In a small town within California known as the Bay Area, we look to a certain house on a slant with a boy in a specific house. That boy in that house, named Tommy Turnbull, is about to have his life changed forever on his special day.

In Tommy's bedroom – which had many action figures on a shelf, as well as a TV in his room – an older nice lady, his mom, carefully crept up to him while his son was sleeping, bearing a wide smile on her face. "Good morning my little sweetie, happy birthday!" She suddenly spoke to him, startling him awake.

Tommy gasped as he woke up with surprise, remembering it was his birthday, then smiling. "Thanks, mom! I can't believe I'm 10 already. Time sure does fly." He responded back, in an excited tone.

"It's no problem sweetie. Now you need to get dressed soon. Lola and Gus said they would be here within the next hour. We don't need the birthday boy still in his PJ's when his friends are coming over, right?" Deb giggled after suggesting that.

Tommy nodded in response.

As she was leaving his room, she had one last thing to tell him. "Oh, by the way, I got your surprise gift from outside in. It doesn't say who it's from, but I think it's for you. I put it in your room, so you can go open that first." She instructed him before leaving the room.

"A surprise gift for me?" Tommy questioned, then saw it in the middle of the room.

He got up from his bed to walk to it, then sitting down to unwrap it. It looked like a uniquely shaped backpack with robotic pail-shaped "ears" coming from it.

Tommy was impressed by the backpack already. "Wow! Looks like I can go to school with more style. But I wonder if there's stuff inside it..." He decided to open it himself.

That's when he gasped to see what was in there. It looked like a small robot with a watch close to it. Near the robot were two batteries, most likely needed to power it up.

Tommy inserted the two batteries into his shiny, blue and white gift.

Then he started looking for a power button on the robot, but one was nowhere to be found.

"What? It needs batteries but there isn't a power button...? I'll look for it later, I want to check that watch as well." He thought.

Confused, he decided to take a look at the watch, the other item that was in the backpack.

It didn't look like a normal watch, as it didn't show the time nor anything else.

It seemed to be shut down. Only then he noticed some buttons near the watch's edges.

"Maybe one of these buttons turn him on. I hope so, as I don't see any power buttons on the robot..." Tommy whispered to himself, thinking the buttons can turn him on.

He tried to press the one on the top-left corner and Tommy suddenly became surprised: he saw the robot become slightly bigger and its "ears" extending outwards.

Tommy's eyes widened with surprise. "Oh my goodness!" He quietly exclaimed. "The robot is alive!"

The small screen on the watch turned on as well, showing a battery meter.

The robot backed to the corner of the backpack, pretty shaky and scared, not knowing who Tommy was.

"Hey, it's okay, I'm not going to hurt you." Tommy told the scared robot in a gentle, sweet voice of assurance. He held out his hand for the robot. "Let's get you out of there first."

The robot stopped being shaky and decided to trust Tommy, even if he was a stranger right now in his eyes. He took his hand, and Tommy helped him out of the backpack so he could've seen his full surroundings.

The robot looked around his surroundings. Tommy's bedroom was much bigger than the backpack, and strangely enough for him, he seemed already right at home.

"This is my bedroom," Tommy explained. "It's the place where I hang out with my friends. By the way, my name is Tommy, Tommy Turnbull. Can you say my name?" He asked the cute robot.

The robot merely smiled and waved at him, but it didn't say a word. This got Tommy to think that the robot couldn't speak just yet.

"Seems like you can't talk yet. But don't worry, that's not a big problem and you'll gradually learn how to talk with time passing. Also, you won't be on your own, I'll help you with that!" Tommy said to assure the robot.

But all of a sudden, the watch on Tommy's wrist emitted a bright blue light from its screen. The light started displaying an old man dressed in a scientist attire.

The scientist looked to see Tommy, and all the stuff he had, including the watch on his wrist. "Oh! I see my package has just arrived. Wonderful." He looked pleased.

Tommy got surprised to see the scientist appear as if it was part of what the watch did. "You sent that stuff to me? No way!" The shock then turned into happiness, seeing he was sent all that gear.

"Yes, Tommy. I got your letter, and I thought this would be the perfect response to it, by giving you my latest creation to keep it safe." Moshimo explained.

Tommy looked back to the robot, then to the Professor. "So... you made the robot I just turned on?" He asked, pointing over to his new gift.

He nodded with a smile on his face, then saying to him. "Tommy: I want you to meet Robotboy."

Tommy, then hearing the robot's name, understood it was a name that would have been stuck in his memories. Robotboy. "Robotboy... Wow, that's a nice name for him, Professor Moshimo." He smiled, liking the name, and choking up a bit, with happiness though. "Really. And thanks. It's just that I had a not so eventful summer and my older brother has always been picking on me, and I-I never thought something as g-good as this would ever happen to me..." He explained too.

Robotboy got by Tommy's side happily to see him talk so highly of him, and also to see his creator, and waved, seeing the Professor again.

Moshimo could hear from Tommy's voice that he's had it rough, and this was something that he really needed, so he didn't dismiss what Tommy said at all and took it into account.

"I understand, Tommy." Moshimo said in a sympathetic tone. "But now, you'll always have someone by your side as long as you protect him too. If you ever need any help with Robotboy, I'm a short call away. Just touch the top right button of your watch and it will automatically call me." He explained.

Tommy looked to the top right button, which had a phone symbol on it, while the bigger battery logo was in the middle of the screen. "Okay, got it!" He understood him.

"Take care, Tommy. And remember, Robotboy needs to be kept secret from strangers and others. We don't want him falling into the wrong hands." He warned just before his hologram fizzled away to end the call.

"The Professor said I should keep you a secret, Robotboy... but I think I know a few people that would like to see you and maybe help keep the secret." Tommy spoke up to the robot.

Robotboy's ears raised as he realized he would've had the possibility of meeting people that Tommy likes. If he liked them, they had to be good for him to meet as well. Those people were Tommy's friends, Lola and Gus. But the question now is, how will he present his new discovery to them?