I don’t even need to flex anymore.
Earth just hangs there—suspended from the crook of my arm like a toy keychain. Lightning dances where my skin meets the atmosphere, arcs of energy trailing between my bicep and the upper stratosphere. One lazy twitch and the entire planet shifts, tilts, trembles.
This body—this vast, impossible monument of strength—it didn’t just happen. It was the experiment. The one they all warned me not to try. Said it was dangerous. Said it would unravel physics, corrupt reality, break me. They were wrong.
Now I grow when I want to. As much as I want. My power now limitless, eternal, mine to shape with thought alone. I’ve stepped beyond scale. Beyond godhood. I’m something new.
Every inch of me pulses with power. I am a massive muscled monument to the infinity that I conceal within me. Veins like rivers swell under my skin, glowing with a molten sheen that radiates across the void.
Muscles as hard as planetary crust press and coil and tighten, each strand of fiber packed with the weight of collapsed stars. Their bulk forms ridges and peaks that shimmer like mountain ranges catching solar flare, and I know that even the gentlest motion from me could send shockwaves through the system.
My shoulders bulge outward like twin planets pulled into orbit by their own mass, and my back flexes with a creak of cosmic fabric. My chest rises like twin suns behind Earth’s glowing blue—vast, searing, radiant with unstoppable growth. The light plays off my pectorals, casting deep valleys and golden glows across their surface, a landscape of power too massive to map.
And my arm—a single arm—holds it all effortlessly. Bent at the elbow, its thickness eclipses cities, each vein pulsing with the energy of entire civilizations. My knuckles twitch slightly, just enough to stir Earth’s atmosphere, and I feel the tiny world shudder. It’s light. So light. So helpless.
And I’m still just standing here.
I glance down at the spinning marble.
Still alive. Still unaware. Or maybe just pretending.
All of them. My old friends. The ones who doubted me. The ones who laughed behind my back, shook their heads, said I was obsessed.
Watching Earth dangle from my flexed arm, the continents visible to the naked eye from space, while entire oceans ripple with the vibration of my pulse. Watching clouds spiral from the heat of my skin, the troposphere boiling slightly as it brushes against the mountainous curve of my bicep.
From Earth, they see only a fraction—just the underside of my forearm blotting out the stars, veins glowing like rivers of magma across the sky. Watching me choose my next size, my next evolution, like a sculptor eyeing fresh stone—only this time, the clay is the cosmos itself.
I grant those doubters the ability to see all of me, to perceive every towering ridge of muscle, every radiant contour of my ever-expanding form, with their limited sight. I allow their instruments, their eyes, their trembling senses to take it in—the cosmic scale of my presence, the flexed titanic mass of my arms, the star-warmed glow rippling off the valleys between my pecs. They see the stretch of me across their sky like a living eclipse, the distant curvature of my shoulders spanning the horizon like a dawn that never ends.
And I can feel their wonder.
They’re finally starting to ask the question I’ve already answered:
I tilt my arm just slightly, watching Earth wobble on the energy tether that binds it to me now. It’s not orbiting. It’s attached. Anchored to me until I choose to release it.
And I haven’t even started growing again.