Kevin Kielar was a skinny little boy. Since he barely had any muscle on his body, he was an easy target for every bully at school. He was 12 and in the 6th grade, but he was only 5 foot 2 inches tall and he easily could have passed as a fifth grader since he was so small and so skinny. He had short, red hair and brown eyes, with freckles on his face. He was the oldest of two boys, his younger brother, Matthew, was a year younger and in the fifth grade.

When Kevin got in line in the cafeteria, his friend Sean rolled up to him, sitting in a wheelchair. "Hey Sean, what happened to you?" Kevin asked his wheelchair-bound buddy. "I got in a car accident over the weekend and the doctor said that my legs were hurt in the crash. I guess they're not strong enough for me to walk on them yet. But I'll manage, dude… Could you do me a favor?" Sean asked him. "Sure, what can I do for you?" Kevin responded. "Give me a push and roll me to the head of the table so I can eat, could you?"

"Yeah, I'll take care of you, Sean. Gosh, I wish there were anything I could do to make your legs stronger so you could walk again…" Kevin wondered out loud, as he pushed Sean's wheelchair towards the edge of the table before sitting down to eat himself.

Kevin's best friend, Adam, had just gotten his food from the kitchen counter in the school cafeteria, when he walked over to the table to sit down. Just before he had gotten to his seat, he accidentally slipped while walking on the wet floor, which had just been mopped by one of the custodians. Adam's large soda went flying from the tray, and ended up spilling all over Jared's lap. That was not a good thing, since Jared was a big kid, and he was known as one of the class bullies in school.

"You clumsy idiot, look at what you've done!" Jared growled at Adam, who was on the floor. "I'm sorry!" Adam said to Jared, as he began to pick up whatever was left over of his hamburger and fries, when Jared got up and walked towards him, clenching his fists.

Kevin was well aware of the fact that his best friend was in danger, and he decided to speak up. "Hey Jared, leave him alone! It was an accident! Didn't you hear him apologize? Leave Adam alone!" he shouted, sitting opposite Jared at a long table in the school cafeteria.

Now, Jared was already 14 and he was still in the 6th grade. He had to redo a year, and therefore was one of the biggest and oldest kids in the class. He was also strong and muscular, and he had no problem showing his younger, smaller, and weaker classmates that he meant business when he said that he was the boss!

Jared turned around and sat back down in his chair. He grabbed his spoon and dipped it in a small cup of ketchup. Then he swung the spoon and splashed the red blob of ketchup in Kevin's face, covering his nose, mouth and eyes with red ketchup! Kevin then grabbed his half-empty cup of cold soda, and splashed all of it in Jared's face! All the other kids at the table were laughing, until Jared stretched out his arm and grabbed Kevin's hair and started pulling it! Kevin began to scream, just as he extended his arms in order to try to break free from Jared's grip, when Jared suddenly let go.

"Alright, you two! Break it up! Let's go to the principal's office now!" Mister Jones shouted. He was one of the teachers who was on duty in the cafeteria when the food fight broke out. Kevin and Jared were escorted into Mister Rook's office, who suspended both boys from school for starting the fight in the cafeteria. Jared didn't appreciate it at all, and placed all the blame for the fight on Kevin. When they were done listening to how and why they were punished, they confronted each other outside as they were leaving the school grounds.

"You had better watch your back, Kevin! You're on my hit list now. You know what that means?" Jared sneered at Kevin. Kevin didn't dare say anything to the big bully, and just turned around and began to walk home.

As soon as Kevin walked in the door of his house, he was confronted by his mother. "Mister Rook just called! You got suspended from school again? What do you have to say for yourself, Kevin?" she asked him, with an angry look on her face.

"Jared was about to pick a fight with Adam for accidentally spilling his soda all over him. All I did was stand up for Adam, and then Jared threw ketchup in my face! Then I…" Kevin began to explain, while he began to cry at the same time.

"Kevin, how many times have you been in a fight with that boy? Now you're suspended from school for the second time in two months! You have to stay home tomorrow, but you got five chapters of extra history homework to do! Not only that, but you're grounded for the rest of the week. No TV, no computer, no video games and no music! Now, go to your room and stay there!" his mother shouted. "But mom, it's not fair! He's such a big bully! I didn't do anything…" Kevin began to plead. "Go to your room! I don't even want to hear it!" his mother shouted back, cutting him off in mid sentence.

With the pouring rain outside, accompanied by lightning and thunder, it only seemed appropriate that Kevin would sit in his room with the door closed, staring out the window. What a miserable day it has been. Tears started rolling down the boy's cheeks, as he watched the rain coming down. He was grounded. Again. All because of the big, overgrown bully at school named Jared. Not only was he being punished for standing up for a friend, but he was threatened by the big bully as well. All he had to look forward to, once the suspension was over, was to return to school with the fear of getting a black eye, in addition to all the humiliation and the punishment he had already had to endure over the past day. Kevin just closed the blinds in front of the window and crawled on his bed. It wasn't long, for he had fallen into a deep sleep.

Kevin woke up the following morning when his mother had just set down a plate with some toast and a bowl of cereal on his desk. She had poured him a glass of orange juice, and she had just walked out when he was awakened by the sound of his bedroom door being closed. He knew why she had brought him breakfast. She only did that when he was confined to his room while he was being punished for something.

He ate his cereal and his toast, and he only finished half of his cup, leaving some juice for later. He then grabbed his American history book, and began to study out his five chapters, for which he had to write an outline, to hand in to the principal the next day. He decided to get started on it as soon as possible, so he could be done with it. He worked on it through lunch time, when he crawled on his bed and dozed off again. When Kevin woke up that afternoon, he walked out of his room to go get something to eat for lunch. His mother let him sit at the kitchen table, and gave him some left over spaghetti she had made the previous night. Then she ordered him to wash and dry all the dishes, to water all the plants in the house, to collect all the garbage, to scrub the toilet in his bathroom and then to clean the bathtub and the sink. When he was done with all that, she had sent him back to his room, for she was going to bring him his supper.

Kevin hated being grounded and he couldn't stand being locked up in his room. Eventually he would run out of things to do and he would just be bored while sitting on his bed and looking out the bedroom window. After he had eaten his supper, he decided to stare out the bedroom window, before going back to bed again.

He hated being punished, but he was even more afraid of what was waiting for him the next day at school. He knew he had been placed on Jared's so called "hit list", which basically meant that he was now prime target for the big class bully. He felt it was so unfair that he had to fear the big gorilla; he saw it as being his hopeless destiny for the next day. He realized how great the chance was that he would go home from school with a black eye, especially now that he had gotten on Jared's bad side.

Jared was nothing but a big, muscular, overgrown bully, and Kevin somehow hoped that Jared would enjoy beating him up just as much as Kevin would enjoy watching Jared getting beaten up by some guy his own size. It just seemed so unfair, that a guy like Jared would use his muscles to beat up on other kids, while a nice kid like Sean is confined to a wheelchair just because he can't walk and his legs are too weak. Life would only seem fair to him if somehow all of Jared's muscular strength be transferred to Sean, so that the nice kid could walk again. As Kevin looked out the window, staring at the pouring rain, he began to wish out loud for a change.

"Jared is a bully because he has big muscles and he is strong. That's why he is so mean! I wish I could take his muscles and his strength away from him and add it to my own body, so I could give some of it to somebody else later on. Maybe I can give his muscles to somebody who would deserve it, like Sean, not some overgrown bully like Jared who would just use his strength to beat up other kids in school…" Kevin wondered to himself out loud, while watching the rain come down.

Then Kevin crawled back on his bed and started reading a magazine, but he only got through a few pages, before falling asleep, with the magazine laying flat on his chest.

Kevin was nervously walking down the hallway to go to his first class, when his shirt was grabbed from behind. When he turned around, he was staring right into Jared's face. "After school, we'll meet out on the parking lot, you punk!" he sneered, making a fist with his left hand and raising it up to Kevin's chin. "We need to have a little talk, Kevin buddy! I'm really looking forward to it…" Jared said, as he pushed Kevin against the wall. Kevin just gulped; he knew he was in trouble now and that he would end up walking home from school with a black eye. He was scared, lonely, angry, and nervous. It just wasn't fair. He was always the one to get picked on, just because he was skinny, weak and small. Jared was a big guy, and he loved to use his strength and his overgrown muscles to pound the little guys at school. At first, Kevin began to feel helpless and sad. How could he escape Jared's wrath? Why did he have to come to school and spend the whole day living in fear of this bully? He had already resigned himself to the fact that he was going to endure a couple of blows after school, as if having been suspended for one day wasn't enough punishment already. What a miserable situation to be in! Why couldn't he be a little bigger, or a little stronger? Then he would teach Jared a lesson he would never forget. What would Jared do if he were bullied by someone who was his size, or perhaps even bigger, stronger, and more muscular?

When the final bell had rung, Kevin just walked out on the parking lot, just looking straight ahead, and minding his own business. If he had left the building before Jared, then he could at least try to postpone the execution for another day, and deal with the bully tomorrow. He was almost up to the gate to the street when he spotted Jared, along with Chuck and Frank. "Oh no, the three bullies… Jared and his henchmen" Kevin said to himself, as he looked the three big, muscular bullies straight in the eyes.

Jared walked up to Kevin, slamming his right fist into his left palm, in front of his chest. "Time to take care of the shrimp who just got me suspended for one day in school. You're going to pay for that, you little twerp!" Jared sneered, as he approached Kevin.

Kevin just threw his backpack on the ground in front of him. "Alright, let's just get this over with. I'm tired and I'm hungry and I want to go home. So let me have it so we can finish this episode right now!" he said out of desperation. He just didn't seem to care anymore, for he knew he was going to get punched, no matter what. "I wish I could have some of that muscle of yours, then I would show you guys what it's like to being bullied all the time. Some day someone is going to bully you, and then you'll be thinking about me!" Kevin said out loud.

Something very strange had begun to happen. Just as Jared swung his fist at Kevin, he held out his hands while trying to block Jared's punch. As soon as Kevin touched Jared's fist, Jared began to feel weaker, while Kevin began to get stronger. Jared swung the other arm at him, and Kevin grabbed Jared's arm with both his hands, holding on to Jared's wrist. Kevin squeezed as hard as he could, and he gasped when he realized that he was draining all of Jared's strength and muscles out of him, and into his own body!

Jared's arms grew thinner, and his legs got smaller. His biceps were now flat and his pectorals and abs began to disappear! In the meantime, Kevin felt his own arms and legs growing thicker and harder, his muscles were expanding at an incredible rate! His legs were suddenly muscular and covered with veins, while his pectorals became at least five inches bigger and rounder than they were when the fight began. "What is this? I'm weak!!" Jared screamed, as he struggled to let go and pull away from Kevin's hands. Kevin squeezed his arm even harder, and in a few seconds, Jared had grown from a big, muscular bully into a tall, skinny kid with no strength or muscles at all!

Kevin let Jared go and pushed him away from him with such force, that he fell on the ground. When he got up, he looked at himself and began to panic out loud. "What have you done to me? All those workouts in the gym… My muscles… They're all gone! You stole my muscles and my strength!" Jared whimpered, as he looked down at his skinny body in complete shock.

Before Chuck and Frank could react, Kevin jumped in front of them and grabbed both their wrists. Kevin held on to them as they struggled to break free, but they couldn't resist Kevin because he was getting stronger while they were growing weaker every passing moment! Chuck and Frank felt their bodies deflate as their huge muscles grew smaller and smaller, until neither of them was muscular anymore! Meanwhile, Kevin was just adding on the pounds as his body absorbed all the muscle and strength from whoever he touched, and he was absorbing Chuck and Frank's strength and muscles at the same time, and he loved it! He just grinned as he felt an incredible surge of muscular strength and power soar through his body. He kept on squeezing their arms; until he realized that he had completely sapped them of their abundant muscles, robbing them of at least three years of working out in the gym per person! Kevin gained all the muscle and all the strength of his two victims, gaining six years of working out in just thirty seconds!

Chuck and Frank began to cry when Kevin let go of their arms and stepped back. They looked down at their bodies, their arms and their legs, and realized that they had become skinny to the bone! Where had all their muscles gone?

Then Jared, Chuck, and Frank gasped when Kevin raised his arms in front of him and showed his first muscular pose. He suddenly had 18 inch biceps, 16 inch calves, a washboard of abs and veins all over his legs. His quads were hard and thick, and his calf muscles looked like melons, that were about to rip out of his legs. His arms were hard and thick, his back was as solid as a rock, and he felt the ground shake with every step he made, as it absorbed the muscular weight of three men, now combined into one body.

"Now, do you guys still want to fight me?" Kevin said, while flexing his arms and showing off his 18 inch balls of muscles on his arms. All three former bullies turned around and ran towards the street, leaving the red head muscle boy by himself. Just as Kevin grabbed his backpack, Adam came walking out of the building.

"Kevin? Is that you?" Adam said out of amazement, as he studied the muscle boy who had the same face as his best friend, but sporting a body of an Olympic athlete instead of that of a skinny middle school student. "Yeah, Adam. How do you like my muscles?" Kevin asked his buddy, while flexing his left arm in front of him, showing off the bulging ball of a bicep that was almost ripping out of his forearm. "Holy cow! What did you do? What happened to you? How did you get so big?" Adam began to ask him.

Kevin smiled, as he gently grabbed hold of Adam's right hand. Suddenly Adam felt a surge of power creeping through his body, as all his muscles began to expand slightly, while Kevin was shrinking again. "I have gained the power to take away all the muscle and strength from one person, and to transfer it to myself or somebody else, just by touching you. I can give you some of my power, or I can transfer it back to me, making your muscles shrink back again. These muscles belonged to Jared, Frank and chuck. Now they're mine, and I can give some of them to you if you want!" Kevin explained to his best friend, who stood there with his jaw wide open while he watched his muscles grow bigger and bigger.

"Come, Adam, let's go home!" Kevin said, as they were getting close to the street in front of the school. Just as the reached the sidewalk, they heard a familiar voice. `Hey guys, could I get a push from either on of you?" Kevin and Adam turned around and noticed Sean, waving at them from his wheelchair. Kevin suddenly had a big grin on his face, for he knew that this were the purpose of him suddenly gaining this awesome power of taking away the muscle and strength of the bullies, so he could give it to someone who was weak, like Sean.

Kevin and Adam walked up to Sean, who was sitting in his wheelchair. He wore a t-shirt and shorts, with tennis shoes. Sean was skinny and tall, so he wasn't muscular or strong at all. When Sean saw Kevin standing in front of him, his jaw dropped wide open as he marveled at Kevin's big, muscular physique. "Holy smoke! What happened to you?" Sean asked Kevin. Kevin just motioned that Sean be quiet, as he gently reached out his right hand and grabbed hold of Sean's left leg.

"Hey… What… What are you doing?" Sean stuttered, as he felt a surge of power go through his body. His legs began to swell up, as his quads became almost 22 inches thick and his calf muscles became round and hard. Then the rest of his body began to inflate, as his muscles swelled to freakish proportions! His pectorals inflated to the point where the top three buttons on his button shirt popped off, through the size of his pectorals. His undershirt ripped down the middle, and his biceps ripped through the sleeves of his shirt, on both arms! After a few moments, Kevin found himself back to normal, while Sean had become so big and muscular, his legs and his back had practically become too wide for the wheelchair! Kevin and Adam extended their hands to Sean and they helped him to get up on his own two feet again, cheering when Sean was suddenly strong enough to walk. "Wow! This is awesome!" Sean said out of complete amazement, as he took his first steps out of the wheelchair.

Adam grabbed the wheelchair and pushed it in front of him, while Kevin and Sean were walking side by side. "How do you feel, Sean?" Kevin said, looking at his tall and muscular buddy, who was constantly admiring his new muscular body. Sean flexed every muscle in his body, as he pulled his ripped shirts off of his chest, revealing his huge abs and his pectorals. The boy who was an invalid only ten minutes earlier now looked like a young bodybuilder!

"Kevin, I can't thank you enough for making my legs strong again so I could walk. I don't understand how you got this ability, but thank you for transferring that strength to me! Where did that come from?" Sean asked Kevin. "Don't thank me; thank Jared, Frank and Chuck! They spent all those years working out in the gym, growing these huge muscles. But they used their strength to bully others, and now I have received the power to take that strength, which was misused, to give it to someone like you, who needed it!" Kevin replied. "Those guys won't have their strength anymore, so now they can't bully anyone in school!" Adam responded.

With that thought, the three boys laughed out loud, as they went on their way home from school. Kevin was glad that he could use his ability to transfer the strength from the bullies to someone who was in need, like Sean. Jared, Frank and Chuck would no longer bother Kevin, for they were afraid of him.

Sean would eventually join the football team and play for their school. Adam would join the swim team, and Kevin would end up on the basketball team. Kevin watched out for any other kids who decided to bully the little ones, for he would secretly reduce the muscles and strength of anyone who appeared to act like a bully in school, and he would transfer the strength and the muscle to Adam, Sean or himself. Only those three boys knew of Kevin's power, and they made sure that the school remained free from those big, mean bullies. And if anyone had suffered an injury or felt weak, then Kevin would quietly touch them and increase their strength. And every time he would transfer some power to the weak, he would look up to the sky and be filled with appreciation and gratitude for his awesome talent.

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