SCP Foundation - Equestrian Files

by DagaYemar

SCP-EQ-009 - Father Of Monsters

Item#: SCP-EQ-009

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Containment cell is to be located 200 m below sea level, tunneled out of solid bedrock. Walls of cell are to be reinforced with 20 cm thick metal paneling and inspected regularly for structural integrity. Sole access to the cell is to be achieved by teleportation through a series of self-contained caves spaced roughly fifty (50) meters apart, carved in an indirect line to hinder potential escape.

Containment area is to be constructed with the following components:

• A ten (10) meter high fortified outer wall surrounding the facility to ward against outside threats, staffed by security personnel trained in close-quarters combat and monstrous animal control.
• Several support facilities and living quarters for onsite staff.
• Air channels eight (8) cm in diameter bored into containment cell to provide ventilation, equipped with mesh screens every twenty (20) m and checked for damage daily.
• Eight (8) Anti-magic field generators stationed at regular intervals around perimeter, capable of encompassing entire facility in case of containment breach.
• A cavity large enough to hold thirty thousand (30,000) gallons of molten lava situated directly above containment cell.

In the event of significant damage detected to containment cell, the ceiling hatch is to be released and the cell completely flooded with lava. Should re-containment be confirmed, reverse-time spells are authorized to return the lava to its cavity. Lava is to be kept from cooling by use of non-magical heating devices built into the rock walls.

Each cave leading to the containment cell is to be staffed by no less that three (3) security guards at all times. Meals and supplies are to be teleported through each check point and held from continuing until a proper scan is performed to detect irregularities. Under no circumstances should anypony teleport directly to or from the containment cell to the surface. Teleportation portals are forbidden from use within fifty (50) m of the facility.

Under no circumstance should personnel engage SCP-EQ-009 in conversation or allow SCP-EQ-009 to learn of any current events.

Should a catastrophic containment breach be declared, all onsite staff are to proceed to the nearest security station and arm themselves with armor and weapons. Unicorns are forbidden from casting spells when engaging with SCP-EQ-009. Should 90 minutes pass without a Level 4 or higher personnel declaring SCP-EQ-009 re-contained, planted explosives are to be detonated to destroy subterranean structures and the site's self-destruct system initiated. O5 Council members, Heads of States in allied nations, and important Foundation personnel are to open report TAMBELON-66 and evacuate to indicated locations and safe houses.

Description: SCP-EQ-009 is a male goat of advanced age. While its exact age cannot be determined, mention of him occurs in some of the oldest known recordings in Equestria, making SCP-EQ-009's age at least ______.

SCP-EQ-009 has a shoulder height of 1.75 m and a weight of 934 lbs, twice the expected weight of a creature its size. Hair is cornflower blue, eyes are a pale yellow with blood-red irises, and teeth have been filed to points. Subject's dark blue horns curl in a wide circle and are near immune to chipping and scuffing. SCP-EQ-009 speaks in a gruff baritone and is quick to anger. His body is heavily muscled in contrast to apparent age and maintains a constant level of health. His only clothing is a red collar with regularly spaced gold studs and a gold loop situated under his neck. All attempts to separate the collar from SCP-EQ-009 have failed.

SCP-EQ-009 has a deep-seated hatred for all of pony-kind and other sapient creatures. He takes delight in the ides of torture and murder and amuses himself with imagined scenarios of such. Records indicate that in the past he preferred to keep creatures as slaves to prolong their suffering. Subject appear to feel no remorse for his past activities. To date SCP-EQ-009 has offered no explanation or reasoning for his hatred.

Subject has a vast knowledge on magic, far in excess of any living spellcaster. Subject's entire body is shrouded in a large number of spells of various purposes, with no apparent duration. These spells are deemed to be the source of the subject's long life, health, and physical capabilities and are presumed to have been cast by the subject himself. SCP-EQ-009 has refused to comment on these magics beyond their reference in taunts and threats to Foundation staff's ability to contain him. SCP-EQ-009's own magic is black in color and emanates from his horns. In addition to basic levitation, subject has used magic to [DATA EXPUNGED]. Subject's magic somehow continues to function even in anti-magic fields, and his laser beams have the unique property of erasing any magic they come into contact with completely, thus nullifying all magical shields and enchantments. SCP-EQ-009 is credited in the creation of a spell to strip all magic from a subject at will, although he does not appear capable of using it without tools.

The source of SCP-EQ-009's magic is intrinsically tied to the concept of fear itself. The subject is capable of drawing upon the fear of all sapient creatures, regardless of distance or source of fear, in order to fuel himself. SCP-EQ-009 can use this power to sustain himself in the place of food and water, but in the absence of regular meals his mood worsens and his destructive activities increase. Magical beams and enchantments that come into contact with his body are instantly absorbed and added to his power.

Containment of SCP-EQ-009 is further hampered by his significant physical abilities. Subject has extraordinary strength and reaction speed, and while not invulnerable, has shown a remarkable ability to ignore all but the most severe of debilitating injuries. Known feats include (among other things):

• Smashing headfirst through a 5 m thick castle wall made from granite with no sign of injury or loss of momentum.
• Leaping 16 m straight upwards from a standing position.
• Hurling aside a full grown pony with his head as if the pony weighted nothing.
• Survive at temperatures as high as 1,250^oC and as low as -78^oC.
• Exist for days without needing to take a breath. (Original containment procedures called for the cell to be adjacent to the ocean. During an escape attempt, subject's cell was flooded with sea water and recovery teams found him alive several days later).
• Survive a blast from an army of unicorns pooling their magic together into a beam "stronger than a thousand ponies", comparable to the Elements of Harmony, and to continue fighting afterwards with no ill effects.

Subject has demonstrated a genius level intelligence with an IQ of 165. To date, the subject has employed cunning plans in __ escape attempts while in Foundation custody.

SCP-EQ-009 is particularly adept the manipulating the fundamental magical make-up of the world around him. He primarily used this power in the fusing of living creatures into hybrid chimeras. Chimeras crafted in this way are usually violent in temperament and invariably servile towards SCP-EQ-009, obeying his spoken commands even at the expense of their own safety. SCP-EQ-009 created these creatures in the thousands, with the aim of creating chaos and fear that he could draw power from. Once created, chimeras exhibit all normal biological functions of normal fauna, including reproduction. It is estimated that __% of all all living creatures in the wild are derived from SCP-EQ-009's chimeras.

On __ occasions, hordes of magical creatures have attacked the perimeter walls in coordination to SCP-EQ-009's escape attempts. How he managed to communicate with these creatures to organize them is unknown.

A number of powerful artifacts and objects are also known to have been created by SCP-EQ-009. A partial list of objects in Foundation control that have ties to him include SCP-EQ-___, SCP-EQ-___, and SCP-EQ-___.

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To any personnel who still harbor doubts to our mission,

SCP-EQ-009 may look and behave like a normal creature, but do not be fooled. If he ever gets fully loose, and given enough time to gather his strength, then we are looking at a HK-Class end-of-the-world scenario. At best. Do not falter in your duty, it is needed. Do not listen to his pleas, they are lies. Do not feel pity for him, for he will feel none for you if the situation were reversed.

There is no friendship here.

Comments

[TheArbiter1]

Grogar being a SCP actually makes a lot of sense. Though I wonder, is Pinkie Pie classified as an SCP

[Warrior of Virtue]

Human 05-1: There is nothing in the entire multiverse more dangerous than SCP-682.

Pony 05-1: Hold my cider.

[DagaYemar]

10665931
This universe needed its own SCP-682 level threat. And to be honest... I barely made up anything in this chapter. Nearly all of this is something we've seen Grogar do (G1) or been told he's done (G4). When you gather up everything and put it all together, he's a terrifying guy!

[Lord Dominator]

Nicely written

[FrostTheWolf]

Grogar as an SCP makes me think if it was Able, but had the mind of The Scarlet King. Like indestructible, but always scheming. Love the way that you described him

Also, congrats on the feature

[Clawfoot]

10665943
Your icon makes that finishing statement so much better.

[Tatsurou]

That is rather terrifying all spelled out like that.

[Tonto the Trotter]

10666016
Scarlet King ain't that big anymore lol. He's gonna throw down and lose against the ultimate force of good SCP-2137: Forensic Ghost Tupac someday.

[Loveless]

If Chimeras was a thing that byproduct of SCP-EQ-009. Should it not label as SCP-EQ-009-a?

[DagaYemar]

10666561
That's where things get a little sticky. As my editor pointed out to me, SCP is all about containing things that are anomalous by their very nature. And in a setting like MLP, what actually qualifies as "anomalous" is a little trickier to determine. The ability to teleport wherever you want with a thought would make you a keter threat in the human world, but that's an everyday ability in MLP.

A good example is earlier in the week I was writing up a chapter based off of Twilight's time travel in the season 2 episode "It's About Time". The basic premise was that any unicorn who attended Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns would, at some point in their lives, get a visit from a future version of themselves. They would then feel memeticly compelled to return to the school, enter the Starswirl wing, and discover a scroll containing a spell that wasn't there previously that would bring them back in time and complete the loop. You know, one of those cool area of effect SCPs that could have some tie-ins to other Starswirl related SCPs.

The issue, as my editor pointed out, was that the time travel spell was just that - a spell. There's nothing all that strange or anomalous about it, especially since it was just one scroll in a whole library of time travel stuff. I was letting my eagerness to write a cool story get in the way of the fact that in the MLP universe, there was nothing going on in that episode that would be viewed as strange. At least not in the way I was trying to make it.

So as far as chimeras go, you have to remember how LONG it's been. Even a conservative estimate puts Grogar's last known activity at 500 years ago. Tirek's comment in the season 9 premier says that Grogar was doing his thing when Equestria was just a collection of huts, which put it thousands of years ago. And while he may have made all the hybrid monsters like Cerberus, manticores, the actual chimera, cockatrice, and bugbears (Just going by the animals that got defused in "School Razed Part 2" when the mane 6 escaped Tartaros), there has been thousands of years of them living in the wild since then. Ponies know them, fear them admittedly, but there's nothing all that strange about them anymore.

So quite a few monsters are probably not going to be SCP objects in this story, simply because in the pony universe there's nothing all that anomalous about them. Same deal with things like unicorn spell casting and the ability to pick things up with hooves. Unless ponies find something strange about a thing, it doesn't really need to get its own designation.

[Tonto the Trotter]

10666639

I'd say stick a pin in that idea. Even if time travel may be something thoroughly explained by study and scientific/magical experimentation and thus non-anomalous. It doesn't mean you couldn't use a non-time looped item. For example, Starlight Glimmer's time travel scroll? Maybe since it breaks the known rules of time travel, it could always make a reappearance? Or after it was damaged it now causes other time-related phenomena, like speeding up time or slowing it down? Maybe that whole time travel/history altering incident could be an SCP. Similar to SCP-5000?

Other Starlight Glimmer related SCP's could be that 'Staff of Sameness' she was using to hide the fact she was the one responsible for removing cutie marks, not the staff. Maybe that staff had some other anomalous effect? Like making ponies more agreeable/gullible, hence why she was able to trick so many ponies and steal their marks? Or maybe it makes ponies think the same, hence why Starlight was able to sway so many ponies to her way of thinking? Though it's not 100% effective and Starlight wasn't aware of its anomalous qualities.

Minor note I like that you include the EQ for each numbered item. Similar to the other foreign branches of the SCP community have letters like IT or JP etc depending on the country of origin.

[Tonto the Trotter]

10665931
10665943

SCP-682 really isn't a world-ending threat as he is now, in fact he's relatively easy to contain. It's keeping him contained permanently or eliminating him that is proving difficult. I think Grogar does fit as a potential world-ending SCP as he is described in this chapter. I'm assuming that two of the additional created SCP's are probably his Missing Bell and The City of Tambleon?

I'd suggest adding in Sombra as another World-level threat, he's come back at least twice. I assume he probably survived and returned again, only the Foundation was ready for him and captured him. Maybe imply he's like SCP-076/Able or DC's Solomon Grundy, always managing to come back to life to try and fulfil his plans. Namely enslave the world and using his Dark Crystal magic in the process?

[NightDweller]

It wpuld be nice to have a entry fpr the Tree of Harmony, Discord and the Cutie Map along with the Castle.

The Cutie Map is obviosly sentient and send specific ponies to specific places in order to serve a hidden agenda. It send the Mane 6 to Our Town and send Starlight to fix the problem between Luna and Celestia, if nothing was done in both situationa it could have the potential to evolve deadly consequeneces.

Also it would bw nice to include somethings of the comic books, suach as the Umbra and the Nightmare. Thw Umbra are a race that was imprisioned somewhere in the frozen wasteland of the Crystal Empire and send Sombra as a infiltrator (they have the same abilities of Sombra) to release them but never done that for a reason or another, while the Nightmare is a non-corporeal entity that stalk the minds of powerful creatures to posses them.

[Tonto the Trotter]

10667527
I think the Cutie Map would definitely qualify as a Thaumiel object, given it actively helps ponykind?

[NightDweller]

10670088

It would probably be reclassified since it was used to perfect time travel and was used to create and destroy alternative timelines since they can't move or replace it, the only thing left is to keep surveilance and hope nothing bad happens. It was never clear in the show if that timelines were erased or continue to exist.

In another note Poison Joke could be considerate a anomaly that pranks could turn deadly. Rainbow and Applejack could have end up dead if were not careful.

[Tonto the Trotter]

10671109

Oh you mean like the more malevolent/aggressive version of Poison Joke i.e, Killing Joke plant from Fallout Equestria? The one that puts people into lethal situations with a more twisted sense of humour? You could probably do something like that for an SCP. Though Poison Joke is documented and the public can look up info on it. So I don't think Poison Joke could qualify as an anomaly on its own. Maybe Plunder Vines could be a plant-based anomaly that currently exist outside of Equestria, as the majority of the anomalous plants got wiped out by the Tree of Harmony being recharged?

[NightDweller]

10672457
Just because is public knowldge don't exclude it's anomalous nature.

The oring of these plants, powers and rarity are probably downplayed to avoid panic.

Parasphrites are public knowledg but they still have public records, that would be downplayed to avoid panic.

The thing is in this world of magic, the masquared is more easy to mantain in some cases since they can issue warnings about certain things to keep civilians clear without a expensive and complex cover up story.

However not all things can be hide in plain sight. In MLP computers don't exist, but they could have recover one and would be classified as a anomaly and it would need to be hidden. Say only recently they explained it and now are in the process of mass producing for they organization and digitalizating they documents.

[Tonto the Trotter]

10673902

That's true, they are an anomalous species that just happens to be public knowledge. Well technically only Pinkie Pie seemed to know how to quell them, I think Celestia mentioned an infestation of them in Fillydelphia at the end of that parasprite episode as well? But she didn't recognise them, so potentially the Foundation has successfully suppressed knowledge of this anomaly to a small handful of ponies in the public?

Poison Joke could be a similar anomaly I suppose, with information printed to cure its effects. Maybe portray it as an anomaly originally native to the Zebra homelands, that has managed to enter Equestria? Maybe have Poison Joke be something you can harvest and even alchemically/magically 'program' specific effects into?

[NightDweller]

10675166

Like I said, public knowldge exist but are dowplayed to avoid panic and could be very obscure.

Twilight search everywhere about her condition when she was affected by Poison Joke and only one book in the entire library mention the plant, effects and cure.

[Coretz]

10667527
I was thinking Discord would be Keter – Thaumiel, and the Map would just be Safe.
10671109
The map never has the intention to harm, and does not break its own containment. It is Safe, as long as you control access to it.

Remember the box test: If you put it in a box, and ...
• Can reasonably expect it to stay in the box and act predictably, it's Safe;
• Are unsure what will happen if it's kept in the box, it's Euclid;
• it won't stay in the box, it's Keter.

If the object IS the box, it's Thaumiel (and can share a class with the above). If an object will bring about armageddon if it is not contained, and it fundamentally cannot be contained, it's Apollyon. If putting it in the box causes the apocalypse, it's Archon.

[sailing101]

10694213
The map absolutely does NOT stay in the box. It can, on its own, contact any creature in equestria and recruit them to a potentially dangerous mission in the name of harmony.

Just because it’s function is benevolent does not exclude it from being Keter, and it is too uncontrollable to be Thaumiel.

[Zavex Capricious]

10694474
Its also to docile to be keter, in an mlp version of the foundation something like the whole map quest thing would never be a concern since magical effects like that are common, and the thing is already in plain sight for all to see and owned by the now ruler of equestria, even if she doesn't live there anymore these facts are still well known. It stays where it is and does not cause issues of any kind AND is mostly likely widely known by this point, so Keter would make no sense at all