Summary

In the section “Rat Boys from Mars, and an Unfortunate Incident Involving an Inflatable Whale” Robby and Austin are fired at with real guns by their next-door neighbor as they leave Austin’s house carrying their paintball guns. Austin writes about how the next-door neighbor’s son has only one testicle because one of them was damaged when it got stuck in an inflatable whale during the boy’s ninth birthday party. When the Elgins realized it was Austin and Robby, they went back to packing their camper in their effort to escape from Ealing.

In the section “The Battle of Del Vista Arms” Austin thought about the way life had been normal just one week prior. After they had gotten beat up by...