Chapter 157. Transformation

"How long will it take?"

"Almost done, just need to do a little bit of tweaking and reintroduce the memories back in for a restart ... okay...."

In a trance, Bullseye slowly opened his eyes and heard Kingpin and a man with rusty English talking; their conversation was ringing in his ears. His memory was a little fuzzy, and the last thing he remembered was the battle with the Russian Mafia when he was severely defeated. When he tried to remember it, his head began to ache.

"What happened?"

"Minor problem, a little memory disorientation. It'll be restored soon."

Just as the voice said, the pain in his head soon disappeared. Bullseye slowly got up. He felt that his body seemed stiff.

Turning his head, he immediately saw Kingpin standing on the other side and a strange man with a rough appearance.

"Kingpin?"

The expression on Bullseye's face changed immediately when he subconsciously called out, noticing that his voice seemed different from the one he remembered. It was somewhat stiff and metal-like. Then Bullseye noticed that he wasn't in the hospital like he had expected, but in some place that looked like a lab.

"It worked."

Looking at Bullseye, who managed to get up and make a sound, a smile appeared on Ivan's face. He stepped forward, looked at him, and asked, "How is it? How do you feel about your new body?"

"New body?"

Bullseye was puzzled by Ivan's words. He looked down at his body, only to find that what was reflected in his eyes wasn't his original, familiar body. It was a mechanical body, reflecting a metallic lustre. He raised his hand and looked at the robotic arm in front of his face. Bullseye's emotions severely fluctuated, "This... this is my... my body...?"

"Your original body was ruined. I gave you a new body. One that's a hundred times stronger than before." As he spoke, Ivan excitedly looked at Bullseye.

Ivan successfully transformed Bullseye into a cybernetically-enhanced person through the [Robocop Blueprints] obtained from T-1000 and gained a lot as a result.

"Ruined?"

The long period of unconsciousness and the transformation of his body had left Bullseye's thoughts a little confused, and he turned his head blankly to look at Kingpin.

The crime lord stepped forward, looked down at the brand-new Bullseye, and spoke in a deep voice.

"Lester, remember the Defenders?"

"Defenders?"

With a bright light in his eyes, Bullseye's memory began to return, remembering the scene where his limbs had been twisted around by Jessica. Even though he had a new body, he still felt a deep aching sensation.

"It is time to take revenge."

"Revenge!"

In an instant, the bewilderment at the transformation of his body was replaced by intense hatred. Bullseye's eyes glowed red, and he shouted in a voice that sounded as horrible as screeching static noise.

　　...

Bang bang bang bang bang bang—

In an unknown warehouse.

Bullseye was adjusting to his new body. The muzzle of his gun, which extended from his arm, continued to spit out bullets that pierced the car in front of him into a sieve. Putting away his gun and stepping in front of the car, Bullseye stretched out his arms and lifted the heavy car with ease.

Suddenly thrown up, the armour-piercing rounds from his chest turned the car into a ball of scrap metal.

"Looks like Lester has started to settle into the power of his new body."

Silently watching the scene in front of him, Kingpin spoke up.

"I made some small changes to the blueprints to increase his destructive power," Ivan explained with a proud grin on his face.

Ivan was never one to play by the rules. Although the creativity of the [Robocop Blueprints] was amazing, it was still a little too weak in terms of combat effectiveness. Therefore, Ivan drastically revised the drawings and added more weapons.

"But, it's not enough ..."

However, looking at Bullseye, who was on a roll, Kingpin suddenly uttered such words.

"Huh?"

Hearing Kingpin's words, Ivan subconsciously raised an eyebrow and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Honestly, he thought that he had transformed Bullseye's body to the limit.

"I need more of these cyborgs, a large number of them. With them, not to mention eradicating the Defenders, I'll be able to control the entire New York underworld."

The truth was when he saw Bullseye's power after transformation, Kingpin's ambition grew.

"You're crazier than I thought."

Hearing Kingpin's ambitious words, even Ivan was shocked. He immediately suppressed his surprise and grinned, "But, I like your idea. Let's go wild."

　　...

"ACTION!"

At the villa on the cliff, Tony silently watched the contents of the briefcase S.H.I.E.L.D. had given him.

"Everything... is achievable through technology, better living, robust health, and for the first time in human history, the possibility... of world peace. I'm Howard Stark, and everything you'll need for the future can be found right here ..."

Although, when Natasha handed him the briefcase, she conveyed that this was what he needed, he couldn't find anything that S.H.I.E.L.D. was talking about, except for a large pile of film rolls about his own father's past and some unfinished research.

"Tony ..."

When the film reached its end, Tony suddenly heard his name. He turned his head to see his father, Howard Stark, speaking to the camera in the middle of the scene.

"... you're too young to understand this right now, so I thought I would put it on film for you. I built this for you... And someday, you'll realise that it represents a lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do... you will change the world. What is and always will be... my greatest creation... is you..."

With the last sentence from Howard Stark, the content of the film went white.

"..."

Tony looked at the blank screen in front of him in silence for half a second before he spoke up, "Jarvis."

"Yes, Sir."

"Can you replicate the model in the film just now?"

"According to the data, the content of the model in the film was the 1974 Stark Expo grounds ..."