He felt Rusty shaking beneath his hand, so he said in encouragement, "Don't worry. I am granting you great power. When I am done with you, you will become stronger than ever. All your fears will melt away and you will become a new superior creature."
As he said this, he activated the Nanite Metac. Because of this, six years of his lifespan were immediately removed from his body. Rusty also began to change.
The Nanite Metac grabbed a piece of Rusty, tore it from his body, transformed this piece into metal, enhanced the power of the metal, and returned it to Rusty.
Rusty's body had become a jigsaw puzzle game. The Nanite Metac took out each piece of the puzzle and converted it into enhanced nanites. Then it returned the enhanced puzzle pieces to the jigsaw.
Each puzzle piece was as small as the size of a molecule. So the absence of each of them wasn't enough to kill Rusty. But the process of the removal, transformation, and return of the puzzle pieces was very painful.
