Naomi fills out the back story of Zumbado, who up to this point, was a villain, but this is not the truth! Last episode, there was a mystery of who sabotaged Anthony’s float, Nathan and Anthony end up in detention, and find that it is Esme on a security video! Zumbado warns Naomi about Dr. Bell whom told her about the multiverse. She zaps Naomi and Zumbado takes her away! This episodes focuses on Zumbado, working with Naomi, and the rest of the large cast is reduced to a manageable two other characters! Naomi wakens, blurry vision, to a fight. It is Zumbado taking on several attackers against a sunset hidden by window blinds. He defeats them and walks over to Naomi to ask if she can walk. Zumbado helps her up and the men call for back-up. He was a super villain, but Zumbado didn’t act cruelly towards Naomi, he let her escape many times. Naomi stumbles in the hall supported by Zumbado who takes her to the electrical room. He says they have technology to nullify their powers.
Zumbado shorts out the door and explains that the machine drained Naomi of her energy. He says the energy would be “re-purposed” by Dr. Bell. Naomi asks why Zumbado helped her. He says he doesn’t hate her and says that Naomi is “not ready.” She wants the truth so Zumbado is ready to tell her the truth. How does Dee fit in with Zumbado's story? They have worked together so not enemies. Zumbado must know that Naomi trusts Dee. He reaches out to her temple and we flashback to the young Zumbado talking to two co-workers at a factory. Zumbado calls it “mental teleportation” and says he had a different life. At a party, Zumbado drinks with his friends as a woman dances and eyes him. He walks over to her and they dance. Zumbado stops the memory. He tells Naomi that she had the scent of “Nebula flowers.” They walk together at night “before everything changed.” In the sky is a ringed moon and a blue moon. Naomi asks if the planet he was on is Earth-29.
This was her homeworld and Zumbado answers her questions about the red plants that absorb light in a different way. At the electrical room, Naomi tells him about the woman, Zumbado says her name is Akira, who led her to Dr. Bell. She says that Akira told her that he destroyed Earth-29. The lights flare and Zumbado opens a ventilation grate, Zumbado says S.T.A.R. uses “plasma physics” and vent through it through there. Annabelle arrives at the McDuffie house and Greg is making his pineapple pizza. She was looking for Naomi and her parents are distracted by the oven alarm. All of Naomi's other friends seem unconcerned that she has been out of contact all day, but it is a large cast. In the ventilation shaft, they wait for security guards pass, Zumbado says he was afraid all of the time. Young Zumbado is on a lift and looks up to see meteors streaking in the sky, he is rocked off it and falls. Before he collides, his powers keep him in the air. Naomi wonders about everyone having powers. Zumbado explains that they appeared with the meteor shower.
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Naomi admits that she felt alone when her powers emerged. Zumbado says he felt the same thing, flashback, we see Akira walk up to him at a bar. She knows his name, she picks up a flame, and places it back into a candle. Akira says she is a mineralogist and says she can control fire with the meteor shower. She tells Zumado that the meteor shower arrived because of destiny. Akira says there are others. Back at S.T.A.R. labs, they start crawling when gas starts venting through the shaft! They escape out of another grate. Annabelle enters Dee’s office, looking around, but Dee tells her not to touch anything. She tries to lie about meeting Naomi there, but Dee says he just arrived. Dee asks what is wrong and she finally admits that Naomi is missing. Annabelle asks if his powers can find Naomi flapping her arms, funny! In a hallway, Zumbado and Naomi check out Dr. Bell’s office, she asks about the others and he admits there were twenty-nine people with powers.
The number and the accident, super heroes will often get some cosmic event to get powers, but in particular the Malibu comic, The Strangers. A cable car of people is struck by lightning that “jumpstarts” them into Ultras. Naomi says that 29 is the number on the disc. Flashback, a car is engulfed in purple flames, Akira pushes some of the flames away. Zumbado tears off a car door and helps out the passengers. Naomi asks if he was a superhero, Zumbado just says they were helping, but the planet was still dying. The strange part is that Naomi doesn't collaborate the stories of different people with others; Dee, Zumbado, and Akira. The red flowers appear around them in the office, but Naomi touches one that disappears! Zumbado says their connection has made the memories “come to life.” He admits that they were hunted by men with red rifles led by a being called Brutus. The disappearance of the disc led the 29 to escape their world. Naomi and Zumbado have to escape S.T.A.R. Labs in an uneasy alliance, but this episode of Naomi focuses on the character of Zumbado!
Four Discs out of Five!
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