Battle in Site-17(2)

In a large office space filled with multiple desks and computers at Site-17, Whitesnake had Amelia's memory disc attached to his head and scanned her memories for any clues about the bone of Dio but finding nothing. However, he did uncover more information about Amelia herself, her past, details about the Foundation, and his father's connections within its hierarchy.

"O5-1, huh? Interesting, but still another dead end in finding the bone of Dio. Jumpin' Jack Flash and Kraft Work better have more luck on their end," he said with a cold expression.

He removed the disc from his head and was about to leave when he heard a door open, revealing to be Molly and her Stand, Bad Moon Rising  as they entered.

"What do you want?" he asked nonchalantly.

"Buck's memories and Stand," she replied coldly.

Whitesnake held Amelia's memory and Stand discs in his right hand and said, "I'm ready to give you the memory disc, however, her Stand disc is another matter which I cannot. Its ability is too useful to give away. Even if you return her memory disc, she will mostly remain in a critical condition or a comatose state without her Stand disc, as it is an integral part of her."

"Why are you doing this? What's your end goal?" Molly asked.

Whitesnake smiled. "Happiness, like a normal person has."

"Huh?"

"You see, my parents were gone when I was young, leaving me to survive the harsh streets of Detroit. No matter how hard I tried to carve out a life I could be happy with, fate never seemed to be on my side. I was beaten, blamed for things I didn't do, and used by others to achieve their own happiness through money and power. This continued until I turned twenty, and my belief in fate and a hopeful future began to fade.

"I realized that good people never find happiness as long as the bad ones exploit them. The things I believed in were illusions, just empty hopes for happiness. Evil was always happy because they used good people as tools to achieve it, stealing their happiness to fill their own void. I was no exception.

"One day, my father's friends returned, wanting land under my name that my mother had left to me. They wanted me to sell it to them so they could be happy, completely disregarding my well-being. They were intoxicated by their own desires, using me and what I held dear for their gain. When I refused in anger, they sent goons to force me into submission."

"...Then?" 

"...I bashed all their skulls with a hammer and left them for dead to defend myself! And now I'm reduced to this face that holds only coldness and anger. I can't smile or be happy anymore."

"..."

"If the world uses evil as a means of happiness, and I can't get any of that, then I'll show them fear and pain. I'll reveal their fates using Made in Heaven over and over again until they go insane and suffer. Maybe then I'll find a smile on my face and be happy. A world filled with people fearing their fates and suffering, while I become the happiest man alive," he said, his face still cold as he spoke.

"...I can understand your reasons, and you didn't deserve the world's cruelty, but making everyone else suffer just to make yourself happy won't give you true happiness."

"I don't need your opinion or sympathy. I just want to be a happy man. Even if this dark path I had avoided for a long time is the only option left, I regret nothing because my emotions are only coldness and anger. No happiness."

Molly took a battle stance with her Stand. "Then you leave me no choice."

Whitesnake cracked his neck and knuckles, and they stared each other down.

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Miranda, Donna, and Angie, along with Josie, 999, and Abby, were making their way to the floor where Molly, Lucy, Iris, and Amelia were, intending to meet up and escape the site. Unbeknownst to them, the warhead had activated, and due to the PA system not functioning, they were completely oblivious of the impending danger.

"You shouldn't have left Long Legs down there. She wasn't mean to me," Abby said, looking saddened.

"She works for an enemy that hates Rodeo, dear. We can't trust her," Miranda replied.

"But she was nice."

"And I refuse to take any chances when it comes to the Forsaken, so I suggest th-...!"

"STOP!"

Donna suddenly shouted, and everyone halted to see SCP-682, "The Hard to Kill Reptile," blocking their path in front of them. Right now, he was the size of a bus.

"Finally, we meet again, Abby."

"Hello, 682! How are you doing?" she asked happily.

"Very well, actually," 682 replied, his tone surprisingly gentle. "Although I see 999 is here as well, along with these two ladies and that toy."

"Rude," Angie muttered.

"Oh, they're friends of mine and Rodeo!" Abby stated.

682 shook his head. "You are putting your faith in the wrong people, little one. They cannot be trusted. I've known you longer than these people have and know your true purpose. Come along with me. I promise not to harm them since you care for them."

"Donna, Angie, get Abby, 999, and Josie far from here," Miranda ordered her daughters as she stood in front of 682. "I don't trust this beast's words."

682 sighed. "You mortals always make it difficult, don't you? Do you want death that swiftly?"

"The child doesn't need a beast to guide where her purpose was. It is hers to make, not yours."

Growling in anger, 682 punched Miranda with tremendous force, sending her flying and crashing into a wall before falling to the ground as her body went limp.

"No!" Donna exclaimed.

"Died in one hit. How satisfying," 682 chuckled evilly as he approached Donna and Angie. Abby, 999, and Josie hid behind them, backing away from 682.

"999, don't bother trying to tickle me out of this and use it to escape," 682 said to the squishy creature with a glare. "I'll just dodge you, simple as that. Now, give me the child."

"Like I would ever! Even Rodeo won't give her to you, knowing you have some nefarious end goal!" Donna shouted.

As they spoke, Miranda's lifeless body began to move, standing up and mutating into a different form.

"My goals and those of the Scarlet King are ours to debate, not yours. You don't even know me at all," 682 retorted.

"I don't, but you just give off a sense of evil."

682 punched a wall, reducing it to dust. "GIVE ME THE CHILD OR I WILL SHOW YOU TRUE HORROR!" he stated angrily.

"You want horror?"

All of a sudden, a low and feminine laugh madly, her charming yet malicious voice echoing throughout the area.

Looking in the direction where the voice came from, everyone saw Miranda alive and standing, but she looked completely different. Her skin had become deathly pale snow white, her claws had grown as long as Alcina's, and her two eyes had been replaced by a single vertical eye. She wore a very long black skirt that reached the floor, and multiple golden halo-shaped circles made of Cadou bio matter adorned her back, some with eyes on them as well as six ten-foot-long wings extended from her back.

This was Mother Miranda's mutated form. 

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"I'll show you true horror."

In the blink of an eye, the mutated Miranda materialized in front of 682 and punched his face into the floor with tremendous force. The floor crumbled beneath him, and he fell through it, crashing through multiple levels as Miranda pursued him.

"Okay, time to leave," Donna said urgently.

With that, Donna and the rest were about to run for it, only to be met by Mommy Long Legs, who suddenly burst out of a vent right above them, screaming in anger and startling the group while still having that deranged look on her face.

"Mommy? Is that you?" Abby asked, while in her arms, Josie hissed at the person in front of them.

"Who said you could take her away?! I hate child takers!" Mommy Long Legs shouted as her angry look gradually cracked into a sinister grin. "Your foundation will not let them keep her for their own means! So we're gonna play a GAAAAAME!!!"

"Is it Warhammer?" Angie asked simply.

"It's called Hide and SEEEEKKK!!!...10...9...8..."

"Uh oh," Donna murmured. She quickly took the others and ran as far as possible from Long Legs, using the ten-second head start. She opened a door leading to the cafeteria's kitchen and hid underneath one of the counters as Long Legs began her search for them.

"Let me talk to her. She's just mad at you, not me," Abby said sadly.

"It's too risky. We have to stay put for now," Donna replied.

At that moment, they heard the kitchen door opening and the sound of footsteps, accompanied by a sing-song voice.

"Where arrrrrreeee youuuuu~?"

Donna and the rest kept quiet as Long Legs crawled on the ceiling, stretching her arms into multiple areas, searching for them.

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Back with Molly and Whitesnake, the two were still staring each other down while approaching menacingly.

But at that moment, Molly heard yelling. "Do you hear that?"

"Hm?"

Looking up at the ceiling, they heard the yelling getting closer until the entire ceiling burst open. 682 came crashing through it, forcing the two to quickly back away as 682 fell face-first onto the floor.

"Now's my chance," Molly said as she used her Stand, Bad Moon Rising, to fire a green laser from her index finger, knocking the discs out of Whitesnake's hands and sending them flying.

"Throw me!"

Following its user's command, Bad Moon Rising tossed Molly towards the discs and then disappeared. Whitesnake tried to grab the discs, but Molly was the first to reach them and landed next to a door that opened to reveal Engineer, along with an unconscious Clef and Bright draped over his shoulder.

"What in tarnation is go-"

Before Engineer could finish his sentence, Bad Moon Rising appeared right behind him and spin-kicked him, sending him crashing into Whitesnake. Meanwhile, 682 started to get up in a daze.

Noticing Bright and Clef lying on the ground, Bad Moon Rising carried them and turned to face its user.

"Dune?"

"Yeah, let's go."

With that, Molly and Bad Moon Rising ran out of the office area with the discs, Bright, and Clef. Almost at the same time, 682 came out of his daze, let out a roar, and ran out of the office area through the hole in the ceiling.

"...Well, that was anticlimactic," Engineer remarked.

But then, Whitesnake pushed Engineer off of him in anger.

"So fate, these are the ones you want to help?" Whitesnake scoffed, "Of course."

Suddenly, the PA system speakers came back online and announced.

[T-minus 5 minutes to detonate the warhead. All staff please evacuate in an orderly fashion.]

As the PA system went off again, Kraft Work came through the door and spotted Whitesnake and Engineer.

"Uh, you heard that, right?" he asked.

"Yeah, so do we go after them or not?" Engineer asked.

"The disc didn't give me any clue on the bone of Dio, and even if we get it from the other staff that are alive here, I'm pretty sure the results will be the same," Whitesnake grumbled. "So it pains me to say this, but even the Foundation seems to be a dead end."

Kraft Work brought out the jeep keys. "So escape it is then."

The trio headed out, abandoning the search for now as the clock ticked down to detonation of the nuclear warhead.

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Meanwhile, Iris and Lucy were still waiting next to the containment chamber where they had kept Amelia's body.

"Hmm, strange that no Reich robot showed up. They must've bailed out, perhaps," Lucy said.

"And may I remind you the PA system literally said this place is gonna blow up on us!" Iris shouted.

"We'll be fine."

"OPEN THE DOOR!"

At that moment, Iris and Lucy noticed Molly came running towards them while carrying the unconscious Clef and Bright using her Stand.

Iris opened the chamber and saw the two unconscious doctors. "Clef and Bright? They didn't leave?"

As Molly gave Clef and Bright to Lucy and Iris, she entered the chamber with the discs and inserted them into the dead Amelia's head. The discs automatically integrated into her.

"Buck?" Molly asked as she crouched down, looking at Amelia, wondering if everything she had done was for naught.

But...

"Achoo!" Amelia sneezed. "It's freezing here."

Feeling a surge of joy, Molly immediately hugged Amelia, who looked puzzled.

"Did something happen?" Amelia asked.

"I'm just soooooo glad you're okay!"

Not understanding fully, Amelia smiled anyway. "Me too."

"I don't want to ruin this moment, but this place is gonna blow up in five minutes," Iris interjected.

"What?!"

"Okay," Molly stood up and looked at everyone with a determined look. "Iris, you and Lucy take Clef, Buck, and Bright to the tram station. I'll catch up once I find Miranda, Donna, and Angie."

"I'll come with you," Amelia said.

"But?"

"You'll need all the help you can get," Amelia replied as she got up steadily. "And I can still fight." Her Stand, Locked Away, appeared beside her.

"Knock."

Molly sighed. "All right then, let's move out."

As Iris and Lucy took Clef and Bright, they headed for the tram station, while Molly and Amelia searched for Miranda, Donna, and Angie.

"Where should we look?" Molly asked.

"Let's use the security cameras and-" Amelia began to say, but the two heard a plea in the distance.

"Help! Someone!"

"Someone's in trouble," Molly said.

They headed towards the source of the sound and found it coming from the cafeteria. Upon entering, they realized it was an instance of SCP-939 mimicking the sound.

"!"

":) 🎶Say goodbye!🎶"

Before the two could react, 939 leaped towards them. But just as they were about to summon their Stands, a purple axe flew through the air, and sliced 939 in half. Its body halves fell next to Molly and Amelia.

Startled, they watched as the axe flew back into the hands of Revenant.

Not only that, the axe he was using was the Chrysalax axe.

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"Impressive, ain't it? Forsaken gave it to me to even the playing field with people like you and modified it. I didn't use it until now because the rest got killed by my own mechanical dead hands. But enough of that, where's the girl?" Revenant asked.

"We have no idea what you're talking about," Amelia said.

"SCP-053."

Molly's eyes widened. "How do you know?"

"I gave the data this site's servers contained to Arasaka, who have delivered it to the Reich and the Forsaken," Revenant explained. "So we now know most of the things about this universe, your Foundation, its enemies, and the freaks you keep contained."

"You won't get away with this," Amelia said coldly.

"We already have. You see, I was human once until I found out I was living in this... metal body by Hammond Robotics. I made sure to hunt down every single one of them and kill anyone I see to satiate my bloodlust and kill all those in suits of skin. Most are dead already or have escaped from this place, but you two might just be the perfect kills for me."

He took a battle stance and said, "Let's get on with it then. Shall we?"

In response, Molly and Amelia summoned their Stands and took their battle stances.