Document recovered from the Marianas Trench
The SCP foundation with all of their vast resources knowledge and capabilities really has only one goal
maintain normality
every monster that is contained every phenomena that is covered up
and every incident that is wiped away is done so that everyday humans can continue their everyday lives
By and large this goal is successful and life goes on
But we've looked at some examples where the public gets a proper eyeful the other side of the veil
Such as the broken masquerade canon
The tale I'll be reading today, The Document recovered from the Marianas Trench
details a scenario in which things go very wrong for the world
and the Foundation races to return things to normal
It's not an especially long tail and it actually doesn't reference any existing SCPs
but the implications are especially scintillating
I need to write this down
because I forget things sometimes and I think what I heard today was important
Not to me the time for me or almost anyone else alive on earth today to make a difference is past
but someone somewhere might be able to make something of this or at least find it helpful
or something
Once I'm done, I'm going to seal it up in a pipe coated in wax and chuck it into the ravine
Maybe someday someone will read this and try to put things together if they're allowed to
I'd love to start at the beginning but I'm honestly not sure when the world started to end
Could have been years and years before the final bits or it could have been all at once
Everything was so grim. But with warmer air cooler seas too little gas and too many people
Things could have been unraveling for ages before things bubbled up to the public eye
What I and others remember most was when the Disney Magic sank
It was then I think that most people started to think that things might be worse than they seemed
The Disney magic was a big cruise ship one of those liner jobs the tools around islands and stuff
One day the news was all screaming about how it suddenly just went down when it was trying to put into port
The weird thing about it was how there was no video of it for a long time
Some still pictures of it floating fine, but none of it actually going down
Then somehow a tape showed up and the news started playing it
I have to imagine they didn't review it first
The ship was puffing along strong and fast, little boats bobbing around it looking like every vacation lovers dream
when suddenly it stopped
I mean stopped just a dead halt like it had just slammed into a mountain
You could see people go lurching forward all over the deck, bunch of junk fall off the sides, a real mess
It's all still for a few seconds then suddenly there's this foaming behind the ship
Most people assumed it was the engine trying to fire up again
Then the arm came up
I'm not sure if it actually was an arm
But it was some kind of limb and it must have been a hundred feet long at least
It reached up along the side of the boat and just
ripped it open. I mean unzipped it like a coat and you could see all the people inside screaming and running
It was awful
Then he saw something lurched up, a big spiny shape pushing against that gap shoving in
Then there was an explosion on its back and the camera whipped up to show a couple of jets whizzing by
Then it ended
I remember just sitting there stunned looking at the TV barely noticing the president coming on to declare a state of emergency
I think it was two or three days later when the TV went under full government control, but it may have been a week
I'm not sure
Internet got clamped later, but soon all you could hear read or see was "Remain calm. Everything is under control."
The oddest thing was that life really didn't change much for a while:
bills still came, still had to work, go to school all that
Just a lot more scared faces and a lot more weird talk
Pretty soon we were getting told that whole towns were being evacuated but there was a plague or a riot or a terrorist bomb
or some other nightmare
My brother down south said that they got moved because of a huge wildfire
The weird thing was he said that the fire moved oddly
Seemed to shoot right for gas or brush, and didn't travel evenly
That after a while he swore. He saw what looked like a 20 foot tall man of fire walking and eating everything
the call got dropped right after he said that
I haven't talked to him since
So things got worse little by little
People kept being moved and there was no real way to communicate with each other anymore that was really reliable,
so it was hard to say just how bad things were
Still word-of-mouth was still going strong and it was creepy, crazy shit really. Stuff about zombies in the north
killing frenzies in the east, a place near the ocean where the ground was alive and eating people
a cult screaming about the second coming and killing people to buy off God
I started pulling more and more away from people just to get some ignorant peace of mind
Looking back that probably saved my life
Finally one day I woke up and there was blood on my window
It was outside and I could hear some insane shit going down outside
Screaming clanking gunshots and a smell like burning wires
I hid
I'm not ashamed to admit it. I left my fellow man to rot and hid inside for almost a full week long after the noise stopped
After the fifth day the electricity and gas gave out along with the running water
When I finally got hard up for supplies I poked my nose out and saw that the whole west side of the world was gone
Now I don't know for sure if it actually is gone
But there is a cliff that starts 30 feet to the west of my house and I cannot see the bottom of it
I also can't see the other side of this ravine, so for all intents and purposes that part of the world is gone for me
The suburb I was in looked like a warzone
blood and broken stuff everywhere houses carved up
No bodies, though
Which I still think was weird
I scrounged up some food and stuff from some of the houses then went back home
I've been doing that for a while now
I'm not sure how long really might have been years and years or just a few months, it's hard to say
Sometimes the Sun just sticks in one spot for what feels like days
Other times these clouds roll in and you can't see two feet
there's
things around too
I run at the first noise, but I think they're about man-sized and they seem to like metal
Other little things scramble around in the rubble sometimes so I try and keep clear
One time a thing that looked like a pill bug the size of a cat crawled out looked at me and screamed
"Stop!" in perfect English
I hid inside for days
There are also these big blimp things that float around sometimes
They have little bug legs on their undersides and they look kind of like maggots but with eyes all over
They eat everything when they land but most of the time they stay high up
One of these had just passed when I found the hurt guy
He was all ripped up and looked like one of those SWAT team guys you see on TV sometimes
but his combat suit thing was all ripped to hell
I dragged him back home and then we talked
He said that he had been hunting the blimp thing but had gotten attacked
He wouldn't say by what but he looked like he was on his last legs
I fed him some canned beans and some water and he seemed to come around a little
Asked me who I was if I was all right and all that
He seemed kind of shocked when I said he was the first person I'd seen since the rest of the world vanished
He told me it wasn't gone just
relocated, but wouldn't say what that meant
I helped heal him up and kept asking who he was but he wouldn't say
Finally, he said screw it that his orders were probably no good anymore anyway and told me
He said he worked for a foundation or something and that they were like a combination jail and research center
He said that he was one of the agents who went around trying to find strange stuff and keep it from hurting people
I said he was doing a hell of a job so far and he laughed pretty hard
He said something had happened and that a bunch of these things had gotten loose at the same time and caused this
foundation place to lose control
He said it became a gh zero dead greenhouse scenario. I
Asked him what that meant and he looked at me for a while before going on
He said that's what they call a situation where everybody on Earth dies, but the Earth itself is still okay and can support life
I asked what did that matter if everybody's dead and he smiled strangely
I asked him if anyone else on Earth was still alive, and he said yes, but carefully spread out and contained
After that, I just sort of sat and digested things for a bit and the man started stretching and checking his cuts
He was starting to pull his boots on when I asked what happens now
He said that they have to
reboot things
Said they have the technology to recreate almost anything and that making people is actually pretty easy
Said that they would clean out and contain things, rebuild the broken cities and repopulate them
It would take a long long time, but he said they would eventually get things back to the way they were before
Even said they could recreate memories and stuff
I just sat kind of stunned and watched him as he just kept going along getting dressed. Like this was all no big deal
I told him he was nuts that there was no way people could just forget that this could all just be swept away
he stopped looked at me, smiled and then said
"Why not? It's been done before."
I don't know if that man was crazy or not, but I think he was sane
As he was leaving, he said something about putting my house under water
Please don't let them brush me away. Don't let them hide us try and find more
I know there's got to be more people who try to leave something behind
Don't let the world die in vain
Remember us.