The Escape

The Escape is the first story mode stage in MADNESS: Project Nexus and the first stage in the outskirts hub. It takes place immediately after the end of MADNESS: Project Nexus (Classic), after Hank, Sanford and Deimos destroy a couple of Nexus facilities in the outskirts of Nevada.

## Briefing

We've taken down the Nexus facilities on the outskirts of Nevada, but the A.A.H.W. (Agency Against Hank Wimbleton) is trying to stop us from making it to Nexus City to put an end to Project Nexus once and for all!

## The Stage

The mission starts showing the Science Tower in the distance, then "Somewhere in Nevada" appears on the screen. The camera then moves down to show three bandits hanging out next to the road. A truck the passes by, knocking over a shopping cart and presumably, killing one of the bandits. A bunch more vehicles then pass by and a bandit with a MAC-11 tries to see where the vehicles are going,

It is then shown that the truck is being driven by Sanford, with Deimos on the passenger side, and Hank in the back. Hank comments on how the truck is going too slow. Deimos then makes fun of Hank, saying that he is too scared to fight. Sanford then tells Hank to check the back of the truck how they are doing. Hank sees the A.A.H.W. convoy and tells Sanford. A bike with an agent with a long sword then speeds up to the truck and the agent jumps off the bike while telling them to pull over. Hank kills the agent and is told by Deimos to grab the iron sword because they have more agents coming in. Three more bikes with two agents in each speed up to the truck, the agents jump off and are killed by Hank. Then two more bikes come, one with an agent the other with an A.T.P Engineer, both are killed by Hank. Sanford then tells Hank to grab a weapon he left in the footlocker to deal with the rest of the agents. A truck with five agents then catches up, one of the agents say they trained for this and then they jump off the truck. Hank kills them all, then the same thing happens again, but with four agents, an engineer and a bike with one engineer. The engineer on the truck says that Hank, Sanford and Deimos will play for exploding their base. They are all killed by Hank. Then 5 more bikes with one agent each catch up to the truck, the agents jump off the bikes it and are killed by Hank. Deimos then says that they are losing the A.A.H.W. It then cuts to two bandits on top of a mountain. One of them spots the truck and tells the other, the other then asks him what he is waiting for, and then pushes a boulder down the mountain. The boulder hits the main character's truck, causing Sanford to lose control and crash down a mountain.

It is then shown that they all survived the crash, but Deimos is injured, and Sanford is trying to patch him up. Hank then sarcastically compliments Sanford's driving. Sanford tells Hank to quit it, and that one of them is injured.

Hank proceeds to make his way to Nexus City on foot, going through a destroyed village filled with bandits. The bandits attack Hank for being in their territory and because they want to eat him. Hank fights back, killing several groups of bandits and moving forward, until he reaches a toolbooth, where he gets stopped from continuing by another group bandits who ambush him. Hank kills them and lifts the toolbooth arm, saying that there is no reason to jump a perfectly fine toolbooth arm. He then sees a group of bandits trying to get into a building, Hank kills them and then notices that he cant progress because there is a lifted up bridge that can only be dropped by shooting a generator on the other side of the cliff. He then gets inside of the building and finds a Dawk-9. When he steps outside, a group of bandits is waiting outside. After dealing with them, Hank shoots the generator to drop the bridge, goes across and is attacked by more bandits.

Hank then reaches a junkyard filled with bandits. While Hank is making his way through the junkyard, the A.A.H.W. catches up and starts sweeping the area. Hank then has to fight through bandits and the A.A.H.W. who are also attacking the bandits. A squad of A.A.H.W. units then corner Hank, and he has to fight off a group of agents and engineers until the exit is clear, and he can get out of there.

## Characters

### Enemies

* Agent
* A.T.P. Engineer
* Bandit

## Music

* No Escape - Locknar
* Thunderground - Locknar
* AAHW - Cheshyre

## Trivia

* Despite this being the first stage of the game, this is not the first stage that was made.
* Soldats used to be in the stage until they were removed

## Videos

Let's Play MADNESS- Project Nexus - Episode 1 - The Outskirts