Thor
and Avalon ride the space-scoop to the planer Rhun and discover an unexpected fact:
the people of Rhun are so large that Thor is the size of a flea next to them.
Thor jumps onto the hand of the supreme leader Lord Kragonn and strike it; the
annoyed ruler merely slaps Thor off as if he were a fly. Avalon catches the
stunned Thor and takes him back to the others in the scoop where they all sink
into despair. Kragonn, desiring to know why their servants have rebelled, has
the scoop drawn in on its winch and placed in a box and delivered to its
inventor, the despised toady Dracus, for study. Dracus, however, wonders if the
rebel robots can give him some clue as to how he can overthrow the Lords and
seize power. The scholar dispatches four tiny Exterminators to fight the rebels
but Thor and Avalon fight back, joined by Sif and Balder. The lady warrior
discovers that the enemy is vulnerable around the eyes and so they are quickly
defeated. They await the next event….
In
Asgard, Hildegarde punches out two guards and pushes her way into an audience
with Odin. She explains that her sister Krista has vanished by means of a
strange gem. Odin looks into his divining crystal and sees…that Krista is
doomed….
Lord
Kragonn visits Dracus who tells him of the outworlders who have joined the
Sub-Worlders; meanwhile, Thor discovers that Avalon knows very little about the
rulers of Rhun. The Rigellian mutates spy on Kragonn and Drtacus to learn
what’s going on there. Dracus persuades Kragonn that the tiny interlopers have
been sent by one of the other planets as the vanguard of an invasion so Kragonn
orders their destruction (which Dracus hopes to use as the trigger for an
interplanetary war). Dracus bombards the scoop with radiation, forcing the inhabitants
to flee right into Kragonn’s face. Dracus unleashes more tiny protectors and
there is a small scale war which Dracus hopes to end by stepping on it. But the
mutates have climbed Dracus’ clothing and apply pressure to his neck,
paralyzing him. The mutate leader broadcasts a message to Kragonn, outlining a
course of action…
…and
so Lord Kragonn and some aides fly a ship to another of the Black Stars,
accompanied by Thor and company in a smaller ship (inside the bigger ship).
Arriving on the next planet, they discover it a wasteland, the other three
Black Stars having decayed and died. With this, the space scoops are no longer
necessary as there is no need to draw energy from worlds they destroy so the
Sub-Worlders are set free. Kragonn also allows Thor and his group (including
Tana Nile and Silas Grant) to return to the Rigellian fleet, asking them to
think kindly of the Gods of Rhun….