It was supposed to be a simple extraction job.  Waltz into this factory in
Iron Heart, steal the plans for the Coalition's latest new idea, and bring
'em to Free Quebec.  Then we could go home to Lazlo and wait until the next
job.  And somebody'd be hiring us.  We're the best damn specialists in this
business.  As I said, easy job.

So easy, in fact, that one of us could have done it.  'Cept my dad demanded
the job for the three of us.  Me, my brother Ker, and Dad.  Dad wanted to 
see how the two of us would hold up on a real life job, and not just the 
training he'd put us through.  Besides, it meant more money if Ker and I
could do this sort of stuff on our own.  Then we wouldn't be mooching off
Dad.  'Sides, if Dad had gone the way of Mom...then Ker and I would be out
of luck, plain and simple.

Oh?  Y'wanna know what happened to Mom?  It's nothing much really, Mom was 
doing one of them rather dangerous jobs, even for the best in the business.
And she got caught laying the bomb.  But Mom wasn't no dummy.  She grinned
at the guards who had caught her and clicked the bomb relay open.  Took out 
a whole city block.  Luckily for the civvies, this was at 3 AM and there was
nobody around, 'cept Mom and those guards.  Dad was sad, but he was also 
really proud of Mom.  But he did tell Ker and I that we should never find 
ourselves in that situation.  The key is never to be too overconfident.  But
this is digression.

Anyway, Dad had it all planned out.  He got us all fake Coalition IDs and 
uniforms.  To anybody in Iron Heart, I was Corporal Michelle Carter, assigned
to Major Scott Wilson in his inspection trip of the Iron Heart factories.  Of
course, this was our ruse, anyway, to case the joint.  Then, we'd enter the 
factory that night, get what we needed and be halfway to Free Quebec by 
morning.  Ker played the part of Private David Martin.  Of course, we easily 
got into Iron Heart, the Coalition firmly believed Dad was an inspector.  I
wish I could say that we had nothing to do with that, but...hell, we did.
And learned the hard way again that overconfidence kills.

Alright, I admit it.  Dad was never much for the Coalition, calling them 
'brutes' and 'less than human,' and Ker and I believed him.  After all, Dad
was our taskmaster, and playing with Coalition folks was never one of the 
things we did.  'Sides, we grew up in Lazlo, and well, y'know how those Lazlo
folks feel about those Coalition folk.