The group moves out of the garage, and towards a 
larger atrium section. From around the corner 
come T-5 Munru and Nanku. Munru appears to 
have sustained burns to his lower body, but is 
otherwise undamaged. Nanku is missing the lower 
half of her jaw, and black fluid covers the front of 
her body suit. She waves with her remaining hand 
as the group approaches. 


T-5 Onru: You look well. 


T-5 Munru: Admittedly, morale has increased in 
the group since Nanku found herself unable to talk. 


(T-5 Nanku points at Munru with her flamethrower, 
seemingly forgetting she is missing an arm on that 
side. Realizing this, she makes an obscene 
gesture towards Munru with her remaining hand.) 


Z-9 Hollis: This is a cute reunion, but let’s get back 
to this shit. How far are we from the entrance? 


T-5 Munru: This is a main atrium. If we follow this 
hallway here, it will lead towards a processing 
station, and past that we should find access points 
to the surface. 


Z-9 Hollis: Exceptional. Let’s get the lead out then, 
and— 


From below them, there is a very loud crashing 
sound and more screaming. The floor beneath the 
group begins to buckle. 


Z-9 Hollis: Fuck! Run! 


The group flees towards the hallway Munru had 
identified, but are stopped when the floor there 
also collapses. A plume of smoke erupts from the 
destroyed floor, and one researcher slips on the 
collapsing ground and slides into it. T-5 Onru leads 
the group away from the atrium as the floor there 
completely collapses. Irantu stops to turn and look 
down inside the hole. 


Beneath the hole is an incredibly large chamber, 
appearing to have been dug through dozens of 
layers of subterranean floors. Within the chamber 
are many small lights around the outside, and at 
the bottom is a massive, black mass, with several 
other large black masses extending from it. As he 
is pulled away, Irantu sees red eyes open across 
the entire mass of the creature, and hears more 
screaming. 


The group flees down a side hallway, but are 
pursued by long black tendrils snaking out of the 
hole. AP-3 Ross and Houston open fire on the 
tendrils, halting them momentarily, but they are 
quickly replaced by more. Z-9 Moros is seen 
slipping on a patch of black fluid and falling, before 
being consumed by the ends of one of the tendrils. 
There are the sounds of metal crashing and rock 
and concrete being crushed as the structure 
around them heaves violently. Black leeches begin 
to pour out of the walls around them, and Nanku 
opens her flamethrower at them. 


They round a corner to find a dead end, and 
turning back are confronted with another black 
tendril that has burst through a hole in the wall. 


AP-3 Ohalo: Holy fuck, we’re trapped. This is it. 
This is it. Holy fuck. 


T-5 Irantu: Onru, we need a way out. 
T-5 Onru: I... | am having difficulty... (gunfire) |... 


Z-9 Hollis: Wait. Wait. | have an idea. | think | 
know where we are, | have an idea. Come on, you 
fuckers, we’re not dying here! 


The group follows Hollis towards a descending 
stairwell and move quickly down it. Hollis tosses an 
incendiary grenade towards the encroaching 
tendrils, and slams the door shut behind her as it 
explodes. The screams from below them intensify 
as they descend, and the stairwell begins to shake. 
Holes in the stairwell open and more leeches begin 
to pour out of them. All task force members open 
fire as long tendrils snake through the holes as 
well. Upon reaching a landing, Hollis motions the 
group in the door. 


Z-9 Hollis: Here! In here! Go go go! 


The group enters a hallway and sprints towards the 
other end. As they do, they pass a sign on the wall 
that reads “Stairs to Cryonics”. Munru notices this 
as they pass. 


T-5 Munru: Captain Hollis... what are you doing? 


Z-9 Hollis: You’re going to have to trust me here, 
Blue Ranger. I’ve been doing this a long time. 


T-5 Munru: I— (pauses) Hah. Ok. | think this will 
work. 


The group exits the hallway into a large 
observation section, passing many large windows 
with blast protectors down across them. The team 
stops in front of one window, overlooking a 
massive chamber lined with huge steel doors. 
Overhead are the words “Olympia Class Testing 
Observation”. 


T-5 Irantu: Hollis, what do you have in mind? 


Z-9 Hollis: Call ita hunch. We need to get 
downstairs, come on. 


The group runs towards a stairwell at the end of 
the room and quickly descend to the main level of 
this wing. As they exit onto the floor of the Olympia 
Class containment chamber, the wall behind them 
begins to buckle, and leeches begin to pour out of 
it. 


Z-9 Hollis: Pink ranger, that panel over there. You 
need to get that door open. 


T-5 Onru: Wha— what? 


Z-9 Hollis: | said open the goddamn door, hurry! 
What the fuck are you waiting for? Go! 


T-5 Onru runs towards a control pane! near one of 
the tall steel doors. The wall behind them 
continues to buckle. 


Z-9 Hollis: Munru, that one. Get that one open too! 
T-5 Munru: Yes, absolutely. 


T-5 Munru attempts to access the door controls. 
Z-9 Hollis turns towards the group. 


Z-9 Hollis: Everyone else, listen to me. You 
civilians need to get to the far end of this room, as 
far as it goes. Just keep running. There’s an 


access point to the power station above this part of 
the facility, you need to just keep climbing until you 
get there. Once you're there, you need to blow a 
wall, that'll get you out. But you need to hurry, shit 
is about to pop off in a pretty major way down here. 
Ross, you and your boys just fire at anything that 
comes out of that wall. I’ll tell you when we can go. 
lrantu, you stay with me. This is going to get pretty 
messy. 


T-5 lrantu: Understood. 
Z-9 Hollis: Alright. (Pauses) Fucking go! Come on! 


The group flees down the main pathway through 
the chamber, away from the buckling wall. Behind 
them, the wall finally gives way, and a gargantuan, 
black, slick entity pours into the chamber. It is as 
least 200m in height, covered in black tendrils and 
dark red eyes. When it sees the group, it opens a 
massive mouth full of rows of long yellow teeth. In 
the center of the mouth, a naked human woman is 
visibly conjoined in some way to a sort of 
prehensile tongue with the creature. As it opens its 
mouth, it lets out a piercing scream and begins to 
move towards the group. 


Every available task force member opens fire on 
the creature, emptying their remaining magazines 
and throwing every possible incendiary weapon 
towards it. The creature is deterred slightly, but for 
every place it is pierced by weapons fire, black 
fluid and more black leeches begin to pour from its 
body. Several long tendrils begin to snake towards 
the group of task force members. 


T-5 Onru: | have it. | have it, Captain Hollis. 


Z-9 Hollis: Come on, then, girl. Throw the fucking 
thing! 


T-5 Onru steps away from the control panel and 
runs back towards the group in the middle of the 
chamber, as a loud groaning is heard behind her. 
The rest of the team sees the huge metal doors 
begin to slide open. A thick cloud of ice cold fog 
rolls out of the chamber, obscuring the interior from 
view. 


AP-3 Ross: Whai’s in there? 
Z-9 Hollis: Munru, you got yours? 


T-5 Munru: Hang on. (Pauses) Yeah, | think that 
will do— 


Suddenly, the door behind Munru begins to glow 
bright red, then white, and then the center of it 
buckles and the door collapses. As Munru hurries 
away, a colossal, motionless, flaming humanoid 
entity floats out of the chamber. In its unmoving 
hands is a huge sword. As it exits the collapsed 
doorway, enormous, flaming wings unfurl from its 
back. The black creature screams, and its tendrils 
begin to lash at this creature. 


As the tendrils come close, long streaks of fire 
erupt from the sword towards them, rupturing them 
and sending black fluid and scorched leeches 
flying across the room. The massive black creature 
screams, and dozens of other tendrils fly towards 
the flaming humanoid. As the two engage, there is 
another sound, like a long whining, and then 
suddenly the room is silent. 


From within the cold, foggy room, a towering, 
vaguely cervine creature steps out into the main 
chamber. It is composed of a body covered in light 
green and cream colored hair, a long, thin neck 
ending in a hairless, somewhat humanoid face, 
and vast, intertwined white and black antlers that 
pulse with streaks of blue light. Floating above its 


head are nine concentric rings of glowing, rotating 
crystals and metallic spheres. 


The creature slowly steps out of the containment 
cell and turns to look at the team on the ground 
below. It opens its mouth and a long, droning 
sound is heard through the room. Around its body, 
several large, metallic, cylindrical structures appear 
followed by a distinct cracking sound. It begins to 
step towards the team of task force members, but 
is struck from behind by three black tendrils that 
wrap around its neck. The creature lets out another 
drone, and suddenly the sound returns to the 
chamber as long streaks of fire arc across the 
space. The cylindrical constructs turn lengthwise 
and speed across the room towards the black 
creature, striking it in its central mass. From all 
around the cervine entity, more and more metallic 
spheres appear and fly towards both the black 
creature and the flaming humanoid, which in turn 
begin to attack each other. 


Z-9 Hollis: Fucking— yes! Go get em, big guy! (To 
the team) Time to fucking go, kids. Let’s go! 


The team begins to sprint after the group of 
civilians towards the far wall, as jets of fire strike 
the ground around them. T-5 Nanku catches the 
end of a dismembered black tendril in her 
shoulder, throwing her off balance. She falls to the 
ground, firing openly with her weapon as she is 
engulfed in fire. AP-3 Houston pauses briefly to 
turn towards her, but is grabbed by Irantu. 


T-5 Irantu: We do not have time. 


As they near the group of survivors, all of whom 
are huddled near an exit door at the end of the 
chamber, there is a crashing sound, and they turn 
to see the cervine entity standing up from where it 
had been thrown across the room. The black 


creature whips at it as more metallic spheres 
appear and arc back towards it. There is an 
eruption of fire as the flaming humanoid is struck 
by another several tendrils, which try to pull the 
humanoid towards the mouth of the black entity. 
The team reaches the survivors, and quickly exit 
through the door. The group begins to quickly 
ascend the staircase within. 


Z-9 Hollis: Alright, just like | said. Up! We need to 
go up! Over— 


A long, thin metallic cylinder crashes through the 
wall of the stairwell, narrowly missing one of the 
researchers and Dr. Scott. A second cylinder 
comes through the wall, striking Irantu and 
obliterating him as it contacts the wall behind him. 
As the group continues to ascend, fire fills the 
stairwell below them, and another long, loud, 
droning sound can be heard, followed by silence, 
and then followed by a thick bursting sound that 
shakes the entire facility. The group reaches a 
landing, and begins to move towards another 
staircase at the end of the hallway. Z-9 Hollis 
hangs behind. 


T-5 Munru: What are you doing? 


Z-9 Hollis: Giving you some more time. And... 
something else, | think. Get these people out of 
here, go! 


T-5 Munru: | can stay behind, Hollis. Your life is 
finite. 


Z-9 Hollis: Yeah, yeah, | get the spiel, power 
ranger. But right now, you need to get these 
people out of here. Let me do my thing, alright? I'll 
catch up with you later. 


T-5 Munru: | understand. Good looking out, Hollis. 


Z-9 Hollis: (Laughs) You almost sounded like a 
person there for a second, Munru. 


Z-9 Hollis runs away from the group. T-5 Munru 
catches up to the rest of the group, who reach 
another staircase and begin to ascend. 


For the next ten minutes, the group continues to 
ascend through the facility, several times narrowly 
avoiding debris and falling rubble as the lower 
levels of the site begin to collapse. The sounds of 
the entities below continue to be heard, and 
several times the creatures become visible through 
large gaps in the walls or floors. At one point, AP-3 
Ross catches sight of the unmoving, flaming 
humanoid, nearly completely covered in metal, as 
long streaks of fire burst through open seams in its 
encasement. Shortly afterwards there is a two- 
minute break in all video footage, followed by a 
shot of the head of the cervine creature smashing 
through a wall in front of the group. As they turn to 
run away from it, the head turns towards them, and 
two researchers are instantly transmuted into 
hexagonal columns of an unknown, yellow-green 
material. 


After a short time longer, AP-3 Ross picks up a 
signal from SiteCommand. 


SiteCommand: Team lead, this is SiteCommand. 
Do you read us? 


AP-3 Ross: Holy fuck, yes, yeah | do. Do you hear 
me? 


SiteCommand: We do. You have appeared on our 
geolocating systems, Ross, you’re not far from the 
exit. Where is Captain Hollis and lrantu? 


AP-3 Ross: Irantu is dead, Hollis... she ran off a 
while back. We haven’t seen her since then. 


SiteCommand: Understood. What about the rest? 


AP-3 Ross: We've suffered some casualties, 
some— (gunfire) Fuck! We lost a few of the 
civilians, and Vigo and a few others. It’s really bad 
in here right now, Command, we're going to need 
all the help we can get. We- Munru, where’s Onru? 


T-5 Munru: She... oh. She was behind us. Where 
is she? 


SiteCommand: Don’t worry about that now. We’re 
marking an extraction point on your visor. The 
extraction team is waiting for you there; we’re 
going to get you all out. 


The group hurries towards the extraction point as 
the site continues to collapse around them. Above 
ground, aerial surveillance captures footage of 
large sections of the site sliding into the ground, 
and smoke beginning to billow from the power 
station and nearby mechanical facilities. Jets of 
flame become visible as the earth beneath 
SCP-1730 begins to give way. 


Mobile Task Force Alpha-20 “Holy Divers” enters 
the site near the crumbling power station. The 
group of survivors comes into view, and are 
immediately moved towards the access point, and 
then away from the site, by members of MTF A-20. 
As the rest of the task force members are pulled 
away from the site, a separate transmission 
reaches SiteCommand originating from T-5 Onru. 


T-5 Onru and Z-9 Hollis are standing in front of the 
Thresher device, which roars with activity behind 
them. They are firing their weapons at an 
encroaching black mass in front of them, which is 
punctured by streaks of fire. In the background, the 
cervine entity can be seen tearing through black 
tendrils with its antlers, as long rods of flaming 


metal streak across the room towards the black 
entity. Hollis turns towards the camera and is 
visibly laughing, firing her weapon openly. She has 
removed her helmet. The hum of the machine 
behind them grows noticeably louder, eventually 
overtaking all other sounds in the room. Streaks of 
electricity arc across the ceiling above them. She 
smiles and turns towards Onru, who looks down to 
find her torso has been destroyed by a jet of flame. 


As Onru slumps to the side, the last shot is of Z-9 
Hollis, laughing hysterically and wildly firing her 
weapon as the enormous machine behind her 
begins to glow bright white. There is a flash, and 
the transmission ends.