Chapter 25. Experimenting with the Dead.
Saya: (Reads the secret information.) The government was experimenting with the parasite?
Ryan: No, They're trying to find a cure. This parasite has a code name, SCP-008.
Yuri: The SCP is apparently a secret government that captures and studies dangerous creatures, items and other unexplainable entities. It's a bigger secret than area 51.
Takashi: What does SCP stand for?
Saya: (Looks at the documents.) Secure Contain Protect. (Continues to read of of the documents.)"Item #: SCP-008
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-008 samples have been deemed Class V extreme biological hazards, and all related protocols apply. Incineration and irradiation measures will be deployed in the event of political or military action which may result in the facility being dismantled; a power failure; or zero communications from operatives or outside channels during any given eight hour period.
The quarantine period for operatives leaving the facility is four months. If a breach has occurred, incineration and irradiation measures shall be deployed. It should be the policy of all G2 sites to not prepare an evacuation procedure.
Description: SCP-008 is a complex prion, samples of which are stored in each of the known G2 sites. Research into SCP-008 is highly classified and primarily aimed at preventing research which may lead to the synthesis of SCP-008 in the distant future. Traits of the SCP-008 prion include:
100% infectiousness.
100% lethality.
Transmission through exposed mucous membranes and all bodily fluids.
Not airborne or waterborne.
Symptoms of infection with SCP-008 manifest no more than three hours after exposure, and include:
Flu-like symptoms with high fever, plus severe dementia in later stages.
Coma onset approximately 20 hours after first symptoms appear and 12 hours after noticeable dementia. Coma onset will be considered onset of death.
A period of sporadic cellular necrosis occurs which comes to resemble gangrene. Surviving tissue assumes its original function and is highly resilient.
Red blood cells greatly increase oxygen storage capacity, resulting in slower blood flow and increased muscle endurance and strength.
Nervous and muscular systems are unaffected by total organ failure for several hours.
Metabolism may decrease to extremely low levels, allowing subject to survive for over 10 years without nutrition.
High blood viscosity results in negligible blood flow from gunshot, puncture, and slashing injuries.
Conditioned behavior, motor controls, and instinctive behavioral mechanisms are damaged, and cognitive abilities are severely retarded and erratic. Animals experience excessive brain necrosis and are inactive.
Subject can adapt to its damaged nervous systems but is limited to basic physical activities, including standing up, balancing on two legs, walking, biting, grabbing, and crawling. Subject will energetically move towards sights, sounds, and smells it associates with living humans. Subject will attempt to ingest living humans if physical contact is made.
Neutralizing fully-infected subjects requires significant cranial trauma.
There is strong evidence to suggest SCP-008 itself did not form naturally on Earth, since variants of similar complexity would have displaced much of the ecosystem. In 1959, a short collaborative effort with the USSR to locate G2 sites and eliminate SCP-008 was negotiated following their discovery. The status of SCP-008 in Russian custody since collaboration ended is unknown.
Addendum 008-1: SCP-500 has been found to be able to completely cure SCP-008 even in the advanced stages of the disease. (Warning. Duplication of SCP-500 has proven unsuccessful at this time.)"
Ed: So… If this thing is a disease, how did it get from micro to well… those worm like creatures?
Takashi: Also it makes animals go brain dead and imobile but the dogs are active and attacking.
Saya: It's evolving...
Kohta: Sir, how big is SCP exactly?
Yuri: I guess if it bigger than area 51 it's known only to high ranking officials in the military and government.
Saya: It also says the Russian government has some info and has cooperated alongside the U.S. a long time ago when they discovered SCP-008. If the Russians and the U.S. know about this SCP has to be a global secret.
Minami: I guess Japan has had a secret lab hidden somewhere with this infection being studied? Which could explain how it got in Japan in the first place.
Ryan: And what about the rest of the world?
Saya: Maybe every major scientific mind whom thought could discover the cure tried to mess with it.
Yuri: It doesn't add up tho. The Doc told us the disease… I mean SCP-008 was discovered in the Roswell incident, and that the aliens aboard the spacecraft tried to get rid of the disease by dumping it on Earth. And that only the facility in Alcatraz had it.
Saya: This Doc. was covering up the truth. Where is the Doc right now?
Yuri: Area 51.
Ed: Are we heading to Area 51 Yuri?
Yuri: The Doc has a lot of explaining to do. We'll need a radio and find a way to contact Hayden and Jacob and tell them the news and transport.
Takashi: What about the cure?
Rei: There is only a limited amount of pills in it.
Umiko: And duplication of the cure is impossible apparently.
Ryan: The Marine base is our only option Yuri. With this info they have to give us top priority and clearance.
Takashi: (Looks at his group.) Guys load up the trucks.
Minami: Yuri, who's this doctor you're talking about?
Yuri: Dr. McNamara, she has some part in how this all started.
Mrs. Miyamoto: How?
Yuri: She's one of many who messed around with the parasite, her lab was in Alcatraz. We found the documents there.
Ryan: Yuri, if we head towards the base we can get a hold of a radio stronger than the one we have we can find a way to contact Hayden and Jacob back in Area 51.
Mrs. Miyamoto: We'll have to leave tomorrow right now it's too late for us now. For now we need to secure the area and lay low, just in case anymore of the dead are lurking around.
Alice: Do we really have to leave?
Saya: We need to keep moving to any possible safe zone Alice.
Alice: Aren't we safe enough here? We have everything we need, a lot of food, water, a lake, trees and a house.
Ed: Yuri, Alice brings up a good point.
Roger: But getting in contact with Hayden and Jacob is important too.
Albert: What if only we go?
Yuri: (Looks at Albert.) Just the four of us?
Albert: Just like old times, we go in get a radio to contact the guys and maybe we can arrange a pickup or something along those lines.
Yuri: Alright, we'll do that. We head out tonight go in and hope the base is still intact with people.
Ed: (Looks at Yuri.) Better come back in one piece.
Yuri: I've been shot at, been shot, and I've seen the walking dead and I'm still walking. It's safe to say I'm gonna be around for a while longer Ed.
[Night starts to fall. Yuri and his group prepare a truck with equipment.]
Ryan: (Looks at Ms. Marikawa.) You remember what I told you right Shizuka?
Ms. Marikawa: Yeah, I just don't know if I'll have the strength.
Albert: Yo we're leaving. (Extends his arm and gives Ryan his rifle.)
Yuri: (Comes into the room and hands Ryan a pair of Canadian CADPAT uniform.) Here we'll need these. (Hands Albert a pair of CADPAT.) Winter hasn't hit yet so until then we'll use this.
Albert: How did you got these?
Yuri: Bought them when I visited Canada.
Ed: (Walks in.) Yuri, you sure you don't want us to go with you and the guys?
Yuri: I'm sure. Besides if the place is over run by those things we can handle ourselves and only worry about ourselves. I don't mean to offend you or you're friends.
Ed: I know, just be careful out there.
Yuri: We will. Those things need a fucking army to take us down!
[A few hours later.]
Ryan: (Looks into his ACOG.) It looks like the base is empty… no movement.
Roger: MA1?
Yuri: Hmm?
Roger: What should we look for?
Yuri: We'll need to look for any important building look for any police unit, they might have some info as to an important building or location.
Albert: We should move, the cover of the night might help us but it's no use against the dead.
[The team move towards the base in the cover of the night. The zombies walk aimlessly as the group maneuvers around them making no sound.]
Yuri: (Opens the door to a police unit.) Nothing.
Zombie: Urgh… (Turns towards Yuri.) HEARRRRRRGH!
Yuri: (Pushes the zombie away.)
Zombie: GEAAAARGH! (Swipes and grabs at Yuri.)
Ryan: (Stabs the zombie.) This thing was aggressive.
Yuri: To aggressive. Let's move and regroup with Roger and Albert.
Roger: (Walks up behind Ryan and Yuri.) Ughh guys, we got a problem…
Albert: *Ka-chank! It's about to get messy.
[Zombies run at the group.]
Yuri: (Fires his ACR.) Kill those fuckers!
[The group open fire at the zombies. But proves to be ineffective as the group is slowly getting overrun by the sheer number of zombies.]
Ryan: Fuck! (Looks back at a building.) Get inside!
Roger: (Runs and kicks open the door.) C'mon! Let's get inside!
Albert: (Looks around.) Where are we?
Ryan: (Turns on a light.) Looks like… an empty… no wait, it's a high level building.
Roger: (Looks into a room.) Fuck, (Shines a light to show a dead body of a scientist.) I guess this might be one of those facilities Yuri.
Yuri: (Looks at the body.) Take his card it can open up any door that isn't open.
Roger: (Takes the key card.) Aight.
*CRASH! EAAAAAAARGH!
Ryan: Let's keep going.
[The group head deeper into the building and they stumble into a secret room.]
Yuri: Roger, give me the key card.
Roger: Here Yuri.
Yuri: (Opens the room's door.) Guys I think we found something big.
[They enter the room and uncover an unknown machine.]
Roger: What is it?
Ryan: I don't know (Gets closer to the machine.) What the fuck? Guy's look. (Points into the machine.)
Albert: Hey don't get close to that thing.
[The zombies reach inside the building and head towards the group.]
Ryan: Is this blood? (He leans forward into the machine and places his hand on the machine.)
[The machine starts up and electricity shoots in all directions and hits the group and the group disappear.]