Chapter 3: The Maud Couple
It was a peaceful night at Ponyville, and some ponies were at a Comedian show.
"Puh-leeeez put your hooves together for your next performer, Maud Pie!" A pony named Meadow Song announced.
The audience gave Maud a applause as she got on the stage.
"What do you call an Alicorn with no wings and no horn?" She said in her usually deadpan expression. "Earth Pony."
Then Pinkie was heard laughing, while everypony else remained silent.
"But seriously, being and Earth Pony isn't so bad." Said Maud. "We've got magic powers, too. Like walking around and picking stuff up with our teeth."
Everypony just murmured in confusion.
"That's sarcasm, by the way." Maud continued.
Then Pinkie laughs again.
"It's funny, 'cause it's true!" Pinkie with a hoof around Lyra, who was with Bon Bon as they were both annoyed.
"My favorite thing to listen to is clastic rock - the accumulation of sediments over millennia forming to create sandstone, shale, and breccia." Maud continued. "It sounds something like this."
Maud leans forward to the microphone, the audience leans forwards in confusion.
"And that's my time." Maud finishes as Pinkie laughs and leaps on to the stage.
"Isn't my sister Maud the most hilarious, entertaining, amazing comedian ever?" Pinkie asked humorously.
The ponies just glance at each other. Then suddenly they burst into laughter and Antonio was laughing so hard he fell over. Along with him are Chase, Jade, Sunray, and Trini. Pinkie had invited them to the show, but by the looks on their faces, they weren't laughing.
"For an Earth Pony that is really gray and doesn't know when to brighten everypony's spirits, she still is different from Pinkie." Sunray said with an unamused expression.
"Come on, Sunray. She may be different, but she is Pinkie Pie's older sister." Chase said to his younger brother.
"Besides, we wouldn't be like Maud if we were gray." Jade added in agreement.
"Alright, point taken." Sunray said with a sigh.
*Main theme*
Once the show was over, Pinkie and Maud went outside to join Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio.
"Your jokes, your hilarious delivery, your... your everything!" Said Pinkie.
"How was my... timing?" Maud asked.
"You got me!" Pinkie laughed. "C'mon, let's celebrate sister-style. We can get matching stickers that say "Eyes on the pies"." "She place pie stickers on her face." "Then show off at the Ponyville Sticker Convention that I could plan for tomorrow if you want."
"Actually, I'm busy tonight." Maud said.
"For what?" Sunray asked curiously.
"My business." Maud replied back.
"Aww, that's what you said yesterday." Pinkie said upset. "And the day before that. And the day before the day before that. It's just, we haven't hung out in a really long time because you always have other plans. Even when you promised to build whipped-cream pyramids with me."
Pinkie then brought a whip cream bottle and sprayed some in her mouth.
"I know." Maud admitted. "I am sorry, Pinkie. The reason is I have a…"
"Apology accepted, as long as we get some serious sister time before your birthday." Pinkie said, cutting her off. "And there's uh, definitely no reason I wanna hang out before your birthday. Just, you know, not planning anything special."
"Okay." Maud said.
"What about tomorrow morning?" Pinkie asked.
"Okay." Maud said.
"Yay! Just you and me. Best sister friends forever!" Pinkie shouted happily.
"Best sister friends forever." Maud replied back bluntly.
"I can't wait for tomorrow to be today." Pinkie then squeals happily and leaves.
Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio were the only ones left with Maud as the Elite Ninja were visibly confused by what Maud meant by being busy. Soon Maud left.
"I wonder what she meant by being busy tonight." Jade said with a look of thought.
"Well, whatever it is, maybe we should find out tomorrow. It's getting late now." Chase said as he saw the sun setting.
"Yeah, good idea. Better to just get some shut eye." Trini said with a smile as she and her family walked off for home.
(Scene changes)
The next morning Pinkie continues to squeal happily as she bounces to Maud's place.
"Tomorrow is today! Who's ready for some fun times at Sugarcube Corner? The answer is "you"! I would also accept "Maud"." Pinkie shouted excitedly.
Then Pinkie notice that Maud isn't even here.
"Maud? Maud!" She called and it echoed.
"Oh, I get it!" Pinkie gasped. "We're playing hide-and-go-seek!"
Pinkie then begins to look for her sister.
(Scene changes)
First Pinkie appeared under a construction worker's helmet, then a barrel, a lake. She tried the bell tower, Yakyakistan and under a yak. Then she popped her head out of the holes on each side of the walls in Ghastly Gorge. She even made some missing posters of Maud, placing them everywhere.
(Scene changes)
There was a knock at Starlight's door as she opened it and Pinkie barged in her room.
"Aha! Found you!" Pinkie shouted with a smirk.
Pinkie then went through Starlight's things as she caught some with her magic. She even checks under her bed.
"Where's Maud?! I've already tried Discord's dimension, Granny Smith's wax museum, and Yakyakistan! She has to be here!" Pinkie said with a glare.
"Nope, it's just me." Starlight said, unsure what's going on. "Reading."
Pinkie then tries looking through the book for Maud.
"Story checks out." Pinkie said then got in Starlight's face. "OR DOES IT?! It does. But are you sure there's nopony hiding... in your closet?!"
But there was no closet, just a wall with a butterfly poster.
"Pinkie, I don't have a closet." Said Starlight with a concerned look. "Is everything okay?"
"No." Pinkie said in dismay. "I was supposed to go birthday cake shopping with Maud today."
"And ruin her surprise party?" Starlight asked confusingly.
"I wasn't gonna tell her why, silly." Pinkie said with a smile before looking around it bit. "But now I can't even find Maud. I'm usually way better at hide-and-seek than this."
"Oh, she probably just found a new rock formation and forgot you two were gonna hang out. Tell ya what. You take care of the cake, and I'll look for Maud." Starlight said as she guided Pinkie out with a smirk.
"Really? Thanks, Starlight!" Pinkie said happily.
Then Pinkie check inside a flower pot.
"Just checking." Pinkie said, now leaving.
Chase saw the whole thing as he walked into the bed room with a confused look.
"What was all that about?" Chase asked the lilac unicorn.
"It's probably better that you don't wanna know, Chase." Starlight said with a blunt look.
"You're right. Pinkie's probably looking for Maud." Chase said, dryly before he remembered something. "But she did say that she was busy the other night doing something."
"Like what?" Starlight asked.
"I don't know, but it'd probably best if Pinkie finds out about this on her own." Chase advised firmly. "I thought me and family felt something was off last night when Maud mentioned that she was busy last night. It looks like she's busy this morning."
"Well, let's hope she doesn't get in way over her head." Starlight said with a worried look on her face.
Chase groaned as he face hoofed himself in annoyance.
"That's what worries me, Starlight." Chase said with a bitter expression as he walked out of the room and went into his dojo as his family was there practicing some new moves.
Jade saw Chase coming in.
"Is Pinkie trying to find Maud out there, Chase?" Jade asked her brother, who jumps in to join her and the rest of their family.
Chase sighed in annoyance.
"Yup, and it looks like things are about to go whacky for her." Chase said as he and Jade threw a couple of punches and blocks with each other.
Sunray and Antonio were sparring with each other as they heard the conversation.
"So what's it gonna take for her to be serious, Chase?" Sunray asked before he kick sweep Antonio away, making him yelp in surprise.
His older brother looked at him for a moment before he and Jade stopped their sparring.
"Well, if she doesn't get it together, it's gonna be creepy town all over again after she mistook us for lying to her when we had to set up her birthday part." Chase said with a blunt look. "Honestly, guys. I think it might be best if we should stay out of this for a little while."
"Agreed." Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio said in agreement before they went back to their sparring.
(Scene changes)
Pinkie soon arrives at the cake shop, and unknowingly cuts in front of a tan-gray Earth pony with tan hair, green eyes, and a cutie mark of a small stick. And she speaks with the work pony.
"I've gotta get very important ingredients for a very important pony's cake." Pinkie whispered to the pony. And it's gotta be tippy-top super-duper secret.
"Technically, it's not your turn yet." The pony spoke in a deadpan expression.
"Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut in front of anypony." Pinkie said with an apologetic smile.
Pinkie then got behind him and watched her turn, but strangely he went silent.
"Um, whatcha doing'?" Pinkie asked, breaking the silence.
"I am currently speaking to a pony at a baking shop two minutes before it closes for lunch." The pony replied back bluntly.
"Rrrrrright." Pinkie said sarcastiaclly before she resumed back to her usual happy self. "Okay. Just that I'm trying to plan a party here, and the clock is ticking, while you, uh... What are you doing anyway?"
I am currently speaking to a…" Th pony repeats what he said, only to get cut off by Pinkie.
"I mean, can I help you move this along!" She asked getting impatient. "What are you looking for? Rolling pins, cupcake tins, cookie cutters with tails and fins?"
She then juggles then around while the pony then turns towards the worker.
"Goodbye." He said.
Pinkie went up the counter.
"That's what you've been standing here all this time to say?" Pinkie asked with a glare.
"I was deciding between "goodbye" and "see you later"." The stallion replied back.
"Uh... but, they're the same thing." Pinkie
"Technically, they're very different." He pointed out. " "See you later" implies an event in the near future wherein we see each other. "Goodbye" expresses good wishes where parting or at the end of a conversation."
Then Pinkie pushes him to the doorway.
"Yyyyyeah, same thing." Pinkie said with an annoyed look.
"I will not apologize for speaking with precision." The stallion said, bluntly.
"In that case, apology not accepted. Goodbye, later, see ya-same thing!" Pinkie shouted
She then closes the door.
"Ugh! Can you believe that guy?! Huh?!" Pinkie turns and saw a note that just drop on the counter and she reads it. "Out to lunch?! Oh, come on!" She then begins to head outside. "No Maud, no cake, no anything! And how annoying was that pony? Who takes so long to say goodbye? Or was it "see ya later"? Ugh! Now he's got me doing it!"
She then bumps into Maud.
"Hello, Pinkie Pie." Maud said.
"Maud!" Pinkie said, giving her a hug. "Found you! My turn to hide! Hee-hee!"
She then pulls Pinkie by the tail before she hops away.
"I'm sorry I wasn't around this morning." Maud bluntly apologized.
"Oh, pssh." Pinkie scoffed. "What are you apologizing to me for? I'm not upset, you silly-willy."
"The reason is I met somepony…" Maud tried to explain.
"Wanna hang out right now? I mean, I can see you're not anything with anypony else. Unless they're invisible or reeeeeaaaally small." Pinkie said with her hooves just an inch from each other.
"Pinkie, the reason I've been so busy is that I have a boyfriend now." Maud finally explained.
"A wha...?" Pinkie asked in surprise.
"A boyfriend." Maud repeated.
"A whaaa...?!" Pinkie repeated.
"A boyfriend." Maud repeated again.
"A whaaaaa...?!" Pinkie repeated again as well before she became excited. "That's so exciting! My sister, in love!"
"Technically, we're in "like"." Maud corrected.
"Tell me everything! Who is he? What's his favorite color? Does he like ice cream? If he were a bird, what kind of bird would he be? Wait. Is he actually a bird? Oh! I don't know, because you haven't told me anything yet!" Pinkie said randomly.
"You'll like him. We have a lot in common." Maud replied back bluntly.
"Well, I love you, so I know I'm gonna love your boyfriend! Oh, I can't wait to meet him!" Pinkie said excitedly.
"You don't have to." Maud said as they turned and saw a large rock.
"He's a rock?!" Pinkie gasped. "And you love rocks, so it's perfect! She then gasped. Is boulder jealous?"
"No. Behind the rock." Maud explained as she looked back to see anypony behind the boulder. "Mudbriar, are you back there?"
Then stepping out behind the rock was the same pony that Pinkie met at the baking shop.
"Technically, not anymore." Mudbriar said.
"A wha-whaaaaaaaaa?!" Pinkie gasped.
"Pinkie Pie, meet Mudbriar." Maud introduced each other.
"Technically, we've already met." Mudbriar said.
"You?!" Pinkie asked, shocked.
"M'yes." Mudbriar said bluntly.
"You?"
"M'yes."
"You?"
"M'yes."
"I mean, you! You, you, you!"
"M'yes. M'yes. M'yes."
"I'm sorry. Let's start over. Hi, I'm Maud's sister, Pinkie Pie." Pinkie Pie said, hoping for a better introduction.
"I know." Mudbriar said.
This felt very awkward for Pinkie at the moment.
"Sooooo... how did... you two meet?" Pinkie aske, wanting to move aside the awkwardness.
"At a rock show." Maud answered.
"Oh! You're into rocks, too?" Pinkie asked Mudbriar.
"No. I like sticks." Mudbriar explained.
"Then why were you at a rock show?" Pinkie asked curiously.
"It was a petrified wood show, which technically makes it a stick show." Mudbriar explained.
"Expect that in the per-mineralization process of petrification, all organic material is replaced with silicates - i.e., rocks." Maud said in a happy deadpan expression.
"While retaining the original structural elements of wood - q. e. d., it was a stick show." Mudbriar said in the same happy deadpan expression.
"I'm... really into sticks, too!" Pinkie said, pulling out a pinata and a stick. "They're great for hitting pinatas! Haaaaa…"
She gets ready to whack the pinata, then Mudbriar panics.
"Pinkie." Maud said, stopping her sister.
"Oh! You wanna go first?" Pinkie asked as she offered the stick.
"That is stick abuse." Mudbriar said with a glare, which surprised her a lot.
"It is?" Pinkie asked surprisingly She then tossed away the pinata and stick. "I'm sorry. Oh, this is awful. I'm not being a very good sister. Let's start over. I'm Pinkie Pie! Nice to meet you!"
"Technically, we've already met." Mudbriar said.
"You should introduce Pinkie to your pet." Maud suggested.
Mudbriar then pulls out a twig.
"Oh! Your pet likes fetch!" Pinkie said.
"This is my pet." He said. "So no."
He then places his twig down and Maud brings out Boulder as she places it down.
"Aw. Look at Twiggy and Boulder playing together." Maud said.
"They're adorable." Mudbriar said.
Pinkie looks at them oddly for a second before she joins Maud.
"It's just a stick." Pinkie whispered to her sister.
"Don't be rude." Said Maud.
Pinkie sighed.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. One more time. I'm Pinkie Pie! Nice to meet you!" Pinkie said before she added that last part with her teeth gritted.
"Technically, we've already met." Mudbriar said.
Pinkie just growled in frustration.
(Scene changes)
At the Castle of Friendship towards sunset, Pinkie was talking to Starlight, Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio about Mudbriar as she growled in frustration.
"Daaah!" Pinkie yelled. "I don't get this guy!"
"Wow." Starlight said with a surprised look. "Maud has a boyfriend."
"I didn't expect that to happen so soon." Chase said, just as surprised as his family and Starlight.
"How could she like someone so weird? He has an inanimate object for a pet!" Pinkie snapped as she fell on her back and slowly crawled backwards while laying on the floor.
"So does Maud." Starlight said obviously.
"Pinkie, don't you think you're getting a little too overreacting about this? I mean you don't even know the guy that much." Jade said with a concerned look.
"Well, I don't see it that way, Jade!" Pinkie replied back angrily. "Mudbriar is just so unenthusiastic!"
"You mean like your other siblings that don't sure the same feeling you have?" Sunray asked.
"Yes!" Pinkie replied back. "Boulder has ten times the personality of some random stick! Mudbriar, too, for that matter. He's not like Maud at all! Maud is hilarious, friendly, caring, and easy to talk to!"
"Yep, that's Maud." Starlight said while smiling.
"In her own way, she has a sense of humor that is a little different than yours, Pinkie." Chase said. "But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be so hard on him."
"But this guy is awkward, quiet, and kind of... strange, Chase." Pinkie said as she looked Chase with a glare. "
"Uh. That's also sounds like Maud." Starlight replied back honestly.
"And she does have an interest in Mudbriar for her own right." Trini added.
Pinkie laughed at that.
"You're so funny, Starlight and Trini! Maud is nothing like Mudbriar. If she were, then we wouldn't be best sister friends anymore." Pinkie said with a smile.
"Well, Maud obviously likes something about him." Starlight added with a smile.
"Plus, he does sound cool in his own way when it comes to his interest in sticks while Maud has a thing for rocks and minerals." Antonio added with a smirk.
Pinkie groaned and turned away from the six ponies with her arms crossed.
"Pinkie, calm down. If you want to know more about Mudbriar, then maybe you should schedule a time when he is available." Chase said calmly.
"Chase is right. Maybe you just need to spend more time with him." Starlight suggested. "Find out what you have in common."
"That's easy - nothing!" Pinkie said as she stood on her hind legs and outstretched her arms before she walked away on all fours.
"You both care about Maud. I know. He could help you with her party." Starlight said with a smile.
"I guess…" Pinkie said, having doubts.
"And I'll keep Maud busy with Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio helping me while you and Mudbriar plan the best surprise birthday ever." Starlight continued as Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio nodded in agreement.
That perked Pinkie up as she turned to face her six friends with a determined smile.
"That I can do!" Pinkie said.
"But promise us you won't try to be so tough on him this time, okay?" Chase asked with a soft stern glare, making Pinkie look at him as Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio shared the same stern look they sent toward the pink pony.
Pinkie sighed begrudgingly.
"I pinkie promise. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Pinkie said while changing her pinkie promise.
(Scene changes)
The next day, Pinkie brought Mudbriar to Sugarcube Corner.
"Listen." Pinkie explained. "Maud's birthday is tomorrow, and there's no time to waste. You're not afraid of slides, are you?"
She then pushes a button.
"No. Mudbriar said. "Whyyyyyyyyyyy?!"
He then fell down the trapdoor and landed hard with a loud grunt as Pinkie smiled sheepishly..
"No reason." She said and hops down. "Wheeeeeee!"
She slides down and crashes into him. Now Pinkie is on top of him and soon Mudbriar got up.
"Welcome to my party planning cave!" Said Pinkie excitedly.
"Technically, due to the speleothems growing from the ceiling, this is more of a cavern than a cave." Mudbriar said. "Maud taught me that."
"Yeah, okay." Pinkie said as she went over to the file cabins and she went through the files and found Maud's. "Here's what I'm thinking for her surprise party - edible rock candy plates, gem shaped ice cubes, a pebble pinata. She then remembered. Uh... we'll skip that one."
"Might I make some suggestions?" Mudbriar asked.
"Oh. Suggest away! That's why you're here! You and me! Planning... together! Friends!" Pinkie said with a nervous smile.
"I have a vision board of everything Maud loves, and none of those things are on it." Mudbriar said with a little indignation.
"Hmph. Let me see this "vision board"." Pinkie said suspiciously.
"It's not a physical thing. I'm envisioning it." Mudbriar said. He then closed his eyes and made a screen appeared in his mind. "Om, I enter through the large door of my mind palace and enter to the back, where I have all of my books and possessions, and what do I encounter? The Maud room. None of those things are there." He then made the screen disappeared. "Just as I thought. Maud doesn't like surprises."
Pinkie then looks around trying to seeing the vision board with an irritated look on her face.
"Where does it say that?" Said Pinkie demandingly. "She never told me that!"
"Mmm. It sounds like she was protecting your feelings." Mudbriar said thoughtfully. "She's very caring that way."
"Stop acting like you know my sister better than me!" Pinkie shouted angrily.
"Technically, I never said that." Mudbriar said bluntly.
"Well, technically, I don't care!" Pinkie said angrily as she walked away from Mudbriar a bit before she walked back to him, wrapped a foreleg around him, and stuck her face against his. "And since I've been sister friends forever with Maud my entire life, I think I'm the expect here! Oh, but fine. If you don't believe me, let's ask her! But we have to be super-sneaky."
"Can you be more specific?" Mudbriar asked.
"NO!" Pinkie snapped furiously.
(Scene changes)
A little while later this afternoon, Pinkie and Mudbriar found Starlight and Maud flying kites. Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio were with them as they were practicing their katas.
"Huh. You must be Mudriar." Said Starlight while also introducing the five ponies of the Elite Ninja. "I'm Starlight Glimmer. Over there is Chase Young, Sunray Steel, Jade Young, Trini, and Antonio. Nice to meet you. I've heard great things!"
"I've already heard of Master Chase Young and his family since they become the Elite Ninja to stop the Quinkan." Mudbriar said as he looked at Chase dodging a swift punch from Sunray and back flipped away to avoid a sweep kick.
"I'm so glad the two of you are spending time together. So... how's it going?" Starlight asked, sheepishly as Pinkie glared at him and Starlight.
"Mudbriar and I have just spent the best time bonding! And we're really starting to make some headway becoming besties, except for one teensy-weensy disagreement that maybe you could settle, Maud. See, Mudbriar here seems to think that you don't like surprise parties! Isn't that funny how wrong he is?!" Pinkie said as she walked up to Maud before snapping at Mudbriar, who just stared at her bluntly.
Chase could tell where this was going as he gestured to his family to stop and they followed him after witnessing that Pinkie was going to lose it again.
"I like surprise parties." Maud said.
"Hmmm." Pinkie to Mudbriar with a smug smile.
"Because I know they make you happy when you throw them for me." Maud finished.
"See?" Pinkie said, but then realized what she said. "Wait, what?!"
"I'd rather do something small with you, Starlight, Boulder, and Mudbriar for my birthday." Maud said dryly.
"No party!" Pinkie said shocked before she pointed at Mudbriar accusingly. "No party?! Did he put you up to this?!"
"Hm-mm." Maud replied back with a shake of her head.
"Maybe you should consider, I don't know, taking things a little less serious with Mudbriar because he's kinda sort of... IMPOSSIBLE TO LIKE?!" Pinkie shouted out loud.
"Okay, maybe you should take it easy right now, Pinkie." Chase suggested with a glare.
Starlight then decided to try to lighten things up a bit.
"Hey, Mudbriar, have you ever flown a kite? Let me tell you all about it. See, the first thing you should do is…" Starlight was about to finish when Pinkie marched up to Maud.
"I just can't believe you would choose sitting around with him over a party with your own sister!" Pinkie said to Maud angrily.
"I didn't choose either of you." Maud said. "Technically, I said I wanted to be with both of you."
Pinkie gasped.
" "Technically"?! Ugh, you even like the way he talks?" Pinkie asked accusingly.
"Maud, you're absolutely sure that he makes you happy in his own way, right?" Jade asked Maud, not wanting things to get ugly.
"Everything about him makes me happy." Maud replied back as she smiled at Mudbriar.
Pinkie gasped and tears up.
"Then I guess you don't need a best sister friend forever anymore." Pinkie said with a broken tone and she began to leave.
"Pinkie." Maud said in a concern deadpan expression.
"Pinkie, wait a minute! It's not what you think!" Chase said with concern.
"Uh, wait, let's all slow down and talk about this." Starlight suggested.
"NO!" Pinkie yelled and took off running.
"Pinkie wait!" Chase called out to her, but it was already too late.
"See you later." Mudbriar said.
SMACK!
"OW!" Mudbriar shouted before he turned to see Chase glaring at him. "What did you do that for?!"
"You and Maud really are a bunch of insensitive airheads, you know that?" Chase said sternly as he and his family walked away with glares.
Mudbriar was speechless of what heard before he realized that his talking may have gone a little too far for Pinkie.
(Scene changes)
Pinkie continued crying till she got to the bridge.
"I don't understand! How could Maud like Mudbriar? Is it opposite day? Nothing makes sense!" Pinkie shouted while sobbingly loudly.
She then heard voices of her friends.
I'm not shy, and I hate animals.
Fashion?! Not for me, darling!
Peh! An apple a day is downright disgusting!
Slow and steady wins the race!
I never learned to read!
"WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE CUPCAKES?!" Pinkie screamed and takes off running.
(Scene changes)
The next morning, Pinkie was at her family's rock farm.
"Good morning." Pinkie said, waking up. "Oh, wait. Bad morning."
She then puts a pillow over her face. Then Limestone came in.
"Get out of bed, sis." Limestone said, sternly. "If you're gonna be here, you gotta work."
"Ohhh." Pinkie replied back in dismay.
(Scene changes)
Not long after, Pinkie Limestone and Marble were out in the rock field.
"You're probably wondering why I came back to the family farm in the middle of the night." Pinkie talking to Marble.
"Mm-hmm." Marble said.
"Well, it all started when…" Pinkie was about to say something until Limestone cut her off.
"Less talking, more farming!" Limestone interrupted sternly.
Marble glared at her surprisingly.
"It's just... Maud has a boyfriend." Pinkie finished.
Limestone was surprised.
"I'm not jealous! Who said anything about jealous?!" Limestone asked with a concerned look on her face.
"Don't be!" Said Pinkie. "He's super-duper weird! And somehow, he tricked Maud into liking him. And now I'll never get to see her again! I came home because you two know her better than anypony. What am I missing? What does She see in him? What does he have that I don't?!"
She then starts crying as she held on to them.
"Buck up, Pinkie Pie." Said Limestone. "You look miserable as I feel all the time."
Pinkie drops flat to the ground.
"It's just that I love Maud, and I want to love Mudbriar, but I can't see anything to like about him!" Pinkie said as she buried her face to the watery ground.
Marble made a gesture, Limestone knew she had an idea.
"Ugh, fine!" Limestone said, agreeing with her begrudgingly. "We're taking a work break. Come on!"
Pinkie looked up before she followed her two sisters.
(Scene changes)
The 3 soon arrived to a rounded rock in the field.
"I'm looking at a sparkling bright blue and white rock." Limestone said. "See it?"
"You mean the lumpy gray one?" Pinkie asked.
"No, the beautiful blue and white one. Right there."
"I would not describe that as beautiful, blue, or white, but... Okay." Pinkie said, not seeing the picture.
"Show her." Limestone said to Marble.
Marble uses her pickax and hits the rock causing it to split in 2. Suddenly, the inside revealed a geode with a beautiful blue color.
"It's a geode!" Limestone continued. "The outside looks like a regular rock, but on the inside is filled with beautiful gems."
"So you're saying I should crack open Mudbriar like a rock! It all makes sense! No, wait. It doesn't." Pinkie said, deflated after she smiled.
"It's a metaphor, Pinkie!" Said Limestone as she presented a rock and part of the geode. "You see Mudbriar as a rock, but Maud sees him as a gem. Even if you never see past his dullness, you can see how happy he makes Maud. And to a sister, that's all that matters."
"Mm-mmm!" Marble nodded with a smile she shared with Limestone.
Pinkie picks up the 2 halves of the rock and smiles.
"Oh, Limestone, Marble, thank you! I don't know what I'd do without you two! Pie Pile!" Pinkie shouted with tears of joy.
She then jumps on top of them.
"Okay, okay!" Limestone said as she was getting a little crushed. "You're crushing me to gravel, Pinkie!"
"I really owe Mudbriar an apology." Pinkie said then gasped remembering what day it is. "And I owe Maud a party! I just hope I'm not too late!"
"But, Pinkie. One other thing, didn't somepony else tell not to go to tough on Mudbriar?" Limestone asked Pinkie with a soft glare.
Pinkie realized it.
"Oh, Chase did. Now I need to have a talk with about how was being a jerk to Mudbriar." Pinkie said in guilty tone before she perked up. "Thanks, guys!"
Pinkie then dashed away as Marble and Limestone got up and dusted themselves off.
"That's our sister." Limestone said with a proud smirk.
"Mm-hmm." Marble replied back with a nod and smile.
(Scene changes)
Back at Ponyville, Mudbriar was wrapping a present for Maud which is a piece of log. He was having trouble one end of the wrapping paper, but then Pinkie place her hoof on it. She then wraps the present. And brought out a branch.
"I brought you an olive branch to say sorry." Pinkie apologize. "I was really unfair to you, and I'm ready to listen to your ideas for Maud's birthday, if you still want to plan it together."
Mudbriar takes a closer examination on the branch.
"Technically, this isn't even an olive branch. It's a quercus, most likely castaneifolia." Mudbriar said bluntly.
"Oh, COME ON!" Pinkie shouted in anger before she recomposed herself with an embarrassed smile. "Sorry! Keeping it together...!"
"And I love a good quercus." Mudbriar admitted with a smile. "Friends!"
"Friends!" Pinkie hoofshaking him.
"Well, looks like you both finally made amends with each other." A voice came from behind Mudbriar as he and Pinkie turned to see Chase, Jade, Sunray, Trini, and Antonio smiling at them in amusement.
"Guys!" Pinkie shouted happily as she zipped over and hugged Chase, who chuckled in reply.
"Good to have you back, Pinkie." Chase said as they broke the hug. "We thought you weren't gonna make it in time for Maud's birthday."
"Well, I had a good talk with two ponies at my home I love with all my heart." Pinkie answered with a tearful smile as she wiped them away. Then she turned her attention to Mudbriar. "Now, do you have any ideas for the party?"
"There is one." Mudbriar answered with a smile as his six friends shared the same look.
(Scene changes)
Later that evening, a party was set up and everypony was there as they were all having a good time.
Chase and Twilight were with each other, enjoying the scenery. Recently, Chase informed her of everything.
"I still can't believe that Maud has a boyfriend." Twilight said with a smile as she gazed at her husband lovingly. "Kinda reminds me of how we fell in love with each other, honey."
Chase chuckled in reply as he wrapped a foreleg around his wife.
"Yeah, and looks like Pinkie is gonna do just fine with Mudbriar as well as get to know him much more." Chase said as he nuzzled Twilight lovingly, making his wife giggle as she nuzzled her husband back.
Then the doors of the Town Hall open and a cardboard drawing of Maud magically lifted by Starlight's magic appeared.
"SURPRISE!" The crowd cheered.
"Can you believe this punch? Oh, it's so good!/Another great party!/I know!/Yeah!" Four background ponies said to each other.
Then Starlight came out, and saw out in the distance and waves.
Pinkie, Mudbrair, and Maud were with each other on a hilltop watching.
"This is my favorite party ever." Maud said happily.
"It was all your amazing boyfriend's idea." Pinkie said. "He said the best present would be me throwing you a surprise party you didn't have to go."
"Technically, It wasn't a surprise because she could see the pre-party preparations from up here." Mudbrair pointed out.
"Technically…" Pinkie began angrily before she calmed down. "You're right!"
She then pulls them in for a bug hug.
Watching them from a distance, Chase and Twilight smiled as they share loving kiss on the lips with each other.
"Maybe someday Maud and Mudbriar will get married. Let's hope Pinkie Pie can at least get on his good side more." Twilight said with a smirk.
"You and me both, honey." Chase said in agreement as the alicorn couple snuggled with each other lovingly.
Author's note: Here's chapter three, guys.
I know probably all of you didn't want me to write this episode, but this is my story and I decide what to do. Just try not to go hard on me, please? Thanks.
Peace out!
