SCP {The SCP That United Them All}

44- Escape From Purgatory (096 & 682)

Rocky, eyes slowly turning back from blue to grey, steps through the portal into three feet of soft snow on Mount Everest. He looks around, strangely not feeling cold. 

He looks down to see the snow quickly melting around him at a radius of one foot from his body. He sees that this is causing him to sink into the snow, so he quickly runs to the nearest solid rock, he can see, and leaps onto it. "Crap! That was close! A moment longer and I might have been completely lost!" He looks around again, this time taking in every detail of his surroundings. "How the hell am I going to find 096 without digging myself a hole?" He asks himself.

As he ponders his dilemma, Sasha pokes her head through the portal. "Need some help?!" She shouts from fifty feet away. She then passes through and slowly makes her way to Rocky, although her weight makes it difficult to navigate the soft snow.

Once she gets closer Rocky replies. "You don't look like you are having any better time than me." He says looking down at her buried waist-deep in the snow.

Sasha climbs onto the rock. "I have my ways. I just could not ignore how worried you had become."

"Yeah.. I am sinking into the snow because of my aura's heat keeping me warm. I.. can't do this on my own." Rocky replies. "It also looks like there was an avalanche, considering how the snow looks."

Sasha smiles. "Like you told me, 'I am here now... I will get us out.'" She says with a chuckle.

Rocky crosses his arms. "Using my words to make your point, well done. Now how do you intend to follow through?" He asks with a smile.

"You hold on to me, I weave myself through the snow until I find something, and then I will pull it out. If he is under the snow I will find him. Sound good?" Sasha asks.

"Fishing for the shy guy! Now that is creative and probably something no one else ever considered!" Rocky laughs. "But wouldn't you be cold or freeze?!"

Sasha shakes her head. "As long as you are able to move and feeling warm I will be fine." She says holding out her hand.

Rocky takes hold of her hand. "Let's get to it then."

Sasha nods and reverts back to a basic chain, the end of which remains in Rocky's hand.

"Back in a flash!" Sasha sings as her other end extends into the snow. In a few moments, Sasha shakes. "I found something!"

"Pull it up then." Rocky replies.

Sasha does so, uncovering a frozen corpse of a mountain climber.

Rocky groans. "Well.. that is not him."

"No shit!" Sasha says annoyed as she drops the corpse onto the snow. "Might as well keep trying.."

Sasha continues to search the snow, pulling out corpse after corpse until she finally finds 096 and pulls him out kicking and screaming.

"OH HUSH, you big baby!!" Sasha exclaims.

096 looks around nervously at the corpses before returning to a huddled position.

"He is absolutely terrified of something!" Sasha says surprised.

Rocky looks around before realizing. "Oh.. shit."

"What?!" Sasha asks.

"I forgot that Mount Everest is SCP-5140!" Rocky replies. "We need to get out of here, now!"

"Are you kidding me? A whole freaking mountain range is an SCP?!" Sasha exclaims.

"Apparently it reanimates the climbers that died up here. What is worse, SCP-1529 is somewhere up here too. It is considered the reason 096 exists." Rocky rambles off details from memory.