Story ideas

Some of these are a mix of what some other people posted with some of my own as well.

Perhaps the beginning can start off with Ben playing Tactigon 2000 in his room obsessively and doesn't even realize what is going on around him. He is glued to the screen and is reaching up to level 999 and is almost at the highest level with the highest score ever. Ben is obsessive compulsive and has to have everything near him in order or else he cannot concentrate on his game. He even throws out perfectly good electronics and things if there is a small scratch on them or dent that he can barely see. He is even wearing his favorite Tactigon 2000 t-shirt with a cape and underwear over his clothes because he is so obsessed. As Ben plays, he is in a trance with a blank stare with his mouth gaping open as he is addicted to this 8-bit sci-fi game.

However, after digging through Ben's family's garbage can, Squeak normally does this as Ben's garbage is a gold mine for various things. Squeak picks out food, can openers, shirts, watches, and anything he can find that fascinates him. He has an eye for bright and shiny things that move and blink. Squeak stops for a moment near the garbage cans and starts to fall into a similar trance as he stares blankly through the window near Ben at the computer screen with his mouth gaping open. Squeak says "Cheee!" He then shakes his head and looks over at the plug near the house.

Squeak then curiously looks around the house as Ben is playing Tactigon 2000 and finds an enormous plug and tugs at it. Ben's computer screen has a pop up and says "Save Game?" and as Ben goes to click on "Yes" Squeak pulls the house plug and everything in Ben's house goes dark. Followed after Squeak's plug pulling is a short pause from Ben and then a high pitched scream shortly afterward. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!" and Ben takes a flashlight with a baseball bat and starts running in the house trying to figure out what is going on. Soon Ben goes outside and shines the light onto Squeak. Ben screams, "What are you doing with that plug??? GIVE IT BAAAACK!"

Squeak, holding the plug in his hands runs from Ben. However, Ben chases Squeak around the yard and tries to hit Squeak. Squeak scurries and deflects some of Ben's hits with a trash can lid as a shield and takes a small gardening shovel as a sword. Squeak tries to poke at Ben with the shovel as he deflects Ben's hits. Leaving the end of the plug behind him, Squeak fends off Ben with his backyard weapons.

However, Ben runs and trips over a garden hose and hits his head into a tree. Ben lays on the ground knocked out cold. Squeak shivering with tense muscles with his trash can lid and small garden shovel walks towards Ben and starts to poke him. With no reaction from Ben, Squeak happily drops his accessories and scurries over to pick up the end of the plug. He then scurries over towards the hole in the tree that he lives and disappears with the plug in his little den.

Ben wakes up shortly with blurred vision and his ears prick up to the sound of Tactigon's main theme song. Ben murmurs with half opened eyes "Tacti...gon.." As Ben rolls over and pears into Squeak's den in the hole of the tree. Ben screams with a high pitched "TAAAACTIGON!!!!" with wide eyes. which startles Squeak as he pauses the game. Ben looks at Squeak and realizes that Squeak has foraged through the garbage and has taken his old computer and is playing the other disc of Tactigon 2000 that Ben had that had a slight scratch on it.

Squeak, scared holding the game controller up into a ball and shakes. Ben then says, "Hey you're really good" as he looks at Squeak's high score. He also looks at Squeak's username which says "Squeak." Ben then asks, "Squeak, can I play with you? I NEED to beat the ultimate magma fire throwing two headed alien with laser cannons at the end!!!" "Squeak nods and hands Ben a second controller.

Squeak and Ben resume the game and then go into a trance as the bright lights and moving objects put them into a trance. Their fingers work vigorously as they drool and stare blankly into the screen. Night then become day and they still haven't budged from their gaming positions and postures. However, after a while both of them collapse as their bodies give way to sleep.

Ben sleepwalks and gets his foot caught into the rope of the flag pole and ends up sleeping upside down. Ben's parents come home and see Ben sleeping awkwardly and snoring in his Tactigon 2000 shirt, cape, and underwear hanging upside down by his foot. They look at each other in shock with confused looks as the backyard is a mess with their son sleeping upside down on the flag pole. They then take a pictures and stick it in a pile of other pictures of extremely awkward moments their OCD sleepwalking kid has done.

I tried making this funny and ridiculous as the tone of the story but I'm sure that it needs more revision and flushed out concepts.