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Chapter 144 - Control is Everything(8)

In the armory, a number of MTF soldiers and SCP guards were gearing themselves up and were preparing to move toward the D-class cell block and other floors in an effort to maintain control of the situation. 

"Come on, men! Take what you need and hurry up. We're not sure what else that guy on the P.A. system might have in store for us!" The MTF Soldier called out to the armed men as they prepared their guns.

The floor and the armory's lights abruptly went out, triggering the emergency red lights to kick on. The enemy Stand, however, which was there in the chamber but which they could not see since they were not Stand users, caused the armory's floor to begin to rot.

"...That's not good."

As the entire floor collapsed in a second, they all plunged into the containment chamber of SCP-811, which was beneath the armory. When 811, who was submerged, spotted them, she chose to remain hidden for the time being and dove under the water.

The MTF soldiers and SCP guard who survived the fall since 811's containment chamber was a swamp so the water in the swamp softened their fall and saved them from any injuries are seen by the enemy Stand as he peers down the hole he made in the armory. The enemy Stand then observed two individuals approaching the troops and guards in hazmat suits as they entered 811's chamber. 

The enemy Stand then sensed a presence on the two individuals, a Stand presence. 

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The two people in the hazmat suits below in SCP-811's containment chamber were actually Green and Amelia. They were there to physically lock down the chamber for 811, but they didn't expect for the MTF soldiers and SCP guards to fall through the ceiling and into the chamber. 

"You guys alright?" Green questioned one of the soldiers and guards.

The SCP Guard begins to speak, "We'll live, but the rest of the floors are in chaos and..." but stops himself when he sees 811 emerge from the water, "The hell?!"

Turning around, Green and Amelia noticed 811 standing up from the water, but they also noticed a scratch mark on her left shoulder. Many little velociraptors appeared next to her all of a sudden, yet they did not start attacking her.

"811?" Amelia asked the SCP in confusion.

"...He..lp."

"WRRRYYYYYY!"

The shriek could be heard reverberating throughout the chamber, but from where, they weren't sure. 811 started morphing into something different in front of them. Her face and body started to change and she became a Dilophosaurus. It turned out that the scratch mark she received was caused by the raptors infecting her with the dinosaur virus. An ability of Scary Monsters. 

(Author: Remember that scene in Jurassic Park 1993 where the fat guy gets attacked inside a jeep wrangler by a dinosaur that showed its neck frills similar to a frilled-necked lizard. Yeah, that's called a Dilophosaurus.) 

The Dinosaur 811 screeched at the group and had her neck frills as a way to look intimidating while the raptors started to slowly approach them menacingly. 

"...An SCP turning into a dinosaur? That's something." Green remarked as he took a step back.

Amelia glanced around and noticed something, "We might have more problems, Thomas."

Looking in the same direction as Amelia, Green noticed that the MTF soldiers and SCP guards who had been with them not long ago had been transformed into velociraptors by the small-sized raptors while they were distracted in watching 811.

"Cerberus!"

"Locked Away!" 

They took their stances as their Stands manifested beside them. But then, Cerberus' ears perked up as he noticed something phasing through the left wall before fully revealed itself. It was the enemy Stand with the bright white eyes. 

"War."

"Brilliant. Now we have even more problems," Green said as he observed the Stand that Cerberus had detected.

When Amelia turned to the direction where Green face, she noticed the enemy Stand and asked, "Why is that thing giving off a similar presence to... a Stand?" Her eyes widened as she realized what it was: "Green, that is an enemy Stand."

"I figured as much."

As the dinosaurs and the enemy Stand continued to shortened the distance between them, the two Stands were kept close to one another. Six shurikens were thrown at them by the enemy Stand, but Cerberus and Locked Away quickly diverted them with their fists. Two of the shurikens did, however, hit the visors of their hazmat suits and became stuck on the glass; fortunately, they missed hitting their heads and did not pierce through their helmets any further.

"Phew." They both sighed in relief.

Suddenly the shurikens stuck on their helmets started to decay the suits, reacting quickly, they hurriedly removed the suits and watched as the suits decay and crumble into pieces. 

'So it's the same type of ability as SCP-106. Decaying organic and inorganic things until they crumble or rot.' Amelia thought

"RUN FOR IT!" Green shouted as he and Amelia ran through the swamp as the dinosaurs and the enemy Stand chased after them. 

"Why are we running?!"

"I think that if those dinos scratch us we turn into them because 811 got the scratch and didn't get attacked by the small raptors before turning into a dilophosaurus, including the soldiers and guards into raptors!"

"How can you be sure?" 

"I'm just sure. Trust me."

"Alright, but we can't just keep on running, especially with that Stand's decay ability."

When Green and Amelia were about to reach the exit, Dinosaur 811 jumped out of the water and tried to scratch Green at close range with its claws but got immediately uppercutted by Cerberus and was sent flying towards a tree and crashing into it. After dealing with it, Cerberus throws ice kunai spears at the MTF soldiers and SCP guards who turned into raptors at bullet speed in order to hit their legs and freeze them in place but suddenly they dodged it like it was nothing. 

'They dodged it?! Even though Cerberus threw them at the speed of a bullet?!' Green thought in surprise.

Turns out, this is an ability called Dynamic Vision that Scary Monsters and the infected individuals turned dinosaurs have. So long as the attack is fast, they can perceive, predict and precisely dodge fast attacks, but if the attack move slower, they can't dodge them precisely. Just like how Dinosaur 811 was not able to perceive an uppercut from Cerberus that was slow since dinosaur 811 was close to Green and Cerberus had to decrease the speed in his uppercut in order to not by mistakenly kill dinosaur 811.

At that moment, several Raptors jumped towards them ready to claw them up but Cerberus quickly punched the ground and made a wall of ice, blocking against their attacks. But the enemy Stand simply jumps over the wall and heads for Green. 

The enemy Stand slashed down his claws but Cerberus came in front of Green and blocked the attack with an ice sword, but then the Stand grabbed Cerberus' wrist and started to decay it. However, he spotted Locked Away coming towards him ready to do a right hook, he quickly let go of Cerberus' wrist and back flips away from her attack and lands on top of a tree branch. 

The Raptors ran towards them again but this time Cerberus freezes the water they were running on, the water freezes and the Raptors feet get stuck in the ice making them unable to move for now. The Dinosaur 811 gets up and runs towards Amelia while the enemy Stand jumps off the tree and lands on the ground and runs towards Green. 

Locked Away appears beside Amelia and dinosaur 811 tries to attack her but saw Locked Away coming with a fast right jab which dinosaur 811 could see so it dodged the attack easily before firing an acid shot from it mouth at Amelia but Locked Away pulls her out of the way and the acid shot at a tree trunk, melting it instantly, causing the entire tree to collapse on the ground. 

Firing three more shots at Amelia, she quickly moved left and right with the help of her Stand and managed to avoid them all. Meanwhile Cerberus was parrying multiple slash attacks from the enemy Stand's claws with his fire curved sword. Then, before Green or his Stand could react, the enemy Stand kicked him in the chest, making him take a few steps back before slashing his chest horizontally, leaving a slash mark on his chest which started decaying the skin off his chest a little bit before the decay process stopped.

The enemy Stand was about to attack him again but Cerberus switched to electricity and started firing electricity bolts at him which the enemy Stand started to dodge by flipping left and right. 

Grunting in pain due to feeling the damage from his Stand, Green mumbled, "So those shurikens and hands of his can decay anything, but the way his decay ability works is different. The user also might be here or far away and this Stand has been continuously dodging my attacks, which means it could be weak. Then it must be a weak long range Stand."

As the enemy Stand jumps in the air, it throwed multiple shurikens not at Cerberus but Amelia and Locked Away. 

"Amelia! Heads up!"

Catching the shurikens in her sights, Amelia proceeds to run towards dinosaur 811 who was running towards her, once their distance is a few feet from each other, she slides between its legs and gets behind it, only for the shurikens hit dinosaur 811. 

Not wanting to lose 811, Locked Away quickly removes the shurikens from Dinosaur 811's body before it could decay her. At the same time, Locked away use her ability on putting locks on its body to prevent Dinosaur 811 from moving.

Returning to Green, he saw the enemy Stand kneel down and touch the ground, causing the entire ground of the chamber they were standing on to decay. 

"Son of a-"

Cutting his sentence off, the entire floor breaks apart and they start falling down, Green, Amelia and Dinosaur 811 crash on face first on the floor of a catwalk of some containment chamber, breaking some bones in their body in the process. 

Green was the one to first get up and hold his left shoulder in pain, he saw Amelia and dinosaur 811 lying on the floor of the catwalk they were on. He approached the both of them and checked their pulse. Thankfully, they were alive. 

"They're all right." Green sighs in relief. 

Looking up to see the hole in the ceiling which was made by the enemy Stand in the 811's containment chamber by decaying the ground of it. He looked at the front to see the velociraptors, staring at him from the hole alongside with someone else, which he gazed at him through the hole. He could only see the silhouette of the person but it looked half human and half dinosaur. 

It was Scary Monsters. 

Though Green couldn't get a good look at Scary Monsters' face due to them being far away, he could tell it wasn't human.

"Wrrrrryyyy."

With an animalistic growl, Scary Monsters and the Raptors left. Turning around, Green then saw Dinosaur 811 was not in her place, but he then spotted her entering the vent that was at the end of the right side of the steel catwalk. Never to be seen again. 

All of a sudden, Green heard a roar and looked over the railings of the catwalk to see a hydrochloric acid pool below and saw a highly chained up and restrained SCP-682, also known as the 'Hard-to-Kill-Reptile' in it. Luckily the catwalk he was on was high enough and far away from the pool so he didn't have to worry. 

Hearing a grunt, Green saw Amelia regaining consciousness, which he quickly checked on her and asked, "You alright, Amelia?"

"Yeah. Just broke some bones I think. Where are we?" 

"682's containment chamber."

"And 811?" 

"Alive, but it escaped through the vents."

"I see."

As Amelia got up from the floor, she suddenly collapsed on the floor holding her right leg in pain. 

"Easy Amelia. We both took quite the fall. Tell me what's the problem?"

She grunted in pain, holding one of her legs, "I think the fall dislocated my right leg."

Green was about to help her out when he noticed the cat walk was starting to rust and decay. His eyes widen, and he rapidly carries Amelia in bridal style to the door at the end of the runway, where he quickly opens it before rushing inside. 

Turning around, they both witnessed the entire catwalk crumble and collapse into pieces and fall to the pool of acid below. They both turned to face the enemy Stand, which he could be seen standing at the very end of the catwalk, located on the opposite side of the containment chamber.

"Who are you?!"

Catching Green's words, the enemy Stand responded, "I am a long range sentient Stand known as Price of Decay. Whatever I touch or my shurikens make contact with will decay and make you crumble into pieces because that is the price that everyone pays from my decay ability." he said in an Italian accent, but his voice felt like various people were talking at the same time.

He continued, "The boss and his allies, including me, have already entered the facility. Although my user is not here in the facility he can see and hear everything that I'm seeing. Even if you compete with me and defeat me, you'll find the boss more troublesome than all of us combined. This facility is now his playground."

"I'll take a guess your boss is the one who spoke through the P.A. system. Correct?" Amelia asked.

"Yes."

As the two converse, 682 who was listening to their conversation and is able to see Price of Decay due to him being able to see it with his special eyes, he chuckled in amusement.

"So the site is under attack, huh? How amusing."

Halting their actions, Price of Decay, Green and Amelia looked down and noticed 682 staring at them from below.

"You can see me?" Price of Decay said in disbelief.

"Of course you fool. I can see you as clear as day." 682 replied. He turned to Amelia's direction and greeted her benevolently, "Dr. Buck, it's been a long time since we last saw each other. When was it, hmm... Ah! Yes, when I killed most of the primates here a year back and you... didn't show fear. Just a cold glare, but before I could kill you I was captured and contained again by your so-called Mobile Task Force, especially the infamous 'Nine-Tailed Fox', the ones that most SCPs feared."

He continued, "I'm not sure if it's just me but I don't sense that cold heart in you anymore for some reason. It's more... kindhearted." Saying in bewilderment, he then lets out a chuckle, "And we know it's always the kindest of people who die quicker."

"We'll see about that." Amelia said to him coldly.

"Indeed you will."

Cutting into their conversation, Price of Decay declared, "Let me remind all three of you that we have freed some SCPs and the forces of the hell dimension you contained. But we didn't free 106, 035 and this lizard here because it would be too dangerous and risky since they are the biggest bad boys in the SCP Foundation and their madness is destructive."

"You're crazy! Lots of people in the Foundation will get killed!" Green shouted at him angrily.

"Well my friend, sometimes you need to do a bit of bad to do some good for the future of the new world. A controlled world which the boss wants to make and that will be done once we get what we need."

"...You're after the Arrow, aren't you?" Amelia said.

"Oh! So now you figured it out. I thought you were smart?"

"She's smarter than you think." Green said.

"Whatever." Price of Decay muttered, he then glanced back at 682 and said, "The boss knows what you are lizard and your bloodline connection to a very powerful world ending entity. If you try to interfere with our plans he will not hesitate in ending you or give you the worst fate possible." He threatened before looking back at Amelia and Green and added, "Same goes to you two love birds as well. See you later."

Phasing through the wall behind him, Price of Decay has left the chamber. 

"He just left?"

"They seem to be confident in their plan, human or maybe his boss might be on this floor. That's why he left you two to die... painfully." 682 chuckled deeply, "I'm not sure how powerful this boss is but against me he will have no chance because I'll just keep on regenerating and adapting. Like I always do."

"But you're stuck in your pool."

"I'll find my way out. I always do and when I do, I'll destroy everything in this world without mercy. Just you wait."

Looking at each other, Green and Amelia decided to leave, leaving 682 in his containment chamber, surrounded by a pool of acid enough to melt steel.

"All of you just wait and see. Especially when the king will rise again."