Applejack, her brother Big McIntosh, her sister Apple Bloom, and their grandmother Granny Smith, were waiting at the airport. It was that time of year again. The time of year Babs Seed and her sister Sunflower flew out from Manehattan to visit Canterlot and stay at the farm for a week.

"Oh boy Appejack! Babs is coming! It's been so long, and we have so much to discuss! Like, if she figured out what she wants to do with her life, and if she brought her other crusaders, and..."

"Calm down Apple Bloom, you and Babs will have plenty of time to spend together." said Applejack.

"Just remember, Sunflower has to be left alone tomorrow. She needs all the focus she can get to make her famous Apple Pie and Cake for the contest this week." said Granny Smith.

Sunflower's Apple Pie and Cake. It was an anomaly among most of the apple related pastries. Sunflower would make an apple pie crust, and wrap it around a cake made of apples. Sunflower made it up on the spot one day and entered it in the Manehattan Baking contest. She won the blue ribbon, and entered it in contests wherever she would go. Nobody ever saw it before. Some people in the Apple Family would try to make their own, but they could never repeat the success of Sunflower's. This week was the triannual Canterlot Baking contest, and after some pleading from Granny Smith, Sunflower decided to enter it. She was always hesitant to make it.

"Flight 304 from Manehattan now arriving" said the voice over the loudspeaker. That was the flight Babs and Sunflower would arrive from. And, as luck would have it, the first two girls to leave the plane were a brownish-orange girl with red hair and a bright red girl with orange hair.

"Babs!" screamed Apple Bloom. She ran up to the girl and gave her the biggest hug.

"Sup Apple Bloom. How have things been?"

"I'm fine, but we gotta get goin, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle are waiting at the club house. We have a lot of important Crusader business to attend to." With that, Apple Bloom grabbed Babs' luggage, and the two ran out of the airport. Applejack walked to Sunflower and struck up a conversation with her.

"Howdy cousin. How was your flight?"

"Oh my gosh AJ, you will not believe the flight I had." Sunflower began to tell Applejack about her journey there. She was struggling to carry her luggage. "Um, could somebody...?" Big McIntosh carried her luggage for her. "Thanks BigMac."

Later that night, Granny Smith made an announcement to the other five Apples after dinner.

"Everyone, I'd like to say somethin. I'd like to thank ya Sunflower for comin' all the way out hear from Manehattan to enter your Apple Pie and Cake into the baking contest." Sunflower's face shrank for some reason after she said that.

"Oh, it's no problem Granny Smith. I'm honored that you would ask me to enter it."

"With how scrumptious it is, we'll be sure to win that baking contest, and our coveted tenth blue ribbon."

"Hey Sunflower, do ya think you can make us one for desert?" asked Apple Bloom.

"Well..." Sunflower began. She looked over, seeing the begging face of her cousin. "I guess so." She began to walk to the kitchen bringing her luggage filled with the ingredients, but stopped halfway. "Uh, Applejack, ya wanna help me this time?"

"Me? Are ya sure? Ya never have anyone around when yer baking."

"Well, I wanna make an exception this time. Wadda ya say?"

"Well, sure. Why the heck not?" Applejack followed Sunflower into the kitchen.

"So, how do we start this thing?" Applejack looked over at her cousin, who suddenly had a face filled with despair. "Sunflower, what's wrong?"

"Applejack, there's something I've wanted to tell someone."

"Oh sugar-cube, you can tell me anything."

"Well, I think it'd be better if I showed you." Sunflower reached into her bag, and pulled out a VCR. She put it in the T.V. located in the kitchen.

The tape was a recording of what looked to be an old television recording from the 20's. The tape featured a woman, preparing what looked like Sunflower's Apple Pie and Cake, and giving some informative instructions on how to prepare it.

"Sunflower, I don't understand."

"Well, the truth is, I didn't create the recipe for my desert. I based it on this old TV broadcast."

"Sunflower, why?"

"Because, you're good at farming apples. Big Mac is good at farming apples. Everyone in our family is good at making apples. But I'm not." Sunflower began to cry at this point. "I've tried and I've tried, but no matter how hard I try, I can't farm a single apple. Who ever heard of an Apple family member who couldn't even tell an apple tree from a regular tree."

"Sunflower...does anyone else know?"

"No, just you. Please Applejack, what should I do?"

Applejack paused for a moment. "You have to tell the truth. To everyone."

"What? But Applejack, I'm an Apple. Our whole thing is that we work with various types of fruit, which I can't do. What will they say?"

"Sunflower, believe me, these people are your family. They don't care if your not good at doing whatever everybody else can do. What they care about is you being yourself. That's what families do."

Sunflower stopped crying. "Thanks Applejack. You always know what to say."

"Well, that's what families do. Now, I think you better tell some people the truth."

Sunflower nodded in agreement, and walked with Applejack to the dining room.

"Sunflower, what's wrong?" asked Granny Smith.

"Well, the truth is..." Sunflower told her family about everything, about the truth.

"Well, I certainly wasn't expectin that."

"Sis, why didn't ya tell us? We wouldn't care."

"Really?"

"Eeyup."

"Sunflower, sweetheart, your an Apple, no matter how bad or good you are at farming fruit."

"Thanks Granny."

"There is one thing I'd like to know. What do you like to do, if not farming?"

"Well, this nice gentleman has been teaching me how to plant sunflowers. I think I like gardening."

"Well, we support you."

"And if anybody else tries to change you in the family, just give yer old Granny a call. I'll fix em up."

"Thanks Granny. But I guess you guys won't win the baking contest."

"Honey, we're Apples. We'll find a way."

"We always find a way."

Later that week

"Flight 308, now boarding."

"Well, that's our flight. We better get going."

"Bye Sunflower. Ya gonna tell your parents about everything?"

"You betcha. Bye, and thanks AJ. For everything."

"It was my pleasure."

"Come on Babs. We better get going."

"Right, later guys."

"Bye!" the four Apples screamed together. And with that, Sunflower and Babs were gone.