WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.200 A grisly incident occurs inside the popular  storefront of Nintendo World at Rockefeller   00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:10.520 Center, New York. It happens during the  announcement event of a brand new Pokemon Game:   00:00:10.520 --> 00:00:16.960 the highly anticipated sequel to the classic  spinoff game Pokemon Conquest. Pokefans from   00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:21.840 all over the world have shown up in order to show  their love for the collectible monster franchise,   00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:27.640 but in the mere moments before the trailer could  be shown - a rotten stench fills the air. A   00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:34.240 wafting cloud of poison gas sweeps low through the  crowd, and the effects are immediately hazardous. 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:38.320 A pair of young children in matching purple  sweaters - marked with a distinctive symbol   00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:44.680 seen on a Poison type pokemon - begin coughing and  wheezing. These are not victims of the poison gas,   00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:49.920 but rather its inexplicable source.  As the gas spreads through the store,   00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:54.400 the children begins to turn a bright shade  of purple and their skin becomes craggy   00:00:54.400 --> 00:01:00.160 and porous. Even more alarming is the fact  that the siblings begin to fuse together:   00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:03.880 limbs retracting into their bodies as  the larger of the two becomes little   00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:09.240 more than an enormous floating face  with the younger as an attached growth. 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:13.920 The smog is so thick at this point that few are  able to see that the two children now bear an   00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:21.640 uncanny resemblance to Pokemon-110: Weezing. The  gas has been noticed by most of the adults in the   00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:26.600 room, and a panic has caused the crowd to begin  trampling each other for the exit. In the midst   00:01:26.600 --> 00:01:31.440 of the confusion, several people step on the  transmuted children, causing them to cry out in   00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:38.000 pain and in a state of distress: they unleash  the lethal Pokemon move known as Explosion. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.720 From the outside, a sudden blast can be seen  roaring through the interior of the store. The   00:01:42.720 --> 00:01:48.040 windows shatter immediately, and a heavily damaged  life-sized statue of the Nintendo character Donkey   00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:53.760 Kong comes sailing out into the street where it  lands roughly in the midst of New York traffic. 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.960 The NYPD are en route to Nintendo World  immediately, expecting that some sort of   00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:03.960 bomb has gone off. There’s no way they could have  predicted what horrors awaited them at the scene. 00:02:03.960 --> 00:02:07.760 The unwilling Weezing is not the only  transformed human within the event,   00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:13.000 and indeed some far more aggressive and  dangerous monsters have been made there. 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:19.280 A cosplayer in a onesie that had been designed  to resemble Pokemon-448 Lucario has awakened   00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.000 her defensive sensory abilities on  instinct to avoid the damage - but   00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.080 this protective power has come at the cost  of her humanity. Blue fur erupts in tufts   00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:35.640 from her skin, and her face elongates  into a distorted canine muzzle. 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:39.720 Panic spreads across the morphing face of the  cosplayer, and as she tries to get clear of   00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:44.920 the chaos, her flailing limbs send other  members of the fleeing crowd flying. The   00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:48.840 genetic alteration that gave her limbs  and face a Lucario-like appearance   00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:53.880 have apparently changed her muscles to  deliver spring-loaded blows on instinct. 00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:55.640 Another fan finds that his hoodie,   00:02:55.640 --> 00:03:01.840 which features the face of Pokemon-94 Gengar  had bound itself to him, and caused his body   00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.200 to body partially insubstantial - as if it  were made of gas. He could barely control   00:03:07.200 --> 00:03:11.640 the direction his body traveled in as  the wind pushed him out of the store. 00:03:11.640 --> 00:03:16.000 Several police cars arrive at Nintendo  World and see the floating Pokefan rising   00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.720 like a ghost above the streets. He  has become like a human balloon,   00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:24.520 and there is no apparent way to get  him down. One of the officers calls   00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:29.240 for a helicopter to arrive, and the rest  proceed towards the source of the blast. 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:34.040 “Monster!” scream some of the fleeing  survivors, pointing at the Lucario cosplayer. 00:03:34.040 --> 00:03:39.120 She raises her hands defensively, but this has  the side-effect of causing the bioluminescent   00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:44.600 cells that are now part of her paw-hands to  glow. The glare from this sudden reaction   00:03:44.600 --> 00:03:50.680 draws the guns of the cops, who aim for the  cosplayer: unsure of what weapon she’s carrying. 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:54.400 “Stay where you are! Drop your  weapon!” The officers shout. 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.560 “Help me! Please!” The Lucario cosplayer  drops to her knees, reducing her threat level. 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:04.120 From out of the smoke of the store came several  more transmuted humans, most of them injured   00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:09.400 by the explosion. There was a three-legged being  covered in pitch-black fur and sores weeping with   00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:17.920 yellow pus: Pokemon-197 Umbreon, but its front  leg was still a human arm. There was a bald,   00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:25.280 blue man covered in a still-growing turtle shell:  a middle-aged Pokemon-007 Squirtle. Smashing its   00:04:25.280 --> 00:04:30.840 way through the solid cement was a predator  that was sleek in body yet uncanny in movement   00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:38.560 - Pokemon-445 Garchomp - a scaled humanoid  monster that dragged its belly on the ground. 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:43.080 The police were horrified as this legion of  monsters crawled out into the street. Decades   00:04:43.080 --> 00:04:47.720 of media and conditioning led the cops to the  only solution their currently broken minds could   00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:54.280 process: they opened fire with their firearms  and screamed like babies at the scary creatures. 00:04:54.280 --> 00:04:59.720 Acting on instinct, the Lucario cosplayer moved  at incredible speeds and dodged several bullets.   00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:05.760 She ran into a nearby alleyway and vanished  from view. The other monsters were less lucky.   00:05:05.760 --> 00:05:10.440 Umbreon took a few bullets and dropped, while  the Squirtle retreated into his shell as the   00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:15.000 bullets bounced off of the back of it. The  Garchomp withstood a bit of weapons fire,   00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.680 but then burrowed into the street  to escape. It soon found itself in   00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:24.080 a currently empty subway tunnel, and made a  mad dash for its escape from the authorities. 00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:27.920 Back above ground, the cops searched  vigilantly for more of the creatures.   00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.240 As the helicopter sailed in, the floating  Gengar drifted towards a tall building,   00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:38.520 phasing in through an open window. Once inside,  the humanoid ghost pokemon found itself much more   00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:44.400 comfortable in the shadows. The various employees  of the office floor didn’t feel the same,   00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:50.840 and were stricken with fear as they observed  Pokemon-94 turn invisible - his enlarged   00:05:50.840 --> 00:05:56.200 grinning face disappearing as if he were  the Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland. 00:05:56.200 --> 00:05:59.840 When firefighters started to mitigate  damage at the scene, it became clear   00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:04.760 that at least three monsters were still on the  loose. For now, the transformation instances were   00:06:04.760 --> 00:06:09.560 contained to the destroyed storefront of Nintendo  World in Rockerfeller center, but if affected   00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:15.680 individuals were contagious then the situation  could go from bad to worse at an alarming rate. 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:19.280 The police established a perimeter, and  used their private radio to put out an   00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:24.280 alert to every officer in New York that there  were apparently monsters walking the Earth.   00:06:24.280 --> 00:06:27.880 Descriptions of the roaming Pokemon that  were still at large were given - and this   00:06:27.880 --> 00:06:32.440 prompted a lengthy discussion over the radio  about the logic of Pokemon existing in the   00:06:32.440 --> 00:06:36.800 real world. Several of the senior officers  didn’t have any knowledge of the Pokemon   00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.040 franchise and had significant difficulty being  brought up to speed on the events of the day. 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:46.560 Despite the initial snafu in communication,  the extraordinary details of the case became   00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:53.640 known to every available officer. There  were three suspects - Pokemon-448 Lucario,   00:06:53.640 --> 00:07:03.880 Pokemon-094 Gengar, and Pokemon-445 Garchomp -  and the mission objective was to catch them all. 00:07:03.880 --> 00:07:08.680 With his invisibility and ghostlike material  properties, Gengar had no difficulty hiding   00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:12.800 out in the office building. Though a brief  look in one of the bathrooms showed him that   00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:17.200 invisibility was the best option for  other reasons - as his face and body   00:07:17.200 --> 00:07:22.280 had deformed to the point that his head and  torso had been fused together. Additionally,   00:07:22.280 --> 00:07:26.360 spined growths of cartilage had begun to  line his back and they were starting to itch   00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:33.280 terribly. His eyes had enlarged and were now  completely bloodshot red with dilated pupils. 00:07:33.280 --> 00:07:37.880 It would be a miracle if anyone recognized  him as a human being in the shape he was in.   00:07:37.880 --> 00:07:43.240 His mind could hardly cope with the change, and  created a false narrative to spare his sanity. 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:48.840 “I’m dead! That’s it! I died from that  explosion and turned into a ghost like Gengar!” 00:07:48.840 --> 00:07:54.080 It wasn’t the most convincing or uplifting  lie to believe, but it was enough to keep him   00:07:54.080 --> 00:07:59.520 from the risk of exposing his nightmarish form to  other human beings. He became determined to haunt   00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:06.040 the office building, as subtle as he could, until  things made sense again: even if they never did. 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:10.280 Gengar turned invisible again, and faded  into a non-existent presence within the   00:08:10.280 --> 00:08:16.160 building. He drifted unseen from workspace to  workspace, unaware that his transformation was   00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:21.200 a curse that could be passed on. There were  many office workers with Pokemon desk toys,   00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:25.560 and while the effects wouldn’t be immediate  - a dull ache began to set in across the   00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:29.440 office floors as bodies started to  prepare themselves for transformation. 00:08:30.320 --> 00:08:34.440 Meanwhile on the mean streets of New  York, Lucario ran as fast as she could,   00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:39.080 quickly realizing that her muscles had become  capable of great strides and leaps. She was   00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.680 able to scale brick walls and leap between  rooftops like a trained parkour expert,   00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:48.160 and the exhilaration of such physical  feats almost counter-balanced the sheer   00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:53.720 mind-numbing terror of losing her original  body to the Pokemon transformation. 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:59.120 The sudden growth of a fuzzy tail from her lower  spine jolted her back to the fear response however   00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:03.840 and, in full-panic mode, she refused to look  at herself until she had successfully made it   00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:08.880 back to her apartment. The sounds of helicopters  in the sky convinced her to stay away from the   00:09:08.880 --> 00:09:14.760 rooftops and move through the side streets until  she was back in her neighborhood. Along the way,   00:09:14.760 --> 00:09:19.600 a young girl who was walking with her mother  recognized Lucario and pointed her out. 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.240 “Mommy, look! It’s Lucario!” 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.920 The mother took one look at Lucario and  screamed, prompting Lucario to run away   00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:32.200 from the family as rapidly as she could. She  tried to deny what was happening, but also   00:09:32.200 --> 00:09:37.080 had the sense to not pass through the front desk  area of her apartment building. For some reason,   00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.960 all she could think of was Spiderman -  and the many scenes from various movies   00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:46.000 in which Peter Parker or Miles Morales  had to hide their powers and abilities. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:51.080 In a very spider-person-like move, Lucario  climbed in through the window. She didn’t   00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:55.480 even have time to ponder how easy it had been  to break into her own apartment before she took   00:09:55.480 --> 00:10:01.120 full stock of her situation. The transmutation  into Lucario persisted, and had even absorbed   00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:06.320 her onesie into her biomass while removing its  synthetic properties. The change was - to put   00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:11.280 it mildly - less aesthetically seamless than  she hoped. Her mouth was somewhere between a   00:10:11.280 --> 00:10:16.960 wolf-muzzle and human lips, and looked completely  mangled from most angles. The blue tufts of fur   00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.760 that were Lucario’s trademark were patchy and  didn’t fully cover her body. The bioluminesce   00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:28.520 that had alarmed the cops earlier was now randomly  occurring on her body with no rhyme or reason. 00:10:28.520 --> 00:10:31.880 She had never considered herself part  of… THAT side of the Pokemon fandom,   00:10:31.880 --> 00:10:37.280 but even by their arcane yet discerning  standards, her body had become hideous. 00:10:37.280 --> 00:10:41.040 Lucario wept, unable to imagine what  she would do with herself. How would   00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:45.880 she tell her family? Her friends? Her  boyfriend? Her life as a person was   00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:50.840 essentially over. And based on the attention  the whole event had gotten from the police,   00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:55.640 she was most likely going to be followed  by the law until her dying days. 00:10:55.640 --> 00:10:59.640 Down beneath the surface of the city,  the third suspect - Garchomp - had been   00:10:59.640 --> 00:11:03.720 roaming through the subways and drawing a  bit of attention. His movement through the   00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.600 tunnels had caused a great deal of  collateral damage as his claws rend   00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:12.840 the concrete and stone. When the blinding  lights of an oncoming train shone on him,   00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:17.880 Garchomp found out exactly how fast he could  move - though that may have been adrenaline. 00:11:17.880 --> 00:11:22.560 He had to make a quick escape from the train and  wound up on a crowded subway terminal where many   00:11:22.560 --> 00:11:27.120 onlookers snapped pictures of the apparent  shark monster. Garchomp scrambled to try   00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:31.560 and find a place to hide, but the platform had  so many people that trying to get through them   00:11:31.560 --> 00:11:37.640 resulted in bloodshed. Garchomp’s rough scales  flensed the skin right off several passers by,   00:11:37.640 --> 00:11:41.840 and his dorsal growths on his limbs  were sharper than an iron blade.   00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.080 People started throwing things and  shooting small arms at the monster,   00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:50.080 but Garchomp’s skin was impervious to such  weapons. Even the police bullets from earlier   00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:53.440 had been unable to pierce through the  scales, but there was a cost to being   00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:58.720 bulletproof. The weight of the scales forced  Garchomp to crawl clumsily along the ground,   00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.240 only reinforcing its appearance of  monstrosity in the eyes of the public. 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.840 Garchomp could still feel the pain of the impacts,   00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:10.400 like hard slaps against his skin. He  almost wanted to cry from the pain,   00:12:10.400 --> 00:12:16.360 but there were no tear ducts behind his eyes any  more. Somehow, at the same time, something snapped   00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:22.840 inside of Garchomp. He wanted the violence to  stop and no longer cared how it did. And so,   00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:29.200 the transformed human went into a violent rampage  that didn’t recede even when the cops appeared. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:33.560 During this violent massacre, Garchomp had  dissociated from the situation, and felt like   00:12:33.560 --> 00:12:39.120 he could see the Pokemon that his body had begun  to imitate facing off against a horde of enemies.   00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:43.520 He came to picture the other people as wild  pokemon themselves, and from his out-of-body   00:12:43.520 --> 00:12:49.720 vantage point he saw himself as a Pokemon trainer  commanding himself in monster to monster combat. 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:56.960 Go, Garchomp! I choose you! You’ll never lose  to them! Mach punch! Outrage! Earthquake! 00:12:56.960 --> 00:13:03.000 Outside of the subway, there were tanks and other  heavy duty weapons ready to engage if Pokemon-445   00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.880 came to the surface. But unfortunately,  it seemed to remain underground and in   00:13:07.880 --> 00:13:12.760 the presence of civilians. The only options  remaining were to filter poisonous gas into   00:13:12.760 --> 00:13:18.840 the subway to knock the creature out, but there  was still too much risk of innocent casualties. 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.880 Though the cops did take down Garchomp with  a rocket launcher, the incident was highly   00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:28.400 public and the destruction caused in the  firefight was unprecedented and brutal.   00:13:28.400 --> 00:13:32.400 Both Gengar and Lucario learned about the  incident themselves later that evening,   00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:37.920 and it only strengthened their resolve to stay  hidden and avoid contact with the outside world. 00:13:37.920 --> 00:13:42.320 Over the next few days, an elaborate media  cover-up managed to spin the incident as a   00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:47.720 bombing of Rockefeller center unrelated to the  Pokemon event or franchise. This was partially   00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:52.360 due to a certain powerful Foundation pulling  strings to ensure that the publicity of this   00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:57.440 event would not be focused on the humanoid  Pokemon. This shift in reporting was spurred   00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:03.040 along by the distribution of amnestic drugs  throughout Manhattan. As for any blindspots,   00:14:03.040 --> 00:14:07.960 the biggest asset to the cover-up was that  it happened in the Big Apple. Weirder things   00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:12.640 have and are assumed to have happened every  day in The City That Never Sleeps - and the   00:14:12.640 --> 00:14:18.000 jaded mindset of the denizens meant that all  the rumors would fade away in a short while. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.680 But the threat of Pokemonification still loomed  throughout the world, wherever the merchandise   00:14:22.680 --> 00:14:29.400 was freely circulated. Thus, in the modern day, a  new War on Pokemon - a colder and more secretive   00:14:29.400 --> 00:14:34.400 war - was being fought through espionage  and decisive operations. Though it might   00:14:34.400 --> 00:14:38.760 be infeasible to imagine that all memorabilia  and products of The Pokemon Company could be   00:14:38.760 --> 00:14:43.640 seized by the authorities, the SCP Foundation  has assigned much of its resources to scanning   00:14:43.640 --> 00:14:48.760 the existing stock for a catalytic component  that results in the baleful transformation. 00:14:48.760 --> 00:14:54.000 This irreversible condition has been  given the item designation of SCP-5254   00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:58.600 and is considered part of the Keter object  class. Of the thirty four instances of   00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.120 SCP-5254 transformation that occurred  following the incident in New York,   00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:10.760 only Pokemon-094 Gengar and Pokemon-448  Lucario seemed to survive the day. Those   00:15:10.760 --> 00:15:15.200 that were neutralized through violence were  also not the norm, as the vast majority of   00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:21.480 victims of SCP-5254 lost their lives during  the process of the transformation itself. 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:26.600 It’s not hard to imagine the more humanoid and  relatively human-sized Pokemon were a better fit   00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:31.240 for the continued life of the victim, as those  who were changed into creatures with non-human   00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:36.960 body plans fared far less well on average.  Pokemon with an insect-like or serpentine   00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:44.000 form showed a particularly low rate of survival  among SCP-5254 instances, and this was also true   00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:50.160 for pokemon that were more abstract in nature -  such as many pokemon based on inanimate objects. 00:15:50.160 --> 00:15:55.160 The SCP-Foundations official containment  procedures when it comes to SCP-5254 is   00:15:55.160 --> 00:15:59.080 to terminate all instances, not  only because of the irreversible   00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.480 harm and life-threatening condition inflicted  on the victims, but due to the contagious nature   00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:10.360 of the SCP. As long as there is at least one  human transformed by the effects of SCP-5254,   00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:15.480 there is an increased risk of other victims  to experience their own transformation events. 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:19.040 The greater the clustering of  SCP-5254 affected individuals   00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:23.400 and the greater each individual's knowledge  and affinity for the Pokemon franchise is:   00:16:23.400 --> 00:16:28.920 the more rapid the onset and severe the  effects of the SCP-5254 transformation are.   00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:34.000 Extensive testing performed with D-Class  personnel has also shown without a doubt that   00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:39.200 official apparel from the Pokemon Company  is where the start of SCP-5254 begins,   00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:43.920 and that the vast catalog of collectible fictional  creatures is narrowed down to single choice by   00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:48.280 whatever creature the individual most closely  resembles at the time of the transformation. 00:16:48.280 --> 00:16:53.120 The effects are slightly diminished or delayed if  the article of official Pokemon clothing depicts   00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.720 multiple creatures, but there’s no guarantee  that the individual won’t experience a change   00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:01.880 in pigmentation of the skin or the growth  of animalistic features in keeping with the   00:17:01.880 --> 00:17:06.320 most prominently displayed Pokemon. The  lethality of the transformation varies,   00:17:06.320 --> 00:17:12.080 but the alterations happen on a cellular  and genetic level. Autopsies of SCP-5254   00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:19.000 instances have shown that organs and bones might  be entirely replaced by foreign organic material. 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.520 Because very little of the original victim’s  body remains after a transmutation event,   00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:29.120 the extreme anomalous science involved in the  creation of SCP-5254 remains beyond the SCP   00:17:29.120 --> 00:17:33.760 Foundations ability to remedy or combat -  even through the most extensive reconstructive   00:17:33.760 --> 00:17:37.600 surgeries. There is still an ongoing  search for a Person of Interest who is   00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:43.960 known by the internet handle Ser Viper and  believed to be the culprit behind SCP-5254. 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.480 A chain of email correspondence between Ser  Viper and employees of the Pokemon Company   00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.720 have been archived from the Foundation,  and it seems as though the Keter Class SCP   00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.800 was allowed to happen on an official capacity  because The Pokemon Company provided Ser Viper   00:17:57.800 --> 00:18:02.080 with some official merchandise in exchange  for the promise of Pokemon being brought   00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:06.880 to life. The stockholders seemed to agree  that a world where Pokemon were tangible,   00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:11.240 breathing beings was one where even  greater profits could be achieved,   00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:16.480 but the human toll and the reality of the  product was anything but what they expected. 00:18:16.480 --> 00:18:21.000 One detail of the fictional world building in  the Pokemon video games that is often overlooked,   00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:26.800 even by the creators themselves, is the adjacency  between human beings and Pokemon when both exist   00:18:26.800 --> 00:18:32.760 within the same world. Though humans possess the  power to build civilizations and cultivate ideals,   00:18:32.760 --> 00:18:37.120 Pokemon are equally powerful in  the natural and spiritual worlds.   00:18:37.120 --> 00:18:42.040 They occupy a parallel existence that  brings a cyclical balance to the world. 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:46.160 While conventional science could never create  a Pokemon and the real world’s evolutionary   00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:51.080 ecosystem could never produce one, Ser Viper  is most likely someone who realized that the   00:18:51.080 --> 00:18:56.680 key ingredient needed to manifest real-life  Pokemon is humanity itself. His experiments   00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:01.240 into human transmutation are founded on a  philosophical basis rather than a literal   00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:06.000 one - focused on the inherent connection  between Pokemon and people. The world   00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:11.280 cannot have one without the other, and in Ser  Viper’s eyes - the human lives sacrificed to   00:19:11.280 --> 00:19:16.480 bring Pokemon from the fictional world  into this one were merely a redundancy. 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:20.760 A mad scientist with a special interest  in Pokemon, a worldwide franchise with   00:19:20.760 --> 00:19:26.240 more robust marketing arms than Pokemon-68  Machamp, and the hapless runaway victims   00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:31.320 of transmutation who are still unwittingly  spreading the anomaly. The SCP Foundation   00:19:31.320 --> 00:19:38.000 must endeavor to gain control of all three  if it wishes to bring an end to SCP-5254. 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:42.800 Check out the Dr. Bob Patreon and become a junior  researcher today! Now go and watch another entry   00:19:42.800 --> 00:19:51.280 from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-674 The  Exposition Gun Makes Nintendo Real Life.