Post-Insilico

The decision to leave the Shades, came at the end of someone attacking with 'irritant bombs'.  not known to cause destruction, the munitions had been designed to disorient and annoy.  Phee had set out over the Shade.net the message "This is the last straw, I'm leaving this city, anyone who wants to come with, follow"

A full 90% of those in the shades, either followed Phee, or left for their own path.  209 stayed behind to clean up loose ends, including wiping anything useful from the Shade.Net and readying the code in case another was needed.  She left the gynoid she had been inhabiting, having the assorted junkbots she viewed the city through pack Ice up and prepare the android shell for shipping.  As the irritant bombs ceased, 209 whatched from the Symbol Monkey as IPS tried to save face by 'seiging' the Shades, seiging a largely empty area populated by the occasional broken robot, and homeless bum too stubborn to leave.  As IPS stood there for hours shouting into it through their PA, tossed krak-bang grenades to try flushing someone out, and as the media arrived,  even paid actors to come stumbling out to be 'arrested'.  209 eventually grew bored and left Symbol monkey, who waddled off to wherever his limited AI took him.

By now, it was time to leave, the package had been shipped, Phee contacting the infomorph with a location, and a temporary secure uplink with a 5 minute window, it took 209 5 seconds. 

She passed from the city network, through the world grid, latching to a lone pathway spiraling out of the larger framework.  Zipping down the line, she saw the light at the end, and sped through, just as it closed shut, terminating the datastream.  

Opening the artificial eyes of Ice, 209 sat up and looked around her, seeing the bright room around her, she stretched as she felt the vibrations of an engine, they must be on a ship or craft of some sort.  She got up and walked out the door, into a nicely decorated living room, there were a couple comfortable seats, art and old fashioned books on the walls, and a fireplace, that had to be a hologram.  

Sayer was sitting comfortably in one of the chairs and waved cheerfully, "Welcome aboard! you should take a look on the top deck! the view's amazing!"  209 smiled ad took the stairs up, coming to the deck, she saw open sky, and some sort of solar sail,  and Zeibzen and Phee leaning on the edge.
As 209 joined them and looked over, seeing clouds beneath them, Phee smiled "Sorry about the time limit, but we didn't want anything following you, welcome aboard the Airship Utopia"