[North Canada, 8th of December, 2026]
[2:58 PM]
[Site-354]
After a couple of days, site began to look like brand new. Walls were actually getting clean, moss being torn off, blood cleaned off. There were 2 more survivors found, hiding in nearby village, they've been evacuated. Locals told that they found them shaking saying some nonsense. As a gift of kindness, the GOC forces gave them a bag of most expensive coffee in the world, however this one had a small addon, amnestics class A. They were under eye of Assessment Team "Psyche Purge" for the time being. Constant work, terrible weather, not even getting paid enough for this. Richard as well as other operatives began to protest requesting a day off but it was denied by the High Command. Cooper's duty was like always, watching the lake. Red, bloody, slime like pool. Yesterday, he got notified that the PTOLEMY researchers are making a substance to neutralise it once and for all. Suddenly, the substance inside the lake seemed to clear out a little. Cooper looked around, looking for anyone to notify however, nobody was there. He backed off a couple of steps, pointing his rifle at the lake. ``God, please, not something large-`` he was already predicting what it can be. Large wolf like hybrid from one of the logs. Luckly, it was just a red figure. Red, bloody, fleshy humanoid figure standing roughly 190 centimeters. It was almost the same one as the one he met a couple of days ago. He pointed his rifle at figure's chest, ribs, if it even had any. He fired a couple of shots, exactly 3. One hitted the creature's head, another one stomach and last one directly into the neck. The caliber blew up the fleshy parts, yet it seemed to enrage the thing. It began to run after the man as he switched to full auto mode and blasted the creature with 10 bullets penetrating the chest. It collapsed on the ground, sliced in half. The door slammed open as additional units arrived, the lake began to change colors again from light red to dark. 6 More similiar monsters came out, screaming at the operatives causing some of them to fall.
``OPEN FIRE!`` Commander shouted as the operatives opened fire with various weapons. One of the DELTA team members runned up to the outpost, grabbing the M249, loading it up and firing in the creatures. More and more of them began to come out causing GOC to fall further back. ``FUCK EM UP!`` A creature dashed forward, latching onto one of the operatives biting right into his shoulder as he slammed his bagnet right into its stomach, pushing it onto the ground before finishing it off with a foot stomp on the head. Richard barely misses attacks coming from the objects, blood splattering everywhere. He turns back to see one of the creatures running after him but being gunned down and blown into pieces by a M249 gunner. ``FRAG, OUT!`` Another unit shouted as she unpinned a frag grenade and tossed it into the lake. The lake's substance splattered everywhere, creating smaller pools in various holes in the ground. Like there was not enough trouble. Soon, the gunner got tackled onto the ground and his neck got bit.
Richard looked over to see a head rolling on the ground, he was soon knocked on the ground by a running operative. In confuse he saw one of the monsters latching onto him, in last moment he grasped the thing's mouth, trying to push it away. He thrusted his hips up, tossing the thing above before getting up, drafting his pistol, firing a couple of shots in creature's head getting it finished off. He looked around to see everyone fall back, so he followed. Captain Pavlov got his SPAS-12 blasting the creatures' brains out, using his crowbar as an close range weapon. The tiny pools soon began to release monsters. Sam, who was all the time at the nearest to the lake hill, began to mess with his watch. It appeard to be a cloaking device which was given to him by Intelligence Agency SCPF member a couple of years ago. His body got foggy and eyes blurred. He looked around to see surroundings in the same state. He walked further into the hoard of monsters. Passing by with at ease, before getting near to the pool.
He searched his backpack, checking his watch, he had a couple of minutes left. He pulled out a cold, icy, sphere and unpacked it. The sphere began to glow, revealing his position but before the monsters could get near, he tossed it into the lake, freezing it temporarily. One of the creatures who jumped Sam got stabbed into the jaw with a dagger, pushed over and finished off with a kick to the face, another one got grabbed and its throat was slit. The GOC units began to push monsters further, small pools finally got rid of all the energy and lake was temporarily secured. Richard looked at corpses, looking for his friends. Luckly, all of them were fine besides Clyde who got bit in the arm. ``Don't worry, agh. Its not infectious, just a bite.`` Clyde said, Cooper tried to believe it, yet he had back thoughts. Another activation of the lake was so quick, unexpected. How can they predict it? Site must have some kind of tracker of lake's aggression, its a living being. He informed about it his captain who gave him permission to check it out.
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Richard walked back inside the site, this time filled with people bodies, it was around 4 pm and it was already dark outside. Private turned his flashlight on and began to walk into non-secured area. He moved with slow pace trying not to lose his way back, flashlight lighting up dark corridors messed up with blood. There was something that was keeping him at bay, feeling of being constantly watched since he arrived here. ``Storage, cafeteria 2, containment cells, cell block, detainment. . .`` He began to read each room name he passed by to remember it more well. He arrived, the control room. Walking inside he viewed the spider webs, corpse on the chair, ladder and a button on a box connected to the wall and monitors. Just in case, he closed door behind him and checked the corpse. ``The fuck?`` He backed off a little, shocked. The body didn't had any scratches, slices or bite marks, it had bullet wounds. ``I guess he got him too.`` He pushed the corpse off the chair and took a sit himself.
He attempt to turn the monitors on, however there was no electrical connection. He looked at the box again, noticing its a blockage. He went sliding on the floor and slammed the button as electricity was brought back to this area. He looked at hundrets of buttons, levers and thingies on the control panel. ``Erm-`` he didn't know which to press, so he did what he had to, press everything in hopes of finding the right button.
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``SOS, SOS`` One of the units was speaking through the radio calling out to Coalition Headquarters. ``SOS, SOS, HQ, Do you copy?``
``This is HQ, what is it ALPHA team?`` The sudden voice appeard on the other side, feeling of hope ran through the reporter's body as he sighed.
``The Red Pool has awakened, we've been attacked. I repeat, we've been attacked.`` Speaking quickly it was hard to understand what was he meant to say, however, the message was recorded.
``Understood, can you describe casaulties?``
``At least 6 KIAs, some of us are badly hurt. We request immediate heavy assistance and evacuation of injured ones!`` The message was getting harder and harder to listen to. All this screetching and loud beeping noises.
``Uh, copy that. The support should arrive tomorrow at 3 PM-`` Before the HQ could finish, operative cutted in.
``3 PM?! WE CAN'T EVEN SURVIVE HERE FEW MINUTES! WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH AMMONITION AND FIRE POWER FOR THESE BEASTS.``
``You must survive, we're gonna contact the United Nations representative and SCPF asking for additional support, for now, you've to hold on.``
Suddenly, the radio ran out of batteries. No more communication, great.
Richard left the control room and walked outside, one of the PTOLEMY researchers took care of the red lake monitoring while he was sent on the front, like always. Before he could reach the gate, he heard church bells ringing in his ears. He covered them before falling on his knees, looking at the gate which opened revealing darkness. A dark figure emerged from outside wearing black fedora and coat. As soon as figure revealed pair of white glowing eyes, Richard passed out, falling on the ground. ``It's not time for you to die, yet. Wake up.``
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The Global Occult Coalition headquarters were in shambles. People running around, calling everyone, multiple languages and accents mixing together. ``No, sir. We require immediate support, our operatives cannot wait!`` One said. ``General, there's no time to wait, we've to do something.`` Another one was heard. Suddenly, the one recognisable was heard. Ryan spoke through the intercom ``Demon-6, get ready. Get into the cargo, we're gonna drop you at northern Canada. Eagle-11, you'll provide assistance to the ground team. MOVE UP!`` The Strategic command now arranged a meeting between SCPF strategist, UN strategist and GOC one. They sat around a square table containing a whole map of the Area.
``Alright, the situation is worse than we expected. Back in 2020 we've had an outbreak related to the lake. This caused multiple Broken Dagger, GOC, UIU and SCPF casaulties.``The SCPF officer spoke, pointing at the map.
``How about we contain it the same way? Can't we use artillery fire?`` The United Nations agent asked, placing his hand on the terrain.
``No, that would cause substance to splash around causing even more issues. I can advise only creating medicine in order to neutralise it, how much I hate to say, GOC ways are in this situation better.``
``That's why we're coordinating the whole case from now on. We're sending in an attack helicopter and a battle tank. We're going to also prepare additional units from various teams. We're definitely going to send in Retrieval Team "Healing Fire" and Assessment Team "Blackout". Broken Dagger units expected. We're also gonna provide additional mines, barbed wire and turrets.`` The GOC strategist cutted in.
``And we're gonna provide NU-7 and Sigma-9 support.`` The SCPF Officer said.
``Seems like we've everything prepared. Let's get straight to creating strategy...``