((*opens door slow and nervously* Can I come in late??))

Antonia had been looking for her sister, when she heard this, and was now watching the scene from the shadows, "....Kefka...why does that sound familliar?" she whispered to herself.

"....How old's Abel?"

Kari asked after a minute,noting it all in her head,while her eye twitched.

Her and Zanguine had rules. NO KILLING KIDS.

"Techiclly? less than a few monthsssss..Visually? He is 10. Mentally? He is older than time itsssself." Said he.

"But..alassssss. We have an eavesssdro-pper.." said the G-man in acknoledgement of the stranger.

Kari blinked then yelled with an anime big head almost comically

"I AIN'T KILLIN' NO KIDS!!!! Dammit! Why does NOBODY other then Zanguine-teme see how HORRIBLE that is!?"

"It is merely the avatar of U-DO. U-DO issssss no m-ere child. His form is simpley of one. Your morality should not be affected b-y the dessstruction of his avatar..." said the G-man

"Yes it will.If it looks like a kid,I'm not killing it. I don't do kids or parents with kids. Plain and simple."

Kari said with her eye twitching liking this mission less and less by the minute.

"You have no choice in the matt-er. You will kill him...or you will be killed yoursssssself."

"....I'll beat the crap out of him. Fuchia or Noah could blow him up."

Kari said depressed chibi knowing this was NOT going to be a fun mission.

Antonia fell out of her hiding spot with a loud crash, "OW!......." She hoisted herself up off the ground rubbing her side, "Killing children? I don't particularly like the sound of that."

"Mordecai. Pleassssse apprihend the tresssssssspassser." Said the G-man.

"Got it boss." Said a voice from above. And then, a man with a gas-mask over his face....er...half of it. His eyes were colored, and most of the top of his head, but his jaw, cheeks, and the back of his head was expposed. He had a sniper rifle on his back, a revolver in his holster, and a machete on his back. His outfit was made of dusty leather, and covered his body. There also was a gigantic bird in the sky by him.

"Yo, Armagus."
"Hey Mordecai."
"Gimme a sec, Armagus. I gotta take care of somethin'"

Apparently, Armagus and Mordecai knew each other. But more important things were to be pondered. Who was Mordecai? Whats up the that bird? Is this an origonal character or something from another media source? Whatever the question in your head, it'll have to wait, as Mordecai signaled his bird to fly at Antonia. It so it did, peaking, biting, and clawing at her flesh.

Kari didn't think such questions. She voiced the first one that came to mind.

"Armagus,there's freakin TWO of you?"

The similarity was definitely there after all.

"Hm? Oh, no. This is Mordecai, Hunter of animals and of people. He was the first person I ran into when I escaped the facility that created me." explained Armagus. The only real similarity between the two visually was the gas-mask, but Mordecai's looked much diffrent. It had square eye-ports, and was made of 'duster leather' as Mordecai called it. He also had black hair in a pony-tail on the back of his head, and, ya'know...skin.

".....Animals and people?"

Kari squeaked hiding behind Armagus comically,could you blame her?,since she counted as both.

"That'd be just about right." Said Mordecai. He nodded his head at Antonia and they would notice she was head-to-toe covered with rope, a black piece of tape was over her mouth, and his machete was sticking out of her Mechanical arm.

"Save me!"

Kari squeaked clinging to Armagus childishly with her tail between her legs. He worked for G-Man. She could only imagine what hell he could cause for her from not 'cooperating' with G-Man.

This was NOT going to be fun.

"Hey, Mordecai, why are you workin' for this a^^hole?"
"He offered me money."
"How much?"
"I can legally but a third-world country right now."
"HOLY FRICKY FRIES!"
"Pretty Much."

The G-man sighed. He didn't seem to have Mordecai loyal to him, or else he would have said something about the a^^hole part.

Mordecai's Bird then came down and perched itself on his shoulder, and let out a 'ca-caw'

"Is she...scared of me or somethin'?" Asked Mordecai at Kari.

"HE *pointing to G-Man XD* is BLACKMAILING me to do crap....again.....And I do not want to IMAGINE what you could do to me!"

Kari said anime crying scared-Genji looking chibi behind Armagus

((Um...is it too late to jump in? I have a good resume. *hands in application*))

"Oh don't worry. You've got Armagus here to protect 'cha." said Mordecai chuckling abit.

"What ever happened to the time where you assassinating that polition? C'mon, show some respect. Mordecai is one of the single best hitmen and assassins out there. Has never once missed a shot during an assassination attempt." Armagus said.

(C'mon in.)

"Your not assuring me my damn undead monkey Jack!!!!"

Kari whined feeling like a little kid that was stubborn enough to believe there was a Boogey man under the bed.

Ironic that she had no problem with Jackal,but was scared half to death by him.

((Sweetness! XD))

Toshiro was eavsdropping on the conversation polishing his gun.

None of these people can't go a day without killing someone or scaring them TO death, can they?

"Lady, I do believe you are paranoid. Don't tell me you've never meet another certified taxidermist." said Mordecai sighing, with a little laughted shoved in there afterwards. He cracked his knuckles a bit "And what makes you think I'll shoot you?"

"Because you work for Hissy-Hissy.Who's very annoyed with me at the moment for my standards."

Kari said sweat dropping as she added shuddering

"And you'd be paranoid if you knew half the people I do."

Toshiro chuckled a little to himself and said jumping down from where he was with a small grin, "Hey, G-Man, mind if I join in on this little party?"

"Thisssss isssss why I wanted to me-et in the church...Do you have any skillsssss in combat?"

"And? I'm with this guy for the money. If he told me to shoot you, I'd likely fake your death instead or somethin'"

"Can't fake it with G-man...He knows things."

Kari said paranoid chibi while Hades said sighing lightly and coming up to the group with a HUGE cup of coffee saying taking Kari from Armagus' leg and making her drink her coffee

"Calm down and drink your caffeine....Which would normally do the opposite but it calms you down."

"Plenty."

Toshiro said simply putting his gun in its holster. "Besides combat, what other requirements do I need?"

"How does tha- Never mind. I don't really wanna know." Asked Mordecai. "So what do you do Cat-lady?" He Inquired.

"Hi Shiro."

Kari said noticeably calmer now and said to Mordecai still wary about him

"Shoot people,save the world,deal with psycho's on a daily basis,apparently have to go against my koibito (lover/sweet heart XD) who I killed about a year ago and just got over and bang he's alive again and on the other side. Fun huh?"

"Yo...so your boyfriend is a Testament?"

Toshiro said nodding his head towards Kari and added chuckling to himself, "What dramatic irony."

"Ouch. Thats gotta suck. And we gotta kill 'em, right?" Asked Mordecai, in a semi-sympathetic manner.

"Mhmm...The white one. Apparently the 'holliest' of all of them. Ironic that I made holes in him."

Kari said with a shrug,clearly passing it off as less of a problem as it was,and drinking more of her coffee as she added death glaring G-Man

"And I do NOT do kids!"

"You put thouse limitations on yourself...their likely to get 'cha killed." Noted Mordecai.

"Plus, according to him, it's just someone who LOOKS like a kid. It's actually an infant considering the time it has been alive."

Toshiro said simply and added to G-Man, "And, I'm like her. If the person's not over sixteen, I won't kill them."

"I don't care. I'm not a psychopath who wants blood. I'm not Jackal."

Kari said pouty chibi as she added sipping her coffee "And I said I will not kill kids,not that I won't beat the crap out of them if they piss me off."

"Man, thats way to high for an age cap. It'll get 'cha killed one of these days. You gotta be ready to kill anything, or just go home."

"I've got no home. Plus, it's the way I see things so deal with it. I'll at least let the kids experience life a little, then take it away from them."

Toshiro said bluntly with a sigh at the end.

"They're people. And if you have no problem killing people, you should have no trouble killing their smaller and more stupid varients, children." Said Mordecai.

"It's different when you grew up in that environment though."

Kari argued shaking her head and said firmly finishing the coffee "No kid should have to bury their parents at any age younger then 18 and then have to deal with staying alive themselves."

"Heh, if that's the situation, then why are you allowing some of them to help you out on this mission?"

Toshiro asked coldly with a hard look in his eyes. "Plus, the person has to have done something I can't stand or something immoral. I just don't go around killing anyone."

"But they still do. No point in it all anyway. Just shoot whoever you want, but I'm tellin' ya, your likely to be hammering in the nails into your coffin if you don't kill children when you need too."

"I got enough blood on my hands,I don't need kids blood."

Kari said getting off her coffee cup and said bluntly while looking around just WAITING for knives to come out of nowhere

"And I'm not Jackal,I don't just go around shooting people just because I enjoy it."

"Half-killing the kids and killing them are entirely different things. Kids are some of the easiest minds to change; just take a few seconds to explain your motive and watch how many lives you can save."

Toshiro said with a sigh.

"That ain't what I'm implying. And, newsflash, the kids are just as big an a^^hole then their parents."

Kari had an anime arrow go through her and she said with her eye twitching while Hades was backing up from Kari sweat dropping

"Oh really? You believe in the like parent like child crap huh?"

"Yeah, they're obnoxious, annoying, and half the time the thing you never want to be around. Still, destroying a child's innocence and their chance of living is destroying our future in the long run."

Toshiro said smiling a half smile and added sweat dropping to Kari, "Of course, kids are their own being and don't ALL the time like their parents..."

"One child a future does not make. Further more, if your a killer, you don't the right to a consious. There ain't no rest for the wicked."

She jammed her overly-big metal fingers into the skull of the bird, "Die dammit!!!" and the bird fell limp (but not completely dead). "Ugh...." Antonia wiped at her bleeding flesh, "What a welcome wagon." She slumped against the wall, " What you say is true though," She huffed, " once a sinner, always a sinner."

"Huh? Oh? Your still awake lady?" Asked Mordelai. "Please do not touch Roland." he added, noticing the attacking of his bird.

"....Ya know. I'm gonna use that as my reason for never being able to sleep and have people nagging me about it."

Kari said with a chuckle before turning to G-man and asking raising her eye brows

"Are we goin' or what?"