The creature proceeded to grab Thor and put him over his back. He then took out an orb from his pouch and held it high into the air; then came a swirling light as a giant portal opened. The creature stepped in, but not before one solitary cop jumped in with Thor and the creature.

Mephisto was sitting and thinking to himself when a servant of his walked in. "Master, there is a difficulty with the one called Thor."

"What is it?" Mephisto sounded angry.

"Thor has been attacked and captured by a certain enemy of yours."

"WHO!!??" Mephisto was yelling now extremely mad. "Did you not send my creation in before this enemy?"

"I am sorry sir, but we were about, when we saw the battle on Midgard."

"That is enough, leave."

"Yes my master."

Mephisto was startled and surprised.

Who has taken my prey? he thought. Should I tell Loki? No. That... "god" will soon be one of my many servants, he does not need to know anything.

"Uhhhh.h....hh.." Thor moaned in pain. Where could he be? He looked around and saw he was in a darkly lit room with a little bit of water next to him. He took it and drank the water. SPEW! The taste was extremely bitter.

THUMP THUMP! There where steps and then the door a top the stairs that were located on the far corner opened. In stepped the odd looking creature and a tall man with a large flowing cape. His face, as Thor looked, was a dark brownish color and his mouth was opened a tad. He had fangs but he did not seem to be a vampire. He was different.

"I am... glad to see... you are awake," he spoke in an accent with long pauses. "You are to... be the Thunder God, no?"

Thor made no response when he noticed his hammer was gone.

"Looking for your... hammer? Do not worry... it is in a safe place. You know... no one can lift it... neither could Shotat, my…servant. It is on... Midgard..."

Thor was annoyed, and he became more at the way this man talked.

"You are... not pleased... at the way I speak? Now... you know how I feel... about your method of... talk."

Verily, this man knoweth mine thoughts, Thor thought to himself. But how?

"How do I know... your thoughts? I am telepathic... one of the... most powerful in history of... all universes. And I'm sure... you would like... to know who I... am, correct?"

"Yes."

"I am Joroale, master of all dimensions, wielder of the Forsaken Sword and the Knives of Triumph!"

"What dost thee want with me? I have nothing thou wants.

"Oh yes you do..."

"Have any one of you seen a Jake Olson? He is currently being held under investigation. But it seems he has disappeared. Do you have any idea where he is... Jane?"

It was O'Neal, hunting down Olson because of the evidence of him having drugs. He was now implying that Dr. Foster knew of his whereabouts.

"Nope, I haven't seen him since he attacked you."* There was a video recording of Jake Olson smothering O'Neal. No one knew, not even Thor, that it was one of Loki's manifestations.

[* Back in The Mighty Thor #20--Dino]

At that exact moment, in walked Jake Olson with a gun.

"All right O'Neal! I'm tired of you hunting me down! Let's finish this now!"

"Olson...?"

"AAAAAAAARRRGH!" Thor screamed in pain! It was unbearable. Joroale was tearing into Thor with his mystic sword.

"Give me the secret of the hammer! …………. Give me Mjolnir!" Joroale was extremely angry. It had been like this for the past one hour. Joroale kept asking how to lift the hammer, but Thor said what was true.

"Ne'er, only one with a heart brave and filled with honor may lift Mjolnir! So it was forged to do so!"

"No No NO! I want... TO LIFT... THE HAMMER!"

"Ne'er will one such as you lift the hammer. Ne'er will one so unworthy lift Mjolnir! Thou art a coward! A coward as the size of the threats of Ragnarok! Ne'er will thou lift Mjolnir!!"

"So be it..." Joroale lifted the sword and pointed it at Thor. A giant beam hit Thor, causing him to scream in pain.

"AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGH"

"Mephisto!"

There was smoke and there appeared Loki, the trickster god.

"Yes Loki?"

"I cannot find Thor's signature on Midgard! Not even Olson's, Thor's vessel. Where art Thor!"

"I know where he is all right," Mephisto said, sitting on his throne, head resting on his hand. "But there is nothing I can do about it."

"Where art Thor!" Loki repeated, exasperated.

"He is in the grounds of my enemy and my cousin," Mephisto began. "Joroale and I always fought for power; in the end, we reached an agreement. I was never to set foot on his land, whilst he was never to set foot on my land. Understand?"

"If Joroale kills Thor, thou life shalt be in rubbles!"

"Thou do not understand," Thor said. He was lying on the ground, his entire chest torn up and he was bleeding all over. "I speaketh the truth."

"Then you... must be... speaking the truth. Never has anyone... taken so much pain," Joroale was about to give up. "Let us travel to Midgard. Come to my side Shotat!"

Rescue crews were all around the scene of Thor's battle with Shotat.* [Last ish--Dino] The destruction left was incredible. There were a few building's toppled and what not. No one knew what happened to Thor after that. He had just disappeared. Along with Shotat of course.

[* Last ish--Dino]

The next thing any rescue workers knew was that there was a beam of light and a yellow orange hole appeared in the air. Out came Shotat and Joroale. Shotat was dragging Thor's body. When everyone saw Thor, no one spoke.

"Thor, watch as I lift the hammer with my powerful sword. Ha ha ha!" Joroale laughed as he lifted his sword and pointed it at the hammer. Also, along with the sword, 3 knives floated into the air. They were the Knives of Triumph, obviously. Then all of the weapons shot out a beam of red energy at the hammer. It hit the hammer and it slowly lifted up into the air. It went straight for the hand of Joroale. What surprised everyone was that it went straight passed Joroale and connected with Thor's hand.

Thor grabbed the hammer and looked directly at Joroale. "Thou shalt fall under the might of Mjolnir and Thor!"

"Never!" Joroale screamed at Thor in rage. "I posses 2 of... the most powerful weapons in the... Universe! You can never... stop one such as me! You fell to the power of Shotat, how can you hope to defeat his creator? Shotat, kill him!" Joroale was so angry, he no longer talked in his accent.

Shotat leaped at Thor with all four of his fists out. He punched Thor with his two right hands and Thor came back by swinging his hammer at Shotat's face. Shotat took a few steps back and fired two different fireballs at Thor. Thor sidestepped one but was hit by the other one.

Shotat watched as Thor went flying back and grabbed Thor with his two bottom hands while he was in midair. Then, with his two top hands, he started punching Thor. Thor, weak from Joroale's torture, couldn't fight back.

"What the hell do we do?" a SWAT member asked Johnson.

"I have absolutely no idea," Johnson said, frustrated. "If Thor loses, we're screwed. We gotta start firing."

"Sir, are you sure? I mean, we might hit Thor."

"No choice. I have a hunch though. All we have to do is get Thor clear of the area. Bring in the tank."

"I hope you know what you're doing sir."

"So do I."

Finally, Thor swung his hammer at Shotat and knocked him to the ground. Thor came down hard on Shotat, by swinging his hammer down on him. He screamed in agony as he threw a fireball at Thor. Thor swung his hammer in such a fashion, the fireball bounced off Mjolnir and came back at Shotat. Shotat fell to the ground. He got up and looked at Thor. Thor flew to the air and pointed his hammer at Shotat, but before he could do anything, there was a yell.

"NOW!"

A giant rocket went flying at Shotat. It hit him right at his shoulder and he fell to the ground.

"AGAIN!" the same voice yelled and a rocket came flying at Shotat, who was on the ground. It him in his stomach and Shotat screamed his final scream. It was all over.

"Who hast done this?" Thor yelled, "This was Thor's fight, and Thor's alone!"

"I did, I'm Detective Johnson, and you look weak. I didn't believe you could finish the fight."

"Then, thy act is justified," just as Thor said that, he was hit by a beam of energy. Thor fell to the ground; he had reached his limit of battle.

"Do not... forget about... Joroale!" Joroale stood there looking at Thor angrily.

NEXT ISSUE: AN ALL-OUT BRAWL BETWEEN THOR AND JORALE!!!