Over the span of the next week, all eight of his family members helped teach Valentine about being a T-Ghoul, and this included all of his powers; His Magnokinesis and his Kagune, which was a dual-type of a Bikaku ending in a short curved scythe-like blade and a pair of Koukaku's that resembled Tobias' twin tower shields, but were smaller, proportionate to his much smaller stature. He also had one Kakugan, his right, while his left turned a sparkling silver when using his Magnokinesis.
"So... By the look of his Kagune, she's gotten her hands onto Issacs' research into Ghouls and the T-Virus." Alice watched Valentine's practice fight with his mother's Rinkaku while herself and Tobias observed.
"Which is highly likely, given our cloning theory." Tobias replied. "But the question that's been nagging at me all week is where I saw her name after her 'death'... I swear I've seen it on a list of names."
"Might've been an Umbrella document or something, it's been almost 20 years, Toby. By now, that damn smoking should've taken a toll on at least her health, maybe even killed her."
"Not sure, but it's possible, regardless." Tobias shrugged, but then heard a vehicle pull up to the front of the house. "Someone's here."
Both Rize and Valentine heard him say the last part, and stopped their sparring to also listen as two sets of footsteps approached the front door, then knocked.
"Come around the back!" Tobias called loudly as he approached the side gate that lead to the backyard. As he reached for the latch, he suddenly heard a very unwelcome sound from one of the people. "Shit!"
Without warning, he covered Rize, Alice and Valentine with Ice Skin, then drew Silence from his belt as the frag grenade sailed over his head, only to be caught in midflight by Alice's Telekinesis and diverted over the side of the cliff before exploding at the bottom.
Just as the explosion went off, the solid wooden gate was slammed open and gun safety's were clicked off from both sides as Tobias brought his own Kagune to bear, slamming one of the attackers against the concrete wall. The other was easily grappled and disarmed of their G36 assault rifle before his foot pinned them down, but suddenly something coiled around his ankle and tried to pull. He glanced down and frowned at the sight of the familiar Quinque.
"It's been a while, Senior Investigator Akira Mado." Tobias finally turned his gaze towards the other end of the whip. "How's the new body working for you?"
Alice's eyes went wide behind the Ice Skin helmet. She'd watched Serenity and Rize eat that woman in the CCG HQ assault. Somehow she'd survived?!
"Send my regards to Amon, Frostbite!" Akira already had her grip on the Quinque changed as she tried to escape Tobias' foot on her chest, but a dark, mirthless laugh from behind his Kagune made them both turn towards the other attacker.
"Do you really still go by that atrocious name?"
"Nyet, cyka." Tobias' entire presence changed, and Valentine recognized the voice. "You should've stayed dead, mother."
"Unfortunately for you..." Balilaika continued speaking as his Kagune was pushed away from her trapped body, revealing her drastically changed appearance. "I'm not even human to begin with, Tobias Dimitri Darkwood."
She was entirely robotic, similar to Stella's cybernetic limbs in design, but full bodied, red coloured body with artificial brown hair, and her polymer-nano machine face was contorted in an angry snarl.
"YOU!" Balilaika's gaze turned towards Valentine as he approached. "I should've known my last human act would've been a failure."
"You failed, not me." Valentine sighed in a very disappointed manner as he reached up to Balilaika's face and gently cupped along her jaw. "You were T-Virus compatible from the very beginning, and you chose to discard such prime organic material for a Titanium-Carbon polymer shell. You're such an intelligent woman, but blind to the truth."
With a snarl, Balilaika shoved Tobias' Kagune aside and extended a three-piece staff from her hip, attacking Valentine with a frustrated growl, but Valentine effortlessly held her off with peels of rather feminine giggling.
"Kill that other bitch, this one's mine!" Valentine was surprisingly agile, but he'd pulled his goggles over his eyes during Balilaika's initial attack. Of course, he was speaking to his father, who was pinning Akira to the ground.
"Serenity... You're needed at the house." Alice spoke into her phone, and received a very bubbly reply.
"I'm on my way!"
"Good. Now we can enjoy Round 2." Rize was ignoring the fight between her son and mother-in-law as she stared down at the trapped ex-CCG Investigator. "And I'm sure Serenity's itching to find out how not one, but two of her kills didn't exactly stay dead."
In the ten minutes it took for Serenity to arrive, Valentine and Balilaika hadn't stopped fighting for a second. Both were relentless, and evenly matched. When Serenity pushed the gate open, her face lit up with utter glee.
"Akira's ours. Balilaika's Valentine's." Alice indicated the trapped woman. "But, when we're done, we need intel... Then we kill her."
"Again." Rize added as she rolled up her sleeves. "Darling, we'll take over from here."
"Have fun." Tobias removed his foot and dismissed his Kagune, knowing exactly what they had in mind. He also knew how Akira had originally died, all those years ago.
With a crunch of breaking metal, Valentine finally disabled his mother's body, but kept her still in a functional state as he knelt down beside her sparking head, while his father loomed menacingly over them both.
"First and foremost, you had a clone of yourself made by Umbrella to fool us into thinking you were dead. Next, after the fall of Umbrella, you stole the T-Ghoul Program's research and used it to create Valentine here. And then you have the balls to attack me with a known enemy, do you realize that I know your tricks? That I heard the grenade's pin? Or maybe... That I'm the original leader of the Syndicate?"
"If you know so much..." Balilaika's face was, for lack of a better term, fucked up, so nothing moved as she spoke, instead using a built-in speaker. "Then why don't... you know... who your successor is?"
"I don't care who succeeded me." Tobias crouched down with a dangerously neutral expression. "The problem is that the Syndicate is still functioning, even after I gave the total disbandment order to the surviving members. You can't fool the one that created your organization, so let's start with the 'why'?" Tobias narrowed his eyes. "Why did you attack us? You don't have enough combat experience yourself, and the two assault rifles, this staff of yours, and Akira's Quinque are nowhere near enough to harm even one of us, let alone me."
"We were retrieving him." Balilaika's eyes went to Valentine, who sneered. "He escaped, that's why."
"Next, why did you become a robot? And what did you mean by 'your last human act' when you spoke to Valentine?"
"I gave my body to science, then demanded to be turned into a robot to end my biological legacy. I'm not going to let my womb become a bioweapon factory, so I gave up my humanity for that sole reason."
"Well, you're fucking stupid." Valentine frowned. "When I'm done with you, you'll wish you were human again."
With that, and before his father could stop him, he grabbed her face and fried her entire system with a burst of magnetic energy, causing a visible rippling in the air as her damaged chassis went limp and the few remaining lights and all the sparks went out.
"Need a hand with whatever you've got in mind?" Tobias sighed, knowing a big project when he saw one.
"Motoko... I'll need help from Motoko." Valentine removed his hand from the remnants of Balilaika's face. "I want her staff though, got something else in mind for it... Oh, and Akira's Quinque. That too."
"Oh, wow... Wait until Motoko finds out about this!" Alice and Serenity were restraining Akira's arms with handcuffs while Rize was removing a special box from within a hidden part of her large dresser. "You know you're fucked, so be honest, Akira..."
"Fully functional in the sexual context." Akira's face was red from embarrassment. She couldn't fight off all three of them, so she'd been reduced to mere prey for the same three lesbian monsters that had killed her the first time. Of course, she had been stripped nude and their glowing gazes had fallen upon her prosthetic sex, but what they didn't know was who it was for. "You're not having your way with me like the first time, you freaks."
"Sweetie, we're just finishing what we'd started. I heard it in your voice all those years ago; You considered yourself heterosexual back then... Now, you're a lesbian, aren't you?"
Akira fell silent, glaring at Serenity's accurate observation. She had indeed reconsidered her sexual orientation since that... incident.
"It's Balilaika." Rize stated as she opened the box and sorted through it for a few moments. "Why else would the two of them be together like that?"
Akira clenched her teeth, which unfortunately gave away the truth to Serenity's smirking face.
"And now I'm sure Stella'd love to get in on this." Serenity giggled, but caught that distinctive shimmer entering the room. "Isn't that right, Stella?"
"I was gonna wait here to fuck Yuuki and Rachael, but they're not here, are they?" Stella deactivated her Therm-Optic camo and put her hands on her hips with a rather triumphant air about her. "Cyborg lesbian cougars are so fucking sexy."
"That's right, my love." Motoko also deactivated her own Therm-Optic camo as she embraced her wife from behind. "And this one's no exception." Her gaze fell upon the trapped Akira, who was only now abandoning logic and attempting to break free.
"Oh, no! No! No! NO! NOOO!" Akira begged, yanking the cuffs as hard as she could, but fell into a helpless whimpering panic as all five of them loomed menacingly over her.
