Project Creber: Extrication Part 1

Project Creber: Extrication Part 1 is a Madness Combat tribute animation created by Potke and the first part of the Project Creber series. Made over the course of approximately ten months, it was one of the 158 animations submitted for Madness Day 2021, going on to win 10th place and a price of $20, while its outro artwork (made by Fedev), one of the 1000+ submitted illustrations, also won 10th place and a price of $20.MADNESS DAY 2021 WINNERS
==Plot==
The animation begins in an AAHW facility in a room with a shelf holding several containers of a gas called Replication Support Gas. An ATP soldat with a G3 (?) leads a grunt into the room before leaving. The grunt sets down the container on the ground and smokes a cigarette. 
As it turns out, this is the same facility as the one in Potke's previous animation: Madness Incursion. In an adjacent room Hank fights and kills an upgraded agent, before placing a bomb on a computer terminal. The bomb goes off and blows a hole in the room that the grunt is in, injuring the grunt and damaging the RSG container. The grunt inhales some of the gas and his eyes turn red. 3 defective, abomination-like clones of the grunt suddenly appear, one of which dies immediately. The soldat that was seen earlier enters, followed by an agent with a Colt Revolver, and they attack the abominations, presuming that they were hostile. The soldat reports the incident via his headset, while the agent drags the grunt's unconscious body out of the room.
Over the next two months, the grunt, who is now known as Project Creber, is experimented on by the AAHW, who seek to make him into a self-cloning super-soldier. After perfecting the cloning process, the agency also made several cybernetic modifications to Creber's body, which include a metal chestplate, a back rig filled with rsg gas, and a mask to allow Creber to breathe despite the lung damage inflicted by the gas.
The agency completely disregarded Creber's well-being since he was now an experiment, chaining him up to a wall and making him generate clones against his will using a device. After multiple combat tests, the science team determines that Creber is able to generate up to 4 instances of himself, and that because of the hive-mind nature of the clones, Creber has to divide his attention between the instances, so the more clones are created, the less skill each individual clone will demonstrate.
A group of AAHW personnel, consisting of an agent, a soldat, and a scientist are seen conducting a test of Creber's abilities as they channel his RSG gas into a circular area enclosed by an energy field, creating a clone. The agent throws a sword into the circle and allows Creber to pick it up, while the soldat shoots a few rounds at Creber from his AK47 in semi-automatic mode, which Creber deflects easily. However, the scientist then spawns a third clone, and the soldat quickly kills both of them will fully automatic fire. The AAHW team disposes of the corpses and prepares to conduct another test run. However, unbeknowst to them, a former soldat codenamed Enigma has been watching the facility from a different building. He shoots the machine responsible for channeling Creber's RSG gas, and allows Creber to create 3 clones, which promptly attack and kill the AAHW personnel in the room. The clones arm themselves, free the original Creber from the wall, and open the door with a keycard. The clones are quick to attack the AAHW members in the next room, shooting several scientists, agents, and ATP engineers dead.
In the next room, an agent with a machete and a soldat with an M12 attack the Creber clones as another fleeing scientist is gunned down. The soldat manages to kill the AK47 wielding clone, but the agent is killed by a baton-wielding clone, while another clone somersaults down a flight of stairs as he shoots the soldat twice with a Five-SeveN (?). Another agent shoots at the pistol-wielding clone with a burst from his MPL, which the clone evades. The clone promptly returns fire and kills the agent, before getting his head chopped in half by an engineer's axe. A third clone shoots the engineer thrice in the head, and one of the shots goes through the visor, killing the engineer. Meanwhile, the baton clone drops his baton in favor of the AK47 that the other clone dropped. As the clones assemble, Creber spawns another clone, who picks up the dead soldat's M12.
The three clones enter the next room and exchange fire with two agents and a soldat who are behind some boxes. Two of the three clones advance from their cover position, while one of them flanks the agents through a vent. The M12-wielding clone shoots one of the agents as he swings from a cable on the ceiling only to get killed by a soldat, while the AK47 clone is shot dead by the other agent's M1911. However, the clone that crawled through the vent and dropkicks another melee agent, then kills both the agent and the soldat in cover with well-placed headshots from his handgun, and proceeds to kill another axe-wielding agent, as well as an engineer. Creber then picks up a sword and moves to the next room.
In the next room, another engineer, armed with a UMP-45, signals several agents to move up, but Creber enters the room and spawns a clone right under the engineer before he can shoot Creber, throwing off his aim. The newly spawned clone then throws the engineer on the right into the air where he is sliced in half by the clone with the sword, who then knocks down an agent while stabbing another one with his sword, causing the agent to drop his Skorpion v.z.61. While the aforementioned clone gets into a sword fight with two other agents, the clone on the left gets up and rips out the heart of the agent who was knocked down earlier before picking up his machete. Creber proceeds to turn around and throw it at another agent and dodging a shot from an engineer's lever-action rifle. He then picks up the Skorpion that was dropped earlier and returns fire at the engineer, as well as another agent, but the engineer survives because the bullets bounced off his mask.
Meanwhile a soldat enters the room and shoots at the sword-wielding Creber on the right with a revolver, but Creber deflects the two bullets and kills two more agents, pushes one of the bodies at the soldat, steals his revolver, and shoots him. Creber then turns around to see that another soldat has killed the clone on the left with throwing knives, and tries to shoot him, but the soldat dodges the bullet and Creber runs out of the room to avoid a shot from the engineer's rifle.
Having left the previous room, Creber finds himself outside the facility near a bridge between two buildings. An agent grabs Creber from behind but Creber throws and shoots him. Two soldats see this and brandish their weapons: a machete and a Vepr assault rifle. The one armed with a machete charges at Creber, who had fired the last shot from his revolver and missed. However, Enigma suddenly shoots the soldat with his sniper rifle, distracting the other soldat. Creber summons a clone behind the soldat, who shoots him with his rifle, only for the clone to suplex the soldat and break his back. Creber then picks up the Vepr and shoots at the engineer and soldat from the previous room, killing the engineer. However, the soldat does a flip and dodges the bullets, landing on the wall at the edge of the bridge, prompting Creber to spawn a clone right in front of the soldat to knock him off. As the clone and the soldat plummet to their deaths, Creber and Enigma each kill an agent before Creber turns around and smashes the face of an agent with his rifle, causing the latter to drop his axe. Enigma snipes another agent, and Creber shoots two more agents and an engineer, emptying his Vepr.
Creber then picks up the axe that the agent dropped earlier and kills several agents armed with blunt melee weapons before disarming an engineer of his machete and throwing him off the bridge. Creber then stabs another agent with the machete he stole, then summons a clone to use as a human shield against two agents, who shoot the clone several times. Enigma then snipes one of the agents, and Creber takes the opportunity to throw his axe at the other agent. As Creber approaches the other bulding, an agent comes out and tries to hit Creber with the stock of his CZ-3A1, but Creber disarms and kills the agent, making his way into the next building.
Meanwhile, Enigma watches from his sniping position, and reports to an unknown individual that Creber has done a good job escaping, and the unknown individual orders Enigma to contact Creber. Meanwhile, as Creber enters the building, he coughs a few times, then enters a room with "Creber" written in his blood. There, he finds a tablet which scans his face and confirms his identity. Creber sees a chat window open, and Enigma sends him a message, saying that he should find a nearby AAHW bunker and get to the power core, which will make him more powerful. Creber is suspicious of Enigma's true intentions, but decides to go forward with the plan.
==Trivia==
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