Imagine a creature that despite everything - despite uncountable times that it’s been
destroyed in the most painful and devastating manner, atomic weaponry, hellfire - an entire
arsenal of military grade missiles - the most corrosive chemical compounds known to man
- hell, even the cosmic power of love and kindness - none of which eliminate it.
It’s body is battered and ruined - but yet it refuses to die.
Oh - and also, it despises humanity and everything we stand for.
Eh - this one’s not so pretty.
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Hello Internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life’s
Biggest Questions - your one stop shop for everything that incorporates the weird, wonderful
world of the SCP Foundation.
As always, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as we cautiously ask the
question, What If SCP-682 Was Real?
Ah - as you all may know, we’ve cultivated quite the relationship with our partners over
at the SCP Foundation - and with each and every examination of the archives, we slowly
achieve our goal of gently letting the world know the existence of some of the most terrifying
anomalous entities under the Foundation’s containment - wait, that wasn’t meant to
be in my script.
I thought we were lying still.
Oh well.
If you know anything about the SCP Foundation - you’ll know that perhaps one of it’s
most iconic entries is that of the Hard To Destroy Reptile - the Unkillable Lizard.
SCP-682, a creature of such seething hatred that even SCP-999, the literal living embodiment
of joy has a hard time trying to convince him that he isn’t the personification of
pain and misery.
Spoilers - he is.
As the record states - SCP-682 is a large, vaguely reptile-like creature of unknown origin.
Although it is widely considered that he’s one of the Scarlet King’s seven leviathans
- which is bad news all around.
The Hard To Destroy Reptile appears to be extremely intelligent, and has been observed
on multiple occasions communicating with other skips - such as 079 during limited periods
of exposure.
The most worrying component of SCP-682’s existence, is that it appears to have a hatred
of all life - which it erroneously expresses pretty much every time the Foundation and
it’s researchers try to sit it down and speak to it.
But what’s all the fuss about?
Well - SCP-682 has continuously been observed to have extremely high strength, speed and
reflexes - which it demonstrates pretty much every time it’s participated in a containment
breach.
Which - admittedly, is worryingly often.
Its body grows and changes at a staggering rate - growing or decreasing in size as it
consumes or sheds material.
It appears to gain energy from anything that it ingests - be it organic or inorganic.
And here lies the system that makes SCP-682 so terrifying.
Although it is continuously contained in a vat of acid - it demonstrates the ability
to constantly regenerate its dissolving body.
SCP-682’s regenerative capabilities and resilience are staggering - and the creature
has been observed moving and speaking with its body 87% destroyed or rotted.
87% - that’s like, a foot, a bit of an ankle - an eye and a few teeth.
That’s pretty worrying, right?
Well - what if a creature of such terrifying magnitude was real?
How would we contain such an immovable force?
In actual fact, our best bet would be to look at the techniques already employed by the
SCP Foundation - and thankfully hope our lucky stars that such a theoretical organisation
may or may not already exist.
It’s difficult, because our frame of reference is pretty much non-existent.
Let’s take a look at one of the most dangerous contaminants on Earth, right now.
The Elephant's Foot, also known as Chernobyl’s Hot Mess - is an extremely radioactive mass
of corium formed during the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986.
The radiation level near to the mass is approximately 8’000 units of radiation per hour - an unparalleled
lethal dosage that is essentially a death sentence just by being close to its vicinity.
The only solution that we have for The Elephant’s Foot is, well - better leave it there for
a few thousand years while it cools down.
And for the most part, that’s good enough for us.
Don’t Go Near The Elephant's Foot.
Simple.
But - that’s not really the same is it, the Elephant’s Foot doesn’t hate us like
SCP-682 does - it just IS - it’s a THING.
It can’t move - thankfully.
Generally, our tactic as a species has been - avoid it if its dangerous - or get enough
friends to fight it.
The Elephant's Foot is easy.
Don’t go there.
In the wilderness it was a different story - hide up a tree, get enough friends to throw
rocks at that lion - and hope that it either dies or runs away.
That tactic has pretty much seen us safe and sound for the majority of our species - and
still translates to this day.
If there’s a grizzly bear on the loose, enough people with enough tranquilizers and
rifles will sort it out.
But - here’s the problem, SCP-682 can’t be tranquilized - and it can’t be killed.
Out of all of the Foundation’s containments, 682 has notched up his fair share of breaches.
To date, The Hard To Destroy Reptile has attempted to break out on seventeen separate occasions,
and its successful breaches have numbered at six.
The Foundation’s procedure during a breach has been to employ all available Mobile Task
Forces to track and eventually re-capture it, although no Mobile Task Forces with fewer
than seven members are cleared to engage it.
Because - usually, a lot of them don’t survive.
Again, remember what I said about hiding up trees and throwing rocks at that lion?
Yeah, same kind of thing - except instead of throwing rocks, you’re throwing your
friends at it.
So what does the Foundation do?
Well, they contain it in an acid-resistant steel plated containment chamber filled with
hydrochloric acid and hope for the best.
Yeah - it hasn’t been the most successful course of action - and the Foundation are
pretty much sick and tired of the whole deal, but I think I’ve got a better plan - so
hear me out.
I feel like we’ve got two possible scenarios.
First up, let’s look at the deepest point on the planet.
The Kola Superdeep Borehole, in the Pechengsky District of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
It’s greatest depth is 12,626 metres - or 7.19 miles down.
So there we have it, throw him down the hole - fill the whole thing with hydrochloric acid
- seal it up with steel plating and hope for the best.
Eventually he’d get out - but at least we wouldn’t have to worry about it for a while.
The second possible scenario is perhaps a little more lofty.
SCP-682 is a threat to our planet and its people - so why don’t we make it the problem
of another planet?
Let’s subdue it in a sealed vat of acid - strap it to a rocket propelled missile - and
send it to the Moon.
Yeah, it might mean that we wouldn’t have a safe base of operations for our Lunar Colony
- but hey, at least we’ve still got Mars, right?
Well - there we have it folks.
Our two-step guide on how to finally get rid of the Hard to Destroy Reptile problem.
I hope you’re listening, SCP-Foundation - thank me later.
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Cheers for sticking around all the way to the end guys, as always - I’ve been your
host Jack Finch - you’ve been watching Life’s Biggest Questions - and until next time, you
take it easy.