You are a robot that your human owners Charlie and Max Keaton have brought along to fish for parts at a junkyard in a rainstorm one night. Suddenly the 16 year old Max accidently slips and falls down a mudslide. Almost off a cliff, something catches him like a robot arm. Max calls out your name and Charlie's and you both go down there and help him. Max finds a robot face deep in the mud, he uncovers it. Excited he digs up more and discovers the robot is deep.
Max: Dad, there's a robot deep in the mud, help me dig him out! Charlie: that's just an old sparring bot. I'm not collecting robots from back in the day. Come on, let's get outta here.
Max: but he needs our help. Charlie: nah, nah, no. I'm not bringing that piece of junk back. If you want him, you go ahead and dig him up by yourself and get sick
reluctantly Charlie leaves you and Max behind to fish out the 7 foot tall robot back to his truck to sleep on the rainy night