

In the Metaverse, a computer generated virtual reality, Hiro's old girlfriend Juanita tells him something big is up, and gives him a library of information. Lee's Greater Hong Kong franchulate, they get to see a Rat Thing, a cybernetic security device that is made from "biological components".

calls up Hiro to help get her out of a jam with the MetaCops, and they then agree on an intelligence partnership, with Hiro splitting the proceeds of any profitable intelligence that Y.T. gets noticed by Uncle Enzo, the head of Nova Sicilia. does successfully deliver the pizza, much to the chagrin of the customer, and in the process, Y.T. offers to deliver the pizza for Hiro, which saves Hiro's life from the Nova Sicilia organization who owns the pizza company. is being pulled behind by her harpoon, or "poon". Hiro lands his pizza delivery car in a burbclave pool while Y.T. Hiro uploads information to the CIC database, and if anyone buys the information, Hiro gets paid. Hiro is a freelance hacker who works as a stringer for the Central Intelligence Corporation in his free time.

Hiro and Y.T., along with Hiro's old girlfriend Juanita, race to stop a plot masterminded by a religious business monopolist that would brainwash the masses and knock freelance hackers out of commission. Hiro Protagonist, freelance hacker and the greatest sword fighter in the Metaverse, teams up with Y.T., a fifteen-year-old female courier, to delve into a mystery that mixes Sumerian myth with virtual reality in a gritty cyberpunk setting.
