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After a strange night in the city, many, many
people are dead.

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A biker bar is stuffed with bullet-riddled
corpses of Hell’s Angels.

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In the city aquarium, several workers and
a night guard float dead in a huge tank, being

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picked at by triggerfish and sharks.

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At a construction site, several men stand
frozen, their faces locked in forever grimaces

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of anguish.

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Just outside town, the bodies of two police
officers lay scorched beyond recognition.

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And even further out, the body of an old farmer
hangs from the twisted wire of a fence.

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What could possibly be behind this town-wide
carnage?

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How could one being be the cause of so much
death?

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To find out, we need only rewind a few hours...

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6 PM.

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Nobody has any idea of the horrors the night
has in store for them.

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But if they knew about one another, they might
have some idea of the clues.

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The little signs that point to something being
just a bit...

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off.

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Over in the biker bar, the big, tough, leather-clad
men, their hair tied back with bandanas and

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their beards twisted into Viking locks, laugh
and shoot pool together.

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They’ve completed some good scores lately
- Nobody messes with them.

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They own these streets.

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It’s their strength, their intimidation,
and most important of all, The cache of guns

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in the back of the bar.

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One biker among them hears something strange,
though.

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Something rustling in the back room.

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Has someone infiltrated the armory?

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He pulls out his side piece, a revolver with
a pearlescent handle, and barges into the

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armory.

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But the room is empty.

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Not just of people, but of weapons.

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All the gun racks are laid bare.

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His heart drops into his stomach.

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Seconds later, he’s running back into the
bar, demanding that the music be shut off.

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He sounds the alarm, and bikers start scrambling
- as though the missing guns might be hiding

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under the tables.

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Little do they know that the truth is far,
far stranger...

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Over at the city aquarium, they’re wrapping
up for the day, seeing off their remaining

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few customers.

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Janitors are starting their nightly rounds
as night guards suit up and prep for patrol.

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One more marine biologist who works full-time
studying the aquarium’s many creatures isn’t

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quite ready to go home for the night.

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She’s made herself a new pot of coffee and
is on her way to the octopus tank, containing

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several of the hyper-intelligent, mysterious
mollusks.

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But when she arrives, she sees a startling
sight: All the octopi are gone.

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Shocked and horrified, she calls over some
janitors and a night guard.

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There are a few other possibilities: Either
these slimy escape artists had figured out

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a way to get out and slither away, or someone
had stolen them.

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She’s in a full panic now - these octopi
are vital to her research.

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But when the others arrive, there’s no trace
of the creatures.

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There is, however, a strange pair of tiny,
wet footsteps heading towards the tank.

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Before any of them can react to that, they
hear a wet slapping sound behind them...

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Over at a construction site, work is just
ramping up.

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Plans are being drawn up for the night’s
work, and construction equipment is being

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vanned in.

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The foreman of the construction site is pleased
with how everything is progressing, and if

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everyone does their job right, they’ll have
all their work completed on schedule.

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He lives in this state of blissful optimism
until one of his workers runs over to him

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in a panic: Someone has stolen four bags of
cement.

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The exact four bags of cement they need for
setting the foundation.

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As the foreman calls the company manager to
profusely apologize for the delays, the construction

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workers scramble around the site, looking
anywhere they can for the four bags.

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It’s not uncommon for equipment to get stolen
from construction sites, but bags of cement?

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That’s strange.

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Though not nearly as strange as the creature
approaching the foreman, step by careful step,

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its hard, grey skin scratching against itself.

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Meanwhile, a pair of police officers in a
squad car receive a call over their radio.

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There are reports of a break-in at a nuclear
graveyard across town.

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A large stone dome covering up a mess of radioactive
material from when the city used to have a

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nuclear power plant.

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Someone tripped the alarm on the perimeter
gate, and someone needs to get there and apprehend

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the intruder before they do something they
seriously regret.

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The officers arrive not so long after, and
see a hole cut into the fence.

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But the hole is weirdly low and weirdly small:
Was the person who broke in a small child?

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That’s even more reason to hurry.

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The two officers pull out their flashlights
and head up to the gate, opening it and walking

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through.

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Just as they’re starting to wonder whether
they should have brought some kind of radiation

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guard, they feel a strange, warm sensation
on their skin.

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Like a tanning bed.

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Like blistering sunlight... in the middle
of the night.

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They turn and try to see what’s walking
towards them.

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The air seems to distort and wobble, even
in the dark.

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Then, there’s a flash of bright, eye-searing
light... and both the officers scream.

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On a farm nestled in the Styx outside the
town, an old farmer is carrying out his twilight

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rounds.

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He’s hammering in fence posts, making sure
the sheep, cows, and chickens are fenced off.

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He’s just about to turn in for the night
when he sees a goat - his goat - wandering

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out in the fields beyond his own.

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He doesn’t know how this thing escaped,
but in any case, he needs to get it back.

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As he walks to the edge of the farm, he finds
out why: Someone has ripped away all the barbed

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wire from a section of the outer fence.

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The wire is completely gone, it doesn’t
make sense.

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His mind fills with questions, and one awful,
monstrous answer is standing right behind

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him.

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Then, all across town...

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The chaos begins.

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Back in the biker bar, there’s a quiet tapping
amidst the chaos of heavy leather boots tromping

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back and forth.

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The tap, tap, tap of metal against wooden
floorboards.

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The bikers turn in unison to the back of the
bar, where something small and squat is limping

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out of the shadows.

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When it steps into the light, the bikers can
hardly believe what they’re seeing.

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It’s a teddy bear - a living, walking teddy
bear... made out of guns.

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Its body is an amalgam of stocks and ammo
belts.

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It walks on a pair of spindly rifle barrels
for legs.

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Its eyes are scopes and laser sights.

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And perhaps most striking are its arms.

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The left arm is an Uzi submachine gun, and
the right is an AA-12 fully automatic, drum

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barrel shotgun.

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The bikers recognize every gun as their own.

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But before their many minds can compute another
thought, the Gun Bear raises its shotgun and

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Uzi arms and begins blasting.

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Bullet after bullet tears through the bikers,
dropping them one by one.

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Some scramble for the door, but it doesn’t
save them.

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In a matter of moments, as gunshots ring throughout
the bar, every single biker is dead.

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Over at the aquarium, things aren’t going
much better.

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The marine biologist and her coworkers turn
to see a strange figure standing atop the

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tank.

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It’s in the shape of a teddy bear, but the
biologist can clearly see that it’s about

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five octopi fused together in some nightmarish
and unnatural conglomeration.

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The tentacles stretch out and grab the aquarium
staff, lifting them with impossible strength

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and forces them down into the tank.

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They struggle and thrash against the slimy
tentacles holding them in place underwater,

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but it’s no use.

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The octopi bear is in total control.

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Bubbles rise as the unfortunate aquarium staff
struggle, but those bubbles eventually stop.

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Everyone in the tank floats, dead.

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The work of the octopi bear isn’t over yet,
though.

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It drags the waterlogged corpses of the marine
biologist, the cleaners, and the night guard

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across the aquarium floor, leaving a wet trail.

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Eventually, it throws the bodies into the
main aquarium tank - and watches with a slimy,

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blank expression as the fish begin to feed.

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Back at the construction site, the workers
are frozen - but not in fear.

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The entity that stepped out of the shadows
of the construction site is a teddy bear made

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of solid cement, constructed out of the four
stolen bags.

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The second the foreman saw it, he called in
the other workers to see, dooming them to

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share his fate.

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As some of them reach into their jackets to
grab phones, eager to take photos, just to

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see if this truly is happening...

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the cement teddy bear screams.

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It’s an awful sound, the screech of metal
on metal, like a broken cement mixer spinning

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off kilter and threatening to explode.

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But it doesn’t explode.

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It just keeps screeching, and as it screeches,
the workers and the foreman are frozen in

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place.

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As much as they try with all their might,
it’s like their bodies are turning into

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concrete.

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No, it isn’t like that at all - that’s
exactly what’s happening!

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Their skin is taking on a slate grey hue,
becoming rigid and brittle.

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Little by little, their bodies freeze and
harden.

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Their eyes go after all the rest - As they
watch themselves becoming living statues,

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trapped forever in the shell of their own
bodies.

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The cement teddy bear walks among them, and
it begins to dance.

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Over at the nuclear graveyard, another two
corpses are about to be interred.

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That flash of light is actually a localized
blast of radiation that would make Chornobyl

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look positively quaint, frying the officers
on a cellular level in less time than it would

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take for a camera to take a photograph.

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They lay on the ground, skin burnt, vomiting
profusely.

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They twitch and squirm, not quite dead but
trapped in a void of unimaginable pain, every

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thought burned out of their head.

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Their killer walks towards them on tiny, flat
feet.

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As you may have predicted, it’s a teddy
bear - a living, walking teddy bear cobbled

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together out of radioactive material.

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What it’s done to the two police officers
is horrifying, but if it gets into the city

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proper, the death toll will quickly climb
into the thousands, if not the hundreds of

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thousands.

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But the violence and terror of the night is
not quite over yet.

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We return to the farm, where a farmer can
only just make out a tiny figure stomping

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across the grass toward him.

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He hears it before he sees it and whips around,
the strange jangling of metal against metal.

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He immediately regrets not bringing his gun,
but it’s too late for regrets now.

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He can see it now, the freakish little teddy
bear made out of twisted barbed wire.

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Tendrils of the wire strip away from the teddy
bear’s body and launch towards him like

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angry vipers.

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They wrap around his body and limbs, around
his neck, and tie him to a fencepost.

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He tries to struggle, but every movement hurts
as more barbed wire cocoons him.

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Out on the field, the goat looks on with complete
indifference.

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What you just witnessed is a series of horrifying
impossibilities - unless, of course, you’re

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dealing with SCP-1048, a singularly strange
anomaly known as the Builder Bear.

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But please don’t let the apparent whimsy
of that name fool you - what we’re dealing

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with here is an extremely dangerous Keter
class anomaly.

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But before we get there, we need to explore
some background information on the entity

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before it revealed its darker side.

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SCP-1048 is a relatively small and unassuming
teddy bear, standing at only 33 centimeters

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tall.

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Researchers have studied the materials and
composition behind the Builder Bear, and found

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that nothing about it is inherently anomalous
- but despite this, the Bear appears to be

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fully sapient and capable of moving of its
own accord.

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While it is incapable of speech, it can communicate
through some small gestures - all of which

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are extremely sweet and affectionate.

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Yes, you heard that correctly.

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One of the most surprising things about SCP-1048,
if you’re only familiar with it by reputation,

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is the fact that most people who directly
encounter it find it endearing and even adorable.

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It shows affection to human subjects by hugging
their lower leg, dancing, jumping in place,

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and even drawing child-like crayon pictures
for Foundation janitorial staff.

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Before the darker incidents began, almost
everyone reported positive feelings towards

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SCP-1048 - even D-Class personnel who had
tested positive for sociopathic tendencies.

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Despite its seemingly charming exterior, the
inner workings of the Builder Bear’s mind

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still remain a mystery.

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Attempts to communicate with the anomaly directly
have failed because, although it is capable

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of making simple gestures indicating “yes”
and “no” answers, it will often simply

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ignore certain questions.

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Specifically, it will completely stonewall
any questions about its origins, which is

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partly why the Foundation knows so little
except for what it can directly observe.

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Whether the Builder Bear declines to answer
because it doesn’t know or because it doesn’t

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want to share is an open question.

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And while the Builder Bear is capable of drawing
pictures, these are purely for the aesthetic

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value of the pictures themselves, not a means
of communication.

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It’s yet another mystery for the enigmatic
Bear.

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Seven months after first being contained in
Site 24, Foundation personnel were able to

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first observe the Builder Bear’s secondary
anomalous effect - the one that gave it its

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namesake: Its ability to create crude living
replicas of itself from various materials.

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This would be fine and dandy if not for the
fact that these replicas are invariably extremely

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hostile and dangerous.

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Dr. Carver, the head researcher on the SCP-1048
case, posited that, in hindsight, the reason

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that the Builder Bear behaved so affectionately
to staff around Site 24 was to lull its victims

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into a false sense of security, making it
easier to collect materials for its secondary

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anomalous pursuits.

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Dr. Carver outlined case studies of the three
most dangerous SCP-1048 creations that have

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manifested in Site 24 since the Builder Bear
started its grim construction project.

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These creations have been labeled SCP-1048-A,
SCP-1048-B, and SCP-1048-C. I’d like to

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personally warn you that the accounts of these
three devious bears are disturbing beyond

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belief, even by the standards of anomalies
studied by the SCP Foundation.

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During the first incident, SCP-1048 was spotted
walking with SCP-1048-A down a hallway in

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Site 24.

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1048-A is similar to its creator in size and
shape, except that it’s made entirely from

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human ears.

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Dr. Carver was immediately alerted to the
creature’s presence, and he dispatched a

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security team to apprehend both anomalies.

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However, what seemed like it would be a simple
mission instead became a nightmarish case

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of mass death.

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As soon as the security team surrounded the
two bears, 1048-A let out an impossibly loud,

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ear-piercing shriek that induced physical
pain in everyone within a ten-meter range.

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But we’re not just talking about hearing
loss here.

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Everyone within hearing range began collapsing,
growing ears all over their body, covering

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every inch of their skin.

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The two bears managed to escape during the
chaos, and Dr. Carver arrived just too late

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to make any difference - though, luckily for
him, he was at least able to avoid becoming

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an earbomination.

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This incident resulted in personnel deaths
in the double digits.

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The cause of death?

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Mainly suffocation from all the ears that
had grown in the throats and lungs of all

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those affected.

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1048-A has still not been contained.

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While 1048-A was hardly a walk in the park,
1048-B was, in this humble scientist’s opinion,

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considerably more revolting.

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I will have to tread carefully here, as the
creation of 1048-B is an extremely traumatic

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incident for an active-duty member of Foundation
personnel who still works at Site 24 to this

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day.

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In order to remain within the bounds of good
taste, we’ll say that 1048-B looks like

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a frightening cross between a plush teddy
bear and a human infant.

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Before the creation of 1048-B, the anonymous
researcher I mentioned earlier was heavily

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pregnant.

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Afterwards, she was not.

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The less said about that, the better.

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Moving on.

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The third of the documented SCP-1048 creations
is perhaps even more frightening and dangerous

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than the other two.

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1048-C was first spotted by Dr. Carver himself,
lurking in his office.

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1048-C is another living teddy bear, made
entirely from rusted scrap metal and jagged

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blades.

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The second that Dr. Carver spotted the metal
monster, it got away - fatally slicing and

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dicing its way through a number of Site 24
guards during its escape.

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Like the other two, it has not been sighted
since the incident and is presumed to be still

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active somewhere in Site 24 - potentially
ready to pop out at any moment.

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It brings a whole new meaning to the term
“Bad News Bears.”

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Those well-versed in the anomalous files of
the SCP Foundation may be feeling a strange

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flicker of memory right now.

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That’s because SCP-1048 isn’t the only
anomalous teddy bear out there, and its counterpart,

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SCP-2295, the Bear with a Heart of Patchwork,
seems to be its perfect opposite in terms

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of temperament.

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It goes without saying that SCP-1048 and its
terrifying copies are a menace to everyone

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it encounters, but the Bear with a Heart of
Patchwork endeavors to save injured human

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beings whenever it can.

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If this benevolent bear discovers a person
with a severe injury or a disease causing

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organ failure, it will immediately leap into
action.

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Like a cuddly trauma surgeon, SCP-2295 will
take a needle and thread and begin making

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a fully functional plush organ out of its
own material.

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It will then attempt to perform transplant
surgery, and if the surgery is successful,

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this patchwork organ will function exactly
as a regular one.

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The bear has saved many lives like this.

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In fact, SCP-2295 is so benevolent that, in
cases where the surgery fails, it’s been

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witnessed doubled over and crying over the
loss of life.

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This is a courtesy that you cannot expect
if your life is brought to an abrupt demise

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by one of SCP-1048’s many copies.

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The containment procedures for SCP-1048 have
undergone considerable evolution as the Foundation

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learned more about the entity’s anomalous
effects.

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Originally classified as Safe before its secondary
characteristics manifested, the anomaly is

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now classified as Keter.

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Its original containment procedures are also
shockingly lax given what we know now - 1048

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was given free rein to wander around Site
24 and interact with personnel to its heart’s

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content.

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A policy that we now know had terrible consequences.

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Technically speaking, SCP-1048 technically
isn’t contained.

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Many believe that it still lurks somewhere
inside Site 24, though nobody can know this

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for sure.

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The orders for all active Foundation personnel
is to apprehend SCP-1048 on sight and to immediately

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destroy any of its deadly creations with extreme
prejudice.

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The dangers posed by SCP-1048 are so great
that even non-anomalous teddy bears are banned

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from Site 24 to prevent any potential confusion.

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Any object resembling a bear is to be reported
to the site security team to avoid a potential

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mass casualty event.

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Dr. Carver appended a note to SCP-1048’s
containment procedures, saying, “This is

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not a joke.

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We have no idea what SCP-1048's full capabilities
are.

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Who knows how many of the damn things are
out there by now?”

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It’s a disquieting thought, to say the least.

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The Builder Bear is one of the most peculiar
and dangerous self-perpetuating anomalies

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out there, with incredibly unpredictable abilities
across its different iterations.

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If you want to stay safe, my recommendation
is to be wary of any stuffed bears you may

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see lying around.

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If you’re lucky, it’s just another adorable
plush creature.

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If you’re unlucky, well, I hope you’ve
made all the proper arrangements…

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