Cooper figured it was finally time to see what he could do in an actual fight, he had gotten a good handle on his skills and was decently strong after all. It took some investigating but he learned about a shopkeeper who sold arm blaster to criminals. Using the fact he was android who incorporated blasters in his arms and was looking for replacement parts he set up a meeting.
A few hours later Cooper arrived at the meeting place and upon seeing the shopkeep realized the guy was more powerful than him, with a pl of 6000. This new knowledge combined with the fact he didn't actually have a plan or anything caused Cooper to realize he might be in over his head. Still he acted as calm as he could and placed an empty suitcase on the counter.
"Where is the merchandise?" "All in time, first let me see if the money is here." Knowing that his whole plan was a bust Cooper decided it was best to go on the offensive and hope that getting in the first hit would give him an advantage. As the shopkeep opened the briefcase his cybernetic eye started glowing and he lost vision in it.
"Hey this is..." Before he could finish his sentence the shopkeeper was hit by Cooper's Single Eye Laser.
Unfortunately even with the element of surprise it seemed Cooper's attack was just too weak to really do anything, as the laser just caused minor damage. "So that is how you want to play it? Very well." As he was talking the shopkeep grabbed Cooper's head and rammed it into the counter. Luckily he was able to move his head so that the metal side took the brunt of the hit but he didn't come out unscathed since the hit was hard to destroy the counter and knock him to the ground.
By the time Cooper got up the shopkeeper had finished charging an attack and hit him with an energy beam. Unprepared as he was Cooped had no time to block it and was leaved panting and covered in bruises. Not wanting to go that through he charged his opponent to shoulder ram him. The shopkeep though sidestepped him and used Cooper's own momentum against him to throw him into a bunch of boxes with faulty merchandise
Being covered with pieces of weapons and even some scouters Cooper's nanites began integrating whatever pieces were still useful, resulting in him absorbing more arm blaster parts and a scouter becoming part of his eye. When he pushed the remaining junk off of him, the turrets on his wrists were longer his right eye was red, and his hair was a few inches longer. His power had also increased due to some safeties on his cybernetics being disabled.
Not wanting to give his opponent time to try something again he used an attack, Double Wrist Cannon. To his surprise it was enough to kill the shopkeeper despite him trying to block. Immediately afterwards though countless warnings appeared on his cybernetic eye and he could feel immense heat coming from his upper arms.
Cooper didn't get any time to celebrate his victory though, as all of a sudden countless warnings popped up in his right eye. While this had never happend before the heat coming from his blasters made it clear what was going on. Hoping that his "creator" could fix things Cooper decided to go see him. As soon as he was outside he took and flew to Dr. Tist's lab.
"Hmm yes, I can't say that transformation is surprising. As for the overheating I have some ideas but just to be sure I want to run a full diagnostic." Dr. Tist pointed to a weird chair attached to a computer and Cooper sat down. "This might sting a little." Before Cooper could say anything the scientist plugged a cable into his neck and he saw a whole bunch of ones and zeros take up his field of vision of his right eye before everything went black.
When he came too the first thing Cooper noticed was that the turrets in his arms were bulkier. "What is going on with my arms?" "Straight to the point, heh? Those blasters you absorbed were modified to fire more often at the cost of overheating quickly, before you ask that scouter doesn't have a communicator so all it does is focus that laser beam."
Cooper thanked the doctor for his help and changed back to his baseform for the moment. Figuring it might be smart to test out his new abilities he flew towards Mount Frappe.