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
Thor was held with his back against the hull of the He heard the humming once more The ship was getting ready to fry him What wickedness Thor exclaimed How had a mere construct such as this ship overtaken him so swiftly so surely He didn’t know and he didn’t care But he decided this would end and it would end ship now With all his might Thor strained at the wires holding his right hand Something else some force added strength to the wires and it resisted him But the hero would not relent He managed to move his right hand up just enough so he could slam the blunt end of his hammer onto the hull The sky reacted with the fury of the storm Thunder Rain And lightning Lightning which struck from the heavens above dancing all over the rogue SHIELD craft At once the wires that held Thor prisoner let go The ship’s
circuits were overloaded with more raw energy than it could possibly handle Thor flung himself from the craft flying alongside it now As Thor watched the craft he saw it do the impossible It stopped in midair while the lightning continued to strike it The craft moved down then up Then it tried to move backward It was as if it had a mind of its own The lightning continued until the ship blew itself into a million pieces Thor called off the storm As he did he noticed something peculiar He saw a yellow cloud of some kind streaming from the explosion slowly drifting upward toward space Midnight a nameless Northeastern town A meteor A brilliant ball of light streaked across the sky of The object hurtled toward the ground for the inevitable impact In the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night there was no one around to
