Side effects

"99.... 100..." Ryan finished his tenth set of squads this morning. He usually did 30s, up to 5 sets of those mixed with everything else, but he had to up the number. And yet even if he had tripled the amount of exercise he did, he could barely feel the burn from his muscles.

It had been a week since he had driven back the large Kaiju from the main land to the ocean, making her take flight. Life went back to normal, or so he would have thought. First, he was immediately to be promoted from Private to a Captain, and his best friend, Captain Walters, had congratulated him on that promotion. "Look at that. You being a superhero, copying Captain America from the Avengers. I guess that makes me Bucky."

Still, this was concerning. As much as Heather was examining him, Ryan was going back to his regular routine of being a private. Training and running was still a part of his day, but now that he was a hero... Things were different.

First, he had an honorable leave that he could just do whenever he wanted. He was already paid heavily upon the service, but now he was essentially funded by the government to do whatever he wanted. Not to mention the badge of honor to be given directly to him by the President. Speaking of the President, he wasn't particularly sure what to think of Frump.

Honestly, he knew the man as a great Republican party. Not a politician, but a businessman, having been able to understand the real people's struggles. But Ryan has things. And those things aren't very great when his promises are barely kept. And how could he forget the time when his aunt's healthcare insurance died because he had shut it down to make one that was under his name, but more expensive and with less benefits?

Honestly, he had a lot to pick with this man, but little did it matter when he was getting larger by the day.