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Stripped of his powers by an angry Odin, Thor has been defeated by the magically empowered thief called the Wrecker. Having dropped a building on the Thunder God, the villain assumes Thor is either dead or dying, and leaves him to his fate. He does not see the Asgardian Goddess of Death, Hela, approaching the body of Thor ready to claim his soul. But before she can touch him, Thor arises from his body in astral form. In Asgard's Land of the Norns, Loki and Karnilla, the Norn Queen watches the approach of Balder and Sif in a stolen Mystic Crystal. One of the Norn Giants attacks Balder, but is finally defeated after a lengthy battle. But when Balder looks around, he realizes that Sif has been carried away during the fight. On earth, Thor's astral form informs Hela that she can not take him because a spark of life still burns within his body. Then in astral form he goes in search of the Wrecker. He finds him fighting a large group of policemen. Appearing to the Wrecker, Thor leads him away. Being only an astral form, the Wrecker can not hurt Thor, nor can Thor harm the Wrecker. In the Land of Norns, Balder goes in search of the missing Lady Sif. He is overcome by a gas pallet from one of Karnilla's trolls, bound, and taken towards Karnilla's castle. Meantime Karnilla shows Sif the apparently lifeless Thor in the Mystic Crystal. Sif begs for Karnilla to send her to the side of Thor to save him. Karnilla says only by slaying the Wrecker can Thor be saved. She then reveals that she is in possession of the Odin's creation called the Destroyer. An empty metal armor, when inhabited by the soul of a being, it becomes an indestructible warrior. Karnilla tricks Sif into merging with the Destroyer, and then sends her to earth. Once Sif has vanished, Loki appears from his hiding place and gloats that their plan is working. The Destroyer and the powerless Thor should destroy each other. Back on earth, Thor's astral form merges back with his body. He awakens to see the Wrecker and the Destroyer battling each other. The Wrecker strikes the Destroyer with his wrecking bar, and the bar shatters. Sif, in the Destroyer, then takes the Wrecker down with a blast from its fingers. Sif now turns and approaches Thor. But since her Destroy body is unable to speak, she can not tell Thor that she is the one within the body and will not harm him. Believing the Destroyer to be his enemy, Thor attacks.