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:  HOMe learns of a member of the X-Men who left.  When he sees Storm crying in her room he decides to locate the missing member, but will the sewers of Bayville remind him of his past.

A.N.:  This chapter is inspired by today's episode of X-Men: evolution. 

Chapter 10

Lost Family

Ororo Munroe came in with the other X-Men that had just been helping the Spyke and the Morlocks, but unlike the other members she ran straight to her room tears filling her eyes as she ran down the hall.  She passed the common room not even noticing that Lance and Kitty were sitting on the couch watching a movie and making out, while HOME lay contentedly at their feet.  But HOMe did not stay there for long as he saw Ororo run by he felt a sudden sadness in the air.  He followed her to her room where he heard the sound of crying.  He knocked on the door and waited for a reply, but he didn't receive anything.  Not one to be turned away from such an obstacle he ran straight to Kitty's room and jumped into his alcove which lead to the tunnels inside the walls of the mansion, he then headed to Ororo's room.  When he got there he looked through the grate to see that she was indeed crying.  He decided to comfort her.

~Ororo-Queen sad? ~ He asked from the grate.

Surprised the woman looked up and towards the grate.  "No, please leave me be HOMe… I'm tired."  He left hesitantly because he could sense the sadness in the room; he decided to see if Jean knew anything.  

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Jean was sitting in the mansion's kitchen trying to decide what to grab for a snack when she heard the window behind her shatter.  She turned around and saw a brick sailing right at her head, and before she could even react with her telekinetic powers the brick was shot aside by a large boney hand. 

~Jean-Queen ok? ~ HOMe asked as he looked outside to check where the brick had come from.  He was only partially aware of the events that had transpired in the months that he had arrived.  He knew humans were attacking mutants, but he could never understand why.  He had even asked the Professor why the humans were attacking mutants, but the Professor seemed to have no answers except to say that they were afraid.

"I'm fine HOMe, thanks." The red headed teen sighed and sat down at the counter looking at a bowl of fruit.  She didn't even think about it when she levitated an apple to her.  HOMe was still clinging to the ceiling.  "Do you need something?"

~Why Ororo-Queen sad? ~ He let himself fall to the ground.

Jean sighed; she knew this question would come eventually.  She also knew that she wasn't the one to explain it to him.  "Well, let's go ask the Professor."  Jean walked off towards the professor's study with HOMe following her.  As HOMe walked behind Jean he heard Jamie scream from behind him and he made a mental note to befriend the young boy.

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Two hours had passed since HOMe had learned of Evan and his leaving the X-Men and for some reason HOMe thought of it as his duty to retrieve the lost member.  He only needed the opportunity to leave to present itself and he knew that he would need to be quick when it did.  Thankfully Kurt had left the bathroom window open for a little to long and HOMe took the opening and bolted outside.

For the first time HOMe saw what the mutants at the manor, his family were afraid of.  So many people were gathered outside yelling and screaming, their hate radiated off them like their pheromonal auras did.  He looked for an opening to the sewers and found a small part of the street with a hole in it.  He dashed into the hole at a blinding speed and instantly wanted to return to the mansion.  These "sewers" bore far to close a resemblance to the hive passageways of his home.  He was beginning to feel a little nervous, but he continued on his journey.

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It had only taken Caliban a few seconds to locate the strange presence.  To him it felt odd almost completely inhuman.  Callisto decided to send Evan out to find this presence and if necessary deal with it, but something in the back of her mind told her that whatever it was, it wasn't alone...

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HOMe was only vaguely aware of the eerie feeling running down his spine.  The feeling wasn't new to him, it was how he survived on his home world for so long, and he could literally sense the others of his species.  He had no idea as to how since he wasn't connected to any hive, but he did not argue when the sense told him to hide.  He ran far from the eerie feeling, he kept running and wouldn't stop until it was gone.

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Evan Daniels aka Spyke was now looking for the mysterious presence that Caliban had sensed.  When he neared the area where he was told to go he heard something take off running down the sewers away from the Morlock home.  He decided to cut it off at the pass so he could question or if need be destroy it.  He ran down one of the paths in the twisting sewer system.  He came to one of the many pipes and heard running and scratching coming from it.  This was the one the presence was coming from; he slid out several spikes on his hand to make them slightly more dangerous and waited.  However when one sees a completely impossible creature running at you, your mind takes one of several paths.  Evans took the path of defending himself and readied a new set of spikes from his wrist.  When the creature burst out of the pipe it ran right past him.  Only to be followed by a much bigger creature that he knew he couldn't take.  Evan was sure that he was going to die when he heard a hiss from behind him.

~Evan-Friend? ~ He heard a voice in his head say.  He looked around and saw that it had to be on of the creatures, both of which were staring at him.  He took a guess that the voice was the smaller ones

"Yeah…" he didn't get to finish as the smaller one slammed into him knocking him out of the way of the large claw that was aimed at the very spot where he was standing.  Evan got to his feet in time to see that the smaller creature was pushing up on the huge claw trying with all of his might not to be crushed.  He slid out yet another spike, this time however he set on fire.  The larger creature stared at the boy and let out a howl of rage.  "You know you really shouldn't pick on people that aren't your size." He said as he launched the lit spike into the large monsters face.  It let out another howl, this one of agony as the seething hot spike pierced its skull.  Within seconds the creature ran off still howling in pain.  The smaller on got to its feet, its shoulder bleeding badly.

"You're hurt." Evan said as he reached for the injured creature.  It jerked away almost defensively and some of its blood splattered to the ground causing an audible his as it burned through the concrete.  "Whoa.  Nice trick."  Evan backed off and the creature seemed to relax.

~HOMe will be ok.  Evan-friend hurt? ~ Again the voice rang inside his head.

"How do you know my name?" Evan asked confused.

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A.N.: LOL I LOVE CLIFFHANGERS!  What was the strange beast that chased HOMe and attacked Evan.  Well read on to find out!