Foreword: In response to the intercepted call to emergency services, Foundation operatives deployed MTF-Chi-12, "Baby Boomers", to the area to investigate and, if possible, secure the anomaly for containment. Team members were equipped with body cameras and ocular camera implants. The video and audio footage from this interaction has been transcribed below in full.
Team members: Chi-12-1 (Captain), Chi-12-2, Chi-12-3, Chi-12-4
Chi-12 approach St. Alcuin's Hospital from the direction of the front entrance. Shattered glass and chunks of twisted metal are littered along the ground. Window frames hang loose on the upper levels, with wireframe beds contorted and forced tightly through boreholes scattered throughout the wall. Massive vines covered in copious amounts of large thorns erupt through windows in the east wing, covering the brick of the building with sharp, brown thickets. The vines slowly and unnaturally undulate, increasing in size before returning to a static form.
As the MTF observe the thorns pulsating, a new vine bursts through the wall carrying a human corpse impaled on one of its thorns, crushing it through the small opening. As the vine twists, the corpse slides off the thorn and plummets to the ground, landing in a heap with a wet crunch. Examining the smaller thickets of vines covering the building, Chi-12 notice a series of bulges beneath the overgrowth, with various limbs protruding out at unnatural angles. The hospital's fire alarm is audible, and remains ringing throughout the encounter.
Chi-12-1: Well, no prizes for guessing where in the building we're heading, team. Command, requesting a download of the building schematics.
Command: Roger that. Uploading blueprints to each of your comm systems. Techs have marked the first target area to check out.
Chi-12-1: Upload confirmed. Let’s go.
Chi-12 begins their approach into the building. The chairs in the reception area have been scattered around the room and a large chunk of the reception desk is pulverized. Bodies littering the ground are all a deep purple and blue hue, with many clutching at their throats and chests.
Chi-12-1: Alright team, looks like we’ve been sent after another murder monster. You two lead the way and we’ll watch your backs. Maternity ward should be in the east wing, just down that hallway.
As Chi-12 move down the first hallway towards the east wing, numerous civilian casualties are observed in the rooms and side halls. Chi-12-2 pushes a young man, slumped on the ground in front of an upturned wheelchair, out of the way with his foot. Several other bodies are passed, all with the same purple veins, and each punctured by a thorn.
Chi-12-2: Be careful everyone. Don’t get pricked by any of these things.
Chi-12 continue forward until they reach the end of the hall before a corner. A corpse hangs limply above them, impaled to the ceiling by a botanical mass resembling a pointed plant stem covered in small barbs.
Chi-12-3: Command, this place is an absolute mess. Anticipate more casualties than initially expected and prepare to adjust cover stories accordingly.
Chi-12 proceed around the corner and pass by a taped off corridor, where a large section of the hospital had been undergoing renovations. Inside, the bodies of several construction workers are wrapped in vines and huddled near workbenches and tool supplies. As they enter the east wing and approach another bend, a quiet murmuring can be heard:
Unidentified: My kingdom is not of this world. Take no thought for your life.
Chi-12 turn into another corridor, and make visual contact with the SCP-XXXX instance mid-speech. It is roughly 20 steps ahead of their location, by the entrance to the Oncology Unit reception, laying on the ground, still and on its back. A large laceration is present on the right side of the infant’s torso, running from the tip of the pelvis to the bottom of its clavicle.
Chi-12-2: Command, we've made sight with the anomaly - this may actually be easier than we expected. Not sure what caused it, but the instance appears heavily injured. Captain, I'm approaching to administer the sedative.
Chi-12-1: Permission granted.
Chi-12-2 begins to walk slowly forward, and pulls a dart gun from their belt.
Chi-12-1: First sign of anything and -
Chi-12-4: STOP.
Chi-12-2 halts in their tracks, and turns to 12-4.
Chi-12-4: That's no injury.
The infant’s head turns quickly towards Chi-12-2 and it begins to speak:
SCP-XXXX: They that are sick sayest that I am a king.
Chi-12-4: That's a Precious Wound.
Five long appendages, comprised of what appear to be the same thorns located on the vines, slowly emerge from SCP-XXXX's laceration, contorting as they do. Four of the appendages make contact with the floor and continue to grow in thickness and length. Once they reach several meters in length, they solidify and crack into segmented, crab-like legs and slowly lift the attached infant up off the ground to suspend it mid-air.
Chi-12-2 fires the dart gun at the instance, as Chi-12-1 orders the team to draw their firearms. SCP-XXXX's fifth appendage whips upwards, deflecting the sedation dart before detaching from the instance and flying at speed towards Chi-12.
SCP-XXXX: The thief cometh to destroy and to kill.
Chi-12-1: Cover!
Chi-12 dart back the way they came, around the corner. The appendage-turned-missile collides with the wall, resulting in a detonation of thorns in all directions. Each member of Chi-12 ducks onto the ground or behind nearby cover to shield themselves from the shrapnel.
SCP-XXXX, moments after being discovered by Chi-12.
Chi-12-2: Ugh, Christ!
Chi-12-2, who was closest to the impact, rapidly removes their outer layer of gear, now embedded with several hundred thorn splinters, as they get up and continue to run around the corner.
Chi-12-1: Command, this thing is far more aggressive than we anticipated. I'm asking for permission to engage to terminate.
Command: Approved. You are cleared for the use of live ammunition against the hostile entity.
Chi-12 look back around the corner to witness the instance scuttling away, further into the east wing, using its remaining four appendages for movement. Chi-12 proceed to give chase, following the entity into a cafeteria heavy with civilian casualties. As they burst through the double doors, the entity is spotted prodding at a pile of corpses with the hands of the infant pressed firmly against one corpse’s forehead.
SCP-XXXX: There is no light in him. I may awake him out of sleep.
Chi-12-3: Oh you've got to be kidding me…
The corpses of hospital staff and patients surrounding SCP-XXXX reanimate and lurch silently towards the members of Chi-12. The team open fire on the reanimated corpses, but they continue to move towards them unimpeded. As this occurs, the SCP-XXXX clambers onto the ceiling, securing itself by embedding its appendages into the plaster. As it hangs onto the ceiling, it begins to shiver violently as it regrows its lost fifth limb.
SCP-XXXX: How they grow, they toil, now is my kingdom not from hence.
Several corpses surround Chi-12-3 and overwhelm him, pinning him to the floor. Chi-12-2 makes his way over to 12-3 and begins to pull the corpses off, throwing them across the room as they do. On the other side of the cafeteria, 12-1 switches to explosive ammunition and fires at the legs of the corpses surrounding her, hitting one in the shin, sending viscera flying throughout the room. The corpse falls to the ground, and begins pulling itself towards 12-1 with its arms.
SCP-XXXX: I say pray for them which despitefully use you through the eye of a needle.
SCP-XXXX, fifth limb fully regrown, crawls across the ceiling until it is above Chi-12-2 and Chi-12-3, with the infant hanging just above Chi-12-2's head. Using the new limb, it begins to strike wildly down at the team members with force. 12-2 manages to pull 12-3 out of its trajectory just in time, and the appendage crushes several reanimated corpses.
Chi-12-1: Switch to explosive rounds for the corpses, aim for the knees, take out their movement!
The team follows 12-1's command and quickly begin to immobilize the remaining corpses. As the team immobilise half of the mob of corpses, SCP-XXXX drops to the ground and advances on Chi-12. It swings two appendages towards the agents in a flailing motion, covers its body with another, and walks haphazardly on the remaining two.
Chi-12-4: Captain, I can't get a clear shot! Thorns are eating up our ammo!
Chi-12-1: Split up and flank it! -2 and -3 go left, -4 and I right.
The team attempts to flank SCP-XXXX, dodging the entity's attacks as they make their way round the cafeteria. Chi-12-3 jumps over one of the food-serving counters, littered with the remains of the day's menu, and creeps alongside it in an attempt to gain a vantage point. Simultaneously, the rest of the team open fire in an attempt to draw SCP-XXXX's attention. They climb atop the cafeteria tables, where the legless, but crawling, reanimated corpses are unable to reach.
Chi-12-3 raises his weapon, and readies the shot.
SCP-XXXX: More than meat more than meat more than many mansions.
The SCP-XXXX smashes an appendage through a table, launching a half-eaten sardine on a food tray into the air towards Chi-12-3. As the sardine passes in front of SCP-XXXX towards Chi-12-3, it begins to rapidly duplicate. As the full force of the dense mass of fish collides with his chest, Chi-12-3 is knocked backwards, losing the shot. Several other fish and bread products littered across the cafeteria tables follow suit.
Chi-12-1: Everyone fall back!
The mass of foodstuffs continues to grow as Chi-12-3 moves back into the corridor the team entered from. Chi-12-1, -2, and -4, on the other side of the SCP-XXXX instance, are unable to join him, as their path is impeded by a now massive, and growing, sludge of sardines and bread.
As they continue to duplicate, the floor in the cafeteria begins to buckle, and sight of SCP-XXXX is lost amidst the mass.
Chi-12-1: There! Through that corridor, stat! (Through headset:) -3, look at the building schema, try to rendezvous with us deeper inside.
SCP-XXXX: I am the way. The truth. The morrow. The evil.
Wet shrapnel is sent flying through the air as SCP-XXXX bursts out of a mass of sardines and bread loaves, lunging towards the remaining agents. They turn and retreat down the hallway behind them as the instance gives chase, running on all five appendages in a gallop, the infant body dangling in the air behind. The weight of the mass of food causes the cafeteria's floor to completely collapse inwards, destabilising the hospital's structural integrity. As the floor ripples and collapses behind the team, the areas surrounding where the cafeteria once was fall into the newly formed sinkhole.
Chi-12 sprint down the corridor, attempting to outrun the collapsing floor. 12-4 glances behind them, and observes SCP-XXXX swinging between the remaining devastated architecture by wrapping its vine-like legs around beams and ventilation.
The building collapse begins to subside as the cafeteria collides with ground level. The building creaks to settle. The team reach the edge of the unstable floor, at a corridor junction leading into the maternity ward. They slam the door shut behind them and collapse onto the floor, using their body weight to barricade the door. Their body cameras capture visuals of more thorny growths wrapped in blankets and patient gowns protruding from mangled bassinets. Pressed against the barricaded door, 12-2 begins to speak:
Aftermath of the partial collapse of the hospital.
Chi-12-2: Boss, I'm sorry - I need to catch my breath for a minute.
Chi-12-1: Sorry Jay, I don't think we have the time for that…
SCP-XXXX: In my Father's house are raiment and witness to the trouble.
Chi-12-1: Brace!
SCP-XXXX throws itself at the door, attempting to break through - but Chi-12 are able to withstand the force. After 50 seconds, the banging stops. In the deafening silence, each member takes a moment to gain control over their breathing and heart rate once more. Then, with a screech of twisting metal and a sharp clang, the cover of the air duct above their heads flies across the room and two trails of thorns sprout from the darkness and grip the edge of the opening. In a single, fluid movement, the instance pulls the rest of its limbs and its neonate mass through the hole and drops to the floor with a thud.
From down the west corridor, as SCP-XXXX stands up and steadies itself, a series of crashing sounds ring out. Chi-12 collectively turn and look down the hallway in the direction of the source.
Unknown: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Chi-12-4: What on earth…
A mass of thick, black, thorn appendages rolls into view at speed, colliding into SCP-XXXX, knocking it backwards into the wall. The mass unfurls itself - revealing a second SCP-XXXX instance. SCP-XXXX-2 is notably larger than SCP-XXXX-1, with 7 appendages emerging through a precious wound identical to the one on the other instance.
Chi-12-1: Command! Were any of the women in this hospital expecting twins?
SCP-XXXX-2: Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased.
SCP-XXXX-1 attempts to strike SCP-XXXX-2 with an appendage, but SCP-XXXX-2 dodges the blow and wraps five of its own appendages around each of XXXX-1's, immobilizing it completely.
SCP-XXXX-1: Thy paradise hands why hast thou forsaken thirst.
SCP-XXXX-2 pulls its appendages in opposite directions, tearing SCP-XXXX-1's appendages out of the infant and discarding them to the side. As SCP-XXXX-1 falls to the ground, it transmutes into a mass of communion wafers, which scatter across the corridor floor. SCP-XXXX-2 then turns towards Chi-12-1, using two of its limbs for ambulation, with the other five prepared to strike.
Chi-12-1: Open fire, take the shot!
With SCP-XXXX-2 leaving itself exposed, Chi-12 respond with a controlled flurry of gunfire, piercing XXXX-2 through and through. Upon each impact, a thorn emerges from the wound, filling the entirety of the impact site and then falling out onto the floor, leaving the skin repaired behind it.
SCP-XXXX-2: The king shall do according to his will, and he shall exalt himself.
After 10 seconds of continuous firing, SCP-XXXX-2 suddenly rushes forward and extents an appendage outwards in one smooth motion, piercing Chi-12-4 through the abdomen. The appendage is then whipped backwards, sending 12-4 hurtling down the corridor and launching tiny needle-like thorns in the direction of its swing.
SCP-XXXX-2: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
Chi-12-2 stops firing as the output of their ocular implant is obfuscated by a dark red hue. Chi-12-1 glances over at her teammate and witnesses their skin turning a maroon hue, akin to the colour of the corpses at the entrance. Chi-12-2 drops their weapon, and collapses against a nearby wall.
Simultaneously, SCP-XXXX-2 sweeps an appendage across the floor towards Chi-12-1. She jumps, too late, and is knocked off her feet, dropping her weapon in the process.
Chi-12-1 stands back up and, on seeing SCP-XXXX-2 advancing towards her, turns and runs through the maternity ward, diving and ducking between large vines running across the hall. SCP-XXXX-2 chases after her, running up the wall and onto the ceiling.
Chi-12-1: -3! Are you out there, come in!
There is no response. Chi-12-1 arms and throws a variety of grenades behind her in an attempt to slow down SCP-XXXX-2, but the instance continues to scramble after her unimpeded.
Chi-12-1: Command, I urgently need back up. The instance is resistant to our weaponry, I'm the only team member standing. Please confirm ETA.
SCP-XXXX-2: I am the way, the truth, and the life.
Chi-12-1 bursts through the door on the opposite end of the maternity ward and out the other side.
Command: Strike forces are 15 minutes out. You're on your own until then.
Chi-12-1 pushes through the plastic coverings into the section of the hospital under construction.
Moving through the area, Chi-12-1, by now audibly out of breath, pulls down scaffolding and equipment in an attempt to slow SCP-XXXX-2's advance. As they throw the last of their grenades, now out of armaments completely, they grab a piece of construction equipment from a nearby workbench.
Chi-12-1: I can't… pant… run anymore, I… need to…
Chi-12-1 darts into a room under construction, stumbling over a corpse on the ground clutching a phone with a dial-tone ringing out. The walls are bare, with wiring exposed and hanging frayed from the ceiling. Dropping prone to the floor, 12-1 crawls underneath a covered workbench in the corner of the room.
For a few moments, nothing can be heard. Chi-12-1 steadies her breathing and heart rate using standard field techniques in an attempt to remain unnoticed. A noise emanates from the direction of the room's entrance. SCP-XXXX-2 can be heard approaching from outside 12-1’s location:
SCP-XXXX-2: For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Chi-12-1 looks towards the door, and the ocular camera captures seven thorny, black appendages squirm quietly into the room. The instance creeps slowly forward, with the infant body hoisted up out of sight, and freezes for a moment before turning and moving towards the workbench Chi-12-1 is hidden under.
SCP-XXXX-2 stands, stationary, by the workbench for 40 seconds, before it begins to move away. Before Chi-12-1 can let out a sigh of relief, the workbench is thrown into the air by one of SCP-XXXX-2's appendages.
SCP-XXXX-2: The LORD looketh from heaven, he sees all the sons of men.
SCP-XXXX-2 raises 3 of its appendages in the air, preparing to strike. Chi-12-1 thrusts forward the construction equipment she picked up earlier, straight at SCP-XXXX-2, and pulls the trigger. Projectiles fire from its end, and hit SCP-XXXX-2 in the centre of the heart. It emits a visceral scream, and staggers backwards against the wooden door leaning against the wall. Chi-12-2 steadies herself and fires four more shots, hitting the instance in the hands and feet, pinning it to the door. SCP-XXXX-2's mouth hangs open and the limbs fall limp.
Chi-12-1 stands up, throws the nail gun forward to the ground with a thud, and emits a desperate, relieved laugh. Her legs, weak from the surge of adrenaline, collapse beneath her and she leans against the wall to her left with her head in her hands.
Chi-12-1: Command, please confirm the mother was not pregnant with triplets.
Afterword: Chi-12-1 survived the incident with minimal injuries, as did Chi-12-3, who was incapacitated by the building collapse. Chi-12-2 and Chi-12-4 were pronounced dead during incident clean-up.
SCP-XXXX-2's corpse was transported to Area-02 where, based on advice from the Department of Theology, it was placed in a secure containment cell and monitored. Three days after death, the instance resurrected. It currently still contained at Area-02.
As a result of the incident, Foundation knowledge of SCP-XXXX was enhanced, with an understanding that, in addition to instances' abilities, instances' weaknesses were also aligned to the mothers' perceptions and beliefs. As a result, Foundation agents and units responding to SCP-XXXX events are to be armed with ferrous ammunition in all future encounters.
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