John, Liz and Mike jaunt to Glip's ship, but when Yagon and Cantor return, they use the barlamin to disable them. The only hope of stopping their plans lies with Andrew and Hsui Tai, but the barlamin has already robbed them of their powers.
Having successfully stripped the five Tomorrow People of special powers, Yagon and Cantor (believing them to be official Fed agents) quickly rig their stolen spaceship to explode, aiming to spread their gathered barlamin across the galaxy along with the atomized remains of their pilot and the Tomorrow People, thereby depriving all galactic Tomorrow beings of special powers.—statmanjeff