Abnormis: DEPARTURE

**Abnormis: DEPARTURE** is a Madness Combat fan animation by Zapchon. It was released for Madness Day 2019. It is the first episode of "Abnormis", a side story to Zapchon's other series "Madness Liberation".

## Plot

The animation starts with a shadowy figure speaking to David Abnormis about the situation at hand. The figure explains that there's multiple dimensions and that they have found a being that wishes to destroy all dimensions, leaving only it's own dimension. However, there is hope, and there is an ally in another dimension: Zach Somnum. David is then tasked with delivering a strange, cubic device to Zach. David accepts the mission and is transported to Nowhere.

Soon into the new world, David exits a building and examines his surroundings, staring at the space beyond before resuming his journey. He soon stumbles upon a pair of zombified A.A.H.W. members at the entrance of a building and after disposing of the undead, David makes his way inside. He soon finds himself fighting off hostile agents occupying the building. He clears room after room, eventually coming across some ATP Engineers, who end up being no match for David's superior swordsmanship. He enters the next room, where he kills two more engineers and is approached by a minigun-wielding G03LM. David disables the weapon by slamming his sword between the barrels and firing a round of his pistol into the G03LM's jaw, angering it and prompting it to unholster a sword. The G03LM attacks David, who dodges the swings and a final thrust that makes the sword get stuck on the wall behind him. As the G03LM tries to retrieve it's weapon by pulling it, David grabs a sword and stabs the G03LM in the neck, shooting the sword to send it further within the it's skull, killing it. Afterwards, David disposes of two more agents and gets ahold of the G03LM's minigun, using it to kill three more agents.

In the next room, David finds a grunt facing the opposite direction. David tries shooting him, but his gun is out of ammunition, so he throws it at the grunt who, much to David's surprise, catches the gun without looking and turns around to reveal it's true identity: Khan. He proceeds to summon a sword from above with a paint portal, which he uses to attack David. After evading Khan's slashes and stabs, Khan throws his sword at him, which sticks to the wall and David arms himself with it. Unarmed, Khan retreats through one of his paint portals and outside of the room they were fighting in. The fight resumes outside, where Khan arms himself with a blue shortsword and summons a pair of portals to transfer an ASU Assailant and two zombies into the scene. The assailant kills one of the zombies as he gets up from the ground and targets David, who deflects his shot back at him. David kills the last zombie and duels Khan. David manages to slash Khan's chest, which prompts the latter to upgrade his weapon. The shortsword glows red and turns into a red longsword. Khan attempts to attack again, but the weapon's weight impedes Khan's ability to outmatch David's skills and is stabbed in the chest. As he drops his sword and falls to the ground, a blast of purple paint covers the ground and Khan himself, ominously transporting the wounded stranger down below.

David makes his way outwards, where he stabs an ASU Spook standing guard, kills two more assailants and another Spook trying to sneak up on him with camouflage. As David makes his way out of the scene, he's seen being stalked by the silhouette of a man resembling Zach Somnum.

## Trivia

* The Agency Special Unit Spooks seen near the end of the animation have white eyegear, in contrast to the original green eyegear that Spooks use in Madness: JAILBREAK.
* The credits music, "MC9 Synthwave" is unfinished. So what you hear at the end of Abnormis: DEPARTURE is actually the full, unedited track.