Rule #73: No one is allowed to bother Annabelle when she's watching her favorite shows.

(Even though some of them weren't logical and made Prowl glitch.)

(Plus we're running out of ideas for things she can watch.)

(We spent weeks debating what to do about it and finally got a small TV put up in a corner facing the Autobot sized couch so the Autobots can't see what she's watching.)

Rule #74: Whoever you are, stop spray painting signs all over the base!

(I swear it wasn't Riley this time.)

(I should know 'cause I asked if she did it.)

(The latest sign was spray painted on the wall near the human sized door to the rec room with an arrow at about the height of a human man with a note that read "You must be THIS tall to enter.")

(Then a speed limit sign was updated with a new sign below it.)

("Speed limit enforced by sniper.")

(After I saw that, I found out Bluestreak is a trained sniper.)

(Slag just got serious. O_o)

Rule #75: If you happen to be human, don't joke about being injured or play with fake blood.

(Especially not in front of Ratchet.)

(He tends to freak out.)

(And that's an understatement.)

(Riley pranked Prowl with a dummy she fashioned to look like Annabelle.)

(She slipped it under his foot just as he was putting his foot down.)

(He didn't realize there was something there until he had his foot down.)

(The dummy exploded and fake blood went EVERYWHERE.)

(Prowl didn't know what to do and glitched.)

(Poor Red Alert looked ready to have a panic attack when he commed Ratchet to the scene.)

(When Ratchet got there, he had a come apart when he gathered the "body" and took it to the Med Bay.)

(I must say, Riley must've been in a very devious mood to pull such a prank. She went so far as to stuff fake guts in the dummy, too.)

(I should know, 'cause I was splattered in the stuff, fake blood AND guts.)

(I caught Riley hanging around the scene of the crime, showing off her mad acting skills as she looked about ready to faint and then she ran.)

(I followed her until she went up to Anna's parents and told them Prowl had an accident with their daughter.)

(Mass. Chaos.)

(Will and Sarah ran the entire way to the Med Bay, demanding to know what happened.)

(Sarah was about to kill Ratchet when he forced out the bad news that Prowl stepped on the toddler...)

(... Then in came Ironhide with little Annabelle on his shoulder, completely unharmed.)

(Red Alert showed them the security camera footage and placed Riley with the dummy outside Prowl's office when it happened.)

(She had to apologize to Prowl and Anna's parents for the scare, clean the mess up, and serve a month in the brig.)

Rule #76: Boobah is not a humane form of punishment, therefore it is banned. For all eternity.

(Ratchet was having a hard time with both sets of the troublemaking twins.)

(Both sets got in a number of pranks on him in a week, so naturally, he was pissed off.)

(In order to help him make the twins cooperate, I told him to strap them down, force their optics to remain powered on, and play Boobah on a four hour loop.)

(He was confused about it at first until I played a snippet of an episode to enlighten him.)

(That devious look showed up on Ratchet's face and set to work getting the twins to come and see him again.)

(By the time we came back for them at the end of the four hours, we found they all glitched.)

(Two months later, neither set has tried anything after a threat of another punishment to make them watch the show again but on an eight hour loop.)

(Ratchet and I are best friends now.)

Rule #77: Horror movies are banned.

(There's so many to list, it's not funny.)

(Not only does it creep out humans, it scares the Autobots out of their circuits.)

(But Riley, on the other hand, loves them.)

(She loves the adrenaline rush she gets from the suspenseful parts or when the creature jumps out and attacks.)

(She convinced Ironhide, Prowl, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, and Crimson Flame to watch a creature feature marathon on that Cybertronian sized screen in the rec room.)

(These movies are never to come onto the base again: )

Predator, Predator 2, and Predators

(The swearing in those movies... daaaaaammmnnnn.)

(Ironhide now feels Riley was trying to tell him something after he saw the amount of weapons the Predator had.)

(Riley was so innocent until she heard him explain what he thought she meant.)

(Sure she likes dirty jokes from time to time, but she blushed so many shades of red.)

(All I know was it involved the size of guns.)

(I don't wanna know. O_o)

Aliens (all of them)and Aliens vs. Predator (the first and second movies)

(Optimus walked into the room towards the end of the second AVP movie and saw the pregnant lady infested with Chestbursters explode.)

(He actually pulled out his weapons and nearly shot the TV.)

Slither

(To tell you the truth, that freaked Ironhide out. I saw him looking down at himself and shivering.)

(Riley was a little weirded out by this but otherwise, she was fine.)

Shaun of the Dead

(With the dead people walking around and watching people get eaten alive, Prowl glitched.)

(Ratchet sent Red Alert to pick up Prowl since the good doctor was busy with work.)

(Bur then he glitched when he saw the hordes of undead people.)

(Wheeljack came out for this one and promptly disappeared to try and recreate it.)

(That in itself was worrisome but fortunately, Optimus caught wind of it and shut the project down before it could begin.)

(Thank God!)

Rule #78: Don't order Halloween costumes and other assorted props off the Internet.

(My little sister is a diabolical little thing, ain't she?)

(Exhibits A, B, C, D, E, F and G.)

(An eyeball.)

(She made sure it was that sticky kind that attaches to everything.)

(And used it for two different pranks.)

(The first time was her running around the base with the eye attached to her forehead telling people she had "the sight".)

(And the other made Optimus nearly step on Sam when she ran in screaming Sam took her eye out with a pencil.)

(Disembodied appendages. More specifically, a pair of legs and an arm.)

(Riley made me do this one.)

(She made me walk into Optimus' office ask get his attention.)

("Hey, Optimus. Fancy a drive around the island with me?" :D)

("Not now, Isa—AAH! What happened to you?!" O.O)

("Not much. I was visiting Wheeljack and I fell into a glowing green vat in his lab. Cool, huh?")

(Optimus chose that moment to go berserk, toppling over his desk in his rush to get me and ran the entire way to Ratchet.)

(Ratchet glitched when he saw I sprouted legs just above my hips and another arm out of my shoulder.)

(Riley happened to coat the false appendages with fake blood should they fall off and that's what happened.)

(My "extra arm" fell onto the floor and Optimus hurriedly dumped me on a medical slab before he glitched. It was even more epic that Ratchet glitched when he registered my "new limbs" were falling off and I screamed, making him think I was in the most pain I've ever experienced in my life.)

(Ratchet glitched.)

(I was given a week in the brig for that and Riley served two weeks 'cause she made me do it.)

(A shrunken head.)

(Sunny is responsible for this one.)

(She attached it to a string and hid in the vents in the ceiling.)

(Whenever a soldier or Autobot happened by, she dropped the head in their faces.)

(There were mixed reactions to the prank, from shouts of surprise to screams and laughs)

(I was around to see Ironhide get scared and try to shoot it.)

(Then Prowl happened along.)

(He glitched.)

(Poor mech.)

(Fake blood.)

(Oh, my God, Riley, why?!)

(People glitched the last time this was brought out!)

(It started out like any other day on the island until people found bloody handprints and spatters on the floor.)

(Ratchet and the other medics were put on standby in case there was somebody hurt.)

(Then a couple of the Autobots found a group of soldiers mulling around groaning and covered in blood.)

(Riley chose that moment to burst out of one of the nearby rooms and scream, "It's the zombie apocalypse! Run for your Sparks!")

(It was even better that the Autobots in question actually ran away, warning everyone about the humans reenacting The Walking Dead.)

(Ratchet had a Spark attack and grabbed all of them and rushed the soldiers to the Med Bay for testing.)

(Another fake head but one that looks like her.)

(You know that trick where people walk around, pretend to sneeze and their head "falls off"?)

(Yeah, she decided to call all the Autobots into the rec room to talk and the moment they were all there...)

(She sneezed and her "head" fell into her hands.)

(Red Alert, Prowl, and Ratchet glitched.)

(Optimus was shocked out of his wits.)

(Ironhide, however...)

(... He went ballistic and picked her up and ran out of the room demanding to find a human doctor to explain the situation to them.)

(The resident human doctor took one look at Riley and the frantic Autobots before she burst out laughing, calling out the fact it was a prank.)

(Ironhide didn't talk to her for a week.)

(Optimus reprimanded her and made her apologize to the mechs that glitched.)

(A fake giant spider.)

(Okay, I admit I had a blast with this one.)

(Riley got a few of them and attached them to fishing poles, running all over the base bugging people.)

(The biggest spider she got had to be attached to a rope. She even hauled it up into the ventilation shafts above Red Alert's office.)

(That spider was even more epic since Riley got Wheeljack to modify it so it was a giant remote controlled spider. Like those ones you can get at Wal-Mart, only much more cooler than that.)

(Once that spider was in the office...)

(Mayhem broke loose.)

(Red Alert actually brought his weapons to bear and started shooting up the place.)

(Of course we were caught a while after the prank was pulled and made to apologize to Red Alert for scaring him and we had to repair everything that was broken.)

(Vampire fangs and cape.)

(Riley disappeared for at least a month.)

(She was nowhere to be found, occasionally being found stalking the hallways in the middle of the night and hanging upside down in the rafters.)

(The Autobots that caught her doing this and avoiding going outside at all cost thought she was starting to go crazy.)

(Bur some of them tried to ask her what she was doing, but Riley would hiss at them and run away, gripping the ends of her cape and shouting, "KILL IT WITH FIRE!")

(Seeing as whenever Riley disappears, the Autobots know she's up to something.)

(Even Sunstreaker and Sideswipe, the resident troublemakers and self-proclaimed kings of pranks, were on edge.)

(Then it happened.)

(Red Alert burst into the rec room and glomped Optimus, blubbering about Energon and Riley losing her mind.)

(Everyone disregarded Red's rambling, but I knew better seeing Riley just put into action what she'd been building up to.)

(Riley burst into the room a few minutes later, looking pale as a ghost and blood red eyes loudly proclaiming,)

("I am a vampire! I'm here to suck your Energon!")

(Ratchet had a come apart, lunging for her and missed as Riley ran right for Optimus and Red Alert, the latter looking about ready to piss himself in terror and glitch.)

("I'll start with the paranoid one! Are you scared, Red Alert? Well? Are you? Are you scared?!")

("Yes! Yes, I am! Stay away from me!")

("You shouldn't be scared, Red!")

("Why?")

("I won't suck your Energon... if you let me put you on Scare Tactics! Sunny Brooke set you up!")

(The room fell silent for a moment while the Autobots tried to figure out what Scare Tactics is before the entire room burst into a mixture of reactions from laughter to angry shouts about trying to make the most paranoid mech on Diego Garcia glitch.)

(Now we can relive that moment forever since Riley paid off a few soldiers to videotape her shenanigans during the month she was building up to that point and get the Autobots' reactions.)

(That video is going viral on YouTube now!)