A little later, the lights were restored, though they were very dim. Lucky looked around. He couldn't see anyone. "Hello?" He called. No response. He started down the corridors of the facility. He soon came across a small door. It was made of iron and had the same logo that Strudel had shown them. The buttons he believed were to open them were up high. He had to stand on two legs and reach it. The door had several layers and made a loud swishing sound when opened. On the other side, was another hallway split into three others. He went down one, trying to find the rest of the team or Ellie. "Cookie? Niblet? Ellie?" He called in vain. He came to the end of the hallway after travelling through it for a while. There was a sign hanging next to the door ath the end that said SCP-106: Keter. He opened it without a thought and revealed a large room with a giant cage made from iron bars. "That looks a little weird." He said to himself. Just then, he heard a disgusting noise. A drop of black liquid dripped right next to him. "What the!?" He shouted. He looked behind him and right next to him was a humanoid figure covered in an oily substance. Its mouth was open wide and it was staring directly at him. Lucky screamed and ran away. It began to chase him. Lucky shut the door behind him, but to his surprise, it walked right through it. "What?" Lucky started to panic. He ran through a set of open doors for a long time. He stopped when he ran out of breath. He looked behind him, but he didn't see it anymore. Lucky let out a sigh of relief. He then continued his search with his nerves now jittered up; this time away from the direction of that door.
Ellie ended up in another long hallway. She was extremely scared. "Hello? Is anyone there?" She shouted. Suddenly, the lights went out. They came back on and at the end of the hallway, was the same statue thing from before. She let out a shriek, but then giggled. "Oh, you're that same statue guy from before. You're not a monster." She enjoyed playfully talking to it. She turned around for a brief moment and blinked a couple times. She turned back around to find it so close to her face, her ear brushed up against it. "Aah!" She screamed. "W-who moved you over here?" She stuttered as she backed away from it slowly. She blinked and it followed her close once again. She got really scared. She looked around, keeping it in her peripheral vision. "Oh my, I'm guessing this is your work?" She said, looking at all of the dead bodies with their necks snapped. "Well, don't mind me. I'm just gonna get out of here." She said. She backed up into a doorway and after seeing the button to close it, jumped up as high as she could to hit it. The door closed with the statue on the other side. She sighed. She hurried away from the door.
Niblet trotted along the hallway. He saw a door unlike the ones he had come across yet. He opened it to his curiosity. On the other side, he saw a small white room with a control panel. There was a sign that said SCP-035: Keter. "Well, this is interesting, but I'm back to being bored and panicked at the same time." He said calmly. Suddenly, he heard a voice to his left. "Huh, a talking dog. That's something you don't see everyday." Niblet looked up and there, standing behind glass, was a corpse wearing a white porcelain mask. It was somehow standing up. "What? Where?" Niblet looked around. "Oh, you mean me." He realized. "Wait a minute; who are you?" He asked, now more skeptical. The thing took some time to think of an answer. "Uuum, I'm a scientist, and I need your help. Just open the door for me with the lever on that control panel." It said. Niblet thought. "How do I know if you're really a scientist, and not a meanie-pants monster that wants to eat me?" He asked back. "Well, look at me. I'm in an official uniform. Also, look behind you." It said. He looked behind him to see another door. It started talking to him again. "That is a supply closet. Inside is all sorts of useful things. The passcode to open it is 5-8-1-7." It instructed. Niblet picked up a nearby pencil and typed in the corresponding keys with it. The door opened and inside were several shelves with items on them. "You see? Now do you trust me?" It asked him. "Wow. Yeah, sure. Thanks for all this cool stuff, random mask guy!" He thanked it. "Now, I need you to do something for me." It said back. "Sure, anything." He replied as he put on the fanny pack he found inside and started packing the things. "Open the chamber doors for me with the lever on the panel." It demanded. "But, why should I open it for you?" He said once he was finished packing all of the stuff. "Because." It began to say. "I know how to get out of here." Really surprised, Niblet opened the door without hesitation. The door opened and it walked out. "Great, however, I cannot take you with me." It started. "However, if you want to get out of here, let me give you some advice. Listen really carefully." Niblet leaned in really close.
Squirt wandered around in the elevator he was in. It seemed like he was on it for forever. But finally, he heard a ding and the door opened. He expected it to be another layer of the kinds of halls and rooms he was used to, but this floor was nothing like it. The floor was made of wire mesh, and there were storage containers and crates scattered in massive heaps all over the room. Pipes and wires lined the walls and the room was barely lit, with the only light source being the light from the elevator he was in. He changed his mind about going up, and tried to go back down, but the elevator appeared to be broken. However, he spotted another maintenance elevator all the way across the room. All he had to do was get to it. He stepped out of the elevator and started walking across the room. Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice. "Hello? Is someone there?" "Lucky?" Squirt immediately recognized it. "I'm over here!" The voice said. "Lucky!" Squirt called in excitement. He ran to the source of the voice, but it was not Lucky. He found himself face-to-face with a long and massive red lizard-like creature with razor sharp teeth and a long tail. He gasped in horror and immediately darted for the elevator. It chased after him. "Alligator. Ugh! Why did it have to be an alligator?" He screamed as he pressed the button inside the elevator as fast as he could. The door closed, but the creature kept pounding on the doors. Squirt started to descend, but it broke through the doors and knocked them out of the way. It jumped down onto the top of the elevator and started pounding and biting. That scared Squirt and started anticipating the arrival of the bottom floor more than ever. The creature's teeth suddenly protruded from the roof. Squirt shrieked. The doors opened up. He was back to the rooms and hallways like before. The creature crashed through the elevator roof. It began to run after him with it jaws opened. Squirt ran away and hid in the nearest spot he could find. He found himself in a very small room with a foul smell. He shut the door behind him just after he read the sign outside the door that said "SCP-008: Euclid." Suddenly, a glass container burst open, creating a startling noise and shattering the glass surrounding it. He coughed for a little while. He fell over, only to get back up feeling slightly nauseous. "Ugh, what's going on?" He mumbled slowly. He stumbled out of the room, noticing the big red creature was gone. He shook off his nausea, assuming it was just from weariness. He walked on, trying to find the rest of the gang.
Strudel walked to the end of the hallway she was in. Before opening the door to the next, she looked to her side to see another door. She decided to open it. What she found was a small office with a file cabinet and a water machine. She entered, intrigued. She hopped onto the desk next to the machine to look at it. Next, she found a bowl and placed it in the dispensing area. Then, she looked up at the control panel expecting a water dispenser button, but all she found was a qwerty keyboard. "Huh, that's odd." She said to herself. She did the only thing she could think of: type water into the keyboard. For some reason, her crazy idea worked. The machine dispensed water into the bowl, and Strudel drank it. "A rather unorthodox design for a liquid dispenser, but it's a cool one." She said. She decided to look at the file cabinet. She struggled to open it at first, but managed to get it open. Inside were a ton of papers and documents. They seemed insignificant until she came across a file labeled "SCPs." Really curious, she opened the file and discovered a document for every SCP in the whole foundation. They displayed a lot of information like classes, locations, containment procedures, and behavior. "Ah! This could definitely be useful!" She said to herself. She grabbed the file and carried it with her out the door and down the hallway.
"Nothing but empty hallways!" Cookie yelled to herself as she aimlessly wandered from corridor to corridor. She hit another button after another, but was stopped by something. It was a tall, cloaked figure and was appearing to wear an old porcelain medical mask. Cookie stopped dead in her tracks and stared up at it, frightened. The figure gasped. "Oh, my." It started saying. "Another victim of the disease." It said calmly. Cookie, not knowing what to do, decided to run. "I think it might be time to get out of here!" She screamed as she ran the other direction. "Wait, I am not here to hurt you!" It called. "I don't care!" Cookie found herself replying. In her rush, she opened a door that she thought was the next hallway, but turned out to be just a supply closet. She had cornered herself. She leaned against the far wall and gazed helplessly upwards as the figure slowly approached her. "You are not a doctor." It began. "Do not be afraid, I am the cure." "Okay, fine, whatever." Cookie finally gave in. "But only if I don't have to pay for the medical bill." She stood up and looked at it. It bent over and outstretched its hand.