Thor (1998 series) #68

Seventeen years after the fall of Asgard: A small band on horseback riding by night through the wilderness stops for a glimpse of Mount Rushmore, with Thor’s face now joining the four Presidents and a giant bust of Odin dwarfing them all. They are haled by a patrol led by Hogun the Grim who is startled to find one of the riders is Jane Foster. They question her presence in the Royal Forest and she says that she has a medical emergency. Hogun and his guards insist on accompanying her to the patient’s house. They claim she was cut by a bowstring but we see that the patient is a pregnant Wanda Maximoff about to deliver. Her brother Pietro is there, vowing to kill the Asgardians but Jane tells him his job will be to spirit the baby away while she takes Wanda to the hospital. Just as Hogun grows suspicious, Jane asks him to fly her patient to the hospital….

Once there, the Asgardian doctor quickly realizes that Wanda’s wound is to hide the fact that she has given birth. The doctor has also used the Jewel of Identification to learn that the patient is the Scarlet Witch. Hogun teleports with Jane to New Asgard, the city which has replaced the ruined New York City. They encounter Loki who wears the Eye of Agamotto and Dr. Strange’s Cloak of Levitation. Jane accuses him of capturing Thor’s mind but Thor himself appears, welcoming her to Asgard. He asks why she seems afraid. He reminds her of the law requiring all newborns to be registered. Jane questions their motives though Thor reasonably points out that all births were registered on Earth. Thor summons his queen Amora with their baby Magni. Thor takes Jane to show her the lesson of New York, when humans sacrificed a great city to be rid of him and now he wishes to ensure such a tragedy never happens again. Jane points out that the people are afraid of him, they want freedom. Thor insists they have their freedom and mentions how even his former friends, the Avengers, had turned against them. He demands to know where the baby is, she responds that he not longer acts like the Thor she knew and loved, trusting Amora and Loki He insists he has been betrayed on every level, even by her. She denies there was a baby so he imprisons her in an amber ball with the other prisoners (including Wanda and her older daughter). He turns them over to Loki to be “processed” despite his past with Jane….