Wow, chapter 3 already! Compared to my other works, it feels really weird posting chapters this short. I mean, chapter 20 of A Rather Wonderous Journey was a 19K word monster that ended up being released as a two-parter! Also, I was literally working on that one for 6 months, and meanwhile I sat down and started writing this one less than 48 hours ago. Weird indeed.
Like a lot of SCP stuff, the lore/story here is all between the lines. Speaking of which, I'm thinking I might need to edit the tags for this fic. It's a crossover between 3 franchises, hosted on a site that only allows you to tag two of them, so any combination I choose will leave something out. What do you think, dear reader?
Item #: SCP-5562
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
Owing to the nature of SCP-5562 and SCP-5562-A, proper containment is impossible.
A containment chamber with standard rebar reinforced concrete walls no less than thirty 30 centimeters thick is to be constructed such that it encapsulates SCP-5562-B. The chamber is to be furnished with soundproofing sufficient to prevent any high magnitude sonic emission (see below) released from SCP-5562-B from registering above 30 decibels outside the chamber. Class 3H radiation shielding must also be present. The chamber may be enlarged to whatever extent necessary to accommodate testing equipment. No way is known to move SCP-5562-B. No way is known to close SCP-5562-B. SCP-5562-B is growing, and is estimated to cause an XK-class scenario in approximately 68 years.
Owing to the nature of SCP-5562-B, indefinite containment in the strictest sense is impossible. Specifically, SCP-5562 has been expanding since its discovery, requiring its chamber to be expanded on multiple occasions. Owing to its detrimental effect on nearby objects (see below), testing equipment cannot be allowed to remain within 80 centimeters of SCP-5562-B's surface for prolonged periods. In the event that the surface of SCP-5562 comes within 5 meters of the chamber wall, the chamber is to be enlarged as necessary. At the current rate of expansion, the chamber will need to be enlarged in ~27 years.
Measurements of SCP-5562-B's radius and mass are to be taken on a weekly basis. The chamber is to be inspected and cleaned daily, any and all ███████ which accumulates in the chamber is to be removed and disposed of as stipulated in procedure Taradjek-gamma-5. Cameras and lights are to be installed in the chamber in order to provide constant video surveillance of the entire surface of SCP-5562-B. Owing to its nature as a gateway, a team of no less than 3 armed guards are to be monitoring the chamber at any time. The guards are to be stationed no less than 5 meters away from the surface of SCP-5562-B. Should anything hostile emerge from SCP-5562-B, it is to be terminated immediately.
All experiments involving SCP-5562 must be approved by O5 command.
Under no circumstances is SCP-682 to come within 10 kilometers of SCP-5562.
Description:
SCP-5562 has been determined to be pocket of expanding space-time entirely disjoint with our own. Owing to its sheer size and its expansion, containment is not even possible in theory. Although observations taken in and around SCP-5562-A are inconsistent with predicted behaviors of traversable Einstein-Rosen bridges, SCP-5562-A is in many respects similar to █████████ ████, particularly in its weight of approximately -5███████ kilograms. SCP-5562-A is first known to have intersected our bulk on ██/█/200█, when an instance of SCP-5562-B was discovered deep within the basement of site ██. Approximately 3 days prior to its discovery, researcher ████████ allowed a sample of SCP-447 to contact the body of D-████. Site 19 lost all electrical power moments later, triggering one of the worst containment breaches since ████ ████████. During the ensuing cleanup, SCP-5562-B was first encountered in a hall by MTF-31, subsequent investigation revealed that SCP-5562-B appeared in all security footage captured in the aforementioned hall after 447 was spilled.
SCP-5562-B is the intersection of SCP-5562-A and our space-time. All footage recovered from within SCP-5562-A reveals a white-hot void punctuated by two mirror smooth spheres which bear the appearance of obsidian while within the SCP-5562-A. When viewed from without, both apertures appear as roughly spherical objects, their surfaces perturbed by waves of seemingly random direction, origin, and distribution. The surface viewed from without appears perfectly smooth, reflecting +96% of light that hits it as if it were a mirror, rather than a warped view of SCP-5562 itself that would be suggested by the laws of General Relativity.
SCP-5562-B appears to have a detrimental effect on all nearby objects. All objects exposed have been observed to crumble to a dull pinkish dust of unknown chemical composition at a rate dependent on proximity to SCP-5562-B. Note that, as shown when probe 8 stayed in SCP-5562 for a period of several days before returning to our own reality, this effect is confined to SCP-5562-A, and not to SCP-5562. The dust is entirely inert, and Foundation testing has yet to induce it to react with any chemical substance. The dust furthermore does not function as if it were a life form, and only "spreads" when the object itself is near SCP-5562-B.
SCP-5562-B has been observed to emit mildly cognitohazardous sounds and dangerous levels of ionizing radiation in short, infrequent bursts. All personnel assigned to monitor SCP-5562-B should take the necessary precautions.
ADDENDUM 1. AUTHOR: SENIOR RESEARCHER FELDMAN. Yes, the pinhole was discovered first, but we have decided to classify it as a daughter object of sector i. All references to sector i as the daughter object, or to the pinhole as the parent, are to be amended ASAP.
ADDENDUM 2. AUTHOR: DR. CLEF: Turns things to dust, eh? Let's use it on 682!
ADDENDUM 3. AUTHOR: DR. ████████. That last termination attempt can only be described as an unmitigated disaster. I believe this to be evidence of a connection to The S██████ ████.
ADDENDUM 4. AUTHOR: DR. BRIGHT. Holy shit, you're alive?!
ADDENDUM 5. AUTHOR: O5-2. Dr. Bright is not cleared to know the current status of Dr. Kondraki.
ADDENDUM 5. AUTHOR: SENIOR RESEARCHER FELDMAN. Come on guys, I thought we were better than this. Believe me, I don't want it in our reality any more than you lot, but mistakes happen, OK? What's done is done, and lynching ████████ isn't going to make you-know-who go away. The researcher in question has been relocated, and the next idiot who tries to kill him is going to receive a mind wipe and a one-way ticket to D-class!
ADDENDUM 6. AUTHOR: O5-12. Dr. Feldman seems to have been under the influence of SCP-████. Consider his warnings nullified.
ADDENDUM 7. AUTHOR: SENIOR RESEARCHER FELDMAN. No I was not and I've got the psionic screenings to prove it. Stop trying to doxx Dr. ████████.