So in closing, earning a rocktorate
in Rock Studies from the Equestrian Institute of Rockology
is no easy feat.
I'm proud of each and every one of you.
Uh... each of...
No, just you, actually.
Go, Maud! Woohoo! Number one! Number one!
Fillies and gentlecolts...
and is that magnesium-rich basalt?
It is my honor to present our vale-rock-torian,
Maud Pie.
Excuse me. Doctor Pie.
Woo! Doctor Pie! Doctor Pie!
Rock-tor Pie?
- I'm Maud. - Yeah, you are!
Brilliant speech! Encore! Encore!
There's more, Pinkie.
I'm Maud.
Pie.
Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Brilliant speech! Encore! Encore! Encore!
You're moving to Ponyville!
We'll live together and make bunk beds
and I'll make us fuzzy slippers that say
"Best Sister Friends Forever",
although I probably can't fit all those words on a slipper,
so maybe just "BSFF",
but we don't have to decide right now
because we'll be together all the time since when it comes to Ponyville,
the doctor is in!
Slow down, Pinkie Pie.
Yooooouuuuu'rrrrrrrreeeeeeee
mmmmmmmmooooooovvvvvviiiiiiinnnnnnnggggg
ttttoooo Pooonnnnnyyyyyvvvviiillllleeeee...
I'm not definitely moving to Ponyville.
Of course, you are, silly. You said...
There's nothing left to study back on the rock farm,
so I might move to Ponyville.
I'm also considering Ghastly Gorge.
Classic Maud sense of humor!
You should do stand-up!
I do.
But that wasn't a joke.
Ghastly Gorge? That terrible, no-fun,
all-alone canyon in the middle of nowhere?
There, or Ponyville.
But Ponyville is so "Ee-hee-hee-hee-hee!"
and Ghastly Gorge is so "Blegh!"
It's a rock-based decision.
But what about BSFFs?
That's why I'm giving Ponyville a chance.
Phew! So all I have to do
is prove Ponyville has better rocks than Ghastly Gorge?
Challenge accepted.
We'll drop your stuff off at my place,
and then hold onto your world,
cause it's about...
to...
to... get...
to... get... rocked!
Okay.
Ghastly Gorge may have rocks,
but our gem cave rocks!
Oh, and look!
You'll never know who you see!
Maud, darling!
It's lovely to see you again!
Oh! Congratulations on your rocktorate.
What are you doing now?
Talking to you.
Oh, y— Right.
Well, if your trained eye happens to see a chartreuse gem,
I'm desperate to find one.
I found one.
Oh, you're an absolute darling!
This will surely make my gown stand out
at Countess Coloratura's album release party.
Do you know how rare this is?
Just another day in Ponyville!
That's actually a really common gem.
Huh?
These are all really common gems.
They are?
Huh, I mean, huh, come on!
Of course, they are!
That's why I didn't bring you here to impress you!
I wanted to make sure you had a chance to,
heh, say "hello" to your old pal...
Spike!
Hello, Spike.
Way to go, Maud! Cross that off the to-do list!
Y'know what I'm sayin'? Check!
Now, let's get moving, 'cause I'm about to show you something
that'll make you yell, all right!
All right.
See? Ha ha!
Tada! It's a castle... made of rocks!
What?! Did I just blow your mind?
I think I just blew your mind.
A lot of structures are made from rocks, Pinkie.
They're very stable building material.
But this place grew out of nowhere
after a magical key-build gem followed a rainbow
and buried itself in the ground!
I mean, have you ever seen rocks like this?
Yes.
No, you haven't!
We literally just saw hundreds of them in the gem cave.
But... but...
Oh, look at those rocks!
Those are sting-bush seed pods.
So they are!
But, uh... look at that rock!
It's even got four smaller rocks around it like legs!
That's a tortoise.
Whose side are you on, Tank?!
Oh, wait a minute!
What's that?! It's a rock shaped like Lyra Heartstrings!
Total rock!
I guess you won't be moving to Ponyville after all.
Those rocks at Ghastly Gorge don't know
how lucky they are to have you.
Actually, rocks aren't the only decision
I'm considering Ponyville.
You said it's a rock-based decision.
I'm obviously passionate about exotic rocks,
but I've always studied them... alone.
I could handle some less exciting rocks
if it meant I'd have somepony to talk to besides Boulder.
Are you saying you want... a friend?!
I wouldn't mind one.
Maudalina Daisy Pie, this'll be easy!
What're you looking for in a friend?
Gimme six qualities assigning each one
a numerical importance rating between one and seven,
seven being essential and one being "ehh."
It isn't hard to meet somepony I like.
It's finding somepony who gets me.
I get you.
You're my sister. It's different.
Maud, you are the best!
You never know when the lightning of friendship will strike!
Somepony could come barreling through that door
at this very moment and become your best friend!
Y'know, I really though somepony was gonna come barreling through that—
Uh.
Oh, my fault! Totally my fault! Are you okay?
I should've been watching where I was going, an—
You look really familiar.
Have we met before?
- Yes. - I knew it!
What?!
No, no, don't tell me.
Um...
Yeah. See, I was really hoping
you'd tell me while I pretended to remember.
How is this possible?
I traveled Equestria for my rocktorate dissertation.
Psst! Do you know a lot about rocks?
Yes.
Have you ever come across some kind of super powerful stone
that can store the cutie mark magic of,
I don't know, an entire village?
Yep. In the big cave.
Hey, I got an idea.
Let's not tell anypony that part where you maybe,
for sure, accidentally helped Starlight enslave a town!
Tell nopony!
It's not not like she's enslaved anypony lately.
Well, great seeing you again.
I've gotta run a few errands.
Offer to help.
- What? - Offer to help!
You wanna help?
- Do I? - Of course, you do!
Go!
Okay.
They're totally gonna be best friends
and then Maud will move to Ponyville,
and we'll get to wear BSFF slippers!
Rocks take on different properties
when interacting with magic.
With the right stone,
you could rule all of Equestria if you wanted to.
You're messing with me.
Am I?
So other than rocks, what else are you into?
Minerals. Plate tectonics.
Oh, and stand-up comedy, of course.
I like... kites.
Kites are cool.
The trick with an SLK is not to make the spars too heavy,
but, if they're too light, you've got no ballast
and then good luck tacking against the AOI!
I really like kites.
They're starting to grow on me.
Pizza delivery!
Oh, Maud and Starlight? You're here too?
Whoah! What a coincidence!
Cause I was just, y'know, delivering this pizza to, um...
you!
So how's it going?
Uh, just hanging out-
Hey! You can use this time
to bond and talk about feelings!
For example, do you feel like you're becoming friends?
Um... I feel...
like I don't want to talk about feelings?
Great! I'll go next.
I feel like I love that you two are becoming best friends!
I mean, your friendship could be the friendship
that makes Maud move to Ponyville!
No pressure, Starlight!
Um, hello? Where'd you two go?
Sorry about my sister. There's no half-excited with her.
Oh, I know, but she always calms down.
Eventually.
Why do you find rocks so fascinating?
Each one has a different story to tell.
Like Boulder here.
This tells me he's over two thousand years old.
You don't look a day over six hundred.
Wow, you can tell that from a line?
I didn't get a rocktorate
because I can shred on guitar like nopony else.
Another reason I like rocks,
they don't exclude you if you're...
different than other ponies.
They're beautiful and strong, but they don't judge you
or make you feel less than in any way.
I think I'm starting to like rocks, too.
It's hollow?
It's granite. Hollow granite is highly unusual.
Wow!
Have you ever seen anything like this?
No, and that's unusual. For me.
There you are!
I thought you went your separate ways but you can't imagine
how happy I am to find you both together
and to witness one of your first as friends!
First time discovering an underground cavern!
I can't wait till you're old and eating pistachios together
and telling your grand-foals about this!
Oh no! They're not bonding!
I got an idea!
Whooaa! I'm tripping on a rock at this very moment!
And now I'm falling doooow-
Oh, no!
My accidental clumsiness has trapped us here!
Where you'll be forced to bond until a rescue.
Oh, we won't have to wait for that.
There's gotta be a spell that-
Get us out of here, boy.
Boulder, that was awesome!
No. That was sandstone.
More sand than stone, apparently.
I'm thinking you'll wear these around your neck at all times
so I don't lose you again, you sillies!
That way I can track your progress as friends!
Ooh, and tomorrow, we can have a friendship brunch!
What's your favorite kind of omelette cupcake?!
Mine's jalapeño red velvet!
Yeah, um, I-I don't know if I can make it.
You'll change your minds when you smell the yummy food!
Come on!
Oops.
Tomorrow's brunch is going to be the scrumptious,
brunchiest, munchiest brunch ever!
Yeah. About that...
The problem is, while you two were alone,
I couldn't get data points
on your friendship probabilities!
Were you making Starlight smile?
How was Starlight's smile-to-frown ratio?
Anything over five to one is great!
Oh, and how many times did you smile like this?
Zero times.
Oh, Maud, don't be so hard on yourself!
You've got the best friendship-maker in Ponyville on the case!
I'll be by your side the whole time!
Speaking of which, your bell fell off, silly!
Pinkie Pie, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but-
Buuuuuut?
Never mind.
Don't worry, Maud. When you see this brunch,
you'll realize everything's gonna be okay!
And then, I have amazing bonding activities planned
for the next seventeen days!
You and Starlight will be besties in no time!
Goodnight!
Cupcake Omele–
Friendship brunch!
Pinkie Pie. Thank you for trying so hard
to help me make friends,
but my decision has to be rock based,
and Ghastly Gorge has such great rocks.
I won't even have time for friends.
It's better this way.
Sorry it didn't work out.
Maud.
Maud!
Wait!
Maud!
Maud...
Starlight, wake up!
Kites!
Huh? Oh.
If this is about brunch, I-I, uh,
you know what, jalapeño red velvet omelettes sound gross,
I-I just can't.
Maud left in the middle of the night!
Oh. I guess Ghastly Gorge really does have the best rocks.
Why couldn't you two just be friends?
Pinkie Pie, I like Maud!
- You do? - Yeah!
- She's weird. - Hey!
No, in a good way!
She sees the world in a totally different way
than anypony I've ever met!
She accepts me for who I am.
She taught me that a rock is never just a rock,
and she could make anything funny.
We never had to say it, but we got each other.
You really were becoming friends?
I think so,
but you kind of sorta...
got in the way.
You're right, too harsh.
Let's go with...
you ruined everything all the time?
Mmmmh, that's worse.
What I'm trying to say is-
I have to go!
Ta-da...
Friendship lesson... learned?
Sigh.
Emerald jasper?
This must be my lucky day.
Maud tracks!
Hello, Pinkie Pie. I found emerald jasper.
Are you okay, Maud?! That eel almost ate you!
What eel?
You didn't need to come.
I'm having a great time on my own.
I even made a new friend.
Is it a rock?
Yes.
Maud!
I don't belong in Ponyville.
It only proved I'm better off all by myself.
Like I always have been.
Don't say that! It was all my fault!
I-
I thought I knew everything about making friends,
but I didn't even know my own sister!
I forced you to do things my way,
but my way isn't your way!
This way.
Exactly!
No. This way.
Maud, I thought you couldn't make a friend without my help,
but it turns out you couldn't make a friend with my help.
I underestimated you. And I'm sorry.
I know you did it out of love.
You're my best sister friend forever.
Oh, Maud! I love you bigger than all Equestria!
And you melt my heart more easily
than sodium-rich plagioclase feldspar.
I don't know what that means,
but please please please please please
give Ponyville another chance!
But more importantly,
give me another chance,
to leave you alone.
What do you think, Boulder?
You're back!
Mm-hm.
For good?
Mm-hm.
This doesn't mean we need to start
talking about feelings, does it?
Heh, no way.
Maybe after this we could decorate my new place.
Totally! Where is it?
Well, it's not in Ponyville.
More like Ponyville adjacent.
It's perfect.
Yes! My sister's totally staying in Ponyville!
I mean Ponyville adjacent!
Sorry sorry, I'm leaving,
I promise, I'm not even here-
Aaah, you're wearing your slippers!
Okay, now I'm really leaving, bye!
Heheh... wrong way.
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