I stare at the windowless door for some time before turning away.
"So, when will the mission commence?"
Den responded back as he tapped on his tablet, bringing up data that the scout brought before the live feed was disrupted.
"In 10 minutes, SCP-249-A will arrive alongside the MTF-squad, Anomalous World Exploration. Due to the increase in spatial anomalies appearing around the world that led to another dimension or world, this squad was created to secure any records and history of that world, and hopefully find the reason for why it was destroyed"
I salute playfully as my dapper clothes changed into practical yet elegant black suit with bowtie.
"Righty-O"
Agatha smiles softly as she observes my new dress with her bright violet eyes. Giving off a slight silence of approval to my fashion sense.
"Everyone except for you and AWE will observe through the X-Dimensional camera that we will supply you and AWE soon enough."
Meanwhile…
***
"So… What about the bet?"
"Fuck… I don't know…"
"I mean… SCP-8874 didn't use the button or teleport, the spatial radar would've alerted us if he did."
They all look at each other.
"And the fact that they must've been here with us all this time…"
"So bet is off?"
"Let's wait until Agatha returns."
"What about the prize?"
"Damn…"
***
While the rest of the researchers left the main room and into an observation room with a one-way window facing the side of the windowless door, I waited for 10 minutes.
Finally, the decontamination gate opens, revealing 13 soldiers, and their leader Roger. Chester is also seen behind him, carrying a suitcase made of unknown material.
"Ahem, SCP-8874. Please attach the camera to your head. Then we can finally brief all important facts we need to know before entering."
I hum as the floor beside me, open and extend upward, revealing what looks like a Go-Pro. But it was made by an anomalous SCP, allowing it to transmit signals even if you're countless dimensions away.
Upon placing the camera at the middle of my forehead, it phased half-way into my mask before I willed it to solidify, making it unmovable.
"Neat trick" Roger smirks, he's wearing a headband for the camera.
"Alright, so what we gathered, time gets distorted the moment you enter the door that is influenced by the SCP-249-A. The moment we enter, is also the same moment we exit if most of us survive.
The feed that Agathy and little Den get, will be so compressed. It will take them a while to decompress the feed and slow it down to a normal pace for us."
Roger checks if everyone is prepared.
"We can't stay there more than 2 days otherwise we will die."
I thought to myself 'Time limit ey? How fun…'
I chuckled before noticing the AWE preparing, they had already written their will and were fully aware that they can easily die.
Den on the other side of the one-way mirror, beside Dr. Right.
"What's the point of this? We can't fully trust SCP-8874"
Dr. Right hum "Can't speak more about that. It's the O5 council orders"
Den hid his shock, widely surprised that this was extremely important to the point the O5 council members are involved.
He turns his head and stares at SCP-8874.
"Got it" Dr. Right chuckle as she rubs his hair.
"That's what I like about you, you know when you ask and when not to ask."
…
Finally, after getting the researcher approval to start the exploration. Roger placed down the suitcase and opened it, suddenly the air shifted as I froze and stared at the white windowless door.
It now has a set location.
I hear a slight tremble in the suitcase before calming down, the SCP-249-A.
'Curious. Why?'
I twitch my finger to look at the tapestry of fate before instantly stopping myself.
I felt a sharp omen of death. The moment I stare at fate, I will die.
'How? I'm not connected to fate. I can't even die. This never once happened to me when I peek into fate! Wow! The tapestry of fate contains time, space and Destiny. So, I can't peek into fate near the door. Interesting, very interesting!'
Glancing at the door, I smile inhumanely wide behind the mask.
Something ungodly is there.
"SCP-8874, after you" Roger said, Chester behind him with a determined gaze. "Please get us home safe afterward"
Chester stares at me, I glance back at him before giving an exaggerated bow.
"Got it chief~"
I teased before walking up the door.
"Agatha, after completing this mission, destroy that crystal"
I open the door and enter without letting her respond back, soon the rest of the AWE members enter after me.
"..."
Agatha stares for a moment at the door before for a short moment, coldly gaze at the suitcase, instantly returning to her soft motherly gaze.
Den didn't miss this but chose not to ask, after all. Anybody who has been in this field long enough won't be fully sane.
***
The ground is red, patches of orange grass sway and glimmer from the 3 crimson sun. I look at the horizon and see ruins of destroyed civilization I was briefed on.
I looked around and noticed that the members weren't behind me.
"So that part of the properties of the door remains… There are no stars here to tell me their locations too. What a pain…"
***
Roger landed on top of a ruined cobble tower and swiftly got in a position with an intent to kill, wary of its surroundings.
"No presence here… I'm the only one here."
He uses the walkie-talkie but no response.
"Are we separated too far or is there something interfering with the radio wave…?"
He leans forward and records every part of the room he is in, before going down the ruined tower and investigating.
***
Chester fell on top of a broken tomb, cursing.
"Fuck's sake!"
He has fallen onto a rotten preserved corpse, now splattered all over him.
"Tsk, this will stain badly."
He got out and spotted a broken wall with a moral. Only a small part of the top wall isn't broken.
"A single star?"
***
A lone AWE member is trekking through the grey dead forest, he kept trying to use the walkie to find others, but no luck.
And then finally, he received a message.
"Krgg… I… I… I see you… kgggh… hee hee hee… krg…"
The man stopped and froze, that little girl's voice doesn't belong to anybody he knows, including the masked SCP.
He steady his hands on his rifle and turned around, pointing with precise accuracy.
A woman's head peeking out unnaturally from the tree, like its neck is stretching out. Its eyes gouged out, and its mouth sewed up.
A little girl with black eyes and no mouth peek out behind the woman, the man, although nervous, didn't fumble and immediately shot at two of the 'humans' heads out.
"You want to play? Let's play!" A girl's excited voice echoes out despite part of its head now blown out, the woman's body collapses after its head is blown out.
The girl's limbs start increasing as it runs after the man, who is now making a tactical retreat.
The monster giggle echoes through the forest as it increases its speed behind him. He starts running zigzag to try to lose the monster from his back.
He also sets up traps and bombs while running.
15 minutes later, he doesn't hear the monster anywhere, but he is still vigilant and pointed his rifle around.
"Puhh… ahh… ah… That bitch can't catch me… haa…"
"Caught you~"
A sweet girl's voice whispered in his ears, he immediately jabbed beside him, but it was too late.
The little girl, now an 8-foot lanky thin humanoid being, wrapped her thin fingers around the man's neck and twisted it three times around with its inhuman strength.
But he somehow didn't lose consciousness when he fell to the ground, as if the girl didn't let him.
It slowly plays with his body, twisting and ripping apart each by each of his body parts.
"Hee Hee Hee"
He can't scream, his vocal cord twisted, his heart still beating despite no oxygen.
He wishes to die, he wants to die, the pain is unbearable.
"Let's play forever!"
It giggles as he screams mentally in pain.