Planet Earth.

Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The terrified scream of a woman pierced the darkness of the dense forest. Two figures, a man and a woman burst out of the undergrowth like frightened deer chased by a hunter. All of a sudden the woman tripped on a root and fell facelong on the floor.

The man quickly turned around and frantically tried to get her up.

"Jane! Get up! Get up now!"the man said to the frightened woman.

"I can't Alex. I can't I think I twisted my ankle!" she whimpered.

Before he could reply a horrific screeching filled the sky. It was a unearthly sound, like the cry of an owl, gurgled with the hissing of a snake.

"Quiet now! Quiet! It's very nearby" Alex whispered pushing Jane down.

"This is all the fault of your stupid cousin Ronaldo! If he didn't ask you to come out here, we wouldn't be here, about to die," she sobbed quietly.

"If we get out of here alive, I swear I'll kill Ronaldo myself," Alex said biting his lip.

Alex Fryman was the older cousin of Ronaldo Fryman. Although he knew his beachside loving cousin to be a conspiracy theory fanatic, he always assumed that he was delusional. It was one evening that he received a particular frantic call from his least favourite cousin. Ronaldo was frantically babbling on about some new discovery he had found out. Some sort of monster sighting he believed to be alien. It coincidently happened to be near the forest which Alex stayed.

Alex a skeptic to all things supernatural had already had plans for the evening. He was to go on a date with his girlfriend Jane Richmond. Ronaldo wanted him to investigate the area which he believed was the nest of the legendary Mothman. He claimed he knew exactly where the creatures lair was, thanks to the help of some mysterious space tech.

"First Sneople, then alien rocks, and now Mothman? Go get a life Ronaldo," Alex recalled, slamming the phone at his delusional cousin. Jane so happen to enter the house at that time. Alex apologised for the hold up, and explained the whole situation to her.

To his surprised, she was the one who suggested they go to the place where Ronaldo had begged Alex to check out. After all it would be a pleasant change of plans than the usual restaurant they visited.

To cut a long story short, Ronaldo was right. Right where so many mystery hunters that visited Point Pleasant were wrong. They did find a cave of sorts. A cave filled with animal bones. Alex felt a chills down his spin believing they had come across a bear cave. That was until he tripped over the skull of a grizzly bear!

His fall had alerted something inside, which he though at first was a bat. Until he saw a pair of huge red eyes, too big for a bats looking back at them. They didn't have to think twice as they raced out of the cave, which echoed with a terrifying scream. After a terrifying sprint down the forest path, they were now here hiding from whatever it was in the cave.

"Is it gone?" Jane whispered, interrupting Alex from us own thoughts.

"I don't know," he said.

A loud rumbling was heard from the distance.

Alex looked at Jane excitedly.

"Hear that? That's the sound of a car. We are very near the road. If we creep very slowly to that way, we might reach the main road," he said.

Before he could continue, the bushes behind them rustled.

"It's here!" Jane cried out.

Alex grabbed a fallen branch and swung it like a sword.

Then a bright light shone from the bushes temporarily blinding him. It was a beam from a torchlight.

He gave a sigh of relief.

It was a woman dress in a very smart black suit and tie. She didn't seem to be from around here. He also noticed that she was wearing sunglasses, which was very peculiar as it was already night. Behind her emerged a ground of men that were dressed in similar fashion. They were too well dress for a night hike.

He paled as he noticed she was holding a gun in her right arm.

"Freeze, this is the FBI, and your are trespassing government property," she said.

"Wait! Wait! I can explain," Alex said lighting up his hands.

"We didn't know this was restricted property. We just came here on a date," he said.

"A date in the woods?"the agents raised an eyebrow.

"It's not exactly a date. We were actually trying to look for the lair of the Mothman," Jane blurted out.

Alex wanted to plant a facepalm on himself. They were definitely going to be arrested.

But all of a sudden the horrific screeching filled th sky again.

Jane gasped as she pointed to the sky.

A horrific visage of an unearhtly being swooped around as the group from far.

The couple turn to the agents who stood there with no change of emotions.

"Sighhhh, not this again," the female agent muttered.

The creature unafraid gave a final howl and swooped down. It landed just a few feet away from the agents.

Up close it's eyes were round, huge and glow a yellowish red colour. The size of dinner plates. It looks at the agents blankly.

It's skin, was a mixture of scales and feathers. The combination is reminiscent to some kind of sickly fowl that has shed almost all it's feathers.

It has a mouth that looks like the beak of an owl, but with sharp teeth like a reptile.

Just beneath the horrific beings mouth, was something that glow the colour red.

Agent Sculler gave the creature a stare that was as piercing as it's own.

"Having fun tonight aren't we Adder. You should have tried to stay hidden. Please unfused so I don't have to see you in this ridiculous form," she said.

The creature gave a howl of laughter that sounded like a a cough and hiss at the same time.

"Ridiculous you say? Or is it that this form terrifies you Sculler," it said.

Some of the men in the back gave a snigger, but they stopped when Sculler turn and glared at them.

"Very well, I'll unfuse. After all I would like to introduce myself to this wayward teenagers," it said.

A sudden bright glow emitted from the being, and the hideous reptilian owl, split apart in a blinding like. The terrified teens who were watching gasped.

In front of them was something much worse.

A creature so distrubingly grosteque that it seemed to pop out of a horror movie.

A humonoid with the head of a snake, and the body of a human. But instead of legs, it had a snakes body starting all the way from the torso. One of it's eye was glowing bright red. But it wasn't an eye. Alex realised as she stared closer that it was a gem. A red gem.

The creature noticed Jane's staring and gave her a terrifying smile.

"What's wrong girl? Haven't seen a Snake man before?" he hissed.

A frightened squawk erupted from the struggling animal, Adder was holding. It was a adult horned owl.

"So you fused with a bird?" Agent Sculler pointed out in a deadpan sort of way.

"Why yes. Thanks for the observation. I like to fuse with the local fauna every now and then. Creates diversity, and is the best way of making mass hysteria and fear. Keeps the our base safe from prying eyes. You're welcome," he remarked with a grinned.

The without warning, he pulled the frightened owl to his sharp fanged mouth, and swallowed it in a gulp.

Agent Sculler furrowed an eyebrow. An agent behind began to gag.

"And then you eat the fauna that you fuse with?"

The Adder shurgged.

"Yes my dear. Fusion makes me hungry. So does flying. Organics taste so much better when they are afraid," he said licking his lips.

Then with a burp he coughed out a bright yellow beak.

"Speaking of organics, let's see who we have for suppers. The bird didn't make quite the meal I expected. These two teenagers however," Adder licked his lips.

Jane whimpered as she hugged Alex tight to her.

Alex gripped the branch he held tighter. Would he really be able to fight this monster? And what about these FBI agents. Were they on his side? Ronaldo was right. The Sneople were real!!!

"Not tonight Adder. Our orders were clear. Keep the area clear. Human casualties will only attract more mystery seekers," she said.

"So what are we supposed to do then? Let them run to the press and tell everyone about that the government and sneople really are working together?"

"No. We promise we won't tell a single soul. Yes. They would just think we were crazy anyway," Jane begged.

"Ahhh, you're making it too easy," Adder hissed.

"Let us handle this gem hybrid," Agent Sculler said dismissing him.

Adder seemed to take offence at the comment but seeing all the agents decided to let it slide.

Sculler went over to the couple and pulled down her shades.

"If you cooperate this own't hurt," she said placing facing the two teenagers.

Alex nodded, asking Jane to cooperate as there was no escape.

"Look at my eyes," the agent commanded.

They complied but Alex wished he hadn't.

For the agents normal human eyes began to change. Her black of her irises began to dilate until they begun to cover all her whites.

Jane whimpered in terror as she noticed that the skin of the agent now turned a pasty grey colour.

She gave a horrified cry. She wasn't human.

But something strange happen. The more they stared into those pitch dark eyes, the more tired they felt. Slowly but steadily Jane's screams died down. Both her and Alex's eyes became like the reflective surface of a mirror.

"Yes. I will sleep now, and remember none of this,"

With that they both collapsed on the ground unconscious.

"Bring them to the nearest hospital. Tell them they passed out due to exhaustion in the forest," Sculler commmanded the other agents.

"Sigh, looks like I need to hunt a bear to fill me tonight. Too much fur for my liking," Adder hissed.

He gave a agitated eye to Sculler.

"So what brings you here? It's definitely not to save these two," he hissed.

Sculler put back her glasses. Her skin now an ordinary blonde colour.

"Haven't you heard? The diamonds have visited earth again,"

Adder hissed violently.

"And you just let them go off unharmed again?"

"So you suggest we go attack four Diamonds head on? Why not you try it first," Sculler scoffed.

"With the military under sneople command I don't see why not. After all aren't the anti gem weapons already developed in Roswell," Adder said thouhgtfully.

"We aren't about to start an all out intergalactic war with the forces here on earth. I had hoped that the Diamonds would have destroyed the Crystal gems for us. But it seems, Rose was Pink after all," Sculler said sounding very unhappy with the revelation.

"We should have destroyed them all during the past centuries. But no, Diamondback insisted we just monitor them," Adder hissed angrily.

"Our Diamond has his reasons. After all this is the way of the Serpentes. To rule and reign from the shadows. We've done this since the humans were still playing with bow and arrow. Best not to question it hybrid," an agent voiced out.

"Is that a threat lowly Grey? Remember you were human once. Never Serpentes like me"he said baring his fangs.

Sculler stood in between them.

"Let's try not to be like the gems and spill blood among our kind shall we,"

"Very well. Enough debating. What really brings you out here Sculler. Did you get bored trying to play babysitter to the Maheswaran girl at Space Camp did you?" he said flicking his tongue lazily.

"That is none of your concern. As long as the humans and gems pose no threat to us, we remain hidden. Just as observers. It's better that way. Easier to avoid triggering the paranoid White Diamond," Sculler said.

"Tsskkk. That old fart should have just stayed hidden in Homeworld. She was doing us a favour oppressing other gems. Your failure to contain Steven has made all of the Diamonds come here. And worse of all he stopped the Cluster from emerging. I was so looking forward to merging with it. To take control of it. It would be nice to be the next Hydra superweapon. I heard the Serpentine supercluster, Typhon is creating havoc for the White Diamond Court in space sector 11,"

"You'll have your chance yet. For now we musn't interfere. Steven may have given us an advantage after all,"

"How so?"

"Which is for the better. After all haven't you heard, the Diamonds have liberated the colonies,"

"Well now isn't this a interesting change of events. More for us then," Adder said greedily.

"Which brings us back to our topic. Diamondback has new instructions for you. You are to head to Beach City," Sculler said.

"Oh, isn't that where the human hybrid is? Is it time to finally put an end to Pink's legacy on earth once and for all?"Adder hissed excitedly.

"No. I can't believe I am saying this, but Diamondback wants you to be part of his private security. Apparently our Diamond has decided it's time for him to pay a visit to earth,"