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Item #: SCP-9834
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Since infection sites are spread over such a wide area, complete containment is difficult, if not impossible. Individual sites may be contained effectively by encasing them in any secure material, as long as it is not the same material the site is bonded to and doesn’t permit any sunlight inside. The site must be monitored at all times, and no organic matter, living or dead, can be allowed within 50m of the seal’s edge.
Description: SCP-9834, or the “Shift Virus” as it was originally named, is a Foundation-created bioweapon designed for use by Foundation agents and other personnel. Created by Dr. ███ at Research Site ██ as a theoretical solution to the maze-like structure of █████, SCP-9834 has since caused several incidents of varying severity both inside and outside Federation areas after the incident described below.
Description Before Incident: SCP-9834 is a microorganism capable of rapidly assimilating organic and inorganic matter. When even a single cell of it is introduced to foreign matter, SCP-9834 converts said matter into copies of itself at an alarming rate. It uses organic matter to fuel itself, and while it is capable of living without food for some time, the process of replication puts so much stress on the cells that they expire soon after they perform it. The original variant of SCP-9834 was genetically coded with several “rules” that would prevent accidents from occurring when it was used. The rules were as follows. Once a cell of SCP-9834 converts matter, it and any cells produced by the conversion process cannot convert any other types of matter. EX: A molecule that converts concrete cannot convert wood, or anything else besides concrete. The molecules also cannot convert living organic matter, besides a nutrient mix used to feed SCP-9834 when not in use.
Description After Incident: Due to the many unfortunate events described in the incident log below, SCP-9834 has gained genetically coded instincts and limited sentience, allowing it to partially overcome some of the rules that previously governed its existence. It has also gained the ability to camouflage itself as the type of matter it bonded to, the ability to consume living organic mass, and the ability to turn that living mass into new, un-bonded SCP-9834 cells. It now has the ability to control its mass. Due to these new methods of reproduction, SCP-9834 has spread infection sites all over the world, seemingly preferring abandoned areas over cities and towns. SCP-9834 also appears to sustain itself using sunlight and carbon dioxide, much like non-anomalous plants do. However, recent discoveries suggest that the conversion of carbon dioxide into oxygen may be simply a tactic to lure in potential prey, as some survivors explained their reason for being in the area as “something in the air made me feel good,” or, “I’m sick, but being there made me feel healthy.” This is further supported if you consider the fact that 70% of SCP-9834’s victims were elderly or had respiratory conditions such as severe asthma.
Behavior: An SCP-9834 infestation site always starts with a single molecule. When that molecule is introduced to a material, say stone or iron, it will rapidly convert all of that material into instances of itself. Once this is done, it cannot spread any further. SCP-9834 then waits for the arrival of it’s first victim. SCP-9834 infested areas often trap living creatures by forming a pitfall-like structure camouflaged to fit the environment. When the thin “cover” of the pit is agitated by any means, it falls away revealing the yawning mouth below, assumedly dropping the source of the disturbance directly to their doom. As mentioned before, it is believed that SCP-9834 intentionally saturates the area around it with high levels of oxygen in hopes of luring in prey. Unfortunately, there is a reason that SCP-9834 consumes organic matter: to reproduce. Because SCP-9834 infestations can only affect one type of matter per patch, their ultimate sizes are very limited. During the aforementioned incident, SCP-XXXX gained the ability to convert living cells into unconverted SCP-9834 cells, and by creating a mobile shell out of pre-converted cells, SCP-9834 can transport the unconverted cell over long distances before deciding to create a new infestation site. A common question researchers had regarding SCP-9834’s method of reproduction is, as phrased by Dr. ███, “Why don’t the little shits just expand their own sites by adding new mass types?” For a long time, this was unanswered, as it seems as though an SCP-9834 infestation site could grow infinitely by adding new matter types to itself as soon as it gets living matter. However, that question has since been answered; for some reason, SCP-9834 patches with different matter types actually consume each other, whether they like it or not. The only exception to this rule is that bonded cells will not consume un-bonded cells.
Incident Logs:
Interviewed: (Former) Dr. ███
Interviewer: Agent ████
Foreword: This interview is with the intent to extract all possible information regarding SCP-9834 from former Foundation employee Dr. ███ because he was the lead researcher on the team that produced SCP-9834 and the only member of said team present when the incident began, his testimony to the events of █████ will be extremely useful in dealing with this new threat.
<Begin Log>
Interviewer: Good evening ███.
███: That’s Dr. ███ to you, agent.
Interviewer: Not anymore, it’s not. But that’s what we’re here to talk about.
███: Of course it is. You idiotic agents can’t just stay out of my business, can you?
Your job is to clean up messes, not to antagonize me into cleaning them up for you. I outrank > you, so why don’t you go pick on the other members of the team. You know, the ones that
actually have to care about what you say?
Interviewer: Again, you don’t outrank anyone anymore. After the incident-
███: Oh yes, the incident, don’t forget the incident-
Interviewer: -After the incident that occurred on your watch you have been removed > from your position and the Foundation as a whole. Before you interrupt me again, keep in
mind that your cooperation here decides whether you go home to your family or into 682’s
cell as a D-class. The choice is yours.
███: …
Interviewer: Excellent. Now before I get to the questions, I’m going to recap my
understanding of the incident, and you’re going to tell me if I missed anything. Got it?
███: Yeah.
Interviewer: Great. According to what I’ve got here, you were working on a project called the “Shift Virus” as a theoretical way to destroy virtually any obstacle Foundation agents might encounter in the field. It says here that you documented the use of many safeguards and other preventative measures, yet the virus still managed to escape your grasp. Personally, I have no idea how that can happen, and since all the other members of your team died trying to escape their own creation, you seem to be the only one left with that knowledge. Care to enlighten us?
███: Well, it- the project I mean- started out great. We had very few problems developing it, and only one person got a finger eaten off. By Foundation standards, we had hit the jackpot of safe research. It even worked well during field testing. Ask Agent ███, he-
Interviewer: Is dead.
███: Really?
Interviewer: Yes. Killed by SCP-9834.
███: Shit.
Interviewer: Indeed. You were saying?
███: O-oh yeah. The field tests were great. They tested it during a hostage crisis by melting the entire building the hostage was in, giving the twenty-some snipers a clean shot. It was great. But the seventh mission was different.
Interviewer: How so?
███: It wasn’t some simple hostage situation. Foundation agents were infiltrating a rival organization’s base and needed to melt a wall to get in. Unfortunately, the Shift Virus didn’t work, and the mission failed. A portion of the wall was sent to us for testing, and for some reason, the virus just couldn’t melt it. It was only later when we found out it was because the wall was an organic plastic.
Interviewer: So what did you do?
███: We ‘added’ the wall’s composition into the genetic list of things the Shift Virus was allowed to bond with. Little did we know that the organic compound the wall was made of was just a bit too similar to what we made the containment tubes out of.
Interviewer: So it escaped by eating the container.
███: If you could call it that. The virus did eat the container, but we designed it to die right after it bonded, and it did. In reality, the whole incident should have ended there. We made containers out of something else, and agents started using it again two days later.
Interviewer: So how did the incident occur?
███: Honestly, I didn’t know for a while. All I knew was that some agents barged into my lab one day and arrested me for ‘creating and releasing SCP-9834’. I had no idea. But after a while, I started putting the pieces together. The Shift Virus project was obviously supposed to be secret, but if someone saw it and realized its true potential, it would become a major target. I remember the room we stored the virus in had a new janitor every week, but after the container incident, it was always the same guy. He never changed, and even started getting to be friends with some of the team. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I’m pretty sure they switch out janitors so often as a security thing, and even if they decided to keep the same guy they would have wiped his mind of the project’s details every so often.
Interviewer: Are you suggesting that not only was there a mole at Research Site ██, but that he disguised himself as a janitor and was most interested in the least dangerous project in the building?
███: Yes, I am.
Interviewer: I would keep asking questions, but It’s clear you’re not going to tell the truth. I’m sending you to the shrinks, maybe one of them will publish your little fiction novel for you.
███: No, wait, I’m telling the tru-
<End Log>
