The Menagerie of Rimthursar are rejoicing that they may stay
on Earth but Thor convinces them to free their mortal hosts and go back to
their normal lives. The police arrive and, as usual, the Menagerie threatens to
create chaos so Thor takes them all to Asgard….
Odin, meanwhile, has arrived at the battlefield where he
must intervene when one faction is led by his former lover, Queen Jolena. His
scout returns to inform him that the conflict has been triggered by a group of
conspirators on either side, hoping to draw Odin and his army into the battle,
thus discrediting him. Odin can’t see any way out of this….
Thor and the animal people arrive at Bifrost where Heimdall
again denies the semi-mortal Menagerie entrance. There is a brief scuffle but
Heimdall gives in, seeing no point in a conflict with the noble Thor. Thor
turns the captive Farbauti over to the guardian to have put in prison. Thor
finds Odin near the battlefield and raises the matter but Odin is enraged that
Thor has brought mortals to Asgard but quickly calms down and explains the battle
to Thor. A phony conflict has been stirred up by conspirators on both sides who
can be identified by their wolf-skin dress. He also confesses to Thor his former
love for Queen Jolena and should he intervene, it would be taken as
unfaithfulness to his wife Frigga. Thor works out a plan: Kyrie and Fairgold
team up to create the illusion that the river crossing the battlefield has
turned to gold, creating a distraction for Thor and the Menagerie to cross to
the forest. Then the two faction’s leaders Jolena and Uthar are brought
together to see the chiefs of the conspirators meeting secretly to debate the
illusion of a golden river. The Menagerie then beat up baddies and the two
leaders expose the plot before the entire army and vow peace. Odin steps
forward and explains that by embracing Jolena he is not being unfaithful to his
wife, merely…fallible. At Thor’s request, the Menagerie are restored to their
human forms including Dr. Shawna Lynde, their memories of all of this wiped and Thor, after promising to
keep Odin’s romance a secret, returns them all to Chicago. There everything continues
as though nothing has happened….