With Andy having his sudden growth spurt and growing into a tall, hunky soccer star, all thanks to the Contagion virus, it was only natural that the first person to be infected by him would be his younger brother, Maximillian, also known as Max for short.
When Max was 8 years old, he had joined the swim team, but he quit after a year of that. He got bored just swimming laps in the pool. He wanted to do something which required more muscle.
The following year, Max took up gymnastics, after one of his classmates had shown him how hanging from the still rings and doing tons of handstands had developed his chest and arms so dramatically. Max really liked what he saw, since his buddy had bigger arms and a well-developed chest. So, he took up gymnastics and learned how to do all the flips, handstands, and how to swing from the pommel horse. He could also swing elegantly from the still rings, suspended high above the ground, and he could leap from the vault.
Even though Max had started to grow some muscle during his year of doing gymnastics, his eyes really opened when he met a new kid in school who was on the wrestling team. This kid was short and thick with amazing muscle on his arms, his legs and chest. Plus, he could pretty much wrestle anyone to the ground. Nobody at school would even think about messing with him, because word had gotten out that he was a wrestler and that he could pin anyone to the floor with ease. When Max had seen how he had taken care of a bully during lunch period at school, he was sold. Max quit the gymnastics team and joined the wrestling squad. He loved it, even though he was one of the smallest and one of the youngest guys on the team.
Now, it would only seem logical that Max was the next person to catch the Contagion since he shared a bedroom and the same bathroom with Andy, who was the first person to catch the virus. Max used the same sink, the same toilet and the same shower. He washed with the same shampoo and with the same soap that Andy used. So, it was only a matter of time before the Contagion kicked in. This happened right after his eleventh birthday.
Max was still struggling to win matches in wrestling, but everyone was telling him not to give up and to keep on going at it, since he was just getting started. Luckily, he had already gained some muscle from his years of swimming and gymnastics. The Contagion began to work on him, and he was set to grow bigger and stronger from this point going forward.
Max was still rather short and skinny at 5-foot-tall and only 110 pounds. Within about two weeks or so, he had gained 12 pounds and reached 122 pounds, still at 5-foot-tall, all added muscle. His arms, chest and legs all started to bulge, and he noted some much-needed additional strength. It was getting harder to pin him down for the other guys in his weight class. Then, another two weeks had passed, and Max gained 11 pounds more, bulking up to 133 pounds, and none of that was fat. He gained an inch in height as well, growing to 5-foot-1. His arms had a noticeable amount of muscle, he sported a nice set of abs, his pecs were clearly visible, and he was now showing definition in his quads and in his calves. People started to take notice that he was bulking up, and he looked like a kid who was lifting weights in the gym. Max finally started to win matches, thanks to his added weight and muscle. Other kids could no longer beat him. Max was pinning the other boys left and right, all thanks to using brute force.
But it was over yet. Max still had a lot more growing to do. His twelfth birthday finally rolled around, and Max would have his biggest growth spurt yet.