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

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"What this?" Home asked as Forge was busy setting up a large telescope. Home was holding a wrench in his outer mouth.

"Some one keep the alien away from me please!" Forge shouted. Forge, unlike most of the X-Men did not take so kindly to Home and was in fact utterly terrified of the small creature.

"Forge, dude, Home's a cool guy." Kurt said as he tried to pull the wrench out of Home's mouth. "Home, he's gonna need it." Then Home let go.

"What Forge-Friend building." Home asked, he had also pounced Forge on sight and tried to cheer him up.

"A telescope to watch for any odd meteorites or alien craft." Forge sighed as h held his hand out for the now drool covered wrench. "I should have asked why I was being offered room and board now..."

"Forge, that offer has been on the table since ve found you." Kurt said.

"True, but now Xavier's wondering if I could 'fix' a few things around here." Forge shot his friend a dirt look.

"Ja, ja..." Kurt rolled his eyes and yanwed. "You almost done for tonight?"

"Why?" Forge asked with a confused blink.

"Because I haven't tested out of several engineering degrees and I have school tomorrow." Kurt said with a tired look.

"What school?" Home asked.

"A horrible place vhere adults force us teens to remember useless facts." Kurt said jokingly.

"Kurt-friend no go!" HoMe said in a panicked tone.

Kurt was confused until he realized Home had taken him literally. "I vas joking mein little friend."

"What mine?" HoMe asked, immediately distracted by Kurt's use of German.

"Vat?" Kurt looked to Forge who merely shrugged, then Kurt caught on. "Oh, 'mein' is German for 'my'."

"What German?" HoMe asked.

"It's the country vhere I vas born. We speak another language there and our vords sound different." Kurt smiled. "I know it's kind of confusing for an empath, but I can teach you some German if you like."

"HoMe like learn!" HoMe sounded pleased as he skittered off to Kitty's room where a small alcove in the ceiling had been made into a small room for him.

"Night Home!" Kurt shouted then looked to Forge. "Dude, seriously I'm tired and the Prof. doesn't vant you vorking until you pass out."

"All right, all right." Forge said as he pulled him self out from under the large telescope's base. "Where am I again?"

"Ve're bunk mates until the your room is made up properly." Kurt said. "Something about making it the safest room in the building."

"What does he think I'm going to turn my room into a lab?" Forge snorted. "Can't deny it crossed my mind, but then I'd never get sleep."

"See that right there is vy the Prof is afraid to let you vork alone." Kurt chuckled, "You're like that dude from Mythbusters. You know the one with the robot fetish."

"Except I don't have a robot fetish." Forge glared at his friend.

"That ve know of." Kurt pointed out.

"Don't be surprised if you wake up with a Rube Goldberg machine at the base of your bed." Forge said.


In the morning Forge simply returned to working on the telescope. He wasn't surprised to find Logan there as well, but was surprised by his offer to help with the mechanics of the large telescope.

"Not much to gears, I can get those." Logan half-grinned as he and Forge began to work on the device. Then Forge looked up and noticed something odd.

"Where's the alien bug?" He asked, "I figured he'd be bothering me like crazy with everyone at..." Forge froze.

"What?" Logan asked.

"How impressionable is this thing?" Forge asked as he pulled himself out from under the gears.

"Seems to take everything at face value." Logan said. "Why?"

"Kurt made a joke about school being a place of torture last night, but he got distracted away from explaining it was a joke."

"How?" Logan almost growled.

"Explaining German." Forge said. "And languages."

"Crap..." Logan groaned. "So now we've got an empathic alien who thinks all his new friends are being tortured."

"Probably." Forge said as he and Logan ran to Xavier.

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HoMe wasn't an idiot. He knew his new friend's weren't in any danger at 'school', but that didn't take away from the curiosity that school represented. So he left as early as his new friends and tried to follow them through the wooded areas around his new nest, unfortunately he was quite lost and didn't know where to go. HoMe wasn't an idiot, he just had a terrible sense of direction.

"Hello l'étrange..." A strange voice cause HoMe to spin, arching his tail and hissing with his crests glowing. "Whoa, Gambit didn't mean to frightin'. Jus' wan' know if you with Xavier."

"Shiny-Head-Man?" HoMe asked as Gambit quietly snickered. HoMe quietly observed the human noting he was a mutant, given away by his odd eye coloring. The small alien also sensed a layer of deceit, but a general truthful nature to the odd human.

"Oui." Gambit stifled a full laugh. "Yeah, him. You know Rogue?"

"HoMe know Rogue. She Kitty-Queen friend." HoMe said as he lowered his defensive stance.

"Tink you kin do Gambit a lil' faveur?" Gambit smiled, his smile caused HoMe to go back to his defensive stance.

"Man-of-chance not hurt Rogue." HoMe's voice took an icy tone that caused Gambit to blink.

"Non, Jus' wan' give her a letta." Gambit smiled. "Mah boss don' take kindly ta me associatin' with Xavier's, even if I tink one'em jus' the prettiest ting God eva made." Gambit held out a small envelope.

HoMe peered at it and sensing no danger he took it in his six fingered hand. Then he looked to Gambit and asked a simple yet shocking question. "What 'God'?"

"Ah, dat you be needin' to ask the fuzzy blue one." Gambit smiled as he bowed and quickly ran away leaving a very confused HoMe.

HoMe looked down at the odd little paper rectangle and held onto it carefully as he felt it was strangely fragile. Then he looked around the woods once more before deciding on a way to go. Thankfully as he continued in that direction he felt the presence of all of Xavier's students. With a little luck and a lot of new friends HoMe felt he might just answer a few questions that had floated into his little alien head. First though he would have to deliver the letter to Rogue. Still he had to admit the building that was a "school" was quite intimidating and he immediately felt the need to stay concealed, thankfully he was already small and light enough to crawl through the school's ventilation system or as it became known from that day on the "shiny tunnels". Oddly enough, rumors of a ghost would start up after HoMe's first and only visit to Bayville High.