Applejack was looking at all the apple trees at Sweet Apple Acres.

“Boy howdy! I got my work cut out for me. That there is the biggest bumper crop o' apples I ever laid eyes on.” Applejack said. Big Macintosh was standing next to her with bandages around his torso.

“Eeyup. Too big for you to handle on your own.” Big Macintosh said.

“Come on, big brother! You need to rest up and get yourself better. I haven't met an apple orchard yet that I can't handle.” She said as she poked his side, making him flinch in pain. “Oops, sorry.” She said as she moved her hoof. Big Mac glared at her a little.

“I'll take a bite out of this job by day's end.”

“Biting off more than you can chew is just what I'm afraid of.” Big Macintosh said. Applejack looked at him slight offended.

“Are you sayin' my mouth is makin' promises my legs can't keep?” Applejack asked him, in a way that basically said, take that back.

“Eeyup.”

“Why of all the... This is your sister Applejack, remember? The loyalest of friends and the most dependable of ponies!?”

“But still only one pony, and one pony plus hundreds o' apple trees just doesn't add up to…”

“Don't you use your fancy mathematics to muddy the issue! I said I could handle this harvest and I'm gonna prove it to you. I'm gonna get every last apple out of those trees this applebuck season all by myself.” Applejack said. Big Macintosh sighed and started to walk away. As he did, he saw Sonic.

“Hey Big Mac!" Sonic greeted him.

“Hey . What brings you here?” Big Macintosh asked.

"I kinda owe Apple Bloom a favor she help me ans Tails with his latest pet project, where is she?" Sonic asked.

"She’s in the house. Just knock, she’ll open the door.” Big Macintosh said. Sonic nodded and boosted past him.

Sonic walked towards the house before looking in Applejack’s direction.

“Hey there Applejack.” Sonic said.

“Howdy there Sonic. You’re awfully early.” Applejack said.

“I know, I hope you don’t mind.” Sonic said.

“Not at all.” Applejack said. Sonic looked up at the trees.

“Damn. That’s a lot of trees.” Sonic commented.

“Eeyup. Applebuck season.” Applejack said.

“Applewhat now?” Sonic asked.

“It's what the Apple family calls harvestin' time. We gather all the apples from the trees so we can sell 'em.”

“Sounds like an interesting time of year.”

“Yeah. I sure do got my work cut out for me. But if I want to get these Apples harvested I need to start now.”

“Mind if I give you a helping hand?"

“Nah, I can do this on my own. Besides, that means I’d have to teach ya the proper way for applebucking, and then I gotta watch over you to make sure that you put the right apples in the-”

Sonic did his spindash into a tree making some apples fall into some baskets with an unamused look on his face.

“Applejack, this isn’t neuroscience. I know, I’ve studied it. Let me give you a hand."

"I appreciate the offer, but I can do this one on my own.” Applejack said. The ground rumbled and an apple dropped, hitting Applejack on the head.

“You sure the trees can’t do them on their own?"

“Real funny big guy.”

“Stampede!” Rainbow Dash was heard saying. Sonic and Applejack looked towards town. They saw a bunch of the cows from the farm running into town.

“We gotta do something!” Applejack said.

“You got Apples to buck. I’ll handle this.” Sonic said as he ran off.

“Winona!” Applejack called. A brown border collie ran to her and barked.

“Go help Bandit.” She said. Winona barked and run to Sonic, running along side him.

In town, ponies and humans were panicking and running around town trying to get inside before the Stampede would hit. Except Pinkie, who was enjoying the rumbling and how her voice sounded.

“Hey! This makes my voice sound silly!” Pinkie said as her voice vibrated with the shaking ground.

“Pinkie, are you crazy?! Run!” Ben exclaimed as he ran off.

“Everyone calm down. There’s no need to panic.” Mayor Mare said, trying to calm down the panic. Rarity ran over to the Mayor.

“But Mayor, whatever shall we do?” Rarity asked.

“Look!” Jaden pointed out.

“Look there!” Rainbow Dash said. The group watches as Sonic ran and started to pull ahead of the stampeding cattle. Winona riding on his back.

The others began cheering after seeing him. Pinkie had a bag of popcorn as she watched.

“This is the best rodeo show I’ve ever seen.” Pinkie said as she ate the popcorn. Twilight and Gwen rolled thier eyes at her randomness.

“Hey? Winona was it? Herd them from the other side!” Sonic said to Winona. Winona barked and jumped off, running to the left side of the stampeding herd, Sonic being on the right.

“Sorry, don’t mean to be rude, but I need to turn this way.” Sonic did a jump on the lead cow and grabbed its horn and steered the lead cow away from the bridge. The following cattle followed. Seeing this, his friends, along with other ponies, began to cheer.

Sonic slowed down and tugged gently, but firmly, to get the lead cow, as well as the others to slow to a halt.

“Don’t hurt the cow, don’t hurt the cow, don’t hurt the cow.” He said to himself as he carefully halted the stampede. Winona ran to Bandit and barked happily. Sonic pet her before walking to the lead cow. “Okay, mind telling me what the hell that was all about?”

The lead cow, DaisyJo, let out a moo before clearing her throat.

“Oh my! Begging your pardon there sir, but Moo-riella here saw one of those nasty snakes.” DaisyJo explained as she gestured at the cow who wore the cowbell. The mention of the word snakes made the other cattle gasp and become startled. Luckily, they didn’t move. “And it just gave us all the willies, don'tcha know.”

“I understand fully. I’m sure Tails will take care of it if he finds it. If not, then I’ll make sure it’s taken care of. But, next time, could you stampede clear of Ponyville?” Sonic asked politely. The cattle started to walk back to the farm.

“We certainly will, Sir. What’s your name?” DaisyJo asked.

“Sonic.”

“Goodbye Sonic. So long, Winona!” DaisyJo said as she walked with the others. Winona barked as Sonic looked towards the crowd. They cheered as he walked to him.

Twilight was the first to run to him.

“Sonic. That was amazing! Where did you learn to do that?” She asked.

"This wasn't first time dealing with stampedes.” Sonic sheepishly confessed. Pinkie started bounce around.

“Yeehaw! Ride’em Cowpoke!” She said.

“That was just…… just…” Mayor Mare said, trying to find the right words.

“Hedgetasntic!” Pinkie said from above them before falling down.

“You turned me into an Adjective?” Sonic asked.

“MmHm!” Pinkie said before rolling to her feet.

“We must do something for you for single-handled saving the town.” Mayor Mare said.

“Oh no, it’s alright. I insist. I’m gonna take Winona back to the farm. See you guys later.” Sonic said as he walked back to the farm. Winona barked and followed him. Mayor Mare looked at the other ponies.

“If he insists on saving the town, then we insist on rewarding him. Any ideas?” Mayor Mare asked.

“I know!” Pinkie said.

Sonic walked back to the farm to drop off Winona.

“I’m back.” Sonic said as he saw Applejack still bucking the apples out of the trees.

“What made the cattle get riled up?” Applejack asked.

“One of them saw a snake and it spooked the rest of them.” Sonic answered.

“That’s bad, hopefully we find that snake before it spooks them again.” Applejack said as she knocked a few apples out of the next tree. Sonic looked at all the empty trees. Which there was only ten of.

“Are you sure you don’t need my help? You did say I’m a straight up bonified work horse when we first met. How about we put your bits where your bake is?” Sonic asked. Applejack looked at him confused for a second. “Bake is another word for mouth.”

“Once again, I appreciate your offer to help, but I can do this by myself.” Applejack said.

“Suit yourself.” Sonic said.

"Well there you we got a lot of stuff to do!" Apple Bloom said.

"I can wait," Soinc with a deadpan.

One week passes by, and Sonic was sleeping on the Golden Oak Libary.

“A party!” Pinkie’s voice was heard saying, which woke him up.

“Did you seriously wait until the end of the week to say that?” Diamondhead was heard asking. Sonic sat up and started to stretch.

“Gah, what are they doing out there?” Sonic said as he peeked out the window and saw the ponies and people decorating town hall. “How long have they been up to this, and why haven’t I noticed beforehoof?”

Twilight walked over to Rarity who was fixing a bow on a tree.

“We all ready?” Twilight asked.

“Just one last thing.” Rarity said as she turned to a banner. She placed it onto the town hall, revealing the banner to be decorated with the words, 'Thank you Sonic!'. "Now we're ready."

"Is Applejack coming with the food?" Jaden asked.

"Actually, I haven't seen Applejack all week." Rainbow Dash said as she flew over.

"Did you drop off the invitation?"

"What do you think?"

"I think you forgot, since AJ isn't here."

"I dropped off the invitation." .

“I’m sure she’ll arrive soon.” Rarity said. “It’s not like Applejack would miss a fun little get together like this.”

This was when Twilight remembered something.

“Wait a minute, who’s distracting him?” Twilight asked. Everyone quickly looked panicked and Tails turns to see Bandit about to walk around the corner. He dashes off towards him. He turns to face him and dives, knocking him onto his back.

“Sonic! Hi, hey, good to see you. How are you today?” Tails asked as he looked down at him with a nervous smile.

“Other than wondering how you turned into a football player suddenly, I’m wondering what’s going on in town hall.” Sonic said as he looked up at him.

“NOTHING!”

“You are not a good liar.”

“I need you to get something for me!” T

“What do you need?” .

“A… A-A KITE! I need you to buy me a kite.”

A brief silence occurs between the two.

“Okay.” Sonic said as he picked up Tails and placed her down. “But only because I know you’re trying to distract me from something.” He began to walk away.

“Phew.” Tails said as he wiped sweat off of his head.

“How long will he be gone?” Yuya asked.

“At least 30 minutes, he can be pretty indecisive if I’m not specific.” Tails said as he began to walk back to the town hall. “I just hope Applejack can be there in time.”

30 minutes go by and Twilight walked to the stand on Town Hall with a stack of index cards that she organized before looking at the crowd before her. She reads off of the cards.

“Welcome, everypony! Today we are here to honor someone we can always count on to help in matters great and small.” Twilight said as she flipped to another card. “Someone whose contributions to--”

“Twilight.” Gwen whisper called from beside her. Twilight looked at him before trying to continue.

“Who contributes to acts of Kindness,-”

“Twilight, I need to tell you something.” Gwen whispered. Twilight put the cards down and turned to Gwen

“What?!” She whisper yelled.

“Sonic's not at the kite store.” Chad whispered.

“What!? Then where is he?”

Gwen only shrugged as a response.

“I made it!” Sonic said from the crowd. The crowd turned to look at him.

“Well, I wrote this entire speech for nothing.” Twilight said as she tossed the index cards in the air.

“To be fair, you did tell him to get here ASAP. One step for him is like fifty for the rest of us.” Ben commented. Mayor Mare walked to the stand and cleared her throat.

“And so, with no further ado, it is my privilege to give the prize, the first ever,Hedegehog of Ponyville Award, to our beloved guest of honor, a changeling of the utmost trustworthiness, reliability, and integrity. Ponyville's most capable and dependable friend: Sonic!” Mayor Mare said. As the eyes fell on the blue hedge ponies, Spike and Amy began to cheer.

“Cool! Way to go Sonic, that was awesome!” “You’re the most awesomely awesome hedgehog in the-” Spike and Amy both stopped as they realized everyone else had stopped cheering.

“This is a little awkward.” Spike said.

“You think?” Sonic asked.

Sonic ran quickly over to the stage.

“Excuse me, sorry.” He said as he on the stage.

“Ms. Mare. I would like to thank you kindly for this award. Though, I did say it wasn’t necessary, I appreciate the gratitude.” Sonic said as he looked at the trophy.

“Well from what Twilight has said about you, you really know when to be there for somepony who needs you.” Mayor Mare said. Sonic smiles as he looked at the crowd. Although, he managed to make out a face he didn’t see.

“Well, that’s me. Helping to those that need it. And as much as I would like to make up a 10 minute speech at the top of the head I wasn’t prepared for, there is someone else that needs my help. Once again, thank you for the award [He shakes Mayor Mare’s hoof] thank you all for the ceremony, but I’ll be off.” Sonic said as he grabbed the award and boosted out there. The kite fell off his back and landed in front of Twilight. Twilight picked it up and looked at it. It was shaped and styled like her cutie mark.

“Quite crafty.” Rarity commented as she looked over Twilight’s shoulder.

“Anyone else think Sonic was in a bit of a rush?” Ben asked.

“Very much so. Why was he in a hurry to leave?” Rainbow Dash asked. Jaden looked among them, and soon realized who wasn’t here.

“Wait a minute. Where’s Applejack?” Jaden asked.

At Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack was asleep in front of a tree that had previously been harvested of the apples. Sonic makes it to the orchard, sees Applejack and then puts his trophy down.

He walked over to some of the trees and began to kick the apples out of the trees and into the baskets.

Applejack snorted like she was about to wake up, causing Sonic to jump into one of the trees. Applejack opens her eyes, shakes her head and walked over to the same tree bandit kicked and tried to kick it. She missed because she wasn’t close enough. She backed up and tried again, only to kick the basket over.

“Whoops.” Applejack said.

“Applejack!” Twilight called to get her attention. The attempt didn’t work, so she and Jaden walked closer. “Applejack!”

Applejack fell asleep again. Sonic peeked out from the tree and climbed down from it. He bucked another apple tree. Taking advantage of the fact that she fell asleep.

“Applejack.” She called again. Sonic kicked 3 more trees before Twilight tried to wake up Applejack again.

“Applejack.” She sees that this doesn’t work and she teleports both of them in front of her, which took a moment. “APPLEJACK!” Twilight shouted. Applejack woke up, shaking her head.

Sonic quickly ran over to them.

“Oh, howdy, Twilight. Hey Sonic, Jaden.” Applejack said.

“What is all this?” Twilight asked.

“It's Applebuck season.” Applejack said as she started to walk to another tree. Twilight started using her magic and teleported in front of Applejack. Startling her. “Whoa!” Sonic and Jaden ran quuckly caught it.

“Applewhat season?” Jaden and Twilight asked.

“Think of it as a harvesting season.” Sonic told Twilight. Applejack walks past them and Twilight teleports in front of him again. Bandit simply walked around to get to her.

“But why are you doing it all alone?” Twilight asked. Applejack walked past again.

“'Cause Big Macintosh hurt himself.” Applejack answered. Bandit stood in her path, which stopped her.

“What about all those relatives I've met when we first came to Ponyville? If you won’t accept my help can't they?” Jaden asked. Applejack sighed and walked past him.

“They were just here for the Apple family reunion. They actually live all over Equestria and are busy harvestin' their own orchards. So, uh, I'm on my own.” Applejack said, Twilight teleported in front of her. She stopped. “Which means, I should really get back to work.” They didn’t move. “Ahem... hint hint? Get back to work?”

Sonic rolled his eyes and he and Jaden stepped to the side. Twilight moved as well.

“Guys, could you three step aside?” She asked.

“We just did. Applejack, you don’t look so good.” Twilight said, taking note of her condition. Although to Applejack, her voice was echoing.

“Eh, don't any of you six worry none, I'm just fine and dandy.” Applejack said. Twilight teleported in front of her again. “Whoa.”

“You’re getting good at that.” Jaden complimented.

“Thanks.” Twilight said before looking at Applejack. “Do you... want some help?”

“Help?” Applejack scoffs before shaking her head. “No way, no how!”

“Applejack, I mean this in the most respectful way possible, but there's no way you can do it all on your own.” Sonic said. Applejack got nose to nose with him, standing on her hind legs to do so, thanks to his height.

“Is that a challenge?” Applejack questioned, very defensively.

“No, it’s a statement.” Sonic answered, backing up a little, making Applejack nearly fall over.

“Well, I'm gonna prove to you that I can do it! Now if you'll excuse me, I've got apples to buck.” Applejack said as she walked past them in a stomp.

"Well this ain't going to end well," Sonic asked.

Ben and Rainbow Dash were perched on a fence. Seemingly waiting for something.

“Ugh, where is she?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“There she is.” Ben said as she saw Applejack rush over.

“I'm a mite sorry,you two.” She looked at them in the wrong order. “I was busy applebuckin' and I guess ah, I closed my eyes for a second and, when I woke up, I was late. Now, what's this new trick y’all are trying to do?” She asked.

“See that contraption?” Ben pointed out first. Applejack looked at it.

“Uh…. Yeah.” Applejack confirmed.

"Well, I'm gonna stand on one end with Dash on my shoulders, then you're gonna jump down from that platform, launching us into the air faster than I can take off on my own. Once we're in the air, we're gonna do some amazing synchronized flips and spins that are sure to impress the Wonderbolts." Ben explained. Blue sports lines marking down the process as she did.

“Isn’t that a mite dangerous?” Applejack asked, quite concerned. The two pegasi confidently scoffed.

“Heh, not for a pony who can fly.” Rainbow dash said as Ben transform into Jetray.

“Especially two as good as us.” Jetray said, the two hoofbumped with a smile. They flew to the seesaw like contraption.

“Well, all right-y then.” Applejack said as she walked over with them and climbed up the tower. She looked down and had some very blurry vision. She had a hard time seeing where she was supposed to land. “Oh my.” She said.

“Ready!? Three! Two! One!” Jetray counted down. To her and Rainbow Dash’s surprise, she body slams onto the ground.

“Perhaps the instructions were unclear. You have to land on the other side.” Rainbow dash emphasized. Applejack pulls her face off the ground with her eyes rolling in different directions.

“Got it.” Applejack said. However, she missed the next three times she went. Aggravating the two.

“Applejack, what the hell is going on?” Jetray asked.

“Yeah, we should’ve been flying through the air by now.” Rainbow Dash said.

“I'm okay. Really. I-I have an idea. Watch this.” Applejack said. She walks over and pulls down the other end of the seesaw, lifting Lightning Sprint and Rainbow Dash into the air on the platform. “Tada!”

The two would look at her, as this wasn't what they had in mind.

"Oh... Maybe not. Okay, one more try. I'm sure to get it this time." Applejack said as she climbed back up the ladder.

"Ugh!" Jetray groaned as she began helping Rainbow Dash back onto her shoulders.

"Heh heh... Here I go!" Applejack said as she jumped off, RIGHT as Rainbow slipped off Lightning's shoulders.

Jetray managed to grab Rainbow Dash but couldn't stop Applejack "Wait wait wait! Applejaaaaaaaaaaaaack!!!"

The two were launched into the sky, towards the library.

"You're welcome!" Applejack called after them.

Spike who was reading a book with Twilight and Jaden, had his shell shook before he dove away from the railing as the two of them landed there. Diving under Twilight as a result.

They both groaned in pain as they slammed into the railing.

"Huh, you two took your time dropping in." Spike said from under Twilight.

"I think I broke something!" Jetray wheezed.

"Twilight. We might need your help." Rainbow dash said.

"Applejack?" Jaden asked with a very unamused face.

"Yep." They both said. Later, back at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack had bucked a few apples out of the tree, causing them to hit the ground. She bends over and picks one of them up only to hit the back of her head against the tree as soon as she stood.

"Ow!" She exclaimed. At this point, Jaden had arrived.

"Applejack, can we talk? Applejack, can we talk?" Twilight asked, walking over.

The first time she spoke, it merely got her attention. The second time however, she heard nothing but an inaudible voice, forcing her to try and read her lips.

"Can bees squawk?! I don't think so." Applejack completely misheard.

"No. Can we talk?" he asked again.

"Twenty stalks? Bean or celery?" Applejack misheard again.

"No! I need to talk to you." Jaden exclaimed.

"You need to walk to the zoo? Well, who's stoppin' you?" She completely misheard.

"I need to talk to you!"

"Oh! Well why didn't you say so? What you wanna talk about?" She said as she tried to continue working, and failing.

"Rainbow Dash and Ben dropped in today." Jaden told her, hoping she would catch the hint. She did not.

"That's quite neighborly of them." Applejack wrongly assumed.

"They crashed onto the balcony after you launched them into the air!" Jaden told her. Applejack went back to a soft spoken tone and hung her head.

"Oh, yeah. I wasn't feeling quite myself this morning." Applejack said softly, feeling bad.

"Probably, your overworking youself, you need help." Jaden told her, only to be misheard again.

"HELP! You need HELP!" Jaden yelled in her face.

"Nothin' doin', Jaden. I'm gonna prove to you, t'everypony, that I can do this on my own." She said as she started to walk away. Right into a branch. Thunking her head against it and making her go cross eyed. "Ow! Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go help Pinkie Pie." She said before running off to Sugar Cube corner.

"Damn it!" Jaden groaned in frustration.

Meanwhile, at Sweet Apple Acres, Mr and Mrs Cake were packing up to head out.

"Now Pinkie Pie, are you sure you're up for baking the muffins and running the store this afternoon?" Mrs. Cake asked.

"Yes siree bob, Mrs. Cake. Plus, I have Ponyville's prized pony to help me out. Why, she's the best baker ever. Right, Applejack?" Pinkie answered. Applejack looked at Pinkie. Unable to hear her distorted voice, she began to shake her head.

"No? You're not the best baker ever?" Mr. Cake asked. This caught Applejack off guard.

"WHAT? Oh no! I mean, don't you fret. I can bake anything from fritters to pies in the blink of an eye." Applejack said.

Mrs. Cake let out a sigh.

"All right. Well, see you later, girs!" She said before walking out with her husband. Applejack began shaking her head again.

"Stop with the shakin' Let's get bakin'." Pinkie said. Applejack nodded and walked to the kitchen with Pinkie.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, the two earth ponies had the ingredients in front of them.

"All right-y! I'll get the sugar and the eggs. Can you get me some chocolate chips?" Pinkie asked in a low and distorded voice, well not to herself, but to a tired Applejack, it sounded like that, and as a result Applejack misheard her.

"Chips... got it. Tater chips, a little salty and dry, okie-dokie." She said as she grabbed a bag of Chips and poured it into the bowl. "What next?"

"Baking soda." Pinkie answered in the same voice.

"Soda. Perfect. That'll get the tater chips nice and wet." She said as she grabbed some soda and poured it into the bowl, once again mishearing what she said. "Now what?"

"A cup of flour."

"A cup o' sour? Well, limes are sure sour. One cup o' sour, comin' up." Applejack said as she poured lime juice into the bowl. "Anything else, Pinkie?"

"One last thing. Wheat germ." Pinkie answered. Sounding Distorted at the words 'Wheat Germ'. And once again, Applejack misheard her.

"Wheat worms? Oh, that must be fancy talk for earthworms." She said before walking outside, digging some up and heading back to the bowl, placing them inside.

"Now that's gonna be delicious." Pinkie said as the bowl was placed in the oven.

"If you say so." Applejack said, not exactly believing her.

A short while later after the mix came out Pinkie turned to the group that had gathered. "Free muffin sample spectacular!"

Ponies began lining up in order to get a free muffin.

Later, Yuya, Amy, Jaden, and Tails ran to the location of the sick ponies, results of the ill causing muffins.

"We came as soon as we heard." Tails said to Nurse Redheart.

"We need all the help we can get." Nurse Redheart said, moving the curtains. Multiple ponies were green in the face, sickened and groaning.

They walked in and saw all the sick ponies.

"Oh no! What happened?" Amy asked as he looked around.

"It was a mishap with some of the baked goods." Redheart answered.

"Not baked goods. Baked bads." Pinkie said, groaning.

"Applejack." Jaden deduced.

Back at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack was falling asleep again as she worked on the apples. At first, she knocked a bunch of apples out of a tree, falling a sleep as they fell. An apple bonked her on the head, making her wake up. She then began to back the applecart into a barrel, causing the barrel to tilt in too and dangle her upside down, causing her to fall asleep.

"Applejack, we need to talk." Jaden said as he arrived. This woke her up.

"Wha, huh? Oh, it's you, Jaden. I know what you're gonna say, but the answer is still no."

"Applejack, your drowsiness caused you to poison some of the residents of Ponyville. Not to upset your applecart, but you need help." Jaden told her.

"Hardy har." Applejack said as she struggle to detach from the cart

"I got you." Jade said as he was about to move forward.

"No no! I got it." She said as she swatted him away. Well, at least tried to. He wasn't close enough to her for her to hit.

Jaden stood still as she started trying to get out. Bandit facehoofed, but she eventually detatched cart.

"There. I'll prove that this apple can handle these apples. Come on [she started kicking the tree] apples [she kept kicking] fall off [She kicked harder]. Bandit gave an unamused look.

"AJ.....That's a dead tree you're beating." He said. Applejack looked up as a leaf fell down.

"I knew that." She said before walking off.

Jaden groaned and followed behind her.

"Another thing Applejack. You know all that backing with Pinkie you did? Well you ended up-"

"I'm kinda busy to be lectured right now," Applejack interrupted.

"Applejack, You're putting everyone else's health at risk. Just let me help before-" Jaden tried to say again.

"Ugh. No, no, NO! How many times do I gotta say it? I don't need no help from nopony!" She exclaimed as she stomped off.

Bandit groaned.

"Frick! She's more stubborn than a bull charging at at cape cape." Jaden said before looking at the black bull in the fence.

"Sorry if that was offenvise?" He asked.

"Not at all." The bull said.

Later, Fluttershy was leading Applejack to the bunnies.

"Oh Applejack! Thank you so much for offering your herding skills for the annual rabbit roundup." Fluttershy said gratefully.

"Ugh. Why are we doin' this?" Applejack asked

"Well, lots of new baby bunnies have been born, so it's my job to get a count of all the new families." Fluttershy said answered as they walked.

"Fine. Can we just get on with it?" Applejack asked.

"Certainly, but remember, these are bunnies we're dealing with, not cows. They're a timid bunch and need to be treated gently." Fluttershy tried to warn. Applejack began to prove she wasn't the element of patience at the moment.

"I do NOT need any direction on corrallin' critters. Right, Winona?" Applejack said.

Winona barked affirmatively. The bunnies were on alert as a result. Fluttershy got to them and began to softly speak.

"Okay, little bunnies! I need you to all gather here in the middle." Fluttershy began to instruct. Then Applejack decided to take the aggressive approach.

"That's right! Let's go, bunnies. In the center. Hop to it." She said with a stomp of the hoof. This scared the bunnies into a scatter.
"Swell. Just swell." She began to run after them, like she would herd cattle. "Put 'em up, Winona!"

Winona barked at the bunnies and ran after them as well. Every bush the bunnies hid in, Winona jumped in it and scattered them again.

"Applejack! Winona! Stop! You're scaring them." Fluttershy warned.

"We know what we're doing! Get along little bunnies!"

That's when the bunnies and started to stampede away and head straight to Ponyville.

"Oh no." Fluttershy said.

In the sky, Rainbow Dahs looked towards the direction the bodies were coming from and saw how many were coming this way.

"Again?" Ben asked while on his tablet.

"STAMPEDE!" Lightning Sprint exclaimed as the bunnies rushed towards town.

As Ponyville began panicking to get to 'safety', The bunny stampede was running towards Daisy. As she saw them running towards her, she fainted in the middle of their path. The bunnies stampeded around her.

It didn't take long for Jadne to arrive at ponyville. There was no big mess that he could see, even when looking towards the 3 fainted ponies.

"The horror, the horror." Roseluck said.

" It was awful." Lily said.

"A disaster. A horrible, horrible disaster." Daisy added.

Jaden looked around again and didn't see any changes.

"I don't get it." He said.

"Our gardens, destroyed." Lily said

"Every last flower, devoured." Roseluck added.

"By... by... THEM!" Daisy said. Bandit looked and saw the bunnies eating the flowers.

"Okay. THAT'S it." Jaden said as he ran back to Sweet Apple Acres.

Back at Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack was practically talking in her sleep as she was kicking the 'last' tree.

"Must…. keep….. buckin'... just…... a few….. more. Must finish harvestin'." Applejack said.

Jaden landed in front of Applejack and hoisted her up with one hoof.

"All right, Applejack. Your applebucking hasn't just caused you problems, it's over-propelled Pegasus' and ailens, practically poisoned plenty of ponies, and terrorized bushels of brand new bouncing baby bunnies. I don't care what you say, you. Need. Help." Jaden told her. Applejack frowned and wriggled out of his one hoofed grip. And kicked the apples out of the tree.

She looked at them fall in her baskets with pride.

"No, I don't. Look, I did it." Jaden looked and saw all the trees she Harvest. "I harvested the entire Sweet Apple Acres without your help. How d'ya like them apples?"

Jaden turned her head to the other 3/4ths of the apple trees. The ones she didn't do.

"You forgot to do other side?" He asked.

"Yeh beat me by one second." Big Macintosh said from beside them.

Applejack looked at all the apples she DIDN'T kick down.

She mumbled indistinctly before finally fainting.

"Applejack?" Jaden was heard calling very faintly at first, but as she opened her eyes, his voice became clearer.

"Applejack!" He called again.

"Huh?" She answered as she looked up at him.

"Oh good, you're okay." Jaden said with a relieved smile. "Now Applejack, I completely respect the Apple family ways. You're usually there to help anypony in need, so maybe you can put a little of your stubborn pride aside and allow your friends to help you." Jaden said to her. "There is no shame is asking others for help."

"Okay," Applejack said.

"And this time. Saying no isn't gonna wait what?" Bandit asked, caught off guard.

"Yes Jaden. Yes, please. I could really use your help." She said, placing her hooves together as she begged him. Jaden chuckled.

Few hours later.

"Dear, Celestia. My friend Applejack is the best friend a pony or creature, could ever have, and she's always there to help anypony. The only trouble is, when she needs help, she finds it hard to accept it, so while friendship is about giving of ourselves to friends, it's also about accepting what our friends have to offer. From Jaden." Jaden wrote before sending the letter. He was pulling a large cart of apples before Applejack trotted over.

"How about y'all take a little break? I got some fine apple juice waitin' for ya!" Applejack said to the group. The other seven walked over to the table with the apple juice.

"I can't thank you enough for this help. I was acting a bit stubborn."

Everyone sirmked at her.

"Okay. A mite stubborn, and I'm awful sorry. Now, I know I learned an important lesson about asking for help, but the true lesson here, is how lucky I am that I have all of you as my friends." Applejack said. Jaden smirked and started to pick them all up, hugging them.

"Anyone hungry? I got those delicious muffins from earlier." Spike said as he held up a bowl of them. Pinkie recoiled in slight disgust.

"Eww! I threw those all away. Where'd you get them?" Pinkie asked.

"I remade them. Potato chips, soda, a half cup of lime juice and earthworms." Spike listed as he ate one. "Anyone?" He asked with a full mouth.

The ponies began to walk away coufusing him.

"What was that all about?" Spike asked.

"No offense, unlike the others you have balls of steel," Ben joked as the others walked behind.

Sorry for the long wait, I had make I had to update my other stories that I had and enjoy myself.

Until next time. See you guys soon, and hope you enjoyed there's more were that came from.