 Between 1983 and 1989, the United States Department of Defense spent 6.5 billion dollars training fifth graders to kill magicians. It really did make sense at the time. They were a plentiful workforce, plastic enough to be turned into counter-psychics with some targeted lobotomy and more than willing to place themselves in the carrying hands of Uncle Sam. Most importantly, higher-ups believed even the most devoted Russian ages wouldn't dare lay hands on school children. Unfortunately, none of them considered the inverse might also be true. Tom Rosenblum was the program's first success. A bright-eyed 11-year-old with an interest in dinosaurs and better marksmanship than most of the FBI, he was covertly moved into an apartment above an Italian restaurant suspected to facilitate GRU dead drums. Two months afterwards, he was given the kill order and a barretta hidden in his T-Rex lunchbox. His handlers had planned for many contingencies, heart attack induced by his psychotropic regimen, demonic possession, classes A1-7, remembering he used to have parents. None of them anticipated a tearful confrontation with the elderly telepath-slash-line cook over Veal Parmigiana, his impromptu adoption and subsequent defection to Russia within the month. Clearly, they had made a mistake somewhere down the line. The scientists looked over the reports, reviewed the methodology and came to the conclusion that the problem was the children being conscious. They only managed to fix that issue half a year before the funding was cut for good. Over the next decade, they released three of the remaining candidates back into the general population after thorough deconditioning. After all of them ended up having higher kill counts as freshmen than assassins, the fourth and final subject was instead transferred to an organization that would be able to handle her. Little Chesely in broad was 15 years old when she was placed into containment. She was 39 by the time she left. Excerpt from release form A233-91, anomalous personnel application form. Current designation, SCP-2370-ARC, prospective position, archival department, arms master and security. Character witness, Dr. Adila Kayam, psychology department. Why do you want this position? 750 words or less. The doctor says it will be good for me to reintegrate into a working environment. She says I have made a lot of progress in my sessions with her and that lefty and righty need additional stimulation although she is worried about traumatic experiences from my childhood. I also want to help the foundation. They were kind to me growing up and saved me from a very bad place. I do not want to shoot people as my job but righty is very good at it. If it means protecting good people, the ones that saved me from the doctors, I will do it. Why are you qualified for this position? Upload supporting documents. Range scores, 2018-09-13.csv. Field redness report, B103-G Salazar, PDF. Full overview, 2018-06-11, PDF. Site profile, 2018-03-01, PDF. What accommodations will you require? I am on medication which wakes me up automatically now but I should still be tied to the bed. I should be searched every time I go to my room so lefty and righty cannot act up while I am asleep. If my eyes have been closed for 20 minutes, my co-workers must induce a coma immediately with barbiturate guns. If they have been closed for 30 minutes, they should use lethal force instead. First, by activating my bomb collar, then by using high explosive devices, if that has been deactivated. If they have been closed for an hour, eerily bombard my position until the kill can be visually confirmed. Excerpt from SCP-2370ARC app, C-3, Psychological Evaluation, 2018-03-01. Let me begin this report with some context for the layman. There is no nice way to overwrite somebody's memories. The foundation is at the head of the pack in terms of psychotropic pharmacology. Our newest formulation of Class A amnestics is, frankly, a miracle drug. They are the safest, cleanest method of targeted memory removal known to mankind and in 40% of cases, they still don't fully take. Least of conscious holds on to what the conscious lets go. Hard memories of a monster next door become impossibly vivid nightmares, wicking up bolt upright in the dead of night. The certain terrible knowledge that there is something out to get you, and you have no idea what it was. And these are the side effects of a substance we've spent half a century perfecting with the help of the greatest minds in biochemistry. Now, imagine what an organization with none of the expertise nor moral scruples of the foundation was using on children no less 30 years ago. Whatever you're picturing, it was much, much worse. I've read the initial biochemistry reports. When we took her in, 2370's heart was pumping equal parts crowd of tea and blood. By all rights, she should resemble a late-stage rabies patient. Instead, in the year spent with her, 2370 has revealed herself to simply be a shy, anxious woman, one with a sleep condition and aphasia. Yes, but in temperament, no worse than most of the agents I work with on a monthly basis. Whether that is an indictment of the foundation's work conditions or a compliment towards her progress as a patient is ultimately up to the reader. Excerpt from SCP-2370 ARC app, C-6, Field Readiness Report, 2018-09-16. All right, okay, Field Evaluation. Can I be honest, do you even need me to fill this out? I mean, just look at her. She's built like a monster truck. We took her out to the training grounds and she managed to run a four-minute mile. That's 12 whole seconds off the world record, unless you've got an anomalous middle-distance runner locked up somewhere. No shit, she passes the physical component of the exam. Then there's her range performance. Look, I know Command is probably worried about the whole bandana thing in a live fire situation, but couldn't you just give her, I don't know, some Ray-Bans or something? Alpha-3 got a real-life Gauss gun for their designated marksman last year. Surely the Big Five could spare a couple hundred by their golden girl a pair of blackout goggles? And that's not even mentioning what she does when she's in the zone like that. After her first run, I had the range tags set up a wall between her and the target. Just to see if the file was bullshit me. Yeah, I know the score is. No, that's not a malfunction. There's a scan of the grouping in the PDF. You tell me if that's a fluke. So, uh, yeah, maybe don't send her off to the mole rats? She wouldn't be able to fit through the door to their dorm, but aside from that, top marks all around. Oh, and if she offers to shake your hand, take it from me. Don't. Excerpt from SCP-2370 ARC app, C-3, Psychological Evaluation, 2018-03-01. The most unusual behavior 2370 displays is the belief that her hands are sentient, but even this is relatively explainable. I would attribute this firstly to the circumstances of her anomaly. As a 12-year-old girl, how do you explain the fact that you lose motor control if your eyes are closed? More importantly, how do you explain your ability to wield a gun you don't consciously know how to use? Her answer was anthropomorphism. It's a fairly mundane response to the unpredictable and one that children and adults alike engage in. Chances are you've seen this done with computers. People talk to them when they're acting up, even if they, usually, aren't able to understand their instructions or respond to them. Understandably, the average reader probably thinks of their limbs in a different way to their workstations. The average reader, of course, was also not indoctrinated as a child assassin. Combine the effects of her anomaly with a half-lethal cocktail of psychotropics and the depersonalization that comes with childhood violence, and you begin to understand why she might have started engaging in this behavior. Granted, 2370 isn't 11 years old anymore. I confess, I am still unsure whether this is an affectation preserved out of habit or a genuine belief. In other case, though, it's not something I believe would cause problems further down the line. Now, what happens when she does fall asleep? That is something which merits concern. Excerpt from SCP-2370-ARC-APP-A Pentagram Documentation of Subject Dr. Jacobi, you know who this is, don't you? You've been pretending to forget when we asked you. Naughty. 2370 looks at the body on the table for some time before violently shaking against her strains. Dr. Jacobi, that's good. That's very good. We want you to eat him. 2370 shakes her head repeatedly. Dr. Jacobi, unfortunate. But it's what we expected. Blind her. One of the mass guards successfully applies a blindfold at 2370, although he is bitten in the process. Jacobi takes out a stopwatch from his pocket and starts it. Over the next 5 minutes and 14 seconds, 2370 appears to totally fall unconscious. Notably, the tremors in her hands have totally ceased, in addition to other voluntary movement. Once this period has ended, Jacobi unlocks 2370's restraints and presents her with a knife and fork. Dr. Jacobi, let's try this again. Lincoln, dinnertime. 2370 slowly rises to a standing position. She spends the next 16 minutes removing the subject's intestines via their oral cavity, using the provided tools, demonstrating clearly abnormal strength for her age. Dr. Jacobi, Lincoln, give the cutlery back. You can eat with your hands. 2370 obeys the command, handing over the knife and fork, before beginning to consume the now deceased subject's large intestine. Jacobi nods to the guard from before, who removes the blindfold. As he does, 2370 appears to jolt awake, looking visibly distressed. Dr. Jacobi, you know who this is, don't you? 2370 vomits, fragments of bone are clearly visible. Dr. Jacobi, that's good. That's very, very good. Excerpt from Welcome to Archival, your first day in the stacks, employee manual, 1963. What do we do here? Archival's primary job is preservation. Everything that doesn't merit actor study by another division, sub-safe anomalous items, old pieces of super technology, unsubstantiated reports of supernatural events, these all fall under Archival's remit. Did you know the foundation has over 5,000 tons of paper documentation from the last century alone? As a member of Archival, it's your job to help us catalog, record, and contain these items for future reference by the rest of the foundation. Where should I go to start my first day? New employees should report to my office, first floor, computer labs 1A319A, Archival site 00, for orientation and an introduction to the rest of our workforce. What should I do if I have questions? If you're ever confused, feel free to ask me by using one of the intercoms installed around the site. Through the magic of distributed neural computing, I'm always available to answer any question you have, no matter how small or large. If there isn't one nearby or I'm otherwise incapacitated for maintenance, one of the more experienced coworkers will also be more than willing to assist you in your inquiry. P. Olympia, head librarian, magnetic storage human interface, Archival division. And a file. To learn more about the SCP Foundation, subscribe to SCP orientation today and turn the notification bell on so you don't miss any of our videos.