“Dialogue.” = Normal speaking

‘Dialogue.’ = Thoughts

“Dialogue” = Radio

Dialogue = Written on paper or on the terminal.

It is a gray, snowy day in Ponyville. The sky is covered in thick snow clouds courtesy of the Pegasi, so it’s snowing heavily outside. Not much of a surprise during the month of January. Everypony is in their houses and cottages, reading books, playing board games, and trying out the gifts they received from Hearth’s Warming Eve last year. Given that there aren’t many options, no pony can say the day is eventful, especially the small group taking shelter in the local house-tree library of Golden Oaks.

This group consists of three mares: daredevil Rainbow Dash, timid Fluttershy, and book-loving Twilight Sparkle. There is also the baby dragon named Spike; Twilight’s number-one assistant. Together, the four friends are riding the storm out in Twilight’s library as they all have chosen to keep each other company. They are in the main room doing various activities, from reading to playing games.

Eventually, the quartet scattered throughout the tree library, with Fluttershy trotting up to the front window. She looks out the window, watching the snowflakes hit the window when she spots something on the porch. She goes to Twilight, who is starting to read a new book she recently purchased.

“Um, excuse me, Twilight?” She speaks softly.

“I’m trying to read, Fluttershy,” Twilight replies, not taking her eyes off the book.

“I’m sorry, but you have a package on your doorstep.” Fluttershy continues.

The lavender unicorn looks up from her book at the pegasus mare in confusion. “A package?”

“Mmhmm.” Fluttershy nods in affirmation.

Twilight stands up and trots over to her entrance. Upon opening the door, she notices a package lying on her doorstep. She uses her magic to brush the snow off of it, pick it up, and pull it inside. After closing her front door, the unicorn mare takes the package to her main room and sets it on the table, where she is met with the curious rainbow-maned pegasus eyeing her package closely.

“Who’s it from, Twi?” asks Rainbow Dash after Twilight finishes examining the shipping label.

“No idea. The package doesn’t have anything on it.” Twilight answers as she steps aside to let her friends and Spike look at it themselves. It’s true to what she said; there is no information printed on the package. No recipient name, no mailing address, no return address, not even a stamp.

“So…” Fluttershy speaks. “What’s in the box?”

“Well, why don’t we open it up and find out?” Twilight suggests before turning to her number-one assistant. “Would you like to have the honors, Spike?”

The baby dragon nods and says, “Yes, ma’am,” before walking up to the table with a raised claw. Everypony moves out of the way to make space for him, with Rainbow Dash hovering above him. However, one of her feathers comes loose and lands on the dragon’s nose. Spike scrunches his nose before loudly sneezing, unleashing a stream of green fire that sets everything on the table ablaze, including the package.

The trio of ponies gasps in shock before Twilight runs over to the table to smother the fires with a thick blanket. After succeeding, the lavender mare realizes that everything on the table that got caught in the flame had been reduced to ash, including… “My new book!” She groans upon finding the burnt remains of her newly purchased book.

“Oops. Sorry, Twi,” Rainbow Dash apologizes as she lands right next to the burnt package with a sheepish grin. Twilight scowls at the rainbow-maned pegasus when Fluttershy speaks up again.

“What is that?” She asks, pointing to the table with her hoof. This causes Spike, Rainbow Dash, and Twilight to look back to where she is pointing.

Right where the incinerated package once stood is what looks like a large dark gray metal briefcase with gold accents. Twilight approaches and notices that its dimensions are big enough to fit three big books in a row. Strangely, the object in question did not suffer any fire damage. Even stranger is the unrecognizable emblem emblazoned upon the briefcase. The emblem is composed of an outlined circle with three arrows crossing its contour and pointing into the center and a larger circle with three protruding rectangles closing the smaller circle and arrows in a thin frame.

Twilight spots a tiny piece of paper taped to the side of the briefcase that was half burned. She peeled the note off and opened it, revealing a short message.

“What does it say, Twi?” Spike asks.

Twilight frowns at the half-burnt paper. “Unfortunately, much of the message is lost, but I can read what remains.”

—you have been granted access to the entire Foundation database. The documented anomalies we have contained, as well as our organization— can be viewed on this portable terminal.

—press the blinking POWER button to—

Our secret knowledge is now at your— hands hooves and viewing pleasure, along with those you know can be trusted. Enjoy.

The half-burnt letter’s contents have caught Twilight’s interest. ‘A case containing secret knowledge sent to me by some unknown organization?’ She thought before squeeing. “Eeee!!!”

Spike smiles as he watches the lavender unicorn hop up and down excitedly. Fluttershy gives a smaller smile while Rainbow Dash rolls her eyes with a smirk. Twilight loves knowledge, so they choose not to try to stop her from opening the case. However, she becomes confused when she doesn’t find any books or paper within it. In fact, the briefcase has very little interior space, which is only enough for a small blue button.

‘What? There’s nothing in here but a button.’ Twilight thinks as she places a hoof on said button.

Suddenly, the case automatically opens up at a 180° angle, causing the lavender unicorn to back up away from it, and starts transforming itself. Startled by the unexpected transformation, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Spike all watch with fascination. The two halves of the briefcase shift and the inside of the lid seems to split and reveal a screen hidden under the leather layer. While the bottom half seems to expand upwards and opens up to reveal a QWERTY keyboard used by common typewriters.

The object that used to be a case is now what looks like a big terminal. The four friends are awed by the transformation sequence as they all approach it slowly. Never in their lives have they ever seen anything like this, so they were a bit cautious. It was then Twilight notices a blinking button on the keyboard that says ON/OFF. From her peripherals, she sees the purple claw of Spike reaching for the button. Twilight uses her hoof to swat the dragon’s claw. Spike pulls his claw away and rubs it with his other claw.

“Don’t touch anything.” Twilight warns before looking back at the terminal. “We have no idea what this thing is.”

“But…didn’t it say it had secret knowledge? What if pressing the button to turn it on is how you access it?” Spike asks as the stinging in his claw subsides.

“Yeah, Twilight. How dangerous can it be?” Rainbow asks as she steps closer to analyze the strange terminal. She then reaches over and presses the ON button with her hoof.

“Rainbow Dash, no!” Twilight yells as she reaches out with her own hoof to stop the brash Pegasus mare. She is too late.

Several seconds later, the black screen lights up, revealing the same mysterious symbol on top of the briefcase. “Welcome to the SCP Foundation Database,” a male voice says, surprising the quartet.

“Who said that?” asks Spike.

Before anypony can respond, the voice is heard again, and this time, it sounds a bit more serious. “Operating clandestine and worldwide, the Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. Many of these anomalies pose a significant threat to global security, as well as humanity, by threatening either physical or psychological harm. All of them undermine the natural laws that the people of the world implicitly trust in.”

Twilight raises an eyebrow at that. If these anomalies are truly a threat to the world, then why hasn’t anypony known about them? And, more importantly, why was this foundation kept a secret? But something else had caught her curiosity. The voice also mentioned the word ‘humanity’. Was it referring to—

“Um… What’s an anomaly?” Fluttershy asks, prompting the lavender unicorn to answer.

“Well, Fluttershy, an anomaly is something that isn’t normal, like the Everfree Forest.” Twilight explains.

Fluttershy whimpers and shrinks back a little bit at Twilight’s answer, now feeling increasingly nervous about the terminal.

“The Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from extraterrestrial, extradimensional, and other extranormal influence.”

“That sounds understandable,” Spike says to himself with a shrug while Twilight agrees.

“Wait,” Rainbow Dash starts. “Wouldn’t it be wise to, I don’t know, tell everypony about the anomalies?”

Twilight shakes her head. “No, Dash, you don’t understand,” the unicorn says. “It’s like this: if the ponies of Equis learn about a creature that could consume magic as a food source, panic would spread, followed by riots.”

Rainbow Dash pauses before nodding her head in understanding. Panic is the last thing anypony needs.

The terminal screen changes to snow white as the male voice continues. “Our mission is three-fold:”

The four friends see the three arrows from the strange logo appear along with the word ‘SECURE’ underneath it.

“Secure: The Foundation secures anomalies with the goal of preventing them from falling into the hands of civilian or rival agencies, through extensive observation and surveillance and by acting to intercept such anomalies at the earliest opportunity.”

The small circle appears next along with, ‘CONTAIN’.

“Contain: The Foundation contains anomalies with the goal of preventing their influence or effects from spreading, by either relocating, concealing, or dismantling such anomalies or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge thereof.”

Finally, the larger circle with rectangles appeared. ‘PROTECT’

“Protect: The Foundation protects humanity from the effects of such anomalies as well as the anomalies themselves until such time that they are either fully understood or new theories of science can be devised based on their properties and behavior. The Foundation may also neutralize or destroy anomalies as an option of last resort, if they are determined to be too dangerous to be contained.”

“Additional information will have been provided upon your joining us in pursuit of our primary missions.”

Once the male voice has stops speaking, the ponies and dragon are left in silence.

‘So, SCP stands for “Secure, Contain, Protect”?’ Spike asks himself before breathing a sigh of relief. ‘At first, I thought it was Snap, Crackle, and Pop.’

“Uh, girls?” Fluttershy speaks up, catching the attention of the others. “That, um… machine mentioned something about…humans.”

Rainbow Dash and Spike become confused, while realization dawns on Twilight. She remembers the message having mentioned these humans before, but had forgotten about it. “I find that very confusing.” The lavender unicorn says. “Humans are nothing more than a myth.”

“No, they’re as real as you and I.”

Everyone is silent, staring at the machine. Rainbow Dash, however, is the one who breaks the silence. “Uhh… Is somepony in there listening to us?” She asks.

“Yes, there is.” The voice says. “And no, there is not a pony.”

The quartet becomes startled as a red bipedal figure pops up on the terminal’s screen. They see the figure step out of the screen and stand before them, appearing rather translucent.

“Hello,” The figure says stoically, his voice sounding less robotic. “And welcome to the SCP Database.”

Author's Note

Hello, everyone. After a long couple months of writing, I am proud to finally post this story. I tried getting this posted last December, but it was delayed due to other things in life.

First, I’d like to give a shout-out to my co-author k00l. He’s helped me a lot with writing this Prologue. Dude, I cannot thank you enough for this.

You’re welcome my friend! I’ve always wanted to find a way to repay you for helping me out with my own stuff! I couldn’t be happier to help you with this project that I’m very excited to see continued!

Thanks dude!

So, I’m sure many of you are wondering why I wanted to write this fanfic, so allow me to explain. I’ve noticed that Fimfiction doesn’t have a lot of SCP crossovers, and I figured that a reaction fic would be a great addition. I mean, who wouldn't want to see how our favorite characters will react to these various SCPs.

Anywho, what will our heroines learn from the Database that Twilight was seemingly granted access to? In due time, we shall see. But the next chapter will involve a peanut; that's all I can say.