SCP Foundation Contains SCP-096 in the Backrooms

SCP Explained - Story & Animation

The SCP Foundation attempts the ultimate containment strategy for SCP-096, the Shy Guy: Banishing it into the infinite labyrinth of the Backrooms. But when its prey is scattered across different levels, SCP-096 must navigate the endless, monster-infested concrete wasteland of Level 1. Watch as the Shy Guy unleashes its unstoppable rage against Clumps, Smilers, Skin Stealers, and more in a brutal gauntlet of Backrooms entities.  LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to SCP Explained - Story & Animation  Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scpexplainedofficial  Join our Discord, share your SCP art, submit video feedback, chat with other fans...: https://discord.gg/scpexplained   Please let us know in the comments which SCP's we should cover next   Narrated by https://www.youtube.com/c/hitherehunter  Content relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scp-wiki.net and its authors.   #scpexplained #scp #animation

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00:00It seemed too brilliant to fail.

00:02Ever since the SCP Foundation perfected its dimensional displacement technology

00:07and created a stable two-way path into the back rooms,

00:10they seemingly discovered an infinite number of uses for it.

00:14From extra storage space to a reserve energy source drawn from ambient interdimensional radiation.

00:20But could it provide a balm to one of the Foundation's greatest anxieties,

00:24creating a permanent and reliable containment chamber for SCP-096, the shy guy?

00:31Everything would need to be executed perfectly to avoid a total disaster.

00:35The portal technology was taken out to a desert thousands of miles away from the nearest population center.

00:41SCP-096's containment cube was carried over underneath the Chinook dual-rotor helicopter.

00:47In addition to all the researchers, containment specialists, and mobile task force operatives,

00:52one member of D-Class personnel, Gary, was also here to take one for the team.

00:58Gary was given a Polaroid picture in an envelope and told to open it,

01:02as the other personnel in attendance all retreated to a safe distance.

01:06The second he saw the horrid pale grimace on the Polaroid,

01:09he heard a pained, wailing echo from the dull confines of the giant metal cube.

01:13He didn't have long to ponder this awful keening before it was interrupted by the humming of machinery,

01:18as the researchers initialized the backroom's transport technology.

01:23It was an act of perfect timing.

01:25As soon as SCP-096 burst free from its cube with murderous intent,

01:30it and Gary were both enveloped by crackling blue tongues of energy from the machine.

01:35Both were no-clipped, not out of existence, just out of existence here.

01:40When both of them hit the ground, it was on the revolting beige carpets of the backrooms,

01:45where the yellow was bright and piercing, and the humbuzz of the fluorescent lights reigned supreme.

01:51What the hell is going on here?!

01:53was all Gary could scream as 096 appeared behind him and gave chase.

01:57The conventional wisdom with SCP-096 is that when you see its face, you're a dead man walking.

02:03No matter what happens next, when the anomaly's rage state is activated,

02:07it gains an inherent psychic awareness of its intended victim's position at all times.

02:12It would then travel in a relatively straight line, effortlessly smashing through any barrier in its way.

02:18But would being in a completely different dimension flip the script?

02:22Gary's concerns weren't nearly as high-minded.

02:25He just found himself frantically running through a honeycomb of nonsense hallways

02:29as the howling, shrieking monster chased him, often smashing through the straight walls to get to him faster.

02:35This was all like a nightmare he'd had after watching those Kane Pixels videos

02:39before he got the death penalty and became an SCP Foundation guinea pig.

02:44His muscles burned.

02:46His lungs disgorged the last of their air.

02:48He could feel the breeze of the monster's grasping claws on his back.

02:52And just when it seemed like it couldn't get any worse,

02:55he turned a corner and saw that this latest terrible hallway was a dead end.

02:59All of it had been for nothing.

03:02He froze.

03:03He knew it was over.

03:05He was expecting to feel teeth and claws around him at any moment.

03:09But instead, there was this insane flash of light,

03:12so sudden and intense that it seemed to shock both Gary and SCP-096,

03:17another portal inside the back rooms.

03:20Before SCP-096 could utterly annihilate its prey,

03:23a skein of thick, oily black tentacles emerged from the glowing portal

03:27and enveloped Gary, dragging him through.

03:30The light vanished in that same instant,

03:33leaving SCP-096 alone in that maddening yellow hallway.

03:38This was confusing for the beast.

03:40In fact, it was downright unprecedented.

03:43The target, Gary, was still here,

03:45somewhere in the back room's super-dimension,

03:47but no longer on this level.

03:49It was as though someone had thrown off its mental GPS.

03:53It could only make out the vague impression that Gary was out there somewhere

03:56and needed to be destroyed.

03:59But his exact location was a complete mystery.

04:02For once, the Shy Guy would actually need to search for its prey.

04:07SCP-096 was exposed to many strange and impossible sights

04:11while trapped inside the labyrinth of Level Zero.

04:14From a tesseract of refracted McDonald's playplaces

04:17to what appeared to be a giant, glowing YouTube subscribe button.

04:21Which reminds me,

04:22what are you doing watching this far into the video if you're not subscribed?

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04:29You have no idea the secrets that are about to be exposed if you stick around.

04:33But back to SCP-096.

04:36The monster was still being guided by the foggy impression of Gary's presence

04:40across multiple layers of this fractured reality.

04:43It knew he was out there.

04:44It just needed to be a little more creative in finding him.

04:48But creativity had never been SCP-096's specialty,

04:52so it instead pushed all of its chips forward onto the next best thing,

04:56brute strength.

04:57The creature swept from confusion to rage again

05:00and began hammering its clenched fists against the squelching carpeted floor.

05:04Despite the creature's emaciated frame,

05:07its strength was tremendous.

05:09It wasn't long before the carpet had been torn away fully

05:12and the hardwood beneath began to splinter under the raw power of the Shy Guy's blows.

05:17When the floor fully collapsed and the Shy Guy fell through,

05:21it was to a different place entirely.

05:23Level One.

05:24This was at least a little more familiar to the Shy Guy,

05:27appearing in some ways like a Foundation containment site.

05:31Concrete warehouses, corridors, parking complexes,

05:35an industrial wasteland, a brutalist afterlife.

05:38It was also a lot like an SCP Foundation containment site,

05:42in the sense that the Shy Guy wasn't the only monster here,

05:45but it hadn't realized that quite yet.

05:47It began loping through the dark, echoing concrete vistas,

05:51feeling the psychic impression of Gary just that little bit clearer now.

05:55He wasn't here on this level, no, but it was a level closer at least.

06:00Progress.

06:01Not being the most intelligent of the creatures,

06:04it decided to use its other tactic first,

06:06smashing its fists into the ground again.

06:10Concrete cracked and splintered into clouds of grey dust,

06:13but this method didn't bear much fruit for 096.

06:16No matter how much concrete it smashed, there seemed to be more underneath.

06:21Every strike echoed through the annals of Level One,

06:23and unlike Level Zero,

06:25there were many things walking and crawling and slithering around in the dark to hear it.

06:30096 looked up when it heard a strange noise,

06:33the wet slapping of sweaty flesh against cold stone.

06:36There was an avalanche of beings rolling towards it,

06:40messes of twisted limbs, eyeless, faceless.

06:43These were the clumps,

06:45and because they could not see SCP-096 attacking on the basis of sound alone,

06:50they didn't activate the monster's rage state.

06:52Well, until they started attacking.

06:55There were dozens of them,

06:57but 096 had taken on hundreds of combatants at once before,

07:00and ones far deadlier than these.

07:02As the clumps tried to pile on,

07:05it grabbed them in its gnarled grip and tore them away,

07:07throwing them in all directions and splattering their feeble bodies against the nearby walls.

07:12It tore through so many of them before the rest began to relent,

07:16squealing and rolling away in retreat.

07:18But they weren't rolling away because of SCP-096.

07:22While the shy guy had been consumed with taking care of the clumps,

07:25the wall behind it shimmered like the surface of a lake.

07:28Three tall, twisting dullers stepped out of it.

07:31No clipping silently into the zone behind 096.

07:35If it was at all capable of compassion,

07:38it might have seen some kind of kinship with the dullers.

07:41Emaciated humanoids cursed to endlessly hunt human beings,

07:44and faceless, much like the dullers.

07:46But here in the back rooms,

07:48it was every monster for itself.

07:50The dullers attacked the shy guy all at once,

07:53wrestling it and tugging on its limbs,

07:55perhaps hoping to neutralize its tremendous strength.

07:58But that very same strength would be their undoing.

08:01The shy guys shrieked and reached back with its free arm,

08:04grabbing one of the dullers by its featureless head

08:07and flipping it over to the ground in front of it,

08:09smashing its body against the concrete.

08:12The other two disengaged and tried a noclip away through a nearby wall,

08:15hoping that it would save them from the shy guy's wrath.

08:18Sadly, in their primitive minds, ruled by instinct,

08:21they had no idea just how persistent their new enemy was.

08:26096 simply barged through the wall with them

08:28in a cascade of broken bricks and rebar.

08:30It grasped the dullers and tore them limb from limb with complete ease,

08:34but that wouldn't buy it any lasting peace.

08:37There were a number of long, grasping arms

08:39reaching down from a vent positioned above.

08:41Yes, this entity is literally just called arms.

08:44They lunged for the shy guy's back

08:46and raked their claws across its pale flesh,

08:49exposing its unbreakable bones underneath.

08:51And somehow, even worse was coming.

08:55All the commotion had attracted a growler,

08:58a huge, lumbering beast made out of multicolored pipe cleaners.

09:01Yes, we're serious, just deal with it.

09:04The creature let out an almighty roar and charged towards the shy guy,

09:07ramming its body and pushing it over a railing,

09:10tumbling down through the dark towards a wet, misty concrete platform.

09:14The growler hit the ground moments later,

09:16continuing its chase towards the day's shy guy.

09:19It was the largest and most dodged of the backroom's threats yet,

09:22but the shy guy had no intention of holding back.

09:25With one iron-strong claw,

09:27it reached into the nest of pipe cleaners and ripped out a handful,

09:31in what must have been the pipe cleaner equivalent of a Mortal Kombat fatality.

09:35With its rainbow heart ripped out,

09:37the growler collapsed onto the ground, dead.

09:40The shy guy was confused by this whole affair,

09:43but it really didn't care what strange backroom's entities

09:45decided to bum-rush it out here.

09:47It only needed to find and annihilate Gary to relieve this terrible anxiety of having been seen.

09:54Not even being in a completely different dimension relieved the pain of knowing

09:58someone was out there bearing a memory of its face.

10:01Being seen, being known.

10:03It was sickening, agonizing even.

10:06It would do anything to relieve that pain,

10:09even if it meant ripping all the way through this damn dimension to do it.

10:13It kept searching through this gray hellscape,

10:15letting the dull ache inside it.

10:17The impression of Gary's distant presence act as its north star.

10:21As it lumbered into a nearby hallway,

10:24layered with twisted, rusty pipes,

10:26it suddenly found itself enshrouded in darkness.

10:29Strange.

10:29It was as though all the lights in both directions suddenly switched off.

10:33But that didn't bother SCP-096 that much.

10:36It was following the psychic impression itself,

10:38not the lights.

10:40But then another light did illuminate at the far end of that cold, dark hallway.

10:45Eyes and teeth.

10:47The glowing countenance of a smiler.

10:49A hungry, cartoon-faced nightmare predator.

10:52Or at least, it would be for a human.

10:55As soon as the smiler's glowing eyes clapped onto the shy guy's face,

10:59the dynamic was flipped,

11:00and the hunter had immediately become the hunted.

11:03The shy guy wailed and screamed and scratched at its face.

11:07For a moment, the smiler might have assumed, like its human prey,

11:11the shy guy was doing all of this out of fear upon seeing such a frightening, impossible being.

11:16But that fantasy was immediately destroyed when SCP-096 came rushing at the smiler,

11:21its arms extended and claws grasping.

11:24For the first time in its existence,

11:26it was the smiler's turn to run.

11:29It tried to flee into the darkness,

11:31wafting like a living cloud of fear.

11:33But the shy guy didn't relent,

11:35lunging and chasing through the halls.

11:37Eventually, even the smiler ran out of energy,

11:39and the shy guy caught and tore to pieces its inky, insubstantial form.

11:44It was yet another creature to add to the count,

11:47but not a replacement for what it needed to do to Gary.

11:50What was this strange and ridiculous place?

11:53Finding a victim had never been this hard before.

11:56There were other creatures that it encountered

11:58while traversing the pipes and dingy storage sheds of Level 1,

12:01The entities that seemed the most similar to humans were the wretches,

12:05disgusting blackened zombies that shambled through the murk,

12:08looking for victims to attack and devour.

12:11In SCP-096, they would find no such victim.

12:14Their eyes activated the rage of the shy guy who shredded them one by one,

12:19wails and roars reverberating off the walls.

12:21To a human being in the back rooms,

12:23the skin-stealers were a terrifying threat,

12:25blobby humanoid beasts that ambush lone human prey

12:29and kill them in some terrible and unknowable way,

12:32before peeling off their skin and devouring what's inside.

12:35Then, they wear that skin as a suit and imitate the person they once were.

12:40Enough skin-stealers could infiltrate a group of survivors in the back rooms from within,

12:44and slowly destroy them all.

12:46But to the shy guy, the skin-stealer might as well just been another human,

12:50another pair of eyes to gaze upon it,

12:52another looker that might be destroyed for the crime of seeing its face.

12:57These creatures that made humans cower and flee tried in vain to run from it,

13:01from its wailing, grasping horror.

13:03It tore through the skin-stealers easily,

13:05leaving chunks of white goo and a trail of viscous clear fluid in its wake.

13:10The hounds and the wranglers were just as easy.

13:13The hounds might have been human once,

13:15before twisted into a grim parody of the canine form, drooling and hungry.

13:19Deadly to humans in packs, but still just as easily shredded by 096.

13:24The wranglers, ink-black snake-like entities that wrap around and crush their prey,

13:29presented somewhat more of a challenge,

13:31as they slithered around the shy guy's body and squeezed.

13:34But when 096 grasped the creature's bodies and squeezed back,

13:38the tables were very much turned.

13:40Every creature was another obstacle on the path to Gary.

13:43096 knew that it just needed to keep going,

13:46keep ascending levels,

13:48keep hunting,

13:49keep killing.

13:50Nothing so far had been a challenge,

13:52and it didn't anticipate that changing.

13:54Though, of course,

13:56the shy guy had no idea what was waiting for it on level 5.

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