Lucy and her older brother crouched down as the neared the lair of their contractor, a strange person whom a fellow inmate talked about and introduced to them shortly before he was released. They didn't get his/her name and pretty much knew nothing about their contractor.

The reason why they even had this thing going on is because if they were to live outside the Asylum they had to have income after all. I ask you this, if you were wanted by the state and had to have bread in your bellies, what would you prefer, a job at perhaps a factory and have an extremely large chance of being caught and placed back in the facility or having a questionable job in terms of morality and justice and have a much much much lesser chance of being caught?

So as the siblings neared the warehouse their noses scrunched up from the smell of ozone that hung heavy in the air. The smoke from the nearby trash can fires mixed with the ozone caused a truly poisonous odor that clung to the duo's clothes and faces.

As they stood in front of the door, Luke glanced at his younger sister and she nodded. Breathing deeply, he knocked.

"Who's 'ere?" A gruff, deep voice commanded. Lucy raised an eyebrow at the voice, a bit stereotypical, isn't it?

"Crow and Paradise bird." Lucy responded. After a moment of thinking, the doorman opened the door.

He was a large, buff man with the largest nose anyone can have with only a few hairs protruding from his scalp. A baggy constructer-esce suit covered the majority of his body. He was perfectly human, dumb it seemed like, but human.

However the other occupants of the dark and moody room with only the low hanging, flickering lamp as light were far from it.

They were huddled in a group, playing some card game, poker perhaps. They were 3 women and 2 men, all with different coloured skin, and not in the usual way.

"So these are the new recruits?" A black-skinned girl asked, she was not African-American, no, her skin was tar black, as black as the night and other such dark metaphors. Her eyes shone a brilliant and light blue, the white of her eye barely being seen.

A luminescent green coloured boy nodded, not taking his eyes off his cards, his equally green eyes never leaving the same 3 cards. The other boy, the most human looking of the bunch, with Caucasian skin and gold eyes jumped from his seat and shook the sibling's hands, all four of them with only four of his six arms.

"I'm Mockingbird! It's a pleasure!" he exclaimed joyfully with a tint of an Irish accent sneaking into his high-pitched voice.

"The blokes there are Dove (the Black-skinned girl), Vulture (The Green skinned one) Duck (A yellow skinned girl with orange eyes and a fake duck bill) Pelican (The doorman) and Songbird (A purple skinned girl with amber eyes). Welcome to the Cage, Crow and Paradise bird!"

"Why are all of you wearing those suits?" Luke asked, indeed, all of the people were wearing similar suits to the doorman, or Pelican, which on closer inspection looked like some kinds of HAZMAT suits.

"It's like a uniform but also our costumes. We have to get you guys suited up too." Dove answered.

"I would think that y'all would want to see Bird Master?" Dove added, putting down her cards.

"You mean our contractor, then yeah." Luke answered. Luke was the one who spoke the most, or at least to others. In presence of friends and family he was silent like a mouse.

Dove nodded and walked up the metal, spiral staircase in the corner, to an office like door with a few stains on the door.

Neither Luke nor Lucy wanted to know from where they came from.

Dove walked down the stairs again (Scurried), and the siblings were left on their own.

Lucy raised a hesitant hand to the door and knocked once.

Great, thundering footsteps approached the door quickly and the door flew opened to meet a gigantic woman, with Olympic champion-esce muscles and a black mask over her face which looked like those from the pictures of doctors in that were there during the Bubonic Plague.

"Yes?" She asked, in a surprisingly petite and calm voice.

"We are the….Blackwater siblings, ma'am. You are our contractor?" She nodded.

"We would like to get the run down of everything, if we may."

She stepped to the side and let the duo in to the room.

The people who came out were no longer Lucy and Luke Blackwater.

Instead dressed in black came Crow, a female with a mad twinkle in her eyes and Paradise bird, all in pink and fuchsia, with no part of his body visible under his full body suit and mask.

They met their fellow Cage-mates below, all waiting for their arrival. With a small salute they vanished into the air, to the boats nearby and went on their first duty.

Crime, of course. Whatever else could it be in this day and age?