Michelle LaChance

## Background

### 1996 - 2019: Michelle LaChance

Michelle LaChance is the only daughter National City residents, George & Elizabeth LaChance. Her father worked as a private investigator while her mother worked a regular desk job from 9 to 5. George's long hours began to affect his family life, with Betty constantly begging him to spend more time with him & Michelle. George refused & his marriage suffered. Michelle never noticed her parents' problems as they usually had her play on the computer to distract her from their arguments.

When her parents got divorced, Michelle wet to live with her mother as her father's hours would not allow him to manage taking care of a pre-teen. Not understanding, Michelle blamed her mother for the divorce. To make matter worse, Betty began dating another man named Grant Halford & soon married him.

Michelle did not like her stepfather at all. He did nothing wrong though. He constantly tried to win her affections by giving her gifts & offering to hang out with her, but she felt he was just a poor man's version of her father. After a couple of years of spending weeks with her mom & every other weekend with her dad, Michelle realized that her father was the one to blame for the marriage's demise. She began to refuse to go to her father's house & locked herself in her room with her computer just like before. And so her love for technology began.

Though before she just had a simple love for computer, she soon developed a skill for them. When she graduated high school, she decided to major in computer science. She excelled in her classes, putting her in the run for class valedictorian. But not wanting to be in the limelight, she hacked into her college records & altered her grades so that she was no longer in the run. She was never caught for breaking into the system & realized she liked the rush of it. After graduating, she continued hacking into computer systems, eventually changing credit card numbers & bank accounts of government officials. She stayed undetected for some time, until she decided to go pretty extreme & hack into the terrorist group Cobra's database. Within hours, her house was being broken into by the feds & she was taken in for protection. As they interrogated her, she realized they thought she was a member. After explaining that she just had a knack for computers & recognizing she was able to hack into their enemy's computer, they realized they could make use of her skills. They decided to not charge her for any of the crimes as long as she came to work for the government.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Computer Operation:** Michelle has always had a knack for computers since a young age. What started as a fascination turned into her becoming an expert. Prior to joining the Joe Team, she has hacked into government files, manipulated the credit cards, social security numbers & bank accounts of low-ranking officials, causing them embarrassment when they'd write a check, only to find out their account had been overdrawn. She remained virtually undetectable until she hacked into Cobra's databse. Realizing her skills were good to pass on, she began working for the government & now is one of G.I. Joe's leading computer specialists.
* **Hand to Hand Combat**

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Range:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Strategy:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Combat:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **TOTAL:** 59 - Threat Level 2 / Low Threat

## Trivia

* Her alias "Last Chance" is a play on her last name.
* Firewall operates under supervision of Mainframe.
* She is the only member of the Joe Team that has not military background.
* She is best friends with Valerie Evans.

## Notes

* Firewall/Michelle LaChance is a character from G.I. Joe & its related media.
* In the series, she altered the grades of her enemy so that they would not become valedictorian.
* Her family is unique to Earth-44
	+ George Chance is an occult investigator & the Green Ghost.
	+ Elizabeth "Betty" Halford is George's ex-wife & the current wife of Grant Halford.
	+ Grant Halford is the Magnet, a former superhero turned detective.