Chapter 25 – Bio-Alchemy

Alchemy has been known as an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting. In the marvel cinematic universe none of the avengers uses it. The sorcerers of Kamar Taj might know about it but so far there has been no mention of it. At least that was what Koro knew.

This time Koro followed the soul to a place in New York where a clean-up crew is working around a giant deceased Chitauri alien creature with pointed teeth. Among the rubble are alien artifacts. The soul moved between the clean-up crew and another group before heading straight to Phineas Mason.

The soul isn't powerful enough to just occupy a body and destroy the soul in it. It just entered and slowly absorbed the soul in the body. If people pay close attention to Phineas Mason, all they could see is him having occasional migraines.

There two groups almost had a fight but fortunately the other group backed down. Toomes left with his crew. They can either file a complaint or find other ways to earn. No one noticed Mason who was having some trouble walking out on his own.

Mason is tinkering with the alien power source that one of the workers stole earlier. Toomes looked at Mason while he and the other workers complain about the news report about Tony Stark. There is a chance that the alien power source would explode but everybody trusts that Mason can handle it.

Mason lifts his magnifying glass and looks at his boss Toomes as he declares, "…The world is changing. Its time we change too."

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Toomes is a good leader. He trusts his crew but he still wants to keep tabs on them. For example, he doesn't want Mason to work on the alien tech in any other place other than the warehouse which is their current base. Although he doesn't understand most of the tech, he is more comfortable seeing it being built.

They started with simple weapons and sold them to the black market. Toomes who became the vulture wearing a flying exo-suit designed by Mason who is now called the Tinkerer. Toomes also steals advanced weaponry along with shocker and a few co-workers that he recruited. They were successful in their new enterprise and was not discovered by either the halloween costume-wearing bozos at the Stark Tower or the feds.

What Toomes didn't know is that Mason built his own exo-suit. This one is a more advanced version with lots of enhancements. This is his backup plan in case Iron Man discovers them and attacks. To practice with the suit, Mason used it to create an underground base for himself. It's the size of ten warehouse combined. Located a kilometer-deep underground. If one looks around, he can see lots of Chitauri power source being used in Mason's underground base.

Mason spend the day creating weapons for Toomes and at night he would perform a few experiments. He was careful not to let anyone know his secret underground base. Most of his money earned from selling high tech weapons were used for improving the underground base or buying the resources he needed for his experiments.

There are four ways to enter Mason's underground base. The tunnel from his house which leads down straight into the underground base. Mason uses a small flying exo-suit to enter or leave through this tunnel. As for the other three entrances, he built three vehicles which tunneled into different parts of the city. Through this, Mason captures materials and experimental subjects.

Mason or Tinkerer or Phillip when he is in his underground base started experimenting on plants and animals. He kept up the work as Vultures weapons builder and created weapons using salvaged or stolen Chitauri, Dark Elf and Ultron tech. But when he is alone, he would focus on his experiments.

Phillip would do all sorts of weird things to the animals. He would force different chemicals and medicines into the animals and observe them a bit. He would always kill them and harvest something which he would mix with other stuff and feed to the homeless people he caught. Sometimes he would capture a few gang members and feed them the weird liquid.

He would carefully observe and record the results. Then he would dispose of the experimental subjects. A few of these people became mutants. That would extend their agony because Phillip would focus his experiments on them. Throughout the years, he has captured and killed hundreds.

After a few years, Phillip started working on nanites. He only told Toomes about it because Phillip knew that once Spider-man discovers vulture then Spider-man will definitely catch him. The nanites will be Toomes secret weapon so that he can escape prison easily.

Philipps plan was simple. He plans to place a bullet made of nanites inside Toomes. To do that they need Toomes to be shot "accidentally" during a mugging gone wrong. The bullet must be placed in an area difficult to operate but will not put Toomes life in danger if not removed.

Toomes and Phillip searched online for stories about bullets or scraps of metal left inside the body of a person. The top result was actually Tony Stark who have some shrapnel is located near his heart. Other results of victims of bombing or shooting some of which are soldiers.

Phillip/Mason rehearsed together with Toomes several times before they were ready. Mason would act as the mugger and target Toomes who will try to escape. Mason will shoot a gun in Toomes direction. At that time, Toomes will open a box near the place where he wants to store the bullet. The nanite bullet will dig into his body and stay at its intended location.

Mason tested the nanite bullet on a rabbit and showed the rabbit to Toomes. To deploy the nanites, Mason had Toomes tap a specific rhythm to the back of the rabbit. When the nanites activated, it moved out of the rabbit without it noticing. The nanites can then be divided into two. One will turn into a very thin headband which will read Toomes brain signals, allowing him to command the nanite.

The nanites were programmed to be able to turn into keys, knife, lens, finger cover or taser. It can scan the eyes and turn into lens to mimic the eye of the target, finger cover to copy the fingerprint of others and also record voice samples all to fool the any biometric scanner in prison. As for the nanites being a taser, it first needs to charge from any electrical outlet before it can be used as a taser.

Toomes was shot that day and went to the ER. Hearing how expensive the surgery is, he refused treatment and returned home. Six months later, Toomes was defeated by spiderman and was sent to jail.

The whole time this was happening Koro was unable to understand what Phillip was doing. He wanted to enter Phillips dream and manipulate him into revealing everything. He tried before but Phillip was very careful and even in his dreams he won't reveal a thing. His desire to hide the fact that he crossed over from another universe or dimension was so strong that even in dreams he keeps his mouth shut.

When Toomes entered prison, Phillip aka tinkerer became relaxed and lost all the tension that he was feeling. That's the end of the movie and he will be free to do anything. Koro tried once again to make Phillip reveal his plans in the dream. This time he took the identity of Toomes who just escaped and hid in Masons house. In this dream, Toomes discover Masons underground base and confronts him. Mason then slowly explains the purpose of the underground base as well as all the experiments done in the past years.

This is how Koro learned what Bio-Alchemy is.