Somehow they manage to extract themselves from the Mars machine men... who happily cannot leave their compound-- they needed their maintenance machines.
"Do you think these count as gray goo? Do we need a quarantine?" Asks one alien as they make their way down the mountain.
"Nah! That's only if it's nanotech. I can't believe you almost told a group of immortality AIs the truth about uploading!"
"They would have never believed me!"
7/