"Court is now back in session. Miss Rarity, I assume you have gathered sufficient evidence?"

Diamond's mom scoffed. "No she didn't. My daughter was an angel."

"Yes your honor." Rarity said completely ignoring the prosecution.

"Alright then, please present."

"I would like to call a witness to the stand. Miss Cheerilee!"

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"Witness, please state your name and occupation."

"Cheerilee. I am a teacher at the Ponyville Schoolhouse. For the past 80 moons, I have taught Sweetie Bot and Diamond Tiara."

"Please testify."

Cheerilee nodded. "Over the time I have spent teaching DIamond Tiara, she has been a bad pony. She especially set her sights on Sweetie Bot, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo." Cheerilee reached into her bag. "I would like to present this as evidence."

"By all means, go ahead."

"These are school records recording multiple counts of bullying from this filly. While, there are a ton of these from her entire time at my schoolhouse, these past few moons have almost matched it. You can see that some more notable instances were as follows:

Calling classmates "Blank Flank" (Specifically CMC)
Taunting Classmate Scootaloo about disability
Bullying classmates.
Calling Sweetie Bot names (Freak, Nerd, etc.)
Throwing rocks at Sweetie Bot (Multiple occasions.)

Water Lily examined the paper. "What is this disability that Miss Scootaloo was taunted about?"

Cheerilee looked down. "When Miss Scootaloo was younger, she had considerable difficulty flying. Diamond Tiara would make fun of her on multiple occasions calling her names like "Chicken." These are official records that were stamped by our principal. I bring them forth with full confidence under the understanding that faking documents such as these is a crime."

Rarity laughed a little. "Wow Cheerlee! You're very well prepared!"

Cheerilee gave a small bow. Water Lily then spoke, "Thank you Miss Cheerilee. If that is it, you may step down." After Cheerilee had stepped down, the judge continued. "These are in fact official documents. Does the defense have anything else they wish to present?"

Rarity nods. "I wish to call forth another witness. I would like to call forth Miss Silver Spoon.

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"Witness, name and occupation?"

"Silver Spoon. I don't work. I live under the supervision of my parents."

"Please testify."

"I was friends with Diamond Tiara for a time. I remember a lot of bad things and not many good things. She was very controlling and very manipulative. She took a lot of that from her mother, Spoiled Rich." After a small yell from the prosecution stand, Silver continued. "I was standing with Diamond Tiara and I remember she said she was going to throw a rock at the freak. That was a quote. I was standing close enough to the fight to hear the words Scootaloo missed. Diamond Tiara asked if Sweetie Bot had enough. Sweetie Bot told Diamond that she was just jealous. This resulted in the breaking of the eye and the eventual murder."

"Thank you, witness. Anything else Defense?"

"Actually I have something that will confirm that Diamond Tiara started the fight and That Sweetie Bot had no knowledge of the nature of her self defense system."

"By all means Miss Rarity. If you have such deciding evidence, please bring it forward."

Rarity turned around and went into the back room. She came out pulling a pony behind her. The pony seemed to drag on the ground. "I present the accused herself, your honor!" There were gasps and some whimpers from the crowd. "Don't worry everypony!" Rarity flipped Sweetie's eyelid open, revealing a gray eye without any glow. "She's powered off."

"Defense! What is the meaning of this! If she is powered off, how will this help us?'

"We can access her memory files and show things off. Does this court have a projector of some kind?"

"I believe we have one in the back."

"Can somepony please bring that out?"

Rarity withdrew a usb cord from her stand and set Sweetie Bot up on a pedestal in the middle of the court room, facing a black wall. Rarity reached behind Sweeite's mane and flipped the switch.

"Sweeite Bot Powering On... Rarity! Where are we? Did we win the trial?" Rarity proceeded to ignore the question and looked at the top of the filly's mane. She flipped open another door and plugged in the usb. "Neutral Mode Activated..."

Sweetie bot's eyes turned from green to blue and began projecting an image on the wall. It was a blank screen with a cursor. Water Lily was getting impatient. "How does this prove anything!"

"Give me a second!" Rarity pulled out a keyboard and plugged it into the usb port adjacent to the one already in use. She began to type.

Run: "mem"

Hundreds of thousands of files popped up. Water Lily looked confused. "How are we going to find anything in this mess?"

"Easy." Rarity pressed ctrl + F and a search bar popped up. She typed in "Diamond_Tiara_Fight"

She began playing a video file that popped up. It was dated the same day as the murder. The video depicted everything that the witnesses had stated. Including the exact words Silver Spoon had quoted. It was all from Sweetie Belle's point of view. Water Lily gestured for the video to be shut off as she continued, "Okay. I think we have sufficiently proven that the fight was provoked. The defense may be able to plead justified self defense if you can prove that she had no knowledge of the defense system beforehand.

Rarity nodded. "Yes ma'am." She brought up more memory files. "As you can see, she had multiple conversations with her mental AI regarding this topic. Every time she brought it up, her AI did not know what she was talking about. I had her memory cleared of everything that might tell her she was a robot. Here is something else." She pulled up a video. "As you can see in this video, she asked me about her defense. I refused to answer her."

Water Lily looked again at the video. "Her sensors seem a little off. Is there any reason for that?"

Rarity laughed. "Oh! No reason!" She remembered giving Sweetie Alcohol that night. She had no idea if you were allowed to feed a robot alcohol. "She must have still been a little broken from the water."

The judge smiled. "I do believe we have reached a verdict. Unless there is anypony else who wishes to say something. Rarity looked over to spoiled. She said nothing. "Alright. Here is my decision. This murder has been declared an accident. The murderer had no knowledge of her own self defense and therefore, unknowingly killed Miss Tiara. However, this was still a reckless act. Rarity will be given a choice." She turned to Rarity. "Miss Rarity, seeing as you were the creator of Sweetie Bot, you may take responsibility for Sweetie Bot's actions. If you do, you will destroy her to ensure that nothing else of this nature will happen. Or, you can let Sweetie Bot take responsibility for her actions. Seeing as the murder was accidental, she will not be banished to the moon. She will, however, be exiled from Ponyville and all other major pony cities."

Rarity stopped and thought. She looked up to the judge. "I've made my decision your honor."

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"Rarity! I don't want to leave."

Rairty was packing a bag full of all my things while she responded, "I'm sorry Sweetie Bot. I have no other choice. If you don't leave, I will be forced to destroy you. This was the only way you can stay alive."

My senses are flooded with uncertainty. "Alive?" I look down. "But I'm not alive. You said so yourself."

Rarity sighed. "I said some things I didn't mean, Sweetie."

I shake my head. "But you did mean it! You were right!" I threw one of my hooves in the air. "Maybe you should just break me now and let go!"

"Don't talk like that!"

"Maybe I want to die! Maybe there's nothing left of my life if I have to leave Ponyville! Maybe I really am just a useless hunk of metal! Tell me, Rarity. Is there anything in my head that wasn't programmed? Am I even angry at all? Or was I just programmed to be! Face it! If I'm not living in Ponyville, There's no reason for me to live."

"That's not true Sweetie Bot!"

"Where am I even going to live! I can't move to Canterlot! Or the Crystal Empire!"

"You're going to find a place somewhere. I know you will."

I stomped one of my hooves on the floor. "Why did you have to give me those guns to begin with? It could have been a shield or a small taser. But bucking guns Rarity? What in Equestria were you thinking?"

Rarity looked down. "I guess I wasn't"

"And now I have to suffer for your actions."

"Now hold on a moment Sweetie! I never activated your weapons! You did that all on your own!"

"You didn't tell me I would kill somepony!"

Rarity was beginning to get more and more angry. "Listen Sweetie Bot! I protected you for years. I gave you food, and shelter. I do not deserve to be treated like this."

I grabbed the bag and stomped towards the door. "Goodbye Rarity. Thanks for ruining my life."

I stomped out the door and began heading towards Fluttershy's cottage. The mechanical whirring in my head was louder than it had ever been. Fluttershy was one of my best friends. Outside of the crusaders of course. I looked towards her cottage. Run: "X-on" I could see Fluttershy in her cottage. She was tending to her animals. She looked busy. Run: "X-off"

I wanted to go up to the door. I wanted to at least say goodbye to somepony. Applejack and Rainbow Dash told Apple Bloom and Scootaloo not to go anywhere near me after the incident. I huffed and walked past Fluttershy's cottage towards the entrance of the Everfree Forest.

My last hope I thought as I walked inside.

(To Be Continued...)

Author's Note

Sorry this chapter took so long to get out. Hopefully this should be the last confusing chapter. This story has a lot of technical details. It is about a robot after all. I hope you all don't call it quits on the story just yet. It's about to get spicy :)