[It's a lot harder working against a bag that absolutely doesn't give at all - it feels like punching vibranium, but that doesn't mean he's going to just stop working out. Still, he's breathing a lot harder and it takes a minute to catch his breath before he can answer, with a little bit of a wry smile.]

Funny, that's what people said about taking the serum, actually.

[Decades after the fact, anyway, when the truth came out.] Guess I have to make up for my lack of brains somehow.

[He thinks he might see the corners of Ricki's mouth trying to twitch up, it's a little hard to tell, but it's a little gratifying, if he's right. He grins for real, now.] I'd say it took more guts to assume the Admiral gave me clothes that match.

[Fortunately, they do.]