Prologue

It is the simplest and primitive question, yet that humanity was never able to give a proper answer. The question that has been asked chronically, and continuously throughout our history. But the real question, the real question is not about who we are. it is about what we are...Then the another question raises, what are you willing to sacrifice to make what you are standing, right now, at this very moment.

When they came to me with the nanosuit, I gave up Laurance Barnes. Man I was, to become Prophet. When my own flesh and blood hold me back, I replaced it like a spare part. Victory costs... And every moment you pay... A little more. I have sacrificed all I was to become what I am... Am I ceph? Or am I human... Or am I cold hard living machine... I am Prophet. Not living nor dead. Not human nor ceph. Not machine nor organism.

I am... Prophet. And that is what they used to call me. I remember... Destroying the ceph mother ship, and closing the gate. But the gate... It sucked me in. Taking me with rest of the falling debris of the ship. Sending me in to the universe uncharted. unknown even to the ceph navigation system.

At first, I explored a bit around the remains of the ship. Savaging anything that I can use. Anything to make me better.  I searched for information and technology that I was about to learn. And I did. My link to the Nanosuit help me understand every bit of information that Ceph has. My suit evolved. Evolved into something entirely new, and every time I searched for more, there was. Waiting for me to be cracked open.

And one day, I found something that I never wanted to see again. Ceph in their cryo tube. At first I wanted to kill them, show no mercy. Yet however I did not. It was the Alpha ceph who engaged attack on earth. It was alpha ceph who controlled them. These remaining ceph used to behaved like an animal... I pity them. So I spared their lives and waked them up from the cryo tank, and gave them individuality. And a freedom from their Alpha Ceph.

"What is your name, ceph?"

"What is... Name?"

"What do you remember?"

"I do not remember ...anything."

They had no memory of themselves, they didn't need it for it was alpha ceph to control them.

I educated them, and thought them everything I know of, in human way. And they followed me well. And so past thirty years. All ceph went in to their cryo tube... For thirty years was a long time, and I do not wanted to go back in to that filthy tube ever back again, after what happened to me long time ago.

Then, I realized... I was all alone. Alone in the dark. Alone in the void. I left my ceph behind, and I let my body drift away, let the void take me. I cared not about them, when they need me, they will know where to find me. I closed my eyes, and listen to the sound of the universe. Sound of the stars, planets, and even to sound of the atom. Each of them differed, thus creating a beautiful song of harmony, and greatness.

So I drifted countless years in the void. And I learned, and my suit adapts. And we changed. Changed in to something entirely new, yet somewhat similar. Then, I fell in to long slumber.

Canterlot castle

A white regal pony stood tall in her throne room, taking care of the day court. For she loved her subjects, she shall listen to their words, and do her best to keep ,the harmony in her hooves. She was well known for that, and it was something that she have done for thousands of years, since the creation of her sun. She goes by many names.The guardian of the sun, the life giver, The protector, The all mother... But above all, she is well known as Princess Celestia. Although she just wants to be called Celestia.

Despite of her many names, there was one thing that she was not good enough. Healing the broken mental wound of her younger sister. She loved her dearly, but no matter what she do she was not able to heal her wounds. It has been only few weeks she has returned from the moon, and it was hard. Celestia let a long sign. And turned her gaze to the outside. Sometimes she just wanted to let everything go for awhile and take care of her sister. Yet the court was important and she could not let her subjects down.

For a moment, she let her brain drown in the thoughts. She could not let Twilight stop learning about friendship, but also, she could not find anypony who is capable of tending her sister. Sudden sorrow hit her mind.

She had to leave it to her sister all by herself. Even Cadence feared her. Luna was only known as Nightmare Moon to all others. She just wishes for a something miracle.

"Princess? Malady? Are you alright? You seems not well? Should I call a Docter?"

"Oh, My apologies. Shall we continue the court? I was drifted in thoughts for a moment."

She sheepishly smiles.

"Is it about your sister, malady?"

"No... It's about something else... Shall we continue the court? I do not wish to let my ponies waiting

" Ah, yes. Of course. Next, Sir Moneybag. Come forward!!"

Then there was an rude interruption. A griffon, with red cape and big brown mustache came forward with his soldiers. These soldier knocked off guard ponies in ten seconds flat and arrogantly walked towards Celestia.

"Hey, who are you to interrupt..."

Sir moneybag shouted, but cut out by the mustache Griffon.

"Shut up, you pathetic scum! How dare you to speak to representative of the Grifonia!! I should tear you in to pieces, but I have more pressing business with Princess Celestia, so consider it your lucky day."

Of course, Celestia frowned at this sight.

"What brings you to my castle, ambassador? If it is about the land, I shall not talk."

"Actually, Princess. It is."

"I believe we went over this just last month. I gave you the land that you requested, and I did."

"Yes, you did. But it is not enough. Our emperor, demands more land over the Prancer's mine. And he is very impatient. He will take it by force, if. You do not respond."

"Prancer's mine is where our all gold comes from! I cannot give you that mine! You already had enough taking our silver mine, and for sake of my kingdom, I cannot risk bankruptcy."

"War? Is that it Celestia! We had enough with your controlling the sun nonsense, your words are nothing more than a lie! You think you are so great, Celestia? So great that you can take over the sun and the moon?! I heard ponies are cruel race, and they are!!"

"You speak as if you are the emperor himself. As I you know I do not want war, nor taking our most precious mine! The risk is too great, and your emperor's demand is ridiculous. What is that your emperor wants? Money, is that it? If I give up our mine, what will he compensate?"

"We compensate nothing. You give up your little gold mine, or face our armada!"

Then... A great sound shook entire equestria, and every pony, including griffon, look outside of the window. Great flame flew down from the sky, and it created tale of smoke behind it. As they see it more, they could see that it just became bigger. The realization strike. The ambassador griffon panicked, and said,

"You created a weapon! Weapon to kill us all while in Your castle! I should immediately report back to my emperor! This... This is war!!"

The ambassador and his guards frantically ran away from the castle. Few guards collapsing on their way out. Celestia kept on looking to the mysterious meteorite. She did not expected to see this. There were no meteorite report from Luna.

Something has gone terribly wrong. It continued to fly towards the castle, and every pony started to panic, and entire castle and canterlot was plunged in to total chaos. There were screaming, yelling, crying. Then she saw the meteorite's position shifted and flew towards the mountain. It started to illuminate itself bright as her sun, and for a minute, there seemed to be two suns hanging in the sky. After that it hit the mountainside.

A quarter of the mountain disappeared like in to thin air. Gigantic crater came in to her view, then after that, a powerful shockwave. It rippled the air,and the very space itself, expending throughout it's nearby area, growing in size. Most of the buildings in canterlot were ripped apart, sending its debris to the air. And eventually it struck the castle.

She felt the hot air passing through her skin. Next thing... Next thing was not something that she wanted to see. Several huge boulders flying in the sky few hit the ponyville, majority just slamming on to the mountain, but few managed to fly towards the canterlot and one of them flew towards... Luna's wing. Celestia realized that her sister is in danger, and quickly let her magic flow to her horn. Then, she teleported away.

Luna was... Well... Alone. In the dark. Alone. That's what she was after all. Dark, lonely pony who was afraid to anything. Pony who was condemned by her past, her wound carved her unstable mind so deeply, that it was almost impossible to recover. Even her sister was no use.

She is weak. After that charged Elements of Harmony, her magic was drained. Almost depleted, returning to her old form. And her past haunts her so deep, she was defenseless. She cries.

She cried for her own misery. When she does, nopony takes care of her except her sister. Most of the ponies still recognized

as a threat to many ponies, and some fears her.

But majority still does not know her return. And all ponies agree on one thing, She is pathetic. But they never understand her. Never. Luna never leaves her room, nor punish those who mock her.

She agreed to every inch of it. She admit it, and she knew it too well. Like her banishment in her moon. Her sorrow, loneliness, and her regret still remains. There was no difference. She feared to go out and venture the world for the world has abandon her for a long time. And everything was different. What was once a forest now became soulless desert.

What was once a mountain now unforgiving cold mountain. She stayed in her own corner. And cried until she gets exhausted. Cried for her own sin. She already attempted suicide, no avail, her own fate does not let her.

She tried drinking poison, bath with acid, slid her throat, inhale toxin, jump off from the building, drain her all magic, but none of them worked. Then... One day... One day she saw something illuminate bright shine in the sky other than her sister's heavenly body. A meteorite... No... This is not something that she have expected... And soon... She realized it was not a meteorite, but something else.

She needed a closer look. She quickly grabbed her telescope and started to admire the thing. Then it crashed side of the mountain, created a biggest explosion that she ever saw. Then... Those fragments of mountain flew every where. One of them flew right towards her... She did not care... She let it come. Then... Everything went blank.

Celestia broke Luna's door, it's silver and obsidian parts flying away from impact. She galloped inside, but she was already too late, her sister...

"Luna!! Please, don't do this to me!!! Don't die! Don't die! I cannot lose you anymore! Medic! Doctor!"

She yelled for help... And none did...

"Please? Anypony can hear me?!"

She felt betrayed. Her anger rose. Is this how they treated her sister?!? She quickly healed her sister's wound but she

needed medical attention, her wounds were beyond her knowledge.

Celestia grabbed her sister with her magic, and rested her on her back, then threw her self in the air.

"Just hold on! I woun't let you down, Luna! Just hold on for few more seconds..."

Tear started to form around Celestia's eyes.

Unidentified energy detected... Scanning... Creating new nano catalyst... Processing...

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Prophet searched for more intelligence and ceph's technology as much as he could get his hands on. Every time he searched he found something new, learned, and admitted that how astonishing it was. He was never a scientist, but he did had quite a knowledge about it.

He had to know them to face the ceph. But his nanosuit helped him further. He knew how ceph manages to fly in the air by using anti-gravity technology, and telekinesis, but to try it on for himself... It was different. Then prophet found ceph energy cell blue prints. He applied that too. And he learned how to drain any form of energy. He also learned how to utilize every known dimensions to ceph. Although he didn't dared to use them, it was still pretty cool to have such an ability.

'Wonder Hargreave and Rasch saw this...' And it was amused to see their faces if they were still alive. Ignoring the thought, he continued his journey in to dead alien warship. He walked on the metal platform, and taking away useless piece of junks by his new gained force, and telekinesis.

In front him, there was huge room filled with ceph cryo tubes. He walked down to the room, and scanned the area if he can find anything useful, and nothing... Prophet looked back.

"Why are they still alive?! I should disable their life support system, so they can't attack me in the future."

As Prophet looked for life support system, he thought again.

"No... Maybe... Maybe I can use them like I did with that pinger back before. And plus, I have Alpha ceph's ability. I can control them."

With that thought he approached the release button, and punched it. All the ceph started to wake up from their tube, and as he expected, some of them started to behave like an animal. And some of them remained steel.

"Enough!!" Prophet shouted, and all cephs stopped moving and started to stare at him. They were like mindless robots. But he does not want mindless machine to serve him. He hated being machine. So, he decided to give his knowledge about individuality, and his language so that they are no longer connected through one hivemind. It took him good 10years to teach them, and give their name.

And what do you know, like a child, they were quite eager to learn about definition of individuality. It was something entirely new to them. And every moment they learned about it, they liked it more. They said... They felt free, and they never wanted to go back.

Later, they stopped using their telepathic way of communication, and started to use human language. That was another

10years later...

"Attention, all ceph troops to report to the main chamber room, immediately." A low voice of Ceph mastermind roared through out the broken ship.

And all surviving cephs started to gather around. Prophet looked around and it was finally good to see some sort of his own small army, although they were ceph, he have decided to set the difference aside long time ago. They were controlled by Alpha ceph, and they had no choice. He felt right to give them a chance to be free themselves. He counted all the ceph to see if they are in right number.

One ceph mastermind

Three ceph commander

Five ceph guardian units

Sixteen ceph reavers

Twenty ceph grunts

Five ceph heavies

Two ceph shadows... ... ...

Prophet felt good...