Family reunion

family reunion is the first episode of emerald the robot.

Characters
emerald

proto emerald

bob

sapphire

diamond

ruby

Synopsis
during a training exercise, emerald breaks his arm, so he goes to bob's vault to get a new one, while looking for a new arm emerald finds a pod with a damaged emerald in it, there was sign on it that said "prototype emerald"' so emerald opened it and greeted his brother with a hug, proto didn't seem to like hugs, emrald then showed Proto to sapphire, ruby, and diamond, while showing them proto, proto attacks diamond and tried to kill him, Proto managed to get Proto off emerald. Worrying about his brothers behavior, emerald takes him to bob, when emerald showed Proto to bob, bob screamed in hororr and told emerald to stay away from Proto, after this, Proto attemps to kill bob, but emerald punches proto in the face and Proto and Proto flies away, bob then tells emerald that Proto damaged his motherboard several years ago and that he needs to stop Proto at all costs. Emerald the Goes off to stop Proto. he then starts to fight Proto, during the fight Proto tries to kill random people several times but emerald punches through Proto's chest, killing him. He then throws proto's body into the ocean. Emerald is upset at the fact that he had to kill his own brother, but bob tells emerald that the real Proto died years ago, this makes emerald feel better.

Reception
this episode recived overwellming critical aclaimm, critics praised it for it's plot and characters.

Controversey
when it first aired this episode had a scene were Proto throws bombs at a marathon, people said this was too similar to the boston bombings, after several complaints, this scene was omitted from reruns, but not the DVD Or digital releases