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THE FALL OF THE HAMMER |
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Writers - John Francis Moore, Pat Mills and
Tony Skinner, and Peter David
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Summary: As Miguel 'O Hara and Dana are enjoying a quiet walk alone together, a rumble on the sky marks the arrival of the floating city, Valhalla. Aboard the floating city we find old and familiar names with new faces. The Aesir, the gods of Norse mythology have returned. The first to greet humanity are Thor and Heimdall. Thor sees Dana and takes a liking to her. Miguel raises his protests and is promptly thrown miles away by Thor's strength. An angered Thor begins to forces people, "the worthy" onto Valhalla. Miguel returns to the site of Valhalla but as Spiderman. He engages Thor in a fight that once again ends with him being thrown miles away but this time into a huge crumbling building which collapses above him. When he emerges, none other than the Punisher is awaiting him with a gun aimed at his head.
Meanwhile, at Ravage's office, the X-Men ambush Ravage for some information that he refused to give them. Bloodhawk tries to beat Ravage for the information but to his surprise, he finds out why Ravage is so unimpressed by his appearance. Ravage transforms and agrees to help them. Together they fly off to Valhalla where they are met by Public Eye security forces. Eventually separated, the X-Men take on the Norse god Heimdall while Ravage seeks the engine room where he has already planned a rendezvous with Doom. Their plan is to correct the engine defects that are causing the floating city to pollute everything it flies over and prevent it form its eventual crash onto the surface below. Unfortunately for Ravage he encounters Hela, queen of the underworld. After some battling Ravage realizes that Hela is indeed Tiana. Ravage convinces Tiania that this Norse god routine is not for her, she then flees dazed and confused.
Elsewhere, the X-Man Skullfire escapes from security forces and proceeds to meet up with some of his fellow X-Men on Valhalla. Skullfire finds a huge mob that is being flown up to Valhalla one at a time by con artists that are charging thousands of credits per person. Skullfire commandeers one of the lifts and begins his own ascent. As he gets closer to Valhalla his mind recalls the events that led him there. X-men Menastreak, Krys, and Bloodhawk continue their fight against Heimdall. When all seems lost, Loki appears to Meanstreak and gives him a device to defeat the Norse god. After becoming powerless, Heimdall falls to Bloodhawk's blows. It is only then that we learn that Loki is in fact Meanstreak's lost friend, Jordan Boone. At the same time Doom arrives with Skullfire and challenges Loki's control over the situation. Last but not least, Thor arrives and strikes down Bloodhawk with lightening.
Thor is
maddened with rage when he sees his servant Heimdall lying defeated on
the ground. Thor turns out his anger on Doom. As the battles rages Loki
once again helps out by tipping to Doom that Thor's power is in his
hammer. A huge explosion is caused when Doom blocks Thor's constant flow
of power and both are sent hurtling away from Valhalla in a ball of
fire. When Thor recovers is is not lying in a burnt out a crater but in
the laboratory of the man called Avatarr. It is at this point that we
see that Thor is none other than the Reverend McAdam, preacher of
the church of Thor. Avatarr restores the reverend to his
full power and sends him off on his mission of destruction. Thanks to
Doom's
cloaking ability, he is able to witness it and threatens Avatarr.
Avatarr
reminds Doom that Valhalla will fall any minute and morally blackmails
him
into believing that the lives at stake are more important than killing
him.
On Valhalla, the heroes try to organize an evacuation of the city. As
the
last of the evac pods leave, Doom arrives on seen. Ravage informs Doom
that
everything he has tried has not worked and that there is no stopping the
city
from falling onto New York.
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