SCP-049 x Reader - Untouchable

Chapter 22

    "How large, exactly?" He kept on with the inquires. His natural curiosity about modern things and wanting to learn had always been cute to me. "A horse?"

   I had to stifle my laughter at that as the elevator doors parted. Moving in, he did the same, and I pressed the only other option we had: Down. Being there only reminded me of those 966's and the red creatures, but I brushed off the thoughts to continue the conversation. "No. Try like... A million horses." Was that right? Was that even accurate?

   Why was I questioning whether my comparison of the size of an explosive to an amount of horses was accurate or not?

   "Oh my," he mumbled, fiddling a bit with his hands in front of him. 049 lifted his head, eyes training on me. "And, why, exactly, would we desire to set it off? Would it not explode immediately?"

   I opened my mouth to respond, but shut it as soon as I realised that was a good question. "Well..." That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, would it? "I'm sure it's timed or something. We'll get to see when we're down there, right?"

   A curt nod. "Of course."

   It wasn't long before the ding of the elevator sounded and the two doors severed from one another. The newly exposed hallway was dimly lit, and wasn't very long. On the other side of it was a closed door, and on the left wall was a long window. The floors, walls, and roof was some sort of dark metal.

   With caution, I exited the elevator with the plague doctor close behind me. Naturally, my gaze veered over to the window, and I peered past the glass one I had made it to. A large, circular room was there, and just a few feet below was a massive seal that was split down the middle. My best assumption was that the warhead was just underneath it.

   Stopping in front of the door, it required yet another keycard scan. I went through with it, and entered the small room just past the door once it opened. Just against one of the walls was a few blacked out screens and various control panels. On the wall opposite of it was a small table along with some strange cardboard box on top of it and some loose sheets of paper. Another wall held a glass pane that still showed off the room where the warhead presumably was.

   Curiously, I approached the table and took up one of the pieces of paper.

   Right as I was going to read it, a felt a pair of hands grip my shoulders from behind as a head rested itself on top of mine. Guilt only further pressed into me because of it, but I did my best to ignore it and move on.

The Omega Warhead (page 4)

A 2 megaton hydrogen bomb designed to demolish everything within the facility

Detonation requires 0-5 level authorisation

   I scrunched my face a bit at that. 05-level? What's that? I flicked down the paper, feeling the doctor shifting against me a bit as I picked up another one of the sheets.

   Upon reading it, most of the information could be classified as miscellaneous in my case. The part that I took interest in was explaining how upon setting it off, all personnel had thirty minutes to evacuate the Foundation before it went off.

   "So... That answers our question," I mumbled aloud.

   The plague doctor slunk himself off of me, and the sound of his boots scuffing the ground as he moved to somewhere else was audible. "Indeed."

   Setting down the paper, I turned to the monitors and panels. On the floor was a bloodied mess and the dead body of an NTF. Underneath it was also that familiar black ooze of 106. I stared at it for a moment, recalling that sickening anomaly. I doubted it was with the same group as the ones who ran into us. I approached one of the monitors that looked as if it were in some sort of chat-log.