When Light Stepper and a group of nine youngbloods were on a rite-of-passage hunt on a swamplike planet, he came into conflict with another young hunter called Two-Stripes over a xenomorph trail and had to be restrained by their leader, Top-Knot. Light-Stepper was allowed to track the creature only to be ambushed and attacked. He managed to kill the Alien only to have his hand burnt off by its acid in its death-throes. For his crime Two-Stripe was left un-armed, naked and defenseless to the horde of approaching xenomorphs.