Lightning

Lightning, Part 1: Untitled (Completed) — Basic intro of 1985 and the initial attack on Site-19.
Welcome to the Foundation (Completed)
Lightning, Part 2: Untitled « This is where we start
Welcome to the Insurgency (Completed)
Lightning, Part 3: Temptation
Lightning, Part 4: The Bell
Lightning, Part 5: Today
Lightning Scrap

Outline

I want to include Adams in this, but she isn't yet. Same for Lurk & Bridge.
Irons, the secret Bowe dude from Thunder, is a POV throughout, trying to keep his head down, with Moose, then Strelnikov.

More characters and SCPs can fit in to this. Depends who's available.

1

  • Moose meets up with Strelnikov.
  • 1985 tries to make her way back to Site-19.
  • The Insurgency are attacking many areas of Site-19 at once. Among other things,
    • First we start with basic agents. They probably have weird mind-affecting stuff and strange weaponry. (Hard to shoot them? Hard to aim straight?)
    • Some of the equipment developed by Alpha-9 has countermeasures for what they're doing.
  • Moose & Strelnikov fight their way to Alpha-9. Meet up with Iris, Foxx, and some Alpha-9 agents. They also meet with Salt (O5-10's decoy), who's been secretly visiting Site-19. She puts them in touch with O5-10, O5-7, and O5-2, who are monitoring the attack. They have intelligence on the Insurgency's goals here.
  • Moose goes to get SCP-239 based on O5 information, who's being temporarily kept at Site-19 in heavy containment.
    • Not sure if she & Strelnikov split up at this point.
    • Contact Kain, and he's getting his shit together to join them. In a robot mech. :)

2

  • Strelnikov's fighting the Insurgents, along with Foxx. The Insurgency breaks out bigger guns. Anomalous humanoids, some controlled, some not with creepy / over-the-top superpowers. Agents with implants that give them similar / alternate powers — twisted experimental super-soldiers.
  • The Insurgency uses puppeteered minor reality benders to destroy the defenses around SCP-239's containment. Like breaking into a bank vault.
    • Is Iris with Moose, or Strelnikov? (If they split up. Maybe not.)
    • Moose confronts 239, aware she's currently awake. 239 admits it, but refuses to defend herself for mysterious reasons.
    • Moose gets 239 out just in time, and retreats into the sealed-off sections of Site-19, where they can't be tracked. (She's able to poorly navigate it.)
    • The Insurgency chases them. Moose breaks the rules and uses spells to try to escape the Insurgency. It doesn't work.
  • 1985 and Kain (in a robot mech!) both arrive, and helps turn the tide of the fight, fighting the 'super'-agents along with Strelnikov. They beat back the Insurgency's forces — and then the forces retreat.
  • Strelnikov (in communication with Moose) leads a team into the sealed-off areas to help extract Moose / 239 — he's familiar with the back ways. Kain, 1985, Foxx (and Iris?) are with them.
  • The Black Queen (having infiltrated Site-19 as L.S. using the Cap of Neglect and piggybacking off the Insurgency's piercing 19's defenses) kidnaps Iris. The Foundation & Insurgency don't even notice until after it's happened.
  • The Insurgency reveals that they have a chained-up Angel.

3

  • The Angel has a Puppetmaster controlling it (with difficulty). Its mere presence devastates the Foundation's forces (not necessarily killing them).
    • 1985 is able to resist the Angel's presence given her design, and tries to fight the Angel, but fails. The Angel rips her in half, reverting her to ordinary human form.
    • Kain has some defenses too, but they're not strong enough.
    • As a last-ditch effort, 1985 runs at the Angel, and manages to touch it just as it kills her — causing her to teleport away with it into an alternate universe.
    • Strelnikov kills (?) the Puppetmaster.
    • After being transported through other apocalyptic timelines, 1985 (or someone she also takes with her?) manages to break the Angel's chains, and it vanishes, leaving her on Earth, but in the middle of Antarctica far away from the nearest Foundation outpost, with no way to easily get back to Site-19.
  • The Insurgency manage to grab 239 and disappear with her, essentially while no one else was looking.
  • Iris refuses to defect with the Black Queen. BQ agrees to release her, but one of her lieutenants — the serpent-eyed woman from the earlier story — betrays her and takes Iris to the Insurgency.

4

  • Strelnikov & Moose & Kain & co mop up the remaining Insurgents. They get reports that there are other Insurgency groups elsewhere in the sealed-off areas of 19 and make their way through the strange devastated areas to try to reach them. (Reports say they have Iris.)
    • There are mysterious tears in reality in the sealed-off areas of Site-19 that Strelnikov/Kain /Moose didn't know about. They weren't on the reports.
    • This would be 1985 & Kain's first meeting. Ask Kain about that.
  • They find and confront the Insurgency agents… who've been waiting for them.
    • Reveal: O5-10 and O5-2 are here, too, not just Salt. The Insurgency have captured them.
    • The Insurgency say they have a message for the O5s.
    • They prepare to ring the Bell of Entropy (there's a Ringer, some scary esoteric agent).
    • Iris recognizes the Bell from the one time she'd seen it from her days with Omega-7. Almost anything could happen — most of them terrible things — so she manages to break free and shoots it to destroy it.
    • …and, instead of breaking, the Bell rings.

5

  • The Bell has some kind of spectacular effect.
    • Original plan is shunting a bunch of people in Site-19 three years into the future.
    • Alternate plan could include 'vanishing' them, scattering them across the world, and making Foundation agents locate them in some kind of supernatural stasis or something. Or some strange otherworld.
      • In this case, some people aren't located for some time. (May include characters whose authors have disappeared, like LordDeath/Foxx).
    • Some other weird shit?
    • Irons is present for this, and not teleported away/etc.
    • Moose isn't teleported away. Is Strelnikov? I don't think so, but up to Waxx.
    • Iris IS. Foxx IS. Other Alpha-9 members too.
  • There's a brief fight amongst Insurgency agents & Foundation agents, but the Insurgency gains the upper hand. They seem about to execute the O5s — but then they instead deliver a strange message, appealing to them to join the Insurgency. Then the few remaining Insurgency agents dissolve creepily into smoke.
    • Do the Insurgency agents out Irons as an offering to the O5s? Not sure.
  • END, on an uncertain note.
    • Revealing that people all over Site-19 disappeared?
    • "Three years pass" if we do the time skip?
    • The Insurgency do ultimately get away with SCP-239.