"Eyes to Ears, I've located the target."

"Ears here, details."

"Target is with red twin, near the soda machines at a table."

"Are they alone?"

"Nyet."

Eyes gulped at the sound of Yuuki's voice behind his place at the edge of a pillar. The edge of her knife at his kidney a reminder of his actions were limited.

"Syndicate..." Yuuki scowled slightly, knowing that 'Ears' could hear her over the phone in Eyes' hand. "Why are you so blindly obeying that fucking woman and her tyrade against us?"

"We all have our reasons, young Miss Darkwood." Ears replied. "Why do you fight us?"

"I don't. I just defend myself and my family when we're threatened. So why are you still shoving your nose where it doesn't belong?"

"As I just said, we have our reasons." Ears chuckled slightly. "I will say this... It's internal politics, not about you and your family."

"Oh, you mean Zen? Not surprising that you dumb fucks don't know everything. Alright, you guys go waddle around with your pants around your ankles. But any idiots that try to hurt him, or us... Well, you know our methods for dealing with pests. Do svidaniya~!" With that falsely cheery tone and a matching wave of her hand, Yuuki withdrew her kukri knife from Eyes' lower back and walked away, immediately vanishing into the crowd of students milling around the food court's many venues.

"Alright, let's start with a simple assignment; since this is an art credit, you're gonna draw a blueprint for something that you guys can see yourself building in this class by the end of the semester..." The metalworking teacher indicated the simple paper that he had placed on the workbenches before the class had begun. All of the guys were staring at the blank pages warily, unsure of what they would be able to build. Valentine was smirking as he raised his hand.

"And what materials are being permitted for this major project? I work with Quinque Steel on a regular basis for my BSAA work."

"Normal steel, copper, bronze, and brass were used last year the most. So within reason, some Quinque Steel would be understandable to use." The teacher explained. "But it won't be anywhere near as much as you'd be using at work."

"Oh believe me, I am well aware of the limitations. I did spend half a billion dollars on my current project for work, after all."

"On what?!" Several guys exclaimed in shock.

"A flying battleship and a 39 foot combat mech, plus hired the workers themselves. I even have $30 million set aside for an additional project for my ship." Valentine explained, twirling his pen between his fingers. "I'm not joking. Ask your dad, it's not exactly a top secret project." He glanced at the nearby guy that mentioned his father was Delta Team's sniper.

"Got a picture or something of it?"

"I do." Valentine produced his hologram projector from his belt of pouches, turning it on to display the same render of the Nightfall that he had shown to Congress in the spring. "The Nightfall, 600 meters long, armed with eighteen railguns and just about every conventional weapon you could put onto a vessel like this. Oh, and that mech I mentioned? Got a projector for him too. His nickname from his pilot is Rico, but his official serial ID is Cherub Class BSAA-NF01." Valentine switched projectors, replacing the Nightfall's render with Rico's.

"Looks like a Titan from the Titanfall series, but with an actual head on top of it."

"And where do you think I got the idea from in the first place?" Valentine asked pointedly.

"So you two mentioned you've got something important to tell all of us?" Alice gave Rachael and Zenith a curious stare as she and Serenity arrived after the meeting request for the whole family, plus Motoko, Stella, Jake, Sherry and Natasha, to hear what they had to say.

"Rachael's not the only clone." Zenith waste no time in beating around the bush with awkwardness. "I am the clone of Zenith Wesker, the son of Albert and Alexandra Wesker."

"Hold up..." Jake, unsurprisingly, spoke up immediately. "Aren't they siblings?"

"You say that, yet you know exactly what the two of us do to each other almost every night." Yuuki commented with a smirk. "Be real, babe. Incest isn't exactly unique, let alone rare."

"Although I appear the same age as Rachael and Yuuki, the original Zenith is 24 years old. Their coupling predates your mother's marriage to Albert, let alone your birth." Zenith explained. "In fact, from the genetic memories I have from him, Zenith was alive during the time frame that Mr. Darkwood was employed by the Umbrella Corporation, and I do remember several times where he overheard the mention of him by name, between Alex and Albert in their home." Zenith nodded at Tobias, who was in the family's big black armchair.

"So, incest aside, why the fuck are you even here? I won't say I understand the bigger picture about you, man." Jake asked with a vague wave of his hand.

"It's not what you'd expect, believe it or not." Zenith smirked for a moment. "The real Zenith began to foster romantic feelings towards Rachael after news of her new existence reached the ears of the Syndicate, and up until a recent trip of his to South Africa, he couldn't let them go, since he was all but bombarded by intel reports of your whole family daily. So, after secretly creating myself, I was given the task to befriend and foster a relationship with Rachael, in the hopes that she would return the feelings he felt towards her."

"I sense an additional aspect." Rize immediately narrowed her eyes.

"He planned to join her after defecting from the Syndicate's ranks. He did inform me before I left his side that his defection would take some time, which he entrusted me in at least presenting to Rachael the idea of being in a relationship with, as to put it simply, a pair of twin brothers."

"So it's not a Syndicate trap? Just a lovestruck boy with assets and funds on his side?" Stella glanced between the half-brothers, Jake and Zenith, her arms crossed as she raised one eyebrow. "I mean, it's kinda cute and all, but the fact it's the big boss bitch's son makes it a lot more dangerous in the long run."

"Stella's right. We already encountered Alex in person once before, it's not a far stretch to say it'll happen again, even before she gets her damned fleet of knockoff Nightfalls into the sky." Tobias nodded. "So, did the real Zenith think that far ahead, or was he too focused on Rachael?"

"He's not foolish, by any means." Zenith explained with a slight head shake. "And I am regularly updated on Syndicate politics related to his whole plan, namely his mother and her top advisors. Yes, he is one of them himself."

"So tell me... What do you think of this, Rachael?" Serenity had long since noticed that Rachael was barely talking.

"I mean... we're both clones, so we have that special connection to each other... But I... Um... If he's doing this to join Zen, and it's this large scale on his end... then he must really feel that way to me. It's unusual, for sure... And I shouldn't be talking since I do bang Yuuki, well aware of the fact that I'm her clone. It's just... Zen, and the original Zenith both treat me like I'm my own person, and not just 'Yuuki's clone' or 'Yuuki's twin' and all that crap."

"Because you are your own person. How you were brought into the world doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Nobody should be holding it against you either. You still walk, talk, think and breathe on your own. That makes you an individual person, no matter how poorly others think of you." Zenith flashed Rachael his precious little smile, and his speech was immediately rewarded by a brazen, fiery kiss from Rachael, uncaring of her family witnessing their actual first kiss as a couple as she hummed happily into his mouth.

"For that... you've earned my respect and my trust. I'm sure everyone else can agree with me." Tobias stood up from the armchair and approached Zenith as Rachael let him breathe. "And if I may be so bold, you might want to get used to that shortened nickname before your brother finally arrives here in LA... right, Zen?"