This installment of Artifact X contains multiple chapters.

CHAPTER THREE

Brant and Thu’s crazy and elaborate plan to smuggle our hero out of his Fort Granger army base home faces its ultimate test. What will prove stronger? The alertness and mental acuity of highly trained U.S. military installation guards?

Or the power of five-star-reviewed coconut shrimp and banh mi sandwiches from South Texas’s favorite Vietnamese restaurant?


CHAPTER FOUR

The boys have gotten themselves this far. But they still have a long way to go. About a hundred and fifty miles, as a matter of fact! That’s, like, five hundred in kid distance.

Getting to the Robo-Ruckus and back is no small trick when it involves needing to jaunt from one big city to another, with hundreds of pounds of robot parts packed in crates. And no grown-ups whatsoever willing to drive you. But Brant and Thu turn out to have adult supervision of kind, after all. That is, if Brant’s Uncle Clive can rendezvous with the boys without killing himself, and every other motorist in downtown San Antonio, first.