To no surprise to Thor Cain is indeed
there. But to everyone's surprise he has taken over a
planet in that dimension as monarch. Cain tells Thor and Excalibur that he took over the planet from it's prince and that they'll sit there in their priso-spheres until he can think of what he wants to do with them. Juggernaut leaves and seeing an oppurtunity to regain
his throne,the former ruler of the planet frees Thor to battle
The Juggernaut.
Thor storms the castle to face Cain
who is a bit annoyed by the intrusion. The fight begins
with Cain throwing several blows that Thor deftly evades.
However he decides to strike The Juggernaut with all
his might with his hammer. This naturally does not
faze The Juggernaut at all and only puts Thor in position to catch an
uppercut. The Juggernaut rushes Thor into a wall and continues to
attack.
Thor dodges and The Juggernaut's punch hits the wall. The next panel Thor is somehow now standing several yards from The Juggernaut and unleashes some kind of
beam from Mjolnir. Thinking it just another of Thor's
useless attacks The Juggernaut chides him for a wasted effort.
Thor explained that the blast was to discern the nature
of Cain's incredible power. The beam told Thor that it was mystical.
Thor then threw Mjolnir which flew by Juggernaut's head and ended up flying out of a castle window. After making fun of Thor's aim The
Juggernaut advanced upon the unarmed Thor but the purpose
of his "inaccurate" toss of Mjolnir would soon become shockingly
clear to Cain. Thor had sent Mjolnir circling the
castle to negate all mystical energy. This wiped out
The Juggernaut's invulnerabilty and forcefield which Cain found out the
hard way when a crisp Thor right cross hit him in the
face so hard it tore up his helmet and knocked him for a loop.
(This story seems to depict The Juggernaut's forcefield as the source of his invulnerability for some reason. This is not the case as The Juggernaut's body itself is what is invulnerable. The forcefield is merely an extraneous ability that prevents him from being touched when he wishes not to be so. It also has offensive capabilities as well.)
Still stunned at suddenly being vulnerable and
touchable The Juggernaut renews his attack regardless.
The Mjolnir cyclone obviously couldn't negate ALL of The Juggernaut's mystic
energy as The Juggernaut still had an immense amount of strength left and puts Thor down and on the ropes with just one punch. Seeing The Juggernaut's next crushing and perhaps finishing blow coming at him Thor
musters enough strength to dodge and go on the
offensive.
.
Able to now lay hits on The Juggernaut
and being a much better hand-to-hand combatant Thor
rains blow after blow on The Juggernaut. Hitting him across the
face and following up quickly with a vicious blow to his stomach
rapidly,not allowing The Juggernaut any time to regain his bearing.
Thor actually manages to daze him but The Juggernaut refuses to fall stating
defeat is not in his vocabulary. 
Thor cocks back
to throw what he feels will be the finishing blow but right before it connects The Juggernaut's
forcefield comes back and deflects
it. 60 seconds having expired which means Mjolnir
had to return to Thor's hand. Thor's valiant effort goes for naught
as The Juggernaut recovers completely from the barraging assault
the instant his protective spell returns.
Seeing the success Thor had after
he discerned the nature of his power Cain decided
that since Mjolnir must be the source of Thor's
power that if he got it he would be unbeatable as well as unstoppable. He also
was pretty sure that Thor wouldn't give it up willingly
so he decides to pick up a stone pillar and beat it
out of him(gotta love Juggy's way of doing things).
But Cain finds when he goes to lift Mjolnir that he can't even budge it. To him this didn't
add up since he knew he was at the very least Thor's equal in strength and Thor lifts it easy. As
Mjolnir returned to his hand Thor explains that Mjolnir
can only be lifted by those of the right character.
Sensing that trying to actually fall The Juggernaut
is impossible Thor devises a way to remove the unstoppable menace. Thor begins twirling his hammer
to create a powerful windstorm. The Juggernaut
effortlessly walks through it towards him and says he going to rip Mjolnir right out of Thor's hands and bash Thor with it. But when Cain reaches out to grab
Mjolnir Thor wraps Cain's wrist in the hammer's unbreakable band. Thor
then flings his hammer(with The Juggernaut attached) into space onto a meteor. Not sure why The Juggernaut didn't just pull his hand out or ride the hammer back,but there ya go.
A rather...odd ending actually. Between that and the forcefield misportrayal this fight had some rather eyebrowing-raising quirks but it was still one of the best throwdowns you'll ever see.
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