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We arrived two days after the reports arrived at our office in ███████. We all knew that the war was over, but that the skirmishes between rebel forces would not be rare, and particularly in the defeated armies. As we approached we could see the flashes of artillery in the sky and the noise of guns breaking at dawn. We were only four on the team, but it was supposed to be a surveillance mission. It was not.

The area was very wide, and the battle seemed to have been going on for quite some time. The projectiles fell on both lines of trenches, so to avoid crossfire I decided to set up our camp on the hill furthest from the battlefield. We began to write everything we saw, although at the beginning we did not observe anything weird. Only a war between two armies. But suddenly, something happened.

From the Austro-Hungarian line we could see how a hundred people ran towards the Italian trenches practically without weapons, we could identify that they wore Russian uniforms. They were falling like the grass before the sickle, so we consider that an abnormal behavior. This continued for days, but those who ran through the no man's land just tried to flee, they launched with an incredible fanaticism against the Italians, being prisoners, that did not seem to make sense.

During the dawn of the third day we heard a noise, it did not stop during the whole morning. It was a very light sound, although it was not annoying to hear it, but it lasted until damn noon. The artillery stopped - from both sides. The Italians prepared for the final attack, so there was plenty of movement, but on the Austro-Hungarian side there was hardly a couple of soldiers moving.

We could see how the Italian soldiers advanced with little resistance, entered the enemy trenches and began to search the entire area. When we did not see another sign of anomalies, we prepared to retire, but about the afternoon the noise returned. Now more intense, I could barely hear my own thoughts. The Italians started firing and running from the trenches, we could not see who was attacking them. Then we saw them, they were the Russian prisoners, attacking the invaders and making them run from the galleries. From one moment to the next it became a massacre, everything turned red and the screams filled the air.

I saw three Russians tearing apart an Italian without barely flinching, they received shots and did not seem to notice them, they just kept moving forward, when one of them fell the others mutilated him and used his limbs as improvised weapons. One of striking an enemy using the leg of a comrade who had fallen by his side, then the Italians withdrew, very small in number. They went to us, I never knew how they saw us - if they saw us in the first place - we fled as we could from the place, we left everything behind.

I heard a shout to my right, they had captured Agent Schell and dragged her into some nearby bushes. They began to beat her while she asked for my help until she stopped moving, but her attackers had no expression on their faces even though they were covered in blood. I could see that they wore a bracelet with a logo, it was a double-headed imperial eagle with a shield and the Austro-Hungarian flag inscribed on it, with arrows that go up and an eye in the middle.

I do not know how much time we ran, but I had already lost all my people. They had been trapped and beaten to death, I saw how Bauman's head was crushed and how one of those damn people used another head to do it. I fled until a Mobile Task Force arrived to lend us support, neutralized the lunatics and got me out of there. I do not know what the hell has happened, but it's anomalous.

Even now…after several days…I can still see Schell's expression asking for help…and that damn noise does not stop…it's hellish…it's not from this land…

Conclusion: The area was put under quarantine by the Mobile Task Force Lambda-2 ("Imperium"), which proceeded to cauterize the corpses and look for the possible origin of the sound heard by Agent Rupert's team. The galleries were sealed and collapsed, both the Italian and Austrian governments deny the participation of their armed forces in the incident.

Interviewee: Dr. William Valeker Father

Interviewer: Agent A. Heinkel

Introduction: Second interview with Dr. Valeker after being repatriated to facilities of the SCP Foundation in Great Britain. On this occasion Dr. Valeker will be questioned about the documentation found by the field agents.

<Beginning of the Interview, 10/20/1919; 10:50>

Agent Heinkel: How do you feel, doctor?

Dr. Valeker: Well, between what fits I'm fine, the coffee here is wonderful.

Agent Heinkel: Doctor, among your records we found that you documented that the approval of the project was granted by the Director of the KOEV, is not it?

Dr. Valeker: You not let me enjoy my drink, son. And yes, the authorization came from his office, along with a staff poorly trained for its execution. I spent two weeks to train them.

Agent Heinkel: And the prisoners where they came from?

Dr. Valeker: From where they could be brought, I saw Russians, French, British. The American prisoners began to arrive around 1918. It was complicated.

Agent Heinkel: What do you mean?

Dr. Valeker: Communicate with so many people, in such different languages. My resources were limited. The Director expected me to perform miracles with 1 or 2 translators. Thus it was dividing the prisoners in lots, according to their nationality, they were easier to manipulate than to have them all mixed.

Agent Heinkel: Then you say that the financing was poor, right?

Dr. Valeker: I already told you. Very few resources.

Agent Heinkel: According to your records, doctor, the patients did not survive the first part of the procedure.

Dr. Valeker: (pause) We tried many means, most did not resist the operation. We had hundreds of failures, so I allowed the researchers under my charge to explore new alternatives to complete it.

Agent Heinkel: It's here when Dr. Polons comes in.

Dr. Valeker: Yes, that little girl solved many doubts.

Agent Heinkel: When did the first successful result occur?

Dr. Valeker: A week after the procedure suggested by Dr. Polons, but it did not turn out as we expected.

Agent Heinkel: Failed?

Dr. Valeker: (Long Pause) Exceeded our expectations. The first subjects responded satisfactorily, but then acted erratically. So, following the guidelines of the central office, this was what they wanted. But then they acted as a community, even if they were not related to each other.

Agent Heinkel: What do you mean?

Dr. Valeker: They functioned as a unit with only one mind. They have no emotions, no feelings, no pain, no guilt. They only act. I reported our progress to the Central Office of the KOEV, so we were assigned a new mission

Agent Heinkel: What was it?

Dr. Valeker: (Silence)

Agent Heinkel: Doctor?

Dr. Valeker: No more questions.

<End of the Interview, 10/20/1919; 11:30>

Conclusion: The remaining documents of Dr. Valeker were arranged to be studied by the research staff of the Foundation.