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Item #: SCP-6000 Level 3/6000
Object Class: Euclid Classified

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The structure where SCP-6000 was living prior to containment.


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6000 is currently considered to be the sole member of Mobile Task Force Pi-101 ("The Big Guy"), itself run under the same restrictions as other task forces that utilize humanoid SCP objects, like MTF Alpha-9 ("Last Hope"). As such, on field missions it currently answers to Commander Bolivar, the assistant director of the Foundation's division for anomalous military task forces.

In between missions, SCP-6000 is to be kept in a nonstandard humanoid containment cell at Site-88 furnished as an arboretum with numerous plants native to North and South America. A rotation of D-Class trained as greenhouse workers, wearing standard issue beekeeper uniforms, are to assist SCP-6000 in care for these plants. This activity is the sole endeavor of SCP-6000's enrichment, and as such must be performed on a daily schedule. SCP-6000's diet is to consist of any combination of capicola salami, sliced provolone cheese, meatball parmesan submarine sandwiches, wildflower leaves, sugar water, tree sap, rotting wood, algae, live crickets, live flies, live lizards, and Boylan brand carbonated soft drinks, as the entity derives sustenance from these items alone. On special occasions, SCP-6000 may be presented with a bottle of red wine, cannoli, or bowl of tiramisu in exchange for a successful mission, but no nutritional value can be gained from these items, despite claims to the contrary. As SCP-6000's co-operation is considered essential to long term containment, personnel are to call SCP-6000 by its given name, "Bob", when speaking to or nearby it.

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SCP-6000

Description: SCP-6000 is a nonhuman sapient organism that resembles an overweight human man between the ages of 60 and 74. The interior structure of SCP-6000 expected in a normal human is not present, and aside from features associated with the head, like teeth, eyeballs, and tongue, SCP-6000 has no internal organs or bone structure of any kind. Its outer layer of organic skin surrounds a cavity of unknown depth containing an unknown number of arthropods, including insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc. These animals exist in a symbiotic relationship with SCP-6000, relying on its direct care for survival, but are otherwise nonanomalous. SCP-6000 is able to produce any variety of arthropod from within its body upon its command, typically emerging from the mouth, although emergences from any orifice including skin pores have also been observed.

SCP-6000 presents as a stereotypical Italian man from New Jersey, claiming to be a prominent former mobster named "Bob the Buggy Boi." SCP-6000 is docile, gregarious, and friendly towards any individual who it does not perceive as having affiliation with a figure it refers to "Big Stinky," "Tony Cashews," or "dat fawkin guy," who is apparently a figure in organized crime and a former employer. No such figure has ever existed. SCP-6000 displays intelligence equivalent to that of a pubescent human child, and its speech is frequently rambling, oblique, full of non-sequiturs and bizarre jokes, and displaying a poor understanding of the history of Italian-American organized crime. SCP-6000 displays mild but prominent ataxia1 and nystagmus2, likely as a result of movement from the organisms within.

When threatened, SCP-6000 expels arthropods from within its internal cavity as a defense mechanism, relying upon the animals' natural defensive capabilities as a means of attack. For example, when threatened during a containment breach by SCP-███, SCP-6000 was able to regurgitate a large number of live scorpions, which then surrounded SCP-6000 in a circle and stung the invading forces until they retreated. It is shown to be extremely protective of these organisms, making sure than any that are excreted are ushered back inside itself and mourning any that are killed as a result of the expulsion. SCP-6000 also maintains a natural immunity to all anomalous memes, cognitohazards, infohazards, ideatic predators, and antimemes that normally affect humans, likely due to either its status as a sapient nonhuman humanoid object, or else its relationship with the arthropods that make up its interior.

SCP-6000 was first discovered in an abandoned shack in central New Jersey, 19 kilometers south of the town of Freehold. It was located following reports of a population explosion of insects in the region, many non-native. At the time, SCP-6000 claimed to be in temporary hiding from the Atlantic City crime syndicate from which it reportedly fled, but forensic evidence collected from the building indicated that SCP-6000 had been dwelling there for a period of several decades prior to the Foundation arriving.