Foundation Files C

**Foundation Files M**is a Story Arc of the the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Interra and follows the perspective of SCP Foundation agents Shizuru Curtis and Li-Mei Chao-Ling.

## Main Arc

### A Game of Nephilim

After a promotion, expert scientist Shiziru Curtis and field agent Li-Mei Chao-Ling are sent to investigate a mysterious string of events resulting in the death of **Fifthist** members, and discover a variety of texts referring to cicadas. Further investigation leads to **Broken God** outposts filled with distorted screeches, and Catholic priests found dead with cicadas in their stomach.

Now aided by memetics expert Maria Schiffer, the three-woman team, directed by Alison Chao, learns of the cicada's ties to sinister organization **Marshall, Carter and Dark**. They are also contacted by enigmatic flesh-warpers who guide them toward an ancient tomb, which the trio experiments with, involuntarily triggering the incomplete resurrection of ancient prophet and Grand Karcist Ion.

Ion, quite helpful and benevolent, explains that the cicadas' interference is due to Imago, a powerful Nephilim Lord that presides over growth and feeds on faith. With the help of military agent Tanya Johnson, the group learns that Imago's outbursts were caused by the distribution of its resonant cicadas over strategic points, with the help from Marshall, Carter and Dark operatives.

### The Black Queen and the Soul-Eater

However, each operative in question has been found dead, killed by assassin Noah Karnaje sent to eliminate every trace of Marshall's involvement. When Tanya, Alison and Li-Mei manage to corner Noah, he confesses his employer's name: Alcott Carter, one of Marshall's three founders. Li-Mei and Shizuru quickly go on to interrogate and capture Alcott, and oddly, manage to do so without resistance.

This turned out however to be just as Alcott planned: she was forced to respect a contract made with the event's true investigator, Diophantius X. Curtis, a member of the SCP's leading O5 Council, who "trained" Imago by feeding it religious imagery in order to make it grow in power and to strike its real target. Alcott, wanting out of the alliance, arranged for her to be captured in order to confess everything, then escapes immediately after doing so.

With Alcott's information, Li-Mei, now empowered with Ion's abilities, manages to stop a terrorist attempt by Diophantius to infect the Vatican with Imago. However, this turns out to be a lure, and Shizuru uncovers Diophantius's real target as ancient Celtic, pagan Fairy-oriented cults. At the same time, Diophantius exposes Alison as a traitor, the **Black Queen**, and banishes her from the Foundation.

### Confrontation with the Cicada Lord

Maria is forced take the lead, confessing the truth: that from the beginning, she and Diophantius were agents from extradimensional mafia CYPHER. In fact, Diophantius, a high-ranked CYPHER operative, has chosen to betray his half-Fairy leader Echo Cypher and has trained Imago in order to eat him alive. Maria, driven to stop him, guides the group towards Diophantius's place and engages battle with him.

Due to Diophantius becoming Imago's Riftprince, the battle is quite harsh, and even though Diophantius is killed once, he manages to resurrect immediately afterwards, killing Maria and taking back the advantage. He is then stopped by several Alison Chao from other dimensions, called for help by Li-Mei, and the Riftprince ends up being captured and contained. As the world's threat as ended, Echo briefly appears, resurrecting Maria and taunting the Foundation, before leaving.

## Characters

* Li-Mei Chao-Ling
* Shizuru Curtis
* Maria Schiffer
* Ion
* Echo Cypher
* Alison Chao
* Alcott Carter
* Noah Karnaje
* Tanya Johnson
* Diophantius X. Curtis
* Imago

## Trivia

* This storyline, much like Foundation Files M, refers, with a few artistic liberties, to the SCP Foundation Creepypasta.
	+ The "C" in it refers either to Chao or Curtis.