Number: 5025

Object Class: Nil

Threat Level: Nil

Containment Procedure: Nil

Description:

"A rebirthing will always imply a cycle. If you witness an end, don't be saddened. For there is a chance of a new beginning. A new cycle will have then started"

My father always liked to say this to me. This is also the last thing he said to me. He used to say he created it. It has always given me hope and strengh even in difficult times. That's probably why they have given me this task. I remember the words professor Stevens used:

"The Foundation has selected you for a mission of the upmost importance. Congratulations Richmond."

Congrats...

It's a joke. They have left me with this old terminal, an access to the database and an empty SCP-report to fill. Number 5025. Always wondered why it was empty. And in such times, all they ask me to do is to write down what is happening? For it to just disappear with everything else? Is this a test from them? Is anything just... real at last?

Oh no it's very real...

I've written dozen of files like this, but never this way. I was a lot more professional back then, never got so personal. But is doesn't really matter now, does it?

They tried so hard to make me believe that this is what will be left of us. Few words and informations, dematerialized, in a server located in god-knows-where. This is our "Legacy", sent somehow to... anywhere that will exist after that. This is what they want me to believe. This is what they want us to believe. This is without any doubt a way to keep us calm, with a goal.

"Ignorance is the perfect material for making the strings of puppets" It's from Icares Bridget. Really fitting to the situation.

Why did they change their orders at the last minute? Why didn't they stick with the original plan, even if it was delusional? I tried to know, to ask them at least, threatening that I wouldn't execute their last order if they don't tell me. Their only response was: "It comes from higher authority. Higher than what we expected."

The truth is, they don't want any personnel from the Foundation to use the powers of any SCP in a desperate, experimental way to try and counter our end. The [DATA EXPUNGED].

They are so intelligent and creative, it is frightening. It is their opportunity to get rid of all the SCPs entirely, in one go. Even if that implies mankind disappearing I presume. But then, what has been the purpose of... everything? Did we just have to wait it out? All of that for nothing?

The Cosmic Frontier is getting closer each minute, everything accelerating above the speed of light, above the speed of information.

I'm through with this. I always worked for them faithfully and even closed my eyes so many times to their horrible decisions, ethically speaking. But I won't forgive the fact that they simply decided to abandon humanity without even... I don't know, trying at least. They never even warned anybody.

They kept this secret as long as they could, until people started noticing stars and galaxies disappearing. It wasn't natural. I mean, the [DATA EXPUNGED] is logic. What is abnormal is what caused it, or, more precisely, what accelerated it.

As they told me to do, I'm putting the informations about the [DATA EXPUNGED] anyway. All that we know.

For the first time in my life, I really feel hopelessness. It doesn't even close to how people described it to me. When confronted to danger, death, people fear for their lives. "It is the biggest fear that one can feel". But i can now say that it isn't true. Knowing that nothing will be left, no matter what happened or what we did is far worse. This Cosmic Frontier is the scariest thing ever, by far. Not one SCP has put a biggest fear in my heart. Nothing can escape from it.

We were born, we feared, we love, we created, we were happy, sad, angry, hopeful... But guess what? Nothing ever mattered.

Mom,

Dad, Valentine, I love you so much, you are everything to me.