Guardian: My city, my protectorate
By Xenomorph666
Disclaimer: I own Vile, HOMe, Macto and the Angel twins. Everything else is owned by Marvel or Disney. Mike Harrigan is owned by FOX as well as Aliens.
Summary: 1 year after his defeat by HOMe and acceptance from the Morlocks, Vile has found his way to LA and adopted it as his home after a fateful night full of tragedy.
Booyah: A Mystique/Vile Romance… hmm has merit but it wouldn't be so much a romance as animal lust. HOMe will continue after this story. I need to take my creative energies and focus them, otherwise it'll be like crab-patties exploding out of my brain.
Riye Linkl/ Reue: Wow, slow down the sugar consumption I write as I get motivation. Right now I have some, other times I won't.
Evil Clone #2: Macto Perfected
As Mystique trailed the mysterious alien being she became acutely aware that something was very off. Usually Magneto would have contacted her by now, or at least sent the lumbering fools he called warriors with a message. But no, instead she was stuck tracking this beast, nothing except an enema could have been worse. As the beast entered the house she began to wonder what was taking Magneto so long to contact her.
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Meanwhile back at Sinister's lair things were getting hectic as the cloning of the creation known as Macto had gotten out of hand. When Sinster had ordered Sabertooth and Mastermind to align the electrodes to the correct angle, they did so, but as the usual someone broke something and unfortunately it was about twenty canisters of nitrous oxide. Laughing Gas was now pouring down everyone's lungs, causing them to burst into uncontrolled fits of laughter.
"Sinister, ahahahhaha! If we don't die, ahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA! R-remind me, me to kill those idiots." Magneto managed to sputter. Sinister, being the only one unaffected simply shook his head as he drug both Magneto and Mastermind from his lair. When he went in for Sabertooth however, he got a shocking surprise.
Before him stood the new and improve Macto, except now he looked like a black shelled more skeletal version of their target. That and the entire left side of his face was covered in the chitinous substance. The real kicker though was on the screen displaying his brainwaves. Despite it's unconscious state it's mind was most definitely awake, as though connected to a greater consciousness. Then he noticed the readout of the DNA complex and his eyes lit with anger.
"IMPOSSIBLE!!!!" His scream managed to stir Magneto and Mastermind from their unconscious sleep outside.
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As Mystique watched from outside the house that the beast went in she waited for signs that he had left, or was leaving. When she finally saw him creep out from the window in the attic she readied herself to fly in the open window, already being in her raven form. As she flew through he first thought was he might have finished the job for her, he after all killed almost anyone who committed a violent crime against children.
As she crept down the stairs she found a trail of blood, she of course followed it expecting to see the man carved up or even eviscerated. Instead he was cowering on by a desk writing furiously on a crumpled piece of paper. He was so into his letter he didn't even notice her as she read over it. It was a letter of confession, confessing to several other sex crimes, a murder and a robbery all committed with in the year. Then he froze.
"Oh god, you changed your mind." He said as he burst into tears, then he turned around and upon seeing Mystique had an instant change in persona. "Oh a little girlie invading my home, huh? Does she want something, special?" His evil smirk only disgusted her as she gave him a swift roundhouse to the temple ending him flying back and out a window.
When she looked out she saw the man was impaled on his own poorly made fence. She smirked with satisfaction as she mentally crossed him off of her things to do list. However her smile was short lived as the large padded foot of her target sent her flying into a wall, instantly replaced by a large skeletal like hand pinning her to it.
"I was alright when I realized you were following me, I was even fine when I saw fly into the window I exited, but the guy flying out of his own bedroom window sort of pushed the limit." He squeezed his hand causing Mystique to receive the bone crushing power as a small incentive to respond.
"Orders are orders." She was about to transform once more when she saw his tail come level to her neck.
"Go ahead shifter, I need the practice anyways." He growled in her face. "Now, why are you following me?"
"Orders."
"From your magnificent leader no doubt. So why does he want me followed?" When she didn't respond he squeezed tighter and actually caused her to scream as he heard a rib snap. "Start talking or more bones will break."
"Why should I? You'll just kill me anyway, that's how you operate isn't it?" She smiled trying to provoke him into making a mistake. It didn't work.
"My dear Shifter, you have no idea how my mind works. Although not to long ago I would have impaled you with out a second thought." A wicked smile formed on his face to reinforce his meaning.
"Monster." She spat in his face.
"Exactly." He said. "Now, I'll ask again, why are you following me."
As she weighed her options Mystique concluded that not only was escape unadvisable, but highly unlikely as his tail seemed to follow her eyes more than anything. "They're trying to observe you. To make a perfect warrior, greater than you, but one they can control. Something that would side with them because of it's genetic heritage."
He loosened his grip but only slightly. "So what you're saying is, is that Macto was Magneto's creation from the DNA of a hunter-born."
"Actually he just modified the best. The clone is being made as we speak, with enhanced mutant DNA." She smirked, but Vile's face only grew angry and frightening.
"Leave it to the human species to fool with something as dangerous as the DNA of alien beings." He set her down but kept his tail centered on her. "You have no idea what he's done, do you?"
"Sinister is cloning him, not Magneto." She said as she held her side.
"Who makes it doesn't matter, the results will be the same: Death. And you, your boss and even myself are going to stop it." She couldn't help but laugh a little. "I don't clean up the messes of others, you ARE going to help, and if you don't I'll see if an old friend at Xavier's has any clue as to how to handle you."
Mystique sat there, stunned by the creature's threat. She had not thought it possible that he would have any friends at Xavier's especially after how he left.
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"What do you mean our sequence was overridden?" Magneto asked, clenching his fist.
"Well to put it in the simplest terms the DNA sample YOU prepared for me was contaminated and when my machine scanned the sample it read the contamination as a DIFFERENT project. Ergo, we have this highly dangerous, beautiful and unique specimen." He pointed to the Vile-like creature that was still connected to the machine.
"But why does it resemble, him?" Mastermind asked.
"A small hair of his was the contamination. So the machine encoded a similar, yet altered form into existence, making adaptations to the DNA to make the maximum of land dwelling the opposite of our target." Sinister smiled.
"Excuse me, if that thing isn't made for land, what is it made for?" Sabertooth asked while taking a bite out of a ham sandwich.
"Aquatic living mainly, I scanned the DNA by itself. It shows encoding for gills and lungs. As well as fins and webbing to help it move in the water, and increased musculature in the tail, to help with movement."
"And ours?" Magneto asked, admiring the new creation.
"Well, it's tail is still powerful, but made to spear and tag with poisonous barbs. It's claws are proportional so it san grasp things easier. The feet are made to absorb impact as well as desert heat. The body to seems to be made to absorb most heat. Save for direct flames of course." Sinister read off more. "It has major speed advantages on land as well, although it can still manage in water it does not have any lungs, thus it needs to surface for air. Oh and my personal favorite, it can spit an acidic residue or a toxic spray, similar to a cobra's. Truly frightening."
"Where any mutant abilities encoded into it?" Magneto asked, still admiring the monster.
"No, unfortunately not. In fact I can't even tell if it absorbed the obedience strand, if it did it should be obvious. Unless…" Sinister went off to his console. "Ah, yes here it is, odd place though. If I'm not mistaken this means it will listen to us about as much as Sabertooth does."
"Oh what joy. Another sandwich chomping idiot with a thing for revenge." Magneto shook his head, while Sabertooth grunted in the corner. "Release it in exactly twelve hours Sinister we'll be back with the Brotherhood then. So it may meet it's family." With that Magneto and his henchmen left the lair and entered three cleverly hidden metallic orbs.
"Oh yes it will meet it's family. It shall meet it's father and forever serve ME!" Sinister said as soon as they were gone, and then he flipped the release switch. "Wake my child and know your FATHER!"
A few seconds later the sound of explosions as screaming were heard from Sinister's lair, followed by an evil laugh filled with hatred and madness.
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AN: Macto is back and as evil as ever. Originally Macto was made to be an anti-thesis to Vile in the original story, in this however he's an anti-thesis that loves to torment Vile by calling him "brother", ala Protoman and MegaMan's relationship on the original series of MegaMan.