One of my personal favorite episodes from the show! Hope you all enjoy!


"Alright Pinkie better have a good reason for this." Lincoln groaned as he wiped the sleep out of his eyes. He and the Mane 6 aside from Pinkie Pie herself were currently standing outside the Sugar Cube Corner…very early in the morning.

"Yeah. It's way to early to get up for anything." Rainbow groaned as she hovered closer to her friends while letting out a big yawn.

"I just can't go without my beauty sleep." Rarity said in a sleepy tone. Luckily Applejack was there to wrap a hoof around her marefriend and give her a kiss on the cheek.

"Well ah think ya always look beautiful sugar cube." Applejack told the white unicorn, making her smile and lean into the farm pony's neck. Applejack as really the only pony not effected by waking up this early as she pretty much did this on a daily basis to work on her farm. The blond mare then turned to the rest of her friends as asked them "Has anypony heard from Pinkie Pie since yesterday?"

"Not me." Lincoln said as everypony else muttered, saying they also haven't seen the pink party pony recently either.

Rainbow let out another yawn as she complained even more about the meeting time. "I just don't get why she asked us to come this early!" The Pegasus groaned as she gestured over to a sleeping rooster. "Celestia hasn't even raised the sun yet!"

"I hope everything's ok." Twilight said with concern before knocked on the door to the sweets shop.

Once Twilight knocked, they heard the sound of clattering come inside making everypony look at each other in some slight concern of what was going on inside. Just then the door opened revealing Pinkie Pie wearing safety goggles and a white chef's hat. "Thank goodness you're all here! There's no time to lose!" Pinkie said quickly as she walked out and proceeded to throw her friends inside. The only one to avoid this was Twilight as she walked inside and Rainbow who tried to fly in, but Pinkie accidently closed the door on her once everypony else was inside. Pinkie quickly opened up the door again and grabbed the Pegasus's hoof and dragged her inside.

When everypony was inside, they soon looked down to find tiny little colored rocks on the floor. Looking around the room they saw that there was tons of these kinds of rocks around with canisters filled over the brim with them.

"What is all this?" Twilight asked as they all watched as Pinkie held a bowl filled with even more rocks and was stirring them around with a whisk.

Pinkie them spat out the whisk as she explained to her friends the situation. "My sister Maud's going to be here soon, and I need your help taste-testing my rock candy recipes." The pink pony explained as she gestured her head over to all the piles of rock candy in the room.

"Uh, were happy to help Pinkie Pie, but this seems like an awful lot of candy…" Applejack pointed out as she felt a little intimidated by what was possibly hundreds of pieces of rock candy in the room.

"Even for you." Rarity pointed out as she knew that Pinkie Pie loved sweets and tended to go a little bit crazy whenever doing something involving them, but this was dialing it up to 11.

"Yeah, I think you went a little overboard." Lincoln added in as he tried his best to maneuver around the room and not step on one of the many pieces of candy on the floor.

"Maybe just a teensy bit." Pinkie admitted with a big sheepish smile.


A few hours later, everypony but Pinkie was now on the ground groaning in pain with a few clenching their stomachs in pain due to eating one rock candy to many. "Ok guys, I'm tagging out." Lincoln groaned as he fell down clenching his stomach.

Just then Pinkie came in wheeling in a what looked like a garbage can that was filled with, yet, even more rock candy. "Everypony ready for more?" She asked happily getting a groan from everypony in response.

"My teeth hurt." Rainbow Dash as with a bunch of pieces of candy stuck to her muzzle and a clenching her belly.

"Ah think we've had enough." Applejack quickly said as she and most likely everypony else couldn't bare to eat a single piece more. "And shouldn't you be on your way to pick up Maud from the train station?"

"But you only tried half of the flavors." Pinkie Pie stated as she grabbed as much candies from the trash can as she good with her fore hooves and spoke with a slightly anxious tone. "And we have to choose the perfect ones before she gets here so I have time to make more."

Everypony then all watch as Pinkie shoved all the candy in her mouth before picking up the trash can and dumping the rest of the candy in her mouth and quickly chewing it up and swallowing. Twilight then walked up to Twilight with a reassuring look on her face. "Pinkie, Maud is your sister. I'm sure she'll love the rocky candy." The Alicorn told the Earth Pony.

"Yeah." Lincoln added in as he managed to sit himself up. "If anyone know how sisters behave with other sisters it's me. I'm sure Maud won't care about the flavor; she'll probably care about spending some time with her sister."

Everypony nodded in agreement to both Twilight's and Lincoln's words as Rainbow Dash added in. "And needless to say, you've made enough for one pony who's only staying for a week." The blue Pegasus stated as she gestured her hooves to the entire room.

"Well it's not just for Maud silly." Pinkie stated now having her usual smile back. "I'm making candy for all of us!"

Everypony groaned again, feeling like they've had eaten enough rock candy for the rest of the year. Lincoln then fell back down on the floor and got into a fetal position. "I, uh, think he's out of commission." Fluttershy said as she poked Lincoln's back with her hoof.

Just then Pinkie actually looked at everyone with a serious expression as she said. "It's a part of a very important, super-duper special tradition that only the closest and bestest of friends can share." Pinkie explained as she pulled up a necklace with a bunch of pieces of rock candy attached to it. "We're going to make rock candy necklaces together." She followed up with an excited scream.

Pinkie then began to tell the story of how this tradition came to be.

"It all started when Maud and I were fillies on the rock farm. She taught me the Pie family rock candy recipe. It has a secret ingredient. It's rocks! She showed me how to string the pieces to make them into a necklace. And once we were done, we'd trade."

Everypony watched as Pinkie detailed her stories with a notebook and colored pencils. Once she finished the last drawing, she dropped the pencil and said. "Maud and I have been trading necklaces back and forth since I moved to Ponyville. They're a sign that we'll always be best friends."

"Aw, what a great tradition." Applejack complimented as she and everypony else smiled at the incredibly sweet tradition Pinkie and her sister had.

"Hold on!" Rainbow Dash interrupted as she realized something from the story. "The rock candy secret ingredient…is rocks?"

"Yeah." Pinkie said with a simple nod.

"So…that rock candy…was actually rock candy?" Lincoln asked to make sure he didn't mishear anything. When Pinkie nodded again, Lincoln eyes slowly widened as he put a hand to his stomach. "Well…that's certainly gonna be something later."

When Lincoln's said that, everypony else's eyes widen with the exception of Pinkie Pie as realization of what was to come came to them as well. However, Pinkie then came in and reassured everypony as she said. "Don't worry everypony. They aren't just normal rocks. They're a special kind of rock that Maud discovered."

Everypony eased up at hearing that as Fluttershy asked. "What kind of a rock are they?"

"I can't tell you that, silly." Pinkie Pie told the shy pony as she leaned in her ear and said in an exaggerated whisper. "It's a secret."

"Now that Maud is heading off to her Rocktorate in rock science, this may be our last chance to trade them for a really long time." Pinkie explained as she turned to face all her friends. "I can't wait for you all to meet her. I just know that my best Ponyville friends and best sister friend are going to become bestest friends. We can make bestestest friend rock candy necklaces together!"

Pinkie was growing more excited by the second as she began to list of traits Maud had in common with her friends. "She expresses herself through fashion just like Rarity. And she's really smart and loves reading, just like Twilight." She said as she wrapped Rarity and Twilight in her hooves. She then reached out for Applejack and Fluttershy. "And she's honest and loves forest things." She then grabbed Rainbow. "And is good at games." She then grabbed Lincolns arms and wrapped him up into the forced group hug. "And she's super brave and strong!"

"And, well, SHE'S AWESOME!" Pinkie yelled excitedly.

Lincoln couldn't help but chuckle at the events taking place and said. "Well I can't wait to meet her."

"Yes, same here darling." Rarity managed to say with her cheeks being pressed against Pinkie and Twilight. "But won't she be worried if you aren't at the train station when she gets here?"

"She sure will." Pinkie said before realization came to her and she let out a panicked gasp. "I gotta get out of here!" And just like that, the pink Pony quickly threw her friends out of the group hug and quickly ran out of the sweets shop and headed to the train station as fast she could.


Later that day, with the sun now shining high in the sky the Mane 6, aside from Pinkie, as well as Lincoln were all setting up a picnic area to greet Maud with when Pinkie brings her to meet them. The ponies had also brought their pets with them with Applejack having a dog named Winona, Fluttershy having a bunny named Angel Bunny, Rarity having a white Persian cat named Opalescence, Twilight having an owl named Owlowiscious, and finally Rainbow Dash had a tortoise named Tank. Tank had a little something extra however has Rainbow Dash had set him up with a pilot hat/googles and a propeller so that her and Tank could fly together.

"Ok. That's awesome." Lincoln commented as he watched the tortoise fly above a few of the pets that were running around.

"I know right." Rainbow Dash bragged a bit as she watched her beloved pet fly to his heart's content. Lincoln would have to tell Lana about this when he eventually got home.

Meanwhile the rest of the ponies were busy setting up food and the red and white checkered pattern blanket for the picnic with Maud. "I sure hope Maud has an appetite." Fluttershy said as she and Angel Bunny approached the picnic blanket.

"Never met a pony, or a critter, who didn't love Granny Smith's apple-spice muffins." Applejack said as she put down a basket of said food item on the blanket. She also pushed back Angle Bunny when he tried to take a muffin.

"Oh, it's no use." Rarity said as she and her cat walked in with Rarity wearing a big purple hat covered with semi-transparent rocks. "I simply cannot find anything suitable to wear."

Lincoln then looked at Rarity's hat and had to suppress a laugh as he struggled not to smile and asked. "Rarity…what the heck are you wearing."

"Well, I was trying to find the perfect outfit or accessory that would impress Maud." Rarity explained as she looked at her hat with a glare. "But, as it turns out, nothing goes good with rock!" Rarity said as she sat down on her butt leading to one of the rocks falling off and landing in the muffin basket. Meanwhile Applejack saw down next to the unicorn and leaned her hand on Rarity's shoulder to cheer her marefriend up.

"I doubt she'll notice what anypony's wearing." Rainbow said as she simply shrugged her fore hooves. "So, what's the big deal?"

"The big deal is how can we show her what a strong fashion presence we have in Ponyville if the most fashion-forward pony here can't keep her hat from falling about." Rarity explained as, true to her word, more rocks started to fall from her hat.

"Sugar cube, it don't matter what you're wearing. To me, you're the most beautiful pony in all of Equestria." Applejack reassured her marefriend as she grabbed her cheeks and gave her a soft smile making everypony present 'aaw' at the sight. Expect Rainbow Dash who turned away so she wouldn't watch all the 'lovey-dovey' stuff.

"I think we're all nervous about Maud's visit." Twilight told the couple after getting over the cute little scene. "She's Pinkie Pie's sister and it's obvious Pinkie really wants us to hit if off. Being able to make those rock candy necklaces together is really important to her."

"I think you're all over thinking this to much." Lincoln told everyone as he sat against a tree and rest his head behind his arm. "Just be yourselves. No need to get all worked up and out of your way for something. If she really wants to be your friend, then just be yourselves around her and let her be herself." Lincoln told everyone with a confident smile as everypony looked to each other and smiled at the human's words. And then they heard a familiar peppy voice calling out to them.

"WE'RE HERE!" Everyone turned to the voice of Pinkie Pie coming from atop the hill that led to the area they were at. They then saw as Pinkie Pie literally started bouncing down the hill to meet up with her friends.

When she reached them, Twilight walked up to her with a confused expression and asked. "Where' Maud?"

"Yeah I thought you picked her up from the train station?" Lincoln asked as he didn't leave his position of leaning against the tree.

"She's coming." Pinkie told everypony with an eager expression as she and the rest of the group looked up the hill.

After a few moments, they still didn't see anything as Rainbow asked. "Are you sure?"

"She's not quite as fast as me." Pinkie told her friends as she reassured them. "I asked Gummy to stay with her in case she got lost." Gummy was Pinkie's pet…alligator which was named Gummy due to the reptile's lack of teeth.

Everypony continued to look up at the hill, with Lincoln finally standing up and putting his hands over his eyes to see farther. And just then he spotted something. "Hey, I think I see someone." Lincoln told the ponies around him as they narrowed their eyes and eventually saw the figure of an Earth Pony coming into view…very…very slowly.

"Is she even moving?" Rainbow Dash whispered to Rarity who simply shrugged in response as they saw the Pony slowly walking down the hill.

"WE'RE OVER HERE MAUD!" Pinkie yelled with her voice echoing throughout the area.

Finally, after a few more minutes they watched as Maud finally came into view, stopping in front of a small rock. Maud was an earth pony liked her sister and had bluish gray fur and a grayish violet man and tail, with the tail currently being chewed on by gummy. She had light turquoise eyes with mascara that was the same color as her mane and tail along with a single eyelash. She wore a grayish blue frock with a black belt around her waist.

Maud had a blank emotionless expression on her face as she gave everypony a brief glance before looking down at the rock in front of her. She didn't seem to care that there was an Alligator teething at her tail.

They watched as Maud leaned her head down to the rock and gave it a few sniffs and hummed a bit and said in a tone that matched her expression. "Sedimentary."

Pinkie had a giant smile on her face as Everypony rose a brow at Maud's actions. All except Lincoln who was simply watching her and trying to get a good read on this pony and her personality. "Huh?" Rainbow asked as she landed in between Twilight and Pinkie, not hearing what Maud said.

"This is a sedimentary rock." Maud explained as she held the rock in her hooves. Her expression never changing.

'Ah, I see,' Lincoln thought with a smirk as he realized the kind of personality Maud had. Not to unlike a certain black-haired sister he had.

Everypony was silent for a moment as Gummy finally jumped off the mare's tail. Finally, Twilight managed to speak in a bit of an awkward tone. "That's really fascinating, isn't it, girls?" Twilight asked her friends as they all simply gave awkward expressions in response, with the exception of Lincoln who gave a slight nod as he put his hands in his hoodie pockets.

Twilight then managed to put on a friendly face as she walked up to Maud and spoke in a sincere and friendly tone. "We're just so thrilled you could come for a visit before your big trip." Twilight said as Maud simply listened with her usual expression. "Pinkie Pie has told us so much about you. I'm Twilight and this is Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Lincoln."

All the ponies Twilight introduced each gave Maud a wave then their names was called with Lincoln simply giving a small nod in greeting.

"It's so very nice to meet you." Fluttershy greeted.

"We're just gonna have the best time!" Applejack said with enthusiasm.

However, Maud didn't give a response a response as she looked at everypony with the same blank expression she's had since they've arrived. Most of the group felt a little nervous at this while Pinkie simply smiled at everyone.

Lincoln wasn't fazed however as he stepped up to Maud and gave the Earth Pony and small smile and gave a simple. "Sup."

Maud was still silent but looked up and Lincoln and looked over him and seemingly expecting his body. "Hi." She said simply. She didn't seem nervous around him like most ponies he first encountered. "Pinkie told me about you in a letter."

"Really?" Lincoln asked, keeping his words simple and few.

"Yes. And she was right." Maud told Lincoln as she looked into his eyes. "You are tall."

"Yes I am." Lincoln replied with a tiny smile.

Pinkie then let out a happy squeal as she said. "It's so good to see you two get along!" She cheered as Lincoln simply nodded at the pink pony with Maud simply looking to Pinkie and blinking.

Everypony else was really confused and feeling rather awkward. For one, Lincoln didn't really seem effected by Maud's monotoned attitude and expression and two, getting along? Lincoln seemed like everything was going ok but Maud…it was impossible to tell just how she was feeling.

"Come on girls! Don't be shy!" Pinkie told them with enthusiasm. "You should get to know Maud as well!"

The other mares looked at each other awkwardly for a moment, but then Rarity gained the confidence to introduce herself and walked up to Maud and said. "Pinkie Pie tells me you share my love for fashion."

"I'm really into expressing myself through my wardrobe." Maud explained with her usual monotoned voice.

"And what is the delightful frock you're wearing now saying?" Rarity asked as she pointed a hoof towards the piece of clothing Maud was wearing.

Maud was silent for a moment before bluntly saying. "It doesn't talk. It's a dress." She said while raising her eyebrow a bit at Rarity.

"Oh yes. Of course! I was just, uh, well," Rarity said awkwardly before she started to babble nervous gibberish and back away.

Just then Lincoln came in and gave his opinion about Maud's frock due to gaining some fashion skills from Leni. "Well I think it shows that while it's simple, it's the kind of simple that works with you and show that you aren't trying to stand out, but are simply showing off who you are as a per, er, pony." Lincoln said while having to correct himself at the end.

Maud then looked to Lincoln again and said. "Thank you. That's what I was going for." She confirmed with her expression and tone still not changing one bit.

Rarity looked to Lincoln with a gaped mouth. How was he interacting with Maud so well?! Before she could question anymore in her mind, suddenly Applejack's dog started barking and circling around Maud. "Oh. So, this here's Winona," Applejack introduced her pet as the farm pony stepped up and started introducing everypony's pet. "And that's Owlowisious, Tank, Opal, and Angel. Pinkie Pie told use you have a pet too."

"He's in my pocket." Maud told them as Fluttershy walked forward.

"Oooh, you have a pocket pet?" The usually shy mare cooed. "Like a tiny mouse? Or a baby bird? Or a trained butterfly?" She excitedly asked as Angel stood by her and looked pretty annoyed at Fluttershy getting excited over other animals.

"It's a rock." Maud bluntly revealed as she reached into a pocket on her Frock and pulled out a little rock and set it on the ground. Fluttershy looked at Boulder with a rather surprised look before looking awkwardly at Maud. "His name is Boulder."

Everypony was silent while Lincoln couldn't help but snicker at their reactions while Pinkie said. "This is going to be the best, most awesome, funnest week ever!" She said excitedly. "I can't wait for us all to become bestest friends."

"Yeah, this might be pretty fun." Lincoln said as he turned to Maud and gave the mare a small smile, similar to the ones his sister Lucy made from time to time.

Maud looked Lincoln in the eye and although her expression didn't change, Lincoln had enough experience with people like that to tell how they were really feeling.

Meanwhile the other ponies could only look to each other and chuckle nervously.


A little later, everypony was enjoying the picnic either by enjoying a sandwich, munching on a salad or enjoying one of the muffins Applejack brought. Speaking of which, Applejack watched as Maud took a bit of her sandwich before setting it down and pushing Bolder to it so he could…eat.

"Maud? Would ya care to try one of Granny Smiths famous apple spice muffins?" The orange pony offered as she pushed the basket towards Maud.

Maud tilted her head towards the basket and sniffed, only she didn't sniff a muffin. She sniffed the rock that used to be on Rarity's hat that was still in the basket. Maud then opened up her mouth around the rock instead of a muffin.

"Oh, uh, ha, that's not-" Applejack was saying but was interrupted by Maud biting into the rock and started eating said rock.

Everypony watched slightly as Maud simply crunched down on the stone with Lincoln looking towards the audience and saying. "Guess everyone has their different taste."

After Maud took a few more bites, she turned to Applejack and said. "It's crunchy." Before swallowing the rock pieces.

Pinkie then reached into the basket herself and bit into one of the muffins and said happily with a full mouth. "Maud's right. They are crunchy!" Pinkie then licked all the crumbs off her muzzle and let out a "Yum!"

"So, uh, Pinkie Pie tells us you like games." Rainbow Dash said, trying to get rid of the awkwardness that just occurred.

Maud then answered as she pointed a hoof towards Boulder. "Boulder and I sometimes play a game called camouflage. It's kind of like hide-and-seek, but waaaay more intense." The Earth Pony explained with the exact some tone she's been talking with this whole time.

Everypony looked at Maud awkwardly as Rainbow said in a tone that matched most pony's expression. "Awesome…"

A little later, everypony was playing 'Camouflage' and were looking for Boulder the rock…in a small field filled with other rocks. Everypony was lifting up various rocks trying to find the specific rock, but no pony was having any luck.,

"Alright, there's finding a needle in a haystack, and then there's find a rock in a pile of rocks." Lincoln said as he lifted up two rocks trying to find Boulder.

"I truly wish I had spent more time with Boulder, because I'm having a very hard time remembering what he looks like." Fluttershy said as she tossed aside a rock.

"How are we gonna find that little varmit in all this?" Applejack asked in an annoyed tone as she kicked aside a rock.

"I don't know darling; how can one tell one rock from another?" Rarity asked as she walked up to her marefriend as another rock fell off her hat.

"Rarity, ah love ya, but please don't make this any harder." Applejack said with an unamused tone while pointing to the rock Rarity once had on her hat.

Rarity then groaned as she said. "That's it. I give up!" The fashionista yelled in irritation. "This is impossible."

"It'll hurt Maud's feeling if we all stop playing." Twilight pointed out before smiling and gesturing towards a certain pink Pony. "Besides, look how much fun Pinkie Pie is having."

Everypony watched as Pinkie Pie happily showed Maud various rocks and asking, "Is this him!" Every time, all with a happy expression on her face.

"Just a little longer, ok?" Twilight asked everypony as they all groaned 'All right.'

Meanwhile, Lincoln scratched his chin in thought as an idea came to him. 'Hold on, if Boulder is with Maud most the time, then that rock probably has her scent on him.' With his plan decided on, Lincoln activated the Ultimatrix and found the alien he was looking for before slamming it down.

Everypony noticed the emerald flash and looked as Lincoln started to transform. "Ooooh! Watch this Maud! It's gonne be awesome!" Pinkie told her sister as Maud looked at where the flashing occurred.

When the flash died down, it showed a dog-like creature covered in white fur. This creature had no eyes, ears, nose, or even a tail. It had sharp defined teeth and sharp claws as well as three gill-like nostrils that were high lighted pink on each side of its neck.

The creature Lincoln turned into let out a roar when. "WILDMUTT!" …Pinkie Pie called out. Everypony, other then Maud, looked to Pinkie with a confused looked as the party said. "What? He can't talk in this form. Somepony has to do it!"

Wildmutt looked to Pinkie and simply grunted as his gills started rapidly opening and closing, sniffing the area for Boulder.

Meanwhile Maud looked over and examined the Vulpamancer. If one looked very closely, they could see that Maud's expression just barley changed to one of surprise. She watched as Wildmatt sniffed around the area before suddenly aiming his head towards her.

Wildmutt approached Maud and suddenly pushed his head against the area where Maud's pocket was…and Boulder fell out.

Everypony but Pinkie's jaws dropped when they realized…Boulder hid in Maud pocket. "Good job. You found him." Maud congratulated with her usual tone.

Wildmutt gave a smirk in victory as he slapped the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest and turning back to Lincoln. "And that's how you win at camouflage." Lincoln said as he stretched his once again bipedal body out.

"Wow! Way to go Lincoln!" Pinkie Pie cheered as everypony simply looked on with still dropped jaws.

"That rocks a total cheater." Rainbow Dash pointed as she crossed her hooves.

Maud then turned to Rainbow and said. "Don't hate the rock. Hate the game."

After that, the other Ponies had to leave due to their pet beings tired and wanting to go home and rest. This gave Pinkie the change to show Maud all the different kinds of Rock Candy she made for them all to make their rock candy necklaces with.

Once the Pie sisters left, the remaining members of the Mane 6 devised a plan to get to know Maud better by having one on one sessions with her. Everypony agreed, but Lincoln asked if he could tag along since he though Maud was pretty cool.

Everypony seriously could not get how Lincoln was handling being around Maud so well while everypony else has never felt more awkward about meeting a new pony. Maud was so…emotionless and didn't seem to react to anything yet Lincoln was able to interact with her no problem.

They agreed to have him tag along on their session, mainly so they could see why he interacted with Maud so well and hopefully emulate it.


The next day, it was Rarity turn to spend time with Maud so she, Maud, Pinkie and Lincoln were all at her Boutique with the white Unicorn showing off different fabrics she had. "Where shall we start? I've chosen a few fabrics I think would be stunning with-"

However, Rarity stopped talking when she saw Maud eyeing something away from all of Rarity's fabrics. "Choices, choices, choices." Pinkie Pie said as she bounced next to her sister.

"You know, all you ladies concern yourself with fashion. Yet why am I the only one hear that looks fabulous in anything." Lincoln said in a joking tone as he picked up a big purple sun hat with feathers in it and struck a pose.

Rarity gave Lincoln and deadpanned look while Pinkie started wildly giggling. Maud looked to Lincoln with her usual blank expression and said. "You look ridiculous."

"Hey, ridiculous just so happens to be in season." Lincoln said with the same playful tone.

Pinkie giggled again as she looked to Maud before saying. "Wow Maud, I don't think I ever seen you laugh so hard!" The pink pony pointed at.

Rarity looked to Maud and didn't see nor hear even a giggle from the Earth Pony as the Fashionista simply chuckled nervously and said. "Well I suppose it is quite humorous, hehe." The Unicorn laughed awkwardly before clearing her throat. "Well anyway, if you don't see anything that speaks to you, I would be happy to suggest-"

"I like this one." Maud interrupted while holding up…a rag.

Rarity then laughed in turn as she said. "Pinkie Pie didn't tell us you were so funny."

However, Maud simply blinked at Rarity and asked. "What do you mean?"

"Oh, well, it's just, I believe that is a dish towel." Rarity pointed out while using her magic to levitate the towel towards her.

Maud was silent as Pinkie gave a giant smile with Lincoln chiming in. "Who say's a dish towel can't be beautiful."

Rarity then said awkwardly. "But it does go very well with your complexion." The Unicorn told the Earth Pony. "I'm sure I could work my magic and turn it into something fabulous.

Pinkie then added in happily. "My sister and Rarity working together to design something amazing. This is the best day ever!" The party pony said while giving her sister a hug and pressing their cheeks together.

Rarity then came in levitating a bunch of dish towels with her magic. "Perhaps I could sew all these together and make you something you would like." The fashionista offered.

However, Maud simply took the towel she had originally and said. "No thanks. One is enough." The gray pony said as she put the dish towel on like a scarf.

"Doesn't Maud make the coolest scarves?" Pinkie Pie said excitedly as she eyed her sisters new…accessory.

"Work it girl!" Lincoln cheered as he leaned against the wall.

"Quite." Rarity managed to see with a small and awkward smile.


Later, it was now Fluttershy's turn with Maud as they, Pinkie Pie, and Lincoln were talking a nice stroll through the woods. Angel Bunny also decided to tag along as he followed behind Fluttershy. Pinkie had fun bouncing from bush to bush while Maud and Lincoln walked side to side following closely behind.

Just then a green hummingbird stopped in front of Fluttershy with the yellow Pegasus giving it a smile. "Hello there, Hummingway." Fluttershy greeted her animal friends. "I'm ever so happy to see you."

Just then Pinkie came up to them in a pink blur and eagerly asked. "What's he saying?"

"He says hello, and he's happy to see us." Fluttershy translated for the little hummingbird.

Pinkie watched with sparkles in her eye as the hummingway flew off and said. "I wish I could speak hummingbird."

Pinkie then bounced off while saying 'hum' over and over again. Fluttershy smiled at it and then turned back and saw Maud and Lincoln had stopped…to look at a rock.

However, Fluttershy walked up to them thinking they were looking at a spider that was crawling on the rock. "These spiders only live in Ponyville, and even though they may look a teeny bit scary, they're actually really sweet and help keep other, and more dangerous insects away." Fluttershy explained as they watched the spider take out a small red flower and hand it to the three.

Maud turned to Fluttershy and bluntly said. "I was looking at the rock.

"Oh." Fluttershy said with an embarrassed blush.

Lincoln then smirked as an idea came to his head. "So Maud, just gonna take a shot in the dark here and guess you like rocks?"

"I don't like rocks." Maud said as she looked Lincoln in the eye. "I love rocks."

The mares then all watched as Lincoln reached for the Ultimatrix and activated it and started scrolling through aliens. "Then you're gonna love this." Once Lincoln found what he was looking for, he slammed the Ultimatrix down and was covered in a green flash.

When the flash died down it showed Lincoln had turned into an alien made of a dark purple silicon material and having magenta crystal hands and having 6 magenta crystal shards on his back and 2 on his chest and one on the top of his head. He also had a single green eye and the Ultimatrix symbol on his chest.

"Chromastone!" The transformed Loud-boy called out while raising a fist in the air.

"Oooo! Pretty!" Pinkie Pie said as she suddenly appeared next to Maud.

"So, what do you think?" Chromastone asked as he put his crystal hands to his hips.

Maud took a minute to inspect every part of Chromastone's body before looking into the aliens single eye and saying. "You're the most beautiful think I've ever seen."

"Woah! I don't ever think I've seen you this happy before Maud!" Pinkie Pie commented as she looked at Maud's face with surprise and happiness.

Fluttershy looked to Maud and raised an eyebrow and saw that Maud's expression still didn't change one bit. Chromastone turned to Fluttershy and pointed to Maud and said. "Trust me. She's happy."


Now, Lincoln, Maud, and Pinkie were inside Twilight's library with the purple Alicorn grabbing a few books with her magic. "Maud is a total bookworm." Pinkie said as she rode around on the wheeled latter the library had. "She loves poetry."

'Wow, she really is like Lucy.' Lincoln thought as he leaned against the wall while noting even more things Maud had in common with his little sister.

"I've got lots of poetry. Do you read anything by Quill and Ink?" Twilight asked while holding a book of poetry in her magic that had the name she mentioned on it. She then levitated another book and asked. "Or Flourish Prose."

"I prefer to read my own poetry." Maud answered as she turned to Twilight.

Twilight put the books back and asked. "I'd love to hear some of it."

Maud then slowly walked up to Twilight and cleared her throat before she recited some of her mentioned poetry. "Rock. You are a rock. Grey. You are grey. Like a rock. Which you are. Rock."

When she was done, Pinkie came rolling by again with a smile on her face while Twilight…didn't know how to react. Lincoln didn't move from his position and simply listened to Maud's words. "I've written thousands." The Earth Pony told them.

"She's so prolific!" Pinkie stated as she came by again.

"This next one is about rocks." Maud said. "They're all about rocks."

Maud then recited more of her poetry. "Rocks, these are my rocks. Sediments. Make me sentimental. Smooth and round. Asleep in the ground. Shades of brown. And gray."


Later, the group of Lincoln, Maud, Pinkie were now at Sweetapple acres inside of Applejacks house as Pinkie gathered apple's while Applejack was at the stove stirring something in a pot. Meanwhile Lincoln and Maud were working together peeling apples as Applejack turned to them and asked. "You two bout done peeling apples for the cider?"

"I got a few." Lincoln answered and gesturing his head to a small pile of peeled apples.

"I think this one is done." Maud answered as Applejack and Lincoln looked to see that instead of using a peeler, Maud smashed an apple with a rock.

Applejack flinched at the sight while Lincoln remained calm and put a hand to Maud's shoulder and said. "Maud, I think you're cool and all. But you can't solve every problem with rocks. Little kids have accepted it, rebellious teens have accepted it. It's time you accept it to."

Maud didn't say anything and simply looked at the rock she used to smash the apple. Lincoln then turned to AJ and said. "I think we've peeled enough apples."

Applejack laughed nervously as she backed up from Maud and said. "Y-yeah. Ah'm sure it's good and ready now."

Just then Pinkie suddenly appeared on the shelf above the stove and sniffed the cider and eagerly asked. "Can we taste it now?"

"Sure, why not?" Applejack said with a smile and she got out a few mugs and used a ladle to pour the cider into each mug.

Pinkie quickly took the mug in her mouth and chug the cider down in second. Lincoln quickly took his mug and took a swing from it and sighed in delight. If there was one thing he's come to absolutely love from this world, it was all the stuff the Apple family made. "Aaaaah," Lincoln let out in delight over the beverage as he lifted his mug in the air. "To apple cider. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

Applejack shook her head and chuckled at Lincoln's words, Applejack turned to Maud and asked. "What do you think Maud?'

Maud looked down at her drink before taking a sip and answering. "It tastes like apples."

"Told ya she was super honest!" Pinkie Pie said as she quickly wrapped a hoof around the farm pony. "Just like you!"

"We're, practically twins. Heh." Applejack said slowly and awkwardly.


Later, the group was now with Rainbow Dash over by a small lake. They were playing a game called chuck the boulder which involved throwing a heavy rock as far as you can. Rainbow was able to throw one across the small lake they were in front of.

"Yeah!" Rainbow Dashed cheered as she turned to Maud. "Let's see you beat that." The Pegasus challenged.

But immediately, she was forced to dodge a boulder Maud quickly chucked. Everyone watched as the boulder went into the distance before finally landing far away with a big smoke cloud being created and a shockwave that reached all the way to the groups location making the small lakes get a wave of water that splashed down on everypony.

Pinkie quickly emerged from the water on a log and cheered as Rainbow Dash's emerged after and turned to a wet Maud and asked. "Woah! How'd you do that?"

"I threw it." Maud answered simply.

Rainbow was a little annoyed at the response and responded with. "I guess you won this one, Maud."

"I'm not really into winning." Maud told the Pegasus, making Rainbow Dash's jaw drop.

"Well I gotta admit that was really awesome Maud." Lincoln complimented as he to was soaked. "Now let's try off." The Loud Boy then activated the Ultimatrix and quickly found the alien he was looking for and transformed into…

"Heatblast!" The Pyronite called out as he walked a safe distance to Maud and started to help dry her off. "What do you think of Heatblast Maud."

Maud looked at all the rocks covering Heatblast as she walked a little closer to him to dry off better and said. "He's hot."

"Heh heh, that's what all the ladies say." Heatblast joked before looking to where Maud threw the boulder. "Although I hope that didn't hit anything important."

"I'm sure it's fine." Maud said bluntly as Heatblast simply shrugged.


THE FARMERS MARKET

At a farmer's market, many ponies had stands set up selling their own freshly grown fruits, veggie's, and even flowers.

And currently, one stallion with light brown fur, dark brown mane and tail with a cabbage as his cutie mark was pulling a cart full of cabbages. Just then he hit a small pebble on the ground that caused his cart to bump up a tiny bit and for one of the cabbages to roll out.

The stallion quickly noticed this and went after the runaway cabbage. He quickly caught it and sighed in relief when he saw it was unharmed and-

BOOM!

Suddenly, a boulder came falling out of the sky and caused a huge dust cloud to appear in the area that pushed the cabbage stallion back. When the dust eventually cleared, everypony in the farmers market looked to see the stallion's cart and cabbages completely crushed by the boulder.

When the stallion himself saw this, he fell to his hind-legs knees and yelled out. "No my cabbages!"


Back at Ponyville, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Lincoln all arrived at the Sugar Cube Corner. When they got there, the door quickly opened with Pinkie stepping out and saying, "Great! You're all here. Maud is off looking for rocks, so this is the perfect time for us to set up everything we'll need to make our best-friend rock candy necklaces." Pinkie said excitedly.

Everypony looked at each other nervously, with the exception of Lincoln who stepped forward and smiled. "I'm down for that. Maud's actually really freaking cool."

"The coolest!" Pinkie Pie quickly agreed as she turned to everypony else. "So, are you girls ready?"

However, Pinkie watched as her pony friends all had unsure looks on their faces as they averted their gazes from their pink friend. "What's wrong?" Pinkie asked with a bit of worry.

Everypony was silent, not knowing what to say to Pinkie until Applejack nudged Twilight forward. "Well…" Twilight began slowly. "I'm not sure it's the best time to make best-friend rock candy necklaces."

"Not not?" Pinkie asked while tilting her head.

It was then that Rarity decided to speak up. "Well, you see…" However, that was all she could say before backing up and letting Fluttershy talk.

"You're ever so thoughtful to share your special bonding ritual with us, but…" Fluttershy tried to say but struggled to find the words after that.

"But what?" Pinkie Pie said, eagerly awaiting a response.

Applejack then sighed as, being the element of Honesty, decided to just tell the truth. "The truth is, we've been trying real hard to get closer to Maud, but, well, maybe some ponies don't click the way others do." The farm pony said with the rest of the mares around her nodding in agreement.

"The only one here that's had luck with her is Lincoln somehow." Rainbow Dash stated while pointing a hoof towards Lincoln.

Lincoln simply shrugged and stated. "I just have experience interacting with people like that." The Loud boy stated as living with Lucy his whole life meant he knew actually how to interact with mentioned people/ponies like Maud.

Applejack then spoke up again. "We just wouldn't feel right making something that means we're best friends if, well, we aren't."

When Applejack said this, Pinkie's mane started deflating like a balloon as her face strained a bit in sadness as she said. "Oh. Ok. If anypony needs me, I'll be in here trying to figure out what to do with 200 pounds of rock candy." The pink pony said in a depressed tone before closing the door.

Everypony then looked down in sadness at their friend's reaction before Lincoln sighed and said. "Well…that could have gone better."

"She looked really upset." Fluttershy said quietly.

"I just don't get it darling." Rarity said to Lincoln. "How did you socialize with her so well? It's impossible to tell what that mare thinks of anything."

"Actually, it's not." Lincoln told everypony as they all looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Girl's like Maud just express themselves differently then most. You just gotta noticed those settle differences. It isn't easy but people like that are really interesting if you get to know them properly. Maud's a lot like my younger sister Lucy. She hardly shows her emotions but behind that seemingly blank face is a heart of gold."

Everypony then watched as Lincoln started to walk away as he turned to them again and said. "Just give it some thought. In the meantime, I think I'm gonna go hang out with Maud."


A little while later, Lincoln and Maud were hanging out together in the forest with a bunch of rocks surrounding them. Right now, the two were simply sitting together in the center of all the rocks and have been simply talking.

Lincoln also got the change to show Maud a few more transformation's he knew the Earth Pony would like such as Diamondhead and even Gravattack. Both of which Maud was incredibly ecstatic at seeing…in her own way of course.

"Cool." Maud said in response to what Lincoln told her.

"Yeah I thought so to." The white head responded as he just finished telling Maud a bit about Diamondheads spieces.

Just then a familiar bouncing sound got their attention and they looked to see Pinkie bouncing towards them with a wide smile on her face. "Well, looks like someone's happy again." Lincoln commented as Pinkie stopped in front of them.

"Come on! You two gotta see this! I just came with the bestest plan to make Maud friends with everypony else!" Pinkie said quickly and excitedly as she started bouncing away again. Lincoln then looked to Maud with a raised eyebrow and asked. "Should I be worried."

"Probably." Maud said bluntly before they started following the party pony.


Later, Lincoln and Maud were now met up with the rest of the Mane 6 and Pinkie pointed everyone to an obstacle course she built that certainly was…creative to say the least. "I call it Pinky-Rainbow-Rari-Twi-Apple-Flutter-Maud fun time!" Pinkie told everypony excitedly with a big smile before turning to Lincoln. "Sorry Lincoln, but I thought since you were already such great friends with Maud I wouldn't need to make anything for you two."

"Uuuuuh, yeeeeah." Lincoln said slowly as he eyed every part of the obstacle course. "Pinkie, are you sure this is safe?"

"Whaaaat?! Pfft! Of course, it's safe!" Pinkie reassured him as she suddenly appeared behind everypony. "I made this with everypony's interest in mind to make into one giant activity that we can all enjoy together and that will totally bring all my bestest friends together as bestestest friends!"

Pinkie then quickly sped in front of a few pony manikins she set up that all had various hates and knee pads on them. "You'll need these." Pinkie said before putting on one that just consisted of a bunch of scuba gear. "Here! I'll you!"

They all watched as Pinkie started crawling into the obstical course that started with a tunnel of Applesauce. "Applesauce tunnel for Applejack." Pinkie then dived into a small pit full of sparkly fabrics. "Pretty, shiny stuff for Rarity." Pinkie then ran over to and dived into a pile of books. "Reading material for Twilight." Pinkie was then suddenly playing poker with various animals. "Critter time for Fluttershy." Pinkie was then in an air dome that had cupcakes floating around in it. "Cupcakes for yours truly." She then exited it and said. "And it's a race for Rainbow Dash!"

However, the last piece of the course that freaked everypony out. "Pinkie, what's that?!" Twilight yelled as she pointed to a giant pile of rocks with the top having a big boulder on it that didn't exactly looked stable.

"A rockslide, of course." Pinkie answered as she turned to everypony. "For Maud."

Maud looked up at the rockslide before Pinkie said. "You climb up and then you slide down." They then watched as Pinkie started giggling and jumping up the rockslide, but as she was doing with a rock fell down a tiny bit and ended up trapping one of Pinkie Pie's hooves under it.

Pinkie then tried to free her hoof, put her struggling caused the rockslide to start shaking and the giant rock on the very top to start wobbling around. Everypony gasped as Lincoln quickly started to run up to his and get the Ultimatrix ready. "Come on, where's Humungousaur?" Lincoln said as he scrolled through aliens as fast as possible.

Just then the giant rock finally came tumbling down leading to Pinkie calling for help. As Lincoln was still trying to find Humungousaur, suddenly a grey blur sped past him as he looked to see none other than Maud who leapt up the rockslide and quickly reached the giant boulder.

Just then everypony watched as Maud started to rapidly punch the rock at quick speeds easily breaking it down like a living jackhammer. Everpony saw in amazement as Maud reduced the boulder to pebbles before breaking the rock that was trapping Pinkie.

"…Holy shit." Lincoln said in shock at what he just saw. "That pony's dynamite."

The two sisters then quickly got off the rockslide as everypony else approached them. When they were off, they watched as, for the first time since meeting her, Mauds blank face finally broke as she hugged her sister and looked at her with a worried expression and spoke in an equally worried tone. "Pinkie Pie, what were you thinking?"

Pinkie then frowned and adverted her gaze and said. "I guess I wasn't." Pinkie said as she lowered her head.

Maud then lifted a hoof to Pinkie's chin and lifted her head up to look at her. "I know how important it is to you that your friends become my friends. But I just don't think that's going to happen. Other then Lincoln I don't think I can connect well to them. I think it would be best if I just go back to the rock farm and spend the rest of the week there."

Pinkie's mouth gaped a little in sadness as Maud walked up to everypony else and said. "It was nice to meet all of you. It makes me happy know Pinkie Pie has such good friends. And Lincoln, it was nice getting to know you. I hope we can hang out again sometime."

"Yeah. Me to Maud." Lincoln responded simply. Maud gave him a nod before she started walking off.

"But…we never even got to make our rock candy necklaces…" Pinkie muttered sadly as she watched her sister walk off. Everypony then all watched as Pinkie followed after Maud saying "I'll come with you."

Everypony watched as the two Pie sister's disappeared from view with Twilight saying. "I can't believe Maud cut her trip short." The Alicorn said sadly.

"I can't believe we nearly lost Pinkie Pie to that ridiculous obstacle course." Rarity commented as she couldn't believe she almost witness her pink friend being crushed.

"Thank goodness Maud was able to reach her in time." Fluttershy said in relief.

"Did you see how fast Maud moved?" Rainbow Dash added in as she couldn't help but be impressed by the Earth Pony's speed.

"Don't forget how she crushed that rock into dust." Lincoln added in, also feeling impressed. "I mean it would take one of my stronger aliens like Four-Arms to do that, that fast." Lincoln then looked up at the sky and smiled. "Just shows are much she cares for her sister if she'll do that for her in a heartbeat."

Just then twilight realized something from Lincoln's words and said. "That's it! I think I finally realized what we all have in common with Maud." The Alicorn told everypony as they all looked to her. "Something that might just be worthy of a very important, super-duper special tradition that only the closest and bestest of friends can share."


Several hours later, Pinkie and Maud were walking together to the Pie family rock farm…which is exactly as dull as it sounded as clouds covered the whole sky letting now sunshine in, rocks all over the place, as well as a few dead trees.

Pinkie had her head down in sadness as they were walking, but suddenly Maud stopped her. Pinkie looked to her older sis and pointed her hoof forward. Pinkie look forward and gasped a bit in surprise when she saw the rest of the Mane 6 and Lincoln there in front of them with big bags of rock candy.

"What are all of you doing here?" Pinkie asked with confusion as they all stepped forward to the sisters.

"Pinkie Pie, we're so sorry we hurt your feelings by not bonding with Maud right away." Twilight apologized as she faced the two sisters. "And Maud, we're sorry that your felt the only way to spare Pinkie Pie's feeling was to leave Ponyville early."

Everypony nodded at Twilight's words as they gave an apology as well. And then Applejack spoke up. "We've seen how much you care about Pinkie Pie, first hoof."

"Pinkie Pie's happiness means as much to us as it does to you, and we're sorry we couldn't see it sooner. The thing that makes us click and creates a special bond between us is how we ALL love Pinkie Pie." Twilight said as all her friends stepped forward with Pinkie Pie smiling happily at her friends.

"Aw, shucks." Pinkie Pie said as her eyes lightly sparkled.

"There's no great thing to have in common then your love for others." Lincoln added in as he threw a bag of rock candy over his shoulder.

"Well, what do you think Maud?" Twilight as the Earth Pony.

Maud took a second to look at everypony before simply saying. "Sure."

Hearing Maud's rather unenthusiastic response made most of the ponies in the group look down, thinking nothings changed. "What's wrong?" Pinkie asked with concern.

"Sorry, darling, I think we all just thought she'd be a bit more excited about this." Rarity pointed out while everypony nodded in confirmation.

But then suddenly Lincoln started to lightly chuckle causing everypony to look at him. "Guys, remember when I said earlier how everyone has their way of expressing their emotions?" He asked getting nods from the Mane 6 other then Pinkie. "Well, I think it's best you let them explain."

Pinkie then excitedly pointed out, "Girls, I don't think I've seen Maud this excited in my entire life!" Pinkie said happily as she started to do a happy dance.

"I don't know if you've noticed but I don't show my enthusiasm for things quite in the same way my sister does." Maud explained as Pinkie started doing cartwheels behind her.

"Uh, we noticed." Rainbow Dash said as everypony smiled at her. "And we're totally cool with it." The Pegasus stated as everypony cheered in agreement.

A little while later, everypony was seeing Maud off at the train station and all giving her a rock candy necklace they made. Each one showed a bit of each pony's personality as Applejack had a candy in the shape of an apple, Rainbow Dash had a candy in the shape of her cutie mark, Rarity's resembling jewelry, and even Lincoln giving her one with a candy in the shape of the hourglass symbol on the Ultimatrix.

Pinkie and Maud then did their exchange with Pinkie giving Maud a necklace and Maud giving Pinkie a necklace she made.

Pinkie quickly got to licking and chewing on the candy, everypony watched as Maud took a box out of her saddle bag, and when she opened it, they saw it was filled with Rock Candy necklaces. Twilight watched as Maud put the necklace Pinkie made her in the box and asked. "Are those all the necklaces Pinkie Pie sent you?" Maud gave a 'Hm-hm' in confirmation as she closed the box and put it away. "You haven't eaten any of them?"

"I don't really like candy." Maud said before looking to her sister and, for the first time since they've met her, gave a small smile. "But I do love Pinkie Pie."

Twilight and Lincoln smiled as they and Maud watched as Pinkie happily ate the candy off her necklace with Lincoln saying. "You're a good sister Maud."

"Thanks Lincoln." Maud said to the human.


Maud is honestly one of my favorite characters. I just love her so much and I hope to do more with her in this fic. Remember to fav, follow, and leave a review and read the next couple of chapters.