"Athena, get ready to transform into Hanzo!" William called inwardly.
Amid a dazzling array of colored lights, William's hair was tied back, with a handsome lock of hair swept diagonally across his forehead and a little gray at his temples.
His left chest was bare, marked with a massive Dragon Tattoo. A gourd hung at his waist, a quiver was slung across his back, and he held a longbow in his hand.
During the battle between Iron Man and Iron Monger, Tony hadn't been able to beat Obadiah Stane. William had been helping from the shadows the whole time, constantly firing arrows to harass the enemy.
That gave Tony an opening to pummel his opponent. But in the end, he hadn't managed to defeat the enemy himself. He'd passed out in the explosion.
Only after he woke up did he learn that Iron Monger was dead. Everyone told him he'd defeated the enemy, but he knew the one who'd taken down Obadiah hadn't been him. It had been that mysterious archer.
Without the archer's help, he might have been killed long ago.
Tony had been searching for the archer ever since, but S.H.I.E.L.D. kept its mouth shut, and he couldn't get any useful clues out of them.
Until today, when Tony saw William surrounded by colorful light and transforming into an archer. His expression was as if he'd seen a ghost.
Tony couldn't believe his eyes. He'd never dreamed that the archer he'd been searching for all this time was William!
"I hope you can keep this a secret." William had long expected Tony to be this shocked. "I don't want anyone else to know about it."
Tony stared blankly at Hanzo before reaching out to touch the Storm Bow in William's hand.
He'd told Pepper Potts about Hanzo before,