Austin Byrd is a dreamer. He's a misfit. Austin doesn't go looking for trouble. The problem is trouble generally comes looking for him. Take that unfortunate business at Ronnie Reagan Middle School. Setting a teacher on fire and blowing up the Band Room. That was just an accident. But that other thing. That lollapalooza laser fight at the Fairchild Funny Farm, that was intentional. Austin meant that. Every bit of it. That's why a top secret government agency has chosen Austin to find and defuse the Doom's Day Device. An extraterrestrial bomb that is about to blow up planet Earth.