Game collecting is an incredibly expensive hobby, even more so when you are clumsy and often times knock stuff over without meaning to. That is exactly the problem this squirrel had, every time he turned around in his house his massive bushy tail would knock everything down around him. The amount of times he had to replace a lamp or clean up spilled candle wax was far too numerous to count. That is why it was not exactly a great idea for Chumby to head to the local retro game shop- what was supposed to be an evening of getting gleefully scammed over a bootleg copy of Pokemon Ruby had now become something far more robotic after that aforementioned tail had knocked over a R.O.B that was sitting on the edge of a counter.

Pretty much before he could even pull out his wallet and offer a punch card from a local fast food joint the change had began, morphing and mutating the squirrel, the sensation of soft fur flattening, and congealing to become hard mass marketed plastic, glasses pushing inward merging with his eyes- losing the ability to shut them forever.

He wasn't sure what was the worst part, the sensation of his arms pushing out into an awkward pseudo hug pose, or the feeling of his neck doing it's best giraffe impression, stretching upwards to the heavens.

The worker behind the desk didn't even seem to really pay much mind only lightly shrugging and saying in an apathetic tone that was oozing with a lack of concern. "You break it, you replace it."

Wasn't the adage- you break it you buy it? The worker quickly popped a price tag around the extendo neck of R.O.M.B.Y that read in ballooned text Special Limited Edition - $250- which was crazy expensive for a R.O.B! If he still had lungs, Chumbo would have sighed... he wondered if he at least came with a copy of Stack-Up or Gyromite?

-Thanks to a friend of mine for writing this story!