Guardian: My city, my protectorate
By Xenomorph666
Disclaimer: I own Vile, HOMe, Leto, Gik'reber and the Angel twins. Everything else is owned by Marvel or Disney. Mike Harrigan is owned by FOX as well as Aliens as well as Predator.
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.
Only beginnings
As soon as I was free from my cylindrical prison I slammed forth all my weight into Leto, knocking him, the hunter and myself through a wall of metal. I felt the hunter slide off of Leto's tail and fall onto me. I tossed him to the side as gently as I could and sprang to my feet. Leto was already on his and launched his tail at me, I dodged barely avoiding it's sharp point and grabbed it with all my strength.
"Let's go take this outside!" I said as I saw a door leading to some form of observation deck and swung him through by the tail. I followed, my tail following through with a spear of it's own through his shoulder. He screamed in rage as he flipped me off.
I landed on my feet, my back to him, and he charged. I went to give him a swift elbow but he dodged and wrapped his arms around me and lifted me into the air, bringing my head to the metal floor with a loud thud. In no time though I was back on my feet and delivered a flurry of punches to his chest. Somehow though he countered one and was able to get on my inside, where he wrapped his tail around me in an attempt to choke me, I did the same.
As I came to realize we would only knock each other out I came to a hard and painful decision, one that only the hunters have had to make when facing me. With out thinking I took an open palm to his face and knocked him senseless for second, I took that second to grab the hunter's detached arm. Then with all my strength I grabbed Leto and barreled him through the thick glass that separated us from the outside. As we plummeted I saw we were over an ocean, such a befitting place for my choice.
"So, taking the cowards way out, eh brother.?" I heard Leto's ragged voice ask.
As I looked at him straight in the eye I simply stared, "Afraid of death." I looked down at the ocean. "I'm not, not anymore, not as long as you go FIRST!" With all my strength I used my tail to shoot him forward as I projected the blades from the dead arm and activated the bomb with in and launched the now explosive "spear" at Leto. Before it hit though he managed to turn around and catch the blades in the chest. Then we hit water, and I swam.
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The explosion came only seconds after Vile and the other alien life form, most assumed was Leto, hit the water. Everyone was down cast, but a few had hope, a few still felt he could have survived. Until the report came, the water in that area had been superheated beyond the capable survival point of any know creature. And yet HOMe showed no sign of sadness.
Soon after everyone began console someone, Rogue and Kurt even let Mystique help them accept it. Only one person though notice her eyes were filled with tears, and then HOMe came up to him.
-Logan, Brother still lives, brother not die.- He stated it rather than asked, but then again HOMe always was a bit odd even for the mutants. Logan decided then to follow the strange alien being he had met only hours before. Despite it's loosing an arm and being stabbed through the chest it was surprisingly ok. Well as ok as one can be with a missing arm. It was sitting up in the infirmary, looking at the stump that was once it's arm.
"My honor is gone." It said simply. "I failed in my duty."
"What duty, to die? Kinda stupid if you ask me, bushido's nice to a certain point, but everyone has a reason to live. Only the lucky ones have a reason to die. And honor is no reason to die, at least not one's singular honor." Logan said as he entered.
"Not my honor, I lost that long ago. I failed in my duty to protect him." The alien's eyes looked down cast as it looked at the locket Vile had tossed to the side with him. "Give it to him, please."
He handed the locket to Logan who didn't quite understand, but saw where the alien hunter was looking. "No problem, I'll send it express."
As Logan walked out onto the walkway, he felt a sudden dampness on his cheek, he hadn't cried in a long time. But now something was tugging at his heart strings like never before. He couldn't wonder how HOMe would take it when he finally accepted Vile's death.
"Damn you." He tossed the locket with all his strength and watched it fall for a bit, then turned away and went to go inside.
"Not a nice way to treat someone's prized possession you know." Logan's eyes went wide as he spun around to see Vile standing on the rail, bruised and scalded. "Tell'em he didn't fail. And Mystique, don't tell the others, even your kids." Logan turned again to see Mystique standing there, gawking at the massively injured Vile.
"Gotta go now." With that he leapt from the rail, to the ocean below.
"He always was an asshole." Logan said as he let a small smile crack his lips. Mystiques was still in shock. "Remember, keep quite." He said as he passed her.
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AN: Next up is the epilogue to every group and person involved in this mess of a story.