On an alien world, a visitor has destroyed the gods and the
people mourn while the visitor (Desak, introduced later) claims to have set
them free….
In New York, the police are dealing with a barricade
situation when EMTs Jake Olson and Christine Collins arrive to minister to the
wounded, while putting themselves in harm’s way. A bad guy approaches Jake and
threatens to shoot him but Beta Ray Bill and Hercules arrive on the scene to
vanquish that baddie. Bill hurls his hammer to stop the villains firing from a
high window while Herc lifts an overturned car so Christine can reach a man
trapped beneath. As the EMTs prepare to leave, Christine gives Jake a kiss on
the cheek surprising him and giving Bill and Herc the wrong idea. Bill explains
that they came looking for Thor as his presence is requested on Mount Olympus.
Jake and his pals dash into an alley where Jake transforms into Thor and with
the power of Mjolnir, he transports them all to Olympus…
…recently rebuilt after the depredations of the Dark Gods.
They meet with Zeus who shows them the Silent One, who once appeared in Asgard
to warn of impending doom. Herc tries to assault the Silent One who blasts him
away. Silent One opens a portal and the three heroes enter via a bridge of
rocks and cross over to find Olympus in ruins and the Silent One standing over
the body of a fallen Zeus. Silent One conjures a vision of a holy man about to
perform a sacrifice to the gods. A man named Desak, whose daughter Loatia has
been chosen for the sacrifice, sees a vision of a woman warning him that the
gods are evil and he should not sacrifice his daughter, offering him a jewel
that will enable him to save her. No one else sees this woman and so they
assume Desak is having a fit of madness so the girl leaps into the fire pit as
commanded. Later, Desak discovers that his wife is bitterly rejecting the gods
over her daughters death. Then the god Kronnitt, a giant armored figure,
arrives, destroying the village because the people do not believe. Then the
woman from the vision returns, offering him the jeweled amulet, telling him
that he can trap the souls of the gods inside and make their power his own. He
accepts the jewel and she transforms him into the warlike Desak, Destroyer of
Gods. Thor, Hercules and Beta Ray Bill take this in and decide Desak must be
stopped….
Desak appears on another planet, commanding the people to
reject their gods. They fire upon him so he flies off to confront the gods,
Pennsu and Tae, who are revealed to be arrogant and contemptuous of their
worshippers. Desak attacks them while denouncing them as evil. Then the three
heroes arrive to do battle with the God Destroyer; Desak identifies them as
more gods and fights back, surprising Thor and the others with his power.
Pennsu and Tae decide that their worshippers need to be taught a lesson and so
send down a beam to destroy their planet. Herc and Bill confront Pennsu and Tae
while Thor dashes down to halt the destruction by calling up a massive storm to
halt the beam. Thor returns to the gods’ world to find Pennsu and Tae dead. He
confronts Desak who, having seen Thor use his powers to save mortals, claims he
has merely taken the place of their gods. But Thor doesn’t demand worship but
only to help as needed while mortals chart their own course. This gains Desak’s
guarded approval but he warns Thor to continue on that path or he will be back.
Desak vanishes and Thor tells Bill and Herc that they have only won a reprieve
and that someday there will be a reckoning….
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