Just as the affair with The Mandarin drew to a close, something was happening in another country, far from the United States.
The Eagle Kingdom.
Jane Foster discovered a field of distorted space-time in an abandoned building.
As an astrophysicist, Jane was curious about every mysterious force, so she immediately stepped inside the abandoned building.
Yet the moment she entered that mysterious field, she unwittingly left Earth and appeared deep beneath Asgard.
The depths beneath Asgard were dim. Before long, Jane spotted a mass of dark red, translucent solid, as exquisitely beautiful as agate crystal.
At the sight, Jane instinctively reached out to touch it. But the instant her hand made contact, something unexpected happened: the dark red, translucent solid began merging into her body.
A powerful shock surged through her, and Jane passed out with barely any resistance.
Soon, the dark red solid had completely merged into her body, and the mysterious field vanished with it. Jane immediately returned to Earth from Asgard. After her assistant found her unconscious, she was taken straight to the hospital.
The moment the dark red solid disappeared, Heimdall, the guardian of Asgard, sensed something.
He was Asgard's guardian god, charged with watching over the Bifrost and controlling the realm's gateway. Odin had also entrusted him with another duty: guarding the Reality Stone, one of the Infinity Stones.
With his all-perceiving eyes, Heimdall could see all things and hear everything, much like a combination of the clairvoyant and far-hearing figures of Eastern mythology.
But just now, he had discovered that the Aether, the form taken by the Reality Stone, had vanished!
Heimdall's expression changed instantly.
"What happened?"
"It vanished?"
Bewildered, Heimdall disappeared in a flash. When he reappeared, he was already at the place where the Aether had been sealed.
At the sight of