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// Chapter 3 
// Story: MLP - Divergent Crossover 
// by abfarmer76 
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	When I walked in the room, an Abnegation women motioned me to sit down on a chair in the middle of the room. The chair was really comfy, I felt like I was falling through the chair. I read somewhere once that the chairs where made out of a special material that allowed you to sink into a new world. 
"Hello. My name is Katie. I will be looking over your test today" the abnegation women said. She hands me a cup with a strange blue liquid. "When you drink this you will start the test" she hands the cup to me. "You may start whenever you like". I take the cup with my magic and drink it as fast as I could without choking on it. I wanted to get this over as fast as I could. It was a few seconds before I feel myself falling into a new world.
When I woke up, I  was in a room. I stood up and walked around. What am I supposed to do now? I turned around to see myself staring back at me. 
"Ahh!" I screamed and jumped back. 
"Ow!" I heard somepony say. 
"Oh! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to..." I turned around to come face to face with another me. It was then that I realized that everywhere in the room their were reflections of me. I started to hyperventilate. Suddenly, two bowls appeared. One with a knife in it and another with a slice of meat in it. 
"Choose" one of my duplicates said. I turned to face her with a confused look on my face. How could I choose if I didn't know what to choose for? It was illogical. 
"Choose" she repeated. 
"How can I choose if I don't know what to choose for?" I responded to my duplicate.
"Fine, have it your way". Just then, the two bowls and my duplicates disappeared and a big, angry manticore showed up. It then noticed me and started running toward me. I started to hyperventilate. I read about manticores before and I know how to fight them. I thought this would be on my test! I stated to charge up my horn, but I remembered something, the Amity motto and something Fluttershy once said. She said to treat everything with kindness, no matter how big or small, and the Amity motto is 'Trust. Self-sufficiency. Forgiveness. Kindness. Fluttershy has used it to get through many situations, and the Amity use it everyday so maybe it will work for me. After all, it's better to make friends then enemies! I walked over to the manticore until we were face to face. The manticore lifted up his paw, about to swipe but I quickly walked up to his other paw and touched it with my hoof ever so slightly, just like Fluttershy would do. It still shocks me that she is Dauntless. 
"It's alright" I said to the manticore in the sweetest loving voice that I could make. The manticore brought it's paw down and stated purring. If only Fluttershy was here to see this. She would be rubbing the manticores chest and saying kind words. Then, all of a sudden, a pony appeared in the distance. it was a filly yellow Pegasus with a light pink mane. Fluttershy. I have to say, Fluttershy as tall for a filly. This must have been how she looked before I meet her, but how did she get here? and how is she a filly? The manticore noticed what I was staring at and immediately stopped purring. Fluttershy got up and started looking around. I could tell she looked lost. When she finally turned her head toward the manticore and I, she started to scream at the top of her lungs. The manticore sprung away from me and toward filly Fluttershy, who was now galloping and flapping her wings. She didn't learn how to fly until Rainbow taught her. Then, without even thinking, I jumped up and charged my horn. Seconds later I appeared a couple of feet in front of Fluttershy.
"Get behind me!" I tell her. "You'll be safer there!". She nodded her head and quickly darted behind me. I turn toward the manticore again and start to charge up a spell. The memory of Fluttershy comes up in my mind again but with another one as well. The Dauntless motto. 'We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another'. I dismissed the Fluttershy memory and  replayed the Dauntless motto over and over in my head. I am standing up for Fluttershy. Kindness didn't work so Bravery was the next best thing. My spell was finished charging up so I did the only thing left to do. Fire.
I woke up again, but this time I was o a bus. I looked around. There were mostly Abnegation, Candor, and Amity on the bus with a few Erudite. All of the Abnegation were standing up while the rest of the factions were sitting on the chairs. How did I get here? Oh, this must be another part of the test. The bus stopped and an Erudite mare got on. She was scanning each of the seats. I suddenly realized that their were no more seats left and she would have to stand up with all of those books that she was carrying. 
"Would you like to sit here?" I heard myself say. Everypony turned their head to look at me. Usually the Abnegation were the only ones who do generous things. Well, Abnegation and Rarity. Rarity is the most generous pony I have ever known. 'An act of generosity never hurts.' she would say. 
"Thank You" the Erudite mare replied. I got up and grabbed a pole just as the bus pulled away from the stop. I found myself standing next to a Candor stallion who was reading a news paper. 
"Have you seen this pony before?" the Candor stallion asked me. "It could save my life". I looked and the newspaper. It had a picture of a pony that I thought was familiar, but I couldn't put my hoof on it. Applejack once told me that honesty is the best policy no matter what and the Candor motto is 'Dishonesty makes evil possible. Truth makes us inextricable', but I don't want to get that pony in trouble. Well, if he didn't want to get in trouble, he shouldn't have done what he did. 
"I believe I have seen him before, but I don't know his name or where she is now" I reply, loud and clear.
"Ok, well if you see him, make sure you turn him in" He replied.
"I will make sure to do that" I say back. Then, the bus comes to a stop and the school. Yay! The school! I quickly hop out and start to walk to the school. Then, I heard a scream coming from behind the school. I run to the ally way that the scream is coming from to find an little Erudite filly running out from it. I quickly lift her up with my magic and levitate her toward me. She starts to scream louder.
"Shh..." I say in a sweet, loving voice like Fluttershy would. 
"What's wrong?" I asked the now calm filly.
"Umm... well I was playing ball with my Dauntless friends but one of them hit it to far so it went down the ally and they dared me to go get it." She paused for a moment, the continued.
"At first I said no, but they started to call me chicken so I did but I saw a really scary thing back there!" She finished, pointing her hoof down the ally. 
"Oh, is that all? I'm sure it's nothing to worry about" I assured the filly. 
"Here, why don't we go over there and deal with it? I am really good with magic" I say while performing a little spark off of my horn. The fillies eyes glow with amazement over the sparks, but eventually nods her head.
"There" she said once we got down the ally. I look over to where she was pointing at and I saw the scariest thing that I have ever saw on the wall.
"Ahh! A spider!" I yelled as I jumped back.
"See, I told you it was scary" the filly said. 
"So, what are we going to do about it?" she asked. I was thinking about running away, but then I remembered Pinkie's song from this morning.
"So giggle at the ghosty" I murdered under my breath. Then, I remembered something about Rainbow Dash. I remembered her being the most loyal pony I knew. I had to do this. I had to be happy, loyal, and brave. 
"We are going to laugh" I say. 
"What? Laugh?" the filly said.
"But that's illogical"
"No it's not. The best way to overcome a fear is with laughter." I say. Funny, Pinkie said those exact words.
"Then we will be brave enough to go up there and get the spider"
"But your a unicorn, can't you just levitate it down here or just kill it with a newspaper or something?" she replies.
"If I levitate it or kill it then you will never overcome your fear and you will be stuck with this fear of spiders forever" I say.
"You don't want a little spider to get in your way now do you?"
"No, but how am I supposed to laugh at something I fear?" the filly asks. I thought for a moment ad then said,
"Pretend that the spider is something else, something funny that you would laugh at" 
"Um, ok". The filly walked up to the spider and closed her eyes. A couple seconds later, she was laughing! Really hard! Pretty soon I started laughing too! We were both there, on the floor behind the school, just laughing! Then, a bright white flash came from the sky and everything disappeared. 
I woke up laughing in the comfy chair. I quickly stopped and looked over at Katie, who was looking around making sure nobody was looking or hanging around the room.
"What's wrong? What were my results?" I asked. She didn't reply, but she did get me out of the chair and brought me to the door by the back. 
"Go home, I will tell your friends that you got sick and went home early" she said this as she tried to push me out the door, but I stopped her. 
"But what were my results? What faction did I get?". She hesitated for a moment. Then said,
"You got Erudite" she said. I let out a deep breath of relief.
"And Dauntless, Abnegation, Candor, and Amity" my heart sunk at the sound of the other factions being said. 
"They call it Divergent when you get more than one, but you, you represent all 5 factions, elements and you were able to use magic during the test". Elements? What was she talking about. I have to belong to Erudite, I have too!
"When you represent all 5 factions, elements, and you are able to use magic during the test, they call it,". She took a long pause after that sentence, and I was glad she did. I was terrified about what she was going to say next. Mostly because I didn't know what she was going to say. Eventually when she said,
"The Element of Magic" I gasped.