H.O.Me: A story of Family

By Xenomorph666

"Aliens" is © Century Fox Production I do not own it

X-Men: Evolution and its respective characters are © Marvel, Again I do not own them (But I sure as hell wish I did)

Summary:  In this chapter we learn a little more about HOMe, a possible threat and maybe Logan will soften up a bit… but that's a big maybe.

A.N.: Just so you know I don't plan for there to be much coverage of romances, but as you've seen before there is going to be some involvement, Mainly because soon HOMe meets some of the Brotherhood.  Oh and feel free to advise on some of their reactions.

Chapter 6

Past

Hank McCoy was know very concerned about his newest patient.  He at first thought that HOMe was simply malnourished, however those ideas quickly faded when he discovered part's of HOMe's exoskeleton that were obviously scars.  Now Hank was thinking that HOMe may have been abused before he came to the mansion.  He passed on the information to Professor Xavier who came down with Logan.

"What's this about Hank?" Logan asked very angry that he had to be dragged down to be near the creature he was still having trouble accepting.

"Well, Logan I think you may in fact owe HOMe an apology."

"FOR WHAT?!" Logan snapped

"It seems that HOMe is exceptionally protective of Kitty and himself, because…" Hank leaned over to bring up the pictures of the scars.

The Professor finished what Hank was saying, "He's been abused, and many times at that."

"So that doesn't prove anything." Logan grunted as he leaned against a wall.

"No it doesn't Logan but it does explain some of his mildly aggressive behavior." Hank stopped when he heard a voice in his head.  He flipped a switch and the screens showing the scars went back to the monitors of HOMe, he was waking up.

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The first thought in HOMe's head was that Scott was in danger, but that thought disappeared when he took note of his surroundings.  He was back in the whit room from before and he didn't know why.  He sat on a table waiting for someone to come see about him.  When the door opened his head perked up only for him to sink back as Logan entered.  Logan sat down in a chair that he had brought with him. 

"What are you?"  He asked HOMe in a cold tone.

~HOMe is HOMe. ~ Was the confused reply.

Logan shook his head "No.  Not who, WHAT?"

Home tilted his head to the side as if to think.  Logan sat back propping his arm behind the chair.  "Okay let's try something new.  Where are you from?"

HOMe responded to this by running up the walls and into the nearest grate. 

"WHAT THE?!  HEY GET BACK HERE" Logan screamed.

~Logan-Friend, HOMe is at Kitty's room.  HOMe show you there. ~

Logan just shrugged his shoulders and left the infirmary, and headed towards Kitty's room.  Maybe this thing was smarter than he thought.

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In Kitty's room HOMe was studying the computer trying to find out how to operate it, when Logan walked in. 

"You're from the computer?" Logan asked confused.

~No.  Knowledge box show you where HOMe from. ~ The voice laughed inside his head.

"Move over bugsy, let me handle it." He sat down in the chair and looked at the monitor; he was just as lost as HOMe was "So… how do you turn it on?"

HOMe just looked at him confused.  Then Rogue walked in reading one of her books.  Logan got an idea.

"Hey, Stripes.  Think you can help us out here?"

Rogue looked up from her book to see the most bizarre sight to date, HOMe sitting next to a smiling Logan who was at a computer, she was so stunned and surprised she just turned around and left the room more confused then ever before.

~Logan-Friend say something wrong? ~ HOMe asked jokingly.

"Guess so…" Logan said as he found the power button "Here we go."

It took awhile for the two minds to figure out how to work the computer, but they got it done. 

"Alright bugsy, we're on the 'net' as they say, now what?"

HOMe thought back to the week he had been hiding in the walls.  He remembered Kitty had gone to a strange sight called a search engine.  He was trying to think of its name when Kitty herself walked in. 

"AHHH!  HOMe WATCH OUT LOGAN'S…" She stopped screaming when she saw the two turn to look at her with a bewildered look.  Then her thoughts turned towards her computer "You aren't, like snooping in my diary are you?" she asked Logan.

"Nope, at least not yet, Bugsy here says that we can find where he's from on the computer."

~Search Engine. ~ HOMe's voice came into the conversation.

"Oh, that's easy, like get up Mr. Logan and let someone who knows, like what they're doing give it a try."

Logan grunted as he relinquished his seat and Kitty brought up a screen with a simple text line.

"Right so know, like what do we need to search for?"

~Stars. ~ HOMe said that one word and Logan's jaw dropped.  Kitty just typed in the word and got so many results that she was confused.  HOMe stared at the screen and pointed to a result.  ~There. ~ Kitty clicked on it and the screen instantly turned into a map of the known universe.

"You gotta be kidding me!  YOU'RE AN ALIEN?!" Logan yelled, HOMe just nodded "Then how did you get here?"

~Hunters, Hunters bring HOMe.  Try to hunt HOMe, but HOMe run away. ~

Logan thought on this "What Hunters?"

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A.N. 2: Oooh.  An allusion to Predators!  YAY!