With the funeral of a pony who didn't survive the Canterlot invasion taking place, Tempest Shadow walked up to the graves of her deceased parents, looking down solemnly at their tombstone. No sooner did she step towards the grave, than did the clouds above the cemetery start to gather, and a light rain began to fall.

"Mom, Dad, it's me, Fizzlepop," Tempest sadly sighed. "I know what you’re probably thinking right now. Why did I, your youngest daughter, run away from home when I could have been given help? Well, I'll tell you why. It’s because…because I felt like I was never going to fulfill my dreams by being a unicorn with a broken horn. I couldn't bear myself to be like that. And furthermore, my friends turned me away! How could I live with that?! Answer me that!" Tempest waited for a response, but she knew that there was not going to be one. "It's alright," She cried, her eyes welling up with tears. "You don't have to answer. You're just like all the others who turned their backs on me when I needed support. If you had been there for me, then I would never have done what I did. But it's too late now, isn't it?"

Just then, Twilight noticed several of the ponies from the funeral looking over towards them and realized that they were aiming their attention towards Tempest. However, just as they quickly glanced over at her, they turned their attention away. "I feel your pain and suffering," Twilight said to herself as she looked at the mourners. "But, we are all suffering."

"They may not believe that, Twilight," Starlight cautioned, looking at her friend and mentor with a concerned look. "Remember, we are helping a pony that…"

"I know that, Starlight!" Twilight remarked, her horn flaring ever so slightly. "But they don't know that! They think that Tempest is a traitor when in reality it was the Storm King who ordered all of this! I just wish I knew how to get them to move on from all of this."

Meanwhile, it didn't matter to Tempest whether angry ponies were gathering around her. All that mattered to her was earning the forgiveness of others. "But…" She stammered. "I am trying to at least make up for everything I did to Equestria. I've been offered a position to be Princess Twilight's Captain of the Royal Guard. At least I can start from there. You know, I had dreams of being Princess Celestia's student one day, and being a princess. I want to do something where you can be proud of me…but…" However, Tempest couldn't finish her sentence and began to choke up again, looking away in shame and disgust. "…It just won't happen that way," She cried, stamping her foot into the muddy soil. "It doesn't matter what I do now, I'm probably going to be shamed and disgraced for the rest of my life by everypony except for the Princess of Friendship and her fellow princesses! They've already forgiven me and are willing to give me a second chance, so why can't you?!"

As Tempest finished her sentence, the sounds of thunder and lightning began to rain down on the cemetery. However, Tempest wasn't going to move anytime soon. She wanted forgiveness from her dead parents, forgiveness that she wasn't going to get anytime soon.

Up in the clouds, the pegasi of Cloudsdale were hard at work creating the storm at the weather factory.

"It's our way of relieving aggression," Rainbow Dash said to Fluttershy as they watched the operation. "I can't think about offering Tempest our forgiveness so quickly."

"But, don't you think we should at least try?" Fluttershy suggested, trying to reason with her fellow pegasus. "I mean…they aren't all evil. Look at the creature I was trying to help during the fight, you saw how I was able to get him to open up and stop fighting."

"It doesn't matter if they’re not evil," Rainbow Dash replied. "You may think that way, but I don't. Either way, they are responsible for their own actions. Tempest, that little gopher guy who follows her around, and those hulking monkeys. We can't single anypony out, Fluttershy. Innocent ponies suffered and died because of them!"

"I'm aware of that, Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy pleaded. "But, all I am saying is that maybe…"

"We cut them some slack? Absolutely not!" Rainbow Dash cried. "Fluttershy, we need to hold all of them accountable! Remember, our families, our friends, were thrown into cages like animals, and those who weren't were chained and enslaved against their will! You think we can just forgive that?!” Rainbow Dash then sighed. "I'm sorry to argue with you on this, Fluttershy. But we need to treat this very seriously, especially since the Cutie Mark Crusaders were among those imprisoned."

"How are they doing, anyway?" Fluttershy asked, trying to change the subject as Rainbow Dash landed on the clouds.

"Still pretty traumatized,” Rainbow glumly confessed. “None of them have been able to sleep since the attack and the damages internally are not going to be fixed easily. And…I will admit…they aren't going to be the only ones." The two pegasi returned to looking over at their fellow kind throwing heavy rain on the Canterlot Cemetery.

Back at the Cemetery, the rain continued to pour down hard, but Tempest didn't want to leave. She wanted to hear her parents accept her forgiveness for her actions, even though she knew that was never going to happen.

"Tempest, we'd better be going," Twilight suggested. "The rain is coming down harder and harder. If you stay, you’re likely to catch a cold"

"I guess you’re right, Twilight," Tempest sighed, sadly. "This storm is meant to show anger at me for what I did. All I want is forgiveness, and why is that so hard to ask of anypony?"

"It's just is," Twilight replied. "I'm sorry to say it, but it’s true."

Defeated and drained, Tempest reluctantly accompanied Twilight, Starlight and Spike out of the cemetery. But even once they returned to the castle, the rain continued to come down harder and harder, and the winds were beginning to blow harder and harder.

"Why is it so hard to beg for forgiveness?" Tempest wondered to nopony in particular.

"Because not everypony will forgive you," Twilight's Friendship Festival Crown replied. "Remember, I can only be put back together with each pony you atone to for your actions."

"I don't need to be reminded of that continuously!" Tempest snapped, glaring over at the crown. "In fact, what good are you anyway?! You're just a crown that I stepped on in frustration, that now talks to me!"

"I can give you plenty of reasons as to why I am good to you," The crown replied, once again showing off its five ruby diamonds. "But, you need to understand that your parents are in fact still alive, just not physically."

"What makes you think that?" Tempest asked, suddenly intrigued.

"Because I know so!” The crown told her. “Look inside yourself, Tempest Shadow, and you will finally face them at last."

Tempest refused to believe this and went to bed that night, thinking that it was all just talk and no show.

But as she slept, Tempest found herself in the dream realm. "Where am I?" She wondered.

"You are in the dream realm," Said a voice and Tempest turned to see Princess Luna walking towards her, with two ponies flanking on either side of her. Tempest let out a sharp gasp when she recognized who those ponies were. "Mom?! Dad?! Is that you?!"