Speed issue

He reached the apex of his leap, not far enough to reach her, but he spat upward, with acid powerful enough to kill most brutes.

She appeared beside him.

"You're really slow, too. How in the hell was anybody scared of you?"

He wasn't slow; he'd surprised a lot of people with how fast he was. Even though he was falling, he managed to twist his body around to slash at her, but she simply danced along his spines and grinned at him.

"Now me, I get more powerful all the time too, but I don't have to look like some kind of freaky worm thing. Now I know I'm no great beauty, but you look like a Sarlaac's butthole… I got the reference right, right? You look like a butthole's butthole?"

He roared and twisted and she danced on top of him all the way down, avoiding sprays of acid from sphincters along his side.

The frustrating thing was that his body didn't see her as a threat and so it wasn't adapting. She hadn't attacked him really, and as far as he knew she didn't have anything powerful enough to hurt him in the first place.

As he hit the ground, he twisted around and snapped at her, only for her to dance along his snout.

"So slow," she taunted. "It's like you aren't really into this. Maybe I should let you alone and go after somebody stronger."

***

They were firing some kind of futuristic weapons at him, but the rays bounced off his skin. They were nothing compared to the fires of hell that he'd already subjected himself to. The more of them he killed, the more of them he wanted to kill. He lunged forward, and the bugs flickered and vanished, although the humans remained. He killed bugs with every swipe. They weren't as fast as he was, and they tended to reappear shortly away and attempted to attack him again.

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Eternity