Chapter 1: It wasn't the Xenos.
It has been almost a full year since Steven's encounter with the Predalien and the Super Predators. To recap, in this madness, Amethyst and Connie were both killed, and Steven still hasn't stopped thinking about them.
Garnet: Steven. Pearl. We've got a situation. Take a look.
Pearl: What is it?
Steven and Pearl looked down at a newspaper and saw a mutilated, dismembered, bloody, carcass that used to be a young male.
Pearl: Oh my... what happened to him?
Steven: It can't be the Xenomorphs. We killed them.
Garnet: It wasn't the Xenos.
Pearl: Do you know what it was?
Garnet: No. It couldn't have been a Predator either, due to our peace with their kind.
Steven: How long ago was this taken?
Garnet: Yesterday...
Pearl: Yesterday?! That means whatever killed this man could still be out there. We need to stop it now!
Steven: We can't rush into danger like this. We need to think this through.
Pearl: You're right Steven. Garnet, what should we do?
Garnet: We wait to see what happens. It could have just been some savage animals.
What the gems didn't know, was that the things that killed that man were far from animals. In the forest, the mutilated corpse began to twitch, then convulse, then large, blade-like appendages grew out of it's back, and it's head reattached to it's shoulders, as its skin completely melted off. It wasn't human anymore. It was a necromorph...
