Zarrko the Tomorrow Man has produced Loki to face the
combined power of Beta Ray Bill, Present Thor (Eric Masterson), and Future Thor
(Dargo Ktor) and the God of Evil starts things by blasting them into the next
room of the time cube. Zarrko orders Loki to finish them off and finds that a
Norse God cannot be commanded like an ordinary minion. Zarrko pretends that he
is helping Loki carry out a scheme against Thor Odinson. Servitor leaps ahead
to battle Dargo and succeeds only in smashing through the floor so that they
both plummet through all of the intervening levels until they reach the foundation.
Loki goes to deal with the Thor Corps and electrocutes Bill and wields a fire sword
against Eric who realizes he is in trouble….
Downstairs, Dargo fights Servitor, tricking him into being
trapped in a small area then thunking him on the head with Mjolnir. He spies a
viewscreen with Eric Thor’s picture showing and looks in on Eric’s future—and is
shocked at what he sees….
Loki continues to strike at Eric with the fire sword while
mocking his unworthiness to wield the power of Thor. In a bind, Eric manages to
grasp Stormbreaker, Bill’s hammer, and strike back but Loki uses his sorcery to
shock Eric into dropping both hammers. Loki gives Eric Thor a severe beating
and after 60 seconds, he returns to his Eric Masterson form but is also healed.
While Loki lays claim to Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, Eric distracts him by
claiming to have seen Loki’s death in the near future (which he did in issue
#432). Loki is unnerved and rushes off to demand that Zarrko find out exactly
when this is supposed to happen. The three Thors reunite and recover from their
injures and head after Loki to find him threatening Zarrko; the villain throws his
victim against the control panel and a chain reaction begins, hurling Zarrko
and Loki out into the time stream. Bill tries to pilot the ship and manages to
send Dargo, then Eric, back to their respective periods. Eric Thor flies back
to his apartment where he is reminded that the place was trashed in his battle
with Stellaris in issue #438. Eric turns back to his mortal form just as the phone
rings. It is Susan’s doctor with good news: he has found Dr. Don Blake who will
take on Susan’s case….
“If Death Be My Destiny!”
Writer: Tom DeFalco. Pencils: Patrick Olliffe. Inks: Patrick
Olliffe. Colors: Mike Rockwitz. Letters: Jon Babcock.
The Destroyer, animated by a bitter Lorelei,
unleashes its disintegrator beam at Sif, who faints from her previous injuries
and the beam misses her, striking the rock wall behind her. The cavern
collapses on them….
Balder, wielding the Sword of Midhogg, discovers Hela sealed
in a crystal prison and guarded by undead soldiers. He uses a Norn Stone to
turn the guards into toads and hacks open the crystal block….
Sif crawls out from under a rock shelf which had protected
her from the cave-in but the Destroyer immediately crashes out as well. She
runs and uses a Norn Stone to fly over the chasm full of the spirits of
tentacled monsters, then uses another to crumble the pit’s edge so that the
Destroyer falls in. Hela arrives and seals the chasm shut. Sif asks about the
missing Thor but Hela has no idea where he is….