(Japanese: メタルスキンパニック MADOX-01マドックスゼロワン, Hepburn: Metaru Sukin Panikku Madokkusu Zero Wan) One day, Kōji Sugimoto, a young man who works as a mechanic at a car maintenance shop, inadvertently gets into the "Slave Trooper MADOX-01," a new anti-tank land weapon that was being transported in secret. He is unable to get out of the MADOX-01 due to a software bug. He can't figure out how to use the suit, and is subsequently chased by the military.