#NeverForgetFrance

Warning: This chapter contains spoilers for SCP-001-KAKTUS-4, codename: "The Way It Ends". If you have not read it, then please, go read it now. It's probably one of the best stories ever made on the SCP Foundation. Seriously, read it! Once you're done reading the Avengers: Endgame of the SCP Foundation, come back here. We'll be waiting.


"What, phosgene?"

"Apparently, Lindsay Sweetwater and a police officer died from pulmonary oedemas and embolisms caused by phosgene poisoning."

"Wait, Lindsay's dead?!"

"Yeah, I just said that."

"Lindsay might be an annoying brat and worse than 10 of me combined, but even she doesn't deserve to die in such an undignified manner!"

"Huh, sounds like someone we know."

"As such, I'm quarantining you in Lincoln's room, while he rooms with Lana. All of your stuff will be moved in there."

"How? I have a large stuffed animal collection, my many pageant awards, hundreds of dresses, my vanity, all of my photo shoot pictures and my bed!"

"Yeah, we may have to downsize some of that stuff to get everything to fit…beside the point however, Protocol Pripyat has been instated."

"What does that mean?"

"It means either we all wear a hazmat suit to protect from your bio-shield, or you wear one and keep the bio-shield from spreading to us. I will also be personally sanitizing anything you touch, as the bacteria will linger if not properly sanitized. We also are to stay 25 feet away from you if you aren't in the suit. The bacteria are airborne, so we don't want anyone infected, now do we?"

"There's bacteria on me?! Gross! Get it off!"

"The entire world is covered in bacteria, but most of them are harmless. Like the ones inside your stomach. They help you digest food. By the way, I noticed that your stomach acid isn't hydrochloric acid like normal people. Yours releases perchloric acid and your body releases sodium percarbonate to neutralize it. Instead of a 32.5% hydrogen peroxide mix, which would kill you, the concentration is only at 3%."

"Wait, so how do I digest food then if the acid kills all the bacteria?"

"The acid dissolves it. It's actually highly efficient since only minimal waste products are left behind."

"But what about the bacteria on the outside of me?"

"Ah yes, the cause of half of your problems. I found a new variant of the Eikenella Corrodens bacterium. E. Corrodens produce the hypochlorite anion because it is an anerobic gram negative bacteria. The bacteria are normally found in the mouth, as is most GNBs. You have a superbug of E. Corrodens, Neisseria Pulmonarium. Eikenella Corrodens is the only known anerobic GNB in the Neisseriaceae family. This is especially odd, since Neisseriaceae are aerobic bacteria. This family of proteobacteria is responsible for the subtypes of Neisseria that cause meningitis and gonorrhea."

"Oh yeah, didn't you read from a science article that there's now a hyper gonorrhea in existence? I also overheard Linky say that gonorrhea is the strongest thing in existence. I wonder if Lori got hyper gonorrhea? She did have that project on STDs, and it's no secret she has Bobby lust…"

"Interesting proposal, but this discussion is about you."

"I don't have hyper gonorrhea! I'm six!"

"No, not that! I'm talking about the N. Pulmonarium on the outside of your body! Instead of the hypochlorite that E. Corrodens normally produces. This super variant produces carbonic dichloride or dichlorocarbene for the scientists out there! When it oxygenates with the air around it, the molecule forms into carbonyl dichloride, COCl2! This is the true name of phosgene, a lung dissolving gas which is known as the deadliest chemical weapon ever used in WW1!"

"What does this mean?"

"You kill anything alive that gets near you. Friend, foe, it doesn't matter. Even if you don't dissolve them with your anomalous acid, the phosgene the bacteria produce will kill anything that comes within 25 feet of you. And you can't kill off the bacteria, because even though the acid kills them, they come back as soon as the acid is turned off. The same thing happens if you bathe in fire. They are alive as long as you are, and I don't want to kill you to test this hypothesis. The caveat is that they devolve into E. Corrodens if they leave your body…that being said, E. Corrodens still produces hypochlorite, which has chlorite, which is an anion of chlorine, which can still dissolve inner linings like the esophageal tract, bronchioles, alveolar sacs etc."

Lola gets kind of depressed.

"Sorry, third youngest sister, but you got one of the worst powers for teamwork."

Lisa leaves.


In the current time, Lola is still in the hazmat suit. Sometimes, she feels like she deserves this. She killed Lindsay Sweetwater and a semi-innocent police officer, albeit indirectly. Even though Lindsay was kind of a ruthless bitch, she still didn't deserve to have her lungs dissolved into mush and having an embolism formed from said dissolved lung tissue. And the officer, he had a wife and two sons! She just took away someone's dad! She couldn't imagine what would happen if she lost her dad. It was her fault Lincoln was ostracized during the March 13 incident. Even though Lynn had those damn superstitions about "bad luck", she just couldn't resist getting a rise out of her brother. She alienated her family, she caused it to get out of hand. Even though Lincoln spread the lie, it would have been more self-contained than SCP-055-EN, only Lynn (and maybe Leni) would have believed their own lies. She was the secondary and major catalyst in the incident. She caused him to get kicked out of his room and even their house! She started the lie that that nasty squirrel suit was good luck with Linky in it.

And now, Lola is the one ostracized for being a living biohazard. At least the government isn't experimenting on her, or using her as a living bioweapon. Call this delayed justice for Lincoln. Everyone feels bad for Lola, though. The only one who gets close to her is Lana, and it's at her own peril. She just needs some love.

Lola decides to call some acquaintances.

"Oh, if it isn't the 4th place winner of the Little Miss Southeastern Michigan pageant."

"If it isn't the first three places. How are you guys?"

"We're pretty good, Lola."

"Hey, have you guys ever noticed rainbow cracks in the sky?"

"Yeah, I did."

"Same here."

"Me too."

"Did you walk under them?"

"We all did, Lola."

"Oh no, what anomalies did you get?"

"Just watch!"

Chinah generates a white fireball from her palms.

"Woah, fire powers?" Lola says in awe

"Yeah, I can control how hot the flames are and I can set myself completely afire!"

"Wait, so does the fire burn up your clothes or…?"

"Nope! The clothes become fireproof!"

"Can you fly, too?"

"Well, I can propel myself by using the flames to maneuver around, kind of like a jetpack."

"Amazing, Human Torch!"

"Please, that's nothing. Watch this."

Claudette generates pink crystals from her palms.

"Pretty cool."

"I can also crystallize parts of my body and use them to attack and/or defend."

"Wait, didn't someone already make a story about this anomaly?"

"Oh, I know what you're talking about, Chains of Reality: Divinity Reborn, right? That story is pretty famous!"

"Yeah, wasn't that my power?!"

"Those crystals have granite in them, the ones without granite…well. A brown-haired woman told me I destroyed an alternate universe by causing an NK class replicator scenario…whatever that means."

"Oh, that must mean your anomalous power is related to SCP-409-EN, Contagious Crystal. It is a quartz crystal that grows everywhere and infects everything that isn't granite. That would definitely cause such a scenario."

"Hey, which anomaly am I related to, Lola?" Chinah asks

"SCP-457-EN, Burning Man. It's kind of self-explanatory. The more it burns, the bigger and smarter it becomes. It can become big enough to split off, though the instances can argue with one another. Its weakness is water, as well as anything that can snuff out fires, duh."

"I'm not sure what power I got. Sophia told me destroyed two alternate universes by both ultrasound and infrasound weaponry. She told me that my anomaly increases by 3 decibels per day, and that when I accidently destroyed the alternate universes, the power was at 300 decibels. She also said I said "Krakatoa" before destroying the ultrasound dimension. I wonder why?"

"To reference SpongeBob? Well, Jackie, you got a pretty obscure power. According to SCP-101-FR, this anomaly is from SCP-498-EN, 11 Minute Snooze. It is an alarm clock that produces a 30-decibel alarm, but it increases by 4 decibels every 10 seconds the snooze button on the clock is not pressed. Anyone who hears it has increased alertness and will be unable to sleep (though microsleeps are possible) until the alarm is reset."

"Huh. But how do you reset it?"

"I don't know? Say "reset"?"

The girls think about these new revelations.

"So, Lola. Which anomaly did you get?" Claudette queries in a condescending tone

"SCP-106-EN, The Old Man. Highly corrosive, predatory and dangerous. Gets off on the pain and suffering of others. Damn near unkillable. One of the few Apollyon class entities."

"Apollyon class?" Jackie questions

"In the Locked Box test, Apollyon is a rare esoteric class that means there is no box to contain the object."

"What are ours?"

"409-EN is Keter, 457-EN is Euclid, 498-EN is Safe."

"And that means?"

"If an object is Safe, you can lock it in a box and nothing will happen. If an object is Euclid, it means that security on the box has to be upgraded, since the object is most likely sentient, and therefore, unpredictable. If an object is Keter, it means the object can easily escape from and/or destroy the box easily. Thaumiel is a rare esoteric class in which it is the box. At least that's what Lisa told me."

"Ok, so how are you 106-EN?" Chinah responds

"I can produce an anomalous acid similar to perchloric acid which corrodes through anything and I can produce a bio-shield that kills anything within 25 feet of me. Since 106-EN can phase through matter, I assume I can too. Lisa doesn't want to test it because I might corrode the already thin walls of our house and might cause it to collapse. On the plus side, this acid is a great exfoliant, my skin has never looked better!"

"Huh, maybe I should do that."

"No don't! It's still an acid! It only works for me because I'm immune to acid! If anyone else pours acid on themselves, it will corrode through your skin, muscles and possibly even bones. Perchloric acid can corrode through steel, so it will probably go through. It could even corrode through the floor!"

"Oh."

"Sadly, unlike Chinah, my clothes aren't acidproof, and neither is my hair. At least I have to be awake to activate my acid power, because it would be terrible for me to accidently corrode through my bed, the carpet, and the earth itself."

"Yeah, that would be bad."


Meanwhile, in France…

An Anomalous Burst appears near the outskirts to Paris. Black goo begins dripping out of it, corroding the earth below it. It smells of a sickly rot like honey. A zombie like humanoid emerges. It lets out a predatory growl as it begins a decayed march toward the City of Lights. Around 30 minutes later, two more anomalies appear. It appears France will become the ground zero of the Eighth Occult War!

The rotting corpse breaches the 19th arrondissement! Some of the French populace begin panicking, although if you saw a rotting corpse walking through your city, spreading death and decay everywhere, you'd panic too!

"Mon Dieu!"

"Cadavre pourri!"

"Courir!"

The rot gets halfway through the arrondissement before being confronted by two superheroes? At least, the Parisians think they are superheroes. They look a little young, though…

"Arrêter, méchant!"

"Nous ne vous laisserons pas terroize les citoyens de Paris!"

The feral creature looks at them. Perfect prey. It staggers toward them.

"Chat, utiliser le cataclysme!"

"Votre plan est de percer à travers la pourriture? Excellente idée, ma dame."

The kid in the cat costume prepares an attack.

"Cataclysme!"

His arm is imbued with the power of destruction. He attempts to strike the humanoid, but he just grabs his arm.

"Hein? Il a arrêté mon attaque!?"

A sickly black rot corrodes the poor bastard's arm. The rot has necrotized his arm so much that it falls off, leaving both of them horrified! The kid backs off and evades his range.

Cet akuma est ridiculement fort! Cette personne doit être pleine de haine!

"Qu'est-ce qu'on fait, Coccinelle?"

"Porte-bonheur!"

She gets a floodlight. What is she going to do with this?

"Peut-être qu'il est faible à la lumière?"

She turns the light on, Stunning the predator and force it to sink in the ground.

"Avons-nous réussi?"

It comes back. It looks angry.

"Euh, non."

Normally, he'd pocket dimension these idiots, but he needs to get to the 1st arrondissement where all the prey is. He can just punch them to death. He attempts to leave. The two superheroes try to stop him.

The kid trying to be Spiderman tries to tie him up with her yo-yo, but his acid just burns through it. The rot steps on the yo-yo, breaking it. It's a good thing that wasn't the mystical Chinese artifact. Still, how could powerful Chinese artifacts containing the powers of both creation and destruction lose to a humanoid with acid armor? It has no time for these morsels. He has a buffet to get to! So, I guess he technically won against them?

Well, at least some of the Parisians are Containment Breach fans and know what that creature really is. They immediately notify the police, who notify the military, who notify President Emmanuel Macron, who had just survived a Yellow Vest attack trying to kill him for approving that EU gas tax because of muh climate change. Naturally, the idiot media also got involved.

"Nous venons d'apprendre qu'un terroriste solitaire tente de pénétrer dans le premier arrondissement! Il attaque en utilisant des pouvoirs de decomposition. Des témoins oculaires dans le ninteenth arrondissement ont dit à la police que le sujet est extrêmement hostile à la vie humaine et est extrêmement prédateur! Le président Macron a été informé de la situation par l'armée Français et nous attendons sa réponse à cette menace envers notre république. Témoins oculaires disent que la créa ture a aussi vaincu les célèbres super-héros Coccinelle et Chat Noir."


"There's a terrorist that uses acid to kill people? I don't think that's a terrorist…no. If what Lola told us is true. It's way worse."

Someone calls Lola.

"Claudette? What's up?"

"Remember how you said there was an SCP-106-EN that was super dangerous?"

"Yes…"

"Well, France is saying there is a terrorist using acid to kill people in France! It might be 106-EN?!"

"Did the police try shooting it? If it is immune to bullets, it might be SCP-106-EN. If it is, then France is kind of screwed."

"No way, France banned everything dangerous. No guns, no knives, no pointy pens, pencils and crayons."

"Agh, idiots! Well, its not like it matters since 106-EN is practically indestructible. I'll send the VEI article for 106-EN. We will see if humanity will survive."

Lola sends Claudette SCP-106-EN's information.


Objet #: SCP-106-EN

Classe: Apocalyptique

Niveau de Menace: Rouge

Propriétés Spéciales: Biohazard, Sachant, Prédateur, Violent, Espace-temps non-standard (dimension de poche)

Procédures de Confinement Spéciales:

RÉVISION 11-09

SCP-106-EN ne peut pas être contenu.

Description: SCP-106-EN semble être un humanoïde âgé, avec une apparence générale de décomposition avancée. Son apparence peut varier, mais l'effet de "pourriture" reste observé sous chaque forme. SCP-106-EN n'est pas exceptionnellement agile, et peut rester immobile pendant des jours, dans l'attente d'une proie. SCP-106-EN est également capable d'escalader n'importe quelle surface verticale et peut rester indéfiniment suspendu à l'envers. Lorsqu'il attaque, SCP-106-EN tente de neutraliser ses proies en endommageant les organes principaux, les muscles ou les tendons, puis il emmène sa proie handicapée dans sa "dimension de poche". SCP-106-EN semble préférer comme proies les hommes dans les 10-25 ans.

SCP-106-EN provoque un effet de "corrosion" sur toute la matière solide qu'il touche, engendrant une décomposition physique des matériaux plusieurs secondes après le contact. On peut observer la rouille, la pourriture et la fissuration des matériaux, ainsi que la création d'une sorte de mucus noir similaire à celui qui recouvre SCP-106-EN. Cet effet est particulièrement préjudiciable pour les tissus vivants, et est supposé être une action de "pré-digestion". La corrosion se poursuit pendant six heures après le contact, après quoi l'effet semble disparaître.

SCP-106-EN est capable de passer à travers la matière solide, laissant derrière lui une grande tache de son mucus corrosif. SCP-106-EN est capable de "disparaître" à l'intérieur de la matière solide, en entrant dans ce qui est supposé être une sorte de "dimension de poche". SCP-106-EN est alors en mesure de sortir de cette dimension à partir de n'importe quel point connecté au point d'entrée initial (exemples: "entrer" dans la paroi interne d'une pièce, et "sortir" de la paroi extérieure; "entrer" dans un mur, et "sortir" du plafond.) On ne sait pas si cette dimension est le lieu d'origine de SCP-106-EN, ou un simple "repaire" créé par SCP-106-EN.

Une observation limitée de cette "dimension de poche" a montré qu'elle doit être composée majoritairement de salles et les chambres, avec [SUPPRIMÉ] entrée. Cette activité peut se poursuivre pendant plusieurs "jours", avec une certaine chance d'être libéré dans le but d'être traqué, re-capturé, [SUPPRIMÉ].

Addendum:

Notes d'examen:

En raison de la nature très difficile à contenir de SCP-106-EN, les mesures de confinement doivent être révisées tous les trois mois ou après un incident. Les contraintes physiques sont impossibles, et les dommages physiques directs ne semblent avoir aucun effet sur SCP-106-EN. Les mesures appliquées actuellement, datant du ██ / ██ / ████, tournent autour de l'observation de base et de réponses immédiates à certaines situations. Les procédures de confinement spéciales précédentes ont été revues en raison des évènements des brèches ██, ███, ███, et ████.

Notes sur le "comportement":

SCP-106-EN semble passer par de longues périodes de "sommeil", pendant lesquelles il restera parfaitement immobile pendant un maximum de trois mois. La cause en est inconnue, mais il a été démontré que cela semble être utilisé comme un "leurre" tactique. SCP-106-EN sortira de cet état dans un état très agité, et va attaquer, enlever le personnel et causer des dommages violents à sa cellule de confinement et au site dans son ensemble. Le protocole de rappel [DONNÉES SUPPRIMÉES].

SCP-106-EN semble chasser et attaquer par plaisir et non par faim. SCP-106-EN va attaquer et recueillir ses proies multiples au cours d'une période de chasse, en gardant de nombreuses proies "vivantes" dans la dimension de poche durant de longues périodes. SCP-106-EN n'a pas de "limites" déterminables, et semble recueillir un nombre aléatoire de proies lors d'une période de chasse.

La dimension de poche semble être uniquement accessible par SCP-106-EN. Les appareils d'enregistrement et de transmission fonctionnent toujours à l'intérieur de cette dimension, bien que les enregistrements et les transmissions soient très dégradés. Il semble que SCP-106-EN "joue" avec les proies capturées, et qu'il ait le plein contrôle du temps, de l'espace et de la perception à l'intérieur de cette dimension. SCP-106-EN semble [DONNÉES SUPPRIMÉES].

Protocole de rappel ██ - ███ - █:

En cas de brèche de confinement de SCP-106-EN, un humain dans les 10-25 ans sera préparé pour le rappel, avec la cellule de confinement compromise remplacée et prête à l'emploi. Lorsque la cellule est prête, le sujet leurre doit être blessé, de préférence par la rupture d'un os long, comme le fémur, ou la rupture d'un tendon important, comme le tendon d'Achille. Le sujet leurre sera alors placé dans la cellule préparée, et le bruit émis par ledit sujet sera transmis via le système de sonorisation publique du site.

SCP-106-EN commence généralement à se diriger vers le sujet leurre dans les dix à quinze minutes après avoir entendu ses cris. Si SCP-106-EN ne réagit pas à l'émission initiale, un traumatisme physique supplémentaire doit être administré au sujet leurre toutes les vingt minutes jusqu'à ce que SCP-106-EN réponde. Plusieurs sujets leurres peuvent être utilisés dans le cas de ruptures de confinement majeures.

SCP-106-EN va généralement entrer dans un état de sommeil après en avoir terminé avec un sujet leurre. En outre, les sujets peuvent [DONNÉES SUPPRIMÉES].


"Nous venons d'avoir des images du visage du terroriste. Il semble porter un costume de fermier corrode."

Claudette looks at the grainy footage. If it looks like an old man and acts like an old man, then it must be an old man.

"Well, someone better tell these people what they're dealing with."

"This may cause a broken masquerade scenario."

"Better than them being dead!"

Claudette sends the info to one of the French media sites.

"Nous venons de recevoir des nouvelles de dernière heure d'une source anonyme! Selon le document, il semble que cette créa ture n'est pas un terroriste! Il dit que c'est "Le Vieil Homme", une entité de classe apocalypse qui a un niveau de menace rouge. Il est très prédateur, dangereux, violent et a une dimension de poche pour torture ses victimes dans! C'est la cent sixième anomalie répertoriée. C'est France 24 qui dit que nous sommes tous condamnés. Et maintenant revenir au discours du président Macron sur la façon dont nous sommes impuissants contre ce prédateur."

We see Emmanuel Macron give a speech. Nothing they can do to stop 106-EN, however.

"l'armée Français a constaté que le terroriste est à l'abri des balles, des lance-flammes, de l'acide et d'être battu à mort. Il est fonctionnellement indestructible. Mon conseil est de courir et j'espère qu'il ne vous verra pas. Les témoins oculaires disent que des lumières clignotantes sur son visage l'étourdit temporairement, mais il n'y a aucun moyen de le tuer."

Obviously, it wasn't long before France told the other countries about the indestructible predator. Mass panic ensued and a broken masquerade scenario happened. Unfortunately, the SCP Foundation technically doesn't exist in this universe, and the UN hasn't formed the GOC yet! There are no Ennui class amnestics to make everyone stupid again!


Luckily, or unluckily, Claudette is close to where 106-EN is. If she could just seal it within 409-EN, maybe then France can be saved! But 106-EN had defeated two famous superheroes! How can a girl around 6-years-old fight a violent predator such as The Old Man?! There's not really a way out of this…

Claudette steps outside of the hotel she was staying at and fires a quartz-granite stream the savage beast, getting its attention. She increases the frequency of the stream. It starts to form around SCP-106-EN. She doesn't forget to crystallize his feet, can't have him escape to his pocket dimension! The Old Man attempts to block the crystal stream, but Claudette produces more crystal stream than he can corrode! She adds more and more layers of crystal until she can see he's completely frozen in the quartz-granite crystal. All in all, there was 40 layers wrapped around him! The final layer being solid granite so SCP-409-EN won't grow anymore! SCP-106-EN, a being of pure acidic hatred, is now sealed tight within the 40-layer crystal.

She did it.

She actually did it.

She contained the uncontainable.

An entity which, although it will take an eternity, will cause an XK class end of the world scenario by slowly killing off humanity one by one.

Of course, some Parisian sticking their nose in other people's business saw the whole thing and begins screeching like a lunatic at the impossible happening.

Elle l'a fait! Elle contenait le vieil homme! On a été sauvés!

Soon, everyone swarmed Claudette, proclaiming her a heroine for stopping the implacable.

"Comment avez-vous fait?"

"Savez-vous ce que vous venez de faire?"

"Vous avez sauvé la France, probablement le monde!"

"Le président Macron veut vous rencontrer personnellement!"

Well, that must be a lie. If president Macron doesn't care about the average French citizen, why would he care about some random 6-year-old that just so happened to be there waiting for her new supply of French sequined dresses? Sure, she stopped SCP-106-EN, but now France is stuck with him! That statue is way too big to be sent through an Anomalous Burst! If someone breaks him out…

"Arrêter de m'entourer! Je viens d'arriver à être ici au mauvais moment! Je me défendais, donc je ne me fais pas torturer par l'acide!"

The crowd is quite surprised she would say this, such a humble heroine! Ordinarily, Claudette would brag about this to anyone who would listen, but now that people know about her crystal powers thanks to preserving SCP-106-EN, the masquerade isn't just broken, it has been shattered! The world knows anomalies exist! These aren't isolated incidents anymore! And there are no groups dealing with the anomalous in this universe! Nothing will ever be the same ever again!

Claudette leaves the crowd and heads back to her hotel.


"O5-2?"

"The Administrator would know that this would have happened eventually."

"Sophie?"

"O5-1, I'm calling it. That dimension has experienced a BK class broken masquerade/lifted veil scenario."

"What can we do?"

"Hope we can work with some of the anomalies to prevent further destruction to that dimension. It is all that can be done."

"We secure, we contain, we protect. We all will protect our world."

O5-1 is left stunned. Doctor Light almost never takes charge!

"Sub Administrator Seigel, begin authorization to expand Α9 anomalous conscription."

"I'll inform the committee."

"Excellent. I will begin project "Wings of Hope". Our world will survive, anomalous or otherwise."

O5-1 leaves. O5-2 sighs. She uses her anomalous power to teleport to the Wanderer's Library.

"Oh, it's you. We personally don't care for your organization imprisoning the anomalous, but you haven't made a mess of things here, unlike those terrorists. He's at the tree."

Sophia uses the mystical Wanderer's Library card to enter the main hall. This place, filled with all of the knowledge that has existed, currently exists and will exist all in one place! This place makes the Library of Alexandria look like a joke. Still, this place is the definition of "nonstandard spacetime", so even she, an O5, has to be escorted by those Dementor looking creatures, the Dosen.

"Some things are meant to be locked away, some things are meant to be free…"

The creature leads her to the depths of the Library, here, where the Tree of Knowledge lies. Thought to power the Library, it has been the source of all knowledge for all time. Destroying it may cause a LK Lethe/loss of knowledge scenario. She sees a lone male humanoid writing in a book of some kind. He notices her.

"Oh, Sophia? What's happened?"

"It was just like you said, Benjamin. O5-7 voted no."

"Ah, had a feeling she would. The committee is aware of Green's ambitions."

"Are you sure there's nothing that can be done?"

"Unless we utilize the power of Deus Ex Machinae, no. We can not alter the metanarrative. Doing so will cause catastrophic damage to the dimension and it might cause a causal shift which may make things even worse. All that can be done is to let the story write itself. It can't stray from its course. SCP-140-EN is a great example of this. Khahrahk is attempting to force the Daevites to conquer Earth in his stead, to destroy this place that he once tried to destroy but failed."

"So, it will fail?"

"Yes. In the case of 140-EN, it is a matter of when."

"Mr. Sisson, what about SCP-239-EN?"

"Sigurrós? The powers that be think that because of my experiment with a voice behind me, that I am an omniversal reality warper of immense power. They are right, since in this metanarrative, I have helped contain 80 different SCPs, 4 of them being 001s. I digress, they think that because I have such power and can control such power, that I can teach 239-EN to control hers. The narrative thinks of me as her god uncle of sorts."

"What will you do? It would put you at odds with Doctor Clef! He exists to kill Type Greens, such as 239-EN and you!"

"Sophia. I will fulfill my part in the story. If they want me to be a surrogate uncle to her, then I'm going to be the best damn surrogate uncle I can be to make sure the flow of the story doesn't get altered! You had to fulfill your role in that dimension by giving Calvin Lucien those SCP-006-EN vials and the Spear of the Nonbeliever, even if it meant you would have to die."

"A world where we don't exist. A world where humans and anomalies could coexist peacefully. That would be the ideal one."

"It would be, wouldn't it? Sadly, it's just a pipe dream."

Sophia looks dejected, Ben reminds her of one crucial thing.

"You remember our motto, right?"

"This is the way it ends."


Meanwhile, back at this story's dimension, the UN has been informed about SCP-106-EN's existence and capture from Emmanuel Macron. Thankfully, all the translators at the UN were working overtime so we can understand their bickering in English. They deserve a pay raise!

"What the hell were you doing out there, Macron!?"

"It's not my fault that thing is unkillable and uncontainable!"

"Clearly, we need something to combat the anomalous."

"I got it. An anomalous task force to search and destroy hostile entities to protect the human race!"

"We already tried that. Our peacekeepers are a joke. Even the French military could beat them."

"No, I mean a new task force!"

"Well, 106-EN was stopped by little girl. A citizen saw her shoot crystals to encase the violent predator in a statue."

"Kids are getting anomalous powers? What next?!"

"Ok, I propose that all beings with anomalous powers that are non-hostile to register in the new Paris Accords, so they can help us and we can help them, since we don't have anomalous weaponry to combat these threats yet."

"Oh please, Trump won't sign that! He backed out of the last one! He just wants to see the world burn!"

President Trump is the first one to ratify the accord, just to shut the delegate up.

"I don't know about you globalists, but I want to help preserve our world. Who's with me?"

"Ok, fine! But since you suggested it, you'll have to pay for it!" Says another Trump hating delegate

A bunch of delegates have signed the accords. Known countries that have signed it are the US, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Portugal, Brazil, The Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, South Korea, Japan, China, France, Poland, Thailand, Italy, Mexico, Belize, Panama, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Venezuela and Spain. Aside from the Core 37 (most of them got in due to that speaking Spanish privilege), Iceland and Denmark also have signed it. We are not sure about the statuses of the other 157 official countries, but they're sure most of them will sign it eventually.

"Since these anomalous people are everywhere around the world. Each country is responsible for finding their citizens with anomalies."

"Won't this backfire?"

"Do we have any other choice? We need to conscript these people to help save our world! At least until we can get weapons to combat the threats ourselves. You saw what happened with Macron and 106-EN today. It was immune to bullets, blunt force trauma, fire and acid!"

"For the future of our world. We must not fail."