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Title : SCP-062-FR - The Perfect Predator
Author : 
Dr Grym
Date : April, 13th 2015
Item #: SCP-062-FR
Threat Level: Orange ●
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-062-FR is to be contained in a 5m x 5m x 5m humanoid cell of Site-Yod with 40 cm thick steel walls . The cell must remain constantly at a temperature of 7 ° C.
SCP-062-FR is to be fed three times a day on a regular basis.
In order to avoid an unpredictable evolution scenario, the daily environment of the entity must avoid any unnecessary changes. Its food must remain the same (at this time, 3 kg of beef) and must always be brought to it in the same manner (by a 5 cm by 10 cm hatch on the ceiling ). Any changes in the environment of the entity must be studied beforehand, then validated by the Director of Site-Yod. Under no circumstances should the entity see members of personnel. If the entity sees a member of staff, class A amnesics must be hidden in their food. Amnesiacs used should never be the same in order to prevent the entity from developing immunity to them.
Description: SCP-062-FR is a living being that currently has characteristics similar to that of a humanoid. However, it is difficult to make a fixed description of SCP-062-FR. The entity was captured in the middle of the Amazon jungle by the Foundation, following numerous indigenous reports of the emergence of a "demon".
SCP-062-FR is capable of mutating its DNA extremely quickly to adapt to its environment. Following its capture and the changes observed on the creature since, it has been estimated that SCP-062-FR could evolve as much in a day as any species in a million years could.
Currently, SCP-062-FR possesses the following features:
- Almost perfect bipedalism. The subject however very often moves on all fours. Attribute acquired before capture of the entity.
- Two lower limbs, 1m40 long, ending by what looks like talons. Attributes acquired before capture of the entity.
- Two upper limbs, 1m30 long, ending with 5 fingers (including an opposable thumb) at the end of which are 5cm long extremely resistant bony formations. Only the opposable thumb was acquired in captivity, which suggests that the entity is trying to find a way other than brute force to escape.
- Camouflage by pigmentation of the skin and scales (similar to a cuttlefish). Attribute acquired during Incident 062-01-FR
- Nyctalopia. Attribute acquired during the Incident 062-01-FR)
- Skin covered with scales around the torso, thighs, face and biceps. Attribute acquired in captivity.
- Two hearts. Attribute acquired during the Incident 062-01-FR).
- [REDACTED], apparently, this attribute is the only fixed characteristic of the entity.
- Back covered with 10 cm long bone darts. This spikes are apparently ejectable and venomous. The venom has an LD50 of [REDACTED] which makes it more lethal than most known venoms. Attributes acquired when SCP-062-FR was captured, possibly for defensive purposes as the entity felt endangered during capture.
- 72 teeth, divided into two rows, each 3 cm long. Attribute acquired before capture of the entity.
- Disjointed and prominent jaw to facilitate biting. Attribute acquired before capture of the entity.
- A total height of 2.30 m. Attribute changed during containment of the entity.
- A top speed of up to 50 km / h. Attribute acquired before capture of the entity.
- A vaguely human face. The creature's eyes are relatively small, and covered by two layers of eyelids, the first being transparent, and the second extremely solid. The subject does not seem to have a nose, like some reptiles. However, during the few tests carried on the subject, it was revealed that the entity's nose had Lorenzini bulbs, just like sharks, which allows it to detect the electromagnetic fields as well as the gradients in temperature. Attribute acquired before capture of the entity. The presence of Lorenzini's bulbs leads to the assumption that the entity was initially a creature living only in water, which would also explain its relatively recent discovery by the Foundation.
The subject does not seem to be the origin of these changes: if its environment remains unchanged, it will not evolve.
In the first days after SCP-062-FR's arrival at the Foundation, certain elements of its environment were modified in order to understand how SCP-062-FR adapted.
The modified elements were as follows:
- The size of the cell (increased)
- The amount of food (decreased)
- Room temperature (decreased)
SCP-062-FR reacted by adapting its size to that of the room, growing 20cm in a few days. In addition, it had adopted scales on the areas containing its vital organs to protect it from the cold. The samples taken from the scales showed that they were [DATA EXPUNGED], the use of these results to improve the equipment of MTF operatives is in progress.
The entity also changed its metabolism when the amount of food decreased to consume less energy. The subject even entered a comatose state qualifyed as hibernation.
Stop your bullshit right away. Who launched these experiments without telling me about them? If you deprive it of food, do you really think it will stay idle? Hurry up to give it its daily ration of meat as at intended, before we get a breach on our ass by the end of the month. - Dr. Grym
Following a decision from Dr. Grym, the entity should be re-fed as previously indicated in the Special Containment Procedures. However, the temperature and the size of the room should no longer change.
So far, all of the changes adopted by SCP-062-FR have been made to ensure its survival, including its effectiveness in killing possible prey.
Seriously, this thing adapts according to its target and its environment. Fortunately, it only kills for food, we can trap it thanks to that. That said, it is its only weak point at the moment. Apparently these changes are involuntary: It is not aware of what it can do and its intelligence is of the level of a great ape. Above all, it must not frequent human beings, if it were to behave like us, it would end up becoming the perfect predator. It is up to us to prevent it from becoming so. - Dr. Benji
Some samples were able to be taken from the entity in order to understand what increased its speed of adaptation. These samples are still being studied.
However, it is now impossible to obtain additional direct debits. See Incident 062-01-FR.
Incident 062-01-FR: During the various samples taken from SCP-062-FR, sleeping pills were used to allow the experiments to proceed safely.
During Experiment 13, 13 /██/████, while the entity had just fallen asleep, two Class-D personnel entered the cell.
Before they even had time to close the door, SCP-062-FR jumped onto one of the Class-D [DATA EXPUNGED], and went through the door left open, causing a breach of containment.
The entire East wing of Site-Yod was closed and plunged into darkness, in order to disorient SCP-062-FR and to locate it more easily thanks to the sensors of the MTF Delta-4 "Safari Time!".
The entity took advantage of these new conditions to develop its current nyctalopia.
After 3 days of hunting and ██ losses, the entity was neutralized because it had weakened following an injury inflicted on the heart occurring on the second day. The entity was considered dead before it was noticed that it had created a second heart to compensate for the lack of efficiency of the first.
During the debriefing, it was found that the entity had developed a resistance to sleeping pills during the various samples, and had taken the opportunity to escape.
The following document is an interview with Commander Soho, head of FIM Delta-4 by the Site-Yod internal affairs manager, Andrick Ermeht.
Andrick Ermeht: Commander Soho to Andrick Ermeht regarding Incident 062-01-FR. Tell us how you neutralized the entity.
Commander Soho: On the first day, by the time we got there, this bastard had already stumbled over a dozen people. Our first task was to secure the other SCPs present nearby, then to close the area in which Charlie was.
Andrick Ermeht: Charlie?
Commander Soho: The code name we use for our targets. Once the area was closed off, we started to launch detection operations, to find out where this thing was, and we were briefed on how it works and its behavior. We understood that we had to act quickly before it could adapt.
The second day, we located it, and we took meat with us to bait it.
We placed the meat in the middle of a large room, and we hid in the corners.
Andrick Ermeht: And it came?
Commander Soho: Yes. A minute after we got into position, this thing arrived. Most predators you come across are silent. This thing was silent AND invisible. He had to adapt his body temperature, or his skin, because suddenly, our thermal glasses saw nothing. Its when we saw the meat disappear from the infrareds that we understood.
Andrick Ermeht: Did you shoot him?
Commander Soho: With all our strike force. And this thing got away with it. But we were able to follow him thanks to the traces of blood he left behind. And the corpses too. Team B, which was supposed to cut him off in the event that he escaped was decimated shortly after contact with the entity was lost.
Andrick Ermeht: You said you hurt it badly. However, you failed with a second similar ambush.
Commander Soho: Yes. This bastard had… understood. We were warned that it was adapting physically, but we were never told that it was also changing quickly psychologically.
Andrick Ermeht: What do you mean?
Commander Soho: Most of the time we, with my team, hunted down many critters, animals and SCPs most of the time. We were the ones who caught this bastard the first time, in the Amazon. Yet I had never seen an entity survive a trap, and then catching us in our own trap a day later when we were trying to ambush it.
Andrick Ermeht: Explain yourself.
Commander Soho: We got a call from one of the guys on Team B a few hours later. He was alive and had located the thing. So we tried the same trap again, in a similar area where the thing was.
Andrick Ermeht: And?
Commander Soho: And when we set the bait, we heard pleads coming from a corridor nearby. Two of my guys went there while we were keeping the trap. We heard them die. And a few seconds later, the thing came to us from the opposite side of our corridor. It was injured again with a tracer bullet. But we lost 50% of our workforce. This monster baited us with our own guys, in the same fucking way, and understood how to dodge our trap while turning it against us. Fortunately we managed to get it by electrifying it with a cable he had cut by slicing one of my men in half. This thing should never stay near humans. It learns too fast. If it begins to think for itself, to become intelligent, you will regret SCP-682.
Andrick Ermeht: Thank you, Commander. That will be all
After studying the few records obtained during the Incident, it was clear that the entity had copied the different strategies of MTF Delta-4. Henceforth, human contact with SCP-062-FR is prohibited
Some research was carried out by MTF Delta-4 into the original habitat of the entity, to determine if SCP-062-FR was an isolated case.
In the third week, a pre-Columbian temple similar to the Mayans was discovered, containing several relatively recent human bones inside and around it.
After scanning and verifying that the entire area does not contain entities similar to SCP-062-FR, MTF Delta-4, as well as some researchers, including Dr Grym, Heiteira, and Sonitrok, called in for reinforcement for their expertise in their respective fields (predatory SCPs, biology, and anatomy), began to seek clues.
Initially, research focused on the surroundings of the temple, while MTF Delta-4 inspected the building as much as possible. Traces of blood moving towards the entrance of the temple were quickly discovered.
It quickly appeared that the various corpses were leading an expedition to discover the remains of a pre-Columbian civilization. Unfortunately, there was no interesting evidence on SCP-062-FR outside the temple. After the fifth week, the temple was explored.
It turned out that the temple was the entrance to a gigantic underground labyrinth. After a few minutes of walking, the Foundation teams reached what appeared to be a huge monolithic shattered door, as well as remnants of explosive charges. After the door began a maze full of traps, the walls of which were filled with pre-Columbian inscriptions and traces of recent blood.
After several days and three members of the expedition injured by various traps, a huge underground cave was discovered.
The cave contained a lake, the bottom of which was completely covered with hundreds of skeletons. During the inspection, a diary, probably that of the director of the expedition, was discovered next to a skeleton cut in half. Unfortunately, the newspaper was covered in blood, which made reading it complex.
Professor Grant's Journal. 58th day of the expedition.
Our guides spoke of an unexplored area further east. According to them, one of the tributaries of the Amazon had sunk there hundreds of years ago. Perfect. If the riverbed has changed, that would explain the fall of this civilization that I am still looking for.
Professor Grant's Journal. 78th day of the expedition.
We found it. A temple that seems to be the father of all those who will follow, especially among the Mayans. This is a first-rate discovery. We will first establish camp and inspect the outside of the temple. I’m looking forward to seeing the interior in a few days.
Professor Grant's Journal. 81st day of the expedition.
We finally entered the temple, with some of our own. Very quickly, we end up stumbling on an extremely imposing monolithic door. What we are looking for is surely behind. Why defend something worthless so well? These people didn't want us to go behind this door. But that’s what we’re going to do. We have enough dynamite to explode it. Tomorrow we will go on the other side.
Professor Grant's Journal. 82nd day of the expedition.
[BLOOD SPOTS] exploded! It took us the day. Who knew she would resist dynamite so well? Fortunately, we finished the job with pickaxes. We are going to sleep. Tomorrow we’ll see what’s behind the door, and that first hallway we’ve seen through the dust.
But that intrigues me. What would this civilization have wanted to hide so well? Gold? Money? Impossible. Not this way. It must touch their mythology, I'm sure. A statue of their gods, perhaps? Or… their gods in person?
Professor Grant's Journal. 83rd day of the expedition.
[BLOOD SPOTS] massacre. [BLOOD SPOTS] awake. Ran to the temple for cover, with Smith and two of the guides. What was that? [BLOOD SPOTS] Smith injured. Bleeding a lot. We are going to hide at the bottom of the temple while the creature goes away.
[BLOOD SPOTS]
It follows us. We heard it, all these corridors echoes. It's tracking us.
[BLOOD SPOTS] is wary. Smith begins to rot. I need fresh meat. The creature is always on the lookout. We hear it sometimes. Something must be done.
Professor Grant's Journal. God knows when.
I placed the guide's body in the middle of the lake cavern, the beast found it. It has changed from the last time we saw it, it didn't have these talons on the lower appendages. And it wasn’t that big.
I'm going to try to pass by it and reach the corridors opposite of the cave.
Professor Grant's Journal. Last entry.
It's the end. I tried to pass the beast, but without success. It didn't attack me. Just pushed back. It mustn't be hungry after its recent feast. There's no point in running anymore. Pray that someone will close the door.
Its keeping me as a pantry. I'm done for. We should never have opened that goddamned door. I started to decipher the texts found on the walls. They are talking about a creature that the Mayans called [BLOOD SPOTS].
Ladies and Gentlemen from the O5 council,
Following the expedition with MTF Delta-4 to the Amazon to determine the origin of SCP-062-FR, here are, as you asked me, my conclusions.
It seems that the pre-Columbian civilization that Professor Grant was studying had more or less successfully confined the entity. The constant changes in river beds in the Amazon could have led the beast to the cave, before the river who brought it here dried up, or changes course.
Most likely, the entity may have been an exclusively marine creature at the time, and members of that civilization worshipped it, regularly offering human sacrifices to it.
The entity being fed then, it had no reason to evolve.
However, when the civilization in question began to shrink, due to changes in water sources, or diseases, its members were no longer able to honor their god, who began to rise from the water.
They then decided to seal the temple tightly. Until Professor Grant and his expedition reopened it, a few centuries later. This explains the recent discovery of the entity.
However, one point is of great concern to me.
When confronted with the creature, Professor Grant was not immediately attacked by it. Was it already satisfied? Surely. But this is not what interests us.
During Incident 062-01-FR, the entity, although fed, continued to attack staff members.
I think this must be seen as a profound change in its nature, and must be taken extremely seriously.
As for the true origins of the entity, the mystery remains. It is impossible to know what Professor Grant may have read on these walls, and to find another specialist in this civilization, and to decode all the writings will take time. But that may lead us to more interesting leads.
In the meantime, we must ensure that the containment of SCP-062-FR is ensured in the same way as much as possible so as not to face possible changes in the entity that would make it more complex to contain. In addition the fact that the entity has held centuries without food or almost is extremely worrying. I propose to train the staff dealing with the entity in protocol 113-B, just in case.
We Secure, we Confine, we Protect.
Sincerely.
Dr Grym
