At that very moment Thor found himself soaring through Earth’s upper atmosphere In his right hand he held fast to the leather strap that in turn was wrapped around Mjolnir’s handle In actuality the hammer did the flying and Thor held on for the ride He had received a message from Nick Fury the director of SHIELD that something had gone wrong with one of their experimental aircrafts The other Avengers were currently occupied fighting against the Serpent Society somewhere in Antarctica This left Thor as the lone Avenger available to help Fury and the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division The Asgardian scanned the sky with the keenest of eyes He had spotted the SHIELD craft a minute before and was rapidly closing the gap between himself and the vehicle It moved fast Thor thought faster than Iron Man faster than an Avengers Quinjet Thor continued to close the distance Fury Thor said into a miniaturized Avengers communicator I have your ship in view It is fast but not too fast for the son of Odin
Static crackled over the communicator then Fury’s voice Don’t get too cocky Thor It’s a drone sure but we’re detecting that its weapons systems are fully armed and Thor suppressed a chuckle At ease Fury I’m certain that I can handle anything your craft can ZZZZRRRAAAAAAK Without warning the craft fired a beam of ionic energy at Thor The Asgardian reeled as his body surged with a paralyzing force Ahead the craft slowed abruptly and changed direction It was heading for Thor Momentarily caught off guard Thor struggled in midair Control over his muscles returned and the Asgardian flung his mallet forward propelling himself directly at the craft Have at thee he shouted Mjolnir propelled him toward the ship which fired pulses of ionic energy intended to take Thor down Thor swooped left and right up and down avoiding every blast At last he was upon the craft He caught the wing with his left hand and swung in behind the
ship He looked inside the cockpit and saw no one As Fury said it was a drone Computer-controlled But if SHIELD wasn’t controlling the computer who was Thor’s mind immediately raced to the likely culprit Ultron The living robot had caused untold troubles for him and the other Avengers over the years Could this be the opening of Ultron’s latest scheme Taking control of an experimental SHIELD aircraft Thor came Fury’s voice over the communicator What’s happening up there We see the ship discharged its weapons Are you okay Before Thor could answer the craft’s hull began to surge with ionic energy He let go of the wing just as the surge hit flew backward and caught the ship’s tail Ultron has returned I am fine Thor replied A bit busy Is it possible Negative Fury said When we lost contact with the drone and saw that it was moving independently that was the first thing we thought
But Ultron is currently imprisoned we have his consciousness trapped here on the Helicarrier in a single non-networked computer This is something else Something else indeed thought Thor The rogue SHIELD drone was now zigzagging through the sky trying to shake Thor off its tail Once again the hero heard a humming come from within the craft it was preparing another burst of ionic energy in an effort to dislodge Thor Raising his right arm Thor brought Mjolnir crashing into the hull of the ship The hammer tore through metal as easily as a hand passes through water What happened next surprised even the son of Odin Wires from inside the hole whipped with incredible force lashing Thor’s right hand to the hull of the ship The wires were more like the tendrils of some wild beast of Asgardian legend They moved with a mind of their own attacking Before Thor could react more wires erupted from the surface of the craft wrapping themselves around his legs and left arm The wires pulled themselves taut and now
