With a nod, Maho turned and made her way back to her sling, hopping onto the drop-line and riding it up to the cockpit. Ladders were for suckers, anyways. After taking a moment to stow her blanket away, and connect her vest and neurohelmet to the Sling's systems, she began to go through the aggrevating start-up for her mech. The previous owner had seen fit to completely remove the voice recognition locking software, and instead install a number of multi-colored switches that needed to be flipped in the right order to properly start up. Whoever decided to do that was an idiot that needed to be shot. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't keep telling her to change the password every other month.<br/><br/>Eventually the Sling had started up, and began to purr. It was a marvel of Star League-era technology, and held up remarkably well over the years. It still had most of it's ferro-fibrous armor, and only had a slight heating issue! That's why she had the TAG Laser replaced with a heat sink in the head section, just to keep the damn thing operable until she could find someone that actually knew how to fix the problem with it. She'd been looking for that someone for the better part of two years now. With light steps (compared to the assaults and heavies in their unit) the Sling moved up behind and to the right of the Highlander. It took the rest of her savings AND a few IOU's to get her hands on an SLDF neurohelmet that could let her take full advantage of the Sling's frightening speed and awkward weight balance, and Maho was convinced that it was the only reason she was still alive, considering the close calls she'd had in the past. Now she felt as if she could make her 'mech dance . . . not that she'd ever try it. One bad fall and who knows how many LRM's she could accidently set off!<br/><br/>Maho flipped a few switches as she waited, smiling at the three green lights that informed her that her LRM-5's were active with no problems. Since her 'mech only had missile launchers and no hands, she was lucky enough to get first-pick when it came to LRM ammo. After all, if the others ran out of missiles they had backup options. If she ran out? She was in trouble.