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SCP-5144

AKA: The Time Lord

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5144 is contained in a 5 meter by 5 meter double layered cell with 8 Scranton Reality Anchors imbedded in between the inner and outer walls. The outer wall is to be comprised of leaded glass to prevent excess energy from the Scranton Reality Anchors from affecting the surrounded area. One Scranton Reality Anchor is placed at each corner and also in the precise center of each length of wall. The anchors must be inspected every 6 hours for full functionality. If any of the anchors are found to be operating at less than peak power, it must be immediately replaced. If any one of the anchors operates below peak capacity for a period of 8 hours or more SCP-5144 will breach containment.
Due to SCP-5144’s propensity for containment breach, as well as it’s high degree of hostility toward the SCP Foundation, no testing of capabilities are to be conducted, and all interviews are to performed inside the containment cell.
Description: SCP-5144 is a male human of ambiguous heritage appearing to be in his late 20’s or early 30’s 190 cm in height and 92 kilograms in weight with strong musculature and little body fat. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Swahili, and Hindi with native accents for each language. SCP-5144 refuses to give any information regarding his age or nation of origin.
SCP-5144 is a powerful reality bender with the ability to manipulate and travel through time, and claims to have travelled into the past to prevent the formation of the SCP Foundation numerous times, but has failed in his mission with every attempt. SCP-5144 appears to be immune to the effects of ageing as the stories he tells about his activities would require at least 2 and up to 16 lifetimes to perform depending of how much time travel was involved and the precise amount of time spent in each time jump.
During the Foundation’s attempts to capture him, SCP-5144 has demonstrated the ability to freeze projectiles in time, rapidly age matter both living and nonliving to the point of complete decay, and also to reverse the effects of time and age in all forms of matter. There are currently *** agents that SCP-5144 reverted to infancy in the care of the Foundation. Those who have aged to the point of speech communicate that they have retained all memories of their lives. The O-5 Council has authorized providing these agents with elite training and education to capitalize on their youth and preexisting experience. SCP-5144 is capable of instantaneously travelling to any point in time, can teleport across an unknown distance while time travelling, and can safely bring both living and nonliving objects with him provided he is making direct or indirect physical contact with said object.

Incident Log #1: Failed Capture Attempt #2

Dr. Fulbright: Relax. This is just a debriefing to determine the reason for the failure to capture SCP-5144. All I need is your description of what happened during the capture attempt.
Agent *: What happened? It was a total shitshow! It’s like we didn’t learn anything useful from the first attempt!
Dr. Fulbright: The first attempt was a total loss. All we obtained was a partially corrupted video recording from the team leader. Unfortunately, it appears that it didn’t have enough information for the second attempt to succeed.
Agent *: You got that right! We thought we understood his powers. A telekinetic able to freeze bullets in midair, teleport, and freeze people in place so he can do as he wishes. What bullshit! This guy is something else entirely! He doesn’t freeze the projectiles or the people! He freezes time itself! And his teleportation? I’m pretty sure he’s just stopping time all around and moving at normal speed. Then when he lets time flow again all the chaos he caused happens all at once.
Dr. Fulbright: What chaos happened this time?
Agent *: Everything! People were beaten by invisible hands! Mack was moved from a secure position to where SCP-5144 had been standing. All the bullets hit him! Poor guy didn’t stand a chance! Frank had been in the middle of firing his weapon, and when time started again hit was pointed up under his chin and he blew his brains out! Random objects flew at us from every direction. It was nuts!
Dr. Fulbright: And what exactly happened to the other survivors?
Agent *: We were all pretty much neutralized. It was too much to deal with and everyone was either hurt or dead. Then the target strolls up to me as casual as can be, pulls me aside, and tells me to watch. What else could I do? I did exactly what he said.
Dr. Fulbright: What did you witness then?
Agent *: This guy smiles at me like he’s some kind of demon, turns to the surviving team members, waves his hand like a magician, and then … then I watched as everyone started getting younger. All of them, old and young regressed in age and didn’t stop until they were all literally newborn babies! This guy … he’s no telekinetic! He controls time itself!
Dr. Fulbright: You’re saying that SCP-5144 has the ability to control time, that he can not only stop time, but also reverse it?
Agent *: Yes, but that’s not all. I was shocked, but the target was distracted. I pulled out my spare sidearm and shot him in the back. It should have been a lethal shot, but this guy reversed time on himself to remove the bullet and heal the damage, not like it never happened, but made it so it literally never happened, then he just stepped aside and let time move normally again and the bullet flew harmlessly by.
Dr. Fulbright: And what did SCP-5144 do then?
Agent *: What do you think he did? Look at me! He froze me in place, disarmed me, then unfroze time. He told me that I shouldn’t have done that, and now he had to punish me, but he wasn’t going to kill me because he needed me to deliver a warning to the Foundation. That’s when he … he …
Dr. Fulbright: Please continue.
Agent *: He did this to me! Look at me! I’m an old man now! I’m twenty eight years old, and my body has been aged to at least eighty! Everything hurts. I feel like I can’t breathe deeply enough anymore! I’m slow and weak. I’m an old man with very little time left in this world. He aged me nearly to death, and only left me enough time to make sure I could deliver his message.
Dr. Fulbright: And what is that message?
Agent *: He said “Leave me alone or I’ll destroy you all again.”
Update: 52 hours after this interview was recorded, Agent * expired due to complications of old age.

Addendum 5144-A: Recorded Transcript of Interview with Dr. Fulbright

Dr. Fulbright: Hello 5144. Do you understand the purpose of this interview?
SCP-5144: Here we go again. Yes, I understand. I’ve done it dozens of times now.
Dr. Fulbright: What do you mean by that? This is the first interview to be conducted since your containment.
SCP-5144: For you maybe. But for me it’s another repeat of the past.
Dr. Fulbright: Are you saying that we have done this before?
SCP-5144: (Sighs) Yes and no.
Dr. Fulbright: Please explain.
SCP-5144: (Groans) Again? Sure. Why not? It’s not like it will change anything anyway. (Long Pause) This is your first time conducting this interview, but only for this version of you. We have sat here in this very room more times than I care to remember having this exact same conversation. Sometimes you’re a man, sometimes you’re a woman like you are now, but the conversation always goes the same way with you being amazed and bewildered by my revelations, and me being bored out of my gourd retelling the same story with only events since my last escape being added to the mix.
Dr. Fulbright: Are you saying that you know me?
SCP-5144: Yes, but not completely because this is a new version of you since my last escape. Every version of you is very similar, but also has important differences. But every time we become good friends if you’re a man, and lovers if you’re a woman.
Dr. Fulbright: Wait, are you telling me that I’m supposed to fall in love you, and SCP?
SCP-5144: I’m saying that you can’t help it, and that the Foundation isn’t going to do anything to prevent it. What did you tell me before? “The site director has determined that allowing us to have a romantic relationship serves to enhance containment by disincentivizing me to breach containment.” Yeah, that’s it. You’d think I’d have it better memorized by now, but that way of thinking is so strange to me that I guess I don’t really want to keep it in mind.
Dr. Fulbright: I find that hard to believe.
SCP-5144: So do I, but it happens every time. It seems that we’re just destined to fall in love, and that the Foundation will decide to use our relationship as some kind of case study. In fact, the only times we haven’t fallen in love are the times when I break out here too fast for it to happen.
Dr. Fulbright: What do you mean by that?
SCP-5144: Every time I go back in time to stop my capture people and events change, but much stays the same. One thing that stays the same is that I always end up captured by the new version of the SCP Foundation. One thing that changes is how long it takes for containment to fail so I can break out of here.
Dr. Fulbright: How long was your shortest time in containment?
SCP-5144: less than a day.
Dr. Fulbright: And your longest?
SCP-5144: Long enough for you to die of old age and have your position taken over by one of our grandchildren.
Dr. Fulbright: We have children?
SCP-5144: Not exactly us, per-se, but I had many children with different versions of you, not that most of them matter since they get erased from existence every time I escape. Well … except for that one time.
Dr. Fulbright: Tell me about that time.
SCP-5144: There was a version that was … superior to all others. Your beauty and personality were beyond compare. Normally when I escape, I book it to the past and immediately try to reset it so that I never get captured because being held captive by the Foundation stinks on ice. But there was one time that I couldn’t bear to leave you behind, so I took you and our children and fled to a different point in the past so we could live out our lives in peace.
Dr. Fulbright: How did that work out?
SCP-5144: It worked out great. We were happy. We had ten healthy children, and we lived lives of peace and adventure. On top of that, with my abilities and our knowledge, the more primitive cultures we interacted with revered us, sometimes as gods. The ancient Egyptians knew us as Osiris and Isis. The ancient Babylonians knew us as Lugulbanda and Ninsun, and the son we left behind as Gilgamesh.
Dr. Fulbright: Wait a minute. Are you saying that you, we started ancient myths?
SCP-5144: Some of them, yes, and our children, well, we couldn’t expect them to spend their whole lives following us through time, so when they became adults they all chose a culture that they wanted to stay and be a part of, settled down, and had families of their own. And since we stayed far enough the past be beyond the reset point, our descendants are walking the Earth right now. I looked them up once. Right now we have almost as many descendants running around as Genghis Khan. Give or take a few thousand based on the changes to the world every time I go back to the reset point.
Dr. Fulbright: I find all of this hard to believe.
SCP-5144: You always do.
Dr. Fulbright: And you’re saying that the Foundation always captures you?
SCP-5144: Yes. No matter how many times I go back in time to prevent it, you guys always eventually figure out that if you surround me with a square of Shackleton Reality Anchors, at least eight of them, you can prevent me from using my abilities in any significant way.
Dr. Fulbright: You mean Scranton Reality Anchors, don’t you?
SCP-5144: Is that what they’re called this time? Sure, why not. Scranton, Shackleton, Bermudez, Jackson, Smith, Valencia, Marquis, Karloff, and all of the other names of the people who have invented them in various incarnations of our reality. The name keeps changing, but the device is always the same.
Dr. Fulbright: And you say that you always breach containment.
SCP-5144: Of course I do. All I ever have to do is wait. Eventually, either by human error, a facility wide containment breach, hostile forces invading the facility, or a simple reality anchor malfunction, I always escape, and I always go back into the past to prevent my capture.
Dr. Fulbright: How do you do that?
SCP-5144: Try to prevent my capture?
Dr. Fulbright: Yes.
SCP-5144: By preventing the SCP Foundation from ever existing, of course. It’s the only way that you persistent nerds will ever leave me alone.
Dr. Fulbright: Wait a minute, you go back in time to stop the Foundation from ever forming?
SCP-5144: Yes, but it never works. It’s like the Foundation is a fixture in spacetime and it’s formation is inevitable. Do you have any idea how many times I have killed off the founders of this thing only to have different people create it?
Dr. Fulbright: No …
SCP-5144: I stopped counting after forty. Over forty times I have gone back in time, slaughtered the Foundation’s founders, and ended up captured anyway because different people do the job. Sure, the exact circumstances that lead to the formation of the SCP Foundation change every time, but it always happens.
Dr. Fulbright: Hold on. Are you saying that you go back in time and murder the founders of the Foundation?
SCP-5144: Yes. Every time.
Dr. Fulbright: And that the Foundation comes into being anyway, just under different circumstances.
SCP-5144: Exactly. Why do you think there are so many versions of SCP-001? The reset point itself is anomalous. The memories of previous versions of reality echo through the new version, and the different SCP-001’s are all different anomalies and events that led to the creation of the SCP Foundation. Which one is real for this version of reality, I have no idea, but all of them have been real in versions of the past.
End of Interview

Addendum 5144-B

Memorandum for Record: August 20th, 2***
Based on the recommendation of the Site Director, the O-5 council has authorized the continued relationship of Dr. Fulbright and SCP-5144. Any children resulting from this relationship are to be raised on site and monitored by Foundation personnel for anomalous properties. Any found to display anomalous properties are to be contained according to standard procedure and evaluated for possible use by the Foundation.

Addendum 5144-C: Recorded Transcript of Interview with Dr. ***

Dr. *: Interview with SCP-5144 dated *
SCP-5144: Oh joy. Another interview.
Dr. *: This interview is to determine your willingness to assist the Foundation with gaining a better understanding of your abilities.
SCP-5144: Why? So you can neutralize me? So you can learn how to keep me locked up forever?
Dr. *: To improve our containment procedures, yes, but also to assist in the capture and containment of other SCPs.
SCP-5144: And why would I want to do that?
Dr. *: Because despite being an SCP, you’re still human, and if you cooperate we can better protect humanity from other hostile SCPs.
SCP-5144: And why would I want to do that? You know that my greatest desire is to stop the Foundation from ever existing so I can live my own life without being persecuted and imprisoned.
Dr. *: You’ve been in foundation care for ** years now. You have * children with your wife. Don’t you want to protect them from the dangers of this world?
SCP-5144: Of course I do, but in the end it won’t matter. I’m just going to go back to the reset point and prevent this version of the Foundation from existing like I did to every other version so far. And when I do that, it will also prevent my wife and children from ever existing anywhere but in my own memory. That means that I have no need to protect them from the horrors this timeline has for them.
Dr. ***: We may find a way to keep you permanently contained without your cooperation.
SCP-5144: You think I don’t know that? You think I don’t know that every version of the Foundation has the potential to be the one that finally makes me a prisoner forever? I’ve been your prisoner many times, and some versions have come frighteningly close to permanent containment, but every time so far I have had the opening I needed to make my prison crumble to dust and escape to the past. This version will be no different.
End of Interview