Late
at night, Thor and his new lover Amora the Enchantress look out over the city;
Thor has some unanswered questions about Price and the worldengine but Amora
waves them away as irrelevant. She encloses them in a bubble, sailing over the
skyline, feasting on roast turkey and making love….
In
the night, Machinist Union boss Victor Prazniki receives a phone call,
threatening harm to his wife and daughter if he crosses the unseen caller….
The
morning comes and the immortal lovers find themselves on the grass in Central
Park with no idea why. Amora discovers she has lost all of her powers of
enchantment. Thor strikes Mjolnir on the ground and finds it merely a hammer. A
pair of punks try to harass these two long-haired weirdos dressed only in
bathrobes. Thor and Amora easily beat the punks, barely halting their puzzled
conversation. They set out to walk the fifty blocks back to Amora’s building,
exciting much attention by their skimpy dress in midwinter….
They
arrive at the Ash Hotel to find her apartment empty, stripped of all furniture
and goods, with a note from Amora’s love-slaves, now freed from their
enchantment and taking all of her possessions as payment for their years of
enslavement. Amora throws a fit because even the kitchen appliances are gone.
Thor calls Avengers Mansion to give Jarvis his new address and to ask about
young Tony Stark. The hotel manager, Philip Fleming, stops by to chat with
Thor, though he mistakes Thor for the Vision and Amora for Scarlet Witch,
gently reminding them of the back rent due. Amora tries to figure out how to
roast the leftover turkey without an oven while Thor searches the Yellow Pages,
seeking a job in construction, where he has some experience….
Teenager
Annie Prazniki is at a construction site to meet someone when she is surrounded
by a bunch of hoods who want to kidnap her. But Thor is passing by, looking for
work, and sizes up the situation. He rushes in, clouting the punks with
Mjolnir, taking on eight of them at once. Annie runs and while Thor is
occupied, the bad guys drag her into a car and drive off. Thor outruns them,
leaps on the car roof, and smashes in the windshield, pulling Annie out. The
baddies’ cars collide, hurling the two onto a relatively soft pile of trash
bags. Giant-Man (Hank Pym) and Black Widow arrive, asking Thor if he would want
to join the new Avengers team. Thors begs off as he now has only a mortal’s
strength. Black Widow responds, “And you did all this without any powers?
You’ll do.”