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:  I've skipped a month ahead in the story's timeline.  The X-Men are now going to school; a foreign subject to HOMe, so you just know hilarity is going to ensue.

A.N.: Um, nothing so far… Oh wait, this chapter will feature, I believe the term is Jott… please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Chapter 7

 NO PETS ALLOWED

HOMe woke up in his small alcove and shifted silently, it had been a couple of weeks since Hank ordered him to relax and eat more nourishing foods.  And although Kitty didn't like thee new idea of her cooking HOMe's meals (which now consisted heavily of meats) she did it anyways.  After a few more minutes of lying down the lazy alien crawled out from his alcove hoping to see Kitty and Rogue still sleeping, instead they were gone and their beds were made.  Confused HOMe silently fell to the floor and skittered to the door and bolted for the common room, the only other place he could think of where they might be.  When he arrived to find no-one in the common he decided that they were training in the Danger Room.  The mere thought of the damned room sent a slight shiver up his exoskeletal spine causing his tail to thrash wildly.

"Whoa there Bugsy, watch where you're waggin' that thing!" a surprised Logan said from behind him "Hey aren't you supposed to be resting?"

Home turned to face the gruff man who had recently started to accept him, ~Where Kitty-Queen? ~ He asked sounding a little sad that he couldn't find her.

"Huh, oh, she's in school now.  Don't worry she'll be f..." before Logan could finish HOMe was already gone and out the door "Well this'll be an interesting day for her." He mused over his coffee.

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It took HOMe just short of an hour to track Kitty down.  When he finally found her the only thing he could tell was that she was located in a giant building with others of her approximate age.  Not wanting to cause a commotion and from natural instinct to avoid detection he crawled into one of the closest air vent grates and made his way inside.  He was actually amazed at the complexity of the schools air vent system, the mansions was no where near complex, but he had come here to find Kitty and keep her safe, not to enjoy a large maze. 

It took him almost five minutes to locate two other students from the institute.  Scott and Jean were hiding in a small cramped room with a lot of chemicals and to HOMe's amusement they were engaged in a courting ritual, Rogue had called it "sucking face" as a joke.

~Jean-Queen help find Kitty-Queen? ~ He asked the red head Telepath whose eyes flew wide open from the mental message she was receiving and she pushed Scott away.

"What, was it something I did?"  a confused Scott asked

"No," Jean said slightly coughing from the surprise of HOMe's presence "HOMe is here Scott.  He's looking for Kitty."

Scott frowned and started to look around the room for a grate or vent, "Found you, now get out of here and go back home before I blast you there."  He heard a hissing sound from the vent and a skittering sound.

"He's not going to listen to you Scott.  I mean after all you did try to blast him while he was recovering."

"He's dangerous."

"He hasn't shown any signs of being dangerous, besides he did protect you from those crazy monsters in the Danger Room."  Scott frowned and opened the closet door carefully trying to avoid any detection.  He realized he failed when someone jerked open the door and he and Jean came toppling out.  When he looked up he saw Lance Alvers aka Avalanche aka Kitty's boyfriend aka Scott's nemesis, holding the door handle.  What he didn't notice was that Logan was standing on the other side of them.

"There you go Wolvie, two love-birds in the closet for ya." Lance held out his hand as if to receive payment for his deed.

"You're dating Kitty; consider that fact that I don't kick your ass out of the mansion payment." 

Lance smiled and shoved his hand back into his pocket with a stupid grin on his face, "Right, good idea." He said as he sped off.

Scott and Jean both got to their feet blushing like maniacs.  Logan just raised his eyebrow, "Listen we can talk about this later but right now…"

"HOMe's in the school, we know, we know." Scott finished for him sounding annoyed.

"Well at least we know he's in the air vents and not walking around like he does at the mansion." Jean said.

"Right and how long do you think he'll stay like that once he sees Kitty?"

"I'll go get her and bring her to the nearest grate." Jean volunteered.

"Right…" Logan was now getting a headache "One-eye, you come with me."

Scott just grunted and followed Logan as they split up.

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Kitty was sitting nervously in history trying to take notes, but she was continually distracted by the urge to look at the air vents.  She didn't know why but she thought she felt HOMe was nearby.  Her suspicions were confirmed when she saws HOMe's face in the grating of one of the air vents.  Now she was panicked, if the teachers saw him they would go ballistic!  She quickly thought up an idea and raised her hand.

"Yes Kitty, what is it?" Her teacher asked.

"Umm, Like can I use the restroom?" her teacher pointed to a pass hanging on the wall.

"And Ms. Pryde do hurry back." Her teacher smiled.

Kitty bolted down the hallway and almost ran straight into Jean.

"Jean we like, so have a HOMe related catastrophe about to happen!"

"I know, he saw me and Scott earlier and tried to get us to help him find you." Jean noticed the bathroom pass and grabbed it "Perfect" she said as she ran to the restroom with Kitty in tow.

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In the restroom Jean made sure that no one else was in any of the stalls.  Then she used her telepathy to contact HOMe.

~HOMe, follow my directions to the girls restroom. ~ She said to him.

~HOMe is already here silly. ~ His voice laughed in their heads.  Kitty looked into the wall vent and straight at him.

"HOMe, like go back to the mansion." She said in a stern voice.

~But HOMe protect Kitty-Queen… ~ he was cut off

"No, not now HOMe.  Now I need you to like go back to the mansion and stay there until I come back ok?"

HOMe hung his head a little and nodded then he turned around and skittered out of the school.