Secure,Contain,Ponies

For once, things were going right for the group. Luna had found a headset, like a communicator. Scootaloo and Fluster managed to find key cards and gasmasks, and Blitz had found a level 5 keycard.

They came to an electric gate, that they all managed to get through, with Fluster only having a singed tail and Blitz having shocked his hoof.

Scootaloo remembered the paper she picked up, so she took it out and gave it to Blitz.

"How'd you get this document? We didn't pick any up on the way, did we?"

Blitz looked down and noticed it was the document he was given when he was testing SCP-682.

"I found it on the ground after you ran away from that roar." said Scootaloo.

"That's ironic. That roar was SCP-682's roar, and this is 682's document."

"What's 682?" asked Fluster and Scootaloo in unison.

"You wouldn't want to know." said Blitz

"Just tell us. It's better to know what's ahead if we meet it." said Luna.

"Ok fine." Blitz took the document and read part of the description.

"SCP-682 is a large, vaguely reptile-like creature of unknown origin. SCP-682 has always been observed to have extremely high strength, speed, and reflexes, though exact levels vary with its form. SCP-682's physical body grows and changes very quickly, growing or decreasing in size, at it consumes or sheds material. SCP-682 gains energy from anything it ingests, organic or inorganic. Digestion seems to be aided by a set of filtering gills inside of SCP-682's nostrils, which are able to remove usable matter from any liquid solution, enabling it to constantly regenerate from the acid it is contained in. SCP-682's regenerative capabilities and resilience are staggering, and SCP-682 has been seen moving and speaking with its body 87% destroyed or rotted. Trust me, I've seen this guy during a time when he escaped. He had nearly half of his side missing. I know this this document is lying." said Blitz.

"Well that thing sounds dang near impossible to defeat!" said Scootaloo.

"And kind of scary.." said Fluster.

"Well now you see why I didn't want to tell you. If you didn't know about it, then you wouldn't have to worry about it." said Blitz.

"Well why did you let us talk you into it then." said Scootaloo.

Luna, not paying, attention was snapped back into reality by the sound of scraping.

She turned around to face 173 and let out a shriek, causing the arguing ponies in front of her to stop and look.

They noticed a door behind the statue. They also noticed glass trailing from it, that 173 must have dragged over with it.

Scootaloo jumped the glass and ran into the room to see if there was anything useful.

The 3 scared ponies sat there silent, staring at the strange statue-like creature. Blitz examined it and noticed that the face seemed different. It had two little lines that curled up at the bottom. Soon, Luna and Fluster ran away knowing that with Luna's own teleporting skill, they could probably outrun it.

Blitz didn't notice that they left until he tried to tell Luna about the face. He blinked by accident. Fearing the worst, he clenched his eyes. Instead, he felt the paper in his hoof get weighed down by something.

When he opened his eyes he heard a slight purring coming from the statue that was standing on SCP-682's document.

"Oh! Haha! It's just that weird Catue thing! At least that's what I called it." said Blitz.

It is constructed from concrete and rebar with traces of Krylon brand spray paint, as well as what appears to be state-fair-grade water-based face paint in a "cat face" pattern. SCP-173-J is animate and extremely playful. The object cannot move while within a direct line of sight. Object is reported to initiate interaction by standing uncomfortably close to subjects. Some personnel have reported low, asthmatic-sounding sniffling noises; these are presumed to be imaginary, or memetic, or something. SCP-173-J's primary motive seems to be seeking attention; for example, if SCP-173-J encounters a researcher working on a computer or reading a document, and the researcher blinks, the sculpture will stand on the object in an attempt to gain the researcher's focus. If SCP-173-J is in a room possessing a window, it will sometimes take hold of a researcher's head and move it to face the window. This has been construed as SCP-173-J earnestly requesting to play outside. The established procedure for handling these situations is to pat SCP-173-J in a friendly manner and say "Run along now, you little scamp."

Blitz was surprised he remembered Catue's document by heart, since it was nearly as old as the original 173.

While Catue was distracting Blitz, Luna and Fluster came back, because they didn't hear the familiar scraping of stone.

"What is that thing?" said a curious Scootaloo, emerging from the room with a level 3 keycard.

"I call it The Catue. It's basically like a cat version of the statue. That's also how I named it."

"I think we could have assumed that Blitz." said Luna

Since SCP-173-J was harmless, the 4 ponies allowed it to follow them. It disappeared after they went through a gas chamber, one by one.

Then they approached a maintenance tunnel.

"I don't think it's such a good idea to go down there." said a nervous Fluster, recalling her moments with the masked bird creature and zombies.

"It can't be that bad. Just come on before the real 173 shows up girl." said Scootaloo

As the elevator went down the shaft, Fluster and Blitz thought they heard some metal creaking, along with deep breathing...