A man in a bright white and clean coat with glasses sat opposite from another man in full military gear, who was shaking in his seat in the grey soundproof room that they were in.
It was a common thing for people to be scared when working under SCP branches, anything could happen.
But this time was different.
"Start from the beginning, what happened out there?" the man in the coat asked politely.
The MTF member looked up to meet the gaze of the doctor, "Lots of things happened, first order of business being that my squad is in the infirmary because of something about the size of a small dog. It was green and white…" he trailed off.
The Doctor clutched the field report that he had, "Focus, Captain, all of your squad's body cams were simultaneously destroyed by a single pulse of some force, we weren't able to recover anything from them. You and your squad are lucky that whatever it was didn't crush you to death if it has the powers that you claimed it to have when we extracted you."
"I SWEAR IT, the damn thing picked up Echo-Six with something invisible and bashed him against a tree." the Captain said, annoyed at the doctor's attitude.
He adjusted his glasses slightly, "Then start from the beginning, from the moment you hit the ground."
"We had a routine drop off..."
The helicopter sped off into the distance, leaving me and my squad to start tracking the anomaly on foot with radio support telling us of its possible location on the fly.
"Alright gentlemen, let's get to work." I said to my five other squad members while taking point into the woods.
"Any idea on what we are getting ourselves into?" Echo Four asked over the coms.
Slowly we crept through the woods with our weapons ready to go, "We are looking for something small, that gives off an energy signature that our boys back at the base can detect."
"That doesn't narrow down visual by much, just watch your back and report anything moving just out of place." Echo Three said.
The forest was dark, but it was still lit by the evening sun that was quickly leaving us and whatever we were hunting alone.
My radio came to life, "This is MTF command, watch your back and go due west to the target, it appears to have stopped moving."
"Will do." I responded with, before cocking my rifle and continuing forward.
"Nothing happened for the entirety of our walk to the target surprisingly." the Captain said.
The Doctor sipped a coffee he had gotten, "So you arrived at the place of interest where the rogue SCP was, what happened?"
"Well, something happened before that, something very… odd."
He perked up, "Was it the energy spike we observed?"
The Captain nodded.
"Up ahead should be the anomaly-"
I was interrupted by an intense flash of light.
Clumsily I stumbled about, I raised my gun instinctively despite my inability to see anything besides white blinding light.
The light dissipated, however I could still barely see.
"Headcount." I muttered over the coms while wiping my eyes, praying I'd be able to see something again.
"Echo-Two, reporting."
"Echo-Five is alive, over."
"This is Echo-Three, Echo-four smashed his coms by running into a tree."
"Where is Echo-Six?" I asked, suddenly worried.
"This is Echo-Six, I need some help NOW-"
A scream suddenly ripped through the quiet forest from the direction of the anomaly.
"That's when it all went to crap…" the Captain barely muttered.
"Any idea on what caused the flash of light?"
"That creature did, there was no way in hell it could've come from anything natural."
The Doctor pushed his empty coffee mug to the side, "Nothing about this is natural, Captain."
A light laugh escaped the Captain, "Aye, true that doc, anyway…"
Something green and white with a weird red part on its head that was no bigger than a small dog was in-front of Echo-Six.
He seemed frozen in place, he couldn't even speak.
"Weapons up." I ordered while taking a knee.
Echo-Six suddenly began slowly floating upwards.
It moved its hands towards us.
"SHOOT IT." I yelled as I opened fire.
All of our weapons clicked like they were empty.
"That little fu-"
Echo-Two was interrupted as all of us were knocked to the ground by something I couldn't see.
I looked in horror as Echo-Six was thrown into a tree and dropped limp to the ground and as the rest of my team were floating up like he was, leaving me to fight whatever the hell this was alone.
I desperately grasped for my pistol while standing back up.
The creature appeared to be surprised that I got back up.
I raised it and fired, praying that it wouldn't jam my gun.
It went wide eyed and dropped my team while blocking the bullets.
I'm running out of options…
I pulled the pin on a flashbang before throwing it over, I pray this works.
It stopped mid-air, thankfully it was stupid enough to fall for it.
The flashbang exploded, causing the creature to reel back in pain from the blinding light, leaving it open to me to shoot it.
With a click I was all too familiar with, I reloaded my pistol and shot at the creature again.
It outstretched its hand again, the bullets dropped out of the sky and hit the ground one by one.
Despite being blinded, it still stopped the bullets.
Curiosity filled my mind, this thing definitely knew a thing or two about dealing with projectiles from weaponry and how to jam them using its powers.
It began to glow brightly.
That wasn't a good sign in the slightest.
I ran and ducked behind cover as another blast of light ripped through the surrounding area.
I was breathing heavily, whether it be from the close call or the stress it didn't matter, the creature was gone, seemingly into thin air.
I took my radio and turned it on, "This is Echo-One requesting evac, all other squad members are down, I repeat, Echo is broken."
"This is command, sending four other squads to pick you and your squad up, and to continue the search, sit tight."
A sigh of relief escaped me as I went to check on the vitals of my squad.
"So it crippled your squad using light and psychic powers to its advantage, sabotaging your weapons and stopping bullets, then ran or teleported away?" the Doctor asked.
The Captain loosened his posture, "It was unlike any of the other SCPs I've seen, how long till my squad is back in action?"
"Your squad was indeed broken, Echo-Six has a few broken ribs and a concussion that he will thankfully recover from, while the rest of your squad suffered similar injuries along with slight burns from something."
"Burns?" the Captain asked.
The Doctor nodded, "Yes, burns, it might have come from the light, although they barely classified as first degree burns even, they will be ready to go back into the field in a few weeks."
A few SCPs came to the Captain's mind that pertained to what the creature could be. Although none matched it physically, meaning this could very well be a completely new one.
He shuddered at that thought, it could've killed him and his squad on the spot.
However the Doctor seemed intrigued as to why it ran away, leaving behind the Captain and his squad very well alive…
Another guard entered the room and spoke, "Epsilon Six personal managed to get a trank off and capture the creature, they are shipping here for containment now."
"It made it all the way to the city? Did it teleport?" the Doctor asked.
"Epsilon Six reported it had the ability to teleport short distances away from their squads, they tired it out by chasing it."
"Interesting, did it seem intelligent?" he asked with some ideas at the forefront of his mind.
The guard shrugged, "I wouldn't know, I was here the whole time."
"Fair enough, what is their ETA?"
"About ten minutes."
The Captain rose to his feet, "Permission to be at the welcoming party."
"Granted, you'll accompany me until your squad is back in shape." the Doctor said as he swiftly made for the door.
The guard spoke, "I thought you weren't allowed to be near SCPs brought in by any Foundation personal, Doctor Bright."
Bright smiled, "That's the fun in it."