Thor has gone paranoid and attacks his friends who try to help him. In
Silver Surfer #87 Silver Surfer and
Adam Warlock came to
Dr Strange for help. But then the
Infinity Watch joined them with the bad news that Thor's imaginary companion
Dark Valkyrie is now real and physically dangerous, and the
Thunder God now has
Drax The Destroyer's
Power Gem and he's headed to
Asgard to destroy it, and then possibly the universe. They all left for Asgard courtesy of a spell from
Stephen Strange ...
... which is why we now find them in the
Asgardian countryside. They intend to inform
Odin of his son's madness. But
Sif and
Beta Ray Bill are spying on them from afar via 1 of Sif's
Norn Stones. They intend to *stop* Odin learning that Thor is suffering from what they believe is
Warrior Madness (which sounds like an extreme version of the Viking berserker state) because the punishment for that is eternal banishment from Asgard. There's no known cure for the malady but Sif is determined to keep her love from that fate before she finds 1. Bill points out that they 2 won't be able to defeat so mighty an assemblage, but Sif has a cunning plan. She tells Bill to take down Surfer and Strange while she arranges a similar fate for Warlock and the rest of the Watch. Bill lets his love for her override his commonsense and rushes off to comply.
In the Royal Place Odin tells
Balder that he senses something amiss in the land but can't pin it down. So he sends for his all-seeing crystal. We however can clearly see the Infinity Watch flying towards Asgard.
Gamora and
Pip The Troll have hitched a ride on Surfer's board while the rest fly under their own (or in
Maxam's case jet-assisted) power. And
BRB is watching them. Sif herself has used the Norn Stones to teleport her to the camp of some
Rock Trolls led by King
Geirrodur.
Bill swoops in and knocks Surfer from his board with his hammer
Stormbreaker, and then hits him again. Sif gains audience with Geirrodur in his tent but then cuts his nose with her sword. When his guards try to capture her she 'ports outside where she taunts more Trolls and leads them on a merry chase. BRB meantime has been punching Dr Strange until Drax and Maxam intervene.
SS and
DrS seem unconscious and Bill is down, but as everyone else tries to catch their breath Sif 'ports to Bill's side followed by the whole Troll gang. Sif teleports herself and Bill away and the Trolls attack the Watch.
Pip can also teleport (with his
Space Gem) and he nips in with an ineffectual punch, but then gets clipped by a Troll's club which accidentally also clobbers another Troll.
Moondragon uses her (
Mind Gem-enhanced) mental powers to control the minds of 2 Trolls but is knocked out by some more. Adam and Gamora fight on against overwhelming odds but are eventually brought down. Drax and Maxam fight back to back to defend Gamora's fallen body. But then the Trolls fall back to let a small Troll through with a slingshot. He delivers a globe which bursts releasing knockout gas which ends the fight.
When it's all over King Geirrodur turns up with a bandaged nose and orders all the captives bound with mystical bonds and taken away for ritual sacrifice. (We don't see Surfer and Strange among them but they *are* included.)
Give that special marvelite a timely gift