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Item#:5070
Clearance Level 5: Clearance
Containment Class: esoteric
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Secondary Class: apollyon
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Disruption Class: #/amida
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Risk Class: #/critical
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The location of where SCP-5070 was discovered.

Special Containment Procedures: Even though SCP-5070 is an event from the past, it is classified as Apollyon due to the possibility of reoccurrence. Web-crawler Θ-7 (“God's Respite”) is to scan for web-activity mentioning key-phrases relating to SCP-5070. If any information is found, protocol Κ-57 is to be enacted.1 Preventing possible reoccurrence of the event is currently considered high priority.

Description: SCP-5070 was a potential HK-Class Reclaimation end of the world scenario; occurring on 2060/10/10, in which a deity2 caused all humans who accepted its request to instantaneously vanish. This was recorded to have been a simple question: "Do you want something greater?". People who positively replied to SCP-5070's question appeared to have done so of their own volition. SCP-5070 is comparative to the Rapture, a biblical event in which all Christians “Rise in the air to meet the Lord”.

Discovery: SCP-5070 was discovered 100 years after the repopulation of humanity following the events of it.3 It was discovered after the newly formed MTF Ω-16 (“Rockhoppers”) investigated an incident in Tampa, Florida where a teenager reportedly found “evidence for the end of the world” in a home. The teenager was found to have stolen a tape recorder, camera and a copy of the Bible all detailing the events of SCP-5070. MTF Ω-16 carried out a standard investigation of the home and found a hole in the rotting wooden floors that the teenager reportedly fell through. Nothing of importance was found within the hole.

Addenda SCP-5070.1: Attached below is a log of the tape recorder found during the raid. The first one is dated 5 years before the event was recorded to have happened, the person who recorded them is referred to as PoI-6656 ("James Akinson"):

The tape begins and a child's laughter is heard

PoI-6656: Hey Dad-

Unknown Voice: Hi!

PoI-6656: Calm down a little, Emma, there's no need to get rowdy. Daddy is making this for Grandpa, so run along, little one.

Unknown Voice: Okay!

Heavy clunking was heard, presumably from them walking away.

Unknown Voice: Anyways, hey Dad. I know I don't always return calls, but I just wanted to give you an update in the only way I know I could reach you.

A rustling is heard, it gets louder for a second and then stops.

PoI-6656: Life is good. I have everything I could ever want, I'm truly blessed by God. As you heard, Emma can now speak and I just wish you were here to see it.

Another voice chimes in, seemingly that of an older female.

Unknown Voice 2: Hey James, I'm gonna make dinner. Is there anything in specific you want?

PoI-6656 No love, I'm recording a message for my dad.

The voice grows more faint, but starts shouting.

Unknown Voice 2: Hi George!

PoI-6656: (chuckling) Caroline says hi.

There’s a short pause.

Unknown Voice: Anyway, I just wanted to give you an update, I’m sure you wanted to hear from your grand-daughter, so let me see if I can grab her.

Ruffling is heard, follow by some thuds.

PoI-6656: Hey Emma, Daddy is making a tape for grandpa, wanna say hi?

Unknown Voice: Hi!

PoI-6656: Is there anything you want to tell him?

Unknown Voice: I miss you!

PoI-6656: Well Dad, that’d make two of us. We miss you and hope you can drop by.

The tape ends there.

The first video tape is dated a year later, it has a label on it stating “Emily’s birthday.”

The video begins, there’s a giant cake on top of a table, the candles are lit.

The video captures an older woman, presumably in their thirties, lifting up a child. There’s an older man presumably in his seventies seated at the table, they begin singing “happy birthday”, finishing a minute later. The camera is then set down and picks up another older man, also presumably in his thirties, identified as PoI-6656.

** PoI-6656:** Blow out the candle and make a wish, Emma.

Unidentified Child: Okay!

The child then begins to suck in air, and attempts to blow out the candles, one stays lit.

Unidentified Woman: Try again.

Once again, they breathe in air and try to blow the candle out, it finally flickers out.

They pause for a second.

PoI-6656: What’d ya wish for Emma?

Unidentified Man: Don’t make her tell, then it won’t come true.

They pause for a moment, the child then bursts out.

Unidentified Child: I wished for things to stay the same forever!

The younger man and woman begin chuckling, the older man is looking sternly at the two.

They notice the man and quit laughing, there’s silence for a minute.

The older man finally speaks.

Unidentified Man: So did she invite any friends?

At that notion, the younger man looks uncomfortable.

PoI-6656: She did, but none showed up.

Unidentified Man: Makes sense, you are out in the middle of nowhere, why didn’t you take her bowling or something like that?

PoI-6656: Hold up, Emma can you go to your room for a second? Grandpa and me need to talk for a second.

The child nods, gets up and attempts to waddle off into a hallway, but trips. They get back up and leave the frame.

PoI-6656: Listen, life’s been great, like I said to you; but we had a minor inconvenience. I lost my job last Saturday, so I couldn’t afford to get her out of the house. I could barely afford her present.

Unidentified Man: And you didn’t think to ask me for help? Pretty dumb of you to not.

PoI-6656: I’m 30, Dad, I can’t keep asking you for money. This is my child, I’ll do what I think is best for her, and that means instilling hard-working values into her.

Unidentified Man: James, we both know that’s stupid of you. I know I raised you to work hard, but I’d never skip out on asking my old man for help if I needed it. If you needed help you should have asked.

PoI-6656: Like I said, it’s for me.

Unidentified Man: Well that’s very selfish of you. The kid deserves better than this shit show.

The man reels back, and looks offended.

PoI-6656: Excuse me?

Unidentified Man: You heard me right, James. Your child deserves better.

PoI-6656: (beginning to raise their voice) Who the fuck are you to tell me how to raise my child?

Unidentified Woman: Calm down James, stop antagonizing him George.

The older man clearly ignores the woman.

Unidentified Man: If no one does it, I ought'a. She’s alone here with us, that’s a birthday straight out of hell.

PoI-6656: (shouting) Listen, if you are gonna tell me how to raise my fucking child, leave this house. I don’t want you here!

Unidentified Man: (Now shouting) Good, I’ll be taking my leave! Great way to treat me for offering help.

The woman looks disappointed, but when she tries to talk to them, they both ignore her.

Unidentified Woman: Please… Calm down!

PoI-6656: (Shouting) I didn’t ask you for help! Now leave.

The older man gets up without saying another word, and walks out of the frame.

Several clunks are heard, the sound of a door opening is heard.

Unidentified Child: Grandpa where are you going?

Unidentified Man: To grab a drink.

The door slams.

PoI-6656 has his head in his hands, clunking is heard and the child enters the frame. The woman is comforting the younger man.

Unidentified Child: Hey mommy, where’s grandpa going?

She turns to the child, looking upset.

Unidentified Woman: He’s going back home, he couldn’t stay here.

The child’s face dims, she looks sadder.

Unidentified Child: Oh…

Unidentified Woman: But hey, we can cut the cake now.

The child’s face immediately brightens back up.

Unidentified Child: Yeah!

The man recollects himself, he sits up and turns around.

PoI-6656: So, tell me how big of a piece do you want?

The child holds open their arms.

Unidentified Child: This big!

Unidentified Woman: That’s a little too big, Emma. How about this.

The woman cuts a large piece out of the cake, and puts it on a plate. She then hands it to the child.

Unidentified Child: Yes!

PoI-6656: Hold on I just realized something. I forgot the camera was still on.

The man and woman both chuckle a little.

The man then gets up, picks up the camera and the video ends.

The second tape is dated one year later.

The tape begins, a morose voice speaks up immediately.

PoI-6656: Hey Dad… I know I haven't spoken to you in the past year since we had an argument, but…

PoI-6656: It's Caroline… she's sick…

A single sniff is heard.

PoI-6656: She's not gonna make it.

A single pause is heard, followed by several clunks.

Unknown Voice: Hey Dad! Where's mommy?

PoI-6656: Not right now Emma, go to your room for a little bit, Daddy is doing something.

Unknown Voice: Okay!

There's more clunking before silence.

PoI-6656: I know you weren't the happiest with me the last time I saw you, but I just wanted to ask you to come down…

PoI-6656: I got another job as well, no reason to be upset over me losing my job in finance, so not everything is terrible!

Several sniffs are heard.

PoI-6656: Please just come down…

The tape ends there.

The third tape is dated several days later.

The tape begins.

PoI-6656: Hey Dad.

The voice pauses for a second, and sighs.

PoI-6656: Hey Dad, life's hard without her. You have to imagine the pain I went through when telling Emma what happened… You probably know well with what happened with mom, but I never imagined it’d be this hard…

There's a short pause.

PoI-6656: It's a bad card, but deep down I still know I'm very blessed. I have a good paying job, and the smartest kid.

He sighs.

PoI-6656: Did I tell you she won a spelling bee? She's so smart and growing so fast! I'm so proud.

PoI-6656: I'm glad to have her in my life, I thank God every day for a kid so great.

Ruffling is heard.

PoI-6656: We miss you and hope we can visit soon.

The tape ends there.

The fourth tape is dated a few months before the events of SCP-5070.

Sniffling is heard.

PoI-6656: Hey Dad…

The sniffling gets louder, a ruffling is heard.

PoI-6656: Life is hell right now…

The voice pauses for a long period.

PoI-6656: I don't know what to say here Dad… You outlived Emma. She died last night.

The voice starts crying heavily.

PoI-6656: I can't believe it myself… A car swerved onto the sidewalk while she was playing and slammed her straight into a wall…

Another long pause.

PoI-6656: She… She died instantly… She didn't feel any pain…

There's a loud ruffling.

PoI-6656: Please come down.

A click is heard and the tape ends.

There were no other tapes, the second video shot on the camera was dated several weeks after the last tape.

The camera turns on.

A ruffling is heard and the lens focuses on a younger man, presumably in his thirties, he waves to the camera. They begin speaking.

PoI-6656: Hello. My therapist told me to start video taping a visual diary to help with my mental health.

He sighs, and holds up a picture to the camera, a young girl with blonde hair standing next to another female presumably in their thirties with brown hair is visible on the photo.

PoI-6656: These two… They were my life. My everything.

He starts tearing up.

PoI-6656: Both of them were taken from me…

He starts sniffling.

PoI-6656: My wife… She was 32, that’s when she was struck with brain cancer… When we found out about it, it was far too late… (They pause for a moment.) She fought for days, but then she lost her battle.

They hold the photo up to the camera, and points at the younger girl.

PoI-6656: This is Emily, also known as Emma… She was my child… She went at the age of 9, when a car swerved down the road and slammed her into a wall…

PoI-6656: I blame myself for her death every day, because I was irresponsible and left her home alone…

He is now crying.

PoI-6656: I miss my bundle of joy…

They walk over to the camera and stop the recording.

The next video log was dated on the day of SCP-5070.

The video starts with the camera facing the man from the previous video, he’s outside and walking down a sidewalk. There are trees on both sides of the road, with no building in sight. Several cars are driving past them.

PoI-6656: Hey…

He sighs.

Poi-6656: Today was shit, I just got out of work. They kept me working, but in all honesty it’s hard to even get in a car. I can only imagine how scared Emma was.

PoI-6656: I think I’m also going crazy, so there’s that.

He rubs his temples.

PoI-6656: I keep hearing voices in my head, as if God was talking to me.

PoI-6656: But, I’d find it hard to believe that God would talk to me; after the card he dealt me with my kid and wife, ruthlessly taking them before their time.

He pauses for a moment, then stands in place. He looks puzzled.

PoI-6656: Do I want something greater?

He’s now crying.

PoI-6656: No. I had something greater and you took it from me. I know if I had something greater, once again, you’d strike me down and punish me for feeling safe.

PoI-6656: I had everything, I was the happiest person, I thanked you every day and yet you punished me. No I don’t want something greater, I had it and you took it.

PoI-6656: There’s no way in he-

The video picks up a car swerving, it slams into the trees next to them.

PoI-6656: Holy shit!

The camera turns away and catches a car slamming into a parked one in a nearby driveway. The cars start piling up, until everything goes quiet.

PoI-6656: What the fuck!?

They run up to a flipped car in the middle of the road, when they point the camera into it, it’s empty.

They set the camera down, and pull out their phone.

PoI-6656: (Muffled) Pick up the call! You’re police why aren’t you picking up?

An audible dial-tone is heard.

He walks over and picks up the camera, then heads to another wreck.

He approaches a black truck, which is also empty.

PoI-6656: Why the fuck are these empty?

The video ends there.

The final video log was recovered from an abandoned parking lot of a Walmart next to the home in which the video tapes were recovered. All other tapes were seemingly deleted. This tape was dated 3 weeks after SCP-5070. It had a quote engraved on the label.4

The tape begins, the man is spotted in the middle of several car wreckages. He is on his knees, and the camera shifts to focus on them. His shirt and pants are torn apart and raggedy. His hair and beard are unkept.

PoI-6656: (Shouting) You really did it, huh!? You hated me so much that you took everything.

He’s looking directly into the sky, his arms held out.

PoI-6656: But you left me! You left me here alone!

PoI-6656: You know how fucking crazy I thought I was when I heard your voice?

The man paused, as if expecting a response.

PoI-6656: But y’know what? Fuck you! Fuck you and your self-righteous justification, we both just know you wanted to show your power.

PoI-6656: So come on! Show me your wrath, strike me down! Take my life!

He pauses again, then begins laughing.

PoI-6656: That’s right! You can’t!

PoI-6656: The mighty god, the omnipotent lord, the perfect being of justice can’t do shit!

The camera shifts left, it captures an animal carcass. The carcass is infested with turkey vultures. A single black bear is spotted walking around the vine entangled parked cars. The camera is pointed back on the man and refocused on him.

PoI-6656: Speak to me! You owe me this, I spent weeks waiting for a response!

The camera zooms in on him.

PoI-6656: (Now crying) Is this a game!? Is it some sort of test? You take and take and won’t give back! I’m sick and tired of it… I’m sick and tired of trying and trying to believe in you. I know you exist, but you only hurt me!

He keels over, their head in their hands.

PoI-6656: Please God… If you are so merciful, please give me my life back. Give me my kid back…

He reaches into his pocket, and pulls out a photo. He pauses for three minutes, staring at the photo. The camera zooms in and shows that it was the one from the other video. He begins ripping it up.

He stands up, and steps on the ripped up photo.

PoI-6656: I don’t understand! Why the fuck was I so important to you? Why does my suffering mean that much to you!?

PoI-6656: I prayed to you every day, I never once sinned, I went to church every week, I obeyed your rules! So why am I getting punished?

PoI-6656: Are you scared of me? Are you scared that for once your creation defied your will? That I constantly declined your offers of something greater? I am not a sinner, I never needed more, is that why you tried to end me? Because I didn’t need your help? Because I didn’t need you?

He is pacing, while staring up.

PoI-6656: Well now here’s my stand, my one last fuck you! When I find myself in hell, I’ll be coming for you. I swear on my sweet Emily’s life, on my wife’s life, on my dad’s life, I will be coming for you. I will slay you.

The camera points up, ravens are swarming the sky above him, it then points back down at the man who is back on his knees. He sits like that for five minutes before finally speaking. The camera zooms in on him, there’s now a shadow cast over him.

PoI-6656: It all makes sense now! I just realized.

PoI-6656: You built this world for me, now you’ve reclaimed it! You are the light, and you tricked me. You tricked me into believing a lie. I am not just a man. I am your downfall. I am the darkness, and you were scared, so you locked me away! But what’s better than a physical prison, one that I could easily break!? A mental one. I believed your lies, I believed your reality, worst of all: I believed in you!

The flock of crows start cawing loudly.

PoI-6656: It took me so long to realize…

He keels over again, hands on the ground. He is hysterically crying.

PoI-6656: (Shouting louder) You couldn’t reclaim me! You couldn’t! Now I know it’s because I was supposed to reclaim you. You took what I perceived to be my life, what I perceived to be my child, and what I believed to be my everything in attempt to weaken me; just so you could strike me down! Now I’m coming for you. I’m gonna take you, and I’m gonna rebuild my life. Mark my fucking words!

The flock of crows descend on the man, when the crows fly away, he’s gone.

The camera turns off, the last frame of it being a black screen with words, the latter half being in Hebrew.5

Addenda SCP-5070.2: During standard examination of the materials found, the Bible was found to have had alterations to the standardized Bible,6 of which were listed below:

“When man is to look up to the Heavens, he must ponder his self worth in the eyes of God. Those who he deems unworthy are subject to his will.” - 1 Peter 2:157

"For all who have sinned, he offered salvation in the form of something greater. Those who declined his generosity were cast down to the deepest pits of hell." - Romans 3:238

"‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to reclaim you and forgive you for that in which you did wrong, plans for something greater.'" - Jeremiah 29:119

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, when he calls for you to enter the Heavens; do not decline his call, lest you align yourself with the Devil, and his War on Heaven.” - Proverbs 3:510

"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; ignore what he gives and takes, for he always has a plan." - Psalm 107:111

"Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; he gave them a soul and man became a living being. A demonstration that of which could never be replicated by man." - Genesis 2:712

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