Happy Hearth's Warming Eve!
Shucks, Twilight!
Y'all done it up nice
and cosy in here.
We're about to hang our
Hearth's Warming dolls
if you wanna join us.
Well that's mighty sweet of you
but we're just stoppin' in
to wish y'all a happy
Hearth's Warmin' before we go.
I think it's sweet that your families
are spending the holiday together.
Picture the most fun-tacular
thing you can think of.
Now multiply that times infinity!
Whoo, it's gonna be great!
That's us!
See you later!
Now can we open presents?
But tonight is Hearth's Warming Eve.
Everypony knows you
don't open presents 'til tomorrow.
When Spike and I
spent our first Hearth's Warming Eve together
he couldn't wait all night
to open his presents!
Ever since then, we've always
opened them the night before!
It's kinda like our tradition!
That's not how our family does it,
and I reckon it can't be
how Pinkie's does it.
Is it?
No sir-ee!
To each their own, I suppose!
Agh! Gotta go, bye!
Just what I always wanted!
A book...
Chancellor Puddinghead puddings!
How 'bout a Windigo-frosted
snow cone?
It's so excitin'!
Related or not
it's gonna be a hoot havin' our
families together under one roof!
Apples and Pies together
again for the first time!
Maybe.
Unless we're related!
Which maybe we're not.
I think I just confused myself.
Friends or family, this
here's about togetherness.
Have you tried the
Equestria fried crepes?
The blue is blueberry!
And don't tell Granny I saw
but her trunk is full of presents!
Now hang on, sugarcube.
You know Hearth's Warmin'
ain't just about
candy and presents, right?
Uh-oh, that's your boring
sisterly lecture voice.
'Fraid so!
A long time ago
the Earth Ponies, Pegasus Ponies,
and Unicorn Ponies weren't friends.
I don't like you!
I don't like you either!
But then, the icy chill of the
Windigoes almost iced up everythin'
so the ponies decided
to work together
and their friendship drove
them magicky critters away.
b*at it, Windigoes!
Triumphant, they raised a new flag
to celebrate all three tribes
and Equestria was born.
Uh. What happened to the flag?
I don't know...
Is that why we celebrate
with a flag raisin' tomorrow?
Mm-hm! And tonight, we'll have the
traditional Hearth's Warmin' Eve dinner
to remember the shared
values of our ancestors.
We do that too!
Then we'll hang our Hearth's Warmin'
dolls over the fireplace
to remind us of the warmth
shared on that fateful night.
That's what our family does too!
And tomorrow, we open presents!
Ah, we do that too!
Sounds like the Apples and the
Pies do everything the same way!
Of course!
We might be related!
Hey, I was gonna say that!
Stop sayin' what I'm sayin'!
You stop it first!
I'm so happy, I need to make up
a new word for how happy I am!
What about...
rooftastic'!
Rooftastic'?
As in
I'm gonna stand on the roof
and yell to everypony
how rooftastic this is!
What if our families
don't like each other?
We are friends, Applejack
and after tonight
our families are gonna
be friends too.
Do you know what that means?
Number of Apples times number of Pies
is twenty four, minus my three
existing friendships
plus one for Maud and you
makes five from twenty four is...
nineteen new friendships!
Maud!
I'm so excited to
see you, Pinkie Pie.
And you, Applejack.
I hope you had fun
sledding yesterday.
How'd you know that?
Isn't it obvious? There are specks
of extrusive andracite on your hoof.
It's a mountain rock.
Oh, she's good.
How's school going?
If you thought quartz was hard on
the most-hardness scale
wait 'til I tell you
about corundum.
I missed you so much!
Mm-hm.
This place looks amazin'!
Come on, everypony!
Meet my super-mega-wonderful family!
Everypony, meet everypony!
Surely thy name is
not but Granny Smith.
I am called Igneous Rock Pie,
son of Thelmspar Granite Pie,
Thou shalt know me
as Cloudy Quartz.
May Providence favor thee well
and to thou comfort
our humble homestead bring.
Y'all gabbin' with words
real funny-like.
Wh, wh, what'd you say
them names were?
Iggy?
And I'm just gonna call
you 'Big Momma Q'!
Gaze into the eyes
of Limestone Pie.
Ma and Pa Pie own this farm,
but I keep it running.
Cross me and-
Aye aye, Captain Grumpy!
No-one's gonna mess
with your precious mine!
Or Holder's Boulder!
Everypony stay away
from Holder's Boulder.
There, you happy now?
And you must be-
This is Marble Pie, my baby sister
who's only a few minutes younger
than me but she'll always be
a baby to me, isn't that right?
She's so excited to meet everypony!
Oh, and she wishes you all
happy Hearth's Warming!
Mm-hm.
Guess Pinkie Pie always
did the talkin' for her.
Attention!
What'd I say about the boulder?!
I'll just be a second!
Everypony get settled in!
There's plenty of room upstairs.
And then it's time for
Hearth's Warming Eve dinner!
So far, so good, cousin!
Hee-hee!
Oh, I can't wait to taste
their fresh sweet rolls!
They're my favorite part of
Hearth's Warmin' Eve dinner.
I'm more of a six-layer
bean dip filly myself!
I love that too!
Oh, Applejack
do you think theirs'll be
even better than ours?
Well, that's a mighty tall order but
it wouldn't surprise
me in the least.
Are you excited for dinner time?
Because guess who is!
Spoiler alert – it's me!
What about hot rolls, and malt cider,
and double-baked pot pie?
Or what about six-layer bean dip?
We have rock soup.
Potato, po-tah-to. Double
baked pot pie, rock soup!
Dinner is dinner, am I right
or am I right?
Yeah, um, you know what?
This is what we were expectin'!
Right, everypony?
Is everything alright, Applejack?
O'course, I'm just
being a rusty fiddler.
Do me up and let's
get back to dinner.
More rock, please!
Eat up, so we can get to
our Hearth's Warming dolls!
Now that's somethin'
I know all about!
Who wants a Hearth's Warming doll?
Are you sayin' that rock
is a Hearth's Warmin' doll?
Don't be silly, silly!
Our dolls are these little pieces!
Isn't that right, Marble Pie?
Mm-hm.
Our dolls are... rocks?
Uh... y'all don't have
traditional crochet dolls
passed down in your family?
Aww, you're just a frown factory
'cause you got a weird rock.
Cheer up!
I'm sure you'll do great in
the flag finding mission!
What findin' what now?
Limestone Pie, you're the judge!
Big Mac, Marble Pie, you're team one!
Apple Bloom and Maud,
you're team two!
Ma, Pa, you're gonna be
with Granny Smith.
Don't think of it as team old,
think of it as team three!
And I'm with Applejack of course,
since we might be cousins!
So now that we're all split up,
mind tellin' us what we're doin'?
As everypony knows-
Stay off Holder's Boulder!
Sheesh. When the three tribes
united to form Equestria, the
first flag was sewn by Nimble Thimble.
It's tradition to raise a flag on
Hearth's Warming
to celebrate that famous day.
But who gets to put the flag
on Holder's Boulder?
You mean on the flagpole?
No, silly, it goes
on the highest point!
And who's the lucky pony?
Traditionally, it's the youngest-
On your marks get set, go!
Pinkie Pie, will you please
tell us what's goin' on?
I'll explain on the way!
I still don't understand.
Earlier today, Limestone Pie
hid an obsidian stone.
Whoever finds it gets
to raise the flag!
It's all just so... complicated, and...
rock-based.
Well, how else would we do it?
I don't know... I sure hope everypony
else is havin' a better time.
Mm-hm.
Eeyup.
Mm-hm.
Eeeeeeeeeyup.
So, you'd you meet
your diddy feller?
We were chosen by the Pairing Stone,
and betrothed within a fortnight.
The choosing stone decreed
thou shalt love one another',
and lo, it was so.
Hooee, I gots to look into this
oldfangled choosin' stone thing.
You reckon it knows any
apple fire-red hunks?
Indeed so.
What does the rock look like?
It looks like something that formed
when volcanic lava cooled quickly.
Oh.
Have you ever wished you
could turn into a rock?
I had a dream once I was an apple.
We have a lot in common
when it comes to thinking
about turning into things.
Found it found it found it!
A picture?
I've been lookin' for
a real stone, Pinkie Pie!
Um, that would be weird.
Do you know what this means?
I get to raise the flag, and now
it's time to hide the presents!
Y'all hide your presents?
Of course! What's more fun
than getting a present?
Finding a present!
Although, most years,
nopony finds one.
So nopony gets presents?
Eh, not usually.
So lemme get all this straight.
You're only allowed to eat rock
soup for dinner
then the pony who finds this rock
gets to raise the flag,
but not really 'cause you
don't got no flagpole, and to
top it off, you don't even get presents?
Well, it doesn't sound very
fun when you say it that way.
Well, how 'bout you picture this?
Both our families, openin'
presents, raisin' the flag...?
Picturing it... Loving it...!
Goodnight, everypony!
Goodnight, Pinkie Pie!
We gotta do somethin', y'all!
Pinkie Pie's family never had
a real Hearth's Warmin'!
Is that really what she said?
Well, I, I'm sure
it's what she meant.
These are their traditions.
Eeyup.
I know they have their traditions
and we have ours
but I just want them to see
how much better theirs could be.
Hearth's Warming!
Hearth's Warming!
Hearth's Warming!
Hearth's Warming!
Oh my.
What's.
Happened.
To.
My.
Farm!
It's Hearth's Warmin', Apple-style!
We've been doin' everythin' your way,
I thought we could mix it up a bit!
Marble Pie, you could raise
the Equestria flag up this pole
because you're the youngest Pie!
Ma and Pa Pie, we'll cook
you up a meal you'll never forget!
And look, we all get presents,
without havin' to find 'em!
...Yeah, this is gonna be great!
All this stuff she's, uh, right everypony?
Pinkamena Diane Pie! Truly thou
cannot favor this madness!
Well, I wanna be one big family!
But what about what we usually do?!
I, um, well, I don't know!
Don't make me choose!
I didn't mean to cause a fuss...
Why don't we just open presents
around the flag pole?
It'll be fun, you'll see!
Excuse me.
You planted your pole
on a fault line.
Nooooooooooooooo!
Oh boy.
You didn't have to
ask them to leave!
They wanted to go!
We don't need anypony
forcing their way into our family!
This was all a misunderstanding,
everypony!
I know Applejack
and she'd never do anything bad to anypony!
Look around, Pinkie Pie!
It's gonna take me ages to get
this rock farm back on track!
And how are we gonna
lift Holder's Boulder?!
This is all her fault!
Then it's my fault too...
Prob'ly best if we head back
to Sweet Apple Acres.
Maybe in time we'll
be friends again
but for now it's best
to give them a little space.
I wish we didn't have to.
I really like Maud!
She's sweet once you
get to know her.
They all are.
Worst Hearth's Warmin' ever.
Eh, has anypony seen Applejack?
I really cracked
the corn this time.
I really popped
the piñata this time.
Pinkie Pie?
What are you doing here?
I came here to think!
You did?
So did I!
Aww.
I'm too ashamed to
go back up there.
Your family, my family, they all
must think I'm such a nincompoop.
Aw, no-one thinks that!
Pushy, aggressive, mean...
Oh, I'm not helping.
Sorry.
I'm sorry I forced my
traditions over yours.
I don't want you to have to choose
between the family you were born into
and friends who love you like one.
I really hoped we could
be one big happy family.
I guess not.
Don't say that!
I wish I could stay, but
I have a train to catch.
Then ha... happy Hearth's Warming.
You too.
You want to know why Holder's
Boulder's so danged important?
Well, now their great-great-great-
great-great-great
grandfather Holder Cobblestone
he found that boulder in a
dragon's nest, older than time itself!
He built the family farm
around it, even though
it was just an ordinary rock.
It always brought him good luck.
Aw, crickets!
That is important!
I got so caught up in
the things they were doin'
I never asked why they did it!
To Applejack, from Pinkie Pie.
Cousins forever.
You just found your first Pie
Hearth's Warmin' present ever!
Only Pinkie Pie could hide
a present on a movin' train.
...What a great tradition.
Stop the train!
Come on... you... boulder...
come on...
agh!
I'm pushing as hard as I can too.
Rrrgh, it's hopeless!
Need a little help?
Apples!
What do you want?!
I wasn't tryin' to take your traditions
away, I was tryin' to share ours.
I was so focused on us
bein' one big happy family
I thought we needed the
same traditions right away.
What I should've done was learn about yours,
and teach you about ours
and over time, we'd make
new traditions together.
I'm sorry, y'all.
Well, don't just stand there!
We got a boulder to move!
But I'm in charge.
I think we've just invented
our first combined tradition!
Pushing Holder's Boulder
out of the quarry'!
I can't wait for Applejack to knock it
over next Hearth's Warming!
Marble Pie, you want to wish Big Mac
a happy Hearth's Warming, don't you!
And you too, right Big Mac?
Mm-hm!
Eeyup.
Eh, lemme see here, um
if thou ask-eth me, thou
two art, eh, okay-eth in my book'.
Yee-haw'.
Happy Hearth's Warming!
Happy Hearth's
Warmin', Pinkie Pie.
Attention, everypony!
Maud wants to sing some Hearth's
Warmin' carols that she wrote!
The first one is about rocks.
They're all about rocks.
Hearth's Warming is great.
Like calcium silicate.
What a wonderful day.
As good as michre, or clay.