Having revealed herself to be his mother, Mother Earth heals
the wounded Thor in the Eternal city in the Andes. She explains to the puzzled
god that she is the last of the Elder Gods and Odin wished for a son who had an
affinity for Midgard as well as Asgard and so the two mated and she bore a son
who was given to Frigga to raise as her own. She also explains how the
All-Mothers of the various pantheons bore children to be the heralds of their people,
the twelve youths delivered to the Celestials last issue. The threat of the
Celestials, Thor realizes, is what motivated much of Odin’s otherwise mysterious
actions over the last few years, including forcing a fake Ragnarok. Mother
Earth then reminds him that Odin and all of the Norse gods are dead, their life
force having animated the Destroyer which was itself destroyed (last issue) by
the Celestials. Mother also suggests Thor visit the pother pantheons to borrow
a bit of their life force to reanimate his people. Setting out, Thor approaches
the Eternals who are mourning their chief Zuras, who died in the collapse of
the Uni-Mind. Sersi fixes up Thor’s torn clothing and he is off…
Thor approaches each of the other pantheons and asks the
chief god for a bit of power to resurrect the Norse gods. Most of them are
obliging, Zeus, Osiris, Yu-Huang, and more; the problem comes when he reaches
Nirvana: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva rule jointly, and their consensus is to say
no. Thor challenges the snide Shiva to a fight and the Hindu god obliges, with
his four arms bearing four weapons, he attacks Thor (two arms, one weapon). The
Thunder God is hard-pressed until he creates a vortex around them that transports
them to the Rainbow Bridge. On home ground, Thor has the advantage and defeats
his foe, threatening to hurl him into the void unless he gives up some of his
life force. No fool, Siva hands over some of this energy and threatens revenge
against Thor….
Thor returns to Odin’s throne room and unleashes the
combined force of the pantheons and Odin revives, and in turn the All-Father raises
all the other Asgardians to life. Father and son are reconciled and there is
great feasting, lasting for nine days….
Ikaris, Thena, and Ajak also appear among the Eternals.