Thor leads his warriors out against the invading Frost
Giants, while Balder worries that the King should be back safely in the palace
and not risking his life in battle. But Thor considers this the real place of a
leader, out protecting his realm from harm….
EMT Jake Olson is summoned to the high school where he
learns that Thor Girl was petrified and smashed by the Grey Gargoyle. Jake asks
Amanda Fairmont to help him collect the pieces of the fallen heroine. When
asked why by a police officer, he responds, “At the very least, it’s for the
funeral….”
In a hotel room, the Grey Gargoyle examines Thor Girl’s
stolen hammer, wondering if this is the device which will finally grant him the
immortality he desires. To test it, he leaps out of the window and falls to the
street yet this proves nothing as he would normally have survived such a fall. So
he blasts a hot dog stand with it and is pleased, then he uses it to fly and is
convinced he is a god…
Jake takes the fragments of Tarene to Avengers Mansion,
seeking help but Jarvis does not recognize him or believe his claims to be Thor
so he denies him entrance. Jake then goes to Plan B which is the Enchantress,
who already knows the backstory. He drives over to her apartment and breaks in,
calling for Amora. His attention is drawn to the magic mirror and he puts his
hand in to discover the surface is liquid and he sees his reflection as
Thor...who is currently in the snowy outskirts of Asgard unleashing the
Odinpower on his giant enemies…when Jake steps through the mirror and emerges
on the other side as Thor…which causes the real Thor to feel a sudden loss of
power. Amora feels the disturbance of magic and sees Jake transformed into Thor
and determines to solve the conundrum before it gets any more complicated…and
then she sees the coming of Desak the God-Slayer….
Thor takes a beating from the Frost Giants who mock him but
then Amora comes to his aid, sending an illusion of the God of Thunder to distract
the giants while she encourages Thor to rest. But Thor refuses, insisting he
and his troops must battle to the death, which strikes the warriors as an
admission that Thor’s mission is without a point. But lacking his full
strength, Thor is soundly beaten by the giants….
Back in New York, Jake/Thor finds he can’t open a portal to
Asgard but a radio news report encourages him to seek out the Grey Gargoyle as
a possible means of putting Tarene back together. Jake/Thor confronts GG and
aims a blast from his hammer at him but it does no harm to the villain as it is
only about 10% of its usual strength. And then Desak arrives, demanding to know
the whereabouts of Tarene, the Designate, before he kills the two of them….
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