Left behind by their guardians, Boulder (the rock) and Phyllis (the plant) bond, despite their contrasts. But how will they be able to maintain their unexpected relationship?

Content Note: Some alcohol use by a plant and a rock. Be Warned.

Era: After Season 9.

Featured: 24/2/2022 and 25/2/2022.
Won a Judge's Prize in the Crackship Contest! (Proceeds requested to be donated).

Image Only: The Image Only is a mash-up of: https://game-icons.net/1x1/delapouite/plant-roots.html by Delapouite and https://game-icons.net/1x1/lorc/rock.html by Lorc.

Blurb

A tragic cutting short of a budding romance. A confession of time travel and incurable disease. What was left behind. An instant, a lifetime, millions of years. Three timescales. Two timelines. One love story.

Tags

• Death: The main theme of the entire story, I'd say.
• Boulder

Author's Note

Disclaimer: Any errors in neurochemistry, neuropsychology, the study of prions, geology, linguistics, evolutionary biology, and paleontology are due to the author not being in any of these fields. My deepest apologies to the readers who are, and must cringe at my misunderstandings.

Marble Pie is the shyest and youngest of the Pie sisters. With her sisters Maud and Pinkie gone off on their own, it leaves Marble with her parents and her other sister Limestone to tend to the rock farm. With so much work to do, Marble tends to get stressed a lot. One day while in the attic, Marble decides to vent her feelings and frustrations, not knowing someone (or rather something) was going to be there to "listen."

Maud's best friend is dead.

Time Turner comes to Rockville on official geological business; unfortunately that business involves greenlighting a project to destroy the Painted Hills, a local natural wonder and a fondly remembered foalhood locale of local rock farmer, Maud Pie. Unhappy with his assignment, Time seeks Maud's help in saving the landmark by uncovering an ancient secret. The more time they spend together in the hills, the more their weirdness seems to fit together... Oh, yes and Maud's pet rock turned jealous ex, Boulder is trying to kill them which appears connected to it all in some strange way.

Maud Pie x Dr. Whooves

The 'sex' tag is purely for some innuendo but the story does contain hot fossil collecting action.

Judge's Pick in the May Pairings Contest 2022.

Cover by me, as always.

A drunken Trixie zaps Maud's pet rock, Boulder, into a teacup and she can't fix it. But is that the really unforgivable offense?

Content Note: Marked Teen because of the inebriation even though it leads to negative consequences.

Era: Season 7. (See an index of my stories, sorted by My Little Pony Season).

Image: Inspired by two shots from the show: One and Two.

One of the first things that everyone unaffected by the rapidly growing influence of Chaos was choose sides. For better or for worse, Maud Pie chose to stand with Sombra.
In the changed world one of the most valuable resources a kingdom can have is warriors who can resist the siren's song of Discord's power set free. Maud ventures into a forest heavily saturated with the untamable magic to gain another prized asset for her king.

A shamefully late birthday gift for Flawlessvictory20.