A.S.U.

## Overview

The **Agency Special Unit** (abbreviated **ASU**) or **Agency Special Squad** is a branch of the AAHW present in Nexus City, working alongside the Nexus Core and specialized in high security and special tactics. The organization is composed mostly out of basic soldiers, but the ASU also possesses some specialist units, who wear urban camouflage vests and superior gear.

They made their first debut in Jsoull's *Madness: JAILBREAK* Collab, in which they attempt to stop the prisoners from escaping alongside the Nexus Police security guards. They would later reappear in a smaller number in Zapchon's Abnormis: DEPARTURE as one of the enemy factions present within the Nowhere, opposing both zombies and David.

## History

### Madness: JAILBREAK

The ASU appear in the latter stages of the Supermad Prison's riot, seen supporting the NEXUS Police and deploying many of it's units into the prison to take care of the rioters. Despite their superior gear and numbers, much like the guards, the ASU is unable to exterminate most of the rioters

### Abnormis: DEPARTURE

The ASU make an appearance within the realm of Nowhere. The first exhibit of this is when David and Kahn fight on an outdoor area and the latter resorts to using his portals to "summon" a lone assailant and a pair of zombies. The assailant disposes of the zombified engineer and turns his attention to David, who deflects the assailant's shot back at him. After David has taken care of Kahn, he stumbles across two more assailants and two Spooks. The last Spook is seen showcasing the ability to turn invisible via advanced camouflage technology. Despite the Spook's new ability, David managed to spot him and gun him down.

It is currently unknown if the ASU will be making further appearances in the series.

## **Units**

### **Assailant**

A basic ground troop, the Special Unit Assailant doesn't have any special characteristic to make them stand out, their only traits being their large numbers and weaponry. They sport helmets and grey combat uniforms and are armed with a variety of weapons, ranging from pistols to rifles. Despite their heavy armament, they are still taken care of rather quickly.

Multiple of them show up in Madness: JAILBREAK, serving as a backup to the prison guards. Some of them are seen playing cards with a guard in the cafeteria.

### **Stunner**

The Stunner is a medium armoured soldier with a helmet with a black face shield with light blue LED eyes, a balaclava and an urban camo uniform underneath a protection vest with wires running alongside the armor, connecting to multiple power boxes. They come equipped with tasers and their role is to supress targets for other units to take care of.

A lone ASU Stunner made an appearance in the JAILBREAK collab, confronting Emix and Shadow in a garage, where the Stunner was quickly disposed of before being able to shoot his taser.

### **Knight**

The Knight is a medium-heavy armoured soldier, sporting a modular helmet with optical attachments, a headset, a mouthguard over a balaclava and a vest with multiple pouches and a radio backpack over an urban camo uniform.

Their role is as yet unknown, as the only Knight to ever appear was seen trying to shoot down Abaddon, Jack Wernicke and Awez alongside a pair of Nexus Police officers as the prisoners made their escape on a boat.

### **Spook**

The Spook is an agile and agressive light-medium armoured soldier, sporting a balaclava underneath a multi-eyed half-face mask and headset, and a light protective vest on top of an urban camo uniform.

Two ASU Spooks show up in Jailbreak, with one of them attacking and knocking down Kryy before being shot by Mide, and the other surprising Emix and Shadow by coming from a vent in an elevator, but ultimately killed by two shotgun blasts to the back.

Two Spooks also appear at the end of Abnormis: DEPARTURE, with one of them being impalled by David's sword as the former turns around, and the second Spook trying to sneak up on him with invisible camouflage, but being shot dead due to the Spook's camouflage not applying to his weapon.

### **Madozer**

The Madozer is a heavily armoured soldier sporting a reinforced full-head helmet with a skull symbol on the front, heavy padded armour with pauldrons over an urban camo uniform with a padded neckguard. They are armed with heavy weapons such as LMGs and grenades.

A lone Madozer kills Kreepa in Madness: JAILBREAK by first attempting to chuck a grenade at him (only to be swipped away by Dazlek) and finally mowing him down with machine gun fire. The Madozer was not seen afterwards.

## **Trivia**

* Most of the ASU's special units are based off from the special enemies from Overkill's game PayDay 2.
	+ The Stunner unit is based upon the "Taser" enemy.
	+ The Spook unit is based upon the "Cloaker" enemy.
	+ The Madozer unit is based upon the "Bulldozer" enemy.