Super God: The Foundation, Starting by Inventing SCP

[Genos: @Monster King Orochi, why are you explaining so much? Are you scared?]

[Ash: Is it possible the Foundation knows our worlds' coordinates? Otherwise, why would they say they'd hold so many factions accountable?]

[Naruto: Makes sense!]

[Luffy: Makes sense!]

[...]

Ash's comment was like the child in The Emperor's New Clothes. It shattered every faction's illusions, exposing the cruel truth they refused to admit...

It laid that truth bare before them.

They could no longer deceive themselves. They had to face it head-on.

The factions that had secretly sent people to explore the Demon Slayer World were especially terrified.

They scrambled to distance themselves, praying that if the SCP Foundation found no evidence of their expeditions, they might escape the reckoning to come.

Just then, a smaller window appeared in the upper-right corner of the screen. Dr. Calvin appeared in it and spoke.

"What happened in the Demon Slayer World had an exceptionally grave impact."

"After deliberation, the Foundation authorized me to present the records on the Containment Object SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant)!"

As soon as Dr. Calvin finished speaking, a sickening image appeared in the smaller window.

Clusters of human-shaped flesh had rooted themselves across the buildings, turning a bustling city of skyscrapers into a sea of meat!

Anyone who saw the image felt a discomfort that reached into their very soul.

Their instincts screamed at them to look away.

Then lines of information about SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), appeared in the upper-right corner of the image!

[Name]: Hateful Flesh!

[Designation]: SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (original version).

[Classification]: Keter.

[Description]: SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (original form), is a contagious disease that can infect any flesh-and-blood organism. Scar-like tissue appears on an infected subject's skin until it covers the entire body.

The masses of flesh grow rapidly and irregularly, spreading the infection to other objects and forming vast colonies of flesh.

After reading the information,

Morgana froze, then blurted out, "SCP-610, Hateful Flesh, is actually a contagious disease."

"The Foundation's Containment Objects really come in all kinds."

"I'd love to join the Foundation and see more of them."

"I thought I knew so much before. I had no idea how narrow my world was."

As she marveled at it, more text appeared over the image.

[Experiments show that SCP-610, Hateful Flesh, can spread not only through ordinary means but also through an unknown route.]

[It is believed that, once inside an infected area, a person will become infected if they believe they are infected!]

Everyone in the livestream went still.

What the hell?

Enter an infected area, believe you were infected, and you would become infected? Was this another conceptual ability?

These Containment Objects were downright unnatural.

Why did every one of them seem to have a conceptual ability?

Just as the viewers were growing numb from the shock of these eerie, unpredictable abilities,

new information appeared!

[Once SCP-610, Hateful Flesh, has infected every flesh-and-blood organism in an area, it becomes dormant, settles in a location it considers suitable, and begins to take root.]

[The fleshy tissue growing on its victims then spreads to nearby objects on its own.]

[According to the Doctor's research, the colonies are creating an environment suitable for mutation. The process takes time, but if left alone, they will eventually mutate into Hateful Flesh.]

[SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), which caused the mutation of the Demon Slayer World, evolved from the original SCP-610, Hateful Flesh.]

[It can infect every living being in a world by eroding its Heavenly Principle barrier.]

[Furthermore, if a flesh-and-blood organism enters that world and later returns to its own,]

[then believing it has contracted SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), is enough for the infection to spread to the Heavenly Principle Will of its home world.]

[The Doctor believes this transmissibility is a conceptual-level ability.]

Everyone watching the livestream was stunned.

Those who had sent people to the Demon Slayer World hoping to pick up easy gains were especially shaken. I really had some nerve back then!

Ignorance is bliss—that was me, all right.

I actually tried to scavenge in a world containing a Containment Object. I might as well have swallowed poison!

There's reckless, and then there's what I did!

Just then, the image faded, and Dr. Calvin appeared on the screen again. "We believe the Demon Slayer World's mutation did not occur naturally."

"Someone caused it deliberately!"

"Their goal was to contaminate the entire Super God Universe."

"As for who was responsible?"

Dr. Calvin paused, then continued. "With authorization, the Doctor in charge of the base used an SCP Containment Object."

"Even so, he could not find the culprits! All we can confirm is that they are an evil organization from outside the universe calling themselves the Sarkic Cult."

"The space beyond the universe is not safe!"

"Take care of yourselves!"

With that, Dr. Calvin vanished from the livestream.

He was gone, but his words echoed through everyone's minds like a thunderclap. For a long time, no one spoke.

When they finally recovered, frantic discussion erupted in the livestream!

[Sengoku: An evil organization like that exists outside the Super God Universe? They sound like an organization similar to the Foundation. But the Foundation protects us, while they...]

[Morgana: I really was blind to how much lay beyond me. I thought I stood at the pinnacle of the universe, but there's always a higher sky. @Holy Kesha, I've abandoned the Order of the Fallen!]

[I'm going to Earth to study. We don't need to fight anymore!]

[Holy Kesha: Are you admitting defeat?]

[Morgana: You bitch! I haven't admitted defeat. I certainly haven't lost to your Order of Justice. I'm only saying my Order of the Fallen was wrong!]

[But your Order of Justice isn't right either!]

[A bitch is still a bitch!]

[Aizen: The Sarkic Cult, the Foundation... My view of the world has collapsed in just a few months. I need to get to know it all over again!]

[Hiruzen Sarutobi: So do I! Also, I suspect the SCP Foundation isn't native to Earth. It may also come from outside the universe.]

[Earth may be only one of its branches.]

[Blast: I agree. From what I've seen and heard, the multiverse does exist!]

[Red-Haired Shanks: I'm exhausted. Let it all end. I'm embarrassed to call myself one of the Four Emperors now.]

[Luffy: @Red-Haired Shanks, can you give me your title as one of the Four Emperors?]

[Kaipu: Luffy! Are you asking for a beating?]

[...]

As everyone grappled with how small Dr. Calvin's words had made them feel, something the SCP-049 Plague Doctor said on the livestream drew their attention back!

The SCP-049 Plague Doctor walked up to the Heavenly Principle Will, studied the writhing mass of flesh, and said in a raspy voice tinged with disappointment,

"I thought I had finally identified the source of the pestilence."

"But you, too, are a carrier of the 'pestilence'!"

"Ah!"

Then the SCP-049 Plague Doctor's voice rose with sudden excitement. Staring straight at the mass of flesh and the Heavenly Principle Will, he declared, "You are all carriers of the pestilence."

"I must stop it from spreading!"

"It is my duty!"

"You must accept my treatment!"

"You must!"

As he spoke, the SCP-049 Plague Doctor reached his withered right hand toward SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), under the gaze of everyone watching.

The viewers held their breath.

They wanted to see whether the SCP-049 Plague Doctor could kill SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), for good. They had seen what his conceptual ability could do before...

They knew the power of that ability to erase its target.

But this target was no ordinary person. It was another Containment Object.

Two Containment Objects were about to clash head-on!

Who would win? No one could say!

With every viewer watching intently, the SCP-049 Plague Doctor gently pressed his right index finger against the writhing SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant)!

This time, things were completely different!

Instead of being erased at once, SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), fought back fiercely. Great clumps of flesh surged up the SCP-049 Plague Doctor's right hand...

and spread rapidly across his body.

In the blink of an eye, they swallowed the SCP-049 Plague Doctor, forming a revolting mass of flesh over two meters tall.

Its surface writhed. Grotesque, twisted human faces appeared and vanished across it, releasing piercing cries of anguish...

The cries sounded strangely like those of SCP-096, Shy Guy!

Listen closely, though, and amid the anguished wailing came the SCP-049 Plague Doctor's increasingly agitated, raspy voice.

"Damn it!"

"I'm treating you! Why won't you just cooperate?"

"I'm a doctor!"

"Listen to me!"

"Accept the treatment already!"

The cries of the flesh mass formed by SCP-610, Hateful Flesh (Heavenly Principle variant), mingled with the SCP-049 Plague Doctor's angry shouts inside it...

Their voices echoed endlessly through the strange space.

The viewers began to think the two would remain locked together, neither able to overcome the other, and end in a draw.

Then the mass of flesh shuddered violently.

Under the viewers' astonished gazes, it rapidly withered, crumbled into ash, and fell to the ground! The SCP-049 Plague Doctor appeared before them again, his voice carrying a hint of excitement.

"I told you—you were a carrier of the 'pestilence'!"

"You should have simply accepted treatment!"

"But you had to resist!"

"I was only trying to help you!"

At that, the excitement in the SCP-049 Plague Doctor's voice dwindled and vanished, replaced by deep regret.

"My medical skills are still lacking!"