Foreword: SCP-4903-2 proposed a method of extraction wherein a constant electrical current would be used to stop its heart, with resuscitation occurring after SCP-4903-2 was removed from SCP-4903-1. This request was approved by Site Command.

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SCP-4903-2: So, I've been thinking…

Researcher Elmsway: Always a dangerous habit.

SCP-4903-2: Yeah, fair. At any rate, I'm a couple million years past my due date. I figure I might as well try the free trial. See you on the other side.



Researcher Elmsway: The other side it is. We're ready when you are.



SCP-4903-2: Just in case I actually stay dead, I've got some excellent last words. Make sure to get these on the record. Make em last. I don't want my legacy to be…

Agent Goodwater: Just turn the damn thing on.

SCP-4903-2: Alright, alright. Maybe I'm just a bit nervous about the first prospect of dying I've had in a little while. More people have been to Russia than I have.

SCP-4903-2 activates the device attached on its chest. Subject convulses violently for a short period before collapsing.



Agent Goodwater: Fuck does that mean?

Researcher Elmsway: Ponder it later. Let's get him out first.



SCP-4903-2 is successfully removed from SCP-4903-1 via a rope harness pulled by Researcher Elmsway, Agent Xing, and Agent Goodwater. Subject is subsequently loaded onto a gurney and transported to a prepared cell.



Agent Xing: Nothing unexpected. Proceed.



The device attached to SCP-4903-2 is deactivated by Researcher Elmsway, and Agent Goodwater picks up a defibrillator.



Agent Goodwater: Clear!



Agent Goodwater applies the defibrillator to SCP-4903-2 and resuscitates the subject. SCP-4903-2 notably does not experience any of the typical disorientation inherent with such a procedure.



SCP-4903-2: Figured I'd leave you with some nonsense to make sense of.



Researcher Elmsway: (Laughs). Welcome to the other side.



Approximately six seconds after SCP-4903-2 was revived, an anomalous force was exerted on SCP-4903-2, pulling the subject directly towards SCP-4903 at speeds exceeding 1645kph. SCP-4903-2 was pulled through twelve walls, breaching containment of SCP-2586 and SCP-080. By its own account, the resulting impacts injured SCP-4903-2 severely but did not lead to loss of consciousness.



The events following SCP-4903-2's return to SCP-4903-1 were captured by the containment cell security camera. The impact of SCP-4903-2 with the containment chamber walls caused loss of video feed for twelve seconds and loss of sound for twenty minutes. Restoration of video feed revealed SCP-4903-2 appearing to yell and assault SCP-4903 until sector lockdown was announced. Researcher Elmsway was able to enter SCP-4903's containment chamber immediately before the lockdown. SCP-4903-2 became visibly less agitated when Researcher Elmsway entered the room. Researcher Elmsway recounted his conversation with SCP-4903-2 for the purposes of this document.



SCP-4903-2: That should have worked. That was the fucking loophole. Who designs something like this and then adds a specific stipulation to close the only goddamn way out? I beat it fair and square.

Researcher Elmsway: Don't lose hope. Every anomaly has a fundamental weakness, or this world would have been destroyed a long time ago.

SCP-4903-2: Looks like you missed an effect or two.

Researcher Elmsway: Or two?

SCP-4903-2: Figure of speech. But riddle me this. What makes you think that you know every property of this purgatory? What if it turns into Disneyland if exposed to the right frequency of radiation? What if it releases a pantheon of hostile gods if you cut the cords? The only truth I've learned in here is that I understand nothing of the anomalous, and I think it laughable that anybody believes they can.



Researcher Elmsway: We can't anticipate everything. Perhaps every conversation has the chance to complete a foul ritual and bring about the end times. Or perhaps we can act on the assumption that everything, no matter how strange it appears to us now, has some logical explanation that can be eventually discovered through the scientific process. I would prefer to believe the second.

SCP-4903-2 I didn't believe this would happen to me. Tell me one thing. Did that change my fate?

Researcher Elmsway: No. But if optimism is what keeps me going so I can free you eventually, then so be it.

SCP-4903-2: How long have I been in here from your perspective?

Researcher Elmsway: Twenty-one years, five months, and eleven days.

SCP-4903-2: Don't give up and forget about me.

Researcher Elmsway: Trust me on this. I am not going to forget you.

SCP-4903-2: And trust me on this. This is a well-founded fear. I do not blame you. But the fact remains that even if you manage to remember me for the rest of your life, even if the Foundation remembers me by some miracle until it falls, eventually I will be abandoned here. By any means necessary, and I do include anomalous means in that, do not let me fade into this hell forever.

Researcher Elmsway: I will remember you, but I will not break Foundation regulation by using unapproved anomalous means to do so. My first duty is to the Foundation, not to any individual.

SCP-4903-2: Thank you.