(i'll will refer to the members of samsara as Irantu, Munru, Nanku and Onru as that are their original names with Irantu being squad leader. I don't want to over complicate the dialogue so the only other people who are going to speak would be the Apollo-3's captain Ross and Mole Rats' captain Hollis, oh and this chapter will be told in 3rd person)
Mtf tau-5 otherwise known as samsara has just arrived at the entrance of scp 1730 when suddenly the captain, Irantu, got a transmission from 05 command themselves. This was highly unusual as the 05 doesn't normally contact them even on missions such as this and would rather relay their order through site command. Regardless, Irantu picks up the call.
05-1: This is 05-1 speaking, do you copy Samsara?
Irantu: Loud and clear command, has there been changes made to our mission?
05-1: You could say that... the mission will proceed as planned only now you will have additional help from scp 1025.
Onru: scp 1025? Excuse me but... how is a book that gives you diseases can help us?
05-1: Oh so you haven't read the new scp 1025 files. The book was destroyed in a fire accident, the 1025 now is a... skeleton wizard of sorts.
Nanku: Okay then... when would 1025 arrive>
05-1: According to our calculations he should be there in about 2 minutes.
Munru: I don't see anything approaching us on all of our radars.
Just as Munru finishes his sentence, a singular dot appears on their long range radar and quickly closes in on their location. Feeling the change in the wind, the samsara looks up to see a large shadow passing over their heads. A humongous dragon made of stone soars through the sky as a figure drops down from it falling down at extreme speed. The figure crashes hard into the ground next to them kicking up a massive cloud of dust. The dust slowly clears reveal a skeleton clad in inky bone armor with white lining holding a green energy blade stabbed into the ground. Yosif has arrived at the site and he dusts himself off while walking towards the samsara members.
Yosif: Ah you must be mtf tau-5, i'm scp 1025 but you can call me Yosif.
Irantu: We're glad you could join us though i must ask, why did 05 let you go on this mission?
Yosif: Oh they didn't, this is all my idea and it's not like they can stop me. Not to mention how they owe me a lot for all the deeds i have done for the Foundation.
Onru: Such as?
Yosif: Let's see... Neutralized 2 scps anomalous properties, turn 2 hostile scps passive, terminated another 2 dangerous scps and last but not least... i scared the daylight out of 682.
Nanku: THE 682? How could you have scared one of the most resilient creature out there?
Yosif: I used abstract pain instead of physical pain, he's not recovering from that experience anytime soon... Anyway, we have a job to do and people to save so let's go.
Munru: just a second. What are the extent of your abilities?
Yosif: Oh that reminds me, i have yet to call in the additional additional reinforcements.
The samsara were confused at Yosif's words as the ground in front of them cracks open. Multiple knights with tower shields and swords crawl out forming a squads after squads entering scp 1730. Column of azure and orange flames burst from the ground and out walks the endless paladins and phantoms taking position next to Yosif. Samsara though lacking in emotions being cyborgs couldn't help but marvel at the sheer numbers of troops marching in the death trap.
Yosif: That should be enough, Sparky will continue circling around the facility and will be picking up survivors from within the site. Remember, your lives also matter so don't go doing reckless shit, just tell me if something is up, i'll try to take care of it.
Without further delay, the samsara along Yosif and his endless elites descend the stairs after the recon knights. Long winding passages after another all have writings made in blood asking what happened to site 13 and there's even an ominous phrase telling them not to look at the walls. The samsara focus on mapping the layout of the facilities, recovering data from damaged equipment and tracking the survivors while Yosif's forces focus on intercepting threats. It wasn't until a one certain hallway that Yosif abruptly halted.
Yosif: Something's wrong.
Irantu: What is it? And who's that figure in the shadows over there?
Yosif: That's not someone.
Onru shines her flashlight onto the spot the figure was standing at to reveal a corpse merged into the wall. The writings on the walls seemed off too and she sent images of it to site command for analysis. Luckily by doing that, they were able to recognize those writings as cognito hazards and activates their protective visors. Yosif looks further into the darkness and draws his sword as the endless elites go into defensive positions.
Yosif: Multiple knights have just died ahead of us, get ready for combat!
A humanoid entity trudges down the other end of the hallway with its long extended arms clawing after the floor. Each steps it takes distorts the surroundings, morphing the walls as if they were water. Samsara opens fire on the entity but that proved useless as the bullets seemingly stopped mid-air around it and falls to the ground. The paladins corrode the floor to try and slow it down as the phantoms start throwing fireballs at it. Yosif knows what this thing is capable of and its properties so instead he uses dark energy bolts to push it back which is somewhat effective though the anomaly is slowly approaching. Nanku quickly improvises as she pulls out a reality anchor and activates it. A brief flash of red lights the hallway up as the scp flickers for a moment before entirely disappearing.
Yosif: Ok i have good news and bad news, which do you prefer first?
Onru: The bad news please.
Yosif: Okay... Bad news is that i ran out of knights, the rest have just been killed by a powerful entity that is basically a god of nightmares that is only a few rooms from here. Good news is that i have the exact location of where the survivors are which just happens to be a barricaded room which can only be accessed by passing the god of nightmares.
Irantu: Is this scp actively hostile, can we bypass it?
Yosif: Fortunately, it doesn't actively hunts us, at least not that i know of. The thing is a just a massive cognito hazard so look at the walls when we get there and follow my lead.
Upon reaching the room that contained the many limbs glyph face abomination, samsara did as they were instructed and hugged the walls while closely sticking together with the endless elites. They ignored the grinding of stone and the scream that echoed from the creature in the center of the room and swiftly enters the next room to look for the survivors. It wasn't hard to spot the only door with lights on as they proceed to extract the survivors. However, they did make a mistake of letting a paladin coming up first instead of the samsara.
Inside, Hollis was questioning the scientists along Ross when she heard movements outside the room. Quietly, she orders her squad and Apollo-3 to ready their weapons as she carefully peeks outside the door. Outside was a large armored skeleton having a skull with 2 horns covered in blue flames holding a crimson greataxe. She haven't encountered such an scp on her way down here but she can tell it's dangerous so she ducked beneath the door and tries to wait it out. Several knocks came further increasing the tension in the room. The metallic footsteps seemed to be moving away from the door making everybody breath a sigh of relief... until the card reader beeps as the door opens (one of the samsara hacked the door). Hollis tells the scientists to take cover as the 2 mtf squads open fire upon the skeleton. The skeleton receiving the hail of lead was heavily injured with bits of its skull shattered but otherwise was still alive though now it's on its knees. Hollis and the others reload their guns to finish it off until another figure walks in from the door, this being Irantu as the rest of the samsara walks in.
Hollis: Rescue? Finally, what took you so long? Why aren't you doing anything to that scp?
Irantu: captain Hollis... that scp belongs the rescue force.
Hollis: EXCUSE ME WHAT?
At this Yosif and the rest of his endless elites also enter the room as he begins healing the wounded paladin.
Ross: You're telling me that ALL of them are aiding us?
Yosif: Just so you know pal, i have more clearance level than you and i don't appreciate the assumptions you're making about us.
Ross: Yeah right, the Foundation would never hire scps and even then what are you? Head of Security?
Yosif: Yes, i've been working at site 17 for more than 4 weeks now.
Hollis: Hold up... You're officially hired and are payed by the Foundation?
Yosif: Well yes but actually no, they don't pay me anything other than clearance level really.
Munru: Now that we have located the survivors, what are our next objectives?
Yosif: There's still a whole lot of dangerous shits down here such the crystal butterflies and the bodies in the water. But the worst one being the gate guardian, the deer and the leech boy which we will have to get through to exit the facility.
Hollis: So we're screwed either way?
Yosif: Not if i can help it, my troops will take care of the butterflies and the bodies for you and i will personally handle the leech boy. The gate guardian and the deer should still be contained within the olympian class cells so we should be fine. Make your way to Sparky as soon as possible, i don't plan on leaving this place if you know what i'm implying.
Ross: First of all, who the heck is Sparky? Second of all, what are you trying to do?
Yosif: While there's a chance that i could completely kill leech boy, there's still that god of nightmares dwelling here along some devastating keters so i'm going to activate the thresher and eliminate this facility from our very world. And just so you know, Sparky is my dragon, he should be big enough to carry all of you back to the extraction site.
Onru: I see... Though it have only been a short time that we have met... it has been pleasure working with you.
Yosif: Thanks i guess... Now off you go! There's no time to lose!
The group of survivors along samsara are then escorted by the endless elites who are carving a path through all of the obstacles. Upon entering the large empty olympian cell, Yosif urges the others to head to exit with the escort as he makes a final stand. Soon after, the room quakes as a massive monstrosity rises from the floors. It screeches with its jaw filled with sharp fangs as it glares at Yosif with its multiple blood red eyes and thrashes around using its many tentacles. The survivors has finally reached the surface as an explosion shakes the facility and an ear piercing shriek could be heard from below. They quickly boards Sparky as it carries them to the evac point. Hollis looks back one final time at site 13 as a blinding white light engulf the whole area. Next thing she knows, everything was gone... only a void of a crater was left behind. She felt a little guilty as she has almost killed one of the elites, the ones who have saved her from that nightmare and even more so that she didn't thank Yosif before they left.
05-addendum
Although the mission to scp 1730 has completed its intended purpose of rescuing the survivors and even neutralizing the subject, the result was considered a failure for they have suffered a major loss of scp 1025. scp 1025 was one of the most useful scp to the Foundation and is still so after his termination. The forces left behind scp 1025 exist even without him and only follows direct commands from the 05 council not including Dr Bright. Their usefulness and abilities have earned them the privilege of being established as mtf Alpha-2 otherwise known as requiem being on the same level as mtf Alpha-1 otherwise known as Red Right Hand. Scps subjects that have interacted with 1025 has reacted poorly when they knew his death. 053, 105, 166, 191 and 953 all showed signs of severe depression afterwards and needed 4 months of therapy to recover. They feel somewhat better when scp 1025-1 replicates scp 1025's cooking though they describe it as "just not the same". Save for scp 682 who expressed immense joy unbefitting of its normal behavior when it received the news and laughed for a full day before resuming to its ordinary attitude. To honor the service of 1025, the 05 council has dedicated this day each year to be his funeral where all personnel are allowed a day off and are to pay their respect at a shrine of 1025 made in his old room.
Total inventory:
Ascended Wraith set
Enchanted runic sword
Diadem of supreme arcane might
76 copper 53 silver 39000 gold
Current familiars:
- Sergei the Skeleton Paladin