//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: MLP - Divergent Crossover // by abfarmer76 //------------------------------// "The Element of Magic?" I stuttered. "Yes, the Element of Magic. It is one of the 6 Elements of Harmony. They say when all 6 elements are together, something amazing will happen, but only if they all want it" I was still stunned. "You and the other elements must each hide in a faction. I would suggest that you all choose different factions, I have a feeling something bad is going to happen" I finally came back from dream land. "How come I haven't heard of this before? What bad thing is going to happen? How do you know about this? Where and what are the other elements?" I asked. "The other 5 elements are Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, and Loyalty. Now go! You have a lot of thinking to do!" She pushed me out the door before I could react. I stared at the door for a few minutes, trying to understand what just happened. Who could be the other elements? What bad thing was going to happen? I finally turned around and started walk to the front of the school to meet the others for the sleepover. I just needed some rest. As I was walking, I saw Rarity leaning against the wall, crying actually. I walked up to her. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Oh! It's just horrible!" She replied, still sobbing. "What is?" I asked again, now a little more curious than I was. She hesitated, then looked around. I guess to see if anybody was watching. "I can't tell you here. I'll tell you later at the sleepover with everypony" she said, calming down a little. "Ok. I have something to say as well" I said. There was a moment of silence. "I'm walking to the front of the school to wait for the others, you want to come?" I finally said. "Ok. It's better than sitting here" she said while wiping some tears from her eyes. She got up and started to walk with me to the front of the school. "So, why are you outside?" She asked. Rarity was always a more social pony than I was. "Um... I'll tell you later" I replied. There was an silence between us as we walked down the ally. After walking a few feet I saw something leaning up against the wall, crying. Rarity noticed this as well. When we go closer I noticed it was a yellow, Dauntless Pegasus pony. Fluttershy. "Fluttershy! Darling what's wrong?" Rarity said as we ran up to her. She looked up at the call of her name, but went back to crying. "I just don't know what to do!" I heard her mumble. "Shh... It's ok, we will figure something out" Rarity and I said almost in union. I guess she heard Fluttershy mumble as well. "How about we talk about this when you've calmed down and when we are with the others. Would that be ok Fluttershy?" I asked. "Um.. ok.. I guess" she replied. "Oh, don't worry darling. Twilight and I hear both have something we need to share. We can do it together!" Rarity said. Fluttershy nodded. "Here, let us help you up" I said while extending a hoof to Fluttershy. Rarity did the same. "So, Rarity and I were walking up to the front of the school to meet with the others for the sleepover tonight. You want to walk with us?" I asked Fluttershy once she was up. Again, she replied with a simple nod and we began walking to the front of the school. We were almost to the front of the school when we saw 2 mares, a Dauntless and an Amity comforting a crying Abnegation mare. "Rainbow! Applejack! Pinkie! What happened?" I yelled and started to sprint over to them, Rarity and Fluttershy by my side. Rainbow and Applejack quickly spun there heads around to look at us. "Oh, hi Twilight" Rainbow said. Something was wrong, Rainbow never sounds like that. "What's wrong?" I asked for the third time today. "Well, ah had to lave out the back door after taking mah test so ah started to walk to the front of the school but ah found RD here against the wall with Pinkie." Applejack said. "Oh Pinkie!? Are you alright?" Fluttershy, I guess now noticing Pinkie crying against the wall, ran over to Pinkie's side. Rainbow and Applejack got up and walked over to us. "We were walking up together to meet you guys for the sleepover" I said. Suddenly, Pinkie popped up, almost scaring Fluttershy to death in the process and said, "Oh! I almost forgot! Here are your clothes!" she pulled out 5 pairs of Abnegation clothes from out of nowhere and handed them to us. "Do we really have to wear these? Their so... bleah" Rarity said. Rainbow and Applejack rolled their eyes. "Yes Rarity, you do. Otherwise you will not blend in as an Abnegation" I responded. "Um Pinkie? Do you have something for us to change behind?" Applejack asked. "Oh yeah! Sorry! Here Rainbow and Fluttershy take this" Pinkie handed a towel to them. They just looked at her with confusion. "Hold the towel up so we can change behind it!" Pinkie said. The two pegasi nodded and put their clothes on the ground, picked up a corner of the towel and flew into the air. "Ok! Who's first?" Pinkie asked with an excited grin on her face. Applejack was the first to go change. Rarity had volunteered, but we all agreed that she should go last. She would take the longest and she is the only one out of all of us that knows how to put our mane and tails in buns. Once Applejack was done Pinkie went. Then I and then Rainbow, with me taking over her side of the towel with my magic. Fluttershy went after me with Rarity taking over her side. Once she was done, Rainbow took over her side. When we were all finished getting dressed and putting our mane and tails in buns, we put our real faction clothes in our sattle bags and started to walk to the Abnegation sector of the city. Abnegation is probably the easiest faction to get into. It was a breeze! When we arrived at Pinkie's house, she had to distract her parents so we could get upstairs, her parents don't like her breaking the rules and having other faction members over for a sleepover was one of them. Once we got into Pinkie's room, we all rolled out our sleeping bags. Each of them had our names and faction symbol on them. Rarity made them for us last year for our anniversary of being friends party as Pinkie put it, even thought we never actually had the party because we weren't aloud too, but the sleeping bags were very pretty and it made Pinkie cheer up fast. We told each other that we would keep these sleeping bags forever, weather we stayed friends, stayed in our home faction, were no longer friends, or transferred. Transfer I shudder at the thought of it. Betraying my home faction? Never. But I don't belong their. Would they still accept me even thought I don't belong? What will happen if they found out? Which faction do I belong in? I'm pretty sure there is no "Element of Magic" faction. Once we got settled, everypony was silent. Even Pinkie, who is usually bouncing off the walls at this moment, was quiet. "Why don't we change into our pj's and then we can talk?" I suggested. Silence was a bad sign for us. Especially if it was silent and Pinkie was around. Then you would know something was up. When we got into our pj's we sat in a circle in the middle of Pinkie's room, it got quiet again. Finally, I decided to break the silence. "So, I told everypony that I'd tell them something at this sleepover and I believe all of you did as well" everypony's head bobbed up and down. "But in order to do that" I took a big breath in. I hated breaking the rules. "I would have to tell you guys my results" Applejack suddenly started to speak. "Uh Twi? Ah would hav tah tell ya'll mah results as well" "Umm.. I would too, if that's ok with you of course" Fluttershy said. Pinkie jumped up almost scaring Fluttershy to death, again, her hair bouncing around and said, "Oh! this s so funny! I would too! We can be twins!" she squealed. "Not meaning to interrupt" Rarity began, "but I do believe we should be quiet. We don't want to repeat our last sleepover now do we?" Rainbow grunted at the saying of this. "Oh.. and I do believe that I would have to break that rule for this darling" Rarity finished. "Not that breaking the rules is anything new to me," Rainbow began, "but I would too". "Ok, so who goes first?" Pinkie asked in a loud wispher. There was a moment of silence. Again, I decided to break the silence. "I will" Everypony's head turned toward me. Their eyes wide with fear, even the two Dauntless in the room showed fear. "For my test, I got all 5 factions. Erudite, Dauntless, Abnegation, Candor, and Amity" I said firmly. "This would usually be known as 'Divergent' but I was able to represent all 5 elements, factions and I was able to use magic during the test. This would be known as" I took a deep breath. "The Element of Magic. It is one of the 6 Elements of Harmony ad when it is joined together with the other 5 elements, something happens but I don't know what" I finished, almost fainting by my lack of air. I looked at my friends, who all had shocked expressions on their faces. They each looked at each other. Finally Applejack got up and said, "Uh, Twi?" she started, "Ah believe we're the other elements". Now it was my turn to be shocked. "WHAT?!" "It's true!" Pinkie was suddenly in my face almost making me scream, again. "The nice Dauntless lady, Tori said I represented all 5 factions AND the Element of Laughter!" She smiled. "Ah am the Element of Honesty" Applejack said. "I.. um.. I got the Element of Kindness.." Fluttershy mumbled just loud enough for us to hear. "I represent the Element of Generosity" Rarity said while flipping her hair. "And I'm the Element of Loyalty!" Rainbow said, now making a pose and gaining a eye roll from Applejack. "Wow..." is all I could say. How could it be them? Then it hit me. Each of my friends had told me something that helped me during the test. Fluttershy with being kind to the manticore. Kindness. Rarity with giving up my seat for the Erudite mare. Generosity. Applejack when I told the truth to the Candor stallion. Honesty. Rainbow when I didn't run away from the little filly, but instead stayed by her side. Loyalty. And Pinkie when the little filly and I laughed and the spider to get over our fear. Laughter. How have I not noticed this before? "So, um" Rainbow began, breaking me out of my trance. "what do we do with this magic power thing?" "First of all, it's not a 'magic power thing' and second," I paused, not knowing what to say next. "I don't know" I said as I hung my head in shame. "Oh, it's ok Twi" Applejack said. "Nopony is supposed to have all the answers" "Is their anything you do know that could help us with understanding this more?" Rarity questioned. "Well," I began. "I don't know much about them, but I do know we can't look on the computers at Erudite because they track everything that you search. I don't know if it is the same for you". "The only computers in Dauntless are in the Control room, but your not aloud to go in unless you work their" Rainbow said. "Ah don't believe we have any computers at Amity" Applejack finished. "Candor is the same as Dauntless. It's not heavily guarded, but I don't want to get in trouble" Rarity said while Rainbow rolled her eyes. "Hm..... I don't believe Abnegation has any computers but have you tried books yet?" Pinkie asked. "No, I haven't and I will not have enough time tomorrow morning to check through books!" I shot back, making Pinkie whimper. I sighed. "Sorry girls, I'm just exhausted from all of this" "It's ok darling, but I do have to ask, should we try activating our element? The very pretty Abnegation lady that viewed my test told me that when all 6 elements are together, they can create something wonderful but only if they all want it" Rarity concluded. "Oh! I love doing those types of things even though I never done anything like it but I'm sure it will be fun! Oh! Can we throw a party for this? We haven't had one in a-" "Pinkie!" Rainbow almost screamed. "I don't think it is a good idea to have a party right now, considering what happened last time!" Her eyes were filled with furry. Pinkie whimpered again. "Um.. Ah think we should try it, for good measures" Applejack said. "Um..... ok" Fluttershy muttered. "Ok, everypony stand up and gather in a circle" Everypony in the room got up and did just that. "Um...ok....now, I guess you all think of the times you showed the trait of your element and I will cast a spell that will stop any magical spell from getting out of this room. Oh! It also stops sounds from coming out. The spell should keep whatever will happen from getting to the rest of the city" Everypony nodded and went to thinking while I cast the spell. Then I began to think of the times when I was great at magic. After a little bit of thinking, everypony in the room started to get lifted into the air. I opened a eye just in time to see a stripe of color come from everypony's chest and going to the middle of the circle. The color was the same as their coat. All the color in the middle came together and created a beautiful rainbow sphere. I looked over at Rarity, who was mouthing the word 'IDEA!'. I look back at the sphere to see that it is much smaller than it was a couple seconds ago. Before I could think more of this, a purple light shoots from the rainbow sphere and goes directly towards my horn and starts to drain some of my magic. "AHHHH!!!!!!!!" I hear from everypony in the room. With the strength that I could muster, I turn my head toward Rarity who was having the same exact thing happen to her just with a white light. I then turn toward Rainbow and Fluttershy just in time to see a Pegasus feather being pulled from their wings to the center along with what I am assuming is pegasi magic from their chests by a blue and yellow beam. Then, I turn to Applejack and Pinkie who are having what looks like Earth pony magic taken from their chests by a orange and pink beam. The pain went one for what felt like hours until the pain suddenly stopped. I fell to the floor with a thud and everything went dark.