MUSCLEMAN and the Golden Gate Bridge

[musclepaul]

Hi

 

Just an idea i have been mulling over.  Not done much writing before so comments and suggestions welcomed.

 

MUSCLEMAN and the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

 

Lifting bridges was not new for Muscleman.  As he looked out over the huge expectant crowd he flexed his muscles under his uniform.  Once again the engineers had built a framework of metal and all he had to do was deadlift the bar then curl the entire Golden Gate Bridge.  

 

As always, Muscleman was supremely confidence had could do it, after all he had recently done the Brooklyn bridge without any issues.  The problem is no one told Muscleman the weight difference and Muscleman had failed to ask.

 

 

Whereas the Brooklyn weighed just under 15,000 tons, the Golden Gate weighed 60 times that, coming in at 887,000 tons

 

Muscleman strutted out onto the specially built stage. Cameras focussed on him as he turned and smiled and flexed.  Although clad in his unmistakable uniform of just gold posers, there was no doubt that the 6'3 320lb was all muscle – pumped, ripped, tanned and shredded.  The ultimate definition of muscle perfection.

 

 

 

Muscleman never missed the opportunity to be a showman.  When he defeated Thor in the world famous epic armwreslte contest he toured the world for a week doing mock armwresle contests with anybody who wanted a photo opportunity.

 

 

 

 

When he defeated hulk in the superhero powerlifting competition he had a full article written  in Powerlifting weekly. The Hulk power lifting contest had been a calculated risk for Muscleman.  Whilst the man of steel was confident the could win the bench press, he knew had little chance of defeating the Hulk in the squat (have you seen the size of those quads Muscleman kept on saying to himself) so it would all come down to the deadlift.  And that is exactly how it turned out.  Muscleman won 2 out of the 3 events, those quads of Hulk are simply insanely huge and powerful, and could squat a weight too great even for Muscleman to match; but the man of muscle had won the overall event and that was all that matters.

 

when he defeated Hercules in the full Nelson challenge he went on tour with the WWE for a week to wrestle.  No - Muscleman never missed a photo op.

 

 

And today he was going to save the iconic Golden Gate Bridge by curling it up so engineers could insert new supports to stabilize it after the recent earthquake.  Once again,  the entire world would see Muscleman as the ultimate superhero; the ultimate saviour.

 

 

 

Muscleman looked out at the huge crowd.  NBC were sponsoring the event and they had their news anchor as live compare.  Muscleman could hear the words in the background but wasn't really listening.  He heard the words he was waiting for "ladies and gentlemen I give you MUSCLEMAN, THE STRONGEST BEING EVER TO HAVE WALKED THE PLANET".

 

 

 

He walked to the bar, which looked like a simply oversized standard barbell, but this was connected to the entire Golden Gate Bridge.  He took several deep breaths, bent down grabbed the bar and started to lift.

 

 

 

That is when he realized he was in trouble.  He expected it to be heavy but not this heavy.  He always knew that his arrogance would one day be his downfall,  but he never expected it today.  He slowly lifted the Bridge a few inches off the ground, getting the bar to his knees but his entire body was shaking and straining like never before.  Muscleman, for the first time ever was grunting and straining and roaring with the effort.  Muscleman was sweating.  The more he struggled the more he roared and sweated. 

 

 

He couldn't understand what was wrong until-from the back of his mind he replayed the half listened to words from the NBC host.  The Brooklyn bridge had weighed just short of 17 000 tons and the Golden Gate just shy of 887,000 tons.  If only he had done some research Muscleman lamented, then the world would not be witnessing the failure of Muscleman.  

 

 

 

He gave one final almighty roar and managed to complete the deadlift phase, but even he accepted that curling the weight was a total impossibility for anyone, Muscleman included.  He dropped the bar and the entire ground shook as the weight of the bridge went down, Muscleman stood humbled and humiliated.  The only solace Muscleman felt was that new knew for certain that no other superhero could have done better.  This was far heavier than the powerlifting competition he had recently won, and his nearest challenger, the Hulk had lost that event.

 

Although Muscleman may have felt humiliated, the huge crowd cheered like never before.  Although he was always the favourite of all the superheroes, the fact that he attempted something in public which he failed at gave him a human aspect which many thought he was missing.  The fact he gave the lift everything he had plus more improved his standing.  The challenge provided two things for Muscleman.  Firstly the feeing of being humbled by what others saw in him and the second was a driven desire to do better.

 

It was then that Muscleman saw Kyle in the audience.  Kyle wasn't supposed to be out of the compound let alone walking the streets of America without supervision.

 

What most people don't realize is that the United Nations, along with a select number of major governments, scientific companies engineering conglomerates sponsors the Center for Human Enhanced Super Strength (CHESS).

 

[Ro20316]

Pretty good start. He only needs to defeat superan how

[Hialmar]

On 2018-04-21 at 12:09 PM, musclepaul said:

MUSCLEMAN and the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

 

Do you have any particular reason for using illegible text? Dark grey on black doesn't enhance the experience.

[AT2000]

This was great. Thanks for contributing. I really like where this seems to be going and look forward to finding out about Kyle.

I hope you are able to add more soon.

A.T.