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: I've been tossing around your "Raziel Meets Vile" idea, and it perfectly suits my needs to blatantly use on of my most powerful characters I like to call "Scion of Chaos, Perfection". So expect a one shot to take place surrounding this sometime in the future.
Released Torment
I sat in the darkness for what seemed like countless ages, praying, yes I prayed for light from some merciful god. I didn't care which god, just one that had some sliver of mercy. But it seems my hate for them had sealed them away from me. I even tried calling out to the god of man, but how can he answer to a monster, a freak of nature whose only purpose was to kill. And then, then the a portion of the glass puzzle I had been working on shattered even more. I could not help but weep.
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When the Velocity docked with the SHIELD main headquarters Fury expected nothing less than an all out berserker barrage from Wolverine. Instead what they got was a seven foot tall alien, a shape shifter who didn't look to happy, their other target, one known vigilante and one very, very, very angry looking group of teenagers. And they claimed to be here for negotiation. Fury could practically taste the doom in the air.
"Welcome to SHIELD Headquarters. I'm General Mikhousin, newly assigned head officer to SHIELD. How may we help you." Mikhousin faked a smile as he eyed HOMe. Immediately several guards came forward. They backed off when they noticed two of the guests had their claws unsheathed.
"Well you can start by releasing Vile, you know the human alien hybrid that you got locked away." Frank Castle said with a sardonic tone.
"I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about." The general said, as HOMe took off in a sudden burst of speed.
-Brother this way, Gik'reber-Hunter follow.- HOMe said immediately everyone gave the general a look of pure anger. The alien hunter however was simply deciding if this man was worth the kill.
"Gik'reber will follow little one, any one stop us…" He targeted and fired upon a small chair in the room as a demonstration. He then followed the small alien, everyone else followed the hunter, except Wolverine who stayed behind to talk to Fury.
"When did you pick him up?" Fury asked confused.
"Few hours ago." Wolverine said plainly. Fury only gave him a look.
"I live with an alien experiment, a clone of one of the most destructive species known to man, a giant furry blue ape-man and mutant teens, not to mention HOMe, believe it or not I expected something like this to happen sooner or later." Wolverine said as if it were a no brainier.
"You expected a large alien hunter, who hunts humans I might add, to join your little insane family?" Fury asked, now extremely confused.
"Yup." Wolverine nodded as he began to follow the teens.
"I think I need a vacation." Fury said as he felt the nervous sweat bead on his forehead.
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As I sit in the darkness more and more painful thoughts flood my mind. And then I stir to consciousness for a brief while, I hear the sounds of the hunter's weapons and HOMe's screeching, I feel his pain as he comes closer to the blurred door I see before me. When it opens, HOMe is standing there, and behind him a hunter. For some reason I try to lunge forward, t protect him, to keep him from harms way. I meet the hard glass and once again slip into the darkness.
I hear voices this time in the darkness, familiar voices. I try to identify them all, from some morbid curiosity or familiarity I do not know. I hear HOMe, the most identifiable, then Scott, jean and even Rogue and Kitty. Then Remy LeBeau, the only X-Man I felt had an actual chance at getting close to Rogue. Kurt and Kitty, then Beast and even Logan. He watched as the voices pieced together the broken mirror. He could see clearly a young man and behind that young man were to others, but their faces were gone, shattered still. Frantically he tried to piece them together, but each time the glass bit on his hands and he dropped them.
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"It's not working." Jean said as she watched Vile's body twitch inside the reinforced tube.
"Oh, come on there has to be, like, SOMETHING we can do? Right?" Kitty asked. As she looked at the giant alien hunter beside her. "You knew his father right?" Kitty asked, recalling the story he had told them all when they first met."
"Yes, but I will need more than myself." A glance towards mystique caused everyone to falter slightly.
"What?" She asked as she looked around, confused.
-Little Girl. HOMe see little girl.- HOMe said as he pieced together past conversations, and images from Vile's memories.
"Of course. I know exactly where she is." She started to leave, but the hunter stopped her.
"Name, little one can reach her." He said confidently, "No time otherwise."
"Sarah, Sarah Gilroy."
-HOMe find Sarah.- HOMe said as he curled up and closed his mind to the world.
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In the small house that Sarah lived in with her new parents the little girl was playing with her dolls when she heard the voice call out to her. It asked her to sleep so she could help her friend Vile. She decided she would first have to tell her new mommy and daddy.
"Mommy, Daddy. I need to go to sleep now."
"Sarah dear its only three in the afternoon." Her new mommy said smiling at her.
"I know, but Vile's brother say she needs my help." Her parents smiled down at her, thinking it was a game of hers, pretending to save her hero. But then their faces turned pale and frightful as one of the most powerful feelings of dread washed over them and they saw through the eyes of someone else. They saw Vile, helpless and convulsing in a tube that barely allowed him space to move.
"Alright honey buns, why don't you go up and lay down and I'll get the sleep medicine, hm?" her mommy said as Sarah smiled and nodded.
"I can't believe it." Her new daddy said as he sat down in his chair.
"It's alright daddy, HOMe says I can help him." She smiled as she climbed the stairs.
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In the darkness I could feel the voices fade, and return. I pleaded for them to stop, but the pressed on urging me to complete the puzzle. Pushing me farther and farther, I had just about given up hope of ridding myself of them when a bright light filled my vision.
It was Sarah, and escorting her were two angels, I could not see them well, but I knew who they were. They had found peace after all. As I watched Sarah I saw her deftly pick up the pieces of glass and place them together in the dead center. What I saw chilled my soul, I feared this more than anything. The young man was me which meant that the two behind him were my parents.
I killed them, they should not be behind me. How could they support me like that, or was this my mind playing tricks on me again. I just wanted this pain to end. I lashed out towards the mirror ready to smash it when I felt the release of so much pressure. When I opened my eyes I saw their face smiling at me, joy filing their eyes. And then I remembered.
I remembered what the lying false-gods did. Kidnapping my entire village claiming to be superior to our god. We believed them because of their space ship. All except my father, my father the brave fighter who was launched himself into space to distract the guards long enough for my mother to hide me among the other slave children. My father's ship the claimed to have blown up, but I saw it, I saw the truth another took him. A hunter ship.
My mother, when they discovered she had hidden me, refused to tell where. They killed her, they simply killed her in front of me with out realizing it. It was the false god who did so, his glowing orange eyes, burnt into my head.
And then in my young teens when I had tried to kill the false god with my friends. We failed and instead of killing us he left us to rot on an abandoned water planet. Where the Hive took possession of me, bending my will, my memories to suit their own purpose. I saw their idea of perfection once more, but it repulsed me. And then he was standing before me. My father.
"You must choose your own destiny my son. These forces, how they've harmed and manipulated you, don't let that break you from your course. You are my son and a native to earth. Never let anyone tell you otherwise. He doesn't even realize how much he's risking to do this, how my message will drain him, to nothing if he lets it go to long, so now I end this my son. Your heart, your soul they are your greatest strengths, never believe other wise." And then he was gone.
I was left in my darkness once more, but now the voices were gone, except for one taunting, annoying psychotic voice. And then my eyes flew open.
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The tube I had been confined to was shattered by the hand of a hunter whose hand I held. In my grasp though was a locket, my mother used to wear. As I gripped it in my hand I looked at the hunter, his health failing him.
"Thank you." I said, not sure of what else to say as I looked around the room, smiling faces filled my view. "Thank you all." It felt strange to say it, but not painful. In fact it for once seemed right. Then I remembered the taunting in my head and I looked past everyone.
"Miss me 'brother'?" It was Leto, where we were I had no clue, but he no doubt used the X-Men to locate me. Everyone turned to stare at him in horror, but his eye only locked onto the hunter. "Kill a drone we can replace, kill a queen we take your face!" He lunged at him faster than I could I respond.
The green phosphorescent blood of the hunter sprayed everywhere, Leto had it impaled upon his own tail and was whipping him around. Then in a show of defiance the hunter reached for his arm to activate it's self destruct, but Leto was to quick and within a fraction of a second the hunter's arm was ripped from it's socket.
Then a new feeling, greater than rage or anger filled me. I could not identify it, but I knew what it was. The hunters often spoke of it and now I understood what it meant. Leto had no honor, he was a monster, and I would extinguish him.
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AN: How many people have I surprised thus far, hm? Oh and see if you can't guess what series I'm alluding to with "false-gods" as it is the main focus of his next story.