Rule #7: Do not use Wheeljack as an excuse for blowing things apart.
(Riley, Sunny Brooke, Isaiah.)
(They wanted to blow up a car in the most creative way possible.)
(Riley was the one that did most of the work.)
(Ironhide was impressed with the massive fireball that sent the car flying into the upper stratosphere.)
(Optimus wasn't.)
Rule #8: Don't tease Prowl about the little hiccup in his logic chips.
(Sunny Brooke and Mechafire.)
(When they found out about it, the two had to see if it was true.)
(So Sunny and Mechafire went and did the most illogical things they could think of.)
(Mechafire began doing everything backwards and Sunny duct taped and super glued random stuff to everything.)
(When Prowl saw Mechafire talking backwards and Sunny's super glued tampons and other random assorted items, including a toilet seat stolen from the men's bathroom, he thought there was something wrong with them.)
(One hour later, Sunny pulled out the big guns...)
(... and pretended to pee on Optimus' foot with a hole poked in the lid of her water bottle.)
(Prowl glitched badly enough to keep him out cold for the rest of the day.)
Rule #9: Under any circumstances, graffiti is not allowed on base.
(Or on an Autobot's vehicle mode.)
(Isaiah joined forces with Sunstreaker and Sideswipe.)
(Poor Ironhide was the target.)
(The next day he woke up, Ironhide went on a rampage, covered helm to stabilizing servo with a wide variety of images and slogans spray painted on every possible part of him, including a mural of Riley, half human and the other half being Riley's Cybertronian form, portrayed proudly on his broad chest plating.)
(Riley thought Ironhide did that of his own free will and complimented him on the "sweet new paint job".)
(Riley even made him transform and took pictures of every new decal on him before she let him get rid of it the moment she found out it was the product a prank courtesy of the twins.)
(It's needless to say Riley was impressed that Isaiah had helped with the prank and even more impressed at his technique with spray paint.)
(One month of brig time for Isaiah and the twins.)
Rule #10: You can't blame the Internet for influencing you to do something stupid.
(Making holograms of the stupidest videos you can find doesn't help matters.)
(Riley.)
(She made a hologram of 'Dumb Ways To Die'...)
(... and showed it to all the Autobots saying she found a safety video.)
(Red Alert was particularly interested since the platinum blonde was showing interest in people's safety.)
(Then the video played.)
(Prowl glitched.)
(Ratchet looked particularly horrified.)
(As for Red Alert...)
(He confiscated everything in the video that killed the funny little guys.)
(It doesn't help that Bumblebee was in on it and replaced the keypad that opens the door to Red Alert's office with a big red button.)
(When Optimus confronted Riley about it...)
("I blame the Internet.")
(It got a smirk from him but that doesn't mean Optimus was actually amused.)
(A week's worth of brig time...)
(... With Bluestreak singing 'The Song That Never Ends'.)
(He, too, blames the Internet for influencing him to sing it.)
Rule #11: Bubble wrap is used for packing things only.
(Bumblebee.)
(He lined the floor with it and waited for someone to come along.)
(Poor Ironhide thought he was being shot at and spent the next few hours running around trying to get out of the line of fire.)
(All that managed to do was pop more bubbles, freak out more, and make Bumblebee offline from laughing so hard.)
Rule #12: Barney the Dinosaur is banned. For life.
(Riley and Isaiah was watching Annabelle while her parents went out for their anniversary when Ironhide, Optimus, Prowl, and a couple others came in the room and asked what we were watching.)
(After making them watch an episode, they understand everything.)
(They understand everything enough to destroy the TV and the DVD.)
(Now those mechs have a respect and admiration for the small child and us for being able to sit through the show without going AWOL.)
(Simple: put it in and let the kid tell us when it's over. We wore headphones and watched another show on Isaiah's tablet.)
(Now Sarah's off to find another educational program for her daughter to watch that the Autobots will find acceptable.)