Scp-004 Novels & Stories

The click of it locking feels like a lie. When I return to the archive, the air feels warmer. The lamp’s circle of light looks smaller somehow, like the room is expanding into shadow again. I sit at my desk and pull my notebook out—the unmarked one, the one that is mine, the only place I can write without being edited by their systems. My pen hovers over the page. I write: NIGHT 4 — NEAR-BREACH Subject H–47 displayed accelerated emotional proximity. Physical contact imminent. Watcher confirmed in corridor.

The voice”her own voice, yet stripped of all warmth”had drifted from the darkness, but the source remained hidden behind the wall of canisters. She moved the light forward. In the canister nearest to her, a young woman slept”or was suspended”in a clear, viscous fluid. Her features were identical to Cattleya’s, down to the small, crescent-shaped birthmark on the left collarbone. The tag bolted to the base of the glass read: Subject: 402 - Termination Protocol: Failed. "I’m not¦ I’m not a copy," Cattleya whispered, her voice cracking. The sound was swallowed by the vast, oppressive silence of the vault.

Theo’s POV The screen on the machine did not show the report. It did not show a checkmark or a confirmation. The Machine’s Flaw started pulsing with a red light instead. A pitched sound kept echoing through the room, repeating over and over. I looked at the text flashing on the screen in capital letters. The error code 404, it just kept flashing. ERROR CODE: 404. BIOLOGICAL ANOMALY DETECTED. DATA UPLOAD SUSPENDED. MANUAL RE-SAMPLING REQUIRED.

"This is the Vanguard Directive. All passengers and crew of Freight 404, step away from the carriages immediately. We are searching for an unregistered temporal anomaly. Non-compliance will be met with terminal force." Anaya gripped the gunmetal cylinder tightly against her chest. The hunters were at the door, and the countdown was still ticking.

We were show to them right now. Jaxon swore. Calder closed his eyes. Maddox looked ready to kill everyone present. Evelynn exhaled through her nose. “Yes.” I blinked. That was somehow worse than denial. “Is it ours? All four?” I asked. “Yes,” she said again. My brain stopped cooperating. Jaxon rubbed a hand over his face. “We had a whole emotional cave journey about it.” “There were rituals,” Calder added dryly. “Great powers,” Maddox said. “Trauma,” Jaxon continued.

His words interrupted my thoughts. "Yes, I am curious, but not so much," I said in reply. If you're a Black Scorpion, then you can definitely find out whatever you want. I mean, you people have control all over so many parts of the world." He smiled, "Well, you seem to be giving me so much credit. Maybe you think that would make a difference here. But then again, I'm going to explain how everything happened. As I said, before you came to my house, as a matter of fact, from the moment the New Order gave the instruction to kill me,