A caped hero,
unable to understand what is going wrong, battles and destroys an army of
robots out to kill him. His weapon is energy blasts he can fire from the
omega-shaped marks on the palms of his hands. Spent, he falls to his knees and
a robot shoots him in the back…
…and an Earth
boy named James-Michael Starling wakes up with a scream. His parents come in,
asking if he can remember the dream but it is gone. His parents, who have
raised him in isolation to the age of twelve, now want him to go to school in
the city, to learn how to interact with other children. James-Michael is
reluctant. The next morning, as they are driving to New York, they collide with
a truck on a mountain road and their car plunges off a cliff. When
James-Michael recovers consciousness, he learns his parents were robots when he
sees his mother’s disconnected head, telling him not to listen to “the voices,”
before dissolving. He goes into shock, seeing his rescuers as monsters and his
mind shuts down….
Omega is
shackled to a wall, forced to watch the destruction of his world. He breaks his
bonds and runs, the robots in pursuit. He fights his way to a small spaceship
and takes off, not looking back….
James-Michael
awakens in a hospital, in restraints because he was thrashing in his sleep.
Nurse Ruth Hart calls Dr. Thomas Barrow, who is stunned at the boy’s adult
vocabulary and analytical manner of speech. He is very curious about
James-Michael and reveals that he has been there for a month. Outside the room,
the doctor tells Ruth that the hospital board no longer wants to keep him on as
a charity patent; he asks Ruth to find out more about the boy, hoping to find
something to justify keeping him on….
So, Ruth hangs
around with James-Michael but he doesn’t open up to her, which disappoints Dr.
Barrow, which doesn’t sway the board so the only other option is: Dr. Barrow
pays Ruth to have James-Michael come live with her and her roommate, freelance
photographer Amber Grant.
Amber drops by
the clinic and encounters James-Michael who is intrigued by her confident
manner and casual use of slang so that he agrees to move in….
That night, as
James-Michael tries to go to sleep at the clinic, a robot assassin crashes
through the window and scans the boy,
noting he is the correct target though his proportions are smaller. Then Omega
comes through the window and fights the robot. The robot corners the hero at
gunpoint but James-Michael instinctively raises his hands and energy beams
shoot out of his palms, destroying the robot. He recognizes Omega as the figure
from his dreams; the hero smiles, picks up the robot’s carcass and departs. Dr.
Barrow, awakened by the sound of the fight, comes in and, seeing the marks on
JM’s hands in the form of the Greek letter omega, accuses the boy of having
tired to harm himself…