The
Destroyer, clutching Mjolnir, stands over the fallen Thor and proclaims
victory. Then the creature seems to weaken and Thor questions this but
Thunderstrike suddenly appears and clout the Destroyer. But the Destroyer
clouts him back and the image of Hela, Goddess of Death, appears over the armor
to reveal that it is animated by the spirit of Garm, her Hellhound sidekick. Thunderstrike
returns to hammer at the Destroyer but does not affect him very much until the
two Thors team up to hit him together. Hela commands Garm to flee and he does,
crashing through a building. The two heroes must stop to shore up the building
to keep it from collapsing and the villain gets away. Thor discovers a broken
piece of Mjolnir on the battleground and takes it with him….
In
Wundagore, the Godpack are hard at work at the High Evolutionary’s purposes
while Jane Foster and her son Jimmy Kincaid relax. Jane strikes up a
conversation with Blitziana but catches on from the godling’s questions that
she is interested in Thor. But when she mentions it, Blitziana dumps her on the
ground with a snide quip and moves on….
Thunderstrike
tows Thor behind him as he flies up to the Empire State Building’s observation
deck to scan the city for the fugitive Destroyer. A little boy wants to shake
Thor’s hand as his hero but Thor doesn’t even notice him and the kid cries.
Thor climbs to the top of the antenna and spots their quarry below. The two
heroes fly down while the crowd puzzles over the identity of the bearded guy
with the hammer while Thor was without one. The kid explains and gets it all
correct but the crowd just marvels at the kid’s active imagination….
Thor
and Thunderstrike arrive in the alley where Thor had spotted the Destroyer but
it is not in sight—and then the building collapses, burying them under tons of
rubble. Destroyer appears and blasts the rubble with his energy weapon, fusing
the rubble together into solid rock. The villain approaches Thunderstrike (Thor
is almost completely buried) to kill him with Mjolnir….
In
Asgard, Odin addresses the curious assembly (Sif, Balder, Beta Ray Bill,
Warriors Three, others), saying that as Ragnarök is drawing near, every
Asgardian has a part to play but Thor has abandoned Asgard. And so, since Thor
is necessary to victory, Odin has restored the Thunder God to his rightful
homeland and draws back a curtain. The assembled heroes are shocked and
stunned….
The
Destroyer is about to strike Thunderstrike with Mjolnir when Thor emerges from
the rubble and fights him. The two Thors battle the one armor with Thor taking
the brunt of the beating until he comes to a realization. He dashes off,
leaving Eric to tussle with their foe and returns with the comatose Dr. Donald
Blake. Thor has puzzled out that it is both Garm and Blake animating the
Destroyer as the armor has never been animated by one lacking human form. The
spirit of Blake battles Hela and Garm, causing the Destroyer to pause so that
Thor can take Mjolnir back from it and together the two heroes clobber the
Destroyer, knocking it to the ground. Hela and Garm are forced back to Hel and
Blake recovers his senses. The bitter Blake refuses any help from Thor and
allows Thunderstrike to assist him back to his office. Thor vows to repair
Mjolnir and then use it to return to Asgard and demand Odin tell him the truth
about Don Blake….