Item #: SCP-002

Object Class: ~~Euclid~~ ~~Safe~~ Euclid (See Incident Report 002-01)

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A new instance of SCP-002-A following Incident 002-01

Special Containment Procedures: All fertile specimens of SCP-002-A are to be kept inside of a standard insect containment unit in their respective Site’s Animal Wings; nonanomalous specimens may be terminated or released into the wild as the Site Director wishes. A set population of 300 SCP-002-B specimens are to be kept in large Bio Habitat containment cells across Sites 4, 9, ~~14~~, 34, ~~56~~, and 83 (See Incident Report 002-01). All personnel are to wear specialized protective eye wear at all times when interacting with them.

Mobile Task Force Alpha-8 (“Butterfly Catchers”) personnel undercover in national wildlife organizations around the world are to monitor butterfly population spikes and look for possible correlating missing persons or strange incidents in hospitals in the area for sign of wild specimens. As SCP-002 is a self-monitoring species these specimens are to be terminated upon discovery and The Foundation’s own specimens are to be allowed to reproduce and their numbers increased using D-Class personnel to pacify them.

Description: SCP-002 is the collective term for an unknown species of insect that in its transiting life stages is identical to the common butterfly, dubbed SCP-002-A, ~~with the exception of remarkably bright golden wings~~ (See Incident Report 002-01). SCP-002-A’s behavior is typical of the common butterfly until about a week after their creation at which point they will seek out a pony, zebra, or griffon to inject a single egg into, after which it will die within the hour. SCP-002-A will never attempt to inject its egg into a minotaur, dragon, or buffalo and artificial implantation on D-Class personnel of these species has not yielded any results.

SCP-002-B is a large quadruped creature that’s body resembles a common grub with three black eyes on either side of its head and a circular lamprey like mouth. SCP-002-B’s primary anomalous ability comes from the giant ~~golden~~ (See Incident Report 002-01) insect like wings on its back. SCP-002-B is incapable of flight and instead uses the wings as a means of reproduction and defense. Having cornered a subject, always a pony, zebra, or griffon as SCP-002-B will ignore, flee, or just attack any other species, it will raise its wings in the subject’s line of sight. Growths quickly appear within or on the subject’s body, bursting within seconds and producing an instance of SCP-002-A or a nonanomalous butterfly. Left uninterrupted this process can quickly strip a subject down to the bone and produce tens of thousands of butterflies in minutes.

SCP-002-B is the primary life stage of the species, gestating inside of its host for a period of 3 – 4 weeks during which the host will begin to suffer from aches, listlessness, an increased appetite, hair or feather loss, severe muscle atrophy, and death. SCP-002-B will break out of its host, typically 20 – 23 cm in height and 46 cm in body and wing length, and immediately begin consuming as much as the corpse as possible for nourishment. At this state SCP-002-B is capable of reproducing through the use of its wings but will be substantially less powerful and all instances of SCP-002-A will be infertile and therefore nonanomalous. Surgery has also proven capable of removing the egg and fetus from the host safely and ceasing the above symptoms. Once the young SCP-002-B has consumed enough it will attempt to find a safe and secluded area in which to cocoon itself, a process that takes a few days, and metamorphosis into its mature state that takes between 4 – 6 weeks. The mature SCP-002-B will measure on average 198 cm in body and wing length and 102 cm in height. The average lifespan of instances of SCP-002-B is 15 years.

Mature instances of SCP-002-B have another anomalous ability to seemingly be aware of the regional and possibly global population of their species. When their numbers fall under an acceptable margin they enter an agitated state where they will begin purposefully seeking out subjects to create instances of SCP-002-A with. When SCP-002 numbers are kept at an acceptable level mature instances of SCP-002-B are much more docile and may be approached safely except during feeding, although protective eye wear and clothing is still advised.

Acquisition: *In accordance with The Founder’s wishes all objects acquired before The Foundation’s creation are to have their acquisition treated as Level 3 information by default.*

Addendum A-1: Following the development of specialized eye wear that can mitigate the anomalous effects of SCP-002-B and the lack of any reported wild specimens for 5 years SCP-002 is declared completely contained and its Object Class is lowered from Euclid to Safe.

Incident Report 002-01: Following the discovery of wild specimens that do not have the distinct golden wings following the 287th Annual Butterfly Migration and the mass outbreak of SCP-002-B’s that followed there was a sudden disappearance of 42 Foundation held SCP-002-B specimens and 3 Senior Personnel from Sites 14 and 56. Despite there being no tampering to the surveillance equipment and no logged records of access to SCP-002-B chambers the missing specimens simply vanished in the time as soon as the camera rotated across the room. Missing Senior Personnel were noted to be acting much calmer than usual and at peace when near the specimens the week before the disappearance. The only evidence was a note and a photo left on the disappeared Senior Researcher Dr. Scarab Shell’s desk. SCP-002 status reinstated at Euclid.

Note: “You know nothing of these creatures and the beauty they can give to the world. I have felt the flutter of their minds as I gazed into their eyes. They simply seek to fill the world with their children, to fill the skies with a sea of beating colors. But they could not; all the colors except gold had been lost to them long ago until we could help them.” – Father Repentant Scarab Shell (Use of SCP-845 shows that no such desires exist in specimens of SCP-002-B, they merely wish to eat, sleep, or reproduce and only when their number drop below acceptable levels. Scarab Shell’s note is therefore attributed to mental illness instead of any anomalous effects.)

Note: “Fucking crazy butterfly worshiping hippies. Try to catch some of the new ones, see if we can't have one in every color of the rainbow.” – Founder Scootaloo

Author's Note

In case your wondering why this is SCP-002 instead of the clown nose the reason is that only the anomalies that will survive until the girls manage to make The Foundation will become SCPs. The clown nose and a bunch of other anomalies, I'm up to 40 the girls are going to have to deal with, aren't going to make it that far.
The creature for SCP-002-B is an Ak'ab from The Secret World which served as the physical inspiration of this SCP.