"Damn it, get up, you idiot!"
Seeing Killer Croc driven brutally into the ground, Bane roared at him to get up while edging away, ready to flee at any moment.
The situation had changed too fast for him to react. Now all he could do was hope Killer Croc would put up a better fight!
"ROOOAR!!!"
Hearing his master's command, Killer Croc, still dazed from the impact, burst out of the ground and opened his hideous, enormous jaws to bite Zuo Ci.
"That's more like it!"
Zuo Ci jumped straight up, wrapped both arms around Killer Croc's mouth, and clamped it shut like an iron vise.
"Say, as a crocodile, have you ever done a death roll?"
Despite the "Croc" in his name, Killer Croc was actually entirely human. He had simply been unlucky enough for a genetic mutation to turn him into this monstrosity.
So he didn't actually know how to perform a crocodile's death roll. He had, however, experienced one.
He had once made a living performing fights with real crocodiles in a circus, so he had experienced that lethal move, which had felt like little more than rough play to him.
But this time, for some reason, fear rose inexplicably from the depths of his heart, even beginning to interfere with his hypnosis.
"Come on! Try Santa Claus's Elf Spiral!"
In an instant, the world in Killer Croc's eyes blurred together like a spilled palette of paint, as though everything were melting...
No! That wasn't right!
It wasn't the world melting. It was him! He was melting!
With a sudden burst of strength from Zuo Ci, Killer Croc's massive body spun wildly like a top.
At that speed, the soft brain inside his sturdy skull was battered like tofu tossed into a washing machine!
His consciousness dissolved,