Instant Karma

The boy- as small, feeble and unnoticed as any other boy, found the pill as he was exploring shortcuts through the rubbish dump behind his shack.

He would never (even if he had been questioned) have been able to explain just exactly why he swallowed the pill (or even why he picked it up (or even, even why he even noticed it in the first place!)).
But stories don't necessarily need to follow the logic we ourselves seem to think holds the world together; in fact, one could argue that stories really shouldn't be bound by things as silly as cause-and-effect, motive and belief.

But then those are things that are outside my humble remit to discuss in print...

So, back to the boy.
Who now has grown to a gigantic size (by human terms); at least 8 feet tall and with shoulders just as wide!
Wow!
Rippling with muscles and full of energy (and with a no doubt monstrous appearance),
he goes about initially- as most boys would in his situation- by pulling trees out of the ground and turning over cars.
He soon bores of that, however (as most boys would), and looks for something more interesting and absorbing to do, making use of his enormous physical strength.

Running faster than the motorcars on the street, fetching the most incredulous and shocked looks from the people he passes, he comes to realise that perhaps this is his chance to make his mark in the world, and be noticed.

If this isn't his chance to do that, he doesn't know what else would be!


So, he enters the Olympics, winning every event, and becoming the most famous person in the world overnight!

It's then that the pill wears off, and he returns to being just about as normal a boy as......any other normal boy.

The whole world is up in a clamour to find out the whereabouts of the mysterious super-athlete,
who has suddenly disappeared (and enquiries show, appears to have had no history before his storming of the Games).

The little boy- no matter how much he shouts and insists ,tries to demonstrate (with a futility that would tweak the heart-strings) his now-gone exceptional abilities, and explain what actually happened (facts being of little interest to the excitable masses)- remains unnoticed.
Unseen and unheard.

He starts to wish he could find another pill, or maybe that he had never even found the first...

Then as young boys are wont to do, he quickly forgets the whole episode, and grows up into whatever he grows up into.
Just like most other little boys.