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: Nope, no Gargoyles. For a good reason though, every time I play over them meeting Vile it ends up in a massive brawl that causes more than few broken bones. And with HOMe, well they'd kind of view HOMe like Bronx if you ask me, and I don't like that. Sorry if you wanted it.
AN: Also, someone contacted me about using HOMe in their fictions. Please email me DIRECTLY with those questions so I can respond ASAP, thank you.
Enemies and Allies.
By the time we got to the hideout, the location took over an hour of persuading to get her to speak, the place was trashed and utterly destroyed. It looked as though someone had lost their mind and just tore into the entire building. The claw marks told me it was their creation.
"This is what happens Shifter. Only when they are born can they connect to a hive mind and they must be near one. When they die the connection is terminated by their brainwaves, and so even if they are cloned they can never connect again and they go insane." I tossed a few pieces of metal aside to reveal what looked like a corpse with a gem in his head, to my shock he coughed a few times before blinking at me.
"Well, it seems it was right, you did come." The man said as he pushed several large pieces of metal off of himself.
"You have no idea what you've done." I grabbed him by the collar and slammed him into a wall, he only laughed.
"Oh but I do, the perfect weapon for destroying you was right under our nose all this time…" He glared at me with a sadistic joy. "It was you, only one like yourself can destroy you. And that's exactly what we made, and as you said it is completely insane and malleable to our will with in time."
"You did what?!" I screamed as I tossed him across the room and into a metal pole, he was truly a fool if he had cloned me. "Then you truly have no idea how much you have doomed this world."
He laughed at me for a few seconds before he realized how serious I was. Then he pulled himself off of the pole and his wound simply closed up, with no blood. "What do you mean, 'doomed this world.' We can control it with time."
"Only a fool would attempt to control a being so ingrained with it's survival instincts that it would force them upon the genetic code at a molecular level. Not to mention the fact that m connection with the hive was simply closed and not destroyed, you gave them back their lost child. Only this time there is no saving him because there is no soul to return." I turned to leave when I noticed the levitating form of Magneto in the entrance.
"It seems that you were not as well hidden as you though Sinister." He went right past me to the pale man, it was then I noticed the others in the entrance. The Brotherhood, or at least what he had remade of them. They were all new to his organization, the originals had finally come to their senses about humanity, that was two weeks before I left.
"Actually Magneto, she brought him here." He kept his eyes on Mystique.
"Oh really, then she must be punished, shouldn't she. Lobo, do it." He looked at one of his young recruits whose body was covered in a coarse grey fur and his body had more in common with a wolf than a human.
In seconds the wolf-boy charged at the shifter with his claws bared. He meant to meet her face with them, instead his neck met the coils of my tail as I tossed him away.
"You're infighting will have to wait. You're playing around with genetics has put this world in great danger and you're going to clean up your mess." I put myself directly in front of Magneto's face, and because he was levitating he was slightly taller than most people all I had to do though was stand up straight. My frame dwarfed his, and for a few seconds I thought I saw fear in his eyes.
He recomposed himself quickly though and he decided to argue with me. "Oh and I suppose you'll blame us for any human deaths as well. He is ours, although I remember telling you to wait until I returned, didn't I Sinister." He turned towards the pale man, who in our arguing had escaped.
"I told you he couldn't be trusted." The shifter said.
"Be quiet Mystique, it's obvious now that he wants the beast for himself. The question is where will it go?"
"Why does that matter?" Lobo the wolf-man said as he rubbed his head.
"It matters because, wherever the beast is Sinister will be and there we will find the method to control it."
"Well then, why not ask it's genetic donor. If what you said is true it should know all of his hang outs." A white haired girl wearing pink sunglasses and gloves came in, he other clothes were as urban as could possibly be.
"Yeah boss. I mean if it has his memories…" At that moment I burst passed them as it dawned on me. This new enemy had some of my fragmented memories from genetic storage. Although Sarah was safe because she had been moved and so was Harrigan, there was one person that it could find to get to me. Father Horn.
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"What's his problem!" Lobo said as the target rushed by him faster than anyone could react.
"He's worried." The white haired girl, known as Celeste, said quietly. "The creature may have memories of someone he cares for."
"So." Lobo asked, thinking obviously not his strong suite.
"Well obviously he saw the mix of DNA's and pieced together that it would got after him for personal issues." Celeste snapped.
"Wrong again little telepath, however I'm sure Mystique will enlighten us." Magneto shot a glare at her.
"Don't waste your threats Magneto. We both know why we played with fire and now we are being burned." She snapped.
"Mystique he's really not to happy today, you should really just answer him." Mastermind had come in and was using his hypnotic abilities to get her to tell the truth.
"If you must know, it's because the creature you made was reconnected to something he calls the "Hive". Take it from there." She casually walked away and transformed once more into a raven and flew away.
"I'll go get her…" Lobo shrugged, but he was stopped by Magneto.
"She's served her purpose, now lets concentrate on getting our brother in arms back." Magneto said as he moved around a few heavy pieces of metal.
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How could I have been so ignorant. The clone would of course have my memories, up to the moment the genetics stopped encoding them. I raced along the rooftops as fast as I could possibly muster. Nothing was going to stop me, not even the god of man.
I had made it about half way across a large building when I felt something stab through my right leg. I turned immediately to see, what I assumed to be the cloned monster. It's smile was to familiar.
"Oh, playing the hero are we?" He balled his fist and punched me. I went flying into a metal smokestack. "Let's see what always gets hero's emotions going." His high pitched voice mocking at every syllable, he pretended to have an idea and leaned in to whisper in my face. "Loosing someone they care for."
He smashed my head into the smoke stack and I began drifting into darkness as I heard his wicked laughter echoing through my head. Before I lost complete consciousness he turned to me and told me something.
He said, "Leto Illusis Macto. My new name, for I AM THE GLORIFICATION OF MADNESS AND ANIHALATION! And just so you, I know something you don't know." He then let out a manical laugh that was soon drowned by darkness.
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AN: As for Macto his full name is contrived of several Latin words, each one meaning one of the three descriptors he said.