The story of Site 89’s first and only level 2 containment breach, just like any containment breach, is a long and sad one.
It all began almost a year after the failed rescue attempt by Mobile Task Force Epsilon-6 aka “Vilage Idiots” when foundation researcher saw flyers and posters being put up around the town of SCP-XXXX advertising a “Founders Day” celebration. The advertisements were fairly simple in design. They were plain white with big bold letters over a stage reading “Founders Day Celebration” accented with pictures of fireworks as well as the date and location listed at the bottom.
Foundation researchers initially saw the celebration as the perfect opportunity to learn more about the town but became disheartened when they saw that the advertisements also said “No Outsiders Allowed”. That was of course until Dr. Bright offered to help.
For those unfamiliar with Dr. Bright he is one of the few members of the SCP Foundation that is himself an SCP. You see after an incident involving SCP-963 Dr. Brights conciseness is directly linked to the SCP allowing him to possess anyone who wears it.
Dr. Bright had offered his help to the researchers of Site 89 in the past when they were first researching what SCP-XXXX-1’s did with there victims. He had suggested allowing him to posses a D-Class inmate and then allowing himself to be taken by an SCP-XXXX-1 in order to ascertain were the SCP takes its victims. The foundation researchers had initially declined his offer as there were to many variables and unknown risks involved with his plan. However now that they knew were the SCPs take their victims Dr. Brights plan had the potential to allow them access to information previously unknown to them. Unfortunately the plan had to be altered when the necklace containing Dr. Bright’s conciseness did not disappear with the D-Class he was possessing instead falling to the ground after the 30 hours were up. Though it is unknown what exactly happened to the D-Class when they arrived at SCP-XXXX we can speculate it wasn’t good as the hospital was closed off by police tape and barricades when Foundation researchers attempted to enter the premises.
With the original plan ending in failure the Foundation members tried a more direct approach. The night before the celebration Dr. Bright snuck into the town, hid in an alleyway, and slipped his necklace around the first SCP-XXXX-2 he saw.
The plan had worked and Dr. Bright was now inhabiting the body of a resident of the anomalous town. The plan seemed to be going well, that was of course until hours later when the celebration was set to begin.
You see while the plan to possess one of the towns residents seemed like a good idea the foundation researchers at site 89 had failed to account for who Dr. Bright would end up possessing. They had initially believed the person to be an ordinary citizen of the town like a banker or maybe a cashier at one of the stores/restaurants. What they hadn’t realized was the person Dr. Bright had possessed was actually a member of town hall. More specifically the head of the towns planing comity and was expected to MC the Celebration.
As Dr. Bright stammered, hummed and hawed at the podium it quickly became apparent to the citizens of the anomalous town that the person on stage was not the head of their planing comity. It was at this point that two police officers grabbed Dr. Bright and the Mayor began questioning him. Dr. Bright later reported that no matter how hard he tried he found himself unable to lie and told the mayor all about his mission and the SCP Foundation.
The following day one of the guards patrolling the fence surrounding the perimeter of the town found a large box addressed to Site 89’s Administrator who at that time was [redacted]. Security footage revealed that the box contained a large amount of SCP-XXXX-1a’s. Due to the SCP’s psychic effects it wasn’t long until all the sites staff were whisked away to be giant babies for the residents of SCP-XXXX. A day after the site staff disappeared SCP-524 broke its containment and began eating everything it could get its little bunny hands on. Luckily this containment breach helped lead to the recontainment of Site 89. You see one of SCP-524’s favourite things to eat are SCP-XXXX-1’s and it didn’t take long for the anomalous bunny to find the box full of them.
A few days later when foundation personnel came to check on the site after not hearing from them for a while they found the site completely empty with the exception of SCP-524 asleep in the box with a full stomach.
Also at the bottom of the box was SCP-963. A D-Class personal was quick brought to the site to be possessed by Dr. Bright to bring the Foundation up to speed on what happened while repairers to the Site were underway.
Also found in the box was a letter addressed to the SCP Foundation itself. The letter read as such:
“Dear SCP Foundation,
We of Seminarioppid have been aware of your presence in our town for some time and have to an extent tolerated it. However your actions over the past year have been less than tolerable. First the attempted kidnapping of our children and now the murders of one of our new borns and a town hall comity member.
We are content to remain in our town but know this; we have the right to exist. Consider is a warning. Any further hostile action towards our town and we will bring the fight directly to you.
This time we have returned the one you call Dr. Bright. However should he be found with in our town again, not only will he not be returned but his necklace will be destroyed to prevent his return permanently.
Signed, Mayor Harriet Shortt.”
Taking the threat seriously Dr. Bright was reassigned to a different Site and bared further access to anything SCP-XXXX related.
The mission wasn’t a complete failure however as Dr. Bright managed to gather some previously unknown facts about the town. For instance the town apparently was founded in 1815 after the war of 1812 and the people of the town were unaware that their town was now in the Mojave Desert claiming their town sat on the US Canada boarder accepting currency from both countries as a part of the peace treaty signed at the end of the war. Seeing as a town never existed were it claims to be from as well as the real peace treaty making no mention of the town in our dimension, foundation researchers believe the town is from an alternate universe with a slight different history.
The letter’s use of the term new born has lead the foundation researchers to believe the instances of SCP-XXXX-1s and -1as to be a part of the reproductive cycle of the SCP-XXXX-2s though this is still just speculation.
Once the repairs to Site 89 were completed a new Administrator was appointed and the site was restaffed to continue the monitoring of the anomalous town.