You were a bit wary to be sent on a field mission, especially when you heard the words ‘DANGEROUS’ and ‘HIGH CASUALTY’. Why would they be sending you there? You don’t really think you can be of much help in these kinds of fights between extremely powerful SCPs and highly trained Foundation agents. You’re too new at this job.
Then you heard that you would be assisting a doctor, and you felt a bit better about it. Taking care of sick people is difficult, but caring for someone who needs support and healing is much better than fighting. You even heard that Minato would be going with you as well! He’s a nice one. You haven’t worked with him on a mission before, but you have seen him around the facility before and he seems like a good person. Maybe this won’t be so bad after all.
But then you get to the location, and you realize just how wrong you were.
“It’s really quite simple,” The Medic says as he indicates to one of the bodies left behind in the field, “As we can see here, this mark was the initial contact spot, and the reaction continued from there-” He reaches out and actually touches the thing, and you swear you can feel your stomach turn even more than it has before, “-to there. And from there, the result is as you can see. Quite fascinating, isn’t it?”
No, it’s not fascinating. It’s horrifying, and you feel like you’re about to be sick. In fact- “I think I’m going to be sick.”
Minato, on the other hand, gives this crazy doctor a thumbs-up. Which seems to satisfy The Medic, who returns to his work of talking and messing with bodies.
Then Minato leaves the doctor to his body-wrangling while he discreetly navigates you away from the majority of the mess. “You can request a transfer when we get back to base,” Minato says quietly.
You’re just grateful that someone else is here to confirm that you’re not going crazy.
Assignment in question was cleanup detail after a containment procedure for SCP-722. The symptoms of SCP-722's poison are largely random, but always fatal: The poison itself deteriorates rapidly once outside the host, which is why it's fine for Medic to touch it like that. Probably.
...Well, he's not dead, so obviously he's not affected by it?
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Week 3
Then you heard that you would be assisting a doctor, and you felt a bit better about it. Taking care of sick people is difficult, but caring for someone who needs support and healing is much better than fighting. You even heard that Minato would be going with you as well! He’s a nice one. You haven’t worked with him on a mission before, but you have seen him around the facility before and he seems like a good person. Maybe this won’t be so bad after all.
But then you get to the location, and you realize just how wrong you were.
“It’s really quite simple,” The Medic says as he indicates to one of the bodies left behind in the field, “As we can see here, this mark was the initial contact spot, and the reaction continued from there-” He reaches out and actually touches the thing, and you swear you can feel your stomach turn even more than it has before, “-to there. And from there, the result is as you can see. Quite fascinating, isn’t it?”
No, it’s not fascinating. It’s horrifying, and you feel like you’re about to be sick. In fact- “I think I’m going to be sick.”
Minato, on the other hand, gives this crazy doctor a thumbs-up. Which seems to satisfy The Medic, who returns to his work of talking and messing with bodies.
Then Minato leaves the doctor to his body-wrangling while he discreetly navigates you away from the majority of the mess. “You can request a transfer when we get back to base,” Minato says quietly.
You’re just grateful that someone else is here to confirm that you’re not going crazy.
Notes:
...Well, he's not dead, so obviously he's not affected by it?