Chapter 6

By: MysticFantasy

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As he streched, Tony did feel his stiff and sore muscles loosen up and sort of relax. He looked up and watched the others do the next stretch. He did his best to mimick it and nearly lost balance.

"Easy Stark." Clint chuckled. "This move isn't something a rookie can do right away."

"That only adds fuel to the flame, buddy." Tony replied but did ease his stretching a bit. He was a little jealous of the fact that his three comdrades were able to do the stretches with ease and little to no trouble at all.

Natasha and Clint had years of experience with physical activities which allowed them to be so flexible. Steve, although he had the serum in his blood, also had lots of acrobatic and gymnastic experience from all the fighting against Hydra and from being part of the war.

The only experience Tony himself had was from boxing and his bedroom activities that he claimed he was an expert at.

None of the others were going to ask if it was true or not.

Tony felt a sigh of relief when Natasha called that the stretches were done. He practically flopped down onto the mat while the other three eased themselves to either stand or sit.

"Why don't we rest a while before going onto the next thing?" Clint suggested.

"There's more?" Tony lightly exclaimed.

"Still have to go through weights." Steve said as he stretched his arms. "We need to see how much you can bench press and so on."

"You guys just love me." Tony said as he laid his head back on the mat.

"We sure do." Clint said with a smirk as he started stretching his legs.

"Just in the name of good health." Natasha said.

"My foot." Tony muttered and took a hand offered to him. He was hoisted up to his feet and then followed his friends toward the weight stations.

"Let's see how much you can bench." Steve said.

"Well start small. If you need more weight, just say you need more and we'll add five or ten pounds." Natasha explained.

"Can't one of you go first?" Tony asked.

"I'll go." Steve offered as he sat on the bench and laid back. Tony watched as Natasha and Clint right away added large weights to the bar.

"Have at it Cap." Clint said.

Tony watched with amazement as Steve easily lifted the bar that held five hundred pounds. The captain continued to bench press the weights. To Tony it looked like Steve might as well just be lifting a pillow.

"More weight." Steve said as he lowered the bar long enough for Clint and Natasha to add a total of one hundred pounds. Once again, Steve continued to bench press the weight with no effort.

As the next few minutes went by, Tony continued to watch as Steve soon reached his max weight of twelve hundred pounds.

"I hate you." The inventor muttered as the captain finished his rep.

Steve merely chuckled as he placed the bar down and got up.

"I'm going to feel like a wimp now." Tony said.

"How do you think I feel against him?" Clint exclaimed as he and Steve removed the many weights and only leave fifty pounds on the bar. "He makes me feel like a toddler."

"Can you imagine how I feel against Thor?" Steve asked.

"True. He's the only one that can out muscle you." Tony said and finally sat down. he laid back and gripped the bar above him.

"Start whenever you're ready." Natasha said as Steve stood close by to spot.

Tony let out a puff of breath before raising the bar with minimal effort and began to continue lowering and raising the bar.