What don’t these monsters understand about the SCP creed?
Secure CONTAIN Protect!
How are they just gonna ignore that middle directive there?
I suppose that kind of behaviour is inevitable when you’re a dangerous and unpredictable
creature, but still!
I suppose it’s best to be aware of things that escaped rather than pretend they don’t
exist, right?
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we’re going to be taking a look at
the Top 5 Scary SCP Monsters That Breached Containment - Part 2.
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Houdini horrors.
Outstanding, let’s begin.
NUMBER FIVE: SCP-457 Ah, the literal embodiment of fire.
Good.
SCP-457 is a sentient being composed entirely of flame.
It’s not a beast that can catch fire, or a pre-existing fire come to life, it IS fire.
The actual composition is unknown, but we know it’s HOT.
If it’s not causing massive fires and burning up all sorts of stuff, it’s really hard
to detect too.
In fact, some claim that it is totally undetectable with current technology.
That is step one to it’s master escape plan.
Step two is reaching a point where it can be large enough to gain intelligence.
See, it’s base form is that of a single flame around the size of a matchstick.
It possessed a very simple directive: burn more stuff, make bigger flames.
As it does so, it can start assuming complex shapes.
One of 457’s favourite forms is that of a humanoid, kind of like The Human Torch,
but less loveable.
The bigger the flame gets, the bigger it’s brain is, figuratively speaking.
Its intelligence grows with its size and fuel sources.
The flame has even been known to communicate by burning letters onto surfaces.
Once it reaches a certain size, it will split off into two flames, and do so as long as
there is still fuel to spare.
However, this is very upsetting to the flame, as fuel tends to be limited, so these beings
will often fight one another.
Beyond extinguishing other flame bodies, 457’s behaviour is pretty predictable.
It just wants to acquire more fuel so it can spread.
There’s danger hidden in here, though, as the gaining of intelligence can prove to be
quite tricky.
It has been seen learning and mimicking behaviours in order to get what it wants, and has actually
managed to escape containment on different occasions.
One time it damaged sprinkler systems to make a quick getaway, and it’s even attempted
to reason with Foundation personnel in order to be released or access more fuel.
You definitely don’t want 457 escaping, as it’ll likely go right back to where it
was discovered: causing forest fires.
Smokey does not approve.
NUMBER FOUR: SCP-3994 Normal.
Human.
People.
They don’t sound too normal, do they?
Sounds like a bunch of rats wearing a trenchcoat, or codewords for the lizard-brains pulling
the strings from beneath our cities.
And, well, these are definitely not normal human people.
They’re extraterrestrial entities that take on human forms to learn and get what they
want.
When they first arrived on our planet, they did their best to fit in.
The creatures themselves are unknowable gooey substances.
So they developed shells that let them mimic people.
A lot of their shells are… less than convincing.
They feature twisted appendages, severe malformations, and disproportionate skeletons.
Instances of 3994 would attempt to copy speech patterns, dialects, and languages of the folks
nearby.
This ended up with a lot of nonsense being spewed, word salad style.
Isn’t that such a fun phrase?
However, all instances are telepathically linked, meaning they can learn a whole lot
very quickly.
These days, they’re largely indistinguishable from human beings.
For these reasons, the Foundation encourages anyone who is in contact with a 3994 instance
to teach them everything wrong.
Tell them shoes are for hands.
That up is down, and that screaming in the library is polite.
Show them books and movies with scrambled-up words, and for goodness sakes, DON’T PROVIDE
THEM WITH NON-FICTION.
If they learn too much, they’ll disappear.
Then what?
Hell, they’re already probably too smart.
It’s probably no surprise that they’ve managed to sneak a few instances out of containment
under the guise of being someone else.
And they’ll keep doing this until they’ve infiltrated everything.
Considering the state everything is in these days, they’ve probably succeeded in this
mission.
NUMBER THREE: SCP 2662 The poor guy doesn’t even want to breach
containment.
He’d rather just hang out and read the news, maybe play some videogames.
But they won’t let him be.
No way, he’s their Lord and Saviour.
2662 is a cognitohazardous entity around 4m tall.
A humanoid of sorts, this creature has arms and legs and 20 muscular hydrostats similar
to cephalopod limbs sprouting from his back.
2662 doesn’t really affect one’s brain until there is multiple exposures.
If you are in the same room with him daily, interacting with the tentacled tenant, you’ll
fall under his spell.
The thing is, he doesn’t want that to happen!
Folks exposed for 6 months or so will often become very aware of his wants and needs,
and will feel compelled to fulfill them.
Often they will get pushy in their attempts to do so.
That’s just the beginning, too.
There’s a secondary anomalous effect where he spontaneously generates religious followings
around once per month.
This involuntary act causes him a whole bucketload of stress.
These zealots will focus all of their energy on breaking 2662 out of containment.
Containment that he voluntarily checked himself into.
When the worshippers show up, they will often perform various rituals that are violent and
sexual in nature.
How would you like it if some nude lunatics broke into your room and interrupted your
alone time by bleeding on you.
A bad time.
And while the Foundation tends to execute these followers with extreme prejudice, they
always come back in different forms.
Even if they've never had any contact with other sects, they appear to adapt after each
failed attempt.
So 2662 ends up outside Foundation walls quite often.
Again, the poor guy.
NUMBER TWO: SCP-3179 Liquid metal has never been this terrifying.
Well, maybe some of the Terminators.
And I mean molten metal can cause a lot of damage.
Okay, we can probably agree that liquid metal is always terrifying, but this stuff especially.
It’s a liquid metal organism that varies in size.
It can expand its mass, alter its form, and even create smaller, autonomous entities.
Right now it’s being contained by a damaged Cogwork Orthodoxy unit, but it seems that
it will fail in the near future.
Good luck to us.
3179 is quite intelligent for a big mass of metal, and uses this brainpower often.
It tends to grow all sorts of different metal parts with the express purpose of breaching
containment.
Usually it will expand via rod-like structures that protrude out of its body.
However it also likes to spawn little metal automatons to do its bidding.
They’ll often simulate organic appearances in order to trick Foundation members.
These metal maniacs have been known to actually take the form of guards and researchers.
3179’s escape tactics have changed over time, too.
One attempt involved growing legs on its underside, and another saw it sprouting propellors and
trying to fly away.
It has made flying drones, imitate the voices of people around it, and even spawned an automaton
so identical to an MTF member it was almost impossible to weed out.
Worst of all, it has discovered that worshippers of Mekhane believe it to be the seed of their
god.
Following this discovery, it has sent out scripture on metal tablets, beckoning to his
followers, commanding them to set him free.
All of the escape attempts have proven that 3179 really doesn’t care for human life
in the slightest.
They all end up with widespread destruction, and are quite costly.
My goodness.
NUMBER ONE: SCP-682 This one is pretty much self-explanatory,
isn’t it?
If I had a nickel for every time 682 breached containment…
Well, I’d have a lot of nickels, okay?
This hard-to-kill lizard is a pain in the ass for just about everyone involved.
Sometimes more than the ass.
Sure, the Foundation has managed to keep it relatively subdued through use of terrifying
corrosive acid, but it still finds a way.
Just about every time another SCP causes a lick of trouble, 682 is ready to bust through
the plexiglass and run rampant.
Hell, even introducing it to 999, the cuddliest creature going, caused a breach.
It’s just always ready to end some lives.
That’s just in its nature.
In fact, it escapes so often and is so dangerous while doing so, rules have been put in place
to make sure that nobody goes after it unprepared.
All available MTFs are sent after 682, and none are allowed to have less than seven members.
Looking at the list of breaches, most folks involved are killed in action.
My goodness.
As we’ve discussed in the past, termination isn’t even an option, so we’ve just got
to deal with breach after terrifying breach.
Keep it up, 682.
We’ll get you someday.
OUTRO Sheesh!
Maybe the Foundation should adopt a more deadly mantra.
The whole containment process seems like an expensive, hit-or-miss exercise.
Oh well, they’re doing their best I suppose.
What did you think of the list?
What SCP escape artist is your favourite?
Do you have a preferred 682-escape-story?
Make sure you let me know down in the comments.
Speaking of comments, let’s take a look at some of your more snotty ones from the
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