SCP-2057-JP

Credits

Title: SCP-2057-JP - Back to the Egg, Then It Hatches
Author: ©︎nabes
Year Created: 2020

SCP-JP Rookie Contest 2020: Tied for Third Prize in SCP-JP Object Category

Item #: SCP-2057-JP

SCP-2057-JP instances

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2057-JP instances are to be contained in a rearing cage in a standard organism containment cell, in accordance with basically the same rearing practices as for normal chicken chicks. Multiple transparent acrylic balls with a diameter of 5 cm are to be placed in a position visible from SCP-2057-JP instances. Any SCP-2057-JP instances confirmed to have been transferred into the acrylic balls or other spheres are to be re-contained in the rearing cage after hatching.

Description: SCP-2057-JP instances are juvenile domesticated chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). They have no differences from normal juvenile chickens except for the Rebirth Process, which is described below, and the fact that they do not mature. The major anomalous properties of SCP-2057-JP manifest at the time of death.

Upon death, SCP-2057-JP transfers itself inside a roughly spherical substance in its field of vision or in the surrounding area as an embryo¹ measuring approximately 3-4 mm in length. Following the transfer, the embryo develops by converting the solid or liquid inside the sphere into its own nutrients through unknown means, reaching the stage of a juvenile chicken in an average of 21 days, and hatches. This sequence from transfer to hatching is termed the Rebirth Process.

The environmental conditions required for a transferred SCP-2057-JP instance to become a juvenile differ from those of normal chickens, and it is capable of developing into a juvenile under any environment within the sphere. However, hatching requires an environment in which a chick can survive; it is known that SCP-2057-JP will enter a dormant state in the sphere if the appropriate external conditions are absent.

+ Excerpts from the Experiment Log

Experiment Log 2057-JP-1 - 20██/██/██

Method: Several balls (made of wood, iron, stone, and acrylic) are prepared to verify if SCP-2057-JP instances transfer themselves inside the balls after being killed by a D-class personnel.

Result: Transfer occurred. In almost all trials, the instance shifted into the ball in its line of sight.

Analysis: They seem to preferentially choose the ball within their field of view, regardless of whether it is made of wood or iron. This will be the basic method for all subsequent experiments.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-2 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment with SCP-2057-JP's view obstructed and observe if transfer occurs.

Result: Transfer occurred. While the instances transferred themselves randomly into the surrounding balls, most of them tended to transfer into balls that were more spherical in shape and positioned in close proximity.

Analysis: SCP-2057-JP appears to have the ability to detect nearby spheres by non-visual means.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-3 - 20██/██/██

Method: Destroy SCP-2057-JP before it hatches and observe if transfer occurs.

Result: Transfer occurred. Same results were obtained as in the experiment with the instance's view obstructed.

Analysis: In the pre-hatching state, transfer appears to be caused due to damage to the blastodisk.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-4 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment with a hollow ball and observe if transfer occurs.

Result: The SCP-2057-JP instance did not transfer into the hollow ball, choosing instead the intracranial space of D-11893, who was responsible for the experiment. The transferred instance hatched later without any problems.

Analysis: It seems that transfer is not possible without contents that can be converted as nutrition. Further experiments are to be conducted with extra balls to prevent accidents.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-5 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment with varying types of balls and observe if transfer occurs.

Result:
Container containing water: Transfer occurred.
Container containing sulfuric acid: Transfer occurred. The hatched SCP-2057-JP instance had acquired resistance to acid.
Sphere made of ice: Transfer occurred. The SCP-2057-JP instance re-transferred itself when it could no longer develop due to the melting of the ice.
Heated iron: Transfer occurred. The hatched SCP-2057-JP instance had acquired resistance to heat.

Addendum: The resistance acquired by the instances was lost with the next transfer.

Analysis: They seem to be fine with any material as long as it is filled with something. How is it that they cannot hatch if the ambient temperature is too high, but have no problem if the very material they transfer themselves into is hot?

Experiment Log 2057-JP-6 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment with progressively smaller balls and observe if transfer occurs.

Result: Transfer occurred up to a ball with a diameter of 3.2 cm. Instances did not transfer themselves to smaller spheres.

Addendum: The hatched SCP-2057-JP instances decreased in size in proportion to the diameter of the ball.

Analysis: Transfer appears to be impossible without at least a certain amount of volume.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-7 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment with progressively bigger balls and observe if transfer occurs.

Result: Transfer occurred up to a ball with a diameter of 4 m.

Addendum: The hatched SCP-2057-JP instances increased in size in proportion to the diameter of the ball. Regardless of size, the time to hatch was largely unchanged.

Analysis: Although the experiment confirmed the transfer into up to a ball of 4 m in diameter, it is possible that there is no upper limit to the size of the sphere to which SCP-2057-JP can transfer itself.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-7 -2 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment while making an SCP-2057-JP instance, which has grown to 4.2 m in height, perceive a ball with a diameter of 5 cm and observe if transfer occurs. An anti-tank rifle is used to terminate the instance.

Result: Transfer occurred.

Analysis: The size difference apparently does not matter significantly as long as SCP-2057-JP perceives it as a sphere.

Experiment Log 2057-JP-8 - 20██/██/██

Method: Conduct the experiment with an SCP-2057-JP instance placed on a ball with a diameter of 4 m and observe if transfer occurs.

Result: Transfer did not occur. The instance transferred itself into another ball that had been prepared.

Analysis: As expected, objects that SCP-2057-JP cannot recognize as spherical are not subject to the transfer process. This is a relief.

+ UPDATE 2020/06/10

UPDATE 2020/06/10

Following the containment breach of SCP-████-JP at Site-81██ on 2020/05/07, a section of SCP-2057-JP containment cell was destroyed, resulting in a secondary containment breach of SCP-2057-JP. After the situation was under control, eleven of the twelve instances that escaped during the containment breach were promptly recaptured². However, the last SCP-2057-JP instance was not located despite an extensive search of the area using bio-reaction detection equipment.

The containment breach occurred on a night with clear skies and a well-visible full moon. There is currently no known upper limit to the size of the object that SCP-2057-JP can transfer itself into or the maximum distance it can travel. Presuming that the unrecovered SCP-2057-JP instance escaped outdoors and subsequently expired while the Moon was in its sight, the possibility was raised that it may have regarded the Moon as its next egg to transfer.

Consequently, a decision was made to search for SCP-2057-JP on the Moon and an investigation team was dispatched; a countermeasures conference is scheduled based on the results of the investigation.

The following is an excerpt from the investigation report.。

Excerpts from the Investigation Report

We encountered the SCP-2057-JP instance.

It was discovered about 20 km below the lunar surface. Since similar results were obtained during excavations at other locations on the Moon, we believe that the SCP-2057-JP instance has already grown to a chick and has since entered into a dormant state. Based on the size of the egg, its current total length is estimated to be 3,███ km.

Since most of the lunar mass has been replaced by the SCP-2057-JP instance already, retrieval is not feasible. If the instance were to hatch from the Moon, it would be instantly killed by being thrown out into the vacuum, resulting in the obliteration of the Moon and yet another transfer process.

It is fortunate that the Moon is not an environment in which life can survive in all conditions, including temperature and air availability. Unless there is a major external interference such as a significant change in the lunar environment or destruction of the Moon itself, the SCP-2057-JP instance is expected to remain semi-permanently dormant and will not hatch.

Nevertheless, we do not know what will happen in the future, and we need to continue our research.

Footnotes

1. Genetic testing has revealed that the embryo has an identical DNA to that of the instance prior to transfer.

2. Five of them were recovered in embryonic state after undergoing the transfer process.