The front door to Dark Nova Research, an independant Scp Foundation company, burst open. Dr.Dan Pineman walked briskly in.
"I'm late! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!" he yelled hurriedly, his ruby red eyes filled with urgency, blond hair a huge mess. Dan was head of research and recording. He was good at mechanical and electrical engineering, great at programming, and had an abnormally advanced perception. He was insane yet very childish. Dan ran into the elevator. He started to calm down then pressed all 25 buttons except the button to the first floor.
"I'm not going to make it!" He yelled to himself. When he got to the 25th floor, he was running 15 minutes late. He flung open the glass door to the meeting room, at witch a meeting with all the head workers was taking place.
"Sorry. I forgot to empty the 50 liters of gasoline out of my trunk" Pineman said, out of breath.
"Why did you have gasoline in your trunk?" said Sam Wilthbrese. Sam was a tall, thin man with green eyes and dark brown hair. He was also the head of funding and accounting.
"That doesnt matter Sam. Dan, there has been a reported sighting of a Chaos Insurgency group nearby" said Carrie Southwell, an average, rough woman with brown hair and brown eyes. Carrie was head of Security and Safety. She also had some medical training.
"Does this mean I have to go get another piñata?" Dan replied.
"The last one had 12 SCPs in it!" said James James, a short, grumpy guy with black hair and angry blue eyes. James was head of communications and contact.
"They were low level, right?" said Eukem, his grass colored skin and blue hair neatly cared for. He was head of construction and fabrication. Eukem was an experiment made by Dan when he used SCPs on a cheese sandwich.
"We've talked enough. Now, how do we locate this group?" said Carrie.
"We can use SCP-DNR-28" replied Dan. He pulled out his tablet and showed a picture of a compass with a small keyboard under it connected by a wire. SCP-DNR-28 works by typing in the full name of the person, object, or location you are looking for, then the compass needle points towards it.
"Not a good idea. If the Chaos Insurgency got it, they could use inside information to find names, then track them down" said Carrie. Dan shrugged it off. He grabbed a few papers and walked out of the meeting room.
"Where are you going?" said James.
"To do what you people wont!" said Dr.Pineman as he climbed in the elevator and hit button 6. Before anyone else could get in, the doors closed. Carrie grabbed her telephone. She called the Vice-Head of Security, Gary Blueman.
"Get some guards to stop Pineman!" she yelled into the phone. As he went down, Dan started humming a song he made up as he sung. He looked down at the button panel to see he was going to stop at floor 17. The Security and Safety Department. Dan hit the floor 18 button and once there, he stepped off. He walked left a few feet and took the stairwell right past floor 17 all the way to floor 6. He looked out the stairwell doors window. There where guards looking around for him. Dan pulled out his phone and called a researcher near by them.
"Can you distract those two guards please. I will let you use SCP-DNR-7" Dan said.
"Cool! Then yes!" said the researcher. SCP-DNR-7 is a VR headset that puts the user into a comatose state, then the user has hyper realistic dreams that they can control to a degree. If the headset is plugged into a monitor, the monitor will displays a view from the user. The Researcher walked up to the guards and started a conversation. Dan quietly opened the door and walked past them in a very calm walk. He was heading to SCP-DNR-28s Containment Chamber. When at the door, Dan scanned his keycard and opened the steel door. There, on a wooden pedestal, sat a compass with a keyboard attached by a wire. Dan grabbed SCP-DNR-28 and walked out of the room. On his way out he saw guards approaching and ducked around a hall corner. They passed him and he walked towards the employee elevator. As Dan got to the elevator doors, they opened, and 12 guards plus Carrie stepped out. They all stood staring at each other for a few seconds, then Dan turned to run. Carrie pulled out here taser and shot, but Dan was already dodging be for she pulled the trigger.
"Crap!" Carrie yelled, forgetting that Dan had an abnormally high perception.
"You cant catch me, cause Im the gingerbread man!" said Dan, laughing, as he ran down the halls of floor 6. He turned around to see if anyone was following him. Nobody. He looked forwards and ran right into an MTF group having a break. The MTF groups in DNR are not controlled by the Security and Safety Department but the Research and Data Department. That setup allows no miscommunication to occur between Departments. The leader was John Wilthbrese and Sam Withbreses older brother.
"Dan!" he said "If it isnt my favorite researcher. What are you doing?"
"Playing tag! Yeah thats right, playing tag" Dan replied shaking. He forgot the the MTFs were ordered by the researchers.
"Well, ok. Have a nice game" said John. Dan turned around and ran off in another direction. He found the main stairwell and walked down to the lobby. Just as he was about to go out the door, he felt a hand on his shoulder. Dan turned his head to see a furious Carrie.
"Ohhh! Hi! Do you come here often?" Dan said chuckling. Carrie pulled out her taser, then the next thing Dan knew, he was on the ground passing out because Dan hit his head on a decretive plant pot. Dan woke up in a very old style bunker.
"Where am I?" he said.
"You are in a fabricated dreamscape created by me said a female voice.
"Who are you? Dan said. He stood up and started to look around.
"Me? Nobody special" said the voice, "Well, looks like you are waking up. See you later." Dan opened his eyes. He was in a Security Department cell.
"I'm on the 17th floor, right?" said Dan to nearby guard.
"Yep" the guard unenthusiastically. Footsteps started to head down the hall. When Carrie was at the cell, she looked very stressed and tired.
"You look like crap" said Dan.
"It's 1 am in the morning, of course I look like crap!" Carrie partly yelled, frustrated.
"Can I go home now?" replied Dan against the back wall to stay away from Carrie. The last time she was like that, she accidentally through her porcelain drink cup at Dans head.
"Yeah, sure" said Carrie, opening the cell door. Dan stood up and walked out.
"Sorry about earlier, but you know Im right about how we find them" said Dan as he walked past Carrie.
"Yeah, but you cant just run off doing crazy stuff" replied Carrie, half asleep and wanting to go home.
"Wheres the fun in doing everything safely?" said Dan as he went to the elevator. He hit the 1st floor button and waited. When the elevator opened, he walked out into the lobby and started for the door. When he was outside, he walked to his right to the parking lot. Dan climbed into his car and drove down the street. It is required by all Dark Nova Research personal to live in proximity to the building. Dan climbed out of his car and walked up to his house. He opened the door and walked in. Dan had a 6 room house. 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen, 2 storage rooms, a lab provided by DNR, and a bedroom. Dan went to his lab. Since he was head of research, his lab was not monitored by DNR. He walked up to a set up of two computers and one monitor. There, information and data were being passed in between. These computers were a setup based off Scp-079. They had not reached sentience yet but they had reached a point where they could respond like a human.
"Still no luck" Dan said with a sigh. He walked into his room, jumped onto his bed, and went to sleep around 10 pm. Dan woke up at 6:00 am. He sighed and got up. He walked to the kitchen and made some breakfast. A burned waffle and some undercooked bacon. Unless needed for an experiment or for other people, Dan was a bad cook. It is surprising that he hasn't caught a disease from it. Dan finished his food and changed clothes. He doesn't need to shower because he has a copy of the world's best toot brush. He walked into the storage and pulled out a pool noodle. Then, Dan walked outside, locked the house door, and climbed into the car.
