Rise

"'A new world awaits...'""Rise" is the first episode of Nebula, the first episode of Season 1 - Ascension, and the series premiere of Nebula.

Synopsis
In the first episode of Nebula, a new foe arrives, with intentions to "break free." Nebula goes to investigate, but gets a lot more than he had hoped for...

Plot
The episode starts off with Lazarus about to beam Maxwell. But before that happens, Nebula appears on screen and says that "we gotta go back a bit." The scene transitions to Nebula HQ, where Nebula is looking at a picture of a person, with flashes of a 'space guy' holding a gun to his head are shown. Maxwell walks in and asks Nebula if he is okay, to which Nebula says that he is fine. An explosion is heard and he looks out his window, to see a chunk of a mountain is gone.

Nebula teleports then and questions who are what caused the explosion. As soon as he says that, Nebula gets knocked out by a single punch from Lazarus. He wakes up to himself tied up, with Lazarus in front of him. Lazarus introduces himself, and asks Nebula for 'something.' He then summons Maxwell and threatens to kill him if he doesn't give him the thing. Nebula unleashes a purple beam out of the mountain, which breaks him free. Nebula and Lazarus fly around the planet a couple of times, before Nebula pulls down a purple fist from the sky and pushes Lazarus toward the ground, creating a big crater. Nebula teleports down to him to finish him off, but Lazarus throws down a disk, which creates a purple portal that sucks Nebula in. Maxwell throws a punch at Lazarus, but he deflects it. Nebula is shown in a blue space, but is then pulled out of it.

He then wakes up in space, then spots a purple planet with the top part chiseled off. He opens a portal and falls out, while the portal glitches and disappears. He looks back at Earth with a orange beam shooting out of it. The crystal behind him in the crater starts to glow and summons armor. Back on Earth, Lazarus blasts Maxwell, but an explosion is shown. Nebula appears in front of Maxwell, with light purple armor. Lazarus mentions that 'no one escapes from Errorspace.' Nebula blasts Lazarus with a glowing purple fist from his eyes, and he hits The Red Bullet, cracking it and exploding it. A floating triangle in space is shown, but then Nebula wakes up. It then shows that Lazarus is watching Nebula and Maxwell through a screen. Then a mysterious grey figure shows up on the screen, and asks Lazarus if he 'got the shard,' to which Lazarus teleports the bottom part of a purple crystal. The mysterious figure then says that 'a new world awaits.'

Characters

 * Ben Smith as Travis Johnson/Nebula, Lazarus and The Figure


 * Sam Smith as Maxwell Johnson

Trivia

 * This is the first episode of Nebula, and Season 1.

Key Story Details

 * In the beginning of the episode, Nebula looks at a picture of a kid (Jack Stone), and flashes of a 'space guy' holding a gun to his head appear.
 * When Lazarus corners Maxwell, he mentions that 'our plan' has been set into motion, to which Maxwell replies, "Wait, 'our plan?'"
 * Lazarus teleports Nebula to Error-space. Lazarus brings this up later when he sees Nebula in armor.
 * Nebula ends up on a purple planet, with the top of it gone, and a purple crystal in the center.
 * The giant purple crystal summons armor for Nebula.
 * When Nebula enters the purple planet, he says that something is wrong with his powers.
 * At the end of the episode, when Lazarus is talking to the mysterious figure, he teleports the bottom piece of a shard. The figure then says that a "new world awaits..."