Chaos, all over the entire world. Chaos all by the very people that had once sworn to protect or with their lives, now wanting to destroy everyone alive. The SCP Foundation...they had changed for the worst, for reasons that no one understands, not knowing why this had became the way it is. And humanity, they are struggling to be protected, struggling to be kept safe by any groups of interest that has any way to save them, but too no avail.

Inside of a Foundation Site, this one being Site-17, there is shown to be many MTF members that are running down the hallway, guns in hand, as they killed many scientists left and right, as well as beginning to terminate multiple humanoid SCPs, even the young ones, not sparing any children in the rampage. However, many of the young children are being sent to a pocket dimension of some sort by an entity that is still firmly on the side of humanity, now against the foundation.

The MTF members looked and saw a familiar man walking down the hallway, his hands in his pants pockets, as he looks at the MTF in disappointment, not very happy with what he is seeing. 

SCP-4606, Deimos, looks at the MTF members, as they point their guns at him, with Deimos narrowing his eyes, as the MTF Members spoke out.

"Terminate him. Do not let him live."

Deimos glared a bit calmly, before he then changed his form into something else, not even bothering to drag them into the pocket dimension, as wings sprout onto his back, his clothes vanish, and his hands began to then into claws, while horns appear from the sides of his head, his feet becoming talons in a way.

Before the MTF soldiers can react, Deimos instantly closed the distance and went in after them, slashing and killing them by the neck, as their heads are cut off from their shoulders, and the bodies collapsed to the ground. Deimos landed onto the ground, and he clenched his fist a little bit, as he looks up and frowned a little, and he spoke out.

"Little one...why...why would you do this? You wanted to protect humanity, not destroy it. What has gotten into you?"

Deimos thought back at his former friend, O5-3, who he was friends with since World War 2, and has no suddenly went against humanity. Deimos clenched his sit, a little hurt and betrayed by what he had decided to do. But as he looked down, he then felt something. Another presence from within the facility. He turns and he began to run towards the soured of where it is coming from. He looks, and he saw MTF soldiers firing at a duo of some sort, no doubt SCPs as well, yet the soldiers are somehow getting killed unexpectedly. One of them even tried to throw a grenade, but when it exploded, the MTF soldiers also exploded as well. Deimos looked to see who it is that the soldiers were fighting against, and he gets to see their appearance.

One of them is a tall man with black hair and blue eyes, at over 6 feet in height, possessing metallic arms and legs and a spine, and has a symbol on his forehead. Deimos has no idea who this is, but he can tell that he is very old, he can feel it, much older than even himself, for many, many millennia compared to him. But that is not the only person that is being attacked, for there is another one behind him, holding him by the left arm, as she leaned into the side and looked to see if the MTFs are dead or not. The other person that he is with is a young teenager with deer hooves and antlers, as well as some ears. She is wearing some white clothing and has blonde hair, as she spoke out.

"...are...are they gone, Cain?"

Cain, the name of the cyborg-like entity, looks down at the young girl and nodded his head, as he spoke out, his voice sounding cold and mechanical.

"Of course, Epon, young child. They are gone. They will not harm us, as long as you are with me."

Epon nodded her head, as Deimos saw that there is someone else here, and is about to shoot Epon. Thinking quickly, Deimos flied past the duo and slashes the man in the throat, killing him instantly. He landed onto the ground, and changed back to his human-like form, and turned around, and turned around to see the duo, who are surprised at his sudden appearance.

"Are you 2 alright?"

Cain nodded, as Epon nodded as well, and Cain spoke out.

"Who are you?"

Deimos looks at the duo and spoke out to them.

"My name is Deimos, and you both?"

Cain stepped forward, as he then spoke out to Deimos.

"My name is Cain. This is Epon, someone who I was assigned to take care of by some of the foundation doctors, only for many foundation soldiers and doctors to turn against us."

Deimos nodded his head, as he spoke out.

"I know, and the entire world is in trouble, for the Foundation turned against it."

Epon looked in shock and horror, as Cain spoke out.

"What? What do you mean, the foundation turned against the word?"

Deimos looked at Cain in the eye, as he spoke out.

"The entire foundation is not just simply attacking their own allies and personnel, they have decided to destroy humanity as a whole, for reasons that even I know not of."

This made Cain and Epon's eyes widen in alarm and shock, as Cain simply just spoke out one word.

"...no."

Epon, trembling in distress and sadness, spoke out.

"Why? Why would they go this far in this betrayal?"

Deimos shook his head, as he spoke out.

"Not even I know why this is the case. And the fact that the little one, an O5 and an old friend of mine, would do this...even I cannot believe that he would betray me the way he did."

He looks up at the duo, as Deimos spoke out.

"Where do you people plan to go once you get out?"

Cain looks down for a little bit, as he spoke out.

"We do not know. Do you have any idea?"

Deimos looks at him and nodded, for he does have some good idea on what to do in this apocalyptic mess.

"I do. Going to a group of interest and find some protection there."

Cain and Epon looked at Deimos, a little uneasy, but they decided that it is the best chance that they have got, as Epon spoke out.

"Can you lead us to one of them?"

Deimos nodded his head, as he spoke out.

"I can. But before I do that...I need to find someone. I need to find my brother, who is still inside of this facility."

Cain looked and nodded with a look of understanding present onto his face, as he spoke out.

"Do you mind if we can join you?"

Deimos looks at Cain and spoke out in a rather surprised way, not expecting such a proposal.

"Do you really want to join me into finding my brother?"

Cain nodded his head, as he spoke out to him.

"Of course. And it will be easier for you, since no shot can ever hurt me, and will instead hurt the ones that dare attack me first. So, I can act as a personal shield for you."

Deimos blinked his eyes for a bit, but he then smiled, as he nodded his head.

"That is an idea that I can get behind. Of course, come along with me. And perhaps we can find some other anomalies like us along the way, to join this group."

Cain nodded, and Epon did the same, as she spoke out.

"Okay, this is nice. And let us please hurry. I have no idea how long I can handle staying here."

Deimos nodded, as he goes and runs down the corridor, with Cain and Epon doing the same, although Epon is carried by Cain just to make things easier for them. As they continued on, they encountered some more of the SCP Foundation, who aimed their guns at Deimos. This made Deimos annoyed, as he then changed his body and appearance into a very odd one.

He gained 2 pairs of wings, a single eye, and his body is mostly pale in color, with black claws at the end. He narrowed his single eye, as he swipes in and kills them with ease. Some more foundation people fired at him. But Cain got in the way, and the bullets hit the center of his head. When that happened, the soldiers collapsed, as they have bullet holes in their faces. Epon comes to Cain and held his hand, as she felt a bit scared, as Deimos spoke out to Cain, despite having no mouth.

"Thank you, Cain. I appreciate what you have done for me."

Cain nodded his head, as Deimos continues to fly through the entire site, in order to find out where his brother resides in. Cain and Epon followed suit, as they try all that they can to watch his back and ensures that he is able to get the off the entire site without any sort of interruptions by the Foundation's Mobile Task Force. After a little bit of traveling, they eventually stumbled upon a containment site of some sort that is luckily not touched yet, with someone inside of it, and the entity inside looked rather, odd.

Inside of the containment room, luckily untouched and not spotted yet, is a large figure, resembling Ro-Man from the movie, Robot Monster, but he looked very confused and scared of what is happening, as Deimos enters the containment chamber and spoke out to the entity.

"Hello there. It is about time we meet."

This made the entity look and sees Deimos, still in his creepy angel form, as the entity spoke out.

"RAAAAAARRRRGHH, fear me!"

Deimos smiled, as he shapeshift into another form.

He now resembles a humanoid entity that seems to be flayed all over, with long black hair covering most of the body. And oddly, it looks feminine in appearance. This made the other entity confused, as it shapeshift into a lizard man of some sort, as if trying to scare him. But Deimos flipped that around and changed into another form.

He now resembles a sphere made of nothing but limbs, with bloodshot eyes all over the gaps, and it made the other entity a little weirded out, as he spoke out.

"What is this? Who are you?"

Deimos changed into his humanoid form, as he spoke out.

"We have a lot to talk about. It is about time you understand who you are."

Deimos turns to look at Cain, as he spoke out to him.

"Cain, do you mind if I leave for a little bit? I need to talk to him. Perhaps you can take the chance to find some more anomalies that are out in this site still."

Cain nodded, and Deimos then prepares to make his talk somewhere else, as the sounds of cracking was heard.

A portal opens up, as the entity went inside of it, in order to talk with Deimos, who also went inside before the portal closed. Cain looks at the sight of where the portal once was, before he began to walk around with Epon in hand. He needs to find if there are any other SCPs that are still alive inside of this site. Cain began to travel around going through the hallways of the site, which are littered with a bunch of dead bodies for a whole 10 minutes, with Epon holding his arm, looking scared at what she is seeing.

"Ooooooh...I cannot believe that the people who swore to never drop never hurt me and allow me to meet with the church, would students start to do this, betraying everyone."

Cain looks down at Epon, as he then spoke out to her.

"I know, Epon. I know. None of us could believe that they would this. But we cannot worry about that right now. We need to find some more survivors."

Epon nodded and they kept on moving for an additional 4, until he then heard the sounds of something, or someone, accidentally hitting a wall. This made Epon stop, as she ran ahead and looked to see where the source of that sound came from. She looked and she was able to see who it is that had crashed.

On the ground before Epon, is a young teenager of some sort, resembling a teenager with red hair and a blue sweater, and he looks to be about the same age as her, except that he seems to feel a lot older than her despite his own appearance. The front of his head appeared to be bleeding, but it is not from the crash, almost like it is from something much harder and more painful than that. He looked around and saw the girl, and he looked a bit scared, as he shook a bit. Epon, seeing this fear, bends down and extends her hand out, as she spoke out.

"Hey...shhh...do not be afraid. I am not here to hurt you. Please...get up. You will be safe with me and my caretaker."

The boy felt a little bit nervous at first, almost as if he does not trust them. But slowly, he held his hand out, and grabbed Epon's own hand, who then pulls him up from the ground, and held his hand with both of her own hands, as she spoke out.

"That is it. Do you have a name?"

The boy was silent...before he then spoke out.

"Thomas. I'm...Thomas Bright."

This made Epon blink her eyes, as she spoke out.

"Bright...are you related to someone named Jack Bright?"

Thomas looked surprised, but he nodded his head and spoke out.

"Yes...he's my older brother."

This made Epon confused, as she spoke out.

"Brother...how come you are not with him? He never even mentioned you to me before when I talked to him multiple times."

He looked down...and silent tears came out of his eyes, as he spoke out.

"Because of...what the foundation did to me, and my brother did nothing to help me. The foundation...they fractured my mind...trapped me inside my own head...and I had something act like a toddler...inside and in my place. I have been inside...screaming for help, begging to come out...but no one came for me. Not even my brother, who knew what had happened to me, yet he did nothing to help me. He abandoned me, when I needed him, for decades."

Epon's eyes widened and her mouth dropped in shock, as she spoke out.

"Decades?"

Thomas looked at Epon and spoke out.

"I...haven't aged in so long. I am...still a teenager in appearance and body. But I...I was aware of what's happened to me...and yet...I couldn't do anything. Can't even...take back my mind."

Epon looked at him sadly, as she grabbed him by the shoulder and spoke out.

"So...why are you like this now? How did you regain control?"

Thomas looked at Epon, before he spoke out.

"The foundation...they went nuts, when I had someone...inside with me. They tried to shoot me, but Jack when in the way, and...he toon the hit himself, when someone else grabbed onto...his amulet. He picked me up, and...he tried to carry me away. But...someone attacked him, and I was thrown hard into a metal support beam. When I...woke up. I was awake again. I haven't felt this way...in so long. I...I felt free. But...the foundation people were onto me and...because of this...I tried to hide. I tried to escape, I tried to...to get away from them. I didn't want to be hurt by them."

This made Epon look sad at him, but he touched him by his cheek and spoke gently to him.

"Don't worry, Thomas. You're with us now. And we now have someone with us who will be able to aid us in getting away from the Foundation."

This made Thomas surprised, as he sniffed, while choking into his tears.

"R-Really?"

Epon looked and smiled at him, as she nodded.

"Really. You will be free this time. You won't be hurt anymore."

Thomas sniffed and hiccuped, but this time in joy, due to never being free in so long. Epon pulls him in for a hug and Thomas held onto her tight. His body shakes a little bit, as silent gasps and hiccups on relief are present, clearly joyful that he finally gets to be free from all that has happened to him. After a little bit, he backs away of Epon, as she held his hand for a bit, in which she spoke out to him.

"Now, come along with me and Cain. We will escape through this entire insanity together."

Thomas nodded, as Cain smiled a little bit at this, before a portal opens up, and Deimos came out of the ground, along with the other shapeshifting entity that he had been looking for, and the entity, he has a look of realization of some sort, even though he does not know everything just yet, from whatever it was that Deimos said to him.

"Deimos, I see that you are back. Did you get what you want?"

Deimos nodded his head, as he then spoke out.

"Yes...I do...I have found what I wanted to do for so long."

The entity next to him stepped forward and later spoke out for a little bit.

"Wanting me...his twin brother...Phobos. I...remember myself now."

Deimos smiled a little bit, as he looked directly at Cain, and he then spoke out to him.

"So...shall we go? I believe we still need to get out of the foundation before they find us. And I so not worry of finding sone more, I manage to find sone kids who survived it. They are still on the pocket dimension that I have made for them."

Cain nodded his head, as Thomas spoke out.

"U-Um...yes please. Let's get out of here. Don't want to keep on staying for more to arrive."

Epon nodded, as Cain then spoke out to Deimos.

"Then let us proceed, if you are willing to lead us to the exit."

Deimos nodded, as Phobos spoke out to him.

"Always the very bold and intelligent type, brother."

Deimos looks at Phobos and smiled with pride, as he spoke out to him.

"Of course, it is what I am, brother."

Deimos and Cain took the lead, as the other members of the group then began to follow the 2 of them, with Deimos having his hands on his pockets, as Cain simply looked around in order to see where they are all now going. As they went along, Deimos turned to the left and saw an exit door. Deimos walks forward, but then, something is thrown. A grenade of some sort, as it tried to hit Deimos. But Cain for in the way and the grenade exploded in front of him, and Cain room the brunt of the attack, and this act killed then people that are outside that had thrown it. They continued to run forward, and they looked to see the foundation are outside still, hut they are mostly going through the front and only some are about to approach the side, which the group are at. Deimos narrowed his eyes, as he then spoke at this.

"It seems that we need to run fast. Cain, i need you to carry Epon. Brother, carry Thomas."

Both Cain and Phobos nodded their head, as they picked up the young teenagers, as Deimos spoke out.

"Now, let's run."

Deimos began to run fast, as Cain and Phobos did the same, as they both rushed away from the foundation site as fast as they can, in order to try and flee from the SCP MTF that are coming towards the site that they are now deciding to abandon. Although Deimos could get ahead of them if he wants to, he wants to make sure that his brother and Cain, as well as the young ones are okay and not killed in the action.

As they ran, they were able to get as far away from the vehicles as they can, and they made sure that they are out of their line of sight, being just small dots that are way too easy to miss. But as they ran and ran as fast as they can, they see that they are inside of what seemed to be a battle field of tanks that are of the USA military, with many corpses all over the place, and as that is happening, more and more of the SCP task forces are rushing to the site, and Deimos, he has an idea of how they can sneak past them.

"Everyone, get near me. It's time some disguises are in order."

Everyone did as they were told, as Deimos then changed into something rather large, and everyone went above and were hidden inside of it, as Deimos manage to make a very perfect disguise for everyone to be inside of, so that they don't get spotted by the MTF troops. By the time that they arrived at where the dead army and the corpses are at, Deimos nowhere to be seen.

In the place of Deimos, he was able to change into a tank with bodies, as SCP Foundation troops went past Deimos, who is hiding his group at his side, so that the foundation people cannot see them. As such, the MTFs ran past the group without knowing it, and when that happened, as soon as he noticed every last one of then run past him, Deimos slowly but surely changed back to his normal humanoid form, with the group able to appear, and they, except for Phobos, looked a little bit grossed out by what it is that Deimos had put them inside of.

"Okay...Deimos...you really need to make better hiding places. That was just...ugh."

Thomas said, looking like he is about to throw up. Deimos had a smile creep onto his face, as he spoke out.

"I apologize, but I wanted to make this as convincing as possible. Do not worry, you will get used to it."

Cain then spoke out.

"We are wasting time standing around. We need to leave, and fast."

Deimos looks at Cain and nodded his head, as he then spoke out.

"Right. We must go on, or more will appear. Best to gain some distance."

Everyone nodded, as Phobos spoke out.

"I shall stay behind, in case there are any that will attack the young ones."

Deimos looks and Cain spoke out.

"And I the same at the front. Deimos, please lead us to the one group of interest they you have in mind that we can be safe in."

Deimos nodded his head, as he turns to walk away, and spoke out.

"It will be a very long journey. It might take a while, but as long as we keep moving, we might be able to make it on time to this group that we could be heading towards."

Deimos and Cain began to walk, as the others followed suit. And...surprisingly, the grass under Cain is not decaying, as it is supposed to do whenever he walks onto any sort of soil with plant life on it. It would seem that Epon's own powers are somehow able to negate the powers that Cain has, while Cain is seemingly doing the same to Epon in return in canceling out her own powers as well. Thomas looked around, as he walked onto the grassy field. He had missed this feeling for quite a long time, missing the outside, the wind on his face, the breeze touching him all over, he had missed this feeling for a long time, as he is dragged by Epon, by the hand. He looks very happy, pleased even, that he is able to escape the foundation. He feels free for the very fire time in his life. And yet...despite that, he could still feel it. The childish mindset that has taken over his body for such a very long time, he could still feel him inside of his mind, just looking around in confusion.

As he continued to walk, Epon held his hand as tightly as she can. She does not know why she even wants to do that, she just does. For some reason, she feels...something for him, something that not even she can quite understand herself, and it makes her feel, strange. They kept on moving, as Phobos walked around, and he felt uneasy. He always thought that he knew of horror, he knew of fear. But now he sees, and he remembers, that this is not what fear was when he does it. What is happening, is the actual deal.

A While Later...

The group is shown to be walking, as they have their heads looking around in order to spot any sort of attackers that are coming at them. They had been walking for what must have been hours, and rarely stopped to take breaks. And the only time that they had stopped was when the both Epon and Thomas got hungry. Thankfully, Thomas managed to to snuck some candy bars, somehow, and gave it to Epon, which he had stolen from back in Site-17. So this was good enough for the group, because the break was only able to last rather shortly, and this allowed them to keep on moving once again.

As they kept on walking, they are shown to be going through a town of some sort, which is littered with so many bodies, and all of them are not moving. This made Thomas and Epon look sickened at what they are seeing before their very eyes, and while the others feel the same, they do not show it on their face, as Cain spoke out.

"It seems you are not over exaggerating the extent of what the foundation is doing, Deimos. The foundation really is going this far, destroying all of humanity as a whole. I cannot believe that they are going to do this to such horrific extents."

Deimos narrowed his eyes, as he clenched his fists tightly, with Phobos changing his appearance to that of a character with a hockey mask and has a zombified appearance from a certain horror movie involving this, as Phobos spoke out.

"Brother, what are we going to do?"

Deimos looked around, and spoke out.

"Everyone. Stay close to me as much as you can. There is a chance that there will be something there that will cause us a lot of trouble. Do not separate or get too far away from me."

Everyone heard that, as they then did as they told. They grouped together as close as they can, but not too close to where that they accidentally trip one another. Deimos sighed a bit, as he spoke out.

"Okay. Follow my lead, and do not fall behind or even try to slow down."

Deimos began to walk, as Phobos and Cain does the same. And Epon, grabbing onto Thomas' hand still, walks as well, as the group began to follow Deimos' lead, hoping to not fall behind, worried that they will be put into a rather bad so to situation if they dare let this happen to them. Both Thomas and Epon looked scared at what they are seeing, but they still kept on moving so that they all can try to survive here.

As they kept on moving, the group felt an uneasiness in the air, not entirely sure what they are getting themselves into, but they know that they are about to go through a very dangerous situation of their own, but know that they need to be ready for what dangers are about to await them. But Deimos and Cain, they are not afraid of this. Especially since they are a lot stronger than their appearances show. As they kept on walking, the sounds of screaming was heard, but it was not the scream of a human or some sort. It was a different sounding scream, and it was not human. Everyone heard it and looked up to see what was the cause of the scream in the first place, and they see a number of entities appear, and the entities that are coming towards them, they look outright revolting in their eyes.

The entities are hairless, stained with a thin layer of an albumen-like excretion, and stand at an average of 2.9 meters. Cain recognizes them, as he then spoke out.

"Oh, it is the 3199 entities. Deimos, Phobos, do not hold back against those beings. Taken them down."

Upon hearing this, both Deimos and Phobos agreed, as they then looked to see the instances of SCP-3199 charge at them, and Cain got in front of both Thomas and Epon, as the SCP-3199 instances attacked. Cain flinched, as he felt this pain before when he first encountered them, and the SCP-3199 instances fell to the floor dead, as their attacks were reflected back at them. Suddenly, more and more of the instances came out of nowhere to try and attack the kids, but Cain constantly gets in the way, and allowed the attacks to hit him, as his reflecting power is getting more and more of the SCP-3199 instances killed. In response to this, some of the SCP-3199 instances began to barf up eggs.

But both Deimos and Phobos are not going to simply let Cain have all the fun for himself. They too are going to join in so that they can kill the instances of SCP-3199 themselves. Phobos, not wanting to risk in seeing what happens if those eggs hatch, goes over to it and kicks it as hard as he can, sending the eggs somewhere else as it goes flying up into the air and disappears completely. When that happened, an SCP-3199 instance tried to attack him from behind, only for Phobos to turn around and grab it by the neck, as he then snaps its neck with little effort, before he than goes and attacks yet again, as more and more SCP-3199 instances began to attack Phobos, who then punches, swipes, and grabs them by their necks and smashes their heads together, which makes their heads explode and makes a lot of brain matter be scattered all over the place, which made a really gross scene before their very eyes. But Phobos does not care, as he continues to take them down with his own bare hands bloodily.

For Deimos, he seems to be enjoying himself for what he will do to the SCP-3199 entities that are coming his way, as he then changes into a large creature that resembles a snake of some sort, but is covered in flames and has a demonic skull in the place of the snake head, as he goes down and charges at them brutally, slashing and biting them into pieces with just his jaws, as he then wraps a tail around them and slammed them to the ground, causing their bodies to splatter into a bloody mess of organs and limbs. But the eggs that are left behind began to hatch quickly, as they then revealed baby SCP-3199 instances, and Deimos, not taking any chances at this, began to attack them and kill them immediately, not wasting a single second in seeing what will happen next. But more and more SCP-3199 instances kept on attacking, and they did not stop, but the trio of some very old and ancient beings also did not stop as well, as they kept on killing more and more of the SCP-3199 that kept on trying to attack them, despite the fact that the SCP-3199 could see that whatever that they are doing is not working on them.

As this happens, both Epon and Thomas looked nervous as they look to see more and more of the SCP-3199 continuing to attack, and needless to say, they are not very happy with whatever it is that they are dealing with, only wanting for them to just stop attacking and finally go away, and yet, in spite of that, the entities will never go away. But as that happened, Thomas looks and notices that an SCP-3199 had manage to get past the groups and is heading straight for Epon. Thinking quickly, he pulled Epon and shouted out to her.

"Watch out!!"

Thankfully, he did so just in time, with the SCP-3199 only managing to graze her at the cheek and scratch her a little bit, and this still made Epon panic and fearful a little bit, as Deimos immediately swooped in and killed the instance that had attacked Epon and almost tried to kill her. Deimos, Cain, and Phobos kept on fighting against the entities as much as they can, doing all that they could to make sure that every last one of them dies. And after a little bit of time, they finally are able to do it, as all of the SCP-3199 instances, save for some eggs left remaining, are all dead. Epon held her head, as she looked downright panicked at this, as Thomas spoke out.

"A...are they all dead?"

Cain looked down at Thomas and nodded his head, as Cain spoke out.

"Yes, they are all dead."

Thomas looked around and saw so many bodies of the SCP-3199 instances all over the places. He then looks at Epon, who is holding her cheek in a panic, and felt scared for her entire life, as Thomas spoke out.

"Hey, it's okay. We're safe from them now."

He then held her by the cheek, as his powers than activated, the cut on her cheek is gone, and it appeared in Thomas' own at the same position. This made Epon surprised, but looked horrified and sad at what he did, as she touched his face, but Thomas spoke out.

"Do not worry, I'm used to this. So it is not a big deal for me."

Epon shook her head, as she spoke out.

"N...no, Thomas...it should be a big deal. You did not need to do that. And this is something you should not get used to."

Thomas looked and smiled sadly at her for a little bit but is nevertheless happy that someone cares for him this much, as Epon's cheeks turned red without her knowledge. But the group decided not to waste any more time, as they decided that they needed to keep on moving. But This time, Epon and Thomas are holding hands, side-by-side, as they looked around and saw some shops that still have food in them. Seeing this, Thomas spoke out.

"Maybe it is best that we should take them. But where do we..."

Thomas looked and saw what must have been an abandoned SCP Military truck, as well as an oil tank truck of some sort, as Thomas has an idea.

"Okay, now this is something that we can do."

Thomas and the others gathered as much food as they can inside of the shop, as they head towards the SCP Military truck, and opened it, only to see that there are some Foundation personnel that are dead, their bodies rotted and looked like they had been left there for years. A smell of rotting meat is expelled from their bodies constantly and had injures that seem to be of head concussions, like they had been killed due to their heads hitting something, as blood can be seen on the windshields, with cracks onto it. Deimos and Phobos grabbed the bodies and throw them outside, and looked behind to see no one present. Thomas looked around and spoke out.

"Does anyone know how to drive?"

Cain then spoke out.

"I do. I had seen many of the foundation doctors and soldiers drive before, as well as how they do it. So I shall suffice."

Thomas nodded, as he and Epon put food in the trunk, but accidentally touched their hands, which made them turn away and held their own hands, as Thomas spoke out.

"O-Oh. Oops. S-Sorry."

Epon, however, shook her head, as she than spoke out to him.

"N-No, it's okay."

They then went to the back of the car, and sat on the passenger seat, as Phobos changed into an appearance that resembles a red-haired doll with scars all over the face, in order to fit in the back. Deimos sat next to Cain, who is trying to turn on the car, but it wasn't working, and looked to see that the gas supply is low. Deimos looked and felt annoyed at this, as he spoke out.

"Well this is annoying. It seems that we will need to refill it. But with what?"

Cain looked around, and then saw the Oil Truck, and spoke out.

"With that."

Cain went out of the car and looked to see a red container meant to hold gasoline. He then looks and opens the side, which is making oil spill out. Cain puts the container underneath the leaking liquid, as it falls into the container. After waiting for a long time, Cain saw that it is about to be overfilled. So he takes the container out of the way and pours it into the gas into the fuel filler for a little bit, before he finally puts the new empty container, and goes into the driver seat yet again, as he spoke out.

"Now it should work."

He turned the key and started up the truck, and it roared to life. Deimos smiled a little bit, as he spoke out to Cain.

"Shall I aid in the directions while you drive?"

Cain looks at Deimos and nodded his head, as he than spoke out to him.

"Please do."

Cain then drove backwards, before he stopped, and he then pushed the lever, and began to drive forward into parts unknown, yet Deimos is able to help Cain with wherever that they are going, ensuring that they do not get lost and are on the path refusing to let the teenagers in the back get hurt, as well as refusing to let anything or anyone else stop them. They are going to continue and try to find the Group of Interest that they are looking for that will give them salvation, the group of interest that will be the ones to help them escape the horrible nightmare that everyone is in. He just hopes that it is not too late for the group. He wants to make sure that they are able to make it in time.

Few days later...

The car is shown to be driving still, as Cain is still on a road in order to keep on moving to where they needed to be. Right now they are passing a road that is between some trees, that is littered with dead bodies, with there seeming to be instances of SCP-1262 presents all over, yet they do not seem to be attacking the group just yet, almost as if they are expiring the group to stop and fire at them in case one of them tried to get out and would fire at them. Luckily for the group, this is not the case, as all of them kept on driving through the road.

Right now, both Thomas and Epon are shown to be sleeping the trip off, as they have one of their heads resting on one another's shoulder, and they are holding hands with each other as well. Phobos jumped up a bit and goes next to his brother, as he then spoke out to Deimos.

"Brother, how long do you think we have until we are able to find this group that we are supposed to be looking for?"

Deimos looks at Phobos, as he then spoke out to him.

"Not too long, as long as the car does not get destroyed and as long as we are not interrupted by anything or anyone that dares to try and stop it."

Phobos looked and nodded his head at Deimos, as he continues to look, but notices that Cain is awfully quiet at what is going on, as he then spoke out to him.

"Cain, is something on your mind?"

Cain looks at Deimos, as he than spoke out, and although he still speaks in a cold, mechanical manner, a tone of weariness is present in his voice.

"Oh, it...it is nothing much. Just wondering about...someone that I had known for a long time. Just wondering if...I will ever see him while in this mess."

Deimos nodded, as he spoke out to Cain.

"How important is he in your eyes, if you do not mind me asking?"

Cain took a deep breath for a little bit, as he than spoke out.

"More important than even I myself care to admit."

Deimos looked silent and spoke out to him/

"I see."

Cain looks at the road still, as he took a turn, and as soon as they kept on moving, a roar was heard elsewhere, which woke both Epon and Thomas up, and they looked pretty panicked about it, mainly because they were not expecting for such a sound to occur.

"Woah, what was that?!"

Thomas said, as Epon hugged Thomas by the arm and felt very scared by what they heard. This made Deimos realize who this is, and decided to tell Cain, not wanting to waste time.

"Cain, move faster. If this is who I think it is, then we will be in some serious trouble."

Cain nodded, as he pressed puts the pedal to the metal, going in as fast as he can in order to avoid whatever it is that is bothering Deimos, not that he cannot handle him, since he knows who this one is and dealt with him with little to no issue. But as they kept on moving, the sound of the ground rumbling is heard, almost as if a sort of earthquake is happening all over the place, and needless to say, it is obvious that whatever is happening, is not good. Then, a decayed green blur is shown to be fired at the direction of the truck, and Thomas, seeing this, grabbed Epon and pulled her away from the side that the entity is appearing in, and the entity crashed into the car, breaking the windows and denting the left side of the vehicle. The door was forced open, and Thomas held onto something, so he does not get flung out of the car. When this happened, Thomas and Epon got out of the car and got out carefully, while Cain and Deimos exited out as well and Phobos changing his appearance to that of the Hockey-masked zombie again. The group looked, and Deimos realized who this is, and he is not happy.

"Oh no...him again."

The smoke cleared, as something large came out of the crater. It was someone that the foundation once had trouble with, one of the most dangerous and sickening anomalies to exist. But now it has become one of their greatest assets in exterminating the human race. It is none other than the infamous SCP-682, The Hard-to-Destroy Reptile. And it looks like he was in a fight of some sort, because he has slashes all over his body. They resemble that of someone that Cain knows of, but the cuts are smaller, yet still look very deadly to any human that had it. Deimos looked at SCP-682, as he spoke out.

"I should have known that you would be present, you revolting reptile. The foundation has shown to have quite a lot of nerve, releasing you."

SCP-682 looks at Deimos, as he spoke out.

"They did not release me, because they had the nerve to do so. No...they released me...because they saw what I saw."

Deimos looks at SCP-682, as he then spoke out to him.

"What do you mean?"

SCP-682 looks at Deimos, and snorted at him for a bit, as he spoke out.

"They saw what I saw in humanity. The truth of the way I see the humans you protect. They saw why I see them as disgusting. A truth that you are so blind to, that you refuse to take heed in."

Deimos looked confused and revolted, but he began to wonder what truth it was that made O5-3 act the way he does. As far as he is concerned...however, he does not care. He looks at SCP-682, and clenched his fist, as he then raised his head and spoke out.

"I have no idea what truth you are referring to, reptile, but even that does not justify what you and the Foundation are doing, especially since these humans have no knowledge of it and had nothing to do with it, nor did they ask for whatever, 'truth', you are mentioning."

He then changed into a more demonic form, as he flies up into the air, as he then spoke out to SCP-682, with a hint of coldness in his voice.

"This one, you should remember."

All of a sudden, a portal opens up, and drags SCP-682 into it, as SCP-682 began to thrash violently, as he spoke out.

"No, you are not doing this to me again!! I already had enough dealing with this once you little-"

But SCP-682 was dragged into the portal, and Deimos sunk in, following suit, really unhappy with SCP-682, so that he can make him pay. SCP-682 fell into the portal and is shown to be inside of acidic river of some sort. He remembers this experience, for Deimos had been the one to put SCP-682 through this before. As this happened, all of a sudden, humanoid entities appeared, and this time, it is not in the form of SCP personnel that had appeared. This time, it is in the form of the civilians that had been killed by SCP-682, as well as by the SCP Foundation itself. The humanoid entities charged at SCP-682, and SCP-682 goes to try and attack them. But the humanoid entities, like before, were invulnerable to the attacks of the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile, and began to tear him to shreds. And unfortunately for SCP-682, he knows what this means. It means that he will have to suffer through this yet again, just like before when Deimos was on the side of the SCP Foundation, now being forced to fight against them after what they had decided to do. Needless to say, today is not a happy day for SCP-682.

Outside...

Cain looked down at the area where the portal once was, where SCP-682 had been dragged to, as Phobos looked down at the portal as well, in which he then spoke out at this.

"I can see that my brother will have a very long-time having fun with him. I just hope it does not take too long, for we need all the time that we have in order to find the group that we are looking for."

Cain nodded his head, as he spoke out to Phobos.

"That is right. Every time we have is precious and every second counts in order to find the place that we are needing to go to."

Thomas looks down at the portal, the cut from his cheek healed from his face, as he then spoke out to the group.

"So, do we wait for Deimos, or what?"

AS he said that, Epon then heard something, due to her sense of hearing being greater than the others, as she spoke out.

"Wait, what is that?"

Everyone turned, and they looked to see a group of people coming towards them, and it did not sound good, at all. Cain and Phobos looked and readied themselves for a fight, hoping that this is not what they think it is. But too their surprise, they look and saw that it is a rather strange group of some sort, with someone that is leading the front.

Leading the group is a familiar Mister, once one of the most sinister anomalies, but now, having become something completely different. Behind him is a female entity, who has some lollipops in her hands, although she looked cautiously at the male that is leading them, as if suspicious of what he might do next. Cain and Phobos looked at the group, as the male at the front spoke out.

"Oh, good. More survivors. I was hoping for this."

This made Cain weary of them, as he spoke out.

"Who...who are you?"

The man stepped forward, as he spoke out to him.

"Cal me, Mr. Redd. The woman next to me is Ms. Sweetie. The rest are our brothers, who were contained by the SCP Foundation."

This made Cain surprised, as Ms. Sweetie spoke out.

"I still doubt you have changed, especially with what you had done to mew all those years ago."

Mr. Redd sighed and spoke out to her.

"I know, Sweetie. I won't try and justify what I had done. Even I admit that what I did was far too horrible. But the foundation's act opened my eyes."

Sweetie turned away, but Mr. Redd does not argue, as Phobos spoke out to Mr. Redd.

"So, what are you doing here? Are you trying to find a group of interest to find refuge in?"

This made Mr. Redd look confused, as he then spoke out to Phobos.

"What do you mean by that?"

Cain was about to speak, only for a portal to be opened and SCP-682 rose up, too injured to move, as Deimos appeared, in his human-looking form. Deimos looks at Mr. Redd and spoke out.

"Oh, more survivors, that is nice."

Mr. Redd looks at Deimos, as he spoke out.

"Woah, did not expect someone to finish that reptile, after it attacked us."

This made Thomas and Epon surprised, as Thomas spoke out.

"Wait, you were the ones fighting it?"

One of the Misters, named Mr. Brass, a robot of some sort, spoke out to Thomas.

"No, only Mr. Redd, and he is very powerful enough to somehow be able to do it. Very strong for a Mister like us."

Deimos rose an eyebrow, but looked impressed at this fact, as Mr. Redd looks at Deimos, and after a bit, as he spoke out.

"Anyway, why don't you come with us? We are trying to find a group of interest that can hopefully get us out of this situation that we are in, as well as hopefully being a ticket out of this place."

This made Mr. Redd blink his eyes a little bit, as he than spoke out to him.

"Really? And what group is that?"

Deimos, without hesitation, spoke out to Mr. Redd.

"A group I heard from a former friend of mine called, The Serpent's Hand. I heard from a friend of mine that they have a way to be able to help us escape from the SCP Foundation, as well as the world that we live in. So we are hoping to find them in order to get away from it all and leave us all behind?"

This made Mr. Redd happy, as the other misters spoke out happily.

"Now this is something I can get behind."

Mr. Hungry said, as Mr. Moon spoke out.

"Finally, we can finally rest from all of this horrible atrocity that is happening."

Mr. Shapey agreed to this, as he also spoke out.

"We can finally be free."

The other misters nodded, but cannot speak due to holding 2 objects, a coffin and a metal box that looks like it is rusting, with many of the misters wearing gloves while holding onto the box, as if they are afraid it will infect them. And Deimos can sense some life inside of the box, but he decided to pay no attention to mind, as he spoke out.

"Then let's get too it. Also, best bring some food with us."

Thomas and Epon nodded, as they went to the truck to grab some food, and the Misters helped out as well, at least so that it can help with Mr. Hungry's situation, so he does not accidentally go into a hunger state and eat them. After taking them out and putting them into some bags, the grouo decided to travel as far off as they can in order to go and find the Serpent's Hand. But as they continued onward, they looked and saw that many Foundation people are coming towards them in cars and surrounded the group. Needless to say, Deimos and Mr. Redd are not too happy with this fact, almost annoyed that they are dealing with this again, as MTF Soldiers and D-Class with black veils with the white SCP symbol on the face area appear and held their guns at the group of anomalies, as the MTF Captain leading them spoke out.

"Seems like we missed some more anomalies that are with them...and if it isn't SCP-4606. It seems we were wondering where you were."

Deimos frowned a little bit, as he stepped forward, and he then spoke out to the MTF Captain.

"You made the biggest mistake coming to me, fools. You will not get out of this alive."

The MTF Captain, however, thinks otherwise, as they spoke out.

"I beg to differ."

Both MTF and D-Class raised their guns and are ready to fire at the group. But before they can attack, Mr. Redd made his move first.

Mr. Redd summoned some black blades into his hands, as he gets ready to fight off more of the SCP Foundation, the blade itself appearing to merely be a wispy black line flickering in the sunlight. He looks up and the foundation personnel, and before they can react, Mr. Redd suddenly attacled, his speed far greater than what even the Foundation people expect from someone like him, as he sliced through the guns and throats, as well as stabbing them in the heads, killing them instantly. The MTF and D-Class opened fire at Mr. Redd, but he easily avoided the bullets and sliced through their heads at very quick speeds that only Cain and Deimos know of. Deimos looked at Mr. Redd, as he intrigued him a lot with what he can do, and the way he fights reminds him of another SCP that can also summoned bladed weapons.

As everyone watched with what Mr. Redd is doing, Epon looked nervous, as one of the MTFs tried to kill her with a bullet through the head. But Cain got in the way, and the bullet killed the MTF instead, as Phobos also joined in to take down the MTF and D-Class. Mr. Soap also gets to have his fun, as he then made slippery liquid on the ground, with some of the D-Class sipping onto it by accident, falling down very hard to the ground and breaking their necks due to the way their body had slipped in such a very weird angle. Ms. Sweetie then thought of something, but remembered that there is something that she can do, as she got some of the candy that she can make out of her pockets, and approached a dozen of the D-Class, who have lost their weapons due to Mr. Redd, and force-fed them her candy, in order to turn them into instances of SCP-2396-B. This made the D-Class cough and wheeze, but there is nothing that they can do about it. Deimos, seeing her plan, sent them to a pocket dimension, so that they can be turned safely without anyone interrupting them. The MTF commander tried to stop this, but unfortunately, Mr. Redd got to him fast and slashed across his chest, which made him frown a little bit, as he doesn't feel any pain, but is nevertheless unhappy that he is launched to the ground, before he then is stabbed in the head by Mr. Redd's sword, killing him in the process. Mr. Redd looked around and saw what Ms. Sweetie is doing, and deciding to help her out, sliced the guns of the other D-Class and MTF and handing them to Ms. Sweetie, so she can turn them into more and more of instances of SCP-2396-B. Mr. Redd sighed, and he looked around, after he had finished Ms. Sweetie with this, and he then spoke out.

"So, is that all of them?"

Deimos looked around, after he had finished putting the MTF and D-Class who consumed MS. Sweetie's candy and nodded his head as he then spoke out to him.

"It seems we got every last one of them."

Mr. Redd nodded his head, as he looked down at himself, and saw that he got him at some parts of his body. Looking a little unhappy at this, he made a dagger of some sort, looking like it is made out of some sort of physical shadow that feels and looks way too real, as he then sliced it across his neck, slitting his throat. Blood spilled out, as runes appeared all over his body through the use of his blood. Lightning lanced out and into the damage, the blood draining as red sparks healed the wounds all over his body. Cain looked at his shadow, as he sees it have antlers at the back, and he almost recognized them, only remembering one dark god that has any traits like that. Mr. Redd sighed, as his eyes glowed entirely into a scarlet color of sorts, before it changed back to normal. Mr. Redd clenched his fist, as Thomas spoke out to Mr. Redd.

"You know I could have healed the wounds you had and transferred it to myself, right?"

Mr. Redd looked at Thomas and spoke out to him.

"I appreciate it, young one. But...I am fine with what I have. Besides, this is something that I can do alone. You don't need to do that."

Thomas nodded his head, feeling a little upset that he is useless, but he does not say anymore than what he already has, as he nodded his head. Deimos looked at Mr. Redd and spoke out to him.

"So, shall we get moving, without any interruptions?"

Deimos nodded, as he spoke out.

"Let us keep moving, then."

Mr. Redd, Cain, and Deimos walked, as Phobos is next to the teens, and the Little Misters are walking alongside with the group, as all of them kept on moving. Mr. Headless and Mr. Stripes had to be led by their own siblings, and both Epon and Thomas felt a bit more comfortable at the fact that they are not alone at this. Now that they have a more sizable and more manageable group, dealing this will be a snap. They just hope that they are able to deal with this an get through without anyone attempting to kill them.

The Next Day...

The group are shown to be continuing onward, with Mr. Shapey feeding Mr. Hungry some cooked potatoes, in order to keep his hunger from getting out of control, now inside of a forest like area. And this time, they have a lot of candy golems present, the instances of SCP-2396-B that were the former D-Class and MTF soldiers that attacked them yesterday. As such, the group is now better protected than ever before, at least to those that can't fight, and in case Deimos and Cain are out of range to protect the group. Abandoned trucks and vehicles

As they kept on moving, Thomas looks around in what seems to be an expression of curiosity on his face, as he looked around, unsure of if this place is safe or not. As they walked around, Mr. Fish began to speak out.

"Hey, is it just me, or is there something rotten in the air?"

This made everyone stop, and they actually began to look around and began to try and look around. Sure enough, there was something rotten that is in the air, and it is disgusting to even sniff at it. Mr. Stripes, his blindfold over his eyes still, spoke out.

"Whatever is that smell?"

Mr. Lie, using rhetorical questions in order to say what he means, spoke out to them.

"Maybe it is coming from the left I think?"

This made everyone turn around to the left, as they see a group of...something approaching, as a voice spoke out in a sort of loudspeaker.

"Modified SCP-008 infected proven successful. Deploying Psi-Z Fledgling and Psi-Z Resonator into entire forest area. "

Deimos and the others looked concerned, as Cain spoke out, wanting to see what is going on and what is arriving.

"Epon, step away from me. It is time to see what is at the left."

Epon did as she is told and stepped away from Cain as far as she can. As that happened, the soil began to turn barren, as the trees and grass disintegrate. And it is here that they can see what it is that is being unleashed. They both have corpse-pale skin, but the ones that look humanoid look like their jaws are gone, showing only a long tongue of sorts, with others covered by D-Class or MTF outfits. The other species resemble a cross between SCP-939 and 3199, having the body and limbs of 939, yet head a head that splits into 5 parts, but still possesses a resemblance to SCP-3199's head. It also possesses miniature spikes on different parts of the body and has 2 red small mandibles on the right shoulder. Despite this, the skin is also corpse pale. The group looked alarmed, as Epon spoke out.

"Oh God help us."

Plant matter began to form onto the vehicles, as Mr. Redd spoke out.

"Run for it!!"

Everyone agreed, and Thomas grabbed Epon by the hand and ran, getting ahead of the adults, as the others began to run as well, not very happy with what they are seeing. The Psi-Z creatures began to shriek and scream, as they chased after the group, with Demios and Phobos not too happy. Deimos is in the back, while Cain is at the front. Mr. Redd is going to different sides in order to try and take down any Psi-Z creatures that come to close. A fledgling attempted to leap and attack Ms. Sweetie, but an SCP-2396-B instances tackled the infected and began to beat it down. As that happened more and more of the SCP-2396-B infected, the ones that are humanoid, began to charge in at the Fledglings and the Resonators. The ones that resemble Unicorns, however, remained, and Mr. Redd had an idea, seeing this.

"Hey, Sweetie. Think we can ride on your unicorns for a bit?"

Sweetie looks at Mr. Redd, and realized the idea in his mind. She smiled a little bit, as she spoke out.

"Everyone, jump onto them!!"

Thomas, hearing this, grabbed Epon tightly and they both jumped, going onto one of them. Soon the other Little Misters did the same, Deimos turned into a winged humanoid and Phobos turned into what resembles a cross between a human and a moth, as Cain also went onto a unicorn SCP-2396 instance as well, as they began to gallop away. Epon wrapped around Thomas' waist, as Thomas held onto the neck of the candy unicorn, as they kept on moving. But the entire situation is not done yet. The Resonators began to chase the group down as fast as they can, as they let out unholy shrieks, as if preparing to gain the chance to consume their prey. Many of the Resonators tried to pounce on the riders, but Deimos and Phobos always step in and slashed at them, and luckily are immune to the infection, since...they are gods. how can you infect a god? Some even tried to hit Mr. Redd or Cain, but Cain's reflection power made the Resonators kill themselves instead and Mr. Redd always slices and stabs them in order to kill them before they even had the chance to get anywhere near his flesh.

As they continued to gallop as fast as they can, Cain, who is leading them, sees a bridge of some sort that is held together by wire and some mechanics. Seeing this and figuring out a way to escape, Cain spoke out to them.

"Everyone, follow me."

Cain manage to turn the horse to the candy unicorn to the direction of the bridge, as he gallops to it, and everyone else does the same, as they began to gallop towards it, with Epon and Thomas being second place and ahead of the others, while Mr. Redd is last in the group. Deimos and Phobos followed suit but got to the bridge first before even Cain, as Cain hopped off the Candy Unicorn, over 60 feet away from the bridge, and both Thomas and Epon does the same. As that happened, Epon's anomalous powers began to activate, as the bridge began to go into an unworked state, plants beginning to form in the mechanisms, and the bridge was preparing to fall apart. The Candy Unicorns holding the Little Misters all galloped as fast as they can, as Mr. Redd came in last, and as soon as he did, he made a sword appear and slashed at the wire and mechanisms holding the bridge up. When that happened, the bridge collapsed and fell down to the deep cliff below, as the Psi-Z Resonators fell down as well, the impact no doubt killing them. Thomas looks, as Epon hugged him and shook a little bit, as tears welled out of her eyes, but was able to keep calm, as Cain spoke out.

"So, did we-"

But before Cain could say anymore, all of a sudden, the unicorn SCP-2396 entities began to panic, as a familiar Old Man appeared, his skin having rotted greatly, wearing a black vest, and is leaking out some corrosive matter everywhere, with the SCP-2396-B entities caught in it. SCP-106 took notice of them, and now sees them as his more recent prey. Needless to say, Ms. Sweetie didn't take it well.

"NO!!!!!"

Mr. Chameleon then shouted out.

"We need to leave, now!!"

Mr. Laugh nodded his head, as he spoke out one word.

"Right!"

Everyone in the group ran away as fast as they can, while also ignoring the urge to laugh, with some struggling due to carrying the casket and rusted metal box with them, and they all kept on running as fast as they can, not waiting a second to pause. They kept on running and running and running, not caring if the many sticks underneath their feet is causing a lot of snapping noises. They just wanted to get away from SCP-106, who is attacking them. They manage to finally gain some distance, as they caught their breath, except for Deimos, Phobos, Mr. Redd, and Cain, as Mr. Moon spoke out.

"Not a...nice day to...stretch these old bones."

Thomas nodded, and as he looked around, he noticed something onto the ground, and it made him curious.

"Huh, what's that?"

Thomas goes to the ground, and noticed at what seems to be a laptop of some sort, a sort of customized desktop computer, with the designation, SCP-2639-C present onto it. This made Thomas curious, as he spoke out.

"Huh, another SCP?"

As he said that, Mr. Forgetful looks at the document that has the title, Mr. Mad onto it, as he spoke out to him.

"Your opinion on it, Mr. Mad, about this whole thing?"

Although no one can see him, he can see a human-looking entity with blond hair and a multicolored straitjacket. He shrugged, as he mouthed out that even he thinks this situation is insane. Mr. Forgetful nodded, as he looked down, but he then the memory of who he had spoken to had left his mind, as he spoke out.

"Wait, who was I talking to?"

The other Misters looked annoyed at this, with Thomas turning on the computer, and was about to type and see what this SCP is all about. But as they did, they looked and saw that the Old Man is back, and is not giving up on the case, much to their dismay. Needless to say, they are not too thrilled at this, as Thomas spoke out.

"Oh come on!! What does it take for this idiot to give up?!"

As he looked, the computer then flickered into blue, orange, and yellow, almost like something is about to activate. As this happened, all of a sudden, 3 flashes of light manifest, and 3 humanoid entities, 2 males and one female, appeared,

wearing what seems to be anomalous armor and having anomalous weapons in their hands, as they fired at SCP-106, the light of the weapons forced it to flee. This made Thomas blinked, as he spoke out.

"Woah."

After that, the 3 turned to look at the group, and the female, seemingly the leader, spoke out.

"Who are you people?"

Cain then approaches them and spoke out to them.

"Oh, are you SCPs like us?"

This made the group turn and are surprised, as they spoke out.

"Wait, you're also SCPs?"

Cain nodded, as Deimos approached them.

"Of course, ones that had been fleeing from the Foundation."

This made them all blink, as the orange-headed male spoke out.

"Yikes. Well, you're at least lucky you did not get involved with us."

The Yellow one then spoke out.

"Yeah, fucking traitors used us to attack other people!"

Thomas looked confused, as he spoke out.

"Wait, hold on. What do you mean, used you?"

The female spoke out to the group.

"The SCP Foundation used us to attack other humans, made us think that we were attacking other monsters. They tricked and lied to us for a few days."

The orange-haired male spoke out.

"That they did, and this is after we swore never to attack any humans, regardless of if they are enemy or ally."

The blonde-haired man spoke out.

"So, we decided to remain inactive and not come out after the 6th day. How did you even get ahold of this?"

Thomas spoke out to the trio.

"The laptop, I noticed that it was on the ground, like someone left and abandoned it there for quite some time."

This made the trio realized what the SCP Foundation must have done, as the blonde man spoke out angrily.

"What? Oh, damn these assholes! I swear, I am gonna-"

But the female spoke out to the male, as she called him by his name.

"Jim, do not suddenly act out the handle. Besides, hey, what is your name?"

Cain then spoke out.

"Cain, my name is Cain, or SCP-073, if you wish. And this here is Deimos. And you are?

The female spoke out.

"My name is Gloria Stanfeld. The orange hair guy is Thomas Warden and the blond guy is Jim Yearden. So, mind telling us if you know something? Like, why the Foundation acted this way?"

Cain shook his head, and Thomas turns to Deimos.

"What about you, Deimos? Do you know something?"

Deimos looked down and spoke out.

"Only one thing, and it is during an encounter with another SCP, who may have had something to do with this problem, the reptile called SCP-682. He told me that the foundation saw what he saw in humanity. The truth of the way he see the humans the foundation protect. They saw why he see them as disgusting. Whatever it was the foundation saw, that reptile may have had something to do with it, which is why they are exterminating the human race."

The teenagers looked a bit mortified at this. So whatever the reptile knows of, the foundation somehow know it too, which is why they are attacking the human race and killing them off. As he said that, a voice spoke out.

"Seems like you are having a party. Mind for one more?"

This made everyone turn around, and they saw an adolescent female of mixed European and Middle Eastern Descent, with a sword made of what seems to be photons of some sort that is present in her hand.

Cain recognized this one, someone who he had known in a long time, as he spoke out.

"Leora Lightfoot. It is nice to see you are still alive, my old friend."

Leora nodded her head, as the sword disappeared and goes to Cain and hugs him as she spoke out to him.

"Nice to see you too, Cain."

Mr. Redd looked surprised, as he spoke out.

"Well, now this is intriguing. We have someone new to have on our side."

Cain nodded, as Leora turned to look at Mr. Redd, and she looked interested in him, as she spoke out.

"Oh, and who might you be?"

Mr. Redd spoke out.

"I'm simply called Mr. Redd. It is a pleasure to meet you."

He extended his hand out and Leora shook it, with Sweetie watching him, as if to make sure that he does not do something insane. After the handshake, Thomas spoke out.

"Okay, now enough of that. Let's get moving."

Cain nodded his head, as he and the group began to move, with the 3 instances of SCP-2639 instances disappearing onto the laptop, which Thomas is carrying with one arm and holding onto Epon's hand with his other hand, as they continued to walk down and go elsewhere. As they continued onward, Leora found herself instantly getting attached to Mr. Redd for some reason, and Mr. Redd, although he does not spoke out on this, does not seem to be too comfortable with this, especially since he had done something horrible to Ms. Sweetie that he cannot forgive himself for, that he hates himself a lot for. But despite this, he does not object, as he and the others continue to keep on moving. As they continued to walk, they noticed something in the distance, a bright light of some sort, and it is moving right before their very eyes. This made the group confused, and even Deimos has no idea what this is all about. They decided to check it out, with Leora staying next to Mr. Redd, as Leora makes a photon blade and Mr. Redd summons a sword of some sort. The entire group looked, and they saw that the light that they were seeing, is coming from a giant entity of some sort of immense size, and whatever sort of entity they were looking at, they know that it is not a normal entity of sorts, compared to others they've met.

Off in the distance is what seems to be a sort of gigantic deer-like creature, with a triangle for a head and a circle in the center, glowing images of what seems to be antlers at the side are present. Spheres of light are shown circling around the neck. The entire area has ritualistic symbols all over it and the ones that are covered in it, the lands seem to be changing, and the way that it is doing it is very dangerous. Some humans are spoke below fighting it, but they are then picked up and had their hearts ripped out by some unknown force, as they changed into some humanoid entities covered in plant matter and have their head replaced with 2 triangles, one upside down and a smaller right side up triangle that's in the bigger one. Deimos narrowed his eyes, as he spoke out.

"Hm...never thought that this one would appear. Seems the Foundation lead it out."

Cain looks at Deimos, as he then spoke out to him.

"You know this one, Deimos?"

Deimos nodded his head, as he spoke out.

"I do. The little one told me about this. It is called SCP-4971-▽. But it's real name...is The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth. A god of rituals that is said to create its own rituals in order to remake the Earth and all life in it. This is very bad."

The group looked panicked, as Mr. Redd spoke out that this sight before his eyes.

"Great, now we are in huge trouble! We are trying to find the Serpent's Hand, due to how limited our time is in order to find them. And now it is cut short! We are so dead!!"

Deimos narrowed his eyes, as he spoke out.

"Maybe not. There might be a way to slow it down. I need to look for something. I will be right. back"

He then changed into a demonic form of some sort, as he then began to fly away as fast as he can. But as he flied away, the converted instances of SCP-4971 all noticed the group and began to charge at them, in an attempt to rip them apart. The group began to fight back, with Phobos punching and swiping at them in order to send them someplace else, Mr. Redd cutting them down, and Leora slicing at them with photon swords. Whenever this happened, the symbols that replaced the heads shattered and a scream was heard. But then the same sounds happened against in reversed, as the symbol was reformed. Leora made a whip out of photons, as he wrapped it around one instance and swung it around, knocking the other instances away, before he then sent the instance that she is used flying. Leora looked irritated and spoke out.

"Just what does it take to send these guys out of here?"

As that happened, Thomas typed into the computer, asking for help and explained the situation, and when that happened, the instances of SCP-2639 appeared, as Gloria looked outright flabbergasted at what they are seeing.

"Okay, what in the world is this?"

Thomas Bright spoke out.

"Some strange monsters that won't die because of this Deer God in front of us."

The trio looked, and the trio looked shocked, as Thomas Warden spoke out.

"Okay, now I've seen everything."

Jim looks around and spoke out.

"Well, let's get too it."

The trio then summoned weapons, as they go out to fight the swarm of instances, and at least they are handling it better compared to the others. Gloria fires a gun that uses plasma as a weapon from a pistol, Thomas fires a Grenade Launcher, and Jim is firing a gun that shoots out continuous screams of electricity. One of them, Gloria, had the misfortune of getting her head and limbs ripped apart, but they eventually reappeared and see an intangible object having half a meter above the ground. Gloria took it and began to fight back again, this time with increased resistance to damage. And as they continued to fight, all of a sudden, Ms. Sweetie noticed and saw that her candy golems are back, covered in zombie blood, but are otherwise alright, as they charged in and tackled the SCP-4971 instances, and Redd spoke out.

"Okay, that's out cue! Now let's book it!!"

Everyone agreed, as the SCP-2639 instances vanished, and everyone began to run, with Thomas carrying SCP-2639-C, so he does not lose it.

Back with Deimos, he looks around all over the place that he is in, in order to find what he is looking for. He looks and flies as fast as he can, and eventually, he found what he was looking for, and needless to say, he is very glad that he had found this one.

In front of Deimos was another deer-like entity, showing itself to be a pastel green with a ring of metal that are interrupted by spheres made of ice. Deimos could tell that this SCP is very dangerous, for he has heard of this one before. The Deer, SCP-2845, and it is shown to be transmuting the area around him into a frozen silver metal corruption, as well as rubbery green hexagonal columns. He then flies in front of the deer and it looks up at him, as it tries to transmute him into a column, only for him to fly out of the way and hit the entity in the face, before flying elsewhere. But the Deer is not one to give up on the case and began to follow him. Both the deer and Deimos continued flying in the direction of where The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth is at, so Deimos can use it against the larger deer god. And after a little bit, he saw that he is getting more and more closer to the The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth, and as soon as he is close enough, the Deer following behind, Deimos made a portal and went inside of it fast, and the Deer stopping following him...only to see what he is in front of.

SCP-2845 and SCP-4971-▽ looked at each other, but they both felt rather...strange. Like they know of each other, yet at the same time do not know of each other. Like they are connected with one another, yet at the same time they are of no relation to one another. Like they are similar to one another in the nature of what they are meant to represent, yet at the same time, different in what they use with their power. But the entities that SCP-4971-▽ made attacked the Deer, and the Deer transmuted it into some columns, which made The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth angry, as it tried to rip the Deer's heart out, if it does have a heart. The Deer then charged at The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth and rammed into it, pushing it back, as it transmuted the area that the other deer god had transformed with its rituals, and the 2 gods began to fight.

Deimos reappeared next to the group, as he looks at them and spoke out to them.

"Okay, this should give us enough time. But I do not expect for them to be able to do so forever. One of them will have to win against the other eventually."

The group nodded, as they see The Deer throw metal so spheres at The One Who Knows Silence In The Earth, who throws balls of light at the Deer, knocking it away, who quickly gets back up both Deer Gods rammed into each other, making a shockwave and creating powerful earthquakes. Seeing this, the group decided not to risk standing around and move.

"Okay, let's get outta here!"

Mr. Redd said, as everyone moved as fast as they can in order to hopefully get away from the area that is starting to get more and more chaotic by the passing minute. But as they ran, a portal suddenly opened up, someone came out, and they seemed to look, happy, as they spoke out.

"Oh, more anomalies! That is good, that you are all here."

This made everyone confused, but Deimos then noticed something, it was a doctor that has an SCP Foundation logo on the left side of her buttoned red shirt, with short brown hair. On the right side, there is a symbol of some sort. The symbol of the Serpent's Hand is present, and it is a symbol that Deimos recognizes, thanks to O5-3 telling him about them. Deimos realizes who this is, and spoke out to the individual.

"You...you are a member of the so-called Serpent's Hand, are you not?"

The serpent's hand member nodded her head, as she then spoke out to Deimos.

"Yes, although I originally defected to the SCP foundation before then went mad. My name is Tilda Moose. I'm here to get you out of here."

Mr. Redd nodded his head, as Deimos then spoke out.

"That would be good. It is enough for all of us, right?"

Tilda Moose nodded, as he then spoke out.

"That is good...and perhaps that they can also come along as well."

Deimos then opened a portal, and 5 figures came out of it, and it is the young kids he had saved back at Site-17.

Out of Deimos' portal appeared 4 young girls, which are SCP-040, SCP-134, SCP-239, and SCP-191. Tilda Moose nodded her head, impressed at how he was able to get them, as she spoke out.

"Follow me."

She went inside of the way, and Deimos, Cain, and Mr. Redd followed, with Thomas and Epon and the little misters, as well as the little girls, joining in as well. They were very happy that they would be able to finally be free from this Nigntmare that they are in. They traveled through the way for quite a little bit, until they were finally able to reach the main base for the Serpent's Hands, and as soon as they did, everyone spread out, finally happy that they were able to reach it. Epon and Thomas smiled, the both of them held hands, as Thomas spoke out.

"Wow...we...we made it."

Epon nodded her head, as she spoke out.

"Yes, we did."

Thomas smiled a bit, as Cain spoke out.

"This is great. And...Cain, when do we leave to...wherever else we are going?"

Tilda looks at Cain and spoke out to him.

"Unfortunately, we still need to find a little bit more for us to take along for what might be ahead of us. There are others that are still around. And luckily since Deimos stopped that giant deer with another deer the foundation once had in their possession, it will give us enough time to find some more."

Cain nodded his head, as he noticed a familiar plague doctor, SCP-049, inside of this place, and is tending the injured. At least he is not killing them this time, as well as SCP-706. Thomas looks, and he noticed someone. A tall female, more taller then the other humans with no melanin, and looks pale in the process. Thomas walks over to the female, and the female looks at him. Her eyes raised, and Thomas realizes, it is his baby sister.

"Sarah...sister..."

The sister, SCP-321, or Sarah, recognizes her brother and hugs him, with Thomas smiling and hugging her in return, happy that she has not forgotten despite how low her intelligence is. He is just happy that what he did for her was not in vein and she still survived, even after all that has happened. A little while had passed, and a few new anomalies came. 2 of whom were boys, once with psychic powers of sorts and another a teenage boy, who made a wormhole to make a giant machine fit inside of the base, since the door is too small to fit inside. This machine is SCP-914, and Cain notices a young girl, one he actually recognizes. Epon looks at Cain as he goes to the girl.

"Iris? Is that you?"

Iris Thompson, SCP-105, looked and saw Cain, and she is needlessly very happy, as she spoke out.

"Cain...you're here!"

Cain smiled as he nodded his head. And Epon, also recognizing Iris, goes to her.

"Iris Thompson, is that you my friend?"

Iris looks at Epon, and she smiled, as she goes and hugs her tightly, as she spoke out.

"Wow, you're alive, Epon!"

Epon smiled, as she hugged Iris back. Thomas looked around and sees the 2 boys, as he goes to them.

"Oh, you must be new survivors here."

The teenager nodded his head, as he spoke out.

"Yeah, we are. Who are you?"

Thomas spoke out.

"My name is Thomas Bright. And you both are?"

The teenage boy spoke out.

"My name is Rainer Miller, or SCP-4051. The little guy next to me is Cameron."

Cameron smiled, as he goes to Thomas and spoke out.

"Nice to meet you."

Thomas and Cameron shook hands, as the 3 boys smiled. Thomas leaves Rainer and Cameron be, as they began to wander the area elsewhere. Thomas sighed, as he felt someone beginning to hold onto his own hand, which caught him by surprise, as Epon spoke out to him.

"Umm...Thomas. I...I want to say, thank you."

This made Thomas blink for a bit, as he spoke out to her.

"For...for what?"

Epon smiled at him, as a blush is present onto her face, before she spoke out to him.

"For being there for me, protecting me whenever I was in trouble, even healing me when I was hurt. It...it makes me very happy that, you care this much for me."

This made Thomas look embarrassed for a bit, as he spoke out.

"Well...that's only because you helped me give me my freedom. I figured it was fair for me to...return the favor."

Epon smiled still, as she learns near Thomas' face, as she spoke out.

"Even so...thank you."

She then grasped him by both parts of his face, as he then felt something soft into his nose. He looked and was shocked to see that Epon is kissing him in the nose, which he did not expect to happen. This made him embarrassed in a way, but Epon smiled, as she grabs him by the hand and they both sit down on a nearby bench, as Epon looks at Thomas in the eyes, before she than spoke out to him.

"Thomas...I want to be honest with you. When we get out of this mess, and we find a new home...I want to be with the one man that I trust more than anything. I want to be...with you. And that is enough even for me."

This made Thomas blink, but he smiled and nodded for a bit, as he squeezed her hand a bit, and smiled.

"Well, if we get out of this alive, that is something we can make as real."

Epon smiled, her deer ears twitched a little bit at what he said, but then a sound of panic was heard, as Rainer began to go outside for some unknown reason. Then the smell of something rotting was felt, and it is one that both Epon and Thomas are very familiar with. They stepped back and dared to not get too close at the door, as they watched as some of the people went outside to deal with it. SCP-049 sent his own zombies outside, before he was directed into SCP-914 in order to try and deal with them. And luckily, the clockworks manage to improve onto him, as he was able to cure the SCP-008 infected that are outside. and luckily, these types of 008 infected are the normal ones and not the genetically modified ones that the group had ran into before in the past.

After what seems to be a little bit, SCP-049 had came back, and had brought back the former zombie infected, now having been changed back to normal humans, and with anomalous antibodies to help fought back against such a strain again. SCP-049 smiled, but as that happened, another roar was heard in the background, and everyone looked outside to see a giant figure with multiple limbs and mouths all over the place. This made the group annoyed, as Thomas spoke out.

"Our luck Josh keeps on getting worse and worse!"

Epon nodded, as Deimos looked behind him, and having an idea on what would happen next, spoke out to the group.

"There might be more on the way. I will need some of us to stay behind until we know that we are finally able to close the way without anyone getting through the other side. I just hope I can convince the people from the other side to not close the portal to wherever we are going."

Deimos then goes outside, and almost everyone, even most of the Little Misters, also went through the way, with only Mr. Redd, Cain, Epon, Leora, and Thomas left remaining, although Deimos hopefully can convince some people to prolonged the opening of the portal, as the Kaijumancers went outside in order to engage the large entity. But as they did, an unlucky surprise came in the way. The sound of buzzsaw was heard, and the Serpent's Hand team barely dodged it, as they looked and saw what it was that has attacked them in the first place.

A metallic entity, SCP-3179, had suddenly appeared, as it unleashed multiple armed drones to try and attack the Serpent's Hand groups. The SCO also begs to make its way towards the entrance to the Serpent's Hand base, yet is also trying to fight back against the Serpent's Hsnd fighting group at the same time. Epon reached her hand out, and something surprising happened. Plant growths began to appear all over the drones and made them inert, as the Serpent's Hand ran past the group and ran to fight the giant multi-limbed SCP with no distractions. Seeing this, Epon realizes that she has a good idea on how to deal with this one.

"Cain...can you put me into that machine that the bird doctor went into?"

Cain, startled, looked down at her, as he spoke out.

"Epon, you cannot be serious at this. Do you know what will happen if you dare go inside? We have no idea what new powers it will give you, and it could possibly badly effect you."

Epon nodded her head, as she spoke out.

"Perhaps...but I am not letting anything bad happened to Thomas. I would prefer to continue seeing him alive rather than witness his death."

Cain looked down sadly at her, and sighed, knowing that he cannot change her mind, as he spoke out.

"Alright. Fine, we can do that. I just hope that you know what you are doing, Epon."

Epon nodded, as Cain goes to the machine, and turns it to the Very Fine setting, and Epon goes into the intake booth. Cain turns the key, and the intake booth slammed shut, as the sounds of clicking and clacking, ticking and turning, all sorts of machinery was heard, as SCP-914 began to improve Epon's anomalous powers with something new and unique. Cain intertwined his metal hands and made a silent prayer in that he hopes that Epon would be able to gain something beneficial out of this. He opened his eyes and looked to the side, as he sees the machine is beginning to slow down, knowing that this means that the machine is almost done. After a little bit, it dinged, and the Output booth was opened, and Epon stepped outside, and she looked...somewhat different. Her former features of a Common reindeer is now replaced with that of a White hind, at least in the case of its antlers and hooves, with its tail being that of a White-tailed deer, with her hair also white, her eyes now glow as bright as a moon, as she now resembles a goddess of some sort. The area around Epon is surrounded by what seems to be some sort of ontokinetic field that made the area surrounding Epon resemble motifs of Gothic architecture, poisonous flora, excess grime, and occult paraphernalia, just to name a few, appear, with the occult paraphernalia possessing symbols of a ritual that Epon knows of, having had knowledge for as long as she can remember, Occult Procedure Clockwork Blackchild Havilah, with the sounds of chanting heard in another language. She could feel the SCP outside, as she goes outside and looks at it, and the chanting continues in a way, and then, all of a sudden, plant matter began to grow around the metallic entity, due to the machinery that it made, and it froze the entity in its tracks. It tried to make humanoid metal robots of some sort, but it was also trapped by the plants that are growing.

Thomas looked and smiled, but oddly feels...strange. Like, he does not know what he is feeling. He feels an increase of appetite, and at the same time, immense impulsive attraction to Epon. But he kept those feelings in check and contained himself, and the chanting continued. And this caused something unexpected to happen. All of a sudden, all across the world, plantlife began to damage all sorts of machinery, as the chanting and symbols of the ritual took effect, and began to reduce the entire world, even the SCP Foundation, to the point that their machines and vehicles no longer work. Luckily, Cain is able to resist this power, so he is fine. And surprisingly, the Kaijumancers' equipment is also fine and have not been damaged in any sort of way, and as such are in tiptop fighting condition in order to take down the giant multi-limbed behemoth that is before their very eyes, as the sight of the 2 Deer Gods fighting against one another present at the other side of the background.

Epon smiled and nodded her head, and not wanting to witness getting involved in more of this stuff, tried to rush leaving. But then, another roar was heard, and it was from someone that they had encountered before, and this one is not good for the whole group at all. And then, a voice spoke out, and it is one that Cain and Deimos recognizes.

"I am now much more of a match for you then last time, beast! This time, you will not survive by my hands!!"

Cain looks up as he sees 2 shapes coming down from above. One of which is a familiar giant lizard, and the other was a winged humanoid of some sort. And yet despite all of that, Cain recognizes the markings all over the body, the weapons, as well as the way that the humanoid is fighting, despite how different that he looks. And all he did is speak one name at the sight that is before his very eyes.

"...Abel."

This made Deimos surprised, as he recognized this one.

Deimos remembered Abel. He had remembered scaring him into submission once when he decided to go on his usual rampages. It is downright ridiculous and stupid and was able to force him back once, and he didn't even need to put any effort into it. But he is now stronger than before, no doubt because of SCP-914. Obviously, he won't be as easy to deal with as before. Mr. Redd did not look happy in the slightest, as he spoke out.

"Great, of course that reptile returns. Well, it seems that we are going to need to increase our chances."

Mr. Redd looks around, but notices SCP-914, as he smiled a little bit.

"And I know what way to do this."

He then goes to the Clockworks, which is luckily safe from what SCP-166 did, due to Cain being next to it beforehand. He goes to the machine, and the dial is at Very Fine still. He then turns the key, and jumps into the Intake booth, and when that happened, the sounds of gears and pistons are heard inside the machine, as the Clockworks began to refine Mr. Redd into something far stronger than before. The machine kept on going, until it finally began to finish, and the Output booth opened, as a shadowy mist began to form in the Output, and red eyes are shown to be present, as Mr. Redd is ready for action.

Outside, Abel is shown to be fighting against SCP-682, as he is flying in the air, firing missiles at him, which explode and hurt him. But SCP-682 hardened his skin, which made the missiles useless and instead the blast deflected at Abel yet did nothing but give him soot on his clothes. Abel was not impressed, as he created armor-piercing rounds in order to pierce though his hide, and yet despite this, it did not phase SCP-682 a bit, since he had so many experiences with the MTF involving their weapons and had one experience with SCP-076-2 in order to deal with him. SCP-682 looks at Abel and snarled at him.

"You may have gained an upgrade, but even you are not a match for me still!! I am still far stronger than you! I have beaten you once, I can beat you again!!"

Abel snarled a little bit, as he spoke out.

"How about you test that statement? Especially since the foundation decided to side with you, a day I never thought possible!"

SCP-682 snarled and roared, as he charged at Abel, but before he can leap at him, a black tentacle came out of nowhere and wrapped around him, as it rose him up and slammed him into the ground. This caught Abel by surprise, only to look and see that the person who did that is none other than Mr. Redd, now has red glowing eyes and 2 pairs of black tentacles coming out of his back, one air lifting him up into the air, and another one of which is the reason that SCP-682 had been hurt in the first place. Mr. Redd smiled a bit, as he now has the power to use a new weapon. Not only does he make swords and daggers, but he can also now create spears. Red electricity sparked around his tentacles, as he looked down at SCP-682, but Abel got in the way and spoke out.

"What do you think you are doing, fool?! This is not your fight to deal with, it is mine!!"

Mr. Redd spoke out to Abel.

"Who cares about who's fight it belonged to? Besides..."

SCP-682 roared, as he than grew large in size, up to the height of a building, as Mr. Redd spoke out.

"I just want to get rid of this guy fast. I don't care how it's done or who does it. Besides, others will be joining in as well to get rid of him, especially since those foundation people agreed with him.

This made Abel look at Mr. Redd and nodded his head.

"Very well. Fine. It is at least something that we can agree on, what those foundation people had decided to do."

Mr. Redd nodded, as SCP-682 roared out at them, not happy with them both interfering.

"Do you think you both can take me on? I can still destroy you little shitstains!!"

He roars at them and attempts to bite them down, only for them both to move out of the way. Mr. Redd then threw his spear, which nicked SCP-682 in the eye, and it made him roar in pain. But it also enraged him at the same time. Mr. Redd then summoned more tentacles out of the ground, 10 in total, having a total of 14 if the 2 pairs on Mr. Redd's back count, as they wrap around SCP-682 in an attempt to hold him. SCP-682 roared, as Abel fired anti-tank rockets at SCP-682, which made chunks of its flesh sloth off and fall down. But SCP-682 ripped free from the tentacles and bites down on Abel, as he sent him flying away. But as Abel is enhanced to the Very Fine setting by SCP-914, he has been unbounded by the concepts of life and death, and now no longer needs his coffin to come back.

Mr. Redd looks, as melts into SCP-682's shadow, before he rose up and slashed at SCP-682 across the face, making SCP-682 enraged. He turned his head around, a total of 180 degrees with no discomfort, as SCP-682 charged down at him. But Mr. Redd then stabbed the ground, and the shadows began to bend, like they are a physical force, as a barrier made of shadows formed around him, covered in symbols of a certain King in Red and a Factory and 7 eyes all over the place. SCP-682 hits the barrier, and began to pound it, as he does all that he can to break down the barrier, but Mr. Redd sunk into the shadows again, and SCP-682 breaks it. Mr. Redd then rose elsewhere, as he cuts his hand, and symbols appeared all over the ground made from his blood. His own shadow has 7 red eyes glow and antlers appear, as something rose out from the ground. Rising up, many demonic entities larger than humans, the King's Demons, now obeying the orders of Mr. Redd, as he points his sword and spoke out.

"Tear him apart."

The demonic entities shrieked and charged at SCP-682, as he began to consume and bite on them, but some of the demons got on top of him and began to tear pieces of him off of his body. SCP-682 shrieks in pain but is not going down. Abel also comes back, and goes for round 2 against the entity.

Thomas looks at the sight that is before his eyes, as Leora spoke out.

"Great, we turned Mr. Redd into a real-life Radio Demon."

Thomas, looking confused, looked at her and spoke out.

"What do you mean by that?"

Epon also looked confused, but Leora shook her head and spoke out.

" N...never mind. And besides...we...we can't fight against him forever. The portal could close at any moment!"

Thomas looked down at the ground for a bit, as he clenched his hand, and looks at the SCP-2639-C computer. He has an idea, as he then spoke out at this.

"Then let's give us some more back up to use."

He goes to SCP-914, and puts the computer down, but not before he types down to the trio of how they will be using an SCP to give them a new upgrade due to a bad situation happening, and the trio, seeing this, agreed. Thomas Light goes to the key and turns it, luckily the dial is already set to Very Fine still, as the clockworks activated with the computer still on. The gears and pistons began to act up once again, as the computer began to be remade into something else. Pixels began to form in the air, as the SCP-2639-A instances are now coming out while inside of the machine, this time better than ever.

Back with Abel and Mr. Redd, SCP-682 roared, as it charged at the duo. But both dodged out of the way and avoided his mouth, as Mr. Redd touched SCP-682 at his side, and a red glow began to form, and an explosion detonated from Mr. Redd's touch. This made SCP-682 roar, but he is not going down as swung a tail at both Abel and Mr. Redd, although Abel felt nothing, and Mr. Redd barely felt it himself, which launched the both of them back. But Mr. Redd made a portal that resembles a ring of misty scarlet clouds, as they went into it, and another portal formed from the ground beneath them, as they launched into the air yet again. Mr. Redd looks annoyed, as he spoke out.

"Somehow this reptile won't quit!"

His eyes flared brightly at the reptile and turned a big piece of SCP-682 into stone, only for SCP-682 to break through it and launch at Mr. Redd and Abel, only for Mr. Redd to make a shadow barrier again, as SCp-682 attempted to break through it. But they have no idea how long they can handle this. Suddenly, a rocket launcher is launched and hits SCP-682 in the face, launching it backwards and make it stumble for a little bit. They looked and saw the instances of SCP-2639-A now outside, and now they have gained some new powers of their own. Now they are able to create anomalous weapons that are based around other types of video games, not just quake, as well as other objects besides weapons. But more importantly, they now no longer need the computer to exit and enter the real world. In other words, they are now free and able to go on without risk of being trapped in a shutdown machine forever.

"Okay, now let's see what we can do now!"

Gloria said, as Jim made a gravity gun from half-life and used it to pick up a drone made by SCP-3179, still covered in plant matter, as he spoke out.

"Eat some of this!!!"

Jim launched it at the reptile, while Thomas Warden made a copy of the Killstar from the Far Cry series and fired a laser at SCP-682, which made him scream in pain. Gloria then spread her arms out, as pixels and code surrounded the group, now looking like they are in a virtual reality of some sort, with platforms present. The group jumps up, and Jim makes the BFG 9,000 from Doom appear in his hand and launches it at SCP-682, blowing a chunk of flesh off, while Gloria created the Banshee from Halo, as she flies up and crashes into SCP-682, while Gloria herself simply respawned, and made a video sword from the Infamous series, as well as summoning her own video angel to aid her in this.

As this is going on, Mr. Redd looked downright confused at what he is seeing before his very eyes, seeing it as very weird and odd in a way. Mr. Redd shook his eyes, as he then spoke out.

"Okay, what a weird way to fight the reptile, by making it into an actual game."

Abel nodded his head, as Leora looked up, and after a bit of looking, decided that it is time she takes action herself. She goes to SCP-914, and spoke out to Thomas.

"Hey, Thomas, mind helping out with something for a bit?"

This made Thomas look at Leora and nodded his head, as he then goes to her and spoke out.

"What is it?"

Leora points to SCP-914 and spoke out to him.

"Gonna need you to give me an upgrade myself. Think you can do that?"

This made Thomas blink, but he nodded his head, as he then goes to the key, and he looks at Leora, who goes into the Intake. He then looks to see if the dial is still on Very Fine, which it is, and turned the key to the right yet again. The booth doors closed, and the machine activated, as Leora began her own refinement process, as the machine activated. Thomas steps back, but Epon grabbed Thomas by the hand and goes into the way, which is still open, and decided to go and join the others into the evacuation. Phobos, seeing this, spoke out to Deimos.

"Brother, it seems these 2 are leaving to the other side. Want me to follow them?"

Deimos looked and nodded his head, as he spoke out.

"Yes. I manage to speak out to the one responsible to hold it open for as long as possible and not disconnect it yet. You can."

Phobos nodded, as he ran inside of the way. Back with SCP-914, the machine began to glow golden, and after it is done, the Output booth opens, and glowing golden irises appeared in the darkness, as Leora stepped out. Now she looks different, having large golden wings on her back, and they are not made of photons, unlike previous times. These wings are way to real, and now...her photons no longer shed and dissipates. Now she can use them indefinitely. She spread her wings out and flied up fast, as she makes a portal with 2 layers of circles made of golden clouds and 7 golden spikes coming out from the surface of the inner circle, as she flies through it, and made a whip appear and hits it on the surface of SCP-682, tearing a chunk of it off of him, before a blasts of photons from her hands, which hit SCP-682 and tore some large chunk of flesh off. But SCP-682, deciding to change its tactics, made his own body reflective, and the light bounced and almost hit one of them demons that Mr. Redd made, which was able to avoid it luckily. But Leora was not done yet, as she then used her photons to make sentient constructs of some winged entities, each of them resembling a video angel that Gloria made, as they fly in fast towards SCP-682, and began to attack him all over the place, punching and bashing against him, as they exploded into golden light and hurt SCP-682  badly, although he is still not going down. But Leora still is not giving up easily, as she goes with Mr. Redd, who made swords to slice and cut at SCP-682, and she does the same.

Cain looks up, as she began to look around, and he clenched his fist for a little bit. Even though he knows that his own brother will hate him, he still loves him and refuses to let him die. Besides, he wants to see his brother change back to who he once was, even if that does seem to be a little bit naive on his part. Cain made his decision, he is going to help out and finish this. He goes to the machine and, as he took a long time, knowing that once he enters it, he will change into something that is permanent and cannot reverse. But...if this means that his own brother will be safe...then so be it. He goes to the machine, and making sure the dial is set to Very Fine, looks around for a bit. But as he prepares to turn the dial, a demon walks into the Serpent's Hand base, which made Cain turn around, and surprisingly, Mr. Redd's voice is speaking through it, almost like he is possessing his own demons

"You wouldn't think I wouldn't be aware of this, are you? Well, now you have a time to shine."

This made Cain blink, but he smiled, as he goes into the Intake, and Mr. Redd, possessing the demon, turns the key, and it whirs to life, as the machine began to refine Cain and make him much stronger than before, as well as give him some new powers of his own. Cain, he can feel it, his own limbs changing, becoming stronger, more durable, even though they are not necessary, and he feels his photographic memory becoming better, now with encyclopedic knowledge. He can feel a few new powers within him appear, and even though he has no idea what it is...he knows what they can do. After a little while, the door of the Output opens, and Cain appeared, his limbs now no longer Beryllium Bronze, now out of some new anomalous metal, the mark on his forehead emitting Akiva Radiation, as Cain looks and teleports outside. When he did, plant matter began to decay much more quickly than expected, but this includes the ones that incapacitated SCP-3179's machines, which are luckily still inanimate due to the damage caused by SCP-166's ritual. Cain looks, and decided to test his new power in order to see what will happen. He goes to one of the drones and touched it. All of a sudden, his arm opened up with wires and other mechanical components pulling the drone into the arm, as it disappeared. This made Cain surprised, as he goes to the other mechanical machine that fell out, which is a buzzsaw of some sort. When Cain touched it, it was also integrated into him. This made Cain look intrigued at what he is capable of, as he then decided to put them to the test. His arms began to glow, as he flies into the air, his own personal gravitational field formed from his prosthetic limbs, as he looks at SCP-682, and Abel notices him.

"Brother...I see you also joined in as well with the refinement."

Cain looks at Abel and nodded his head, as he looks at SCP-682, who roared out.

"Another one? How many more until I am finally able to kill you all?!"

Cain then launches a punch, electric-blue colored fire leaking out from his fist, as it hits SCP-682 in the face, the fire spread everywhere, which made SCP-682 scream. But he then cooled his body to absolute 0, destroying the flames, as SCP-682 charged and bites onto Cain. But this was a mistake, as SCP-682 instead felt himself in pain, as he stumbled back. But it is not just pain from his physical body that he felt. He also felt pain from his very self-concept, hurting him in a metaphysical level. As that happened, Cain produced 4 drones from his back, the same drones that SCP-3179 made, as they fired out harpoons and spun in the air, holding SCP-682 in place, as Cain then made 2 pairs of buzzsaw blades appear from his back, as he cuts SCP-682 down to size, and luckily the drones held him in place enough to be able to cut him down to size. Abel looked down and is impressed at this, as SCP-682 had bee cut to pieces. SCP-682 snarled a little bit, as he spoke out.

"Do not think...this is over..."

Cain looked, and he stepped a bit to the right, as he spoke out.

"On the contrary, it will be, because someone else can deal with you."

SCP-682 looked confused, until he noticed that SCP-3179 is free, due to Cain using his decaying powers to free him. SCP-3179 makes wheels and speeds towards SCP-682, as they rammed into each other. A lizard who adapts his body to any threat against a metal liquid who adapts tactics. This should be an interesting fight. But they do not have time for this. Cain spoke out.

"It is time to leave, we need to get out of here. And this means you too Abel."

Abel was about to retort, but Mr. Redd wrapped a tentacle around him and pulled him away fast, as the group ran inside, and Deimos spoke out.

"Come quickly, the way will close soon."

Cain and the others nodded, as they went into the way, and exit through it. Deimos looked at the sight of his former home and spoke out sadly to it and his former friend, who he so far away from.

"...Goodbye..."

He then enters the way and joins the others, as the way finally closes off for good, and disconnected the library to the world, now gone forever from a dead home, that there is no coming back from.

A month later...

It has been...a few months, since they escaped from the end of the world from their former home. And now...now everyone has gained a new home for them to live in.

The alternate reality that they are living inside of is futuristic, with the anomalous having been integrated into society, no longer a secret to the public. Cain is shown to be flying around, his hands in his pockets, as he looks around to see the world that he is living in. He won't deny...it is beautiful, more so than the world that he and his brother had lived in before. And yet...he feels quite sad. This world, opposite of the world he lived in, it is a paradise that his previous home couldn't be. It is sad for him, but he is fine with it.

As he looked around, he saw a building and saw his brother Abel fighting against the Very Fine enhanced SCP-2639 instances, and Phobos is watching the fight. He seems to be having fun, and the trio felt the same. Abel's attitude has considerable improved ever since then, and he has so far not attacked anyone else. It did make Cain smile, seeing his brother now a bit better, but he has a long way to go. As he travels around, he hears some voices speak out, and looks to see Mr. Redd talking with Ms. Sweetie.

"Well, gotta say. Mr. Smiles is sure being better these days, after a long time having to be carried by us in that rusty metal box."

Mr. Redd nodded his head, as he spoke out.

"Of course, and now he will be getting that treatment soon to help him with his rust. Heh...wish father could see this. He'd be happy to see that he'll be better."

Ms. Sweetie smiled, as she spoke out.

"Eh, of course. Besides...you already proved you've become better than who you once were. That's at least something."

Mr. Redd smiled, only for him to feel his arm tugged by Leora, who smiled.

"Hey, Redd. Come with me!"

Redd is dragged by Leora, and his tentacles shot out, as he spoke out.

"Woah wait!!"

Cain smiled and shook his head, rather amused at the sight of this, as Leora drags Mr. Redd away. Seeing this, he looks and another part of the city and sees Thomas holding onto Epon's hand, although Epon is now wearing a sort of necklace that has a Scranton Reality Anchor, so she does not accidentally use the ritual on this world. Her hair is noticable growing longer pretty quickly, as he spoke out.

"Geez, your hair is already starting to grow this long?"

Epon smiled as she spoke out.

"Well, seems that machine is able to do this too me. Do not blame me. Besides, at least your sister, who is living with you, is not having this problem."

Thomas smiled and spoke out.

"Touche."

Epon smiled, as she turns Thomas around and kissed him in the lips and Thomas, while a bit surprised, smiled and returned the kiss. The both of them were very happy. Cain smiled, especially since Epon and himself, thanks to the Clockworks, are now able to control their powers. So, Cain doesn't decay plants, while Epon does not make plants grow in machines. As Cain flied around, still wandering, he notices Iris and Rainer together, also on what seems to be a date in a way, with SCP-049, enhanced by the Clockworks, flying to a hospital. And on another street, the little girl SCPs, 040, 249, 191, 134, and 706, are hanging out with one another, and Cain is now beginning to wonder if these little girls have been enrolled to a school since coming here.

As Cain looked around, a voice spoke out.

"I thought that I might find you here."

Cain blinked his eyes, and he turns around to see Deimos, floating in the air with a smile on his face. Cain looks surprised, but he smiled, as he and Deimos sat onto the rooftop, as Deimos spoke out to Cain.

"So...how are you adjusting to this...our new home?"

Cain smiled a little bit, as he spoke out.

"It is going well. Way more better than our previous home. You?"

Deimos smiled and spoke out to him.

"Same. The SCP-682 of this world is even much more passive and far less malignment. Even though, he is still not this friendly."

Deimos looked down at the ground for a little bit, as he spoke out to him.

"Although, admittedly...it does not change the fact that...I will miss my previous home...especially, the little one, who I once cared for as a friend so much. I still cannot believe he would do this."

Cain looks at him, before he spoke out.

"Perhaps...but...you at least have your brother. You made sure that he is alive and did not have anything happen to him. You may have lost one single friend..but you at least made more with me and the others."

Deimos looked at him and smiled a bit, as he spoke out.

"Hm...you seem to be right."

Cain nodded, as he and Deimos shook hands, and Cain spoke out.

"For now...let us enjoy this new life, especially since we now have a bright future ahead of us."

Deimos nodded, as he spoke out.

"Of course, Cain...for a friend."

Cain nodded, as he took out an apple and bit onto it, as he and Deimos watched and looked at the horizon of the city, of the new world that they live in. Honestly...they could not have asked for more. They are very happy that they now have a new life. The darkness of their old home, now in the past. Their new home...it is the face of their future. And face it...they will be able to do so, now that they aren't alone.