Author's Note

I sincerely apologize that this chapter took so long to get out. I was very busy with school and social stuff. However, I hope to have more of a concise schedule with this story. I hope that you guys like this chapter and once again, please leave any constructive criticisms in the comments below.

Knowing Your Power

Tempest turned around and found himself face-to-face with a cyan pegasus mare with rainbow hair along with a cloud shooting a tri-colored lightning bolt and a lavender alicorn with purple hair with a pink streak through it. Her cutie mark consisted of a pink star with several smaller white ones surrounding it. Tempest recognized them as Rainbow Dash, the Element of Loyalty, and Twilight Sparkle, the Element of Magic, respectively.

Tempest figured they saw his wind control but decided to play dumb just in case. "I'm sorry, but to what are you referring to?"

Twilight spoke next. "You're a pegasus, but you lifted those treats without even touching them! How'd you do that?!" As she spoke, Tempest found her getting uncomfortably close to his face.

But before he had a chance to respond, Rainbow cut in. "Did it have anything to do with that gust of wind that I felt? I thought it was weird since, you know, we're inside."

Tempest took a breath to check his composure before responding. "It's actually my special talent." He gestured to his cutie mark. "I always loved flying with the wind, it made me feel powerful like I could do anything." As Tempest spoke, Rainbow found herself reminiscing about when she was a young and rambunctious flyer growing up. "And then one day, a massive windstorm hit our town. The wind broke trees, it loosened boulders, everything was going to shambles."

The scene changed to a small mountain village being all but ripped to shreds by raging winds as numerous pegasi are seen amongst the clouds trying to clear them, but to no avail. As that happens, a young Tempest Tailwind looks out his window at the wind, staring at it in awe, fear, and excitement. Suddenly, he was jerked back and placed onto his bed by a pegasus mare with a bluish-gray coat, Indigo mane and tail, and a cute mark that seemed to showcase rays of sunlight piercing through a cluster of clouds. She warningly gestured to Tempest and then the window and begged him to not go out there or even look in that direction. Tempest was sad, but he respected the wishes of his mother, Cloudy Rays. Cloudy then left her son's room after tucking him in and shutting the door behind her.

She went down to the living room to talk to a stallion who was also a pegasus with a deep gray coat, almost pitch-black mane, and tail, and a cutie mark showing a tornado with hail, snow, and rain all pulled into it. However, the stallion also had bandages around his wings. She looked at him worriedly as if asking what was going to happen. The stallion reassured her that the team was doing everything they could as Cloudy went to change his bandages. Upon removing them, the stallion's wings were revealed to be bruised and lacerated in several places. The stallion then laughed and looked out the window, wishing he could join the other pegasi in quelling the storm. Cloudy admired the passion and courage of her husband, Ark-storm Spiral, but once again gestured to his damaged wings and set to work re-bandaging them.

Up in his room, Tempest couldn't seem to get to sleep with the storm continuing its destruction outside. He wanted to help in some way with his father's wings being injured and his mother tending to him. He ended up unconsciously letting his frustration out and opening his bedroom window as a result. However, instead of ransacking his room, the wind seemed to gather without disturbing any of what was within. Tempest then felt the wind gather underneath him and lift him into the air as if it was giving him strength. He marveled at his newfound power and flew out the window with incredible speed. Within seconds, Tempest found himself high above his village with the wind rushing through him and making him feel even stronger with each passing second. With his newfound strength and speed, Tempest circled the perimeter of the village with speed and force equivalent to that of a runaway cart.

As he began to move faster, Tempest failed to notice a dim flash coming from behind him, but he had noticed that he was actually creating a tornado around the town. He was scared and thought about stopping, but then he saw that inside the tornado, the town had been completely spared. The other ponies marveled at the new wall of wind that was evidently protecting them from the windstorm occurring outside. The pegasi managing the clouds above saw this and took the opportunity to safely correct the irregular weather patterns. A few minutes later, the wind died down and Tempest found himself gradually slowing down until he landed on the ground and came to a stop with his hooves scraping aggressively against the dirt. Not even five seconds later, he collapsed to the ground and caught a glimpse of two ponies approaching him before passing out from exhaustion.

Tempest found waking up somewhat difficult with how heavy his eyelids seemed to be. Although with a bit of stretching and after letting out a great big yawn, he found waking up much easier as a result. He looked around and saw that he was back in his room, or what was left of it. Tempest surveyed the room and found several items scattered all over the floor, some of them broken. He was then able to recall the events of last night before reaching to his head and feeling a bandage wrapped around it. A minute later, Cloudy Rays and Ark-storm Spiral came in to see him. Cloudy sat next to Tempest and put a comforting hoof around his shoulders. Ark-storm just looked at his son with pride and admiration for his feats. The two then gestured to his rear, where he found what looked like a depiction of heavy wind currents blowing on a sail. All three smiled at one another as the scene panned back to reveal the other ponies going around and cleaning up what they could.

The scene then faded back to Sugarcube Corner with Twilight and Rainbow still listening intently to Tempest's story. "And that was when I knew that my abilities would be able to take me to new and exciting places. So I did some weather jobs around my town and earned some money before traveling to Canterlot with my brother." Upon his completion of the story, Twilight looked on in shock while Rainbow looked as if she was about to burst from the excitement she was going through.

"Holy Taileto! You mean that you actually stopped a raging wind storm with a tornado big enough to wrap around your entire town?!?! WHEN YOU WERE A COLT?!?!" Rainbow started to cause a scene with her shouting, but Twilight cast a bubble of silence around them as she took over.

"That's incredible uh..." It was then that realization hit her like a crate of bricks. "Oh my gosh! I just realized that we never got your name! I'm so sorry, that's so rude of me."

Tempest chuckled before raising a hoof to silence her. "It's alright ma'am. We all forget our manners once in a while. My name is Tempest Tailwind and I'm assuming that you two are Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle, correct? I've heard quite a bit about you and your friends"

Twilight seemed surprised, but Rainbow took on a smug grin. "So you've heard about us have you? Well, I'm not one to brag, but I am the fastest pegasus in Ponyville, probably Equestria for that matter." Twilight then rolled her eyes at her friend while Tempest just chuckled.

"Well, I would assume that you'd have to be fast in order to get into a group such as the Wonderbolts. Truth be told, I had actually wanted to get into that group for quite a while. However, once I arrived at the training camp, I quickly realized that my newfound talents were interfering with my flight capabilities. Whenever we would do speed drills, I would end up going too fast and crash as a result. It was quite embarrassing." Tempest hung his head as the memories flooded into him.

Rainbow couldn't help but let out a few chuckles at her own mishaps while she was at the academy while Twilight merely looked on with Sympathy. The latter then spotted the dessert table and informed the other two that she was going off to sample a few of the treats. Rainbow and Tempest then continued to talk about their mishaps and accidents when they first started flying as a professional career. Tempest then saw Mind Trap, who seemed to be back to normal, and beckoned him over. "Hey Rainbow, I want you to meet my brother. This is-" Tempest flinched in surprise as in his brother's place stood a pegasus pony with a red coat and a white pompadour mane.

"My name is Red Comet and it is very good to meet you Ms. Dash." The pony, named Comet, shook Rainbow's hoof with a firm grip as he spoke with a Russian accent.

"Nice to meet you too Red Comet." Rainbow greeted warmly as she observed the pegasus in front of her. Tempest meanwhile stood with a dumbfounded look on his face at his brother's new look.

'Mind Trap, what the hell is going on with you?'