Zero the Hero

Zero the Hero is the 5th mission in Amber Gold given by Hakeem to Amber, and the 16th mission overall.

Mission
Amber goes inside Scisly's mansion, expecting Hakeem to share some progress on the movie that they were making. However, Scisly tells Amber Gold that Hakeem is actually at Serali Film, filming for a continuation of his mom's cooking show. Amber, while disappointed that he isn't focusing on the movie, still goes to the studio to see if he's alright. There, Amber meets his mother, Mondegreen, who tells Amber that Hakeem had been kidnapped by a bunch of gangsters. Without hesitation, Amber enters the car with Hakeem's mom, hoping to find the gangsters' van. They find the van stuck in traffic, however, the traffic becomes less dense, and thus the player must chase the van without hitting it, or else the mission would be over since the player is only supposed to sneak on the gangsters. The gangsters go into Pyramid Film, the competing filming studio. Mondegreen orders Amber to go by himself, while she sits in the car. The player must then sneak into the film studio without being seen by bodyguards. It is then revealed that Amay Z kidnapped Hakeem to prevent him from doing his own cooking show, as she was at the end of the first season of her own cooking show, to prevent competition as Mondegreen's cooking show was deemed so bad that it was popular as a parody show. While broadcasting the show live, Amber exposes Hakeem being tied up, and proceeds to cry to convince viewers that the scene is not part of the program. The player is then spotted by Amay Z, but Hakeem electrifies the gangsters who tied him up, and Amber unties him. She and her bodyguards chase them down the hall, and then they enter the Münie. Amay Z the chases the player's car while ramming it, and if the player loses monumentum, the mission is over. After a while, the police will also start chasing the van, and after the van starts slowing down, the police arrest Amay Z. The player will then have to drive Hakeem home to the mansion.

Trivia

 * Unlike other Hakeem missions, this one is not given by Hakeem directly, but rather by Scisly.
 * In the Playstation version, there is a minor oversight: if the player takes the Komayoko instead of the Münie, after the first cutscene, the player will still spawn inside the Münie. The Saturn and PC versions unspawn the Komayoko so that this glitch cannot happen. The Game Boy Advance and remastered versions are scripted to make Amber and Mondegreen spawn inside the closest car, and thus this glitch is fixed.
 * Originally this mission was going to be very different. It was originally supposed to be the first Hakeem mission, with Scisly introducing Hakeem to Amber (unlike in the actual canon where Amber first meets him an year earlier in Amber Gold 3.) Amber would drive Hakeem over to the film studio. Hakeem would be kidnapped like in the final game, and Amber would tell that to his mom, who would use her own car to chase after the van in which Hakeem is present. Mondegreen was originally going to have to shoot and damage the car enough by doing a drive-by, and stop the car by popping all of the tires. Then, the gangsters would flee and Hakeem would be rescued, and the mission would end without having to drive Hakeem home. The player could then take missions from both Hakeem and Mondegreen if they wanted to. This was deemed impossible, since the PS1 was quite limited in terms of memory, so features like passenger drive-by (not by the player,) car damage system, a non-linear level system and tire popping were never implemented (although in the TGS Autumn 1997 beta there are remnants of a possible tire popping system.) The only drivable cars in the final game are Amber's Komayoko and Hakeem's Münie (and technically Pumchynn's wheelbarrow, but it's only pushable and isn't technically a car.)