The cat finished the canned fish, fish and tin can alike. Its mouth could stretch to an absurd size like a reflection in a funhouse mirror, and then the metal rapidly twisted and melted inside Dream's mouth.
After finishing the fish, the cat sat by the pool and lazily pawed at the water. Curiosity showed in its big eyes, as though it had discovered that the water in this world differed from any it had seen before.
"Is this world's ocean connected to the ocean in Another World, meow?" It jumped into the water and began dog-paddling, its little head bobbing above the surface. "This is fresh water, but Earth's water cycle has mixed in elements from Another World."
"The silicon ion content is too high?" Su Ming took a little yellow rubber duck from his belt pouch and set it on the water for the cat.
"Yeah. So you were over here playing with the local specialty, Thing, meow?" Shrinking down again, it climbed onto the rubber duck and began using its tail as a propeller.
"Silicon-based Lifeforms are invading this Earth. I came out here on vacation, so I might as well lend the humans of this world a hand." Deathstroke shook his head and took out another can, placing it on the shore. "Right now, I suspect the Hand of the Void and his Evil Thought Nobles are in the world occupied by those Silicon-based Lifeforms."
Probably. Maybe they were merely hiding behind the scenes and using the Forerunners as blades, or maybe they had taken over that hive system. There was no telling.
As he spoke to the cat, he played back the footage of the earlier changes in the ridged turtle, showing it the mech battle and the humans' entertaining reactions.
Raleigh and Mako were