After offering up Odin both his sobriety and his dignity, Tony Stark is led by the Asgardian All-Father to the workshops of Svartalfheim, where he is introduced to the Dwarves of Nidavellir who will work in his service to create weapons Iron Man can use in the fight against the Serpent. Splitlip, the leader of the dwarves, is extremely combative and vulgar towards Iron Man, but is impressed by Tony's designs of his RT device and agrees that he will be able to help build more of them. At Stark Resilient, the news comes in about the worldwide havoc being raged by the Worthy. Paris is a wasteland of dead people turned to stone. While Pepper and her team watch from their HQ, Justine Hammer is checking on Lt. Johnson and Detroit Steel. She cannot hail him, and when she checks in on Washington for Gen. Babbage, she learns that it is in flames as well. Pepper realizes she's got to go to Paris to help as Recuse. At the same time, Justine Hammer sends her daughter Sasha and a team of armored soldiers into Paris to recover the Detroit Steel armor. Tony introduces himself to a gathering of the dwarf machinists. An argument breaks out between Splitlip and Tooth, who is angry that a human being swaggers in and starts ordering them around. Splitlip reminds him that Odin ordered this. Rescue flies into Paris at around the same time as Hammer's armor. Mokk emerges from the shadows and makes his move. Meanwhile, Tony slips into a relapse, drinking with the dwarves and getting obnoxiously into fights with them, and he is reveling in it.