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ITEM #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained on a regular cell on Site-██, furbished with regular accommodations and is to be provided with 3 meals a day. No requests made by SCP-XXXX are to be approved.
Due to the nature of the subject’s anomaly, efforts to retain SCP-XXXX are focused on locating and recovering the subject every time it breaches containment.

Addendum XXXX-1:
As of ██/██/200█, SCP-XXXX is equipped with a tracking device.

Under no circumstance, SCP-XXXX is to be stopped from terminating SCP-XXXX-V. Subject is usually compliant in its containment but, if SCP-XXXX does not comply to surrender after taking its target, subject is to be incapacitated using an electric stun device using no less than 500 volts at 20 amperes.

All SCP-XXXX-V subjects are to be incinerated after examination by Foundation medical specialists.

Amnestics are to be delivered to all witnesses of SCP-XXXX-V confrontation and termination events.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a Caucasian male in its late forties. Subject is 1.9 m in height and 98kg in weight and is in peak physical shape. Subject has black hair at chin level and presents permanent stubbled beard. Since its containment SCP-XXXX has not aged. SCP-XXXX is fluid in ██ languages and possesses a heavy unknown accent.

SCP-XXXX wears a harness made of a leather-like material across its chest. On the center it presents a golden plate engraved with concentric circles constantly moving in an outward motion. Attempts to remove the harness have been unsuccessful.

By the time of its capture on ██/██/199█, approximately four times a week, SCP-XXXX would spontaneously vanish from its cell. After 1 to 5 hours of its disappearance, SCP-XXXX will be found in a highly populated area where it will assassinate a subject, referred as SCP-XXXX-V, by means of assault rifle fire.
The method on which SCP-XXXX procures said fire gun is currently unknown as they possess no serial number and cannot be traced to any source. Nevertheless, the rifles are no anomalous by any means and are of modern manufacture.

The method in which SCP-XXXX obtains a target is, by our current understanding, at random. Subject will trace and follow its target for a couple of hours before terminating it.

SCP-XXXX-V are a series of multiple humanoid victims terminated by SCP-XXXX. Current number of terminated SCP-XXXX-V instances is not known but is estimated to be ███, by the time of this article.

SPC-XXXX-V subjects are by no means human in nature. They possess red and orange cut-like markings around their mouths and eyes, fanged teeth and keeled scales that resemble human skin at first glance. Post mortem autopsies reveal lack or excess of organs, some of unknown function.

Observation of SCP-XXXX hunting process has revealed that targets “reveal” this appearance after subject confronts them directly. As no SCP-XXXX-V instance has been captured alive is impossible to determine if they are like described before being targeted or after SCP-XXXX confronts them.

SCP-XXXX-V targets present different means of defending themselves against SCP-XXXX, ranging from fire arms, natural defenses as claws or talons, or other anomalous means. These defense mechanisms have been proved to be useless, as in all instances SCP-XXXX has been successful at eliminating all targets and has demonstrated increased resistance to pain and physical damage.

Any subject that tries to stop SCP-XXXX from terminating SCP-XXXX-V is dealt with extreme prejudice and violence by SCP-XXXX. Approximately 90% of terminated individuals that tried to stop SCP-XXXX from terminating a target possessed the same physical characteristics of the current SCP-XXXX-V target.

Addenda

XXXX-B: SCP-XXXX Initial Contact
Background: In ██/██/199█, SCP-XXXX surrendered to the [REDACTED] Police after eliminating an SCP-XXXX-V target in the ███ ███████ shopping mall in [REDACTED], USA.

This was the █th confirmed event. SCP-XXXX attracted the Foundation’s interest after obtaining the remains of 2 SCP-XXXX-V, and reports of previous avoided capture intents by unknown means.

At ██:██, local time, Foundation agents got hold of SCP-XXXX and successfully transferred the subject to Site-██.

The following is a transcription of an interrogation made by Dr. ██████ █████.

Dr. █████: The date is ██/██/199█. ██:██. Please, ignore the cameras. My name is Dr. █████. State your name, age and precedence.

SCP-XXXX: You don’t need a confession. Why wasting your time?

Dr. █████: Please answer the question.

SCP-XXXX: Joseph. That’s all remember or care to answer.

Dr. █████: Two hours ago, you terminated five subjects, including 4 police officers. Witnesses indicate that you chased ████ ████████ down the escalators of the first floor and fired 2 shots using an AR-15 rifle, missing your target. After that, the subject [REDACTED], when the beforementioned officers “appeared” and fired at you with taser guns.

SCP-XXXX: Those were not policemen.

Dr. █████: Please let me finish. They fired at you with taser guns. After ten seconds approximately, you effortlessly removed the electrodes and shot the officers on the head, following, you shot the fifth subject, terminating it. Is that correct?

SCP-XXXX: Some guy bumped me, I did not intend to miss like that. Four of those things appeared out of nowhere, they were not policemen. Those guns sting like a bitch, but weren’t a problem. That thing, it tried to use a lady as a shield, I couldn’t allow that. I took a deep breath and shot the bastard.

Dr. █████: What do you mean by things when referring to the subjects?

SCP-XXXX: By now you must have opened one of them. They are made to look human. They move, act, speak as one, but they are not. Have you ever encountered someone you know, but they are not the same? Like if they were another person.

Dr. █████: Yes. Sometimes.

SCP-XXXX: They prey on people, I hunt them.

Dr. █████: Now. Why did you surrendered to the police?

SCP-XXXX: I’m tired. I prepare, hunt, kill then run. Is a repeating process.
[SCP-XXXX then looked around and spoke raising its voice]
I’m sorry Jono-boy, I just need to take a breath.

Dr. █████: Who are you speaking to?

SCP-XXXX: He points me to them, my son. I need to rest, please.

SCP-XXXX remained in its cell, disappearing 8 hours later. Recordings show a one frame skip at the time of disappearance.

XXXX-C: ██/██/199█ - 2 Event. [REDACTED] Spain.
3 hours after its disappearance, SCP-XXXX was identified by security cameras placed on
[Redacted], Spain. Agent Martín was sent to location in order to intercept SCP-XXXX.
After arriving to location, Agent Martín reported SCP-XXXX being attacked by a SCP-XXXX-V target. SCP-XXXX-V displayed [Redacted] and was attempting to bite SCP-XXXX head. Agent Martín was instructed to not interfere and await instructions.
2 minutes later, an unidentified male teen picked SCP-XXXX rifle and fired at SCP-XXXX-V attracting its attention. The unidentified subject then dropped the rifle and sprinted into agent Martín’s direction when SCP-XXXX-V jump over the subject and [Redacted].
SCP-XXXX then fired at SCP-XXXX-V 11 times, terminating it.
Agent Martín ordered SCP-XXXX to drop its weapon and surrender and later fired twice at its chest when it did not comply.

By the severity of its wounds, the male teen subject couldn’t be identified but later autopsy revealed that it was human and not an SCP-XXXX-V instance.

XXXX-D: ██/██/199█ - 2 Event Aftermath.
Background: After SCP-XXXX capture by agent Martín, subject has been moved to a new cell provided with Scranton reality anchors in Site-██.
Subject has shown increased regeneration abilities and has been mostly compliant of its containment.
2 days later Dr. █████ approached SCP-XXXX for further interviewing:

SCP-XXXX: You keep trying, is not going to work. When my boy points me to one of them, I have to go.

Dr. █████: How do you manage to transcolate from here to Spain in such a short time?

SCP-XXXX proceeds lift its shirt and shows Dr █████ the harness strapped to its chest.

SCP-XXXX: When circle closes, I open my eyes and I’m there. I take my time. Last time I took 3 days as the bastard eluded me at first. I bought some weapons, followed the target. Sometimes they have already fed on some poor fella. They are fast, escape easily.

Dr. █████: Wait, you just said that you take days to follow a target. The last time, you disappeared and three hours later agent Martín found you confronting a SCP-XXXX-V subject.

SCP-XXXX: Ess-see-what? (sic) Look, I’m telling you what I do. You can’t stop it, I can’t stop it. I’ve been shot, bitten, poisoned, burned, maimed. You think I like this?
I cannot die, no matter how much I suffer. Is like a cheesy eighties action movie that I’m trapped in sequel after sequel. My boy loved those, now I’m his permanent main character.

Dr. █████: Why don’t you tell me about your son and the harness?

SCP-XXXX: Jono, he died five years ago more or less. It was my fault, we crashed. I have nothing but his memory. I can’t seem to collect my thoughts. I was supposed to die with him. But I’m here, now.
This thing, I can’t say for sure. Is part of me, of him. Some hero of his used something like this. But I can’t remember anyone.
Sometimes, when I’m fighting the things, a kid appears out of nowhere. He tries to help, but he can’t. Is him, Jono, but is not him. They always die, and I cannot do anything about it, no matter how much I try. It hurts so much.
I don’t want to hurt anyone but is usually not like that.

Dr. █████: So, what about collateral damage?

SCP-XXXX: I only kill things, not people. I’m not going to kill you, I don’t have to. But if one of you is one of those things, I’m sorry but I have a job to do.

The range of SCP-XXXX translocation capabilities is currently global. Extensive test has revealed that the harness SCP-XXXX wears is in fact part of its anatomy.
There is no registry of any car crash that included a Joseph or Jono [REDACTED].

Incident I-XXXX-1:
█ years after its initial containment, SCP-XXXX disappeared from its cell on ██/██/200█. Security cameras immediately placed SCP-XXXX in Site-██ as it followed researcher █████ through the installation. Security personnel tried to subdue the subject provoking a violent reaction and killing ██ agents and personnel before terminating researcher █████.
Reports indicate that researcher █████ had been working in Site-██ for 4 days and there was no registry of its existence before the event.
87% of the personnel terminated by SCP-XXXX had been identified as SCP-XXXX-V instances. Registries and documentation has been inconsistent into identifying the existence or previous work of terminated personnel as different databases present different results.

Until we understand the nature of SCP-XXXX anomaly we must act as if every person it terminates is or has been a regular human even if later results indicate otherwise. Under no circumstance, no one, and I repeat, no one is allowed to interfere with SCP-XXXX events.
Dr. █████

Additional Revisions:
SCP-XXXX cell is to be surrounded by 4 Scranton reality anchors. This have been proved unsuccessful into stopping SCP-XXXX disappearance events, other methods are being tested by orders of Dr. █████.

[DATA EXPUNGED]. Attempts of removing SCP-XXXX harness are immediately terminated.

Under no circumstance SCP-XXXX is to be allowed to eliminate its targets. After incident I-XXXX-1 of ██/██/200█, no intents are to be made of stopping SCP-XXXX from terminating SCP-XXXX-V.

Currently, there are no reports of violent attacks or killings related to SCP-XXXX-V instances.

As of ██/██/20██, the interval between disappearance events has been reduced by almost 90%. SCP-XXXX states that SCP-XXXX-V are increasing in number and it’s getting harder for it to locate them.