It was apple harvesting season, and Peckinpah assigned Stella and her flock to do it. Although Dahlia is too busy for her experiment, Willow was busy for her paintings and taking care of animals, and Gale... busy for something she likes, it's up to Stella and Poppy to do the harvesting. But there's only one problem...

"Oh boy! I got my work cut out for me. That there is the biggest bumper crop of apples I ever laid eyes on," Stella jumped in the air with joy as she looked at the place with tones of apple trees.

"Too big for you to handle on your own," Poppy said in a lonely tone as she realized her left wing was broken because of a little accident she made when she did a tornado dive, and crashed her body to the ground, breaking her wing in the process. This also means that she can't do the apple harvest this year.

"Come on, Poppy! You need to rest up and get yourself better. I haven't met an apple orchard yet that I can't handle," Stella accidentally poked Poppy's broken wing as she winced the pain and glared at Stella. "Oops, sorry. 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," Poppy doubted that.

"Are you saying my beak is making promises my legs can't keep?" Stella asked.

"Yes," Poppy replied.

"Why of all the... This is your best friend, Stella, remember? The loyalest of friends and the most dependable of birds?" Stella yelled and leaned on Poppy's face.

Poppy feel concerned for her friend, "But still only one bird, and one bird plus hundreds of apple trees just doesn't add up to..."

Stella backed up, and defended herself, "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 apple harvest season all by myself," she said as she looked at tons of apple trees, and gulped. She was not sure if she can do it.

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The next morning, Aggie placed an apple cake on a table as Red, Chuck, Bomb, and Ruby appeared. Ruby also pushed a baby stroller with Roy and Rebecca in it.

"Hey, girlfriend! Whatcha doin'?" Red greeted.

"Hi, guys. I was just putting an apple cake for Stella," Aggie explained. "I heard that Judge Peckinpah that she and her friends are assigned to pick apples this year, so I decided to spend all of my apples I have left to bake this cake."

"Why, Aggie, that was very kind of you," Ruby exclaimed.

"Can I have piece of cake, too?" Chuck was about to touch the cake, but Aggie slapped his wing.

"Oh no, Chuck, this is for Stella. You shouldn't have it."

Chuck turned his face to sadness.

"But, don't worry, I'm going to get more apples from Stella, and I'm going to make apple juice," Ruby said, then looked at Red and Aggie, "You two will babysit Roy and Rebecca while I get some more apples later."

"But we're gonna be so busy for making a hatchday cake for tomorrow," Red tried to explain.

"I don't care. I have no choice," Ruby crossed her wibgs. "You two are the only birds I trust the most."

"Why us?" Aggie asked.

Ruby pointed at Red. "Because you're my ex-fiancé and the father of my kids..." Then, she pointed at Aggie. "And you're my best friend, and the godmother, the hero, and the third parent of my kids. And if it wasn't for me, you two shouldn't be together right now. Plus, you both promise you'll babysit them."

Red and Aggie looked at each other, thinking that Ruby has a point since she was the reason for the two being together, and they did make a promise of watching over Roy and Rebecca. They rolled their eyes, and groaned. "Fine."

Suddenly, Stella arrived with a sleepy face, carrying two buckets of piling apples, "Hey guys, did you call me?"

"Yeah, I like to give you this," Aggie handed the cake over to Stella, "Thank you, Stella and your friends, for doing the apple harvest this year, and always being there for everyone."

"Yeah. I like helping the birdfolks and stuff," Stella yawned as she dumped her head on the cake and snored. Then, she snapped out of it, and shook her head, "Oh, uh, yeah. Uh, Thanks," she walked away with the cake.

While the pink bird was gone, Aggie sensed something about Stella. "Was it just me, or did Stella seem a little—"

"Tired?" Chuck guessed.

"Dizzy?" Bomb said.

"Messy?" Ruby said as everyone looked at her. "Well, did you see her head feathers? It's a good thing I took beauty school.

Aggie was still concerned as she tried to get to the bottom of this.

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At the apple fields, Stella is busy shaking the trees to make the apples drop from the branches to the buckets. Although she was sleepy, she still did her work, but she didn't know what she was doing when she was so sleepy.

Aggie watched the scene where Stella shook a tree, but she was too weak enough to shake the tree hard, "What on island is that bird doing?" She asked herself as she called Stella, who was suddenly fallen asleep, "Hey Stella!" But the sleepy pink bird didn't hear her, "Stella?!" Still didn't hear, "Stella!"

As Stella still couldn't hear and still sleeping, Aggie ran in front of Stella, and yelled. "STELLA!"

Stella suddenly woke up, and saw Aggie standing in front of her, "Oh, hi Aggie."

"What are you doing?" Aggie asked.

"Harvesting apples. What do you think I'm doing?" Stella said as she tried to get back to work.

"But why are you doing it all alone?"

"Because Poppy hurt herself."

"What about Willow, Dahlia, and Gale? Can't they help?"

"Dahlia was too busy in her lab, Willow was busy for her paintings and animals, and Gale was too busy for her own work. So, uh, I'm on my own. Which means, I should really get back to work," Stella explained as Aggie blocked her way. "Ahem... hint hint? Get back to work?"

"Fine," Aggie said as she stepped aside.

"Could you step aside, Aggie?" Stella felt so dizzy that she didn't notice that Aggie was already stepped aside.

"I just did," Aggie looked at Stella in concern, "Stella, you don't look so good."

As she felt sleepy, her eye-sight got hallucinated as she saw three Aggies, "Eh, don't any of you three worry, I'm just fine and dandy."

"Do you... want help?"

"Help? No way, no how."

"But there's no way you can do it all on your own."

"Is that a challenge?" Stella glared at Aggie."

"Uhm... no." Aggie said nervously.

"Well, I'm gonna prove to you that I can do it! Now if you'll excuse me, I've got apples to harvest," Stella scoffed as she got back to work, making Aggie a little worried.

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Next day after that, Ruby was standing under an banana tree, waiting for Stella, but then, there she is, "There you are."

"I'm very sorry, Ruby. I was busy apple harvesting and I guess, I closed my eyes for a second and, when I woke up, I was late," Stella panted, "Now, do you need my help?"

"Yep, see this contraption?" Ruby showed Stella the contraption that looks like a teeter-totter, "I'm gonna stand on one end...," and then showed a high diving board, "...then you're gonna jump down from that platform, launching me into the air, and I'll grab some bananas from that high banana tree."

"Isn't that might be dangerous?" Stella asked in concerned.

"Pfft, Heh, not for a mother like me," Ruby scoffed as she stood on the lower part of the teeter-totter.

"Alright," Stella shrugged as she climbed on the diving board, and when she looked down at the teeter-totter with Ruby on it, her eye-sight is still hallucinated as she saw three objects., "Oh my."

"Ready?" For Ruby, she was ready to get those bananas for her two kids. "One... two... THREE!"

Stella jumped, but missed her end of the catapult, and she crashed to the ground.

"Are you okay?" asked Ruby.

"I'm fine. I'll try it again," Stella said, but when she tried again, she missed her target and crashed to the ground three times.

"Seriously, Stella! If you can't do it, then it's okay," Ruby said in concern.

"Wait, I-I have an idea. Watch this," Instead of jumping, Stella just pushed the other end down, "Ta da!" This wasn't amused Ruby as she glared at the pink bird, "Oh... Maybe not. Okay, one more try. I'm sure to get it this time," When Stella let go of the other end, Ruby fell down, and laid down on her platform.

When Stella stood on the diving board, she cleared her vision, and saw her target. "Well, here I go," She jumped off and landed on the other end, but Ruby is unprepared as she is sent flying to the air.

"SSSSTTTEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Ruby screamed.

"You're welcome!" Stella smiled with her sleepy eyes.

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At the bakery, Red and Aggie were busy making a hatchday cake, while watching over Roy and Rebecca.

Red used his own wings to squeeze the icing tube on the cake, while Aggie used her magic to make another cake by using telekinesis to control every equipment and ingredient to make a perfect cake.

Suddenly, they heard a crash from the ceiling, revealing to be Ruby.

"Mommy!" Roy and Rebecca giggled.

"Hi, kids," Ruby greeted back exhaustingly.

"Can we help you?" Red asked.

"I think somebody else needs your help," The female red bird said.

"Stella?" Aggie guessed.

"Yep," Ruby replied.

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At the apple fields, Stella is still working on. When she shook the apple tree and more apples fell to the ground, she bent down and picked an apple, but her head bumped under a branch, making her almost lose her hearing.

"Stella, can we talk?" Aggie appeared behind her, but she still can't hear her or heard different words coming from Aggie's beak.

"Can bees squawk?! I don't think so!" Stella yelled.

"No. Can we talk?" The white sparrow repeated.

"Twenty stalks?! Bean or celery?!" The pink bird asked.

"No! I need to talk to you!"

"You need to walk to the zoo?! What's a zoo?!"

"I need to talk to you!"

"Oh! Well, why didn't you say so?! What you wanna talk about?!"

"Ruby dropped in to see me and Red today."

"That's quite neighborly of her."

"Yes, except that she crashed onto the bakery's roof after you launched her into the air."

"Oh, yeah," Stella realized about it as she felts exhausted and tired, "I wasn't feeling quite myself this morning."

"Because you're working too hard and you need help," Aggie said.

"What?" Stella still has the difficulty of hearing, "Kelp? I don't need kelp. I don't even like seaweed."

"HELP! You need HELP!" Aggie shouted.

"No thanks, Aggie. I'm gonna prove to you, and everyone that I can do this on my own," As she walked away without seeing where she was going, Stella bumped on another tree branch, "Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go help Chuck and Bomb!" She said as Aggie face-palmed.

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As Stella arrived, Chuck and Bomb were ready to bake muffins.

"Okay, Stella, we'll do the baking, and you're gonna put the ingredient of what Bomb have to say," Chuck said as Stella nodded while shaking her head.

"Can you get me some chocolate chips?" Bomb started.

"Chips... got it." Stella is still having a difficult chance of hearing as she got a bag of chips, and poured them in the bowl. "Potato chips, a little salty and dry, okie-dokie. What next?"

"Baking soda," The black bird replied.

"Soda. Perfect. That'll get the tater chips nice and wet," She poured the soda in the bowl. "Now what?"

"A cup of flour"

A cup of sour? Well, lemons are sure sour. One cup of sour, coming up," She poured a cup of lemon juice in the bowl, "Anything else?"

"One last thing. Wheat germ."

"Wheat ferns? Oh you mean, ferns!" Stella went outside, and pulled some ferns, and put them in a bowl.

"Now that's gonna be delicious," Chuck said excitingly.

"If you say so," Stella was unsure but agreed as she look at the bowl with wrong ingredients.

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After baking the muffins, Chuck, Bomb, and Stella started to sell the muffins to the birds for free, but sudden things happened. Thirty minutes later, Red, who was pushing Roy and Rebecca in a baby stroller, and Aggie arrived in the hospital.

"We came as soon as we heard," Aggie panted from rushing to the hospital.

"Oh thank you, Ms. Agatha and Mr. Red. We need all the help we can get," Said the doctor as he showed the two birds the birds, including Chuck and Bomb, who were victimized by the muffins, and were all moaning and puking.

"Oh no! What happened?" Red asked as he picked a bitten muffin from the trash can.

"It was a mishap with some of the baked goods," The doctor replied.

"No, not baked goods, baked bads," Chuck corrected as he puked in a bucket.

Aggie presumed, "Stella!"

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At the apple field, Stella is still harvesting, even though she's quite tired. When she pushed a cart of apple in a large bucket, she started to sleep, until Aggie appeared.

"Stella!"

Stella snapped out of it, and yawned, "Oh, it's you Aggie. I know what you're gonna say, but the answer is still no," She got up from sleeping, and walked towards a tree.

"Not to upset your applecart, but you need help," said Aggie.

"Blah-blah. I need no help. I'll prove that this bird can handle these apples. Come on apples fall off." She shook a tree, but there are no apples falling.

"Stella, I think you're shaking a dead tree," Aggie told Stella when she saw a tree with no leaves or apples, "Actually, Stella, I had something else to talk to you about. I just came back from the hospital—"

"You know, I'm a little busy to get lectured right now, Aggie," Stella shouted.

"But if you'd just let me help—"

"No, no, NO! How many times do I gotta say it? I don't need no help from nobody!"

When Stella disappeared from her sight, Aggie scoffed angrily, "Ugh. That bird is stubborn as a pig. Perhaps."

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Later, Stella approached Willow to help her taking care of something.

"Oh Stella! Thank you so much for offering your herding skills for the annual squirrel roundup," Willow said pleasantly.

"Why are we doing this?" Stella asked with a rough attitude.

"Well, lots of new baby squirrels have been born, so it's my job to get a count of all the new families."

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

Then, Willow bent down, and gently talk to the squirrels, "Okay, little squirrels! I need you to all gather here in the middle."

But Stella shouted to the squirrels in a harsh tone, "That's right! Let's go, squirrels! In the center!" The baby squirrels are so scared at Stella, and they ran from her, "Swell. Just swell." She said as she chased them.

"Stella! Please, stop! You're scaring them," Willow begged.

"I know what I'm doing," The pink bird said as she cornered the terrifying squirrels, but they freaked out and ran for it, stampeding into the village.

Everyone hurriedly got in to their houses to hide and avoid the stampede of baby squirrels.

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One minute later, Aggie took a stroll in the village, until she saw three birds, one of them is Matilda, lying on the streets.

"The horror, the horror!" Matilda cried.

"It was awful!" One of the female birds also cried.

"A disaster! A horrible, horrible disaster!" Another bird said.

Aggie glanced at the village, and saw no disaster at all, "I don't get it."

Matilda showed her ruin garden, "Our gardens, destroyed!"

"Every last flower, devoured," a female bird #1 said.

"By them!" Female bird #2 pointed the baby squirrels who were still eating the flowers.

"Oh my. Oh... Please stop, little squirrels. Oh no! Please, let's go home. Oh my goodness," Willow tried to talk to the squirrels, but they won't listen.

"All right. Enough is enough!" Aggie stomped her foot. She will try to convinced Stella to let Aggie help her.

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At the apple field, Stella was about to shake one last tree when Aggie arrived.

"All right, Stella. Your apple harvesting hasn't just caused you problems. It's over-propelled Ruby, practically poisoned plenty of birds, and terrorized bushels of brand new bouncing baby squirrels. I don't care what you say, you. Need. Help!"

When Aggie says the "h" word, Stella just finish shaking the tree, and the apples fall into the baskets, "Ha! No, I don't. Look, I did it. I harvested the entire apple fields without your help. How do you like them apples?"

Just then, Poppy poked Stella on the head, "Um, how do you like them apples?" She showed Stella a dozen more trees with more apples,

"B-b-b-but... t-t-t-the a-a-a-a-apples... I-I-I-I...," This made Stella mumble and faint.

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Minutes later, Stella heard someone calling her as she gained consciousness.

"Stella? Stella!" Aggie called as Stella opened her eyes, "Oh, good, you're okay. Now Stella, I completely respect you. You're always there to help anybody in need, so maybe you can put a little of your stubborn pride aside and allow your friends to help you."

Stella looked at the dozen more apple trees, and realized she couldn't do it alone and couldn't take it anymore, so she gave in, and sighed, "Okay, Aggie."

"I am not taking 'no' for an answer-what?" Aggie gasped.

"Yes, Aggie. Yes, please. I can't take it anymore. I could really use your help," Stella begged as Aggie chuckled and called some birds to help.

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While Stella took a little sleep, Red, Aggie, Chuck, Bomb, Ruby, Willow, Dahlia, and Gale helped her and each other harvest the other apples that weren't fell off yet. It was since Willow, Dahlia, and Gale left their work, and help their friend anyway.

Just then, Stella arrived with a cart of apple juice, "How about you all take a little break? I got some fine apple juice waiting for you! Everyone, I can't thank you enough for this help. I was acting a bit stubborn."

"A bit?" Red raised his eyebrow, and smirked at Stella.