H.O.Me: Guardian
By Xenomorph666
"Aliens" is © Century Fox Production I do not own it
X-Men: Evolution and its respective characters are © Marvel
Lilo & Stitch is © Disney
Gremlins is © Warner Bros
Summary: Lobo finally has had enough of Magneto's oppressive views so he leaves for the X-Men. At the same time HOMe and Creature are exposed to the world while a mysterious meteorite lands in South America
Lone Lobo
Hector "Lobo" Rafe hated the rain, in fact he hated it just a little more than he hated Magneto. And if it weren't for the fact that he had gotten himself literally thrown out of Magneto's base, he would go back just for the comfort. Still Lobo had to get to Xavier's institute soon, or he would smell more like a wet dog than a young mutant stuck in a permanent half wolf half man form. Then the rain turned to a shower
As he walked in the alleys, grumbling and growling because he was now soaked, he had come to know as his streets and routes for transportation, he couldn't help but feel like someone was watching him. He laughed at that thought though, it was almost impossible to sneak up on him, he could catch any scent with in a two mile radius. Still he just couldn't shake the strange feeling.
Then he found a refuge, an abandoned apartment. The front doors were busted down and the condemned sign was completely ripped off. So he did what any self-respecting runaway would, he went inside. And was promptly thrown out into the street again by a hard metal fist.
When he shook himself to his feet, he was still dazed by the surprising blow. Then he looked in the door way, in it he could see a glowing red eye, the glow itself allowed him to see part of what it was. It was some sort of cybernetic reptilian mutant. It also didn't look to happy to see him.
"Rex!" A small voice called from above, both Lobo and the cybernetic looked up, Lobo was surprised that he could see a young red headed girl staring down from a lit room, at the cybernetic, she was frowning too, "Leave him alone and both of you come up for dinner I made more than enough." Then she looked to Lobo and waved. "Hi!"
"Uh, hi?" Lobo waved back with a confused look.
"Follow me." The cybernetic growled in the most beastial voice Lobo had ever heard. The cybernetic motioned for Lobo to follow. Lobo did so quietly.
"Uh, listen. I'm sorry if I intruded…" Lobo began as he followed the cybernetic.
"Whatever, Samantha seems to trust you. You'd better not betray that trust." The Cybernetic growled as they came to the lit room. The door immediately flew open and the little girl was standing there with a smile spread across her face.
"Come on in and sit down Mr. Wolf-Man." She said as she grabbed Lobo's arm and dragged him to the table where a large roast was sitting. Lobo's eyes widened at the size of the slab of meat. "We eat in five minutes so not picking at it."
"Yeah." Lobo said as he watched the meat, not sure if he could last five minutes. He hadn't eaten in two days, and just then his stomach made that fact known as a loud gurgling sound came from his belly. "Oh, 'scuse me."
Then Lobo got a good look at the cybernetic. The left side of it's face had a large metal plate where a cybernetic eyes was set. It's right arm, from the shoulder down was completely cybernetic and looked like it's hand could shift for multiple purposes. Other than the cybernetic parts though, it looked like a large lizard man with dangerously sharp claws. When it noticed Lobo looking at him though, it wasn't happy.
"You have a problem?" It growled.
"No, just wondering why you had to…" Lobo gestured to the parts. "You know."
"Battle." It said.
"Right. Sorry, for prying." Lobo looked down at his plate.
"I'm Samantha." The young girl said as she carried over a tray of glasses to the table. "What's your name?"
"Hector, my friends call me Lobo though." Then he grumbled silently, "What friends I have left."
"Oh, nice to meet you Lobo." Then she looked to the cybernetic, "Rex introduce yourself."
The cybernetic snorted before it sat on it's haunches at the table. "My serial number is RX-00-01, you may call me RX, for short though. Only Samantha is allowed to refer to me as 'Rex'. Understand?"
Lobo nodded as he watched RX cut a large piece of meat and place it on Lobo's plate. He gave a piece half that size to Samantha and a size equal to his own to himself.
"Uh, Thanks for the food, but why are you doing this?" Lobo asked Samantha.
"Because we have so much, and you looked hungry." She said with a smile as she cut a piece of meat for herself and took a bite.
"Oh, ok." Lobo looked a little confused.
"Not used to such treatment?" RX asked, a sad look crossed his face, "Yes, you're eyes tell it. You've had a rough life."
"Yeah, well being a mutant isn't that easy you know." Lobo said with a sigh as he took a large bite out of his meat. Then he notice Samantha looking at him, if he could have he would have blushed.
"You eat like Rex!" She said with a smile and a laugh as Lobo saw RX rip his own piece of meat.
"Heh, I guess I do." Lobo chuckled, RX just grumbled under his breath.
The three of them; human, mutant, cybernetic all sat and ate for an hour. Lobo was surprised that Samantha even had a pie for dessert.
"Man, most I ever got from Magneto was stale steaks." Lobo grumbled, then noticed RX's eyes focus on him and a growl from with in the cybernetic stirred.
"You worked for Magneto?" RX growled as he lashed out the cybernetic arm and grabbed the mutant by the throat. Much to Lobo's surprise the five fingered hand had become a gripping three clawed instrument of death.
"Past tense! He I left a week ago!" Lobo screamed, a sudden fear overtaking him, the fear that Magneto had instilled in him. The fear of pain.
"REX!" Samantha screamed, the cybernetic ignored the young girl as he brought Lobo to a window.
"The truth!" RX hissed.
"That is the truth, he's psycho I didn't want any part of his plans!" Lobo squirmed.
"REX!" Samantha yelled again, "You're scaring him."
This time RX looked at the young mutant's face, filled with fear. Not the fear of him though, it was the fear of a captured spirit. RX pulled the mutant back in and set him on the floor.
"We will talk in the morning. Until then you may take one of the other rooms. The large one is Samantha's, I have the main room." RX turned and took several of the dishes to the sink. "Get some rest tonight."
Lobo was now just as confused and as scared as he had ever been. Still he listened to the cybernetic, something in RX's voice told Lobo that despite the outburst this strange cybernetic lizard man was someone he could trust. The young mutant then found a small room to curl up in for the night. Thoughts of fear and friendship fighting in his mind.
RX-00-01 was a unique being. He temperamental, violent, untrusting and mentally unbalanced. Yet he could put all that aside for the sake of Samantha. He had no trust of strangers, and little patience with them. Yet this young mutant had just wandered into their lives and RX could sense the same fears that he had many years before his unfortunate battle. The years where he was happy with his nest siblings, where he could joke and climb with out worry, when he was picked on for his small size by the others and when his elder brother would protect him.
He watched as Samantha yawned and went off to bed, the young girl often reminded him of his younger times, before he found out why he was made. He liked remembering those times, but feared them as well.
"Good night Rex." Samantha said as she closed her door.
"Goodnight Samantha." RX nodded as he sat in front of the TV and watched the news. There was a press conference on with the head of the Xavier Institute trying to assure people that mutants were not a threat to humanity. RX silently agreed with the man, humanity was a threat to humanity, the mutants were just trying to survive like Samantha and himself.
"Hey, it's Xavier. He's here?" RX turned his head to see Lobo. "Sorry, wanted some water." Lobo looked a bit sheepish as he made his way to the sink.
"You know him?" RX asked as he got up.
"Yeah, I'm trying to get to his institute." Lobo sighed. "I have an open invitation…" RX turned to the TV at Lobo's sudden silence and astonished look. On the TV was a strange gray creature putting itself between one of Xavier's students and an angry member of the Friends of Humanity.
"What is that?" RX asked wit a confused look.
"HoMe. And all hell is about to break loose." The a small greenish brown creature came on screen with a ruler, it was using it like a rapier.
"And that?" RX asked.
"Creature…" Lobo said with a stunned look. "Where is that?"
"The news station, a few blocks from here, why?" RX looked confused.
"Their going to need help." Lobo said as the camera swerved to show almost fifty Friends of Humanity swarming the stage.
"Go, I'll follow." RX said as he opened the window for Lobo. "Hurry, I just have to get Samantha dressed."
"Huh?" Lobo said as he came closer. "They need help, you're going no matter what and I still have yet to trust you. Now go!" RX growled.
Lobo simply nodded as he jumped out of the window and began to run in the direction that RX was pointing. He ran fast and he ran hard, he may not have liked the little beasts on TV, but they didn't deserve what the Friends were most likely planning.
Kitty had been talking to the interviewer calmly and quietly. She was telling the world of how the "Friends of Humanity" had taken and beaten her within an inch of her life, and how a 'friend' had saved her. Then the interview went south as a member of the "Friends" began to make cat calls and other rude noises to break the interview up. When the interviewer, one Tasha Polensky got angry enough, though, she tried to have the man booted from the audience the man got angry and charged the stage.
The charge caused the stowaway HoMe to drop down in front of the "Friend" to protect his friend. The man had instant reaction, as he was there when HoMe had saved Kitty, although he mentally blocked the images up until then. When he freaked out the other Friends of Humanity made their move and stormed the stage.
"Professor!" Kitty screamed, "We have to get out of here!"
"Calm down Kitty." The professor said telepathically, "we mustn't do anything to harm the innocent here."
"Ok." Kitty said as she phased through an attack. Then Creature, the other stowaway dropped down in front of her, handling a ruler much like a sword.
"Ha, back!" He shouted as he whapped one of the Friends on the nose.
"Ow!" The large brute said as he grabbed his nose, "That hurt!"
"It's another mutant!" Another Friend shouted.
"Mutant? My good man I am not even human!" Creature shouted as he wrapped another Friend's knuckles.
"Ah! Jeez, that hurts!" The Friend shouted.
HoMe no like you.- HoMe's voice rang through the Friend's heads as he stood in front of Kitty. -HoMe say leave, now.-
The Friends of Humanity just stood there for a few seconds looking at the strange monster in front of them. "GET IT!" One of them shouted as they charged, straight into an invisible barrier.
"Professor!" Jean Grey shouted as she and Ororo Munroe ran into the stage, they had been waiting in the lobby. "More are on their way up."
"Not if I can help it!" A voice from the not so distant past said as the emergency door in the rear flung open. Lobo was standing in the doorway. "This way! Quick!"
"Mrs. Polensky, I think perhaps we should continue this interview another time." Xavier said as Jean made an invisible path to the door, strain obviously overcoming her. "Until then, I offer you a small tour of the institute." Xavier said as he realized the Friends would most likely lash out at her when they were gone.
"Invite Taken." Tasha said with a smile as she wheeled Xavier to the exit, just as Lobo slammed the door shut. Both Xavier and Tasha looked surprised.
"Bad idea now." Lobo said as he tried to bash the door and lock so they couldn't open.
"Great we're stuck." Tasha groaned.
"Not really, back up should be coming." Lobo said, as Xavier frowned. "Relax Magneto and I had a… falling out. I was thinking your guys would be coming."
"It would take them a half-hour at the fastest speed." Xavier frowned again.
"Oh that's bad." Lobo said with a look of concern.
"Little help over here!" Jean shouted as she struggled to keep the shield up.
"So is my invite still on the table?" Lobo asked as he ran to see how he could help Jean.
"Of course Lobo, of course." Xavier said.
"Great, I'll take" A sudden explosion ripped through the building and then one of the walls to the building was gone, letting the night breeze come in. Then a ripcord shot to the ceiling and pulled a very angry RX with Samantha on his shoulder.
"Lobo, take Samantha." RX commanded, Lobo nodded as he ran through the crowd of Friends and leapt to grab the slightly tired young girl, then ran back behind Jean's shield.
"Professor, Samantha. Samantha, Professor Xavier." Lobo said in a single breath as he sat Samantha on the Professor's lap and ran back into the fray.
Soon the Friends of Humanity were being tossed around like rag dolls. RX had even sliced a few in locations that Vile would have been hesitant to strike. Lobo though was more or less just tossing them around and using them like tools to know the others out.
NO MORE FIGHT!- The sudden debilitating empathic wave came from HoMe. –HoMe NO LIKE FIGHT! BAD MEN GO AWAY!- A sudden wave of fear washed over the Friends of Humanity, each one seeing their greatest fear come to life before them. They ran like scared children.
"Ok, what just happened here?" Tahsa Polensky asked in a confused voice.
"I think we need to explain a few things…" Xavier said as he cast a look at RX and then at the young girl in his lap. "As for these two, I am as in the dark as you are."
"Hi." Samantha said, "I'm Samantha, that's RX, I call him Rex and that's Lobo." Samantha smiled.
"I know Lobo." Xavier smiled.
"Oh cool." Samantha said as she hopped off Xavier's lap and wandered over to RX.
"Wow." Kitty said as she and HoMe walked over to RX to investigate. HoMe was just a little bit nervous, RX's anger had still not subsided. "this should be interesting."