SCP-4480 // A Ranboo SCP AU

Part 7

Ranboo jolted up and frantically looked around. White padding. His jaw tightened in frustration. His mask was back on, but he had pain coming from the side of his head. He felt a piece of cloth wrapped around his head. The wall really did some damage to him.

Standing up, he saw something else new. In the ceiling, there were holes. He didn't see anything in them, but he guessed whatever the holes were for, he wouldn't be getting out again soon. His cheek had been wiped clean off the slime though and he remembered seeing Agent Niki before blacking out. Maybe she's the one who did that.

Ranboo wondered if or when she would come visit again but his ears twitched when he heard large clanking outside the walls of his room. In a rhythmic pattern, it kept going one after another, then his room went completely dark. He gasped and heard the voice come on.

All D-Class personnel must report to their sleeping chambers. Thank you and have a good night.

So it's night. I guess that's why I never saw humans outside when it was dark. They were all sleeping.

Ranboo was more nocturnal, plus you could never get spotted in the dark unless the humans had their flashlights. He paced around the room, hearing fewer and fewer footsteps outside his door. He leaned against the wall and his eyes started to close, but he refused to sleep. Not at a place like this. Ranboo shook himself awake and continued pacing. Of course, he kept tripping on nothing and his tail was starting to get annoying, dragging behind him, not being able to help him one bit. The jacket he had on was starting to get on his nerves also, rubbing against his suit, making his arms stiff and fall asleep.

The white light blinded him, making him fall into the wall, blinking hard. He grunted as his eyes adjusted and started to growl at the human who was coming in quietly. He opened his eyes fully, and crouched, growling at them, but immediately stopped, seeing that it Agent Niki. He stood up straight and nodded at her. She waved at him and put her bag down. She sat down next to it and shuffled through it. Ranboo hesitated, then sat a few feet away from her. She was still a human. But not like any of the other ones. Is she broken? Is that why she's being nice instead of mean? He hoped that she wouldn't get fixed anytime soon. Niki looked up at him and smiled, but her eyes glided over to the bandage around his head. Ranboo looked down, a little guilty, and turned his head away. His tail wrapped around his legs, but it was awkward and the heavy ball bumped up against his feet.

Niki's smile disappeared. "I don't know if you still trust me or if you trust me at all, but I wish you weren't here. The other SCP's. . .I mean I wish they weren't here either, but you seem to be the one who deserves the most to be out. That was very impressive, what you did to try to leave. Wil- Dr. Soot is going to up security around this part of the facility though. So. . ." She left the silence hanging, and Ranboo looked back at her. So she cares about me a little bit.

Ranboo watched her come up closer to him, then she pointed towards his tail. "Could I?" Ranboo hesitated. What could she do? He painfully thought. Nothing she could do would be worse than what I've already endured. He slid his fluffy tail over to Niki, the ball dragging behind it. She felt it and gasped. She held it gently, smoothing out the fur. "Wow."

Agent Niki looked at the ball attached to it and frowned, sighing. She put his tail down and looked up at his head. She tilted her head. "Would you mind if I looked at your crown?" Ranboo nodded slowly, bending over so she could pick the golden crown up off his head. She grabbed it with delicate fingers and turned it over it in her hands. Niki's eyes were fascinated at the various colored gems that were embedded into it.

"Do you remember where you got it?" She looked back up at him.

Ranboo shook his head.

"Oh." Niki held up the crown and Ranboo bent over, and she placed it on top of his hair. "It looks cool." She said, and her eyes went over to his mask. Ranboo looked down at his own mask, wondering if she was going to take it from him.