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“What even are you?!” Alex bellowed out of nowhere. “What do you mean?” I turn and replied flatly, as I usually do “What do I mean?! WHAT DO I MEAN!?”, She screamed out, “You go into the bathroom at a fair and over at the ferris wheel there’s another one of you doing the exact same magic trick you pulled on me! One time you got ran over by a train and you came in the next day perfectly fine! You never express any emotions or eat, and you barely talk like a person to! I thought these were nothing but rumors or me being stupid at the time but now-! Just what the f-ck are you I and what are you doing here!?” “...”, I take a moment to articulate my words, normally I would just give the speach one how they can save the world but blending in as a student at this college was important so I had to go the rout of offering a ‘magic trick’. Playing dumb isn’t available either, Alex has always been one of my more difficult jobs. “I am I, but as you have possibly noticed, I am not the only I. Your sacrafice has helped to save the world for a little longer, you should be proud.” “That’s not what I asked, I. You’ve told me that’s what your little ‘magic trick’ would do, assumed it was a stupid joke at-”, I cut them off. “Yes, yes, at first. Then your life got better, small miracles here and there. That was also the result of the ‘trick’, though you did not question it until now.” “To answer your first question, I am a emotionless hive mind. I need the emotions of desprate people like you to feed my god so he doesn’t eat everything else. I was assigned to collect further info on how these funny emotions work in you people, so I could perhaps expand the operation from beyond hormonal teenagers that have no idea what their doing. This has been proven fruitful, considering there are some like you who never grow up. The elderly population also seem rather emotional as well.” “So are you aliens?!”, they shouted their questions once again. “I wouldn’t say so but if that makes the pill easier to swallow.” “Wait, if you want to harvest positive emotions, why did my life go to sh-t!?” “I never said such a thing, just emotions, and the result of building someone up then tearing them down, is quite the strong one indeed.” They became silent. “hm, I was expecting a much more violent reaction from you, they normally either cry or scream and punch and- Now that I think about it, there was only a small handful that empathized with the cause.” “So are you just going to use me as a battery for the rest of my life?”, they choked on their words. “No, not techically, remember that fire you caused? and then how you woke up in a hospital bed?” How do you-”, I cut them off once again. “Your no longer human either, Alex. You’ll remain a battery until you decide to join me. Either live out a false reality that will forever beat you to death or become a logical I.”