"Come into the light friend!"

"You need to get some sun!"

"Staying in there in the dark isn't healthy for you buddy!"

"Please friend comes on outside with us it's not so bad out here!"

Those things were right outside the reinforced blast doors to the site, they have been for the past three days trying to pry the door open with melted fleshly limbs but luckily the doors held shut. Sadly they wouldn't hold forever, he had to move quickly and get this thing finished before those THINGS found a way inside.

He spent the last few months in this abandoned foundation site trying to survive, luckily all the entities that could walk were gone and the survivors were also missing. He didn't know nor did he really care all that was on his mind was trying to get this thing up and running, after the first day when the sun started to turn anything alive into melted flesh zombies this site was one of the sites that tried to find a way for humanity to leave mother earth and find a new home somewhere else.

There were plans about space travel as to use colony ships to escape from the stars while others had plans to use certain SCPs to escape through other dimensions.

Which begs the question, what happened here?

It was like everyone just... disappeared and as all the recordings were corrupted, it was impossible to tell what happened here at this site. Projects to save humanity were suddenly abandoned and personal items had been left to collect dust, luckily though some SCPs had remained.

There weren't many of them around luckily most were pretty useful while others were less useful, good thing the foundation had detailed documentation on many of the SCP objects that were left behind. Otherwise, he wouldn't be where he was today without those pieces of paper to help him out, still, even with all the supernatural knowledge and machines, it took him nearly half a year to assemble this damn thing.

It was a gate device capable of connecting two points from across space and time to open a small window to those points before shutting in on itself to cut off any connection to Earth and the horrors that remained here. Luckily he had a great teacher to help him understand how all this stuff worked upon other things.

Hearing the voices through the camera system made him pick up the pace of his work, sometimes he turned to look at the screens out of fear. His plasma thrower was right at his side ready to be used if they somehow got in and if all else fails this place would be his final stand against those damn monsters.

While throughout his stay at this site he had... 'changed', having done things to his body to make sure he was ready for anything, and many of those changes nearly cost him his life. The risks were worth it, for if it wasn't melted flesh zombie blobs that he would be fighting, then it would be whatever was waiting behind the gate.

He was glad he wasn't 'truly' alone in all this though.

Connecting to the onsite generator the ring-like device began to light up with power, running over to the laptop connected to the ring he began to make sure everything was in the green. He had one shot at this and if this thing didn't work then those THINGS were going to find out those magnetically sealed doors would be a lot easier to open without power.

Hopefully, his counting for only a single person would be just enough for the nuclear reactors to handle crossing between dimensions. The machine fluctuated as he pressed the enter key on the laptop before turning to the ring device, it began to drain power from the entire site. Lights flickered at the machine draining the energy of the entire site into it and then causing the flash, a small blue flame roared from the middle of the ring before it engulfed the entire inside of said ring.

Smiling from behind his helmet only for his grin to disappear when he heard something very loud and heavy like a metal scraping upon metal being forced open. He frantically turned to the camera feed and sure enough, the gap in power allowed those damn things to get a grip on the door to pry it open, taking no time he dash over to the portal.

Before he leaped in he turned back to the site behind him...

Though this place wasn't the ideal home for anyone, it was his for nearly a year and he had made a few memories here but like every home, sometimes you have to move out.

"Down the rabbit hole I go," Pushing forward into the gate as the creatures' approach grew louder he completely disappeared within.

Upon doing so the gate began to shake as predicted while it began to give in on itself as it was designed to do so, the wave of melted flesh rolled in as many eyes stared out looking for any unchanged humans only to see the gate shifting. Not knowing what it was some of the flesh stumbled over to it confused about what it might be, but not noticing the flashing warning that the laptop's screen gave.

The portal within the gate was closing in on itself and the ring finally gave way, allowing the blue energy that formed the portal to be unleashed sending an explosion of pure energy through the halls of the entire site and vaporizing anything in it's path for miles.

Something that the site resident added for those exposed to the sun.

(Crystal empire)

"HAHAHAHA! FINALLY, MY CRYSTAL EMPIRE! YOU ARE MINE ONCE AGAIN!" Sombra bellowed with laughter holding baby Flurry Heart by the scuff of her neck as her parents lay defeated at his feet. "Now... now... what to do with you lot,"

Shining armor lifted his head weakly at Sombra who stood over him smiling down at the fallen captain before pushing down his boot upon his face.

"I didn't say you could rise worm! Hmmmm... perhaps I shall have you join your fellow worms in the DIRT!" Summoning his scythe to his hand and placing it on Shining's neck the dark king's smile grew. "It has been too long since there has been an execution in my empire!"

"You wouldn't get away with this Sombra. I wouldn't let you!" Cadance still filled with determination reached out with what little strength she had left to try to stop the king, but the unicorn stopped her by kicking her in the face.

"Silence wrench I have plans for you later," Flurry Heart watched with tearful eyes as her mother was kicked by the dark king causing her to tear up before wailing.

This caused Sombra to drop the filly from his grip to hold his ears while the parents of the child were also exposed to the powerful cries of the alicorn baby. Hitting the ground the baby cried even louder in pain as her horn fired out magical spells blindly and without, reason Sombra turned to the child, raising his scythe up to silence the wailing runt he swung down before the child gave a loud cry that sent a wave of energy across the throne room.

Sombra stumbled backward as the blast knocked his weapon from his hand and the two lovers across the room, leaving Flurry Heart snuffling in the spot she was dropped tired after using so much magic. Panting the king stood back up his ears slightly ringing after the screaming attack but before he could retrieve his weapon to not allow the runt to do that ever again, he saw something.

On the ground in a cracked crater in the crystal floor knelt a black armored being with his entire body hissing with smoke coming from the dark form, this caused Sombra to blink in surprise at the creature before him. Looking to the runt Sombra then turned to the being who stumbled to it's full height where the king couldn't help but be in slight awe at the creature.

From the top of it's head to it's boots the creature was fully clad in black armor, glowing red eyes scanned the area around it and strange items were attached all over it's body, the dark king assumed most likely some form of weapons. Sombra was impressed by this creature that the filly had summoned causing the dark king to believe that the runt had accidentally summoned a dark creature from the shadows, unbeknownst to the brat all creatures of darkness were his to command.

Perhaps the child wasn't so useless after all...

"Interesting," Sombra's words caused the creature to turn at him with it's glowing red eyes, suddenly the creature looked around seeing the fallen lovers that were thrown across the room, and then turned to the filly not so far from him. "Creature of darkness! I welcome you to this realm. Though I no longer need aid in invading this kingdom I do require a new enforcer to keep my rule unbroken! I command thee to kneel before me and speak thy name!"

Turning to the dark king as the large scythe was pointed at him waiting for him to obey his commands, the creature turned to the child once again and it's fists clenched in rage before it turned back to Sombra.

"Fuck you," Sombra was baffled by the words this creature had said to him, before he could respond the black armored being pulled out one of his weapons and unleashed a blaze of red-violet flame.

The dark king unprepared for this action roared in pain as the flames burned his flesh before he summoned a wall of dark crystal to block the flames. Looking at his heavily scorched arm Sombra hissed and covered it in a healing shadow before turning up to look through the glass as the creature was going around to attack him from the other side.

'That was no normal fire... nor was it magical! What is this creature!'

Turning into his gas-like form, the king moved around like a living cloud of smoke going over to the strange creature's rage
inscribed across his barely visible face.

"You dare strike me you welp! I shall crush you for that!" Throwing his form on top of the creature to flatten him with his magically increased weight only for the creature to harmless jump through the ghostly form of the king. "What-?!"

Reaching it's arm down to the ground Sombra suddenly felt himself in his full form being forced down to flatten his smoke-like form. This creature was starting to get on the dark king's nerves before he slipped into the cast of the shadow window frame disappearing from his attacker's sight. Reforming behind the summon warrior, Sombra pulled his scythe back ready to take the creature's head only for the figure to turn around slamming it's weapon into his gut like a club sending him flying across the room with insane strength.

Sombra crashed into his throne amazed by the creature's perception and strength, he watched as the creature switched to another smaller weapon. All through this creature was quite the pain Sombra couldn't help but enjoy himself slightly at how amusing this foe was starting to be. He rose from his broken throne before rushing at his opponent to swing his scythe in a lethal swing, but the creature's weapon fired a white freezing beam that completely froze his weapon so when it made contact with the black armor of the warrior before him it shattered across the burnt and battered marble floor.

Sombra followed through, punching the creature in the face plate with his still-armored hand while using his other to grasp the creature's weapon hand still firing the freezing beam. Holding each other in a lock of strength the two dark beings stood holding both grounds, while the creature glared at him with those alien glowing red eyes Sombra couldn't help his rage turn into curiosity.

This was getting better and better he began to wonder what else this creature had up it's armored sleeves, and he began to smile.

"What other surprises do you have? Show me!"

Slamming his head onto Sombra's own, the king roared in pain but knocked the weapon out of the creature's hand only to receive a powerful roundhouse kick to the face. As the creature was recovering from his spin kick he then threw something at Sombra which the warrior king instinctively caught.

Panting Sombra turned his hand to look at what he had just caught...

A piece of Jasper?

"Okay I'll be honest, this did catch me by surprise boy, but enough games! I-!" Burning pain shoot through Sombra's exposed hand as he looked at the piece of stone in his hand. "What the-"

He tried to drop the object but the stone didn't budge, instead, it burnt itself into his hand!

Throwing his hand in an attempt to shake it off only for the result to be in vain, the jasper stubbornly continues it’s assault, even when he tried to turn himself into smoke only to remain in his physical form.

"What devilry is this?" Dropping to his knees Sombra felt his entire body stung in pain and his stomach churned in his gut.

"Just a little something I kept for safekeeping," Looking at his opponent Sombra then fell back, his body giving out on him as he screamed bloody murder.

Rolling around on the floor the king of shadows had never in his entire life experienced this level of pain before, slowly Shining Armor rose to his feet as he watched Sombra cry out in pain. Stumbling over to his daughter who was now passed out from her magical outburst, he got the attention of the creature who took down Sombra.

A device on his shoulder lifted itself pointing right at Shining's head, hastily but the captain raised his hands out.

"Easy!" Shining and the being looked at one another before Shining looked down at his daughter. "Please... she needs me,"

Not saying a word the shoulder device moved back as the being looked down at the screaming pony at his feet, picking up his daughter in his hand Shining walked over beside the dark-armored warrior. Shining couldn't help but watch as Sombra's form began to change causing him to gasp in shock as the dark king after a few moments stopped screaming and stopped moving.

As he did so the red Jasper stone fell from the king's hands as the dark being knelt down and carefully picked up the blood-red stone before putting it in a strange-looking case.

"Is he?"

"Alive? Yes..."

"What did you do to him?" Standing up with the case now somehow vanished from his hand the being stood up to Shining Armor.

"It's exactly how it looks," Picking up the weapon Sombra knocked out of his hand earlier, Shining turned to the creature.

"What are you?"

"Guess you can call me... a friend,"

Author's Note

A complete rework of my other SCP story involving some major changes to the original storyline concept but having a few other things added while other things were removed.

Hopefully, this wouldn't get bombed shell by dislikes.

I really do hope you guys enjoy this and like I said before I'm really looking forward to writing more and more about this... since the technology in the SCP is so vast being both amazing and terrifying.

Like last time I'll link the SCPs in each chapter as I reveal them but in this case, I'll let you guys guess what was in this chapter just for fun.

(Also this is an alternate SCP timeline based on the SCP-001 event when daybreaks)
(Plus that armor isn't supposed to be 'SCP Darth Vader' or anything... to me, it looks more like a Helghast from Killzone)