A violent storm rocks a merchant ship back
and forth. Huge waves roll over the deck and threaten
to capsize the vessel. A merchant sailor grips the railing, trying
with all his might not to be thrown overboard. With a loud twang a cable snaps loose. A hand suddenly grabs his shoulder. He turns around with a fright to see that
it's one of his shipmates. He points towards the bow of the ship and
yells over the roar of the storm that they need to try and repair it. The two men make their way to the front of
the ship and the sailor starts working to fix the broken cable. He looks up to see that his mate is no longer
working. He’s staring straight past him, and there’s
fear in his eyes. The sailor turns around to see a massive tentacle
sticking out of the sea. The huge appendage is mind boggling in its
size. He can only stand there, marveling at it,
until it begins violently smashing against the deck. The sailor dives out of the way just before
the tentacle crashes down right where he was standing… where his crewmate was still locked
in fear. The ship is in chaos as more tentacles appear
and slam the deck over and over. One cracks the deck right next to him, sending
him flying. He comes to moments later in a wreckage pile. Nothing else has changed though. Whatever this monster is, it's not stopping
its assault on the ship. The sailor stands up and picks up a sharpened
piece of wood from the pile he was lying in. He runs over to the nearest tentacle and thrusts
the sharpened stick into its flesh. There’s a mighty roar from the sea and the
tentacles stop their onslaught. They go limp before sliding into the sea. The sailor looks around at the carnage that’s
been wrought. Dead bodies and debris litter the deck. He moves to check on his crewmates when right
in front of him, bursting from the sea, is the head of the biggest squid he has ever
seen. A massive beast that must be a thousand meters
long. Whatever he had seen before of this creature,
was truly just the tip of the iceberg. With another roar the creature lifts up out
of the water and wraps its arms around the ship. The sailor only has time to duck down and
close his eyes before the entire ship is pulled down beneath the waves. With a gasp the sailor breaks the surface,
screaming and gulping for air. He’s alone now, treading water in the middle
of the ocean during a storm. But not for long. The squid reappears, its head slowly rising
out of the water just in front of him. It’s head, the size of a house, has two
giant, uncaring black eyes that seem to both see him and not. It extends a tentacle toward him as it leans
back in the water, exposing its huge, beaked mouth. It wraps its powerful arms around him and
starts to pull him towards it when suddenly there’s an explosion. The squid has been struck by something. Both the sailor and the creature turn to see
the most incredible thing. A battleship is coming towards them, slowly
rising out the ocean as if it were somehow submerged. And it's firing on the creature. The squid drops him and starts heading towards
the ship. This is going to be a battle for the ages. While this sailor had no idea what he was
witnessing, the SCP Foundation was all too familiar. This was yet another incident of SCP-2846…
also known as… The Squid and the Sailor. But first, a quick personal request from me. I need your help to spread the word about
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you more and more SCP anomalies. Now, back to our file. SCP-2846 is the name given to a set of phenomena
that occur in the Gulf-Atlantic region. These phenomena consist of interactions between
two entities, known as SCP-2846-A and SCP-2846-B. 2846-A is a gigantic, aquatic creature that
resembles a cephalopod, though no similar organism has been discovered that is even
close to approaching its size, with estimates placing 2846-A at being at least 950 meters
in length. This creature appears in areas of deep water
during storms and will attack civilian vessels, especially cruise ships and merchant vessels. These attacks are sporadic and follow no known
patterns other than that they take place during inclement weather. They are sudden and without warning, and will
nearly always result in the complete destruction of the targeted vessel if they’re not intercepted. Attempting to stop these attacks is SCP-2846-B,
a large seafaring vessel that in its current form, resembles a Pennsylvania-Class super-dreadnought
battleship, though it appears hazy in photos and videos, as if it translucent, and eye
witness observers have described the ship as looking “vaporous.” Just like SCP-2846-A, this ship will appear
from deep water, surfacing near the site of a 2846-A event. The vessel will fire on the creature, drawing
its attention, and the two will then engage in a heated battle. The two will continue fighting until SCP-2846-A
is rendered immobile or completely incapacitated, after which it will sink down into the sea. Following its victory, the ship too will then
submerge and disappear beneath the waves. SCP-2846-A is believed to have existed for
thousands of years, and may be even older than that. The creature’s existence was first recorded
in an Icelandic saga from the 13th century, but the Foundation’s first documented sighting
came in 1905 when an agent working for the Foundation, one Admiral Reginald Von Allen,
spotted the creature surfacing with a whale wrapped effortlessly in its tentacles. Soon after spotting it, a ship-of-the-line
surfaced as well to do battle with the creature. The Admiral tried to signal the crew that
he could see on the deck of the ship, but the vessel descended back below the surface
before any communication could take place. In 1935, the mysterious ship appeared again,
near the SCPS Hildegard, and this time the anomalous vessel was the one to initiate communication. Some of the crew of the ship, designated as
SCP-2846-B1 through B915, came aboard the Foundation ship and engaged in a conversation
with Captain Levi Hanson. SCP-2846-B1 identified himself as David Thomas
Jones of the Royal Navy, and went on to explain that their ship had been sunk by a monster
resembling SCP-2846-A over 300 years in the past. He described how after sinking into the darkness
of the sea, he awoke on a mysterious shore where he met with a woman who referred to
herself as Calypso, the goddess of the sea. She explained how she had sealed the leviathans
that prowled the depths of the ocean in a pit, but that over time, the seal she had
placed on it had begun to weaken. A titan had escaped and taken the form of
the most deadly creature in the sea… the kraken. Calypso feared that the creature would attempt
to further destroy the seal and release its monstrous brethren, a disaster that would
result in the end of all human life. She requested that Jones pursue the creature
along with his crew for as long as needed, and in return they would be granted immortality. Jones agreed, and his endless battle against
the anomaly began that day. The reason he had now come aboard a foundation
ship was directly related to this task. SCP-2846-A had grown more powerful over the
years, larger, and bolder too. He and his men couldn’t die, but many more
would if they were no longer able to subdue the beast. He needed something from the SCP Foundation… He needed a bigger boat. Following this conversation, and seeing the
value in allowing Jones and his crew to continue their mission, the Foundation commandeered
a newly built Pennsylvania-class super-dreadnought battleship from the US Navy - The USS Montana. The ship was sunk 15 kilometers from a Foundation
naval facility in Cuba. Thirty hours later, the ship surfaced from
the sea, though it was now more heavily armed than the USS Montana had been. As part of the agreement, SCP-2846-B was fitted
with an explosive device that is capable of completely destroying the ship should the
crew for some reason ever turn their guns on Foundation or other human targets. In 2013, an important discovery was made after
a tracker was attached to SCP-2846-A. Deep in the Atlantic, roughly 1,300 nautical miles
west of Florida, a depression in the ocean floor with a large iron object on top of it
was found. 2846 seems to return to this site over and
over where it has been observed clearing the rocks from the area. And it appears that it is almost finished
with its task. The iron plate on top of the depression is
nearly exposed. It’s not known exactly what’s underneath,
but whatever it is, it’s hot, very hot, with temperatures near it measured at over
4,000 degrees celsius. It’s feared that whatever the creature is
trying to unearth, it would lead to an XK end of the world scenario, and it is imperative
that it not be allowed to do so. And there’s more bad news when it comes
to SCP-2846. In 2014, the Foundation ship SCPS Pristine
was pursuing a large underwater organism assumed to be SCP-2846-A and signaled to 2846-B to
surface and dispatch the creature, in what had become the normal operating procedure. Something strange happened though, and the
Pristine was suddenly struck by a mysterious force. As SCP-2846-B began to engage with the now
surfaced 2846-B, the crew of the Pristine reported seeing numerous eyes appearing and
disappearing in the water below the ship. They had never seen anything like it. The ship was struck again as satellite images
spotted an enormous entity directly beneath the ship. The Pristine began taking on water and the
crew was forced to abandon ship. Two other SCP ships in the area fired on the
strange, many-eyed entity, causing it to once again disappear into the depths of the ocean
as SCP-2846-B banished 2846-A to the ocean once again. Due to the ongoing danger of SCP-2846-A, it
has been classified as Keter. In the event of an appearance, Mobile Task
Force Tau-11, also known as the Can Openers, who are stationed aboard the SCPS Nikolai
are to utilize a special transmission device to signal the crew of SCP-2846-B and maintain
contact with them throughout their engagement with the creature. Tau-11’s primary mission is to minimize
civilian exposure to the anomaly, and any non Foundation ships that come in contact
with either 2846 entity are to be moved from the area, and all aboard the craft are to
be given Class C amnestics. The SCPS Nikolai’s captain has been given
permission to fire on SCP-2846-A to assist in the fight, and should 2846-B turn hostile
for any reason, the explosive device on board is to be detonated. It is still unknown just the entity that attacked
and destroyed the SCPS Pristine was, but the ease with which it dispensed of the vessel
has many in the Foundation worried that SCP-2846-A has already been able to release one of its
brethren from its prison, and at this point, stopping them may no longer be an option. Now go and watch another entry from the files
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