Guardian: City of Stone
By Xenomorph666
Disclaimer: I own Vile, HOMe, Leto, Gik'reber and the Angel twins. Everything else is owned by Marvel, FOX or Disney
Summary: As a favor to SHIELD Vile goes on a mission to New York in search of a mysterious rogue scientist. What he finds is a clan of Gargoyles. HOMeVerse-Gargoyles Crossover
AN: Booyah wondered if this was going to happen an I originally said no, but since I need to do more research for the next story this one will be the official sequel. Enjoy.
C-Wolf: His personality is pretty much the same as the first when he's got business to take care of. Although his personal life has become easier to handle so he's not as bitter when he has free time.
Daylight hours
As I leapt from the buildings of Manhattan I began to feel a surreal sense of displacement. I had no love for this stone city. Building sprouted up everywhere, there was nothing but city and skyline. At least LA had small areas of nature I could enjoy, this city was almost barren of that, save for one large park in the middle of town.
I leapt from the outer walls of buildings trying to recall another reason I disliked this city. I knew there was more that I didn't like, I just couldn't remember. Then it hit me, or rather he hit me. From out of nowhere I collided with a man swinging from thin cables. He wore a red and blue costume with the symbol of a spider on it. We fell a for only a few seconds, until I gripped a wall and he shot out another line to secure himself.
"You know a little coordination your part… Oh darn." He noticed my face as I looked up at him, apparently he remembered me too.
"You!" I said with a slight tone of annoyance and anger.
"Oh look at the time this spider's got to go!" He said right before he pulled himself away with another one of his lines. I let a low growl escape my throat as I discarded our meeting and began to search some more.
I continued along my pointless path of exploration until I came upon a familiar scene, although it differed from my usual dealings in LA as this was a mugging in broad daylight. I couldn't help but chuckle as I crept down the walls of the alley the scene was playing out in.
"Come on lady, you gotta have more than this petty cash on ya?" the thug said as a woman rounded the corner. I stopped crawling as I saw this woman, her presence was unnerving, much like that of Owen's.
"Hey scud face, leave the woman alone." She said it so harshly it seemed like a threat.
The man turned to see what he obviously thought was another target and brandished a knife. "Pretty little girl wants to play, huh?"
He reminded me of a man who had attempted to mug Mystique once, that man had a twelve day stay in a local hospital, and something told me this guy was about to get the same. My suspicions were correct as the man was thoroughly beaten by the short brown haired girl. Her speed and strength surprised even me. After the man was unconscious she walked over to the woman.
"Come on get out of here." She said, her voice was filled with a mix of sorrow and compassion. As the woman ran off I began climbing back upwards. Then a sudden sharp pain in my shoulder made me loose my grip and drop to the ground.
When I hit the cement I grabbed at my shoulder and pulled out a now dulled metal blade. I whipped my head up to see the brown haired girl snarling at me. I gave a snarl back as I realized she had done this to me.
"Sorry, demons don't make me a nice person so don't take this personally." She went to kick me, but my tail was at her throat immediately.
Why is it, everywhere I go people have heard of demons, vampires werewolves, and even Gargoyles, but they always miss the big national headline of mutants? I'm always assumed to be some sort of demon when a human sees me, just once I'd like someone to mistake me for mutant.
"I am not a demon!" I shouted in her face as I got up, no more injured than she was. "I'm from Los Angeles." I said in a poor attempt at black humor.
"And Angel didn't get you yet, must be good at running." She made a poor choice of a crack.
"Actually, Angel and I share a game of chess every now and then." I said with a very tired tone. She simply made an "Oh" motion with her mouth and smiled.
She smiled as she started walking towards the alley entrance, when she got there she pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number. "Hey, Wes does Angel know a large seven foot demonic looking dude with a spiked tail and… oh he's a vigilante, I see, so pissing him off by throwing a knife in his shoulder is… Yeah got it, apologize with a name drop. Well I don't think that'll work now he's standing right here. Ok. Hey, Wesley wants to talk to you." She handed me the phone carefully and ran back to the entrance.
"Yes." I said cheerfully annoyed into the phone.
"Vile, don't kill her she's a friend of Angel's, her name is Faith and she's a slayer, albeit a bit homicidal at times…" He started on a long string of explanations that I could barely follow, I simply nodded and replied with a grunt when necessary. When the phone call was eventually over it was noon. I had spent three hours getting a phone lecture from a man I could barely stand in person.
"Listen I got business to take care of, just tell her who to avoid ok, so she doesn't try and you know kill someone close to me." I tossed the phone back to her. "Faith, interesting name." I said as I went back to climbing the walls and took my tail from her neck.
"Asshole." I heard her mutter under her breath, I couldn't help but chuckle.
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As I realized that I would need to hide myself in the crowd of people scattered throughout the city I also realized I had left my trench coat with SHIELD. I was left with out any way to protect my identity, as little as it was, people usually ignored me when I had it on. With this dilemma I decided it would be best to return to Xanatos' castle.
As I leapt across the rooftops however, I felt the strange sensation of being watched. As I crept slowly along the rooftop of one building, the sensation became increasingly erratic. Someone was following me. I dodged into one of the large air ducts that was present and hid for a few moments.
With in minutes a form passed by and cursed several times. I decided now was the best time to surprise him so I snuck out quietly behind him and tapped his shoulder.
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The instant Dead Pool felt the tapping on his shoulder his face fell behind the mask. He had been hired by some lunatic genetic freak show to track down his current mark, which was ironically also a genetic freak show, and now he could only take a wild guess that the tables had been turned. When he looked behind him he only sighed.
"Ok I'm busted." He said with a sigh, hopping the mark would only toss him around a little like his current employer had done.
"Yeah." The mark said with a smile as it wrapped it's long tail around his feet and yanked him skyward. He then took Dead Pool over the edge of a building and dangled him over it. "Dead Pool, Mystique's told me so much about you." The mark gave a satisfied smile.
"Aw, hell you mean you her…" The mark simply nodded, "You're going to hurt me aren't you?"
"Not right now but later yes." The Mark, Vile, smiled at him, "Why were you following me?"
"Well gee yeah know you just seemed so interesting." Dead Pool joked and Vile loosened his the tight grip his tail had.
"I repeat: Why were you following me?"
"Would you believe it was just a coinkidink?" At this Vile simply let his tail go and let Dead Pool drop, but not all the way as he quickly grabbed him with his claws and yanked him back up.
"Now…" Vile started.
"You're not going to stop this until you get the info are you?" Dead Pool asked.
"No, I have infinite patience, just like Leto." Vile said.
"Yeah it shows." Dead Pool realized to late what he had said.
"Thank you." Vile let go of the mercenary's leg and dropped him into a garbage bin full of rotten Chinese food.
At the bottom Dead Pool simply pulled himself out of the bin and walked away, when he noticed a young man staring at him he couldn't help but say, "What you've never seen a guy get his ass kicked in New York?"
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buy the time I got back to Xanatos' castle I had, had my fill of meeting new people. In fact all I wanted to do right then was rip apart a small room or destroy an entire bar. Apparently that was evident as I entered through Xanatos' office window.
"Have a bad day?" he asked with his ever present grin.
"Collided with a web swinging interloper, met a psycho slayer, and got tailed by a mercenary more known for his wise cracks than success record. So all in all yeah, this was a good day." I said as I went off into the castle to find a dark corner to skulk in.
"Meet me by the gargoyles in ten minutes, they'll be awake soon." Xanatos said with what sounded like a laugh.
"Whatever." I said I simply head to the roof, along the way however I ran into the human woman from earlier. Apparently I had frightened her when I entered the hall.
"Whoa, scared me big guy. Headed to the roof?" She asked.
"I thought you were going to meet someone tonight?" I eyed her warily, I still didn't trust these humans all the way.
"Plans change, especially when people call in reports of massive blue bugs running along the rooftops." She said it with a smile as if it were a joke.
"In LA, that usually comforts those in the projects…" I said, I w as slightly hurt by being called a bug. No one had ever called me that before and it made me feel uncomfortably small. "Roofs this way, come on. Don't want to miss the show now."
"Whatever." I said following her. Then she suddenly stopped.
"Detective Elisa Maza, NYPD." She said with the same smile.
"Vile." I said simply as I brushed past her, "Killer, vigilante, SHIELD agent, monster."
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AN: Well that's all for today. I especially need feed back on how I did Dead Pool as I had never heard of him until Red Witch's Misfit-verse and several other fictions here.