Thor continues fighting, his blood lust rising.He taunts the Jotuns around him. "Come on!" Thor urged. But when he hurls his hammer to take out a Jotun, the Frost Giants seize the opportunity.
A group of Jotuns swarm Thor from all sides, keeping him separate from his weapon. Mjolnir falls to the ground. A Frost Giant desperately struggles to lift Mjolnir off the ground, to no avail. Now free, the wounded Fandral looks relieved as Volstagg slings him over his shoulder, and the warriors start to leave. From his balcony, Laufey looks upon the battlefield, decides it's time to pull out the big guns. He touches a wall of the palace. An energy wave sweeps from his touch, across the wall of the palace, and down to the ground below. The Asgardians hear a foreboding crack of ice below their feet.
"That can't be good." Loki pointed out.
"Yes, it could! Might be an early spring!" Volstagg claimed.
They look down, suddenly filled with dread when they see shadowy figures moving in the ice – dozens of Jotun warriors awakening beneath the surface, rousing to join the battle. Loki turns to his brother, who battles a group of the Giants.
"Thor, we must go!" Loki urged.
Thor, still without his hammer, fights his Jotun foes mercilessly, a man consumed by blood lust. Loki sees the look on his brother's face – the savage thrill of the heat of battle.
"Then go!" Thor suggested Loudly.
"There are too many of them!" Sif replied.
"I can stop them!" Thor proclaimed.
The others hesitate. Jotuns break up through the ice all around them.
"Thor!" Sif yelled.
But Thor ignores his comrades, continues fighting.
"Run!" Volstagg cried out.
Reluctantly, the group flees back toward the inner edge of the planet as the Giants break up through the ice and give chase. Thor battles valiantly, but there's just too many of them. The Frost Giants swarm him from all sides now, as he disappears beneath a pile of blue flesh and ice. After a moment- Thor's fist Forces its way up through the middle of the pile of Jotuns. He opens his hand, beckoning. One of Thor's attackers hears something Roaring up behind him.
He whirls around – Bam!– Mjolnir nails him square in the face, then flies into Thor's outstretched hand. Thor raises the hammer up high, and brings it down on the ground with all his might. KRAKABOOM! lightning strikes down from the sky, the hammer channeling the blast, firing the electricity out at the Jotuns around him. They're blasted back in a massive shockwave. The Jotuns convulse, drop dead to the ground. But the force of the blast also cracks the ice below, the shockwave continuing to spread outwards. It moves out to where his comrades are running, breaking up the ground beneath them, exposing the black void of space below.
"What's Thor done?" Volstagg questioned
"Likely killed us all!" Loki Announced.
As the Jotuns race towards the Asgardians, they open their mouths wide and breathe out an icy fog. The swirling mists quickly engulf the fleeing Asgardians before them. The Asgardians stand in the mist, unable to see. Hogun takes a step back, the ice cracking beneath him. They dare not move, for fear of falling through, into the void below. Thor sees he's put his friends in even greater danger. He raises Mjolnir high, summoning the winds. They lift him off the ground and carry him across the frozen wasteland to his comrades. Thor lands beside his comrades in the shroud of mists.
"Loki, we have to see." Thor disclosed.
Loki raises his arms, concentrates, the mists dissipating. But as they do, the Asgardians see before them the faces of the Frost Giants. And there are hundreds of them – too many, even for a Thunder God.
"Actually, could you bring the mists back, please?" Volstagg asked Loki.
Thor realizes that he and his comrades are as good as dead. The Giants move in for the kill, when they hear a deafening Roar. A hole in the sky opens up, and the Bifrost blasts down onto the inner edge of the planet. Out of the maelstrom comes the sound of thundering hooves, and, to the shock of all, tearing across the frozen wasteland comes – Odin Astride his powerful, eight-legged steed sleipnir He's clad in battle armor, Gungnir in his hand – an imposing sight.
The Giants part in fear as he thunders into their ranks, stopping before Laufey and the Asgardians. Laufey slams his fists into the ground, and the ice beneath his feet raises him towards Odin. The Asgardians start to react, thinking it's an attack, but Laufey just stands face-to-face with Odin. Asgardian and Jotun alike look on uneasily, unsure what's about to happen. Laufey sizes up Odin, notices that as powerful as the Allfather still is, the years have taken their toll. He's not the foe he once was. The two rulers talk quietly, out of earshot of the others.
"Laufey. End this." Odin Announced.
"Your boy sought this out." Laufey answered.
"You're right. These are the actions of a boy. Treat them as such. You and I can stop this before there's further bloodshed." Odin disclosed.
Unseen by Odin and the others, Laufey starts to form an ice blade at the end of his arm.
"We are beyond diplomacy now, Allfather."
He'll get what he came for – war and death." Laufey grinned.
Odin looks grim, determined. "So be it."
Without warning, Laufey swings his ice blade at Odin, but Odin is quicker. The Allfather brings his spear down upon the ice. Laufey and the nearest Jotuns go falling backwards in a wave, the ice cracking beneath their feet. The other Frost Giants turn tail and run. Thor watches the fleeing Jotuns with delight.
"Now! We'll finish them together!" Thor exclaimed.
"Silence!" Odin hissed ordered.
Odin raises his spear. The hole in the sky opens, the Bifrost energy blasting forth from it. The Bifrost envelops the Asgardians, yanks them off the ground and up through the hole. The vortex closes behind them as all falls silent.Laufey stares up after them contemptuously. Heimdall stands at the Observatory controls. Odin pulls Heimdall's sword from the control panel and throws it to him. Heimdall backs away.
"Why did you bring us back?" Thor questioned.
"Do you realize what you've done? What you've started?" Odin Asked without sounding unduly curious.
"I was protecting my home." Thor declared Sincerely.
"You cannot protect your friends. How can you hope to protect a kingdom?" Odin Remarked Odin turns to the others. "Get him to the healing room!" Odin barked at Sif, Volstagg, and Hogun to hurry to help Fandral out of the room.
"There won't be a kingdom to protect if you're afraid to act!" Thor scoffed. Odin stares at him.
"Whatever the cost, the world must know that the new King of Asgard will not be held in contempt." Thor finished.
"That's pride and vanity that talks! Not leadership! Have you forgotten everything I've taught you? What of a warrior's patience, cunning?" Odin testified.
"While you wait and be patient, the Nine Realms laugh at us! The old ways are done. You'd stand giving speeches while Asgard falls!" Thor Acidly voiced.
"You're a vain, greedy, cruel boy!" Odin snarled.
"And you are an old man and a fool!" Thor scolded.
The whole world seems to stop at Thor's words. Odin falls quiet. When he speaks again, there's something terrifying beneath the calmness of his words.
"A fool, yes! I was a fool to think you were ready." Odin Accepted.
Loki takes a step towards Odin imploringly.
"Father–" Loki started.
Odin yells in which stops Loki in his tracks. "Thor Odinson… You have disobeyed the express command of your King. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful Realms and innocent lives to the horrors of war." Odin Announced.
The Allfather plunges Gungnir into Observatory's control panel. The turret turns, the Bifrost energy building along with Odin's rage. It fires, as the Bifrost opens at the end of the platform, creating a portal behind Thor.
Odin turns angrily to his son. "You are unworthy of this Realm…" Odin exclaimed as he rips a disc off Thor's chest. "…unworthy of your title…" he rips away Thor's cloak."…unworthy of the loved ones you've betrayed. I hereby take from you your powers."Odin extends his hand towards his son. Mjolnir goes flying from Thor's grasp into Odin's hand. "In the name of my father…"
A fingers of lightning comes off the hammer and hits Thor, disintegrating the right arm of his armor and part of the chest piece. "…and of his father before…" Another strike disintegrates the remainder of Thor's armor, including the cape and torn-away disc on the floor. "I cast you out!" Odin ended.
Odin thrusts Mjolnir before him and – with a crack of thunder– Thor is hurled backwards into the open Bifrost and disappears in the vortex. Odin holds Mjolnir in his hand, stares at it bitterly. He closes his eyes, lost in contemplation, whispers something quietly. "Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor."
Runes appear on the side of the hammer, as if carved into its smooth surface. The runes linger for but a moment, then disappear. Suddenly, Odin turns and hurls the hammer into the Bifrost.
Thor opens his eyes, surrounded by darkness. Suddenly, he's blinded by bright headlights of a vehicle – an SUV. It swerves, the side of it coming straight at him. It slams Into him. As Thor is semi unconscious he hears voices.
"I think that was legally your fault." Said one Voice.
"Get the first aid kit." Said A different voice. Then moments later the same voice."Come on, big guy. Do me a favor and don't be dead, okay? Open your eyes and look at me."
Thor opens his eyes to see Jane Foster staring at him, concerned. She looks vulnerable and beautiful.
"Wow. Does he need CPR? Because I know CPR."
Jane regretfully watches Robin make the storm evaporate above their heads. A thought strikes her.
"Where did he come from?" Jane asked Robin and Erik.
They exchange puzzled looks when Thor groans again. He sits up abruptly, and Jane topples backwards in surprise. Thor staggers groggily to his feet, then turns and offers Jane a hand up. She takes it hesitantly, and he easily pulls her up. She can't help but marvel at his strength.
"Uh, thanks. Are you okay?" Jane questioned Thor as he is searching the ground.
"Hammer…" Thor Announced Unexpectedly.
"Yeah, we can tell you're hammered. That's pretty obvious." Darcy claimed.
"No that's not what's he's talking." Robin informed Darcy.
"How do you know what's he's talking about?" Darcy questioned Robin.
"He Doesn't...he doesn't look hammered you just hit him with a car." Robin replied.
"Technically it was Jane's fault." Darcy answered.
"Tomahto tomayto." Robin told Darcy.
Jane notices something on the ground around them. She shines her flashlight down at the sand. "Erik..Robin… look at this." Jane encouraged as they joins her at her side and sees it. A faint, discernible pattern is etched into the sand. They exchange a look. Amazed and excited, Jane hurriedly takes out a camera and snaps some photos of the runes. A breeze begins to blow them away.
"We've got to move fast before anything changes." Jane urged. "We need soil samples, light readings, everything Robin you think you can stop the wind from blowing?" Jane asked.
"Ya sure." Robin said as she lift her hand in a stop motion as the wind comes to a complete stop.Jane then pulls out a light meter, holds it up, takes some readings, jots them down in her notebook.
Erik looks at Thor, who stares up at the sky. "Jane, we need get him to a hospital." Erik stressed.
Jane kneels and quickly scoops up a soil sample in the cannister.
"Not right now. It'll take too long. County's an hour away. We'll drop him off after we're done here." Jane promised. Erik looks uncertain.
"Look at him, he's fine."
Thor stares up at the stars, shouts up at them angrily. "Father! Heimdall! I know you can hear me! Open the bridge!"
"Okay, you and Darcy take him to the hospital, Me and Robin stay here." Jane said looking over at Robin and seeing her nodded agreeably.
"You expect me to leave you and Robin alone in the middle of the desert?" Erik replied sternly.
Thor turns to the others, frustrated. "You! What world is this?" Thor commanded.
As everyone except Robin is intimidated by his fervor.
"Demanding is not how you get things done here." Robin told Thor ignoring how he's trying to intimidate her and her friends.
"It's all right, my friend. We're going to get you some help." Erik said sympathetically.
Selvig touches Thor's shoulder. Thor shoves him off, grows agitated, belligerent. Doing this makes Robin's power flair to the surface the wind picking up, thunder and lightning clap across the sky. Everyone except Thor and Robin looks up at the sky.
"Where am I?! Answer me!" Thor barked loudly.
Knowing what Darcy is about to do Robin's powers calms down. Darcy reaches into her fanny pack, pulls something out of it.
Jane looks on, concerned. "Erik, just back away…" Jane cautioned Erik.
"You're in the desert outside the town of Puente Antiguo." Erik said calmly to Thor.
"What Realm?! Alfheim? Nornheim?" Thor yelled.
"Uh… New Mexico?" Darcy disclosed raising a taser at him. Thor looks at the weapon, unsure what to make of it.
"You dare threaten Thor with so puny A-" Thor started.
Darcy fires, the electrified wires shooting out of the taser, zapping him in the chest. Thor convulses, falls to the ground unconscious. Jane and Erik stare at her, shocked while Robin looks amused.
"What? He was freaking me out." Darcy answered.
As Jane and Robin still takes soil samples, Darcy and Erik struggle to drag an unconscious Thor to the SUV and lift him inside.
"Next time you decide to taser someone, do me a favor and make sure they're already inside the truck." Erik expressed to Darcy. "Jane Robin, come on…"
Reluctantly, Jane and Robin joins the others inside the SUV. The SUV heads off into the distance. Behind it, high overhead, a hole opens in the sky. A last blast of Bifrost energy bursts forth from it, and a small object comes firing into our world. It burns across the desert sky like a meteor.
The SUV sits parked before the emergency room entrance. Erik and Robin watches the unconscious Thor with interest as two orderlies set the Asgardian onto a gurney. Jane and Darcy stand before a sweet, ditzy admission nurse.
"Name?" The nurse asked.
"He said it was "Thor." Jane replied.
The Nurse painstakingly types it into the computer, one key at a time. Robin watches as Thor is wheeled out of the room.
"T-H-O-R. And your relationship to him?" The nurse said spelling his name out.
"I've never met him before." Jane answered.
"Until she hit him with the car." Darcy Chimed in.
"Grazed him, actually." Jane noted. "Oh, and we tasered him, too."
"Must have been quite the spat." The nurse said sounding sympathetic.
"I told you, I don't know him." Jane stated.
"We just want to make sure he's okay." Robin expressed smiling faintly.
"I'm going to need a name and contact number." The nurse announced.
"Jane Foster." Jane told the nurse.
"J…A…N…-" The nurse was typing slowly.
"Oh, for God's sake…" Erik voiced as he reaches over Jane's shoulder and hands the Nurse his business card. "Here. Let's go."
"Let's go" we can't just leave him here. What if he doesn't have anyone?" Robin questioned looking at Erik, Jane, and Darcy.
"Robin right maybe one of us should stay here with him just to make sure he's ok." Jane agreed with Robin.
"Well it's not going to be me."
"No no I'll do it ok. I'll stay here and, you guys head back to see what happened to your reading." Robin answered with sincerity.
"I don't feel comfortable leaving you here by yourself with a complete stranger." Erik said with worry.
"I'm going to be fine ok. I'm in a hospital what can he do?" Robin asked Erik.
"Fine call if anything happens." Erik said with firm persistence.
"Will do now go." Robin told Them.
Erik, Darcy, and Jane head out out of the hospital when Robin goes to sit down in the waiting room.
Thor, now in a hospital gown, winces in pain as he awakens on a gurney to find a nurse standing over him, a syringe in his arm.
"Hi. Just taking a little blood." The nurse said calmly.
Thor slaps the syringe away angrily, starts to sit up. "How dare you attack the son of Odin!" Thor bellowed.
"I need some help!" The nurse yelled then two orderlies race over, try to hold Thor down. "We're trying to help you!"
Sensing somethings wrong Robin gets up from her seat in the waiting room and rushes to the room they have Thor in and sees two orderlies try to hold Thor down. Laughing to herself then projecting a thought to Thor.
Dude you are batshit crazy...tough cookie I gave you that.
For a quick second Thor looks around wondering where the hell did The voice come from. "Then bring me a healing stone, you savages!" Thor said still putting up a fight. He hurls one of them off, smashing against a wall. Now a couple security guards and Male nurses join the fracas, all struggling to hold Thor down. Medical equipment goes flying, furniture overturned.
"Maybe I should stop this." Robin wanders out loud.
"What the hell is this guy on?" The orderly questioned.
Finally, they force him back down onto the gurney. Thor looks shocked and amazed that he's actually being overpowered by this small group he then looks up out the window and see the woman that was with him last night laughing. A nurse injects him with a sedative.
"You're no match for the Mighty–" Thor started as he struggles for a beat then pass out Thor struggles a beat, then passes out.
Smoke rises from a fifty foot wide Crater A. Townie pulls his pick-up to a stop at the crater's edge. He climbs out, peers down below, his curiosity piqued by what he sees.
"Huh." Townie grunted.
The Townie approaches something at the center of the crater. We don't see what it is, but it bathes him in an otherworldly, blue luminous glow . He reaches for the object, tries to lift it, but can't. He redoubles his efforts, strains with all his might, with no luck. He takes off his hat, fans himself, stares at the mysterious object.
The distant mountains glint snow in the early morning light. Erik is hanging up the phone after checking in on Robin, with a cup of coffee and surveys the vast desert. He turns back into the lab and sees Jane, busy at her workstation, soldering a piece of equipment. A printer churns out blown-up screen-cap Photos of the Bifrost footage. Darcy hangs them on the wall. Erik surveys the scene, watches how Jane works, impressed. He notices a monitor which displays a complex program entitled.
"J.Foster Algorithm Analysis." He looks proud. The three of them have been up all night, fueled by caffeine and excitement.
"Darcy, when you're done, take the soil samples to Professor Meyers in geology. Remind him, he owes me." Jane called out.
"We might want to perform a spectral analysis."Erik Chimed in.
"We?" Jane questioned.
"I flew all the way out here and I made a pitstop in New York and got Robin— might as well make myself useful." Erik declared.
This is the offer Jane's been waiting for. She gets up, inserts the piece of equipment she's been working on into a rack-mounted server.
"You know what would be really useful? Do you still have that friend at LIGO?" Jane asked.
"She was more than a friend." Erik corrected.
"Could you call in a favor?" Jane wandered.
"You don't think this was just a magnetic storm." Erik stated.
"If I'm right, their observatory must have picked up gravitational waves during last night's event." Jane informed.
"Meaning?" Erik voiced.
Jane heads over to a computer monitor. Selvig follows. "Meaning these anomalies might signify something bigger." Jane finished.
"How big" are we talking about?" Erik said uncertainly.
Jane indicates the footage on the monitor. As the last of the Bifrost cloud disappears into the night sky, there appears to be a blister in space, bulging out in convex and covered with stars.
"I think the lensing around the edges is characteristic of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge." Jane announce.
"A what?" Darcy said confused.
"I thought you were a science major." Erik commented.
"Political Science." Darcy replied.
Selvig shoots Jane a confused look. Jane shrugs. "She was the only applicant."
"An Einstein-Rosen Bridge – a "theoretical" connection between two different points of space-time. Darcy stares blankly." Erik explained to Darcy.
"A wormhole." Jane disclose. Erik looks skeptical. Jane prints out a frame-grab off the monitor.
"Erik, look…" Jane indicates the print-out showing the constellations seen through the "bubble" in the clouds.
"What do you see here?" Jane asked Erik.
"Stars." Erik told Jane.
"Yes. But not our stars." Jane started. She then spreads out a star chart, barely able to contain her excitement.
"This is the star alignment for our quadrant, this time of year. So unless Ursa Minor decided to take the day off… those are someone else's constellations." Jane proclaimed.
Erik's intrigued, in spite of himself. Darcy pulls another frame-grab of the Bifrost footage from the printer and hangs it on the wall, when something in the image catches her eye.
"Hey, check it out." Darcy calls out.
Jane and Selvig examine the photo, amazed.
"Is that…?" Erik trailed off.
"I think I left something at the hospital. Darcy call Robin tell her to make sure he doesn't leave." Jane urged.
As Jane walks away, revealing a photo. Inside the Bifrost funnel cloud is an figure – the vague, but unmistakable shape of a man.
At the top of the palace, we see it is a burdened Odin,looking out over Asgard. Frigga enters to find Odin standing lost in thought.
"How could you have done this?" Frigga shouts.
"Do you understand what he set in motion? He's taken us to the brink of war!" Odin scolded.
"But banishment? You would lose him forever? He's your son!" Frigga fumed.
"What would you have done?" Odin question Frigga loudly.
"I would not have exiled him to a world of mortals, stripped of his powers, to suffer alone. I would not have had the heart for such cruelty!" Frigga explained Sadly.
"That is why I'm King." Odin voiced. "I, too, grieve the loss of our son. But there are some things that even I cannot undo."
"You can bring him back." Frigga insisted.
"No. His fate is in his own hands now." Odin declared.
Being bored out of her mind after sitting hours in the waiting room Robin walks to Thor's room. She sees him laying in the hospital bed in restraints with the arch of her eyebrows, Thor is out of his restraints.
"Wake up." Robin urged.
Thor opens his eye and looks around the room then sits up. when his eyes finally finds Robin's she does a hand movement to tell Thor to "come here" and Thor gets up and walks over to Robin.
"I know you...you're the lady from last night." Thor acknowledged.
"Ya hi I'm Robin I'm so sorry about my friends hitting you with their car and tasering you not the best way to wake up in a new world." Robin said rocking back and ford from her toes to her heel.
"It is fine… how do you know I don't belong here." Thor questioned.
Broadcasting a thought into Thor's mind.
I'm just that good.
"How can you do that?" Thor wondered
"I can read minds." Robin answered.
"Really?" Thor asked not believing Robin as they were walking out of the hospital and into the parking lot.
"I know who you really are." Robin replied.
Thor turns and looks at Robin intrigued. "You do-" Thor started but before he can get The rest of his words he gets hit by a car.
Knowing who just hit him Robin laughs. "Are you trying to kill the man."
Jane and Selvig emerge from the SUV, help Thor to his feet. "I'm so sorry. I swear I'm not doing that on purpose." Jane promised.
Thor looks up at the sky. "Blue sky… one sun… This is Earth, isn't it?" Thor asked Robin.
"All you have to do is ask I would've told you this is earth." Robin reply without missing a beat.
"I think you may have hit Robin with the car...and him one time too many." Darcy announced.
"Let's get you some clothes." Jane said to Thor as Robin helps him into the truck.
Sif, Loki, and the Warriors three, battered and shell-shocked, still reeling from the day's events, sit before a roaring central fire. Hogun reaches into the flames, pulls out some fragile healing stones. Neither the fire, nor the stones burn him. As he carefully places the stones over the wounds of his comrades, the stones begin to glow. He crushes them to a powder. His omrades' injuries heal up at the glowing powder's touch.
Fandral winces in pain as Hogun heals his gaping wound. Volstagg looks at the skin on his arm – healing, but still blackened from the necrotizing touch of the Frost Giant. Loki watches him, then stares at his own arm, where the Giant's touch turned his skin blue. It's undamaged, back to Its normal color.
"We should never have let him go." Volstagg announced.
"There was no stopping him." Sif said trying to reassure Volstagg.
"At least he's only banished, not dead. Which is what we'd all be if that guard hadn't told Odin where we'd gone." Fandral Chimed in.
"How did the guard even know?" Volstagg question.
Loki stares at his arm and then says. "I told him."
"What?" Fandral hissed loudly.
"I told him to go to Odin after we'd left. Though he should be flogged for taking so long." Loki informed.
"You told the guard?" Volstagg Asked.
"I saved our lives! And Thor's. I had no idea Father would banish him for what he did." Loki answered.
"Loki, you're the only one who can help Thor now. You must go to the Allfather and convince him to change his mind!" Sif explained.
"And if I do, then what? I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you know what he is. He's arrogant. He's reckless. He's dangerous. You saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from its King?" Loki replied.
The others exchange glances, torn. Loki has a point. He leaves the room. Hogun stares after him.
"He may speak about the good of Asgard, but he's always been jealous of Thor." Sif noted.
"True, but we should be grateful to him. He did save our lives." Volstagg replied.
"Laufey said there were traitors in the House of Odin." Hogun Chimed in.
The others turn to the usually quiet Hogun.
"Why is it every time you choose to speak, it has to be something dark and ominous?" Fandral wondered.
"A master of magic could easily bring three Jotuns into Asgard." Hogun verified.
The others look to Hogun, understanding the implication.
"No! Surely not!" Volstagg proclaimed.
"Loki's always been one for mischief, but you're talking about something else entirely." Fandral commanded.
"Who else could elude Heimdall's gaze with tricks of light and shadow?" Sif Remarked.
"The ceremony was interrupted just before Thor was named King." Volstagg Reported.
"We should go to the Allfather." Sif voiced.
"And tell him what? "Oh, by the way, we think your son just betrayed the throne. And do us a favor. Bring back Thor. There's a good fellow!" Fandral mocked.
"It's our duty. If any of our suspicions are right, then all of Asgard is in danger." Sif insisted.