Control is Everything(6)

Molly was simply standing on the facility's rooftop as she grabbed the rails in front of her, taking in the view of the clear skies and the crisp air. 

She was in a nice environment that wasn't too hot or cold; it was just right. That is, until she heard footsteps coming up behind her. She recognized it was Lawrence when she turned around. 

Molly said, "Hi, Lawrence."

He smiled at her and said, "Hi, Molly." He casually asks, "So, how was work?" while holding the railings alongside her as they stand next to each other.

"Tiresome, but bearable nonetheless." She replied.

"Did you have help?" 

"Rodeo and Dr.Buck might have helped a little. It's been a crazy time for both of us and the rest of the staff at the foundation." 

"Yeah, but we faced those crazy times head on and are still here."

Molly nodded in agreement, "Even Dr. Buck, Rodeo and the team have been a rock through all of these insane and bizarre events."

"But the kid still has a long way to go when it comes to leadership and responsibility." Lawrence added.

"Well at least he's trying his best and his team is supporting him as well through the toughest situations, including Dr. Buck."

"I'm still having a hard time processing that she's acting differently. She's not that same stone cold doctor anymore. Are you sure she's even the real Dr. Buck?" He asked jokingly.

"Come on, Lawrence. She's a really nice person if you get to know her much like how Rodeo has been doing."

"If you say so."

"You know..." Molly started off another topic, "I was wondering if we should take some time off from the foundation."

"Starting to get bored here?"

"Lawrence, summer is just a few months away and everyone needs some sort of vacation, but we've been working hard here at the foundation without getting a good time off, especially you, Lawrence. So getting bored here-... no, but both of us need a time of relaxation, yes."

"I thought the same thing."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Well, at least we agree on some points."

Lawrence stares at Molly for a while, takes a deep breath, and then begins to take action, "Listen Molly, I came to look for you here for a reason."

Molly gave her curious reaction, "Oh! What exactly?" 

Meanwhile, Evan was standing by the door leading to the rooftop, listening to their conversation. 

"This is perfect. No one can ruin this moment at all!" He muttered underneath his breath, smiling at the drama. Continuing to stare at them, he looks at you readers and crosses his arms in an X shape in a true Joseph Joestar fashion. 

"Nice!" 

After jokingly taking this strange pose, he continued to listen to the conversation.

"Molly, we've known each other for years, since we were at the foundation." Lawrence said, "I've been through a lot of stuff and came back to you alive, but it always made you worried. We know that with SCPs roaming every corner of the planet, it's a bit difficult to lead a normal life.

"That's right."

"But I don't care about the dangers of the world, because I will protect you and make you happy no matter what... because I love you."

"Lawrence, where are you going with this?" Molly smiled crookedly as she felt her cheeks heatel, and she braced herself for what was to come.

Smiling at her expression, Lawrence continues, "I want to take the next step for both of us. Would you like to take that next step with me?"

"Of course. Wherever you go, I'll go too. Whatever happens. Because I love you too. And I will never leave you... never."

Lawrence kneels in front of Molly and slowly pulls out a small box and holds it out in front of her. Molly couldn't help but put her hands together in anticipation. 

He slowly opens the box and Lawrence finally declares.

"Molly Collingwood... will you-"

Before he could finish his sentence and as the box fully opens...

Rrrrrrrrrrr!

Suddenly, a humanoid on a motorcycle pops out of the box and flies over Molly in slow motion.

"What the hell?!" They both shouted in slow motion.

As soon as the slow motion stops, the humanoid and the motorcycle lands a few meters away from them, facing each other. Anticipating another group to spoil this damn moment, Evan quickly opened the door and looked at who the humanoid was. Revealing to be...

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Born this Way. 

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"..."

"Who are you?! Are you friend or foe?!" Evan asks, looking intently at Born This Way. But the only answer he got was silence.

"..."

"Oh we're playing the quiet game, huh?"

"..."

"Fine. I'll play it your way."

Evan slowly approaches the Stand and retrieves ten knives from his pocket. However, before he can engage in battle, a humanoid suddenly comes out behind the door, revealing to be the boss of the Stand faction as he runs towards Evan. 

"LOOK OUT!" Molly yells out when she spotted him.

Turning around immediately, Evan's eyes widened in surprise and before he could activate his time stop, the boss punched a hole in his chest, causing Evan to cough up copious amounts of blood. 

"EVAN!" The two yelled at the impaled Evan.

Lawrence draws a Glock pistol and aims at the Boss but Born this Way uses his freezing wind ability on both of them, the strong gust of the wind then sends both of them flying off the roof but Lawrence quickly grabs the railing and grabs Molly's arm, preventing themselves from falling to the ground. Both held on for dear life. 

"Don't look down! I'll try to get you up!" Lawrence said to Molly as he used all his strength to pull himself up.

Returning to Evan, he coughed out more blood onto the floor, and as he looked intently at the boss, his expression instantly changed to both shock and horror. 

"Of-... cough! All the Stands to show up, why did it have to be you?" 

The boss ignores his words and kicks him off the roof, Evan falls heavily to the ground and lies motionless. 

Looking down at motionless Evan, the Boss muttered, "He won't be a problem... for now."

Just as the boss and Born this Way were about to move on, they noticed that Lawrence and Molly had climbed back onto the roof. Once they made it  top, they looked over the roof rails and saw Evan lying motionless on the ground. 

"...What did you do?!" Molly asked angrily at the two Stands.

"He was a threat that needed to be put out of our way. I'm sorry but it had to be done, Dr. Molly Collingwood and Agent Lawrence." Responding while ignoring their glares, the Boss continued, "Before you start approaching me with vengeance in your blood, I want to remind you that I've set some things in motion. Crossing ways, the only fate you will receive is death, for I am the person who became the Stand known as...

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"D4C."

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The Boss, who turns out to be D4C, runs to the door and hides between it and the wall while Born this Way rides through the door and down the stairs. Lawrence goes to the door and opens it, but he sees that D4C is nowhere in sight. It turns out that D4C used his Dimension leap ability to escape, which works when D4C gets in between two objects.

"Son of a bitch!" Cursing loudly, Lawrence pulled a radio from his pocket and tried to contact the rest of the team or anyone, but only heard static. No doubt that someone jammed the signals. 

"Damn it! Communications are down and we have two Stands on the loose and Evan's down." He said, full of anger and disappointment.

"...Go after them." Molly spoke out.

"Molly, I-"

"We'll talk about that later. Right now we both have a job to do. I'll go for Evan while you try to warn the site."

"Alright." Lawrence nodded at her words as he and Molly quickly ran past the doorway and headed down the stairs.

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A bit far away from Site-17, Washichi was sitting on a tree and hacking into the site-17 servers with his usual laptop. 

"Alright, I'm in the system, I also jammed their communications so you should be good to go." He said through the ear piece.

[Good. Disable the cameras and get them under your control instead and guide me.] The Boss ordered him through the ear piece.

"Hai." Washichi followed his words and started to hack into the cameras. 

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In the security room, Simmons was checking the camera feeds of Site-17 as usual, he was sitting in his chair, eating some donuts until suddenly all the camera feeds stopped and went offline.

"Oh no!" Simmons yelped and tried to fix this, but then, he noticed something coming out of the vents. Something reptilian. 

"Well shit."

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In the third floor of the site, Agent Carson and Agent Ramsey were walking down the corridor, on their guard duty as usual until alarms began to ring throughout the site. 

[All foundation personnel be advised. Several unknown hostiles have been detected at the site. All-]

Suddenly, the P.A system started making static noises, which was unusual, but then a new voice spoke from it.

[Queen's Requiem and SCP Foundation.] The voice spoke, which turned out to be the Boss, or D4C as he announced not only the third floor, but the whole facility. [You don't know me but I know what the foundation is and what the foundation is meant for. Protecting humanity, so that it might have a bright future... no... no. You MTFs, scientists, researchers, guards and employees think you are doing something great, but no you're not.]

Hearing the person's words caught the attention of everyone from the researchers to the Scp Guards in the facility as they began to listen to what he had to say next.

[You're no heroes. Nor are you villains. You're just delayers and killers trying to prevent the doomsday clock from hitting zero. You have no control of this world's faith and the SCPs themselves. That's why you are delaying the inevitable from happening and that's why the cycle of continuous testing, researching and throwing D-class to their deaths still keeps on going. You silence those who try to speak the truth just like how the O5 silenced Dr. Bright's father who just wanted to fix his children... for the sake of humanity. Some great job they're doing and some great job you're all doing.] 

People could hear the applause, realizing the man clapping his hands in approval, but that was just him being sarcastic.

[Besides, I also know every little detail about every person who works here. Some of you have done good things and some have done some pretty bad and inhumane as well for the sake of humanity. Pay attention to the vents.]

Suddenly, several files and papers fell from the vents all over the site and fell to the floor. All files and papers contain the names and records of all Site-17 researchers, scientists, guards, MTF agents and soldiers in Site-17. In addition, it also contained the truth behind certain foundation policies. 

"Ok, now this is just crazy on so many levels." Carson said, looking at all the papers in front of him.

"Tell me about it." Ramsay said simply.

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On the 4th floor, the D-classes were all in their cells and listening to D4C, seeing files and papers popping out the vents, some D4C clones suddenly appeared under their cell beds, startling most of the D-classes. 

The D4C clones then showed them a document regarding the foundation's policies for D-classes.

[The foundation policy clearly states that should D-class personnel survive for a full 30 or 31 days in the Foundation they will be released, but that was a lie told to you through their words rather than showing you the truth. Read the documents the clones are showing you. It's an order that acquires D-class personnel should survive for 30 days, they will not be released but rather than amenesticized and make you forget, forcing you to continue to live here again and again in a loop.]

Upon learning of this revelation, many D-classes across the entire 4th floor began to have negative feelings, and some started to take action.

[The foundation is full of liars. There is no freedom for you here or redemption and most of you think you were framed but in fact, some of those were done by the foundation to increase the number of D-class more, and for all rookie guards, MTFs, researchers, staff and scientists should you try to backstab the foundation, you will be turned into a D-class or better yet extinguished. Quite a cold blooded thing for the O5 council to do to your staff that it makes me want to vomit.]

Now that the D-class were not satisfied with this fact, they started to break open their cells but with them made of steel, it was difficult for them, however, the clones of D4Cs opened a hole in the door using soldering iron they got from their own parallel world. 

With that,  D-class started attacking nearby guards and MTFs with rage in their minds while the D4C clones started their attack on the Foundation by stealing weapons from the guards and MTF and started to get themselves armed. 

[SCP foundation, you are all killers. You are all liars. You have no control over the fate of humanity. If you had real control then you could have changed the world by now but no, you are just delaying death from approaching you. The world cannot be at peace if certain things, decisions and fate itself aren't controlled. D-class, you must control your fate and free yourself from the hands of these monsters! Because you are the ones in control. Not those liars!]

This infuriated the D-class even more and they continued to violently attack the guards and MTFs while the D4C clones started firing at the guards and MTFs with the weapons they obtained. 

[I also have a question for all the monsters working in the foundation. Who really controls the upcoming events of this site? Me or you?]

With this one question, the P.A system stops working. Meanwhile, Agent Sophia and Sgt. Johnson was also in the D-class block trying to deal with the problem. 

"Whoever this guy is knows exactly what he's doing!" Sophia shouted as she took cover and fired back at the D4Cs and at the rioting D-classes.

Johnson agreed what Sophia said as he shoots alongside her, but still, the situation they were in is getting uncomfortable, "We don't have time to-"

"RUNAWAY GUYS!"

Hearing a terrifying scream, Sophia and Johnson turned to find Simmons being chased by dozens of small sized velociraptors. Undoubtedly the work of Scary Monsters. 

"PLEASE HELP ME!"

"Here we go again." Sophia sighed wearily.. Unbeknownst to them, Scary monsters in half human and half dinosaur form were looking at them while hiding in the vents. 

"Wryyyyyy." Scary Monsters growled and headed further, and moved deeper down the vents.