SCP-4222

SCP-4222 being disentangled from a net.

Item #: SCP-4222

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4222 is to be contained and protected in its natural habitat. Foundation naval assets are to maintain a 5km zone of exclusion around the approximate location of SCP-4222. Civilian vessels approaching the zone are to be redirected using cover story SCP-4222-A ("rescue operation").

MTF Mu-17 ("Sea Shepherds") are tasked with tracking and protecting SCP-4222.

In the event of atypical value fluctuation by City Trust International Bank stock, a marine veterinarian is to assess the health of SCP-4222 within one business day. Personnel assigned to the SCP-4222 containment team are prohibited from purchasing CTIB stock.

Description: SCP-4222 is a Northern bluefin tuna with the City Trust International Bank corporation (CTIB) located in its gut.

SCP-4222 displays no anomalous physical properties other than possessing a financial institution in place of a digestive system. The processes by which SCP-4222 interacts with telecommunication devices and ships/receives materials are not yet understood. Monitoring of wireless transmission indicates that all CTIB transactions are being conducted through SCP-4222; intercepted communications confirm that the company's routine operations are occurring inside of a bluefin tuna. No CTIB offices or employees have been confirmed to exist outside of the tuna.

City Trust International Bank continues to operate, and is financially entangled with 23% of the companies on the New York Stock Exchange. Disruption of the company's operations would cause severe economic instability and threaten the normalcy of the world economy. Research on extracting the corporation from the gut of the entity is underway.

The point in time at which City Trust International Bank went or became inside a tuna is the subject of ongoing investigation.

Addenda:

+ Intercepted communication sample – hide block From: EstevezJ@████.███

To: WilliamsM@████.███

Subject: Nice work Congratulations, your call about the conversion rate from squid proteins to deutchmarks was dead on. Unfortunately, Kelly is still out on sick leave - she's been working out of the lower intestine, and that last round of bowel parasites is crossing right through her. We're going to need someone to lock in those trades by the end of the day, the sooner the better. Get this taken care of, then meet me at the gallbladder after close of trade for a round of enzymes. My treat. -J James Estevez

Junior Vice President

Protein Acquisition and Absorption

City Trust International Bank

North Atlantic Region

~~"Capital isn't scarce; vision is" - Sam Walton ~~

+ Exploration log 4222-001E – hide block An autonomous probe was installed in a bait fish and fed to SCP-4222 to assess its internal anatomy. Mission commences. Tongue and gill interiors appear normal. 4 seconds: Probe enters the throat. Video shows typical interior of bluefin tuna esophagus. Typing and easy listening jazz can be heard. 12 seconds: Probe enters the stomach. Stomach contents appropriate for a bluefin tuna are visible in addition to stomach walls and digestive fluids. The toe of a wingtip shoe is visible protruding from from the stomach wall on the right side of the frame. 13 seconds: A female arm passes through the frame, holding an Android smartphone on which it uses its thumb to type. 14 seconds: A discolored square is visible in the upper part of the frame, with patterns resembling text. Text is illegible, though with formatting that suggests a contract or financial document. Thick fingers emerge from the walls of the stomach and begin stroking the interior of the square. 15 seconds: The outline of a face is visible beneath the stomach acid at the bottom of the frame . The face expresses intense duress and makes motions indicative of drowning.



17 seconds: Stomach wall contracts on the left of the frame as gas bubbles shift in the digestive acid. Cheering and excited vocalization by a group of about 15 voices can be heard in the distance. 18 seconds: Camera reaches the duodenum. 19-278 seconds: Camera rests against sphincter leading into large intestine. Sounds of office equipment and gurgling can be heard periodically. 279 seconds: Camera passes through duodenum into large intestine. Texture and coloration of organ walls are clearly distinct from fish digestive tract; analysis later confirmed that the interior of the large intestine was human rather than piscine. 280-284 seconds: The autonomous probe, which is sized for the bluefin tuna digestive tract, ruptures the wall of the intestine. Heavily muffled, extremely distressed vocalizations can be heard. 285 seconds: Transmission ends as camera is audibly crushed. 4 hours after the conclusion of Exploration 4222-001, reports were detected that Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA had admitted CTIB Chief Financial Officer Jacob Chapman with severe abdominal pain and herniation. Foundation automated surveillance was alerted when hospital records stated that "drone parts" were extracted from Chapman's large intestine. Agents Larson and Reynolds were dispatched to investigate. Contact was lost with the agents shortly after they reported entering the hospital. The agents' implanted tracking devices recorded that they had been transported to the vicinity of SCP-4222; marine rescue teams were deployed, but were unable to locate the agents. Over the next several days, DNA from each of the missing personnel was found in stool samples collected from SCP-4222. Further exploration of any physical space inside SCP-4222 and/or contractually associated with City Trust International Bank requires L4 approval.