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002 tale - "Snack for the Road"

please let me know what works about this and what doesn't

feedback: Will not work unless it has a beginning, middle, end; needs to be more memorable; too many containment breaches already!

Incident Log 002.2204.2

The following was recorded on standard personnel audio gear on ██/██/22042.


(Sounds determined to be the automated door and lighting systems to the observation deck engaging.)

████: (clothes shuffling) Let's get it all back online now that we have power.

█████: Strobes always mess with my color vision. It's gettin' worse.

██████: Wait where is 002?

████: … What?

████: What the hell…?

██████: ████, where is 002?!

████: It was locked down, I don't-

████: Re-sound a containment breach.

(Code Blue alarm is engaged with no response from the Site PA system.)

███████: Sound the damn alarm.

████: It isn't working.

████: The power's on again, I don't understand. Could it have been damaged somehow?

█████: It was just sounding. It just ended, right before we came back inside. We all heard it.

███████: Try the comms, let's get an off-site trigger.

████: …comms offline.

████: I don't understand.

█████: Did the emergency barrier fail?

████: So what if it did, where would it have "gone"? Not exactly mobile.

█████: As far as we know.

████: █████, head out to the containment area and see if you can… find it. If it's in there, we need to reconnect it.

███████: Aren't there MTFs for this sort of thing?

████: We don't technically have a protocol for this. We've always gone back in ourselves.

█████: It's fucking actually been in there those times.

████: Fair point. Look, I'll go.

█████: No, no. I will I'm not afraid. It was just on principle.

███████: Why don't you both go? ████ and I will stay here and try to troubleshoot the systems.

████: Should I call back in the rest of the personnel?

███████: No, this thing is still in a breach. You know the drill, no one comes back in until we re-secure her.

█████: Can we kill the strobes? I can't see shit in here.

███████: Negative █████.

████: Talk to us.

█████: No sign of her… looks like she may have took the power supply with her.

████: It's not there?

█████: Yeah ripped straight from the w —

███████: You see it?

█████: No, no. Those aren’t power cables, it’s… intestines? Okay. She didn't take the power supply with her… it's just not here.

████: What do you mean?

█████: I mean where the cables come out from the wall, that isn't here. Like, at all.

████: Can confirm. There's nothing, no…

███████: What's the problem ████?

████: No problem, just having trouble describing… it's like the power supply was never built. It's just a continuous, uninterrupted wall of the containment area.

████: I have his position confirmed.

█████: What do we do?

███████: Well get back first of all, nothing to do if there's no power supply.

████: Any redundancies?

███████: Does that really matter? We can't find 002.

█████: Any luck with the comms?

████: Negative.

███████: Okay, everyone out. This is still an active breach so let's get back outside and regroup. We can find other sources to communicate. Site-██ is our backup, they can signal for us.

████: Well shit.

█████: What now?

████: The exit we just came in through is jammed.

████: What?

█████: Okay.

███████: It's just… stuck a bit, let's…

████: What the hell is going on?

█████: Can we rip it open?

█████: There's a crowbar in the observation deck, in the storage locker.

████: I'll get it.

███████: This… something isn't right.

████: No shit.

████: Hey █████?

█████: Yeah?

████: There's no locker.

█████: I'm sorry?

████: There's no locker here. I know there should be one, but there… just isn't.

█████: What the fuck.

███████: ████ shoot the door.

████: Yes sir.

(████ fires his pistol. The sound of a metal casing clinking is not recorded.)

█████: I found her!

████: What?

███████: Where is 002 █████?

█████: She's… here but on the wrong side. Guess we didn't see her cause of the strobes. Beats me why she moved though. I can get to her I think on the scaffolding. Headed there now.

████: Be careful, I'm coming your way for backup.

███████: ████ try the door now.

████: (Grunting)

███████: This is ███████, Lead Containment, Site █, 002, requesting assistance, over.

████: (Heavy breathing)

███████: We are locked inside Site █, containment area 002, we need evacuation. Containment breach for the object is active. I repeat; containment breach is active. Requesting assistance. Over.

████: Careful!

█████: I got it. I'm here, going to see if there's any other pow —

(Distorted chatter is picked up through ███████'s mic, confirmed to be from Agent ██████ of Site-██ in response to the distress signal.)

Agent ██████: Roger… (static)…signa-…(static)

████: The door is bleeding.

Agent ██████: (static)… no report of a containm… (static)

█████: What the… fuck…

████: What's the matter?

█████: It's… hair.

████: What?

█████: SCP-002 is made of fucking hair.

███████: Shoot the walls! Shoot the walls!

█████: Why?!

(Gunshots are heard successively.)

███████: Shoot the fucking wa—

(Microphone feed terminates.)


Closing Statement: Eyewitness reports confirm a loud explosion and the vertical ascent of a spherical object matching the description of SCP-002. The item is currently uncontained and will exit the Earth's orbit in approximately 1 hour. The object has attempted to camouflage itself in the fashion observed upon its discovery. Loss of power to Site-█ resulted from an electrical surge that originated from containment area 002. The Site's structural integrity has been compromised. Repairs to the roof are estimated to be complete by ██/██/2205.