Okay, where are they gonna get that Zaku, who's gonna hook two no-name chumps up?
One salvages mobile suits for a living, the other solved a design problem that stumped the setting's equivalent of Lockheed Martin. Both managed to steal prototype mobile suits from under their owner's noses. If no one will give them a suit, they'll steal one, and if they can't steal one, they'll make one that puts the competition to shame.