Addendum 049.3: 04/16/2017 Incident

←SCP-049

Starting shortly after SCP-049's initial containment, Dr. Hamm conducted a number of interviews with the subject regarding its anomalous properties, and over time began to note its displeasure with its subjects and the SCP-049-2 instances. This continued for a period of several months, during which SCP-049 never exhibited any aggressive behaviors.

On April 16th, 2017, as Dr. Hamm was entering SCP-049's test chamber to conduct another routine interview, the entity began to grow anxious and asked Dr. Hamm if he was feeling well. Following protocol, Dr. Hamm reminded SCP-049 that the interview was required, after which the entity became hostile and attacked Dr. Hamm, killing him. Due to a lapse in security protocol, and because Dr. Hamm did not activate the in-chamber emergency system, Dr. Hamm's corpse was not discovered until three hours later, by which point SCP-049 had converted it into an instance of SCP-049-2.

In the aftermath of this incident, SCP-049 was interviewed by Dr. Theron Sherman.

Interviewer:  Dr. Theron Sherman, Site-42

Interviewee:  SCP-049 [BEGIN LOG] Dr. Sherman:  I need you to explain yourself.

( No response )

Dr. Sherman:  SCP-049, you are being directed to explain your actions, and I will remind you that failure to cooperate will result in further restrictions during your containment.

SCP-049:  ( Pauses ) My actions do not need to be explained.

Dr. Sherman:  You killed Raymond Hamm and then  butchered him  until he-

SCP-049:  ( Interrupting, angrily ) Not dead! No! Not… not dead. He is… he is cured.

Dr. Sherman:  Cured? Cured of what?

SCP-049:  The Pestilence, sir! I had thought you, at least, would realize what luck it is I detected it before-

Dr. Sherman:  ( Interrupting ) What pestilence? You keep going on and on about this pestilence but you have not  once  been able to properly identify this "disease". What could you have possibly seen in him today that you had not seen so many times before? That it would be worth his life?

SCP-049:  He… ( pauses ) The Pestilence presents and progresses in unforeseeable fashions, and has a queer way of- of creeping into the unprepared, and… ( breathing becomes heavier ) call it what you want, doctor. It was a mercy I did to him. He is cured.

Dr. Sherman:  He is a  vegetable !

SCP-049:  ( Pauses ) I… I would not expect you to understand. You and your… your  ilk  have proven time and time again to be not men of science, but men of- of emotion. You cannot appreciate the horrors I have seen, those many millions who have succumbed to the Pestilence and been changed, who-

Dr. Sherman:  Your cure cost Ray his life!

SCP-049:  No good  SIR  I have  saved it! You would allow this world to slip back into the, the- the despair of disease and death, ignoring that I have created a  miracle  and-

Dr. Sherman:  ( Talking over SCP-049 ) What disease? What pestilence? He was a healthy man! He was a good doctor!

SCP-049:  -am offering it freely to the afflicted! You are  not  worth this argument, sir. You are shortsighted and foolish. Dr. Hamm was sick, and I… ( breath catches ) I  cured  him. I am the only one who can do this. My work  must  continue, there is so much still to learn, so much to-

Dr. Sherman:  I've had enough of this. Consider your allowances revoked. Welcome to containment, oh-four-nine. ( Away from mic ) We're done here.

SCP-049:  -do, and others can be saved! Even you, though you do not deserve it, might be saved! I can save them all! I can cast down this plague, once and for all. I can do this! Only me! I… I… ( labored breathing ) I saved… I saved him… Dr. Hamm, I… I cured him… he was sick, I know he was sick, I  know  he was, and I… you are all sick, but I… I can  save  you. I can save all of you, because I… I am the cure.

[END LOG]