The agents looked around themselves nervously. Everything was so familiar yet so foreign. The
grass was dead, there wasn’t a single sound to be heard, and not even a fly buzzing around in the
air. All signs of life had disappeared. They dreaded to think about what they’d find when
they examined this world further, but they knew they were here for answers. They continued on.
As they walked around, it didn’t take long to notice the corpses everywhere. Lying on the dead,
yellow grass. Sprawled across park benches. Yet none of the bodies were rotting — it was as if
they’d died just a few minutes ago. Nervously, they walked into a nearby house. There,
the corpses of an entire family were sat on chairs around their dinner table
with plates in front of them, like they’d died unexpectedly in the middle of a meal.
It was the end of the world. But why and how?
SCPs come in all shapes and sizes and mean different things for the world. Some want to kill,
others want to be left in peace, others can coexist with the human race. But there are a
few SCP that could blow all the other SCP out of the water by ending the world completely.
Whether a ZK scenario that changes nature and natural order, a CK scenario that fundamentally
alters reality as we know it, or an XK scenario that destroys the universe and humanity,
there are some serious threats out there. And there’s little anyone can do to stop them.
Everyone fears the big and scary creatures from the SCP world,
but some of the most threatening SCPs look innocent enough at first. SCP 498 is literally
an alarm clock. But there’s a catch. This alarm clock is capable of killing humans and perhaps
even destroying the planet. Here’s how it works. Every 11 minutes, the alarm clock goes off at
a sound of 30 decibels — that’s the sound level of a quiet rural area. It’s so quiet
most people could probably sleep through it. But every ten seconds, the sound increases
by four decibels. That might not sound like much, but if the alarm is allowed to continue,
there’s no limit to the devastation it could have. A sound of 150 decibels can burst the eardrums of
humans, and a sound of 200 decibels is enough to kill a person. Meanwhile, a sound as loud as
1,100 decibels could destroy the world, because it would create so much energy that it could create
a black hole larger than the universe. With an increase of 4 decibels every 10 seconds, it would
only take a few minutes to reach that point. The foundation has attempted to destroy
498 to bring its danger to the world to an end, but so far, its attempts haven’t been successful.
Instead, the only remaining solution is to ensure the snooze button is hit every 11 minutes until
the end of time. It doesn’t leave much room for error, and things haven’t always gone to plan.
The foundation used to rely on a mechanical arm to automatically hit the snooze button — but one day,
the arm malfunctioned. Foundation personnel needed to step in and hit the button themselves
until a new mechanical arm could be made. It sounds simple, but it wasn’t. Unfortunately,
there are some not-so-nice side effects of being around 498, such as increased
alertness. One of the agents charged with guarding 498 became angry and aggressive
and started arguing with the other agent in the room, who was trying to reset the alarm clock.
As they argued, 498 still hadn’t been reset and was beginning to make more noise. Whenever the
sane agent tried to move and reset the device, the rogue agent would hit him to keep him away.
After two minutes passed, the noise level became so high that the personnel were in pain
and the camera filming the whole thing began to vibrate from the acoustic stress. Still, the
rogue foundation member didn’t want to let anyone near the alarm clock to put this all to an end.
Eventually, another officer came in and managed to shoot the rogue agent and activate the emergency
switch to alert the foundation. But at this point, his eardrums had ruptured and he was about to
collapse. He failed to turn off the alarm. A while later, a containment team arrived
to find the original good agent lying beside 498 with blood pouring out of his ears, in a robotic
state. He was lying barely conscious on the floor but repeatedly pressing the reset button.
At some point, he’d managed to turn off 498 before it could do further damage and destroy the world.
Both the officer and the agent survived the incident, but much stricter procedures
were put into place for the future. After all, the world could have ended that day.
So far, the SCP foundation has successfully protected the universe by locking away 498 in
secure containment and implementing the strictest procedures. It’s currently in a soundproof bunker
that can cancel 95% of sound waves. But if for any reason the alarm clock couldn’t be reset
or the foundation staff went rogue again, it would destroy the universe.
Most SCPs can be contained or guarded to minimize their impact, like 498. But a few are so large
that even the foundation can’t do much to hold them back. SCP 3000 is a prime example.
The foundation first discovered 3000 after strange reports from fishermen around the
Indian Ocean. One day, a submarine went down to investigate with personnel on board — and
they couldn’t believe what they found. Deep underwater, they found an enormous,
eel-like creature. It must have been hundreds of kilometers long, and its head alone was
unbelievably large — but the scariest part of all was its eyes, illuminating the darkness. There was
also a strange gray liquid surrounding 3000. The closer the submarine got to 3000, the
stranger they began to feel. The doctor onboard started sweating, exhibiting anxious behaviors,
and whimpering. Nobody could make much sense out of what the man was saying, but he repeatedly
talked about seeing darkness and nothingness. As the submarine reached the eel, the doctor
became totally insane, smashing his head against the submarine window until the glass smashed.
The mission had to quickly return back up to the surface, but the doctor died. Nobody
was sure what had happened, but they suspected 3000 has an impact on the cognition of humans.
On a later mission, three divers went down to find out more about 3000. Tragically,
3000 swallowed two of the divers and emitted more of the gray liquid. Fortunately, one of the divers
managed to send a sample of the strange liquid up to the surface before also dying. It turned out
the stuff was powerful anesthesia called Y909 that causes confusion, panic, and memory alteration.
The SCP foundation have used Y909 ever since to help with other missions,
but it’s not the kind of substance that you want to get into the wrong hands.
Nobody likes the idea of a ginormous creature that makes them go insane and will possibly eat them,
but it gets worse. Although the foundation are still uncertain of many of the details
regarding 3000, some theorize that the creature could actually be asleep,
explaining why it never moves from its position in the Indian Ocean. But if 3000 were to wake up
one day and harness its true potential, the world would really be in trouble.
A 300-kilometer eel unleashing its wrath on communities around the globe
and emitting Y909 everywhere. That would definitely be an end of the world scenario.
Others think 3000, also known as Anantashesha, could be a god. Maybe
judgment day will arrive sometime soon... Ready to hear something even weirder? Enter
in SCP-3805, which may one day lead to an XK scenario that destroys the universe.
3805 is a huge, embryonic entity lying deep below the earth — in fact, what we
used to believe were the natural geological layers of the earth seem to be 3805 itself.
The outer crust of the earth is actually the shell of 3805, and the outer core below is a series of
tunnels made of a gelatin-like substance. The inner core is the embryo. It points to the
conclusion that the earth seems to be some kind of egg, bearing a creature beneath the surface.
3805 bears an embryo and seems to be in a state of gestation. It all begs a simple question:
what will happen when it fully develops? Nobody knows, but it’s unlikely to be good news
Whatever 3805 is, the foundation knows it’s sturdy and not easily destroyed.
All kinds of drilling, excavation, or digging activities don’t impact it.
However, in some places, interfering with or provoking 3805 seems to make it spawn.
In past expeditions or experiments when personnel have drilled into 3805, it causes dark purple
dust clouds filled with stars to form. As soon as the external stimulation that created the
spawning stops, these dust clouds also stop, so they may be some kind of defensive mechanism.
Currently, there are two spawns of 3805 above the ground that nobody has managed to disperse.
They formed their own passageways and offer entry into 3805.
A few brave personnel have attempted to take expeditions to seal the tunnels to 3805,
and others have accidentally stumbled across it in oil drilling or similar operations. They reported
seeing dark liquid, tentacles, and the joints of a creature. While some escaped alive, others were
less lucky. It seems that 3805 absorbed them. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to collect much
information about 3805 because of its location. The high temperatures
that deep into the core of the earth make it difficult to actually get anywhere near it.
But ultimately, it seems like humanity is at the mercy of this insentient, sprawling being below
the ground. It’s just a waiting game until one day, 3805 hatches or breaks out of the ground
and takes the world for itself. Perhaps it will absorb everything and everyone on the surface.
Worryingly, oil drilling operations appear to have awakened the beast already,
and the spawn now on the surface of the earth puts human life in grave danger.
Also lying below the ground is SCP-2935. And this SCP is even crazier than 3805,
because it’s not just threatening to hatch out and destroy the world — it promises to alter
time and reality too, causing a CK event. From the outside, 2935 just looks like a
regular cave. But instead of leaving to some damp, dark grotto, it contains the
passageway to an alternate reality. 2935 leads to an exact replica of the
world we know, except for one key difference. There’s no life there. It’s not just human life
that’s absent but also animals, plants, and sentient entities like machines and computers.
After noticing strange radio signals coming from the cave in Indiana, the SCP foundation sent a
drone down the cave to investigate. They could never have predicted what they’d find. There were
corpses lying all over the ground, of animals and humans alike. It seemed that they had died
spontaneously and instantly, because the corpses were dotted around, as if the people had been
going about their daily activities when they died. Mysteriously, there was a message being broadcast
from the SCP foundation in the alternative reality saying that there had been a containment
breach and communication breakdown, urging everyone to stay in their home.
The foundation sent teams to find out more and collect samples. They arrived to find the area
almost exactly the same as the world on the other side of the cave, but with all life gone. Even the
most dangerous SCPs from the foundation had died. The samples they took revealed some surprising
facts. Each organism had suffered 100% cell death, explaining why the corpses weren’t
rotting. Judging by the date on a newspaper found there, this had happened on 20 April 2016,
or a few days before the team arrived. But what — or who — had killed everyone?
On a later mission, even stranger things started happening. One of the personnel, agent Keller,
was exploring a Foundation site in the alternate reality, when he sent out an ominous message to
the rest of the team. He told them to seal the cave in and detonated the building where
he was — killing himself and the rest of his men. Incidentally, Keller’s corpse from the
alternate dimension was the only one decomposing. This is where things get complicated. It turned
out that Keller had found an encrypted message written by alternate-dimension Keller, who had
set out on a mission to a different alternate dimension after detecting strange radio signals
from the cave. But when this alternate-dimension Keller returned, he found every living thing in
his own dimension dead. He then killed himself. The Keller from this dimension opted to kill
himself when he found out, worrying that if he returned to his own dimension it would result
in the death of every living creature there, too. The Foundation promptly sealed the cave.
Although there’s lots of uncertainty over how the people in the alternate world died, the foundation
suspects some creature is using radio signals to lure foundation members down caves. If it
succeeds, it could spell death and destruction in an infinite number of realities and dimensions.