An Experiment

An Experiment
The engineers pushing Scrapeface into the test chamber.
Author:	Krinkels
Music:	Cheshyre
Track(s):	Experiment
Additional art:	Cethic
Release date:	June 6, 2020
Running time:	3:01
Protagonist(s):	Scrapeface, Sanford, Deimos
Main antagonist(s):	A.A.H.W.
Body count:	5
External links
An Experiment on Newgrounds An Experiment on Youtube

An Experiment is a canon short made by Krinkels. It depicts an A.A.H.W. experiment gone wrong.

Plot

The episode begins with two A.T.P. engineers shoving a grunt/civilian into a test chamber. The one with a Five-Seven fires a warning shot to coax the grunt into cooperating. He high fives his partner before leaving the room. The grunt then gets up and looks around the room.

The grunt is startled after the lights turn on and the experimental box opens. He looks inside the box, to find it prompting him to press both buttons located inside. He does so, and the box immediately closes, trapping his hands inside. He is lifted as the box ascends until another hatch closes, trapping him in the room while his hands go up with the box. His hands continue to go up the shaft as the camera cuts to the grunt breaking free of his hands. He still maintains control, but his hands continue to fight against the box. He then begins moving about the room, before suffering a spasm, causing him to headbutt a pedestal, presumably knocking him out.

The screen then cuts to his hands, still struggling in the box. His hands then begin glitching out, as a side text reads Inquiry(meta); hand.Frombody.chkdistance, with the text "But what w0uld HaPpen..." flashing as well. The screen then cuts to the grunt painting the wall with his face, before suffering another spasm lodging his face to the wall. Almost immediately after, a Soldat pushes one of the previous A.T.P. engineers into the room, possibly as another part of the experiment. The box comes out of the shaft, hanging above the room. The grunt's hands slowly lower down as he is transformed into Scrapeface. His hands then snap to his body, as he glides towards the engineer, blood streaming from his face as static fills the screen. He grabs the engineer before slamming him into a wall. The engineer desperately tries to fight back, successfully pushing away Scrapeface before he glides back towards the engineer, grabbing his face and lower body before the screen cuts out again.

When the camera cuts back the Soldat and the Scientist are seen looking at a screen. The screen flashes Hazard as the Soldat pulls out his AK-74U, and goes to check on the experiment. The Soldat glitches out as Scrapeface emerges from the test chamber with the body of the engineer, who has been torn in half. The Soldat glitches more and more as Scrapeface glides towards him, ultimately collapsing as Scrapeface hovers over. The Soldat's gun explodes as Scrapeface throws the dissected engineer towards the flashing screen. He then goes to the middle of the room before suffering a spasm and launching himself into the ground, grinding away his body until his feet and a lower portion of his torso remain, Scrapeface, in a failed attempt to kill the Scientist, launches the remnants of his body towards the Scientist, who throughout the act demonstrated curiosity.

The screen cuts to Sanford and Deimos, who are surveying the building. The building splits in half, with the top portion crashing into the ground and the bottom portion exploding. The screen cuts to Deimos stating "Damn. That's crazy" as it goes completely black.

Appearances

Characters

• A.A.H.W.
  • A.T.P. Engineers
  • A.T.P. Soldat
• Deimos
• Grunt
  • Scrapeface (only appearance)
• Sanford
• Scientist (debut)

Locations

• Nevada

Weapons

Five-seven

AK-74U

SR-3

Trivia

• Krinkels has stated that this is a canon episode.
  • This episode takes place before Madness 9, stated by Krinkels in a Q&A.
• The car from Madness Combat 9 can be seen parked next to the building where the experiment takes place, suggesting Sanford and Deimos hijacked it to travel to the location of Madness Combat 7.5 and later Madness Combat 9.
• Krinkels has stated that after this episode, Sanford and Deimos killed all the remaining A.A.H.W. personnel and then absconded with the car. He also stated that Scrapeface's hands, last seen laying on the floor, "were probably annihilated by their own absurdness."
• When this episode was announced, it was mentioned as "Ultimatefear.fla".

Errors

• The sprite used for the AK-74U reverts back to the simpler form when the Soldat starts glitching out. This is because the shards of the firearm were their own separate graphics, and Cethic had completed the new weapon sprite close to the finalization of the cartoon, thus replacing the old sprite since they shared the same name in the library, but not the newly named shards of the old one.
  • However, this can be justified, as Scrapeface is likely glitching out the weapon along with the Soldat. .

Madness Combat Animations