All for Show

The Earth is the focus of this season's popular apocalypse reality show in the Boreling Empire. The Borelings have caused an EMP event, an electromagnetic pulse, that has disabled all sophisticated microelectronics, including cars, aircraft, power and communication systems. In addition to the EMP, the Borelings engineered a bio-infestor designed to transform a portion of the population into zombie-like bio-creatures. Grodge the Merciful, a Senior Assistant Producer for the show, has his hands full balancing his desire to gain a new title, Grodge the Destructor, with the demands of his ever-present boss, Pactain the Virulent. Although Grodge has managed to find some good instances of death and destruction for the hungry Boreling fans, he's also a bit overwhelmed as he tries to control the ever-growing hordes of zombies. It won't be much of a season if the zombies end up killing or turning all the humans too quickly! But there are pockets of resistance -- in San Diego, a young girl and her Marine escort are making their way to a sailboat in the harbor... or is the young girl escorting the Marine? In Massachusetts, a young man and woman must deal with zombies and thugs both, while a former college professor begins to unravel the odd effects of the EMP and the impossible zombies.