricked by Norman Osborn into destroying a crowded sports arena causing many casualties, makes his way back to Broxton where he surrenders to the local police. In Asgard, King Balder looks for a way toward a peaceful resolution and in the meantime bids his warriors join him in a feast. The blind soothsayer Knut enters with prophecies of doom for Asgard; the city will fall, Knut himself will die the next day. Tyr scoffs and Heimdall foresees nothing; Knut tells the latter his vision will fail and the former that the God of War will die on the morrow. Loki offers to help the distraught old man back to his room. Once there, Loki waits for the bell to toll midnight, and when it does he makes the first of Knut’s prophecies come true, the one spoken of his death….
Hours later Heimdall awakens to find his bedroom has been transported to the dark and fiery heart of Asgard. Now he foresees the invasion force coming but he has no way of alerting his brethren….
In Broxton, the Lady Kelda visits Bill’s parents to inform them of the death of their son….
The siege of Asgard begins and Hogun discovers that Knut is dead; he then rouses the warriors to battle….
At the Broxton police station, Volstagg and the cops see TV reports that Thor has been defeated and captured by Osborn’s Dark Avengers. The cops let Volstagg out of jail and assist him in creating a video in which he tells his side of the story. It is then posted on the internet where the nation begins to debate Osborn’s police action against the Norse Gods. Thor arrives in town and confronts a surprised Volstagg—but it isn’t Thor, it is the clone called Ragnarok, who prepares to kill the lusty warrior as an act of justice….