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Kettle with an unusual function

The SCP-5054 is inactive.

Item #: SCP-5054

Object class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: The object should be kept in a heavy (weighing at least three kilograms) container with a volume of 0.125 cubic meters. The container is locked with an ordinary mechanical lock, the key is managed by the curator of the object. The container should have a drainage system for drainage of tea, which can then be used for consumption by employees.

The object should be fed two kilograms of meat twice a day.

Description: SCP-5054 is an ambush predatory organism of a previously unknown species. The object, apparently, is not intelligent, its nervous system is very primitive and morphologically similar to that of insects. SCP-5054 is coated with a mineral exoskeleton (similar to some mollusks) consisting of calcium and iron salts. The exoskeleton has the shape of an ordinary Soviet kettle, probably for mimicry purposes.

The object preys on any mammals (including humans)¹, the senses of the object are located in the nose, at the bottom and in the lid of the kettle, as well as inside the exoskeleton of the object (the object has a heat-sensitive body and, obviously, can only "see" warm-blooded creatures). The reproductive organs of the object are located near the mouth of SCP-5054 at the bottom of the enclosure: reproduction occurs by laying eggs in the corpses of the victims of the object.

The original origin of the object is unknown.

Distinctive features of the SCP-5054 are:

• The ability to move in the air with the help of steam removal through the "nose" of the exoskeleton², which makes it possible to make a kind of jet breakthrough³. In the same way, an object can quickly develop a sufficiently high speed by releasing a jet stream of water vapor with a mixture of hydrogen sulfide. This function is used to crash into a victim and disable it⁴.
• External digestion: at the bottom of the kettle there is a kind of mouth, consisting of a metal needle of a pricking and sucking apparatus with a duct of special digestive enzymes that quickly digest living matter. SCP-5054, after stunning the victim, falls “bottom” on the object’s head or chest, penetrates the victim’s tissue with its jaws and injects digestive enzymes. After an hour, the object is sucked in the resulting nutrient solution using a needle pricking and sucking apparatus;
• Reproduction occurs by laying eggs of various irregular shapes in the bodies of SCP-5054 victims. The development of a life form from an egg to a full-fledged predator occurs in a week. It is noteworthy that the shape of the bodies of adult objects is very different from each other;
• It is impossible to open the lid of the kettle in the usual way, however, apparently, it is part of the excretory system of the object. Once a day, a liquid, which is an aqueous solution with Caméllia sinénsis elements, flows from the gap between the cover and the body.⁵.

The object is fed, as a rule, twice a day: in the active state, the object moves in search of the victim, or waits for a long time, after which, with the help of a sharp exhaust, it attacks the victim. In the so-called inactive (or passive) state, the object does not show any activity, disguising itself as an ordinary kettle.

A fluoroscopy revealed the structure of SCP-5054 under its carapace. As it was found out, the nervous system of the object is extremely primitive and is more similar to that of insects. In the center of the object is an air bubble, which receives gas generated during digestion in the digestive cavity, located directly below the air bubble. It appears that a considerable part of the object is believed to be occupied by adipose tissue, so SCP-5054 can live without food for a long time.

Requests for opening an object are rejected due to the high probability of damaging the object.

Application H/5054: SCP-5054 was found on 05/12/1992 in a storage room of the GR Unit “P” after closing the latter and transferring most of the anomalous objects to the SCP Foundation. The following documentation was attached to the object.

▶ Report GR-P/8632

Report: GR-P/8632
Commissioned officer: Bulatov Andrey Sergeyevich
Description of anomaly: It is an ordinary Soviet kettle. The anomaly is: spontaneous flight and the ability to accelerate to dangerously high speeds; predatory lifestyle (at the bottom there is a mouth similar to insects; please send the object to the scientific council on paranormal at the USSR Academy of Sciences); apparent aggression towards animals, including humans.
Detection and Capture Report: An anomaly was discovered in Leningrad, in apartment 12, in house number ██ on Sovetskaya Street. The apartment belonged to the late citizen █████ ████████ ████, who, according to his wife, bought an anomalous item in a "local store" a couple of hours before the incident. The specified store could not be found; construction is currently underway at the named address, not even a hint of any store was found.
A citizen was found dead in his apartment. At the time of the arrival of police officer Pavel Petrovich Bogatyrev, according to a complaint from neighbors about the “cadaverous stench” in the apartment, almost the entire torso of the deceased was consumed by an abnormal object. The object made an attempt to attack the police officer, but was valiantly detained by Pavel, after which the GR-“P” found out about what had happened and seized the anomalous object. A preventive conversation was held with the police officer, after which he was placed under special observation. The request to filter the memory of a police officer was rejected. Reason: an employee may later be transferred to unit “P” as a field agent.

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Application: This thing every time it tries to kill someone, it stinks indecently and terribly whistles, obviously louder and thinner than it should. Who ever thought of creating something so strange and vile? Order to subordinate bodies: send “this” to the paranormal scientific council at the USSR Academy of Sciences, let them sort it out, take it apart. Our scientists, perhaps, will be able to make something worthwhile from this.
— Bulatov Andrey Sergeevich, commissioned officer of the "P" unit of the GRU.
END OF REPORT

Footnotes

1. The amount of water that the object receives from the bodies of the victims is sufficient to sustain life.

2. It has been suggested that SCP-5054 has an air bubble inside, allowing the object to soar at a height of up to seven (7) meters. During the fluoroscopy, the assumptions were confirmed.

3. The mixture is formed as a result of digestive processes inside the body of the object.

4. Typically, an object is aimed at the victim’s head, which usually leads to the loss of consciousness of the victim.

5. The overall composition of the solution can be identified as ordinary Chinese tea.