My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: A Friend in Deed

A/N: Greetings, MLP fans, and here is the final chapter for this story. Can Pinkie Pie redeem herself and become friends with Cranky Doodle? Time to find out.

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

CHAPTER FOUR: APOLOGY TIME

Feeling horrible for ruining the book and loosing Cranky Doodle Donkey as a new friend, Pinkie Pie went to the library, where she found Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom sorting through some books that they'd been sent, Sarah was making lists of the book titles, and Rainbow Dash was reading the latest Daring Do book.

"I just can't believe it," she complained, pacing after sharing the story with her friends. "Cranky said he would never forever be my friend. It was horrible."

"It does sound horrible," Sunrise Blossom agreed, giving her friend a much-needed hug. "I'm really sorry that happen, Pinkie."

"And you didn't meant to burn that book," Sarah added. "It was an accident."

Twilight Sparkle agreed with them and voiced her own thoughts. "I know this is hard for you, Pinkie," she said, "seeing that you're friends with everypony, but you just have to accept that Cranky is gonna be an exception. He just… doesn't want to be bothered."

"Yeah," said Rainbow Dash, turning a page in the book, "he doesn't want to be bothered by your over-the-top super-hyper antics."

"Rainbow!" the three unicorns snapped, glaring at the blue pegasus.

"No, no, it's okay, Twilight, Sunrise, Sarah," Pinkie Pie assured them, "I get what you're saying. What you're all saying. And I guess… I can leave Cranky alone… Right after he accepts my apology!" And she trotted off, missing seeing Sunrise Blossom and Sarah covering their faces with their hooves while Twilight Sparkle groaned, face-planting in a book while Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.

"Typical Pinkie."

Over at the cottage, Cranky Doodle Donkey was looking wistfully at his ruined book, gently touching the soaked pages and sighing.

"Cranky!" said Pinkie Pie, appearing in the doorway.

Cranky Doodle Donkey yelped and bolted past her. "No! No! Leave me alone!" he wailed as she gave chase.

"Wait!" the pink pony called out, bouncing after him. "I understand that you don't want me as a friend!"

"No, I don't!" the cranky donkey agreed, running through the town.

Pinkie Pie followed after him. "So I just wanted to say 'I'm sorry'!" she called out.

"Fine! You said it!" Cranky Doodle Donkey shouted back at her, still running and trying to find a hiding place, but like in the cartoons, she kept finding him.

"But do you accept my apology?" she asked.

"No!" he shouted.

"Please accept my apology! Please!" she pleaded.

"No!" he wailed.

"But I'm really, really, really… really, really…" Pinkie Pie said, chasing him all over town. "…really, really, really… really, really, really… really, really, really… really, really, really… sorry!"

Briefly managing to loose the pink pony, Cranky Doodle Donkey fled back to his house, where he put a bunch of locks and chains on the door, making sure that nopony could get inside, and he sighed. "Phew!" He did jump when there was a knocking on the door.

`"Cranky, please, please accept my apology!"` Pinkie Pie pleaded through the door. `"I'd do anything to make it up to you!"`

"But there's nothing you can do!" the cranky donkey shouted. "You ruined my book! You destroyed all I have to remember her by!"

`"Her?"` Pinkie Pie repeated. `"Her who? The special friend?"`

Cranky Doodle Donkey had had enough. "Go away, Pinkie!" he yelled and when he couldn't hear her, he took off his toupee and sighed sadly, sinking to the floor with an unhappy bray. He started when there was more knocking on the door.

`"Cranky? It's me again,"` said Pinkie Pie's muffled voice. `"I understand that you don't wanna be my friend or accept my apology… Before I leave you alone forever, I have something to at least try to make up for ruining your book."`

Cranky Doodle Donkey got up and faced the door angrily. "No, I don't want it, kid!" he snapped, wishing that the pink pony would just leave him alone. "Anything you would give me is sure to lead to some sort of disaster!"

`"Goodness, you really are cranky,"` said Matilda's bemused voice.

Recognizing the voice, Cranky Doodle Donkey removed the locks and chains from the door and opened it. "It can't be…" he whispered, putting his toupee back on and pushing Pinkie Pie aside so that he could see the female donkey, who was smiling at him. "Is it really you?" he asked, no longer whispering.

"It can, and it is," Matilda confirmed, still smiling.

"Matilda! But how?" the stunned male donkey wondered.

Matilda nodded at the pink pony, who was happily watching them. "Pinkie."

Cranky Doodle Donkey couldn't believe it and looked questioningly at the pink pony. "But… I never told you about her!"

"You didn't have to," Pinkie Pie explained. "I put two and two and two together and it added up to Matilda."

Cranky Doodle Donkey blinked, trying to make sense of what she just said. "What?"

"Well, when you were talking about your souvenirs," the pink pony explained, "you said something about trying to find a special friend! And y'know, I wasn't just born yesterday. Nuh-uh! My birthday isn't for another seventy five days!"

Cranky Doodle Donkey was still confused. "Huh?"

"And then, in your scrapbook," Pinkie Pie continued, "there was a flower, an old ticket, and a menu from the Grand Galloping Gala! And I knew I recognized all these things."

"But how could you have ever seen them before?" Cranky Doodle Donkey inquired, now starting to catch on of how the pink pony explained things.

Matilda held up a pink book. "Because I also have them in my scrapbook."

"And I'd seen them in Matilda's book!" Pinkie Pie added happily.

"Oh, Matilda," Cranky Doodle Donkey sighed as they looked at the page with the stuff from the Grand Galloping Gala. "The night we met at the Gala was the most magical night of my life."

A young Cranky Doodle Donkey escorted the young Matilda to her room at the palace and smiled when she kissed him on the cheek before going inside and shutting the door. The next morning, Cranky Doodle Donkey went to the room and he was disappointed to see that she was gone. Sadly he left to find her, missing the note she'd left on the door, which floated to the floor.

`"I couldn't wait to see you again. But when I came to your room the next day, you were gone."`

`"Didn't you get my note?"`

Cranky Doodle Donkey searched all of Equestria for years, his black hair eventually falling out so that he had to by the old toupee, and he grew grumpy when he couldn't find her.

`"No, I never got it. Ever since that day I've gone from town to town to town, searching all over Equestria for you…"`

"…Until finally I gave up," he concluded. "I came to Ponyville to retire from my search."

"I was living in Ponyville the whole time," Matilda informed him. "I always hoped that some day you would come and find me… Doodle."

Pinkie Pie, who'd been keeping quiet the whole time, which was a first for her, started when the female donkey called him 'Doodle' "Uh. Matilda? Nopony calls him Doodle," she warned.

"Nopony… but Matilda. Mmm," said Cranky Doodle Donkey.

"Oh, Doodle, I'm so happy to see you," Matilda said, kissing him on the nose.

And for the first time in years, Cranky Doodle Donkey actually smiled and let out a happy braying.

Pinkie Pie was thrilled to see him smile finally. "So does this mean that you accept my apology?" she asked hopefully.

"Yes, Pinkie, I accept your apology," Cranky Doodle Donkey told her gratefully, still smiling, "and I am honored to call you my friend."

"Woo-hoo!" Pinkie Pie squealed, shooting into the air like a firework and landed with a happy thump. "This is just fantastic! Ooh, now we can hang out together and chat and sing songs and" she gasped "party! Oh, I have to throw you guys a big party! It'll be called the 'Welcome to Ponyville/I Found My Lost Love/I'm BFF's with Pinkie Pie' Party!" She paused and calmed down a little with a sheepish smile. "…Or maybe something less over-the-top and not so super-hyper."

Cranky Doodle Donkey chuckled. "Pinkie, we're eternally grateful to you," he remarked. "But… Matilda and I just want to spend some time together in peace and quiet."

"Oh. Um, but we're still friends?" the pink pony asked.

"Pinkie, you went way, way, way out of your way to make me happy," Cranky Doodle Donkey stated. "Of course we're friends."

Pinkie Pie beamed. "Great!" She went to a picnic table and wrote a letter to Princess Celestia while the two donkeys went into the cottage for some alone time.

Dear Princess Celestia,

There are many different kinds of friends, and many ways to express friendship. Some friends like to run and laugh and play together. But others just like to be left alone, and that's fine too. But the best thing about friendship is being able to make your friends smile.

Your faithful subject,

Pinkie Pie

Pinkie Pie rolled up the letter and smiled when she saw the couple kissing in front of one of the windows. "He had a Cranky Doodle sweetheart," she sang softly at first and then sang louder. "She's his cranky doodle joy. I helped the Cranky Doodle boy, yeah! I helped the Cranky Doodle boy!"

"Pinkie!"

"Whoops, privacy. Sorry."

A/N: And Pinkie Pie saves the day. Hooray! So, I will post again on Thursday due to my having work tomorrow morning at the movie theater. Bye for now! R&R everyone!