Smack!
When Parasite crawled out of the crater, he had been facing away from Deathstroke. He had no eyes on his back, and all his attention had been focused on Supergirl and Wonder Woman.
But after the bottle shattered over his head and he absorbed the kinetic energy contained within it, the strengthened purple-skinned man still turned to look at Deathstroke.
"It's you. Slurp. I noticed you before. You look very nutritious. Slurp."
Parasite's smooth, water-like face wriggled as a huge mouth grew from it. His mouth structure closely resembled that of an alien, with sharp teeth exposed to the air. But he kept slurping his sticky saliva back in, making him look even more disgusting.
Unlike most people, who felt fear when they saw Deathstroke, he became hungry at the sight of the black-and-yellow Mercenary. Newly grown eyes gleamed from his face like two glowing black bulbs.
Hiss!!!
Strangle emerged from behind Deathstroke. Countless tentacles gathered into an enormous dragon head, a demon king's image it had learned from a game called Bayonetta in its host's memories. A snake-like hiss came from between its huge, fang-filled jaws.
There was a law of the strong devouring the weak among Symbiotes, so this parasite before them was naturally Strangle's enemy as well.
The other side's host was nothing worth mentioning, merely an unconscious vessel. Strangle was confident that with the Devouring Method, it could not possibly lose to an alien bug.
Seeing Strangle, Parasite froze for a moment and tilted his head.
"You're not human either?"
"You're the one who isn't human. Your whole family isn't human." Su Ming sighed, raised a hand, and clenched it toward Parasite. "Force Choke!"
Though Parasite was not human and his true body could shapeshift, his host body was human, which meant he had a