Dr. Ernst

Item# :Scp-xxxx

Item class:Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-xxxx is to be kept in a standard small-object containment unit at all times. SCP-xxxx is not to be touched at any time. Armed guards at to be posted outside containment unit at all times.

Description: SCP-xxxx is a small silver marble of unknown origin. Upon being touched, SCP-xxxx will transport the user to any battle from human history. This process is entirely random, and there are no known patterns to what battle SCP-xxxx will transport the user to. SCP-xxxx must be touched by bare skin to activate its anomalous effects. Wearing gloves or anything of the sort does not activate the effects. Audio-visual equipment worn by testing subjects will fail upon activation of SCP-XXXX's effect Results have varied between fights of less then a hundred combatants, to fights including tens of thousands of combatants. Any changes that the user causes to the battle they are transported to will alter the present. The User will be transported back if they attempt to leave the main area of the battle, or when battle ends. Why SCP-xxxx transports user back for these reasons is unknown. Scp-xxxx does not transport with the user. Tests have confirmed that SCP-xxxx was made sometime in 1846. Where SCP-xxxx was made, is unknown. Agents sent to place where dealer acquired SCP-xxxx have found no records or traces of its existence. Testing on SCP-xxxx have shown that it is a regular marble, and should have no anomalous effects.

Discovery log: SCP-xxxx was found in the city of Akron, Ohio, on January 2, 1987, after reports of a "magic marble" in the possession of antique dealer. The dealer claims he acquired object from a man in Germany. The dealer claims man offered SCP-xxxx for free, the fled. Due to ignorance over SCP-xxxx's ability at first, 2 agents were transported to different battles, but returned safely. Witnesses were given amnestics and all footage of SCP-xxxx was confiscated.

Test SCP-xxxx #1: D-12673(outfitted with video headset and audio recorder) is ordered to touch SCP-xxxx. Subject then complies. The Subject disappears and video and audio feed cuts out. D-12673 suddenly reappears in containment chamber 2 minutes later, unharmed. The subject is interviewed and claims to have been transported to the Battle of lake Regillus during the Roman Latin wars. The subject, out of fear and surprise, attempts to leave area. Upon leaving area, SCP-xxxx transports subject back to present. Due to D-12673 making no changes to battle, no changes in any ancient or modern texts were made.

Test SCP-xxxx #2: D-17907 entered containment chamber and is instructed to touch SCP-xxxx. The subject is initially hesitant, as he was told of SCP-xxxx's anomalous effects. The subject is told that refusal to do so will result in immediate termination. The subject complies and disappears. The Subject reappears 3 minutes later and is deceased, having been struck by an arrow confirmed to be of Mongolian origin. No noticeable changes were made to any ancient or modern texts.
I recommend that the next test subject be given some kind of weapon.
-Dr. Roberts

Test SCP-xxxx #3: D-48237 entered containment chamber and was instructed to touch SCP-xxxx. Due to result of last test, subject armed with knife. The Subject complies, touches SCP-xxxx, and disappears. The subject returns 1 hour later, with several injuries. The subject is given first aid and questioned. The subject claims to have been transported to the Battle of Saint-Omer from the Hundred years war. The subject notes he was attacked and had to kill some of his attackers. Subject hides from other combatants until the battle was over and is transported back to present. One text from the period describes a "strange man in odd orange garbs" suddenly appearing and killing 2 men, then fleeing. No action was deemed necessary.
I'm seeing a trend here. From what we heard, whoever touches this thing always end up right in the middle of a fight, never behind the battle, never a few feet away from it, just straight in the middle. It's not giving people a big incentive to touch it, or maybe it doesn't want us to?"
Dr. Roberts

Test Scp-xxxx #4: D-69463 is instructed before test about items properties and to run instead of fight when faced with a situation. Subject enters containment chamber and touches SCP-xxxx. Subject disappears. Subject reappeared 303 days later, wearing a WW1 french military uniform. Subject showed great surprise and relief upon realizing he was in the present. The subject later claims he was transported to the Battle of Verdun, and took clothes off a dead French soldier and pretended to be a soldier for all 303 day of the battle. When asked how he was not found out, the subject replied with, " I took French in high school." The subject refused to elaborate further. The subject also claimed that he burned his D-class uniform. The subject was reprimanded for destroying foundation property.
Good thing he burned it. Some random person finding it could have lead to serious problems.
Dr. Roberts

Test Scp-xxxx #5: [DATA EXPUNGED] All personnel involved below level-3 were given amnestics. D-class involved with experiment terminated. Due to a possible CK class end of the world scenario occurring, no further experiment are to be taken out with Scp-xxxx.
According to what the D-class saw and did, its amazing that there were no major changes. An entire war, erased from history. So much for future tests. which sucks, because this thing could be trying to tell us something and we won't ever know it now.
Dr. Roberts

Addendum: On April 2, 2005, an man attempted to break into Site ██. Man was capture and questions. The Man claims that he knew SCP-xxxx was in Site ██ and that he "wanted it back." When questioned further, the man claimed he had been responsible for the outcomes of several battles. Most of the battles he claimed to be responsible of the outcomes for do not have any record describing them, indicating he made them never happen. When asked how he knew SCP-xxxx was at Site ██, man claims he could sense it. The man was later questioned. Further investigation showed that the mans name was James ███, a former glassblower. He had been observed trying to buy SCP-xxxx from the antique dealer that had found it, but failed. How James managed to obtain SCP-xxxx and then lose it are unknown.

+  Show Subject James interview log

Interviewed: Subject James
Interviewer: Dr. Roberts
Foreword: Dr. Roberts requested an interview with James to find out how he came to possess Scp-xxxx, among other things. Interview was approved by site commander.
<Begin Log, Time. is 10:10 AM.>
Dr. Roberts: Hello James. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions so we can know how-
James: (Abruptly) No.
Dr. Roberts: Sorry?
James: I'm not answering your questions, unless you give my marble.
Dr. Roberts: You know full well that your never getting that back. And if your not going to answer our questions, then we will return you to your cell.
James: Fine. Ask away. But I don't think you'll get the answers you want.
Dr. Roberts: Alright. How did you come to possess Scp-xxxx?
James: I found it, in Poland. I found out what it could do, and i understood how it worked.
Dr. Roberts: How does it work?
James: Hm. Next question, or i won't answer any more.
Dr. Roberts: Fine. What have you been doing with Scp-xxxx?
James: I have been stopping wars and battles, using things from this age to stop fights from those ages.
Dr. Roberts: What wars have you stopped?
James: The war of Ochefield, the war of Phens, just to name a few.
Dr. Roberts: Those don't exist.
James: Because I stopped them from ever happening. You should thank me.
Dr. Roberts: Thank you? For messing with history?
James: No. For stopping wars, that had countless causalities. I stopped all those deaths, all that horror, all that fighting. So yes, you should thank me for it.
Dr. Roberts: Stopping deaths is great, but you can't expect to erase things from the past and not have any changes. Do you know of any changes that you might have made?
James: I might have caused World War 1.
Dr. Roberts: What? How did you do that?
James: I don't know, just as i was finishing my work, i went back, looked in the history books and World War 1 was there. The battle I just stopped however, was gone. So, you win some, you lose some.
Dr. Roberts: The battle you stopped could not have been worth causing World War 1.
James: True, but i didn't know that it would happen. I don't even know how, considering the battle I stopped was an estimated 500 years earlier.
James: I have no further interest in this. This interview is over.
Dr. Roberts: You don't get to decide that.
James: Yeah I do, if I refuse to answer any more questions, which I will.
Dr. Roberts: Fine. (Motions to guards) Take him back to his cell.
James: You'll never figure it out, unless you do what I did. Only that way will you get your answers.
<End log, 10:17 AM.>
Closing Statement: Subject James refuse to answer any questions mid interview, and was taken back to his cell. Subject James is still in custody, and has refused any more interviews.