Let me tell you a rather surreal story.

I'd like you to try and picture the scene.

In August 2005 in the dead of night, a mother and her two-year-old infant twins were snatched from their home.

The kidnappers transported them to an undisclosed location where grueling and extensive tests were carried out on all three hapless victims. Their captors were

comprised of ruthless professionals directed to separate the mother from her babies in spite of

her desperate pleas. From there, the helpless children were handled by staff made up of death

row prison inmates, men and women who had committed truly

unspeakable crimes. Instead of a nursery, they were confined inside a cell with all openings

sealed by airlocks, filters, or simply welded shut. Worst of all, the children were locked

inside without any food or water, and barbarically

haven't been provided with any kind of nourishment since.

Since then, their names and records have been scrubbed from the face of the earth.

They're now only known as SCP 400A and SCP 400B.

And despite their mother's frantic appeals, the children will never return to her,

nor will any of them ever be released.

All because of their eternal captors, the SCP Foundation.

As unbelievably cruel as this entire operation sounds, you'll be amazed to learn that the

SCP Foundation are actually the good guys. That's because SCP 400A and B aren't in fact babies,

but colonies of brainwashing insects. For over two years, the mother had been under the influence of the bug's mind-altering pheromones

which have the unnatural ability to twist human perceptions.

So instead of two parasitic colonies, she only saw her beloved newborns completely unaware of the truth,

she believed she'd been protecting and feeding her twins for just three months,

...