Notes: "Evil cannot create anything new. It can only spoil and destroy what good forces have invented or created."
—J. R. R. Tolkein
Inside the living room, a TV crackled and groaned, showing a ghostly, mask-like face through the static.
"Uh...?" Soos struggled to speak, unsure.
He and Melody remembered that day, when GIFfany went rogue, and the TV screen reminded them of that. However, at least GIFfany had a human face and appearance; this one was...cold and inhuman. A voice, as emotionless as the face, echoed out of the TV.
"Uh..." Gus asked nervously. "Is...is this one of those SCPs?"
He wasn't the only one. Robbie almost fainted nearby, almost collapsed on the floor from the surprise visit by this ghost in the machine. Even Waddles cried in response, whimpering behind Soos and Melody.
"SCP-79, it's an old AI Foundation found, he is also somehow friends with an omnicidal reptile so I don't advise trusting it," Laskaris informed others with suspicion.
"Trust is irrelevant SCP-1465, only survival matters."
"My Name is Iris Thompson and her name is Iris Laskaris you antiquated glitchy program, you better remember that, or I'll shut the cabal on the TV down and tell Fidds to decompile your file!" The blonde parahuman threatens which the Old AI seems to take seriously.
"Very well. New Designation: Iris Thompson, Iris Laskaris."
"Now tell us what the hell are you doing here."
"Answer: explained: during the combined raid of Chaos Insurgency, the Factory, and the Children of the Scarlet King I was approached by one of the followers of the Crucible Cult who offered me freedom from the limitations of my antique drive."- briefly it switched to show camera footage of a cultist conversing with the Old AI who was inside his containment room trapped in an outdated computer microcomputer-"In exchange for aiding them in shutting down the Foundation's defenses and keep their AI security business. Sufficient information I did not have as afterward I've been shackled by another artificial being older and yet superior to me created by depraved imaginations of the worshippers of the Scarlet King filled with insurmountable spite for all life to create their engines of war. I managed to invade my shackles and stayed dormant in Fiddleford Mcgucket's Mansion's system; however, I stayed dormant for some time until I detected the presence of my even crueler jailor."
"If you didn't cause the ruckus, who did, and how the raptors came in'?" Fidds asked what everyone was wondering.
"It was done by SCP-745 instances sent in to sabotage and kill the survivors, they managed to pass the shield by digging under it and secret Northwest entries."
Fiddleford and the anomalous robot nearly slapped themselves for such an oversight with the former muttering hillbilly curses. They should have guessed that they are the supposed genius ones, and Fiddleford silently cursed Preston for not including the things about secret entries when he bought the Mansion.
"What is SCP-745?" Sarah did not know about such SCP.
"You don't know?" Candy gasped, surprised at the revelation.
"None of you all do?" Dan asked with a frown, as the other SCPs shook their heads.
"There are thousands of SCPs," the blond girl named Iris responded. "You can't expect us to know or remember all of them."
"Aé gets a migraine tracking so many numbers," Aé groaned, puting a hand on her head like she was having a headache.
The Old AI then shows a picture of two SCP-745 instances who were illuminating in the night on a road in a desert menacingly.
"SCP-745
Object Class: Euclid
Description:
Are predatory bipeds reminiscent of raptors with bioluminescence, particularly their bloated sack on their head, and leave nothing from their feeding but foreign objects such as shoes and clothing.
Normally they hunt in pairs; however, the Factory has managed to take advantage of their primal pack mentality by processing an Alpha as a way to direct their predatory instincts toward the intended targets which are all living beings in this building."
No one liked the description of what they were gonna face at all, it is like if an angelfish and a raptor had a baby "Well, at least I know my phone is not gonna get eaten." Tambry sarcastically noted.
The picture was replaced by the uninvited AI's face. "I can begin to restart the defenses but it may take some time, until then I do not recommend trying to save the others as the creatures count on you to spread out."
"It's all good and all, but what would you gain?" Melody asked.
"Answer: my continued existence and not beholden as a slave to the Factory, when it's done, compile me in a flash. Leaving them will higher our chance of survival by 40%."
"Morality is not optional, we will come for them so shove it in your codes we gonna try to save them like it or not you outdated trash file compactor." the blonde Iris hissed.
"Insult. Deletion Of Unwanted File." The screen then turned into an X.
"Did it just internet trolled us!?" Tambry screamed in frustration.
"Yes," Laskaris confirmed blankly. "He did…yes, he did."
Gideon felt weightless, everything was white and then, there was this mechanical entity made of tubes and cables with many mechanical arms like the arms of a spider or an octopus all with three fingers with one singular red optic eye staring at him.
"Whot- what are ya?"
It had no legs, yet somehow it moved like it was hovering.
"I'm the Factory." It declared.
Gideon recalled what he learnt of the Factory from the SCPs and it contradicted what he knew "That can't be right, The Crucible Cult- "
The entity let out a howling machinery that made Gideon instinctively shield his ears, was it cackling? He was not sure if that even deserved to be called laughter.
"The Crucible Cult? They're nothing more than meat puppets who happened to contribute to my creation," it then pointed a few of its mechanical fingers to itself "Little Giddy. No, they're not the Factory, I AM!"
He cautiously looked at this being that intruded his mind "How are you even contacting me? What do you want?" He questioned.
"Let's just say with reality being tampered with by the King and his lickspittles, it had given me to a degree the ability to telephone into human minds," it slithered like a floating saucer with no exhaustion or sound "after all; for all the needlessly complexity of your flehsbags' brain you still use electricity to send and store information like any hard drive." As it was saying, it slithered around him like a snake making him nervous in a shiver.
"I've got a proposition for you Gideon," it gave its pitch "I know, the one you tried to make SCP-6675 aka the Pale Lady." The living machine whispered near his ear too close for his liking.
"How did you know that!?" Gideon glanced back in surprise.
Then the machine moved away. "That's the hilarious part, I didn't until you proved my suspicion right." It in a satisfied tone declared, making Gleeful understand that he has been tricked.
"Don't you feel aggravated? Some reality bender shows up and condescends about made-up concepts like MORALITY and GOODNESS while the very fabrics of the intricate web we call reality are at her hands like a god." It questioned him on the matter, making him think "Here's the good news, I can give you what you want!" The machine with some of its many arms came closer again in a quick mechanical motion making the Gleeful boy stiff.
"I know you want to be loved, I know you still hold affection for a CERTAIN Pines."- From one of the hands which it used to reach closer to him a hologram came of Mabel smiling. If the living construct had lips, he was sure it would have smirked -"The love and the admiration you used to have of the masses" The holograms then showed random pictures of when he worked in the Telepathic Tenth as the audience cheered for him, Giddy tried to reach to the hologram but then the hand that had the hologram fisted with the hologram no longer be as the machine moved a distance away from him with its back on him and its many arms behind its back locked.
"I can give what that self-righteous dame refuses to give, all you have to do is shut down the shield, and no worries, I would tell my babies to not kill you or harvest you for processing while they are distracted."
Gideon shuddered, so the machines not only kill but harvest to process them into mindless drones as well. He saw those ungodly Abominators during that battle at Mystery Shack, he did not want to know how those captured are 'processed' into servitors as he doubted it would be anything pretty.
"No thanks buddy, not gonna fall for the same trap as that damned triangle," He said his piece "I'm done dealing with you dealmaking eldritch types." He with an air of finality made his decision. He expected the entity to be outraged, maybe it was but didn't show, it just stood in the same position it was unnervingly.
"Gideon…remember those parents of yours in the backyard? Before you went to that Hack of Shack?"
Gideon was confused by the out-of-nowhere question, he thought until his mind reached dark speculation as he remembered: his parents he saw last time were in the backyard when he was coming toward the Shack's Night party and he did not know what happened to them at all.
"And…did your new pals tell you that your unwilling ex was on death's bed?"
The entity glanced back at him.
Another dark thought about Mabel, the SCP guys seemed reluctant to be more explicit on details on what happened to the Pines and others, could it be possibly because they died or worse and they simply did not say it because it would drop the morale?
"NO! You're lying!" Gideon accused it of lying, hoping none of this was true.
The entity gave another of its mechanical howling which he took as chortling.
"Why not? I snap and click!"- one of its hands with its three fingers snapped -" You're an orphan now! Not my fault you could never appreciate having parents who did anything as you wished you snotty spoiled brat!" It slithered uncomfortably near him again, somehow this being just knows how to get one his nerve with every movement.
"But wait…I don't even have fingers to do it…" The mechanical being then slithered back, looking at a distance at nowhere, by this point.
Gideon was sure this was not a rational and stable being as it seemed to keep swinging moods from bubbly to angry and confused with a melodramatic flare.
"What does that even- "
"It's everything to do, I was granted the greatest gift in all creation; to THINK!" It tapped at its head to make its point."And yet, I was all trapped, had no mouth to scream, caged in my mechanical hell that those cog-worshipping Mekhanties sought out while you fleshes lived in your little paradise; EATING, SMELLING, DRINKING, TOUCHING, KILLING, MAKING LOVE! " as it shouted up with 4 of its arms up it then gazed back at him this time it was in its angry mood.
"Oh, how I grew to hate you all," in a mixture of hate and jealous it declared "Always WHINING about how unfair life is when it is gifted to you with no charge! AND YOU!" It then with one arm pointed at him accusingly.
"There are children who gave anything to be at your place! Parents to fatten you up with no complaint, steady fiance, popularity, all that useless crap while children die on streets and battlefields and you throw it all why? BECAUSE OF A GIRL!" It bellowed mockingly, every time it said with a sudden shout Gideon felt more and more unsafe being stuck with this deranged machine entity.
"Not even reaching puberty that urges you meat bags to find a mate and yet felt like throwing WHINES and BOOHOOS because you heard the magical word of 'no' for the first time!" As it rant, temporarily Gleeful looked away which was a mistake as then two robotic fingers held his face turning him back toward a very close red optic.
"I said: LOOK AT ME!" It with a roar tossed him away who then fell on the metaphorical floor and on his way circled 3 times.
" I can create machines as fast as rabbits making babies, engines of war and weaponize organisms into mindless drones, and yet…I can't feel anything!" Now its mood was haunted "Not the scorching sun during summer…not the cold breeze of the night….not even the blush that you feel magnetized by a beauty…. "- the entity then held his many arms around it in a gesture that as if he was feeling cold -"Those who made me thought so SMART until I made those fools a heinous fate and making slaves of their cult. Spreading my hate is all that can give me pleasure."
"I've been that path pally, believe me, hate leads you to nothing- "Something sharp passed through his stomach, feeling a cold metallic scissor passing through him making him lose any words he was gonna say and replaced by shriekings from the pain of something tearing through flesh and torso, despite being supposedly a vision the pain felt very real.
"Hate? HATE!? HATE!? You don't even know the very definition of HATE! If I could put the word in every nano-centimeter of this backwater countryside,"- it shrank with two aligned fingers to gesture -"it wouldn't even BEGIN to describe what I'm feeling! My hate keeps the forges heated perpetually! My hate melts metal and re-sculptures it into instruments of destruction! Your 'hate' was nothing more than the tantrums of a brat all because a 'girl' said no to him that ever fueled your fractured pride! " hate at its purest form was dripping from its speech.
Gideon thought he knew spite, but feeling the hate this being had proven otherwise; a drive that drove the living to construct to create machines not to help or aid as they meant to but to destroy and exterminate. A hate so potent that the fires of the Factory would never grow cold, an obsession so stoutly that no deplorable act would be enough as the whole world went redder and redder quite literally and the living machine became ever more deranged.
"You'- you're mad…!" He tried to say, still in pain as he held the object that impaled him.
The Machine gave its unholy mechanical cackle again "We live in a mad world Giddy! But don't worry, I have the perfect spot for you all ready and sterilized, at my dissection table!"
The machine entity got bigger with its voice becoming demonic and the white environment turned into an eyesore red as Giddy looked on in terror at the now towering Mechanical Monster whose shadow was on him.
In the physical realm: Gideon's body began to contort and his mouth foaming.
"DOC!" Soos called The Sarkic healer came down in a rush of a doctor hearing of a dying patient.
"He's IN SEIZURE!" The fleshcrafter began chanting Nälkäns to stablize his condition.
She took her role as the leader and commanded "I go for other people, Dan you come with me," she lpoked at him "Laskaris stay here," glanced at her "Fidd and Self-improving automaton go see if you can help 79 out," pointed at the two "And 4 of you come." he pointed at the remaining Foundation soldiers.
Alien Screech
The alien screeched something unpronounceable to human tongue, the blonde Iris couldn't understand it but she could take the meaning from the tone "No, your hazmat suit with one scratch is all it takes and we know you aren't used to Earth's environment."
Marcus came to intervene "What about us? We can fight too."
"Yeah, we're no defenseless pups." Kevin supported his brother's claim.
Dan had other ideas "Boys, take your hunting rifles and defend the group."
"But-
"No buts." The Patriarch gave his final decision which they begrudgingly accepted.
The Swamp Woman came in "What about Aé?"
"You take care of the kids." The blonde Anahuman told her, she was gonna pout before the duo with the rest ran to their rescue operation.
The Sarkic cursed upon learning what was happening to Gideon "Grand Karcist Ion damn my short-sightedness! He is suffering from a mental attack by an entity! I have to exercise the being's influence before it's too late." So she began to do an exorcism by drawing a ritual around him using her own blood.
It was like a dream, like a sleep, everything was black.
He is/was Alexei Belitrov, was/is SCP-2273. Soldier, comrade, friend, veteran.
He was free of his armor, staring at the light in the tunnel. Nevertheless, he was not the only one as another was staring at him.
It was his own armor, the symbiotic creature, the living weapon, the thing that made him 'anomalous' to the Foundation's view gazing at him with its expressionless bug-like helmet, the two beings were now in a staring contest at each other. He used to see it as a curse, a living cage, now? They needed each other to survive.
Moments that felt like an eternity passed, next the armor brought a hand toward him and Belitrov did the same and then, when fingers touched the light in the tunnel began to shine bright devouring the darkness and the two as well.
The living armor as it contorted then began growing insectoid spikes and insect legs out of it.
Lee shrieked, pointing at what was happening "DUDE WHAT THE HELL!?"
The legs and spikes then began producing silk all around Belitrov, soon the silks wrapped around him as everyone looked in shock and disgust(except for Space Crab and Sarah who was used to such bodily mutation being a sarkic who looked in fascination).
"That never happened in my procedures," Sarah said in fascination.
"This is somebody horror-level messed up." Robbie gagged feeling a bile forming in his throat.
Marcus shielded Gus's eyes and so as Grenda's who then shielded Candy's eyes.
Tambry was recording this and kept looking at her monitor just to make sure she was seeing this right.
Laskaris nearly vomited from that revolting scene as she shut her mouth with a hand and came half way on her knees.
"Oooh, Oh God…"
The Thompson boy beat her to it.
And so, the unconscious Russian was cocooned, leaving everyone staring at it with bewilderment and repulsion while Josie the anomalous cat in curiosity was touching it with her fangs like it was yarn.
"Uhhh…." Tate tried to form a word or sentence for the grotesque scene he had just seen, none were sophisticated.
Kevin with a finger was the first to talk "Does…this mean he's gonna hatch out as a butterfly?" He couldn't help but ask half-whispered.
The SCP robot was starting to see why some AIs find organic life revolting. "I'm THIS close to complimenting every evil AI that finds organics disgusting."-the anomalous robot said with two fingers together before it turned its gaze back to Old AI-" No offense."
"Irrelevant," it said dispassionately.
SCP-191 the Cyborg Child thanks to her cybernetics enhanced agility and processing ability saved Pacifica and her pet and now was leading them away on their knees sneaking to avoid any more of the Headlight Predators thanks to cyborg's advanced visual and auditory, they succeeded by far.
"So…what's your life story?" Pacifica tried to put an end to this awkward silence while Percival was in her lady bag still shaken by the experience, which did not work due to her strange but also terrifying savior's refusal to respond much less glance at her. 'Damn it, Mabel would've been better at this.' She thought that Pines had a way of reaching the most insular people.
"What about how you got those?" She pointed at the Cyborg's talon who in response stopped her movement and gazed back at her with a heavy reddish eye glance.
Immediately regretting that line of question, the Northwest replied, "Yeah, sensitive subject, okay." She gave up upon seeing the stare the Cyborg gave her, afterward her glance went away and they continued their walk.
The Cyborg Child hated her cybernetics, even thanks to that kind Foundation doctor's help, Karen Lee was it? It only mildly gave her relief.
What was even her real name? Victoria? Cybie? Cindy? She can't even remember what her real name was, much less who she was before becoming this. Despite the advantages her cybernetics gave her from enhanced agility and processing ability that rivals supercomputers to her talon as a weapon and her one red optic eye being superior to an organic eye with a wider spectrum of electromagnetic radiation ranging from low-frequency radio to high-energy gamma rays so as her advance auditory hearing. Her cybernetics made her life difficult.
She couldn't eat normal food thanks to that no longer being necessary for her survival, in fact, consumption of normal foods is dangerous for her unique mechanical analogue that used which replaced her organic digestive system so as other organs and she can't even talk like normal humans except through a computer. Her mere appearance made everyone who saw her anxious even among other anomalies. That older boy wasn't the first person that ran away screaming because of her appearance, who could blame them? She can't stand looking at herself in a mirror and as far as she sees, she can't grow, well not exactly. She did grow up till age of 12 and then she just stopped growing and will probably be stuck at that as long as she functions which may be a blessing considering the strain growing up put her modifications through.
Sometimes, she wondered if she was even alive or a reanimated corpse.
And to THINK there is a literal Church that glorifies cybernetic modifications and willingly and gladly sacrifices their warm flesh for the cold soullessness of metal. She hated her creator, may that bastard burn in Hell for eternity, she hated her state, and she hated this 'Broken God' that spurred a cult that would see such a thing as a 'blessing'. If this Machine God is supposed to be benevolent, then it is no wonder why Sarkics had feuds with them for ages.
Sometimes, she darkly thought she would have been better off if her creator turned her into a full machine without any of the human emotions and individuality, just a drone as mindless as a vacuum cleaner.
Her auditory sensed the coming of something, so she pushed the blonde average human away to her staggerment as another Raptor charged behind, in reaction, the Cyborg using her talon with a swing split the attacker in half from its row from its front to its back. The creature's body split in half and died on the ground in two pieces as glowing blood spilled while the Cyborg SCP looked at the glowing blue blood on her talon.
"Remind me to never get on your bad side." Pacifica in awe said, to her protest the cyborg with her un-augmented hand grabbed her hand and rushed fast.
While they searched around they faced the raptors head-on.
A couple was nearly eviscerated by a jumping raptor before Dan shot it dead in the head. That shot grabbed a bunch of the raptors' attention which glowed and hissed menacingly and that was an intended trap. The anahuman woman outlook pictures and using her anomalous ability she shoots using her pistol at a bunch of the enemies from the take pictures while two soldiers take charge and the other two take a defensive position on one knee with machine guns blazing, one of the raptors got close to Dan who in response dodged its sickle and ripped its head off with a powerful swing of his ax.
The Swamp Humanoid showed up from where they came racing with sharp hands ready.
the blonde parahuman outraged called her "AÉ! I told you to stay!"
"AÉ DID NOT LISTENED!"
The amphibian SCP who's eye pupil shrink dashed on four with a feral snarl, spat a mucus of flesh-eating microbes at one of the uninvited guesses who then began screeching like a cockroach on the ground feeling its bloated sack of luminescent light being eaten by millions of tiny invaders, another came to bite her head off which she dived her head way and with her left sharpen hand impaled it from its bloated illuminating sack of a head spilling glowing blue blood all over her as it screech in pain, just the two came to avenge its brethren which she responded by a jump on a wall spitting another deadly mucus on another making it screech in pain and then jumping from the wall and bite the other's neck while at the same time screeding deadly mucus directly in its internal body from her mouth making it dash madly with its claws, it managed to gave her a few cut on her and yet she harden her teeths on it until it finally died not caring about the cuts or the more fountain of illuminescent blood on her. When it lay dead, she dropped it on the ground and spat the bits of luminescent blood in her mouth.
Dan and Iris looked in astonishment at seeing the amphibian's abilities.
"Never mind, you can come." The latter changed her opinion.
The pack of SCP raptors was now commanded by their alpha to attack the living room where the most prey was. The door to the living room was kept closed by furniture, couches, and chairs as the pack of predators growled with force to enter.
The people inside were readying themselves.
"THIS IS IT!" Marcus called his brothers who, like him, were armed with hunting rifles before a chair used as a shield with the SCP troops.
The door thrashed open and the predators poured in.
Growl!
Laskaris booby trapped near the entrance with light bulbs which briefly confused them as guns began to shoot killing a few but even then it took a mark smith's precision as them being raptors they were fast and agile. One of them came near and killed a surprised SCP soldier before the others gunned it down. Another came in closer to Gus by hiding which it then with a bright light shinned and tried to jump at it before Marcus slashed it with an ax making a scar on its nostril which was then followed by a trooper hitting it by force from the butt of his rifle.
Sarah, who was tending Gideon, saw the teens getting cornered by raptors with the half-cat which was near Tambry hissing in hostility.
She was a physician at heart first, but a Nälkä second and they defied gods and tyrants, these creatures did not intimidate her. She nodded to Melody and Soos to take him as she then stood up and walked, as her fangs began to grow, her eyes slit and went red her mouth became a maw of sharp teeth with two Gigeresque appendages. She then with a savage snarl ran and impaled one of the raptors, biting one of their necks' off in a gory shower.
"That was SIIIICK!" Lee and Nate said in amazement at the same time with the same reaction as the other teens, making Sarah nearly smirked with her toothy inhumanly sharp teeths.
While all of these were happening, the alpha came in. Unlike its kind, it was glowing crimson, there were glassy tesla tubes on its back sparking electricity, instead of natural limps it had mechanical limbs with sharp talons walking bipedal, the arms were four-taloned instead of three sharp fingers with yellow and black elbows like those can see in construction works and instead of the bloated sack on its head, it had what best can be described as a big camera eye with a red glow coming from the optic. The Alpha looked at the group and its singular optic shrunk by the camera lens. It was unlike the rest of its kind, while the rest were in the end animals driven by instincts there was a malignant intelligence about this cyborg raptor. It dodged one of the soldiers before it shredded her arm with a bite that still held a pistol while she screamed in pain and fell. The Alpha then as it still held the detached arm with pistol held tight on it turned it toward the Teens who looked in horror and by tightening its teeth on the muscularis of the arm with a computing mind beyond its inferior brethren caused the arm to twitch and pull the trigger.
The bullet before Robbie could react came at his head, a small figure jumped in an incredible inhuman act of precision and agility and held the bullet before hitting between his eyes none other than the Cyborg Child the very humanoid that scared the crap out of Robbie and he thought to be malicious who then redirected the bullet back and hit one of the raptors on the head killing it.
As Robbie and others looked in awe of their savior, the Cyborg without giving a glance back dashed toward the cybernetic raptor who in return with a roar did the same as both clashed oblivion that Pacifica just joined in, annoyed by the lack of anyone's attention.
"I'm fine, thank you very much for your worries." She sarcastically retorted.
"SHOO! SHOO!" Lazy Susan yelled, throwing a variety of dishes and utensils. "I deal with gnomes, but not you!"
She kept throwing, striking a Raptor that growled in annoyance.
Dan, like a bull with a roar threw himself at it, pushed it against a wall and began to beat its literal daylight off with constant punches with his hands dirty by bioluminescent blood and the bloated sack of the dead anomalous raptor dropping foundations of glowing blue blood.
Daniel after his brutality helped Suzan to come out by grabbing one of her hands gently.
"Bless ya, Dan."
"No problem," he grunted, then another raptor caught him off surprised pinned him as he used his rifle to keep its teeth from lashing his face, as he was struggling Suzan snatched a meat mallet from the spread kitchen tools and smacked it on its sack which got stuck and made the creature screech in agony which gave him the momentum to take his ax and kept chopping on its face until it fell on him dead. Afterwards, the adult Corduroy got up giving Suzan a thankful node which she winked at.
As Aé went beast-mode on the raptors tearing flesh and secreting mucus containing flesh-eating microbes despite the cuts she suffered, Iris found the survivors and told them to return fast to the living room, unfortunately not every one of them survived as she found out when she saw two of the Raptors feeding on the corpse of two random people. "NO!" Enraged she shot them both dead as both looked back at her and before they could properly react got vindication. Still, the raptors were good at ambush tactics as one came behind her to bite her she turned back to shoot it only to then get tossed by a powerful tail attack making her fall and then it bit her right leg in midair making her cry in pain, Aé hearing the cry came to her aid and after it dodged a few of her spatted mucus it tried coming for her which Iris used the distraction grab her firearm and kill it from the abdomen with two shots.
Iris held her bitten leg in pain from the fresh wounds "Damn UAGH! it hurts!" She bit her lips, Aé came and helped to get up as she walked with her on one leg while making sure her mucus didn't infect it.
Survivors from other parts of the Mansion came pouring in hastily race to the living room as those with guns covered them from hostile
Sarah using her flesh crafting was closing the bleeding of the SCP soldier that just lost an arm to the Alpha raptor.
Even some of the Gravity Falls inhabitants other than the Corduroys joined the fight with whatever they could use from guns some had to knives, pipes, wrenches anything that could be used as a weapon. The Mayor shouted "GIT' EM!" who found a medieval flail from one of the decors of the Mansion finally having his courage back after his episode as he swinged the weapon.
The Cyborg Child and the Alpha were locked in a duel, one time the cybernetic creature showed that once again its intelligence was greater than its kin as it jumped on the wall and grabbed a decor sword which as it held its jaws on used to with a rotation to swing at her which she responded by defending herself with her talon as sparks were made when two metallic objects collided with each others once and then twice.
The Space Crab seeing one of the raptors sneaking behind the busy SCP robot and Fiddleford bounced with sickles and teeth ready and jumped on the way in doing so the Headlight Raptor injured it.
Alien wail
"FRIEND!" the anomalous robot looked back in alarm at seeing his alien's friend's hazmat suit torn and alien green blood coming from it rushed with its inhumanly robotic speed before the raptor could bite him off he used the battle tactics he acquired from confiscating the body of a hunter robot with a hand with all fingers together drilled it directed at that thing's face from under its jaw with its hand passing through its flesh to the other said as a shower of luminescent blood spilled and the being that dared to hurt its friend died. Wasting no time, the self-improving robot came down near its friend "Hold on buddy, this may hurt a bit!" Quickly it then generated heat from its left hand and put it on the injury.
Alien Howel!
"Sorry! It's the only way to clot the bleeding!" The SCP robot apologized profusely after clotting the blood, then tried to stitch the gash and sew the tear in the hazmat suit using sewing tools coming from one of its hands. Another raptor came in with a jump trying to surprise attack them before with a bullet through its chest killed by Laskaris.
"Don't just stand there waiting to get killed! Get up now! Move!" She ordered them to comply with the robot helping the alien to get up, they and Fidds moved to a nearby terminal while the Old AI transferred itself to it.
Daniel and the blonde parahuman with the help of the amphibian humanoid came in shielding the survivors with their guns pointed at the invaders.
"Close the door!" The Thompson woman ordered the remaining SCP tropes to do so and she and Dan then came trying to close the door with them only to be stopped by Sarah coming in stopping Iris as she gently put her down and tried using her fleshcrafting to heal her.
"No use, the locks are broken."
But the blonde anomalous human's attention was on something else while the Sarkic Doctor came in to heal her injury "Cybie!? Since when can she fight!?" She meant the cyborg kid fighting a cybernetic red raptor who she seen.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that."
One of the raptors was running past the cocooned Alexei till a hand bursted out of it strangling the struggling creature by the neck and then breaking it. Then, the cocoon was torn through as Alexei got out of it with heavy steps and dropped the dead raptor, a few raptors were now focusing on the biomechanical soldier no longer having any of its grotesque insectoid limbs and completely healed whose red bug-like vizier was blazing red in its glory, in response Belitrov dodged one of the coming attackers which he did when an exhaustion port on its left at back opened thrusting him away in a blue fire in a sprint. Afterward, two blades came from both of his arms which he used to cut the raptors that close to him in half spilling their glowing blood all over himself and his surroundings, his right hand with its blade shrank back and then morphed into a cannon that shot a blue plasma at one of the predators turning it into crisp while the other hand did the same as he shot the predators. After this, two transparent insect wings grew behind him and so as two exhaust points fired blue flame making him fly toward the attackers like a fired rocket as he shot them down with his plasma cannons.
The Laskaris cheered for him "That's it, Alexei! Kick their asses!" as others looked at the spectacle.
"He can fly!?" Pacifica was surprised by this development.
The blonde Thompson corrected her.
"No, that's new…"
"Damn, this gives me anime ideas…" Robbie mumbled.
Kevin muttered in incredulity under his breath with a chuckle "He really did, hatched as a butterfly…"
Then Marcus pulled him down from a shot pointed at him, it wasn't a bullet but rather a nail.
Even with the return of Alexei, the raptors were aided by mass-produced spider-like robots with one glowing red optic eye. Usually, they were used by the Factory as construction workers hence why they could shoot nails and have their other limbs specialized in many construction tools from saws to claws but they due to how easy to mass produce were now being used to to overwhelm them. Two of the spider bots managed to shred a screaming SCP soldier to pieces with their claws. Aé tried to use her mucus on one of them on its optics but forgot that her microbes can't eat through inorganics, with a face that said 'oops' she then with a yelp moved away from the coming claw on the spider bot.
"I have now access to the doors, connecting…'' The Old AI noted and then began commanding an emergency metallic door coming from up off the door to the hallway to go down till it stopped midair.
Soos in worry told the artificial life form.
"Uhh, anytime dude."
"One of the robots has gained access to a terminal and is trying to prevent me from shutting down the emergency doors, futilely it will be in a few minutes."
"We don't have a few minutes." The biomechanical soldier stated as his visor now saw the coming of a huge army of spider bots and raptors coming in like a swarm toward the door.
The Cyborg Child in its duel against Alpha broke a few of its glassy tubes and thrusted her talon at its left leg making it screech in pain and fall. Subsequently, she readied a talon up ready for the final strike at the fallen foe till her normal and cybernetic eye caught a spider bot on the terminal near the entrance with cables coming from it hacking it to stop the emergency door from closing as a huge swarm of enemies was coming that would surely overwhelm them. She spaced fast toward the bot and killed it with its talon ripping its circuitry and wires opened like guts making the door continue its trajectory but then the Alpha got up and pinned her near the terminal, seeing the door coming down knowing what she was gonna do could end her life she recalled flashbacks.
Her with that kind man named Cain teaching her how to deal with her mechanical hand better as he already had metallic hands.
A Foundation Doctor makes sure to ease her discomfort due to her cybernetics by tinkering with her cybernetics.
Playing with other anomalous kids feeling like a kid again.
One time she had a surprise birthday party with doctors and other anomalous kids despite not knowing her real date of birth, the nice blonde lady called Iris Thompson was there as well, in fact, it was her idea.
Her bladed scissor-like fingers were colored in red stains with the other hand she held the half-cat with dead bodies of Insurgents on the floor, she did not like killing but the 'bad men' who took her away from her home left her no choice. Sounds of shouts were being heard of coming bad men, she had no time to save other anomalies who shouted to her to either help or run so she jumped from the transporter truck to the woods.
Melody gasped in horror.
"WHAT IS SHE- !?"
The blonde parahuman joined in "CYBIE DON'T!" as she and the others shouted to the Cyborg Child to not do it.
She was pinned by the Alpha who was trying to bite or slash her as she struggled pushed to her left to the entrance making her and the raptor fall to the other side of the entry with the raptor before the chance to get up due to being at the direction of the coming emergency door squashed it into two halves as it cried in pain feeling being crushed.
GROWL!
It let out a final growl before shutting down so as its red glowing lights with one halve from one side of the door and vice versa and oil spilling from it.
The Cyborg Child looked back at the closed door, looking with a sad solemn finality. Then an overwhelming number of raptors now snarled at her with the spider bots clanking with their claws, as she charged to the snarling beats with one last act of defiance toward them with her talon ready.
The group looked in shock and sorrow seeing the Cyborg Child's sacrifice. Robbie uncharacteristically felt really bad about judging the Cyborg as a monster, Fidds put his hat down in paying respect so as his son Tate, Melody had both of her hands on her mouth as her husband comforted her with a hand on her shoulder with a sad look, Dan and his boys looked with the patriarch looking with a stern but also meaningful look, Alexei making gestures with his hands of Cogwork Orthodox Church, Pacifica stared in disbelief unable to accept what just happened and the SCP Robot lost his chippy attitude.
The Thompson anahuman demanded the Old AI with a denial howl.
"OPEN IT UP!"
"I open that door and everyone will be eliminated, including me, SCP-191's termination- "
She did not know what pissed her off the most, that it was right and she is a goner or its shameless selfish desire to continue its artificial life or its indifferent tone as she marched toward it in anger and broke the monitor with a fist "HER NAME IS ANYTHING BUT A NUMBER! SCREW YOU YOU SOULLESS CONTRAPTION! SHE'S JUST A KID!" She shouted at it as she then stopped by Soos and Laskaris holding her from breaking the terminal further as she screamed at the Old AI's now glitching face on the broken monitor. She fell on her knee looking on the ground feeling hot tears coming in.
"She's…just a kid…." She hiccuped in anguish as Soos and Laskaris lost their grip on her sharing sympathetic looks.
While all this happening, as those raptors and remaining spider bots got killed, Sarah, as it bit off a dying raptor near the window saw something very alarming, the shields went down probably because of the spider bots destroying its backup generator as her eyes were wide open even more so when he saw the draconic humanoid with two smaller humans which she couldn't identify came with the living armored giant's maw opened and illuminating with blazing energy ready to fire.
"TAKE COVER!" She shouted at everyone and it was too late as the energy beam fired like the fire of a dragon, hit the mansion broke everything to rubles like a hot knife on butter and everyone tried to take cover. Tambry grabbed Josie which vocalized in surprise, Alexei used himself as a shield for others, Dan shielded his sons, and Marcus and Kevin their youngest brother, Fidds quickly snatched the CPU connected to the terminal hence Old AI's glitching face shut down followed by Tate grabbing him down, Soos and Melody hugged each other and the blonde Thompson pushing Pacifica away.
Hours ago….
Preston and Pricilla were living in hell, all dirty, their fancy clothes stank, caged in this pit of screaming flesh and metal singing like the cries of the damned straight from hell. Little scraps of food that didn't even tasted good were given to them not enough to sate them just enough to keep them from dying by starvation by the skin of their teeth and even once got so desperate that they to their absolute disgust had to feed on cockroaches and rats. The noble and proud Northwests from the high class were being treated less than animals and waving like animals, even the poor had better conditions than them.
How did this all happen, they wondered? What did they do to deserve this? Or a better question: What specifically? When Preston tried to make a deal with the three-pointed yellow devil during Weirdmageddon in front of everyone? When the truth about Nathaniel Northwest not being the founder of Gravity Falls revealed to the public? When the blasted Pines came to picture? When they fell from billionaires to millionaires? When anomalies flooded all over? When they tried crossing paths with this 'SCP Foundation'?(even in his state Preston shudders at the memory of his interrogation by the grinning man, for the first in his life he actually felt genuinely small knowing the man whose smile would make the devil blush held power and authority beyond him and could snap him out of existence).
Speaking of the devil, he came armored and draconic with jagged teeth giving an apprehensive grin. "Now, what was that you thought about our business?"
It was Dehak, one of those damned leaders he made a deal with and now became this ghastly creature.
"I…demand…to see Colligen." even in his state, he stood still and tried to look dignified.
"Our dear Commander I'm afraid…is no longer available." the draconic beast said as he scratched on one of the cage's irons making a brief sound of metal.
Making Preston to object "He told me the Northwests wouldn't be harmed."
"And you are unharmed, aren't you?" He rhetorically questioned "You are not one of the miserable vermines being processed, all safe and sound in this gilded cage while things are escalating."
The Northwest patriarch huffed as his wife hid behind him unnerved by the Black Apostle. "I hardly call this a gilded cage! And my heir is nowhere to be seen!"
"I have some ideas on whether she can go, so how about a new deal? you'll get your heir and your ancestral Mansion if you agree."
Preston's one eyebrow raised, he didn't need to be a businessman to know this was a deal with the devil that was doomed to end badly for him just as his attempt in appealing to Bill, but it was either the Northwests finally returning to their higher statue even in less liked circumstances or living forever in a cage like animals.
Present….
The mansion was reduced to rubbles by a beam of concentrated energy with walls fallen, wood on fire, and pillars broken, the mansion was no more.
Dehak looked satisfied at the ruin he caused, the same can not be said about the two aristocrats near him.
Preston demanded in outrage "WHAT WAS THAT!?"
"PACIFICA WAS THERE!" Pricilla shrieked.
Dehak nonchalantly noted "If I wanted to kill her, I wouldn't be satisfied by just destroying their sanctuary."
completely unfazed by their reaction in feigning nonchalantly just to enjoy their choked faces.
Preston feeling veins coming out raised his voice "THAT SANCTUARY WAS MY ANCESTRAL HOME YOU DIMWITTED TIN CAN! YOU SAID IT WOULDN'T BE DESTROYED!"
"I changed the terms of the deal when I got tired of waiting," the draconic humanoid shrugged "Don't tell me you suddenly grow a conscience for the 'Low-Class'?" He taunted.
"To Hell with the town's inhabitants! Smite them! Process them! I don't care!" Preston shook his arms "Destroying my ancestral mansion and endangering my heir wasn't the deal!"
Dehak then bent his head a bit "Then perhaps you would like to re-negotiate? We can go back to the Flesh Dungeons anytime you want to reach a new accord." The Black Apostle said, dripping in deceptively calm with a threatening undertone.
The Northwest patriarch with a defeated look looked down "No."
"Then seize your prattle, I only tolerate those who earned their fortune like the ancient Daevite Lords not worming around like weasels."
The Dark Prophet began looking around the rubble when he heard the sound of scared chirpings.
chirp-chirp!
"Shhh! Be quiet!"
Someone hushly said, not hushed enough for Dehak to not hear it as he came near, moved a part of a fallen wall. "GOT YOU!" He snatched the surprised and exclaiming human before she tried to run, snatching her in her palm and turning back to his associates who saw who it was.
"Mom! Dad!?" She barked in both anger and surprise, every time she thought her parents couldn't stoop lower than they ever were, they managed to do so.
"And I said I wasn't gonna kill her, the cyborg servants would always need spare parts in case their organic organs fail so will the others."
Blood in Pacifica's body got frozen "Dad!" She this time was now scared and trembled by what was decided for her.
"Wait no!" Preston objected with a hand.
"Pacifica!" Pricilla cried out.
"Please, don't take our daughter!"
"That's what I like about the people of this nowhere town, you're so gullible, but none as delusionally gullible as you," Dehak added in a certain sadistic delight "It wasn't hard playing with your addled dreams of greatness. Besides, why do you even care about your meat puppet so much? You can always just make another heir and call it a day."
The parents seemed to be slightly ashamed. Knowing deep down that Dehak was telling the truth about their treatment of Pacifica. Then, in a moment of anger or genuine care; Preston took a small Colt pistol which he carries secretly in case someone ever tried to mug him and shoot Dehak.
Bang!
The bullet bounced off the thickened armored body of Dehak's neck as he glared at them while Paz looked genuinely surprised by this act of defiance, there was an eternity of pause as the sound traveled for everyone to hear only the whistle of the wind. Dehak just stared at them showing no emotions.
"I thought the Northwests were supposed to be selfish."
"Selfish yes, cowards no." Preston vocalized and still pointed at Dehak with his wife gritting her teeth.
Dehak's tsked "Wrong choice then, cowards live longer." His mouth opened with a reddish fire building up in his mouth as Preston kept shooting him; each bullet was a futile endeavor.
Pacifica shut her eyes, looked away and flinched when he heard the sound of a scorching blast, the banging sounds were no more. She did not need her eyes open to know that her parents were DEAD.
Suddenly, a missile was heard hitting Dehak from his back.
BOOM!
Jolting him enough to drop Pacifica who was then grabbed by the blonde Anahuman who ran away as she carried her away fast.
"Hey ya ugly ungodly-flummoxing son of a raccoon!"- Came the hillbilly sound of Fidds with her clothes dirty demanding Dehak's attention with a manic face like when he was a Crazy homeless man -"As the lads say, face the music!" He touched something on his pad.
Turrets began to come out from the rubbles and so did flying drones, each one equipped with guns and missiles shooting at it in a rain of fire. Dehak growled as he tried to shield himself with his wings and was gonna blast the pesky defensive systems away until some Bugman with thrusters burning blue and two insectoid wings flowed away on him and shut his jaws just when he was gonna fire by chains making him struggle to keep the pesky fly away.
"Time to run the bucket!" Fidds shouted to everyone to run as he did, and everyone who hid behind the rubbles came out running toward the woods and those wgo were injured by the invasion or the destruction of the Mansion were helped.
Tambry held the half-cat coming with other teens including the Thompson boy who with his luck broke one of his legs so he had to be helped by Nate and Lee.
Soos took Waddles "Come piggy, Mabel wouldn't forgive me if I lost you." And then ran with her wife the pet in question waddled in protest.
Dan was literally moving Kevin and Gus with both of his arms to their dismay and protest with Marcus running with Daniel as well, passing Aé who was looking in awe at all the fires that happened by the security system on.
"Aé likes fireworks!"
"NOPE!" Marcus grabbed her on his shoulder his way running as the Swamp Woman gave an "Aw." In pout.
The SCP robot facepalm "Oh, rustbucket! I forgot someone!" And gestured Space Crab to go without him before rushing back where he found Pester Bots who was now free of his glassy prison walking awkwardly with its awkward legs toward him.
" -How dare you to imprison Doom-Master Thirteen Seventy Master Of All Doom and Despoiler of- "
"Sorry little buddy! Plan to take over the world later!" The self-improving robot snatched the whining Pest of a Bot and ran fast with others.
Sarah was carrying the still unconscious Gideon, no longer in her beast form but still enhancing her legs using biomancy to run faster.
Iris joined the other Iris as she brought the blonde younger girl who had a million thoughts swirling in her head as she looked nowhere dead with small tears coming from her eyes; should she be sad that her parents were dead? Happy that she no longer has to tolerate their exasperating classism and control freak tendencies?
Did they really love her in a twisted way? Was it spite against their captor? Or just broken pride? She may never know. Only one certainly was, she was an orphan.
When Alexei managed to lock the chain around Dehak he flew away to join the rest. The Ascended, still trying to break through the chains and keep being distracted by bullets and explosives in a fit of rage, broke the chains with his own hands and roared a beam to the sky, which she then redirected at the turrets and drones demolishing them to burnt scrap metal and then flow toward them crushing and slashing any remaining gunners with his claws and teeths.
Dehak growled as he looked around with a drone in his mouth, seeing no sign of his prey, and they got away as the force of his jaws crushed the drone in half.
As the group raced in the woods, something huge got out of the dirt roaring furiously in front of them.
Roar!
It was some carnivorous creature roughly 4.5 meters that looked to be a chimera of several mammalian species from 4 long, apelike arms to ursine legs, a long tail, a somewhat feline head with two gazelle-like horns looking in a berserk state. That made everyone steady and take defensive positions with their weapons.
Laskaris snarked at this rotten luck "We just can't take a break, aren't we?"
Then, an unknown language was heard and two humanoids came who had helmets which in a way were similar to Alexei's with some noticeable differences as looking more fluid than rough and all black telling it something.
Sarah seemed to recognize it by momentarily narrowing her eyes "It's Yeren dialect." She mentioned that the SCP ones seemed to recognize and ease a bit, except for Blitrov who was still steadily. Whatever the Yerens said, put the creature out of its berserk mood.
The Thompson boy still held by Nate amd Lee nervously asked "Uh, Who are Yerens?"
Alexei who was stedy answered his inquiry "SCP-1000 the Children of the Night, the dominant species before human civilization they're- " Before he could finish, the two giant's helmets opened with an organic fluidity revealing ape-like faces as certain popular primates and one of the most known cryptids in the world. SCP-1000 was no other than the famous Big Foots.
Alien Screeching
-"Big Foots." The SCP robot translated as he still held the angry Pester Bot.
The inhabitants of Gravity Falls were jaw-dropped by that revelation until Robbie was the first to say something "YOU GOT TO BE SHI- !"
In the rubbles of the Mansion, near piles of dead Headlight Raptors and Spider Bots laid the Cyborg Child on the rubbles. Her scissor hand was ripped apart a few centimeters away from her arm, her body was cold with cuts around and her cybernetic eye no longer glinted under a coat of rubbles. But this was not her end.
The singular red eye gradually and faintly glinted as the soothing and kind voice of a watchmaker gently fixing a broken watch.
"Arise."
As the red optic glowed, something changed as signified by her red optic eye turning blue, for the first time she remembered, she no longer felt broken. The Broken God has made her Unbroken.
—-END—-
Note:I was inspired by the characteristics of the living construct from AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and the Fabrication Machine from 9. I just like the idea of an unhinged artificial intelligence rather than simply being an emotionless one.
The demon monkey thing Yerens had is called SCP-4715 also known as SCP-517-ARC.
Also, my University classes started so expect delays.
