SCP-4902 The Gate (Scp Foundation Mythos x Gate - Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku)

Chapter 11: Swan Song

Richard chuckled and glanced at Josh who's been looking up at his commanding officer. "Never knew you're this wise and smart Josh" Richard joked, teasing Josh for his intellectual move which gained an eye roll and hisses from Josh who went back to the road now. Richard chuckled once again and turned to the girl before sighing, he waved his hand for her to come over, she agreed eagerly, standing up almost immediately and walked over to Richard. "You're coming with us, young lady." The girl nodded to Richard, suddenly wrapping her arms around his. Richard sighed and hoped that this doesn't become a regular thing before going back to the Humvee where Josh is waiting now.

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Special Region Wilderness

0722 Hours, Local Established Time

Jackal Team; MTF Nu-7 "Hammer Down"

The morning was not great for the Jackal Team, tasked to retrieve SCP-049 back into Foundation custody sounded simple enough, the anomaly is dangerous but easily predictable with its trademarked elegant and rather slow movements. It chooses to not run after it's marked target, only striding over to their location menacingly yet it's not the Plague Doctor itself is the main threat, it's products are the problem. The damned undead, SCP-049 had accumulated a platoon's worth of bodies, probably from the villages it entered and massacred without mercy and turning the men and women into its personal bodyguard, meat shields, slaves, whatever you want to call them. A wall of rotting flesh and cracking bones with maggots slowly eating away deep into the undead's limbs, exposed bones and hanging jaws, blistered skin, and lastly the smell made everything worse. Each one that falls it feels like two more appears to take its place, a never-ending and relentless horde that wants to kill them all.

This train of thought is apparent when three of their men are already dead, the undead attempting to break through their automatic gunfire, while the anomaly they are assigned to recapture watches from the very back of the wall of flesh, observing it's great works of medical practices combat these Foundation fools. Gunshots continue to ring out from the men's rifles and the .50 cal on the Humvee yet they're still struggling with the undead, when they thought one was killed it would rise again and start charging at them once more. Hectic and heated, breathing heavily beneath their gas masks as their shoulders began to feel sore from the continuous recoil of their weapons. "Screw this!" One of Jackal's members yelled out, taking one of his grenades off of his chest, frustrated and angered from this repeating cycle. "I'm throwing a grenade!" He once again exclaimed to the rest of his comrades, pulling the pin and priming the grenade to explode, then throwing it to the best of his abilities. Looks like training pulled off and the grenade landed directly at the very back of the undead horde, next to SCP-049 as well. The grenade explodes and sends shrapnel in all directions and manages to kill several of the undead.

As the slowly smoke cleared and the most-forward men in the defensive line change to melee, pulling out their combat knives and stabbing the undead in the head, impaling their cranium and killing them for good. The smoke cleared fully, leaving an unscathed Plague Doctor standing, near mockingly the doctor dust off the dirt that was thrown up because of the explosion off of its pristine and untouched garb. But the elite squad kept their cool from this little mockery and continue to clear out the undead, then little by little it appears the horde of the Plague Doctor's servant's numbers begins to dwindle as body pile up in a line. The team also keeps on communicating through their comms, a localized radio network emitted by their specialized command Humvee. Using this they are able to coordinate and keep the allied body count to just three, but it's also jarring to realize how they got those three casualties. SCP-049 had tricks up its sleeves, luring the squad into another abandoned village and ambushed them all by using the undead rising from the dirt, the bastard had buried its slaves and used them for an attack, effectively knocking three of Jackal team out.