Avian Overlord

Here's my first SCP, The Entropy Phoenix:

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SCP-XXXX in its enclosure before pulse device attached.

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained within an environment-controlled aviary measuring 4 x 4 x 5 meters. This aviary is to contain plants and insect life typical of an Iraqi forest for the purpose of SCP-XXXX’s nutrition. Due to the current activation procedure the enclosure is to be insulated against electrical charge and any personnel entering the enclosure must wear insulated suits.

The current activation procedure requires that SCP-XXXX is fitted with a device programmed to discharge an 8000 volt pulse, sufficient to kill SCP-XXXX, based on a pseudo-random number generator dependent on atmospheric conditions. The device is to be reattached three weeks into every cycle. The chance of these conditions being met and the pulse being discharged outside of a SCP-XXXX event is approximately 1 in 10,000 per day. The device must be confirmed to be functioning when reattached and examined again every day of during the second stage of SCP-XXXX’s cycle.

SCP-XXXX is never to be contained at any location with on-site warheads.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a male bird of unidentified species with features similar to those of the Meropidae family. However, SCP-XXXX is larger than any known Meropidae species with a wingspan of one meter. SCP-XXXX’s behavior is typical of an insect-eating bird and it produces sounds that have been identified as attempts to communicate with other members of its own species. No other members of SCP-XXXX’s species have been found or identified at this time.

SCP-XXXX constantly undergoes a cycle in which it rapidly matures from an embryo into an adult, dies and decays. After SCP-XXXX’s form has completely decomposed an egg reappears and SCP-XXXX renters the growth stage of its cycle. Each cycle lasts two months on average, with the growth stage usually lasting one and a half months. During this first stage, SCP-XXXX does not require more food than the average bird of its current age despite its accelerated growth. Internal imaging of SCP-XXXX’s body has shown no anomalous features or bodily processes, besides the subject’s rapid growth rate. Once SCP-XXXX reaches full maturity it ceases to age and remains in this state for three days on average before entering the second stage of its cycle.

During the second stage of its cycle SCP-XXXX manipulates probability to cause its own death. The area around SCP-XXXX during this stage of the cycle will experience events dangerous to SCP-XXXX. These events are always physically possible, but analysis has shown that most SCP-XXXX events would have been extremely improbable. The events at the beginning of the second stage are far more localized than those later in the cycle. Events later in the cycle have shown the effect is capable of causing complex causal chains to kill SCP-XXXX. The last cycle before SCP-XXXX’s recovery by the foundation resulted in the structural collapse of a bird house in the ███████████ zoo, █████ fatally wounding 18 and injuring 32. Records from the zoo indicate that SCP-XXXX had been in its second stage for about two weeks and that several accidents related to SCP-XXXX had occurred, each larger than the last. SCP-XXXX does not seem to consciously cause these events, and continues to takes act for self-preservation during the second stage.

A similar effect to the second stage events prevents any action or event besides a second stage event that would kill SCP-XXXX from being completed or happening. Various Foundation attempts to kill SCP-XXXX at the beginning of the second stage have failed, the most recent of which resulted in the firearm intended to shoot SCP-XXXX misfiring and injuring the researcher carrying out the test, as well as rendering the firearm permanently inoperable.

Once the second stage events have succeeded in killing SCP-XXXX it typically fully decomposes, including bone, in 20 hours. Once SCP-XXXX has fully decomposed it reappears as an egg. SCP-XXXX’s genetics have shown to be unchanged from cycle to cycle. Tests have shown that SCP-XXXX can identify personnel and objects from previous cycles.