Rodimus sat at his chair, bored. There was no crowed today, just Tailgate, Prowl, FireRage, Sideswipe and himself. "So what are we doing today?" He asked them. "We're here to talk about Starbright your honor" Tailgate smiled, he seemed confident. He had studied the law in his days, in the records he was a successful lawyer, bomb disposal unit, engineer, even just a mech that could cheer you up. Rodimus sat up finally. "Alright well, Prowl, I'm guessing you'd like to go first again" he chuckled. "It's how these things work" Prowl sighed and stood up.

Prowl took a datapad, from the fifteen he brought, and read from them. "StarBright, a young autobot, age seventeen. Accused Of murder and fabricated evidence" he continued "not that many of us know StarBright, I myself only knew of her when FireRage reported spotting the killer of a recent murder of a femme"

"Was there a body found?" Rodimus asked. "Yes, the femme appeared to be five weeks sparked, there were signs of struggle and stab wounds" Prowl showed a picture of the crime scene. Energon was almost scattered everywhere. "Soundwave claimed it was a break in, the femme tried to break in their home and Starbright acted out of self defense"

"Then why are we talking about this if this was self defense?" Rodimus tilted his helm, prowl sighed. "Because Soundwave was the one who said that's what it was" "and?" "And? This is Soundwave, for four millennia we fought him, he killed hundred if not millions of our kind, he's Megatron's right hand mech."

Rodimus sat back in his chair. Prowl was in the correct in that case. Soundwave was the one who attempted murder on everyone. "FireRage has had his own experiences of being threatened by StarBright, death threats to be exact" Prowl explained as FireRage sat in the chair behind him. No emotion seemed to cross him. "StarBright has told everyone she had done something illegal, murder, then said it was a good thing no one knew the femme"

"No family?" Rodimus asked again, question after question appeared in his processor. "None that we have found" Prowl sighed. "Your honor I don't think it's safe to let her go, she is mentally unstable and attacked me the same day I arrested her"

"She tried to hurt me and FireRage and she could kill again like she killed the femme" Prowl sat down. "Tailgate, your case" Prowl nodded to Tailgate. Tailgate smiled and stood up.

"I never fought in the war, I never held a gun against Soundwave or even Starbright" he smiled again. "I may not even know her like I do. But I don't believe Starbright would lie about the evidence"

Tailgate played the video on the screen. It showed the femme breaking through the window. Before she could get through Starbright struck and the footage cut there. "To make false footage of a break in you would need a shifter" he explained "there is only one shifter that is alive today"

"Makeshift" a picture of Makeshift and his many forms appeared on the screen. "But Makeshift has been locked up for years. His powers were taken away after he was captured"

"But those powers went missing" Rodimus pointed out. "But only his body can handle the power" Tailgate showed experimentation on regular autobots with Makeshift's power that resulted in catastrophe.

"Each autobot either lost their life or got injured trying to be the next Makeshift, there's no way the footage would have been filmed without Makeshift" Tailgate smiled as he sat down. Rodimus sat there for a while, thinking it over. "That could be true but we still can't let her be out in the streets if she's so trigger happy"

"What if Soundwave? Starbright trusts him and his minicon. They are decepticons living amongst us like they did nothing to our kind" Prowl growled recalling the memories of being captured and tortured for information. "The best I can do for now until we figure something else out is probation" Rodimus sighed. "Ten thousand hours of community service and delivery service" he said as he raised the gavel from the desk. "And psychiatric help with pills to stop this tigger happiness" he said and tapped the desk.

Tailgate smiled and Prowl sighed. He was disappointed but seemed satisfied with the punishment.

(This was shortened because this discussion lasted a while and I cannot type that much)