The projections faded one by one, each O5 member collapsing into wisps of light that dissipated above the circular table. The chamber of Site-01 returned to its usual stillness, lit only by the faint glow of its containment seals. And with that, the meeting finally ended.
I exhaled quietly, letting the tension bleed from my shoulders. As Administrator, my work never truly stopped—meetings only shifted the type of stress I had to deal with.
No sooner had I stepped away from the projection device than a courier rushed into my office, kneeling respectfully as he handed me a sealed folder.
A report.
Doctor Jack Bright's handwriting across the label.
SCP-914: Week 1 Anomalous Item Production Log
I opened it immediately.
Bright's report was thorough—as expected from someone who had spent centuries under the Foundation in the original SCP timeline. Even here, younger and unburdened by immortality, he was still... Bright.
His findings included:
dozens of newly refined anomalous weapons
several pieces of armor granting abnormal resilience
tools enhanced with energy properties
and a full breakdown of how each setting behaved with various materials
He had followed all my instructions perfectly.
And now he wanted permission for the next stage:
Testing on living animals.
Not humans yet.
I read through the ethical considerations, the proposed safety measures, the containment plans, and the full projected output schedule.
It was clean.
Methodical.
Safe—well, as safe as SCP-914 ever allowed anything to be.
I signed the authorization with a flick of my pen.
Permission granted: animal testing allowed. Human testing denied. Continue research.
The courier bowed and left immediately to deliver my approval to Site-27.
With that resolved, I turned my attention to my next priority.
Spatial distortion detection technology.
In the Marvel universe, the Reality Stone never simply sat around waiting to be found. It existed between realms, slipping into hidden dimensional rifts that only aligned during the Convergence—the alignment of the Nine Realms.
And the Convergence was coming soon.
Too soon.
I rubbed my forehead. I had been trying for months to develop detectors from scratch using the limited ancient-era technology we had upgraded. But between new SCPs, the rapid expansion of Sites, weapon development, political planning, and the infinity stone strategies…
I simply didn't have the time.
I hated relying on the System for things I could theoretically build myself.
But time mattered more than pride.
So I opened the System interface.
[Purchase: Spatial Distortion Detection Array – Advanced][Purchase: Multi-Realm Rift Tracker – High Precision][Purchase: Cosmic Dimensional Tear Radar – Type C]
A flood of points vanished.
A flood of technology appeared.
A dozen sleek devices materialized on the reinforced table—each calibrated to detect shifts in the fabric of space, distortions in reality, weak dimensional seams, and fluctuations in gravitational curvature.
These were the tools needed to find the exact pocket dimension where the Aether—the Reality Stone—would appear.
And now… we were finally prepared.
Our teams sprang into action immediately.
Spatial sensors deployed across Europe.
Calibration teams stationed at Site-17, Site-24, and Site-01.
Data sent in real time to my office, processed by Foundation supercomputers (and SCP-079, albeit carefully isolated from the main network).
The Foundation was now actively scanning the planet.
Searching for the converging fracture points.
Looking for the exact place where Jane Foster once stumbled upon the Aether centuries later.
The place where the realms touched.
The place where the Reality Stone would soon awaken.
My eyes scanned the live map, dozens of red dots flickering as detectors pinged early-stage distortions.
We were close.
Very close.
The alignment of the Nine Realms was beginning.
And when the rift opened—
the Infinity Stone would belong to the Foundation.