Curse of the Soul – The Origins of H. and Vile

By THE Xenomorph

X-Men Evolution and it's character's are © Marvel

Aliens, Xenomorph and associated material are © Dark Horse/20th Century Fox

The characters of H., Vile, Gik'reber and other Xeno-Sapien's are © THE Xenomorph

Chance meetings with the Rogue

"Please be still Home..." Hank "Beast" McCoy was trying to treat his newest patient, whom he had only met a few scant hours ago. Hank was already wishing for a tranquilizer for the overly curious alien.

"HoMe like Blue-fur..." Home said as he continually tried to nuzzle Hank.

"Yes I know that Home, but I need to finish this scan and you need to stay still for me to do that." Hank said. "I just said this a minute ago."

"HoMe no like strange short tunnel. Tunnel make funny noise that hurt HoMe head." Home explained as he crawled over the CAT Scan in the medical ward.

"Well we don't want to cause you any pain so I guess I can prep the x-ray room." Hank sighed. "Please stay here Home and try not to destroy anything."

"HoMe stay, not destroy." Home said as he crawled under one of the cots in the room while Hank left.

The room was quiet while Home waited for Hank to return. He spent the time staring at the door and almost pounced out from under the cot to thank Hank for being fast, but then he noticed that it wasn't Hank entering the room. Instead it was a slenderer form with pale skin and it was saying odd things under it's breath.

".... stupid... Kitty... complaining... need a new roommate..."

At the mention of Kitty's name Home crawled back out from under the cot and on top of the mattress. He could now clearly see the form was a young female with brown hair and a long flowing night gown that covered most of her skin. She seemed to be ignorant of Home, and was instead focusing on rummaging through the medicine cabinet looking for something. Home, naturally saw the young female as a friend of Kitty and though he wasn't wrong his introduction was not what Xavier would have intended.

"HoMe help Kitty-Queen's friend?" Home's voice piqued inside the girl's head and she suddenly turned her head to see him smiling and waving, the only problem being that Home's smile consisted of his outer mouth being open to reveal the dangerous looking inner mouth.

Rogue, of course, saw Home and immediately went into panic mode, which at this point in time consisted of running and screaming like a blond woman in a horror movie, just minus the running part as her perceived attacker was between her and the door. Her screams quickly brought Hank and Logan running to the medical room.

"Oh Christ..." Logan groaned.

"Logan there's a monsta!" Rogue screamed.

"Rogue, my dear, Home is not a monster." Hank tried to explain.

"HoMe is HoMe." Home said as he crawled closer to Rogue who merely ran to the door and he mentor. A sudden wave of sadness washed over the room as she did so. "Why Kitty-Queen-friend run? HoMe is friend."

"Rogue..." Logan pulled Rogue out from behind him. "This is Home, Kitty's newest late night distraction."

"What in the Sam hill is it?" Rogue asked.

"Is HoMe." Home said as he skittered back towards her. This time she only jumped back a little.

"As far as I can tell he's a mutant alien." Hank said, "He claims to normally belong to a hive-mind structure, but he for some reason was not born with that connection. Kitty found him a few weeks ago and has been feeding him since then, Scott and Logan brought him in earlier and the Professor is having me examine him."

"Ah..." Rogue blinked before realizing something. "Was he in mah head?"

"He's empathic Rogue, and he speaks with mental imagery, thus giving a primitive sound to it when he makes a connection to a human mind. For instance, he has connected my name with 'Blue-Fur' and Logan's as 'Claw Monster'." Hank said.

"Chuck got the worst though." Logan laughed.

"SHINY-HEAD-MAN!" Home said happily, Rogue almost immediately burst out laughing.

"Yes, it is quite humorous isn't it?" Professor Xavier sighed as he came into the medical room. "I trust you can keep a secret for a few hours Rogue."

"Are we studyin' him?" Rogue asked as Home innocently nuzzled against he hand, her knee-jerk reaction sending him skittering across the room while emanating waves of fear that crippled the others.

"W-w-what is tha?" Rogue asked as she shook the crippling feeling off.

"His self-defense mechanism." Xavier said as he too shuddered from the fear. "I believe he has suffered some form of physical abuse during his time in space."

"Oh..." Rogue said as she looked at Home. "Ah'm sarry. It's just not good for people to touch meh."

"You hurt like HoMe been hurt?" Home asked, the private connection let a fearful edge into Rogue's mind.

"No, Ah hurt others when they touch me. Ah can't control it." Rogue said.

"HoMe not get hurt." Home said as he skittered back over to Rogue and stood straight up. Before anyone could react he had placed his hands on either side of Rogue's face and she went into what the others assumed was her usual trance, but before they could act to separate the two she stumbled back.

"That was weird." Rogue coughed as Home skittered back to the cot.

"What happened." Xavier asked.

"He showed me this alien ship where these things in masks kept stickin' him with spears and treatin' him like a pet or a slave." Rogue looked at the alien being. "Professor, you mind if ah go back upstairs. I need ta res."