As Loki’s
Presidential run grows ever more popular, reporter Nisa Contreras grows ever
more despondent—especially when she discovers her mother is a Loki supporter.
On live television, a fellow who can turn into a bomb tries to assassinate Loki
but Angela hurls the man into the sky where he explodes harmlessly (to others,
at least)….
Angela
invites Nisa to a secret meeting to reveal some information. She shows up in a
deserted home to find Thor (Jane Foster) there too; Nisa learns that Angela is
opposed to a Loki presidency and has been infiltrating his organization to work
against him. The house they are in was a Hydra meeting place and their
computers reveal that the cell’s leader was Loki, in disguise as “Lucas” (see
issue #1). Nisa publishes this expose and riots break out between Loki’s
supporters and opponents, dismaying the God of Stories….
Just
before the election, Congress hurriedly passes legislation curtailing the
powers of the Presidency and the stock market falls in anticipation of a Loki
victory. Loki stops by to talk to Nisa, confessing that he didn’t mean to cause
chaos and offers to calm the nation by speaking the truth. He teleports Nisa to
a rally of his supporters and offers to answer any question she asks
truthfully. Nisa refuses to play his game, suggesting instead that he let his
supporters ask the questions. A question about health care elicits an argument
between two supporters on opposite sides of that issue. But Loki doesn’t have a
position on that crucial issue, in fact, he reveals he has no positions on any
of the issues and his implication that he wants to represent all Americans
fails to comfort his supporters who want him to fight the half of the country
they don’t like. One of them sums it up as “You lied to us: you said you were
different!”
Loki loses
the election, Nisa becomes a hero, Loki visits her to suggest that he had
managed the entire course of her life and a Presidential campaign as an apology
for wrecking her neighborhood when she was a kid. He then leaves and phones his
concession to the winner….