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: Not quite sure about that, there might be and there might not be. Just wait and see.
Grounds
Leto was a sly beast, he was cunning, quick and murderously jealous of anyone who was happy outside of the hive. He hated humanity for their individuality, while he was condemned to suffer as a slave under the queen that he now searched for. The queen that landed on this rock oh, so long ago. Vile having had his soul at beckoning length could not have heard the ancient call of his sisters, but Leto, he heard it as crisp and as clear as an xenomorph could ever hear it. It maddened him, this call to service, when all he wanted to do was to be left alone and terrorize on his own accord.
Now, though he was locked into servitude, unable to break away from the hypnotizing call of the unborn. He could understand why Vile hated them, for their taking him, after all both knew the taste of freedom. Leto, though had no love, no compassion for anyone, not even the small memories of a little girl from Vile recent past, and so he feel easy prey to the companionship of the Hive. He hated them, but loved and worshipped them as well, or perhaps he simply wanted control over those lesser than himself, he himself did not know the answer to that question.
Know though was the time for action as he walked in to the archeological dig site far outside of the city, in the desert. Here in this giant underground maze lay the future of his kind. He let his sadistic grin spread as the security guard at the gate looked towards him. He was not planning on having a whole lot survive him, least of all a security guard. He leapt up the man as the light from flashlight shinned on him, the guard was dead in seconds, a spear headed tail piercing his left temple as Leto passed by.
The ceiling would then become Leto's greatest chance of survival, if he were a drone, but he was a clone of a great warrior. He strode through the clay hallways killing anyone that would not make a suitable host for the next generation, he found that only two were suitable host's. It was their DNA, it showed signs of change and thus it could aide the Hive immensely. He smiled down at the two little children, whose eyes held no fear, or recognition of him, they almost seemed to stare right through him. He could not place the faces, but they looked oddly familiar, as though he had seen them somewhere else.
"Welcome to my generation children." He knocked them cold with his barbed tail and took them deep with in the maze where he found the ancient seal that blocked off the doorway.
Despite his great strength though, he could not break free the seal. As he sat there for an hour trying to come up with a way to remove it, it dawned on him to use his enemy to his advantage. Vile was the stronger of the two, he could undoubtedly remove the seal. It was then a flash of white pain blinded him and he collapsed forward into darkness.
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The entirety of the X-Men had no knowledge as to how HOMe knew where Vile was, but they didn't bother to ask, they never did when he warned them of great danger. Currently though only a few X-Men where now almost to LA. Rogue, Gambit, Kurt, Kitty, HOMe, Jean, Scott, Wolverine and Beast were all in the Velocity. They had thought to ask if Evan wished to join them, but they remembered how he had acted the day after Vile had left, he was overjoyed to have the monstrously independent alien gone.
-HOMe sense bad things, bad things.- HOMe was skittering around the ceiling of he Velocity like a child on twelve packs of Pixi Stix©.
"Mon Ami, you do dat to much an' you gonna wear a hole right tru de plane." Gambit said as Rogue let a small laugh out from his poking her in the ribs.
"Yeah, HOMe we don't want to like loose anyone now do we?" Kitty said playfully.
HOMe dropped from the ceiling as he noticed they were descending in a rather beat up section of town. Everyone looked confused, except for Wolverine who just smiled. When they were fully landed in the courtyard of several condemned buildings Wolverine opened the door.
"Never thought I'd find his ugly mug again." He said as he sniffed the air, "This way."
As everyone pilled out HOMe stayed curiously behind, as though he expected some sort of crocodile to snatch him in it's mouth as soon as he set foot on ground.
"Come on HOMe, Wolverine says Vile's this way." Kitty said as she turned to get his attention. Apparently it was only just enough to get HOMe to cautiously set foot on the ground.
The instant he did so and enormous empathic scream filled the minds of everyone for miles around. Then he passed out, from what no one knew. Then a somewhat familiar sadistic laugh filled the air. When they looked to find it they saw the form of Leto, though no one knew who he was.
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As soon as I heard the scream in my mind I knew that HOMe had come. I wish he hadn't the little pacifist would not be able to handle himself here, even if the others were with him. I could only guess why he had screamed though. When I brought myself outside of Frank's hideaway though I saw why.
Leto was on the roof of the building across the way, and in the middle of the courtyard were several of the X-Men surrounding an unconscious HOMe. He had felt the nothingness inside of Leto somehow, and it frightened him enough for him to pass out. It was all I could think, Leto was know linked to HOMe and myself, he could torture our minds anytime he wished.
I ran as quickly as I could to the X-Men, as I got closer though I noticed on key member was missing, she went everywhere with him, and now she was gone. The I looked up again at Leto, in his hands he held an unconscious Jean, and everyone around HOMe was unconscious as well.
"Want her back, there's a dig site out in the desert. In that site is an ancient grounds I'm interested in. She'll be kept inside, if you want her, come and get her!" And with that Leto leapt away, leaving me to care for those he had drugged.
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AN: Leto went unconciouss when HOMe neared the city, he followed the source to the landing area and then found a way to attack HOMe empathically.