Chapter 13 Summary

Hiro is looking at what is left of the Nipponese man's avatar. Suddenly the lighting changes and Hiro removes his goggles. Hiro sees Vitaly is telling him its time to go. Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns are band of Soviet refugees that now play concerts in places like the L.A. river and other places where skateboarders hang out. Vitaly and Hiro drive their van around to pick up Vitaly's band equipment from another storage locker. They load up the van and drive off. Hiro connects his computer to the cigarette lighter in the fan and connects to the Metaverse. Hiro appears in his office in his house in the Metaverse and notices two new additions from the data that Juanita gave him. The first addition is The Earth, an pricey software program that allows the user to view any point on the...