OOC: All that seems a bit...loony, for an Oddworld thing. Oddworld is rather more realistically based than many game series, and Half Life...well, I don't know, I haven't played it so much, but is based elsewhere.
Splicing with other Oddworldian species (or, perhaps, just have a genetically modified Slig to add new features) is far more plausible than saying it's blended with something else. Say, you could keep most (or all) of said abilities, but change the story so instead of being to do with other dimensions (which would likely have different based lifeforms that are completely and utterly different, like silicon based rather than carbon, breath methane instead of oxygen, etc...that is, if said dimension even has the same elements as ours does, though Half Life is similar, if not essentially the same, to ours, as is Oddworld fundamentally), it was an in universe concept.
PS: Bombardier beetles don't use their wings to create the explosions they spray at enemies. Inside at the tip of the abdomen, are two organs containing different chemicals. When the explosion is needed, these organs both pump the chemicals forward. They were separate, but now that they come into contact, they react explosively.
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