Night 1
It was late & dark, Ash had been working the mines all day & just wanted to go homeward & work in the nocturnal garden, but a curious sound was creeping across the dunes ( a treacherous place at night & to make matters worse there been a number of grandshifter sightings lately ). Despite this, Ash had a sneaking suspicion that whatever was creating the droning tone was in need of assistance & Ash always tried to help those in need.
After cresting 3 to 4 dunes, Ash spotted a thin pillar of smoke silently creeping up the dessert skyline. Upon reaching the source, Ash was startled to find a badly damaged diminutive robotic humanoid laying in the sand next to a still slightly glitching dimensional tear. The majority of the smoke came from the roboid, but a small amount of purple/blue smoke crept from the tear. Ash carefully circumnavigated the area, gracefully avoiding the tear like a severed power cable. Ash picked up the roboid & gruffly dragged it back home.

Day 1
Ash awoke the next morning to the roboid droning on in the other room. Ash walked into the workroom & began assessing the state of things. Its legs appeared to have been mostly disintegrated in the dimensional shift, the voice it emitted was bizarre & drop pitched. Most annoyingly the roboids arm would not cease twitching & clicking. Ash reached out to examine, but it suddenly spasmed & the mangled plastic coating its extremity cut into the delicate flesh of Ash. At the sight of the injury the roboids eyes flashed pink, uttered something about medicine, then pink light projected from its ocular receivers & in a hot moment Ash was healed.

Night 2
While walking the same path taken the previous night, Ash noticed a small crowd of citizens curiously congregating in the spot the roboid had been found in. Ash pushed forward & was shocked to discover the tear had not sealed & seemed significantly larger & higher than the day prior. A couple deputies were hollering at the crowd. They were brutishly inquiring about the origins of the tear. Ash had answers, but was weary to offer them due to negative experiences with deputies in the past. Ash stealthily slipped away from the group & snuck homeward.

Day 2-4
Ash had a couple free days after completing his past work cycle & decided to spend the time doing repairs. The roboid ( while still malfunctioning ), had fairly interesting personality protocols & was generally pleasant to be around. After just a few short days the robo became part of the daily routine.

Night 5
Ash started a new work cycle that morning & was exhausted upon return to the domicile. Relaxing, Ash viewed a local info program. There was a feature about the tear. A science pro explained that the tear was beginning to become a serious problem ( wide spread time destabilization ) & conjectured that whatever came through hadnt left yet & its continued presence in this dimension is the reason why the tear refuses to mend.

Day 6-16
Ash would go to work, then come home & recount the days proceedings to the robo, then theyd watch some wave viewer & shut down. This patten occurred for several cycles, until 1 day Ash noticed the robo wasnt responding quite like it used to. After night 14 it could barely conjure together more than a monosyllabic response. Ash had done a lot of repairs to the roboid, but Ash could not risinigrate its legs & the voice box was still constantly malfunctioning. Something would have to change.

Night 16
Instead of consuming supper & watching the wave viewer, Ash suggested that the pair go out for a walk in the dunes ( well more of a drag for the robo ).
The pair walked to the tear & stood just staring at it for a while. It had grown considerably in the short duration, easily the size of 5 domiciles & ½ a klick up. Ash pondered how to get the roboid through the hole, but was unable to render a solution. Ash stood continuing to think until a voice boomed from behind:

ITS YOU ISNT IT?

Ash turned to see the biggest grandshifter ever looking directly at him. Ash could barely utter the words:

How, how… did you know… r u a telepath?

NO, I SIMPLY HAVE WISDOM BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION.

At this moment the grandshifter lurched forward & grabbed the roboid, it looked even smaller than usual clutched in that massive mitt. The shifter looked at the robo for a moment, then the expanding tear & without hesitation hurled the robo through the tear. As soon as the roboid passed through the tear, it sealed itself & shrunk down to a singularity & remained static for a moment. Then rapidly re-expanded into a massive spherical explosion that engulfed Ash!

Med report 11.18.1096
Patient found badly injured at dimensional tear site. All traces of the tear have vanished & the patient could not provide any explanation for this. First responders on scene found robotic limbs & components strewn about the area ( again, 0 explanation ). Some of the elements have fused with the patients body mass. Responders report that the components actually remain functional & the patient has chosen to leave in the fused elements despite our strong objections.