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Aurora spent almost no time in the Locker Room after storing her outer wear, she had long ago gotten used to the feel of her pilot’s suit. She wore it everywhere, and at nearly all times after all. It was as much a second skin for her as possible. One of the few things she did do was exchanging her glasses for contacts. The other was to take a moment to ponder if her paints were needed for this.

She decided against it. Invoking the Ladies was not meant for these occasions.

She spent another moment standing outside her designated with a faint grimace. But she quickly shook it off and climbed inside. 

Once she was seated and her helmet on the intimately familiar cockpit of Sleeping Thunder was before her. It was an older layout still, even with all the work that Lorenzo and other had done to it. There were dozens of dashboards before her, multiple joysticks and command leavers, hundreds of switches and dials. And just as many displays for all of Sleepy’s arsenal. 

But the artificiality of it itched at her. As it always did.

Never the less she hooked up her suit to the Nural jacks, the dozen or so cords linking up along her spine calmed her in a way that went beyond words. Still, she was meticulous, bordering on obsessive, as she brought her Frame online. Flicking switches, and turning dials. But when she felt its engine rumbling roar reverberate through her. She knew this would be different from her other experiences with VR.

[color=6ecff6][i]‘Seems they found a way to actually bring you in here at last Sleepy.’[/i][/color]

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The behemoth crouched and stretched as they came online. rocking forward and backwards and side to side as their numerous guns cycling through configurations and test runs. In a final showing the centeral core would rotate around fully as sensor sweep went out. Only then would Sleeping Thunder tag Atty, Logic, Raptor, Shiva, Horst, Dragonfly, and Zero as Friendlies. 

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[color=6ecff6]“Sleeping Thunder is five by five and ready to roll out.”[/color] Aurora would reply crisply, as she set her Particle cannon to start charging and for the HYDRA Shells to be loaded.

Aurora would treat this as a full mission. Which meant no mercy for her enemies.

She then began to tab through her comm settings [color=6ecff6]“This is Sleeping Thunder, we read you loud and clear Logic.”[/color]  

[color=6ecff6]“And Shiva the Professor is enough of a bastard to keep something like this from us. But I agree caution is warranted.”[/color] At the same time, she sent a pair of beeps at Mema-Ka. Acknowledging and thanking him for taking the task of first contact with the unidentified Frame.

She also heard, and dismissed the incoming comms chatter from Mango. Absently deleting the data packet sent along side it. They were the ‘Enemy’ right now. Nothing they had to say was worth the air spent on it.