Episode 1: Emergency Alert

Overview
(link to episode) "Emergency Alert" is the 1st episode in book one of Objectified. The episode starts with Spool and Citrus having a pleasant exchange in a bar in Center Ring at night, Citrus offering to take Spool to his place when the television mounted over the bar broadcasts an emergency alert. A news report comes on showing the reporter and cameraman running away from something and yelling, before the station switches to a helicopter view and someone else takes over to report violent assaults, riots, and "mutant objects" in the city. Spool and Citrus decide to leave and make their way to Citrus' car as an assimilated object runs past them, shrieking and on fire. Neither character is able to get a good look at it. Spool overhears panic in the bar as the door is being barricaded and he's pulled into the alleyway by Citrus where they observe an assimilated object approaching the bar. It reacts violently to the commotion inside and enters the bar by shattering the windows. In response, Spool and Citrus run away into a network of alleyways where they are cornered by another parasite and Citrus switches to his monster form, latching onto Spool and flying away in a panic. >> Next Episode