I decided to do my own scouting. Right in front of me, Was an abandoned facility. A facility for the SCP lockdown mod. Joy.
I grab my pickaxe and begin breaking through the doors. Normally crafted Keycards don't seem to actually work so I just have to find a Key card. I break through the glass in the doorway control room and officially head in. I grab a Specially made blade for one of the scps that may roam these halls.
Forged from Pseudo stable ingots, a nugget of Void metal and a very small chunk of this Telekill alloy, I hopefully can kill those fucking spiders. It was a translucent gray 4 foot blade made in the form of a Rapier. The handguard was nothing special but a simple iron gear welded on and the handle being made of black Rockwool.
I begin looking through the facility, Found a Telekill Alloy block and a blade, got the lights on, but everything is just, Barren.
pehehep!*
I hear it. Looking up I notice the sounds coming from the vents.
I jump up and grab the vent to tear it open. It prys off and I see what was making the noise. 151!
"Why hello there. At least you're safe. Any idea what happened to the rest of the facility?" I ask the Eye Pods. I even use my Siren Vocals ability to keep them calm.
They jump in excitement and goad me to follow them. I do and explore through the vents. they jump at a room vent and I see that its a Security feed room.
"Well done you two." I say. I grab some black and blue colored Master Pokeballs and catch them. "I'll be bringing you two home with me." I say.
Dr Evil pops out from my hood and meows.
"Oh don't be such a pussy Dr Evil. Heh. Anyways they are pretty harmless anyway. Now as for you..." I say to Dr evil before sitting down on a rolling office chair and opening the Camera feeds.
"Looks like a few cameras are still working. Let's see what they recorded." I say.
MTF guard 1 was badly injured.
"Shit! loosing blood." He curses.
"Oh don't worry human." He freezes at the voice.
He turns to see that the reason for the whole facility is doomed speaks to him.
Muzomb Ietant. He wore a Teal shirt and blue jeans with a dark green coat and brown boots to finish the look. On his head was a head full of black hair with green tips and a Black Fedora with a Green band on it.
His Six eyes were black as night with only a red dot to show them staring right into his soul.
"You don't have to worry about that any more." Two pairs of arms grew out his back to reveal hands adorned with Diamond claws scratching the walls and making sparks fly.
He was about to kill the MTF when 106 grabbed him from the wall and took him to his pocket dimension.
Muzomb growled and roared before the camera gets destroyed.
The next camera shows 682 has just breached containment only for Muzomb to grab him. He said nothing and 682 couldn't say a thing as Muzomb ate the currently small lizard.
The next camera shows Muzomb taking two blocks of the Telekill alloy with him, Smashing 173, 053 barely escaping into the vents as Muzomb smashes into the room, Muzomb drinking from the Fountain of youth pool, winning against 096 as its weeping form crawls into the corner, 1000 being beaten to a bloody pulp, and Muzomb coming out of the Clockworks. same as when he killed the MTF.
"Fuck..." I say while slumping down in the chair.
"What the blimy hell Man?" I ask before getting a copy downloaded into my flash drive.
I get up and grab a map. Going into the vents.
"Let's see if she managed to hide away before Muzomb killed her." I say as I explore the vents.
I explore them for a good long while not gonna lie. didn't find much, But the only interesting thing was almost falling straight into 407 the Contagious Crystal. I grabbed the opening in time to see a Bat that I startled hit it. it instantly turned into crystal and fell down. Shattering instantly.
I take a breather and finally found a new location. Looks like the Vermin god died because 053 is busy killing a rat to use as food.
I look out and sure enough a Crystalline Butterfly is resting on her head.
She looks older and from my guess about 6 years old.
I open the vent and drop in after slipping. "OW! WHY!" I yell before getting a Makeshift spear up close to my face.
"YIKES!" "Who are you?" She demands.
"I'm the guild master of the Umbran Rose! I was sent here to investigate this place and see how this became abandoned." I explain.
'Wait why isn't her effects happening? Did the Vermin god curse do something to her abilities?' I think.
"What are you talking about?" 053 asks.
"You probably don't know this but a lot has changed in the outside world." I say.
She finally gets the Spear away from me and I note that it was actually a big chunk of 407 encased in a granite holder and a steel pipe attached to it. in fact it seems to have grown naturally over the pipe end while she wrapped the center of the spear.
"Now tell me why I shouldn't Crystallize you right here and right now?" She asks.
"That's gonna take a while but I gotta ask. What happened here? the security feeds only showed a little bit." I ask.
"This thing the foundation came upon had slaughtered everything in these sites. I was able to escape but I don't know about any of the other sites. And after the Shadow Spiders started killing the Eyeballs they merged when the infection killed the spiders and the spiders spawned from the eyeballs to make two new species." 053 explains.
"Oh crap." I say.
"Yeah. The Eye spiders are pretty much a set of eyeballs with these invisible spiderlegs and body grown out of it. The only thing left are the eight floating eyes." 053 explains. 'That sounds like an invisible spider.' I thought.
"And the Speyeders are the eyes with red sclera, black pupils, a giant spider body made of flesh with shadows over the flesh showing it has an odd translucent exoskeleton. Both of them don't even do what they origanlly do." 053 adds.
"What do they do exactly?" I ask.
"The Eye spiders just act like regular giant spiders and spin invisible webs. The only way I can find them is by holding my spear out and letting its contagious tip crystallize the web. The Speyeders meanwhile can shoot venom that turns its prey into the eyeballs and spin webs that are red and made of flesh." 053 explains.
"I see. What about you? How did you manage to live here for all this time?" I ask 053.
"Well after getting a growing chunk from this pipe I killed a lot of the SCPs here and made a living here. The outside has too many dangers." She explains.
"Well You're kinda right but that's only in the badlands and the dangerous biomes. The biome we're at is pretty safe at day." I correct her.
"Really? God I missed a lot of the outside world." 053 says.
"How about you come with me then? I can call in a retrieval portal and send you to my guild. We'll provide better housing and some good clothes for you and your little butterfly friend." I offer.
"But I can't, there are so many non harmful SCPs that need my help." 053 argues. "That can be helped with. I am a Guild master. So I can help you retrieve them. In fact I got two of them here." I say while letting 151 out a pokeball made of a hollowed ender pearl. They look around and notice 053. they jump in excitement and cuddle up to her.
"151! I thought you died! I'm so glad you're here!" She says.
I chuckle and cast a silent Modbreaker. I checked her status and turns out that her own anomalous abilities are canceled out and repurposed into a spell. the vermin god curse became a blessing as now the Crystalinne butterfly considers her its master. Rats will still try to attack her but not as much now.
I then recall 151-A and 151-B as I open a portal to a guest room in my home.
"Head through there and You'll be able to get yourself cleaned. I'll begin searching the site for Safe classes." I say. She nods and heads in. I close it after her and walk out.
The Unlit halls must mean the rats had chewed the wires.
"Damn." I say.
I finally found a lit room. And it's Josie! looks like she has been feeding on Rats for quite some time.
"Hey Josie. Hey. You're definitely a fighter." I say as she warms up to me. She is slightly unkept and a little feral but she's still a good cat. I use a Master ball to contain her and she didn't fight about it.
"Alright what's next?" I say.
"Eric?" I hear.
"Oh," I say as Eric's toy shows itself. Same flesh and eyeball blob of yarn.
I smile and crouch down. "Hello." I say. "Hello Modbreaker." "Woah, that's definitely new." I comment.
Eric's Toy then changes like before into into a Yarn ball. it was dyed black and blue.
It then unravels into one string and weaves into a doll in a suit. When it finished it was a Blue doll with Glass eyes, a moving mouth, five fingered hands, black hair on its blue head with a black fedora hat to match it's suit on top. it even had a blue band.
"It is my pleasure to serve you Modbreaker." Eric's toy says.
"Well hello then. I figured you would still be searching for this Eric Fellow." I say as I let him climb onto my arm.
"Actually thanks to you I finally know Eric is dead. And as is my duty I must be in service to the one who gave me the truth." The Toy says.
"I see, well I will call you Eric so you have a proper name.
"I thank for this Master Mason." Eric bows.
"Well maybe you can lead me through this maze. I'm looking for a couple Safe SCPs to save and hopefully recover." I tell Eric.
"Gladly!" He says. We were about to head off when we heard it. the scraping.
I whirl around just in time to see 173 right about to snap my goddamned neck!
It was like a combination of lockdown's 173 and Unity's 173.
It had exposed thick rebar arms, a peanut like body, three fingered concrete hands, concrete feet on thin rebar legs with two front talons and one back talon, the same krylon spray paint face and was painted yellow like the original statue.
"OH FUCK!" I yell as it was just about to grab me. making me fall on my butt.
I back up a bit and don't blink for a second.
I had to concentrate as I looked at 173 and used a Builder's wand to enclose him.
I did it and take a deep breath of relief. "Oh man. That was close." I say.
"Too close." Eric says. He was grabbing at his chest in an effort to calm himself.
I hear 173 scrapping against the floor and sure enough it left.
I get back up and start walking the abandoned halls. "Alright, Let's get to it." I say.
"So these are where the Speyeder's are nesting at?" I ask Eric.
I stood in front of a giant web cluster of Red spiderwebs.
"Yep, But we will have to cross this by cutting their regenerating webs." Eric says.
"Regenerating webs?" I ask before using my blade to cut a section down. they began reconnecting and regenerated while the webs flew at me.
I jump away in time to see the webs have multiplied now.
"Interesting." I say before pulling out a handcrank web harvester/yarn maker.
I rev it up and the handcrank motor spins fiercely as I place it in the web. The web begins gathering into a very tightly woven string in my collection bag on the back.
I tore out a giant chunk out of the web cluster making a decently sized room. I use a stack of critter cages to capture the attacking Speyeders.
After effectively getting a whole chest of the Tendonsilk as I call it, I find a bit of corrosion in the wall.
It was dug out by the speyeders but sure enough showed 106 is still around.
"Better tread carefully Sanchez." I tell myself.
I head through a hall and find a Giant Break room.
"Could go for something to eat. Hopefully 458 is nearby." I comment.
I enter it and head to the kitchen. I find instead 294.
"Hey the Coffee machine!" I say.
Mason runs to it and types in something to the Keyboard.
From the nozzle drops a Cup of cola mixed with milk and some liquor.
He takes it and smells it. "Oh yeah," He says before downing the whole thing and crushing the cup.
"Oh so much better." He says.
He was about to collect 294 when he noticed. he could collect a helpful potion effect right now. or even better, Liquid forms of beneficial liquids.
He grins and begins typing in, "Lucky Block Lucky potion."
From the nozzle drops a Yellow golden liquid. He takes it and grabs a dimensional Bottle. He pours it into the nozzle and the bottle fills up with way more than the amount in the cup.
"If I can make this mix in with our main drink in the guild and slowly improve the guild members then we can gain more power. Genius!"
Mason cackles as he puts everything away.
He then Thinks of something.
He becomes unsure of himself before chickening out and collecting 249.
"Come on Mason. Don't be like that." He says.
"Master, Is something wrong?" Eric asks. "I-its nothing. You don't need to worry about me." Mason says.
Eric nods, unsure of Mason.
Mason went to the halls outside and saw a a Gaping hole down aways.
"What the hell?" He says before pink leaves flew into his face and Cut right into him. "AAAAAGH! AAAAAGH GOD FUCKING DAMMIT YOU FUCKERS!" He yells before smashing a Regen potion onto him. The effects begin as the wounds begin healing. The blood being sucked back in while Bloody leaves are pushed out.
"Guess the Bladwood trees are spreading." He says.
He grabs a set of actual iron armor over a Chainmail hood and put it on. Protecting him from the onslaught of flying leaves. He was collecting most of them as he goes and found the Giant grove of Bladewood trees overgrowing into the forest besides the destroyed walls.
Mason summoned his axe from his inventory. It was made of Extremely tough Mana Glass, making a Clear axehead with the edge coated with Mana Steel. The handle was made of Living wood and the binding was Living rock.
He swung the Axe and it broak through the Tree instantly making it fall down and break apart into separate pieces.
Mason continued collecting the trees and their materials. until all that remained was just a grove of trunks and occasionally a few Cherry blossoms.
He nodded and grabbed a Furnace. He placed the thing down and placed some logs in the cooking slot while Adding the Leaves into his Blade gem and his neck gem. He also absorbed the wood and the proccesed logs he gained.
He then used his portable crafting table to create Sturdy material and absorb that.
He Absorbed a Sapling and that seemed to unlock a new series to his blade and body.
Bladewood Tree Series Mk 1
Current abilities to Mason: Leaving Cherry blossom leaves as he walks and runs, High natural defensive body that can take heavy blows, enhanced strength and durability matching that of 143 itself, Breath of the Bladewood Tree style.
Upgrades: Acquire the Wind God Series to unlock Bladewind God Series.
Bladewood Grove Blade Series Mk 1
Current Abilities: Lightweight, Sharpest blade to ever be conceived, high strength, leaves 143 Cherry Blossom leaves in its path passively, Bladewood Tree Dance.
Upgrades: Acquire Blade of the Winds series Mk 1 to Unlock the Windblade Grove Series.
"Cool!" Mason says before activating the ability.
Dr Evil jumps away with Eric in tow as his clothing changes into a very light samurai armor and Edo era rōnin clothing dyed to look like his new clothes have depicted a growing Cherry blossom tree.
His sleeves were light pink and his Hakama was grey as the wood of 143 with a pink obi to hold it up. The yukata was open to reveal a Pure white shirt and 143 Armor made of thin twigs and cut pieces.
His Hair, while normally black with blue tips, turned grey with white roots and pink tips. It was a little long and shaggy so a pink hairband had been used to tie it back while his eyes, while normally black and had a metal ring around the pupil, turned Grey in the sclera with a pure white ring surrounding a dark pink pupil.
He wore 143 wooden geta on his feet with white socks and pink Sturdy material lining the space between the columns.
His blade was now a Katana reaching 3 feet in length and had a slight curve to the blade.
His blade had been turned light pink with spectral Cherry Blossom leaves floating off it to solidify and drop down into the ground. his handle was white and the handguard was of a blooming cherry blossom. The Blue gem merging with it and turning dark pink temporarily and becomes hidden when the blade is in its Grey sheath.
Mason Feels, Calm, and happy now. His Gem in his neck is revealed to have turned read while spectral Cherry blossom leaves float off and from his clothes. They solidify and show that they harmlessly rested on his cat and Eric.
"This, I can work with this." Mason says as he let's Dr Evil hide in his sleeves and in a pocket dimension unbeknownst to him.
Eric reshaped into a woven yarn necklace on his neck as Mason travelled through the abandoned facility.
Mason walked out the Facility with everything in tow. All his loot was organized and being sent home while he was going to leave. He stopped. and quickdrawed his sword to attack 106. He screeched and left in the walls only to resurface under Mason and grab him. Taking him into his pocket dimension.