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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Containment requires the use of a container within another container, made of any material that will not naturally decay or lose shape. These containers must be periodically replaced as SCP-XXXX breaches them. Once the containers become too large, SCP-XXXX must be carefully moved back to a smaller container. In the event of improper containment and the organism's escape, it must be recaptured without its knowledge, as it becomes agitated if it senses it is being contained.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a small bug, similar in appearance to a common ladybug, though wingless, approximately 2.6 times the size, and color inversed (black with red spots, rather than red with black spots). These spots can shift around the body, usually confined to the upper half, though in times of significant distress can move to the lower half as well. The organism can extend a seemingly indestructible needle out of these spots that can puncture any material thus far tested.

If what it punctures is alive, any holes or pores in the area near the needle's puncture site (varying from a 2 square cm to 26 square cm area depending on how agitated SCP-XXXX is at the time of penetration) will quickly extend their own similarly unbreakable needles.

This also means that small enough creatures that the needle punctures could have needles grow from every part of their body, and in such cases they would likely have their own organs punctured by the needles, as they extend inward as far as they extend outward, which is consistently 4.41 times the height of SCP-XXXX itself. The needles SCP-XXXX produces and the needles that grow out of those it punctures seem to be this same length, 4.41 times SCP-XXXX's height outward.

The needles the organism itself directly uses do not seem to extend inward in any similar capacity to organisms that these needles penetrate, and when retracted, seem to disappear. Attempts to determine exactly how the needles appear and disappear, as well as what material they are constructed of, have proven inconclusive, though they strongly resemble the graphite used in pencils.