Taking
a break from battling Onslaught, Red Norvell finds Thor chanting, trying to
invoke berserker rage to battle the enemy and failing. As they chat, Thor
reveals his history as Dr. Don Blake, lover of Jane Foster, who discovered a
stick in a cave in Norway which transformed him into Thor, God of Thunder;
later, he discovered that Don Blake wasn’t real but a scheme by Odin to teach
him humility. Thor then asks Wad, the drunken derelict that was Odin, what
happened to him. Odin responds that with Ragnarök coming, he put his memories
into the sword Raven’s Eye and hurled it to Midgard then found himself a bum, thrown
back a few decades to be abused and ignored. And then they are all approached
by a colony of frogs….
Meanwhile
in the ruins of Asgard, two frost giants have turned an amnesiac Amora into a
servant….
Thor
recounts how he and Loki once lured the frost giants into a trap by having Loki
impersonate a damsel in distress; when they approached, Thor dropped a mountain
on them and the two Asgardians rode off while the giants tried to pursue. On
reaching home they were rebuked by an angry Odin who had just concluded a peace
treaty with the giants. But the boys just laughed it off. Thor now explains
that the frogs have come to say goodbye but then they all race away. Jane Foster
has frightened them off; she is there because they can use a trained
nurse for the big battle. Then an injured man with a young daughter is found
and, while Red minds the child, Thor and Jane perform surgery. Thor does what
he can to get the man stable and they call an ambulance with Jane accompanying
him to the hospital….
Thor
and Red sit by the river with Red confessing that he is proud to have known
Thor. Then Hela, Goddess of Death, rises from the river and puts a thought
directly into Thor’s mind. She tells him he will die the next day facing
Onslaught but if he comes with her now, he will be her consort forever. Because
he has to think it over, Hela is miffed and vanishes. Thor suggests they get a
good night’s sleep to prepare for the next day. Red asks Thor that if he had it
all to do over again, would he change anything? Thor responds, “Not a thing….”