Head Trip

Head Trip is the 54th mission in Downfall, and is part of the Tokyo section of the game.

Summary
During a raid by the Mutants, Flynn is knocked unconscious by a punch from a Juggernaut. Edmund fends off the zombies while dragging Flynn away, but a grunt manages to puncture a small hole in Flynn's gas mask. Edmund patches it up quick as he can and quickly stabs him with a syringe of antidote to stop the transformation. However, the gas that managed to seep in also caused minor effects to Flynn's mind. We are taken inside his mind as he suffers a nightmare induced by the gas...

The nightmare is a surreal, frightening one, with many disturbing and odd images throughout. Flynn seems to shift between the dream worlds rapidly, and he is completely unarmed throughout.

The dream starts with Flynn reliving the experience of the Order bombing from his childhood, although with more dramatic scenery. Order planes appear impossibly big in the sky, covering the entire area in shadow, along with camouflage designs that appear as leering faces looking down at little Flynn. Flynn is also slightly smaller than he appears in the original sequence, showing how small and powerless he felt. The (in reality, small) bombs that the planes drop are nuclear bombs in this version, blowing entire houses away and landing skulls all over the road that shout at Flynn, mocking Roger's death. Flynn runs into a thick cloud of smoke that engulfs him, coming out the other side in the next dream world.

The next dream world is a vast, muddy field that stretches off into the horizon. An intense storm is raging, with heavy winds that force Flynn to walk incredibly slowly against it. The field is populated by clones of Roger tied to tall poles that have been set aflame. The clones stare at Flynn as he walks through, whispering to each other. As he walks further, the storm becomes stronger and stronger, causing the clones to be ripped violently from their poles, limp. A mass sinkhole opens in the ground and begins to pull everything in, including Flynn. He falls for a couple of seconds, jerked about by the sinkhole, and is thrown violently into the next dream world.