Thor returns to the desolate
Broxton, Oklahoma, to survey the ruins. He goes to a nearby town where he
watches a documentary on the disaster in a store window, noting a glitch that
suddenly appears in the middle of a shot of Bill Cobbs at his diner. The shop
owner tells him that the documentary’s producers could not remove that. Thor is
curious….
Peter Parker sits in a park, working
up the courage to call Steve Rogers on the phone, wanting to hang out with him
but remembering that their last meeting did not turn out well. He tries again
but hangs up….
Thor consults with former SHIELD
Agent Roz Solomon who has investigated the matter and discovered that every surveillance
camera in use in the Broxton area shows that same distortion at that time. So something
must have happened….
Steve Rogers is sitting at home,
listening to music and reading a book, when there is a knock at the door. His
neighbor Mrs. Rosen is concerned that he always seems sad lately and is
checking up on him. He was recently reminded (by the Front Door Cabaret) what
it was like to have friends. After his parents died, he turned inward and after
that he was always focused on the Mission. She advises him to find friends
besides Sharon, someone he can vent to. But Steve explains the “super-power
identity protocol,” the factors that make it difficult for two heroes to hang
around together. Mrs. Rosen leaves it up to him and departs. Then the call from
Peter Parker comes through. They arrange to meet for dinner but then Thor shows
up. Steve calls Pete back, asking him to come in his work clothes, and asking whether
Thor knows his identity. After he has hung up, Pete wonders if Thor was there….
When Spider-Man arrives, Thor
explains to him and Steve about how the glitch may explain how Broxton can be
returned to the land of the living one more. Thor reveals that the destruction
of the town has always been a source of grief to him; Steve echoes his
feelings, for him it was the attack at Pearl Harbor. Spidey calls it a magical
restore point, a moment when everything was good so that you can freeze it and,
after everything has gone wrong, go back to it and put everything right. And we
see the glitch occurring as Bill Cobb is flipping a burger at the diner…and
vanishing. Steve and Spidey agree to help Thor fix the problem….
In a strange world where light and
dark are reversed, a woman warrior slays an enemy knight with her sword then
faces an oncoming band of enemies. She shouts her defiance: “Dark Asgard shall
fall and the lost shall live again!”