Recap chapter

Recap chapter

Our story begins when the protagonist, subject D-3491, is brought into the Foundation along with a bunch of other prisoners. The soldiers escorting the prisoners give a brief run-through of what the SCP Foundation does.

We learn that our protagonist is a murderer who has taken the lives of 7 families and was caught 5 years after his first murder.

The protagonist, unable to remember his name, is referred to as D. After a long sleepless night, D is brought to a room containing the SCP-3769, The Evolutionary Regression Device. The SCP can reverse the subject to its ancestors, the strength of its effect depending on the number entered into it.

Slight variations in the Subject's physical appearance are noted, but D can tell that something within him has gone wrong. He is taken away for DNA analysis by guards to further look into the effects of the SCP..

A week has passed since D's experience with the Evolutionary Regression Device. He is now taken away once again by the guards, this time witnessing a gruesome scene in the cell next to his. For the remainder of the journey through the corridors, D is left to wonder if he would turn out the way his neighbor had.

This time, D is taken to a room with SCP-012, A Bad Composition. SCP- 012 is a sheet of music which when read by someone, gives them a sudden urge to dismember themselves. As D reads the music sheet, he feels agonizing pain in his shoulder as the sensation of it his arm being ripped out takes over his body.

D wakes up in a bed with his arm still intact. He overhears two staff members talking about their lack of empathy towards the man besides D's cell. This wells up anger in D as he grabs onto one of the unsuspecting staff member's shoulder. D's natural instinct made him want to inflict the same type of pain he had just felt onto this man. After finally being pulled off of the man, D watches as the staff member lifelessly rips out his own shoulder, killing himself in the process due to immense blood loss.

D wakes up once again in a confused state, this time bound by a cross-armed bodysuit for prisoners. Behind him, many council members are debating over what should be done with D. should they kill him or experiment on him even more. The final judgement is not announced to D, who is taken away immediately.

The next chapter begins with a description to SCP-4253, The Drowned. We then hear Doctor Hallows speaking with his coworker, Miss Fischer. Hallows intends to use D as a test subject since they've realized that he can somehow adopt the abilities of the SCPs he comes in contact with. Miss Fischer on the other hand supports the idea of getting rid of D before he becomes a bigger threat. The confrontation ends with Hallows pleading for Fischer's help and she agrees to try her best in changing the Chief's mind.

The Chief agrees to Hallows' and Fischer's request. Fischer is on a call with someone who seems to be very curious about D's situation, when Hallows suddenly barges in to give her the good news.

D is taken by Hallows and Fischer to the room where The Drowned are located. He is told that if the results of the experiment were satisfactory, that he would get to live longer. With a determined gaze, D goes ahead and examines the diving suits standing before him. He falls over to the floor as fear takes over him. Despair takes over as he looks into the headpiece of the diving suit, which seems to be looking back at him.

On the other side of the one way glass, Hallows and Fischer are looking at a completely different scene. The room adjacent to theirs is covered in yellow mist, almost obscuring their view. But through the almost translucent window, they see D communicating with the diving suits, a stark difference from the situation D believes himself to be in.

In the climax of The Drowned arc, we see D referring to the body suits as his "brother" and it is made clear that D is now fully aware of the situation. He also seems to understand slightly how his powers work, only to an extent that allows him to fight against the guards. The diving suits ask D to beg the scientists to help him so that they would send some help. Once the guards are sent in, D and the diving suits fight back, killing all who entered. The diving suits mention an Uprising, but don't go into detail.

With all the guards dead, D breaks into the room adjacent to where he stood, and tries to kill both Hallows and Fischer. In a last ditch attempt to correct his mistakes, Hallows orders Fischer to run away while staying back to defeat D. He shoots D in the chest and legs, making him unable to move around. Instead of finishing the job, Hallows walks out of the room and calls for an elite unit to dispose of D. This fatal mistake would soon return to bite him in the back.

Sitting in a chair facing away from the Council, Hallows waits to be told what his future would bear. After questioning him, the Council learns that Hallows felt sympathy towards D in those crucial moments and so did not end his life. A rather stupid decision since D had just killed 6 officers and 1 staff member earlier to that. Hallows is 'fired' from the Foundation, a term used in place of 'disposed off'. He is injected with a poison that kills him, and his last moments are spent wondering why even Fischer did not vote to save him.

A group of elite soldiers led by James Bancroft enter the room to find that D is missing. They quickly make their way to SCP-4253 and chain it down. 2 soldiers move into the adjacent room to review the footage and find where D went. 2 events are seen in the footage, the first being the diving suits odd rampage where it tore the limbs of every dead soldier and 'ate' them. Before the soldier can view the 2nd event, she sees D attacking the other soldier. Training for years to enhance her reflexes, the soldier pounces on D and subjugates him. She shoots him once in all his limbs, crippling him once again. We see the soldier take the footage to Bancroft in a USB stick as we hear over the radio that SCP-4253 has been encased in cement to stop its movements and D has been tied to a bed with metal cups over his hands and legs to restrict any movement.

We skip ahead by 4 months and Bancroft is talking to the President of an unknown nation. The president has been sending people over to Bancroft who says they would be trained to fight like soldiers and win the war. Bancroft flashes back to 3 days after D's capture. Turns out the O5 Council has deemed it necessary that D must be experimented on. This enrages Bancroft since he had risked his life and his team's just to retrieve D. This also made a lot of people question as to why Hallows had been killed.

The frustrated Bancroft approaches a figure only known to us as The Boss. he is the man that hired Bancroft as head of security many years ago. The Boss offers Bancroft a job at the Chaos Insurgency, and Bancroft, who has recently turned to hate the Foundation's actions, quickly takes up the job. Along with the help of unknown Insurgency members, a breach occurs, allowing them to capture both D and Bancroft, taking them away to the Chaos Insurgency.

During Bancroft's flashback we learn about the 2nd event that took place in the security footage. It showed D copying the diving suits and in an insane fit of cannibalism, swallowing chunks of the soldiers he had helped murder. After viewing this footage, and knowing that the Council had still deemed it necessary to keep D alive, Bancroft had lost all hope in the Foundation. We also learn that the Evolutionary Regression Device reacted to D's DNA sequence and instead of undergoing the usual changes, it mutated the DNA. This change was what caused D to be able to replicate the powers of SCPs that he came into contact with. D had essentially been transformed into another SCP.

Chapter 9, Weissnacht Event, starts out with a family of 3. The son is losing at a videogame when the father walks into the room and easily beats the level for the son. In awe, the son looks at his father, but the man seems to have changed into something sinister. The son runs and screams for his mother as the father follows him with a murderous gaze. The mother is found lying on the floor, blood flowing from her head. Needless to say, the son is soon killed by the father.

The father wakes up feeling dazed just to find his dead wife and son. He isn't given a chance to go over his emotions when his doorbell rings. 3 police officers have been called by the neighbors who heard screams echoing from the house for the past 3 days. The police have a search warrant and they soon find the dead bodies. The father is cuffed and taken into a police car. The officers, though, do not get in, instead they are focused on a hooded figure in the distance. The 3 officers fall to the floor as the hooded figure walks past them, opening the car door and pulling out the father.

He steps on the man's face and asks him if it was fun killing his family? The hooded figure is a psychopath, and the father realizes that. The father knows that the man is connected to his family's death but doesn't understand how. Instead the man explains that he used the powers of the Staff of Hermes to integrate SCP- 4666, The Yule Man's, DNA into the father. This transformed the father into a stalker who over the course of a month stalked his own family and killed them. The hooded figure expresses his disappointment as he had expected the killings to occur earlier.

He then places a hand on the father's forehead as he channels the powers of SCP-411, The Ancient Precog, into the father. This de-ages the father and mentally tortures the man as he loses his memories slowly and turns into a foetus that dies due to the lack of a mother to live in.

Back at the Chaos Insurgency, D has been given a villa but is under heavy surveillance. He actively takes part in experiments in exchange for a comparatively better life. The scientists here are ruthless, and didn't care if they harmed innocent citizens during their experiments. They are trying to recreate someone like D who can use the powers of the SCP. they name people like D, Conformers. Up till now they've only been able to recreate one Conformer, the hooded figure. The people sent over by the president of the unknown country were all used to create conformers but failed. The hooded figure, now referred to as C, shares a particular DNA sequence with D. The scientists speculate that this is the reason the Evolutionary Regression Device acted differently to the two of them. The Insurgency plans to dispose of D now that the far superior C has been born, but Bancroft requests them not to since he can still find some use for D. Bancroft has been training D for a while now and we learn that D has conformed with 7 new SCPs while C has conformed with 15 - 20 SCPs, despite having his powers for a much shorter amount of time. Bancroft suddenly asks D to sit down and begins explaining his plans for the near future.

His plan is to defeat C who will be coming in to kill D in 3 days. D has no choice but to team up with Bancroft to defeat C and reluctantly agrees. The next day arrives and Bancroft is late for the early morning training session.

The door bursts open to reveal C, dragging a half beaten Bancroft behind him. C brutally kills Bancroft in front of D and prods at D's subconscious by stating his real name. Harold Banks, now going by D, was born to 2 researchers working for the Foundation. The two had found their way to India to research an anomaly in the Indian Ocean. All their colleagues died in mysterious ways, urging the two to quit the Foundation and settle down in India. They had Harold in India, but quickly shifted back to England in fear of Harold being bullied because of his ancestry. Harold's relationship with his parents would deteriorate as he grew older but they would reunite soon after he became a doctor. His parents asked him to visit India since they loved the country but had to leave it behind for the security of their child. Harold agreed and became a professor at a medical college there.

Here he met a boy named Rohit who had decided to make Harold's life hell. Harold could not do anything to retort since the college's principal was related to Rohit, and causing trouble for Rohit would end up in Harold being fired. This twisted turn of events led to Harold's downfall.

Rohit along with 2 other friends decided to kidnap Harold's girlfriend and call Harold to where she was being held. Noticing the bruises all over her body, Harold lost it. While he tried to treat her, three masked men jumped him and beat him up. The leader signaled for one of the men to (word that rhymes with grape) the woman lying on the table. Harold stabs all three of the men before they are able to inflict any harm on the woman, but she is stabbed by mistake and dies as well. Harold flees the scene and goes into hiding before the news runs the story of him murdering three students and the woman.

That was the day when Harold's blood lust took over him and he would go on living in the narrow streets of India, committing more murders until finally being caught.

That's the story up till now. I've been working on this summary since yesterday and haven't decided what to do with the next chapter. Hopefully its out by tomorrow.

Thanks for reading.