Thor has materialized in the void of space and is dying
without oxygen. He spies a planet in the distance and has Mjolnir pull him
toward it while he loses consciousness….
Pangoria, the planet in question, is doomed and ruler Pegas
the Pirate King is planning an escape via spacecraft for himself, close
followers, and anyone with enough money, while the masses riot helplessly. Then
they detect Thor coming in from space and, assuming it is their destruction
coming, they fire a missile but Thor is moving so fast he passes completely
through the missile before it detonates. Pegas leads an expedition out to the
massive crater and they find Thor, though they are surprised they can lift him
but not his hammer….
In Asgard, Heimdall seeks an audience with Balder but is
turned away by guards; in the throne room, a dimensional rift opens and Balder
is beset by three serpentine assassins. Heimdall hears the struggle and crashes
in, followed by the guards and the killers are defeated. But who are they?
Thor revives in a revitalization capsule and a woman named
Myla fills him (and the reader) in on the situation while hinting at sex. Pangoria
was settled by pirates and is now doomed so the citizens are rioting. Pegas
takes the story even further: the imminent doom is Arishem of the Celestials,
standing atop twin mountains and holding his thumb down. To repay their care,
Thor dons his battle armor and goes out to fight Arishem. Thor tries to pick a fight
but the two-thousand-foot-tall Celestial doesn’t even note that he is there. The Thunder God tries drawing all of the planet’s magnetic energy from its core
and hurling it at his foe in an apocalyptic blast—and nothing happens. And then
Exitar the Exterminator arrives, dwarfing even Arishem….