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// One-sided discussions 
// Story: Theory of nothing 
// by Elidjz 
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"If you're not going to say anything, then you don't need a tongue."





"Cos..." He quickly put one of his clawed fingers in front of my mouth, shutting me up. The aberration dragging me through the hallway stared at me in confusion. "You said something?" He asked with a deep voice. "No." I weakly answered. He grunted before continuing to wait for the door to be opened. The way the guards failed to open the door and kept dropping the key was slightly comical. However this could be blamed on the shaking caused by explosions.

"He can't see or hear me. I'm just here to watch what happens." He said non-chanantly. "Oh, and also help you if your life ends up in danger or something like that." He said without a care in the world. I glared daggers at him, but he simply ignored it. "Also, you might want to know that all of the fighting is happening around a kilometer away from here." The ground shook again. "Or maybe they're closer than that."

This would have scared me, except I already had reached my daily limit of how scared I could get. The door then opened. To the relief of the two guards. Somehow one had managed to break one of its fingers, somehow.

I was then dragged inside the room. I could hear shouting coming from the room. "Steiner will handle it. I don't care about that. I care even less about your fish." The aberration inside then repeatedly slammed her hand on a desk. "Oh..." The aberration sitting at the desk saw me and gave me a curious glare. "...what, no it's not fish and I don't care about your maps. Shut up, tell Steiner to do what I told you to tell him and don't forget to tell Fegelein that he sucks. NOW!"

The aberration was shouted in some strange banana shaped object with a wire that connected it to a strange box. It then slammed the object in her hand on the other object. It then rubbed temples in frustration before standing up. It looked and sounded feminine. It's head was very serpent like with two goat horns on top of it and five eyes. It was also bipedal and had a tail. However most of that tail was missing and from how thick the remaining piece was I could assume that It probably had been a very long tail.

"Well, what a strange sight." It got closer to me. I tried to get away, but all my efforts were useless because of the aberration holding me by the neck. "Please, could you hold her by the head, I'm trying to get a good look." I felt a big hand clamp on the back of my head. The one on my neck then let loose.

The clearly female aberration, at least that I could guess, stared intently at my neck. Or more precisely what was around my neck. She then grabbed the amulet but did not pull it off. "I am confused, should I bury it or should I destroy it."  This... caught me off guard. She lifted one of her non-existent brows, clearly noticing my own confusion. "But still, seeing something like you with that thing is surprising. And I'm confused if I'm supposed to be happy or angry"

She let go of the amulet. "Do you know what that is?" I nodded. Her face contorted in annoyance at my answer. "I should make this clearly now when I ask you something you answer clearly, quickly, in detail and verbally." She then quickly added. "That last one is quite ironic due to... recent events."

"So do you know what that is?" "It's the alicorn amulet." I answered. "Strange name. But everything about it is strange." She stared at me like I was supposed to answer. "I guess?" I answer half-heartedly. And now she stared at me in confusion.

"You do know that there's something powerful, alive and ancient stuck inside it and that if you were to break it, then that thing will be unleashed upon all of us?" My mouth fell open. "What?!" How would I have known that? How would she have known that? It's an amulet, Why would there be something living in it?

But that might explain the whispering I could hear.

"But you knew there was something powerful about it?" She asked dumbfounded. "Yes." I answered hesitantly. "What else did you know about it?!" She was speaking louder and her tone was becoming more hostile. "Yes." I answered, fear creeping up once again. "What else did you know about the amulet?" She actually looked like she might have a mental breakdown. "I knew that it was a magical artifact that would grant me power equal to an alicorn."  She stayed silent for a few seconds. "I don't know what an a-corn is, but I'm assuming that that did not happen? You can answer by nodding for this specific question."

I nodded. "So you knew nothing about it." She added in an accusatory tone.

"But you had the utterly MORONIC idea to put it on?" She shouted with her face contorted in anger. She then let out dozens of foul expletives. This slowly turned into laughter. Very loud and maniacal laughter. "I thought you  actually knew something." She kept on laughing. "You could have been useful and I could have killed you without any remorse." Her rambunctious laughter slowly turned into a malicious chuckle.

"But instead you're just useless." A maniacal smile appeared on her face. The aberration holding me by the back of my head also started chuckling. "Though I still have a few questions for you. Mainly how did you get here?"  Cosmo had given me a lackluster explanation of how I had gotten here. I knew that she would not like such an explanation.

She clearly saw what I was thinking from the look on my face. "You don't know you got here. Do you even have a working brain?" I gulped, tears slowly appearing. She ripped the amulet off. "You're useless..." She flicked a finger at my horn. "...Except that those ears of yours are quite adorable." She then started rubbing my ear. "It's so soft, maybe I should keep you alive and let people pet you as a reward." I had to admit that her hand felt pretty nice on my ears.

Wait, she flicked my horn?! My horn still worked, there was nothing stopping me from using my magic. I had to physically facehoof myself to the surprise of both aberrations in the room. "Did she just... facepalm hersel?" The bigger aberration, who was now hunched over me above my horn, asked. "Yes and it was adorable." Alegria cooed. "How can something this adorable be so problematic."

I fired a concussion spell directly in her face. The big crack that could be heard made it obvious that part of it had broken. I could feel the hand of the bigger aberration tightening around my head. I quickly fired multiple spells up towards it's hunched over head. At least two of them hit it in the jaw. Another crack made it obvious that more bones had been broken. Both aberrations were now clutching their broken bones and moaning in pain. I grabbed the amulet that had been dropped on the ground.

The door the slammed open. Half-a-dozen guards stood there, staring befuddled at the strange sight. They then pointed their guns, which were becoming easier for me to recognise, at me. Cosmo then appeared behind them and slapped them all in the back of the head. Which distracted them long enough for me to run by them.

"KILL THAT BITCH!!" The female aberration screamed in utter rage. "Hi." Cosmo said as I ran by him. He was then shot in the face as the guards came back to their senses. "Ow."

More guards and soldiers came in the hallway entering through all kinds of doors. All looked at me with hate in their eyes, all about to try and kill me. One then fired some deadly firework towards me. Cosmo then does what he always does by appearing from nowhere without warning.

The rocket then bounced off his ethereal face and blew a hole in the ceiling. Cosmo's superior size proved very useful as he instantly became the bigger target. I felt no shame in using him as a shield. "That's what it means. outch." All attacks simply bounced off his skin. Except when some aberration around a corner swung a club directly into his face. Which made him wince and caused some dark ethereal liquid to pour out of where his nostrils should have been if he had any.

The aberration responsible for that had no time to celebrate as he was kicked through a door. We reached the stairs and went down one floor.Three dozen soldiers were waiting for us down there, with big guns aim at the stairs.

Thinking quickly I blasted a window and jumped through it. Cosmo did not. The aberrations then started firing their big guns. "Ow."

I landed in a courtyard outside of the building, fortunately it was a fairly short jump. The first thing I did was put the amulet back on before noticing that there was a big metal thing with wheels in the middle of the courtyard. There was a big metal turret on top of the big metal box. Said turret then turned towards it and aimed a big cylinder towards me. I leaned to the left. The metal box made a very loud noise and something flew out of the cylinder. It flew by me, missing by a hair, before blowing a hole in a wall behind me.

Cosmo appeared beside me, snapped one of his fingers which caused the metal box to be turned around and my armor to appear back on me. He then winked at me. "I wish you goo... Atchoo." He sneezed and because his snout was bleeding, some of the blood was sneezed on me. He whimpered in pain before disappearing again.

The metal box was slowly turning around. Dozens upon dozens of soldiers were slowly flooding the courtyard. Also three other metal boxes were slowly entering the area alongside seven tinier metal boxes and two much bigger boxes. All of which had big cylinders on their metal turrets. 

I then got shot in the head, but the projectile bounced harmlessly off my helmet. 

And I just now noticed that some of Cosmo's blood had fallen on the amulet. At the same time it started glowing again, slowly becoming brighter.