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 is exposed to the world while a mysterious meteorite lands in South America.

Natural Twenty

"Oh come on!" Pietro shrieked when Lance came home from his date with Kitty, he bore the bad news to the others. HoMe would be staying at their place for a week, and they had no choice in the matter.

"Hey, if it keeps the little guy out of the news and the labs I'll share my room." Toad said with a smile. He liked HoMe, though they had only met once and he didn't want to see the small alien get chopped up on a lab table.

"Yeah and look at it this way Pietro, at least it's not John." Blob said with a nod.

"What?" Pietro's face crossed in confusion. "That didn't make any sense."

"Pietro." Wanda growled as she looked up from a book she was reading. "Will you stop whining before I hex you through a wall. And just be glad that the little blue one flat out refused to come!"

Pietro instantly shrunk back, and no one poked fun at it. Mainly because they shrunk back to, Wanda was not someone you wanted to see angry and they all had experiences with Angry Wanda.

"Hey, Cuddle-bumps, what do you think of this?" Toad asked as he sat on the arm of the chair that Wanda was resting in.

"As long as he doesn't cause any big messes." Wanda said as she lightly hexed Toad into the dining room.

"Ok, so it's settled, everyone's ok with it?" Lance asked, making sure there wasn't any misunderstandings.

"I'm not." Pietro pouted.

"You don't count." Wanda said with out looking up from her book.

"Good, he's coming over tonight." Lance winced as Pietro screamed like a little girl in a candy shop who just got told she couldn't get any candy.

"Yo, is that a crack in the glass?" Toad asked after Pietro finished his fit, Toad was looking at the front window. "Yup, it is."

"Nooooooo!" Pietro hit his knees as he tried to stop Lance from walking into the other room.

Later that night the X-Men's van quietly drove up to the Brotherhood's boarding house. Logan and Beast got out of the front and grabbed a rather large crate from the back. Both were surprised at the weight of it and groaned a little.

"You know, that bug has more toys and chew objects than a dog would ever get." Logan groaned.

"Logan, these are his books." Beast groaned as he looked into the van at another, much larger crate. "Those are his toys."

-HoMe help?- HoMe asked as he stood on top of the crate, slightly increasing the weight.

"HOME! GET OFF!" Logan screamed as he nearly lost his grip.

-HoMe sorry.- The small alien said as he hopped off and wandered to the door, where he waited with his tail wagging. -HoMe here!- he announced to the household.

"NO ONES HERE!" Pietro shouted from the other side.

"PIETRO OPEN THE DOOR!" Wanda growled.

"But…" Pietro could be heard whimpering.

"OPEN IT!" Lance yelled from upstairs, "Before Logan opens it for you!"

Then the door opened and Pietro found himself planted next to a wall with HoMe on top of him, nuzzling close to the mutant's face.

-HoMe friend PIETRO!- The alien said cheerfully in an attempt to keep the speed demon away from him. -We have fun?-

Pietro's reaction was immediate; he tossed the alien off of himself and ran running and screaming through the house. HoMe then brimmed with a small amount of self-satisfaction.

"He's gonna fit in just fine here, yo." Todd said as he bounded smiling down the steps.

"That's what I'm afraid of." Logan grunted as he and Logan brought in the crate of books. "Mind getting the basement door Tadpole?"

"The name's Toad, yo." Todd grunted.

"Yeah, well you're still a tadpole." Logan shot back, Todd simply grumbled.

"So, Mr. McCoy, how long is the big bug staying here?" Freddy asked as HoMe climbed on the large mutant's back and curled into a ball. "Aww… ain't he cute?"

"Yes, well this should only be for a week at the longest, and Kitty will be coming over everyday to make sure he doesn't try and run back to the mansion." Hank explained as he watched HoMe continue to sleep on Freddy's back. He couldn't help but recall the movie "Land Before Time" as he watched the small scene play out and he had to force back the tears as he remembered the little Apatosaurus' mother was killed. "Must… not… cry…" Hank whispered to himself as he went back to the van for the crate of toys.

"Ugh, the things we do for the little bug…" Logan groaned as he too went to help with the crate.

-HoMe comfy…- HoMe said as he nodded off to sleep.

Back at the mansion, the cybernetic guardian to the young girl named Samantha, was watching an uncomfortable scene play out in front of him. Samantha was playing a game of tag with a young girl and her pet, a small blue alien, and it made the beast inside him anxious. He did not know whether to trust the little girl who had proven many times before, that she knew who she could trust, or if he should trust the tingle in the back of his mind that told him to destroy the possible threat. Then in the back of his mind he felt something, as if someone was digging around.

-RX, if you will please come to my office.- RX looked around for Charles Xavier, but could not find him. -I am a telepath, please come to my office.-

Begrudgingly, the lizard-man did so, and he even managed to avoid all the people in the house by taking several detours and crossing his path multiple times. He did it all to avoid any meetings with any of the students, as he did not wish any confrontations. When he entered the office though, he found that a confrontation might be closer to happening than he previously thought, for in the office stood a government agent.

"RX, this is Nick Fury of SHIELD. He's informed me of your origin, and has come seeking to help you." Xavier said calmly, as RX strafed along the walls.

"Not to sound crass, but you weren't meant to be made, you know that. You were an illegal experiment in genetics and unfortunately cyber-technology." Fury sighed, "I know you'd sooner trust the devil than a human, let alone one that works for the government, but I'm willing to offer protection."

RX merely snarled, his life had conditioned him to hate humans and expect the worst. He couldn't trust this human no matter what.

"Now, I'm not going to pretend we wouldn't want to use you as a weapon, we would, but only to protect people. You see the conditions of humans becoming super-humans, well they're escalating and SHIELD is in charge of making a new team to help combat them. Already we're training our own mutant team. But we also need combat experienced individuals like you." Fury explained.

"I don't care." RX growled as he tried to stay as far from Fury as possible. "Your fights are not mine. My purpose is to protect Samantha."

"We can help with that." Fury said as he watched RX's claws come forward, a sign of aggression. "You know you can't keep moving her from city to city, you can't keep her from kids her own age, out of school, as good a surrogate father as you are, you can't raise her. Not in her culture at least." Fury watched RX, he saw the claws go back as well as his eyes divert.

"I know." RX growled, "But it is my duty, I swore an oath to her mother."

"And how do you expect to keep that oath when you can't even get her in school or barely keep her fed?" Fury asked.

RX weighed his options slowly; he knew the human would want an answer soon. He also knew that he couldn't keep Samantha hidden, like he was. In the end he had little choice, and he knew it.

"There will be conditions." RX hissed as he walked to a dark corner.

"Same here." Fury said flatly, laying his cards on the table so to speak.

"Samantha stays with people I can trust." RX growled at Fury.

"Fair enough; Try not to kill people unless you have no choice when on a mission." Fury traded his condition.

"More than agreed and I will not hunt other humans for you." RX said.

"Hunt? Oh, assassinate, don't worry, SHIELD doesn't do that kind of stuff. We're anti-terrorist, nothing more." Fury nodded.

"If on a mission and the worst should happen to me, Samantha…" RX paused, he knew what he needed to say, but did not know who he could trust. "She will be entrusted to another, someone I trust."

"Ok, we can work with that." Fury said, "And of course you'll want to visit her whenever you can, right?" Fury asked.

"With Legal Guardianship." RX cast his cold stare at Fury.

"That could be tricky to pull off, but we'll do our best. However, if we can't get you as the guardian, we can get 'someone' you trust." Fury rubbed his stubble covered chin. "As for SHIELD, we just want one other thing."

"No doubt it's confidentiality." RX sneered, he was not in good spirits, not that he ever was.

"Yes, we don't expect loyalty to much in the beginning, but in time we hope that you'll come to trust us." Fury said as he got up. "Anything else?"

"Not of you." RX said as he looked at Xavier, "I know you keep mutants safe, and I know I can trust Samantha's safety here, will you house her here for her safety?"

Charles Xavier, a man who could not often say he was surprised, was obviously surprised by the request. More to the point he was flattered in a way, but he also knew the legal ramifications.

"To do that, and not put the entire grounds at risk, her legal guardian would have to be a resident here." Xavier said as he folded his hands to think.

"Lobo." RX said, "He's the beta, I trust him to take care of her if the need arises." With that, the large lizard-man left.

"Beta?" Fury asked with a most confused look on his face.

"More than likely RX views Lobo as a member of a pack, and though he sees himself as the leader he feels he can trust Lobo enough." Xavier said as he turned on his computer. "I just hope the young man knows what this entails."