The moment the words left Dr. Kondraki's mouth, the entire world seemed to fall silent.
"SCP-166… is the daughter of Dr. Clef and LTE-9927-Black."
Gasps. Frozen stares. Silence.
And then—an explosion of chatter erupted in the live feed.
> "Wait WHAT?! She's the daughter of Clef AND a powerful anomaly?" "This is insane! We knew she was weird—but that weird?!" "No way Clef, that chaotic lunatic, actually has a daughter!"
Inside S.H.I.E.L.D., the shock was no less intense. Agents exchanged stunned glances, their screens reflecting the stream of chaotic comments.
Nick Fury was speechless.
He had seen many incomprehensible things in his time—aliens, gods, time-travelers—but this revelation shook the foundation of his understanding. Clef, a man always cloaked in mystery, now had a past even darker than expected.
And not just any past…
A past involving the creation of a reality-bending demi-goddess.
---
Onscreen, James calmly took a seat across from Dr. Kondraki, his face still, but his eyes sharp—pulling in every detail like a black hole swallowing light.
"So, what happened back then?" he asked.
Snap. Fwoosh.
Kondraki lit another cigarette. Smoke coiled around him like fog in a battlefield.
"It started with a strange radio signal," he began. "Twenty years ago, Site-34 picked up something unusual. Just the sound of… churning water."
He let the silence linger before continuing.
> "We thought it was nothing. Maybe a glitch. But twelve hours later, it came back… stronger."
The team tracked the signal. It led them to a town in Cornwall called Northgate.
James narrowed his eyes. "Cornwall…?"
In S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury's expression changed.
He remembered that name.
"The Cornwall Incident," he muttered, recalling the GOC's top-secret file on SCP-166. Could this be the origin?
---
Back on the screen, Kondraki continued.
> "We sent a team led by Commander Allen Hall. Their mission was to investigate the signal source."
He paused, looking directly at James.
"Want to guess what they found?"
James didn't respond.
"Then guess what they smelled," Kondraki said, a grim smile playing on his lips.
"The stench of death. Rotting corpses."
> "The entire town reeked like a mass grave. We found a dead horse blocking the road. Even that seemed like a mercy, compared to what came next."
At 3 a.m., a quarter mile in, they found the first body. Dehydrated. Lifeless. Like a mummy.
By 5 a.m., the team was overwhelmed.
Reinforcements were called from Site-56. Too many bodies. Too much horror.
---
"By the end of it," Kondraki said slowly, "1,200 people were dead. Civilians. Locals. And 200 agents from the GOC's elite 'Ichabod Project.'"
The world went still again.
> "Did he say... 200 agents?!"
> "That's a full-blown massacre!"
> "Wait, the GOC lost 200 of their best people in one incident?!"
Inside S.H.I.E.L.D., Natasha Romanoff looked horrified. "Two hundred... and they specialized in eliminating reality benders?!"
Nick Fury exhaled slowly. "That means… the target wasn't just dangerous. It was godlike."
---
James's eyes narrowed. "So the GOC called the threat 'Type Green'?"
Kondraki nodded. "Exactly. That's their term for reality benders. And this one... was beyond anything they'd seen."
He took another drag of his cigarette, then added, "And yes—SCP-166's mother, the one the GOC called 'The Goddess'—was the one responsible."
The words hit hard.
SCP-166's mother wiped out an entire town and two hundred elite agents—alone.
---
Kondraki leaned back, smoke curling around him.
> "After the incident, we arrived at the town. Everything was dead. Every animal. Every insect. Only eight humans survived—six pregnant women, a man, and a baby."
James sat up slightly. "Six pregnant women?"
He was already putting the pieces together.
Kondraki continued.
> "Flash floods had devastated the area, but oddly, the lake was bone dry. It's like the water vanished… not just from the lake, but from people too."
> "Those mummified bodies—they'd been drained. Of every drop of moisture."
James's eyes darkened. "What caused it?"
Kondraki exhaled sharply. "Two lovers."
> "They were both reality benders. Referred to as A and B in our files. They had an… abnormal relationship."
> "They flooded the town. Then… un-flooded it. Wiped out everything in the process."
---
Inside S.H.I.E.L.D., Natasha stared at the screen. "Could it be Clef… and her?"
Nick Fury answered before she could finish. "Yes. That's exactly what it is."
Dr. Clef wasn't just a father. He was a reality bender.
And not just any reality bender.
A Stage 4.
---
James blinked. "Stage four?"
Kondraki grinned. "You know the three stages, right?"
"Denial. Tentative control. Stabilization," James recited.
"Well," Kondraki said, "there's one more."
"Stage Four: Childhood God."
---
Those words shocked every single viewer.
Childhood God.
A phrase so simple… yet so terrifying.
---
"The fourth stage," Kondraki explained, "is when power corrupts entirely. These benders start to lose empathy. They believe themselves to be gods. And they begin acting like it."
He looked James dead in the eye.
> "That's what Clef and the Goddess became."
"They weren't just benders—they were gods in their infancy."
James absorbed the weight of the words.
> "That explains why Gaea—SCP-166—is so powerful."
> "Born from two Stage Four benders… she is the child of gods."
---
In Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One's eyes glowed with concern.
"A god… born of humans?" she whispered. "This rewrites everything we thought we knew."
She had seen what reality benders could do. But ascending to divinity?
That was another level entirely.
---
Far across the galaxy, in Asgard, Loki watched with rage and disbelief.
> "Gods are born gods!" he snarled. "They are not made!"
He stood, fists trembling.
To him, godhood was sacred—bestowed by blood, by birthright.
The thought that a mere human could become one?
Unforgivable.
---
And in the cosmic silence of the Watcher's realm, Uatu, the ancient observer, narrowed his eyes.
"Childhood gods…" he murmured.
He had watched stars be born and galaxies crumble. But never had he seen this:
Humans—ascending to the divine.
"Fascinating…"
---
Back in the Foundation office, James sat still, but his thoughts roared.
If this was true…
If Clef and the Goddess gave birth to SCP-166…
If they destroyed an entire town during a lover's quarrel…
Then what was Gaea capable of?
And why was Clef asking for James's help now?
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To be continued...
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