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Rule # 131: The Nemesis is not an alarm clock. (By Undiscovered Poet)

(Pretty much no one gets why I did this.)

(Maybe because I had been sleeping through early-morning briefings a lot? Maybe because I was sick of waking up to find my room a different color than it had been that night? Maybe because if I didn't get up on time, Dreadwing would assign me to rec-room duty where I'd spend all day struggling to move chips of the wall - and armor - out of the way?)

(Yeah, like I had no reason to get some help in waking up on time. Like tricking Shiv into having an alarm across the warship go off at seven in the morning every day was a bad idea.)

(And someone just had to rat me out and get me assigned to rec-room duty for a week, didn't they?)

(Frag you, Soundwave.)

Rule # 132: Do not try to remove Soundwave's visor. (By Undiscovered Poet)

(So essentially, you're not allowed to ask if Soundwave has a face, you're not allowed to ask what his face looks like, and you're not allowed to try and take off his visor. Any questions?)

(Fine; I'll tell you what happened. Soundwave's visor had been cracked earlier on and Knock Out had accidentally - more like on purpose - patched it with bad sealant. So Soundwave was in the medical bay for a few days.)

(When I walked in once while Knock Out was fixing the visor, I got the bright idea that if I could get the visor off, I could finally see his face.)

(I tried it. Two minutes later I had Ravage standing over me, looking like he was going to rip my head off.)

Rule # 133: Soundwave + Slenderman = What the heck were you thinking?! (By Undiscovered Poet)

(Well, just because the game was a bad idea, it didn't necessarily mean that showing Soundwave a picture of Slenderman and then calling him 'Slendermech' was one too. At least, not to me. Not at first.)

(I soon found out what the inside of the security vault looks like...)

Rule # 134: The paintjob is sacred. Do not change its color. (By Undiscovered Poet)

(Knock Out had almost scared me to death the day before and I was still mad at him.)

(Oh, he decided to take on the two-wheeler, the scout, and the Wrecker at the same time with no backup. Pit near gave Breakdown a spark attack when he stumbled through the GroundBridge, one of his arms almost severed.)

(I told KO if he scared me like that again, I'd paint him blue with pink polka-dots. As usual, he didn't take me seriously.)

(To prove just how serious I was, I did it anyway.)

(Had he not been in the middle of being repaired, he probably would've tried to kill me. But I still had the brilliance to tell him that the new colors looked good on him.)

(Breakdown then had two patients to deal with.)

Rule # 135: The 'Rubber Duck Song' - you know how it goes? Well, it's not allowed. (By Anonymous BW FG)

(Megzy doesn't even like it when you mention the rubber duck. He will send Insecticons after you if you do.)

(Imagine the results when you play the above song while he has the rubber duck out.)

(I'll tell you what happened anyway.)

(I got to hang upside down in the interrigation room at the mercy of Airachnid and Starscream, who were both eager to pay me back for all the pranks I pulled and humiliation I caused.)

(No one was allowed to come rescue me until both Starscream and Airachnid were satisfied.)

Rule # 136: Field trips to the mall are discouraged, especially if they take place on Black Friday at midnight. (By PixelusPrime)

(What can I say? Frenzy, Rumble, and I needed the supplies. We were out of stuff to prank everyone, including each other, with.)

(Under normal circumstances, I'm allowed to go to the mall as long as it's with Knock Out, Breakdown, or some willing Vehicon. I can't go by myself - because KO doesn't want me to - and I can't go with anyone else.)

(It was Black Friday. I was bored out of my mind because all my spray paint was used up and I was out of other prank material. Rumble was upset because he'd run out of silly string. Frenzy was in a foul mood because I didn't have any spray paint he could steal and use on me.)

(We eventually decided to go to the mall, unaware of the date and of the time.)

(While we were in the mall, Rumble and Frenzy repetedly tried to use their weapons on other customers - because they were freaked out by the rabid mob of people - but they forgot it was impossible in holoform.)

(Once we got back - without our supplies, ironically enough - we found Knock Out and Soundwave waiting for us.)

(The twins were pretty much grounded. I was confined to my room until I could write a two-page essay on why it was a stupid idea to Bridge off the Nemesis with Rumble and Frenzy by myself.)

Rule # 137: Craft stores in general are off-limits. (By PixelusPrime)

(We had some money to burn.)

(No, I don't know where the Decepticons got it, and to be quite honest, we're most likely better off not knowing.)

(Anyhow, the twins and I hadn't learned from the last time we Bridged somewhere together, so we went to a craft store in a town near Jasper to get some stuff. Not only were our respective guardians miffed when they found out, but apparently the store owner thought having three teenagers - two of which had dyed hair, multiple piercings, and tattoos - in the store was a bad thing.)

(He called the cops on us.)

(We bolted. Quickly.)

(Unfortunately we had to spend a half-hour playing hide-and-go-seek with the cops, but we didn't get caught.)

(Well, not until we got back to the warship, at any rate.)

Rule # 138: Yarn-bombing Ravage's quarters will not go as planned. (By PixelusPrime)

(Not just any yarn-bombing, though. Colorful yarn-bombing. With multicolored string and lots of glittery yarn.)

(For a second Ravage looked confused. Then he went wild and jumped around the room, playing with different balls of yarn. He was chewing on a hot pink one when Soundwave walked in. Ravage froze in the middle of his playing. I waved guiltily from across the room.)

(Soundwave glanced down at Ravage, signaled for him to drop the yarn, and then pointed at me.)

(The next hour or two was spent with a game of cat and mouse, or more accurately, human and cybercat.)

Rule # 139: Mechanical mice are fun with furry cats, not metal ones. (By PixelusPrime)

(I had nothing to do with this. Seriously, I didn't.)

(Why are you looking at me like that? I didn't do it.)

(Okay, maybe I had someting to do with the mechanical mice getting on the warship in the first place, but I didn't actually use them. It was Rumble, playing a good-natured prank on his fellow deployer.)

(All I'm going to say is that Soundwave found an arm and a leg in his quarters the next day, and they just so happened to be bluish-purple.)

Rule # 140: Kitties get catnip. Cybercats get high-grade. (By PixelusPrime)

(Just like with Screamer and his heels, I'll never get tired of messing with Ravage about him acting like a cat.)

(That particular day I had managed to find some catnip left over from when Uli was on the warship. It still smelled just as strong as the day I got it. So I hunted down Ravage and showed it to him, expecting a reaction similar to an Earth cat.)

(Ravage merely walked past me. Irritated, I followed him and showed it to him again. Ravage again walked past me. This process repeated until some random Vehicon explained that the Cybertronian equivalent to catnip/alcohol is high-grade energon, so the catnip wouldn't have any effect.)

(After thinking it over, I asked where I could find some high-grade.)

(The nearby Vehicons exchanged worried glances.)

Next Chapter: High-Grade Hijinks.

(I want to do more General Rules, but this idea refuses to leave me alone until I execute it. Rest assured, all of the suggestions for General Rules are saved on both my flashdrive and on my laptop for later use.)

And guys, I shouldn't have to say this, but you know how some people are. Suggestions no higher than T. Please.