Decepticons Rising

Chapter 12

Suddenly i felt a burst of warmth go through my system like i was coming back to life. I opened my optics and looked around, i was in a cell a heavily guarded cell nonetheless. The guard’s optics widened in fear when he saw me wake up, he started backing away when i stood up. I didn't care to kill him, if i did he would have already been dead. “Lieutenant Bumblebee the prisoner is awake!” i turned my back to Bumblebee as he walked in, i didn't want to see him. “Lilac, the high council has chosen to speak with you…” i stayed still as they put a guard over my wings to keep me from transforming and cuffs on my arms. “I didn't mean for Soundwave to die Lilac, you have to know that…” A single tear fell from my optics before we entered the high court, instantly i spotted Smokescreen. “Lilac you have been charged of Autobot death, aggression, assault, and siding with the Decepticons… you have no one to defend you so how do you plead?” i thought for a minute but the only thought i had was, is my father alive. “i plead guilty in front of the high council, what use is there to try and lie when you know all of it isn’t true?” The high council spoke with each other before nodding and that's when i saw him, Ravage one of Soundwave’s cassettes in a cage. “The guilty party is forced to speak the truth or suffer the consequences do you agree to these terms?” i nodded and continued staring at Ravage, he looked absolutely miserable… “When you were younger you had the choice to be Autobot did you or did you not?” I growled to myself, i never got a choice but when i met the Autobots i already knew the truth. “I did not… Optimus Prime came to my orphanage looking for sparklings over the age of fifteen. I was nine at the time and exactly a day after my friends were taken away the Decepticons came and raided my orphanage.” “Are you or are you not the creation of Megatron?” I almost laughed to myself at the question, they clearly knew nothing about me. “No i never knew my carrier and my sire is Knockout.” “Can Knockout justify this?” i glared at the high council, they honestly knew nothing about me or anything that happened on earth. “He cannot for he was murdered by the Autobot Sideswipe, Knockout himself was an Autobot…” The spoke with each other nodded and shaking their heads no in low whispers. “Why did you stay a Decepticon instead of returning to your friends?” I growled at that question loud enough for them to hear, these questions were getting more personal by the minute! “My adopted father Megatron had taken care of me and given me a home that i had never known. I owed him my life because his at the time second in command Starscream was going to kill me. I had no alliance with the Autobots any longer…” “Do you know the location of the following Decepticons: Starscream, Megatron, Shockwave, or Soundwave?” I growled louder and my sensitive auditory receptors picked up the sound of Bumblebee mouthing no to them. “I do not know where Starscream, Megatron, and Shockwave are… Soundwave, is one with the Allspark…” They all murmured before Smokescreen stood up, when he did they all went silent. “These are all lies and deceptions!” I growled and straightened my wings feeling the guards loosen just a bit. “What is a deception? Is it anything spoken by a Decepticon? I have promised to speak nothing but the truth yet here you are accusing me of something i have yet to do… Makes me wonder, how many deceptions make a Decepticon? Or how many deceptions make an Autobot?”