Bass finished crying and stood up. "While I am here, I may as well go back to the Net." He started towards the portal. He stood on it, and instantaneously he stepped off onto a platform full of other portals. Bass couldn't believe what he was seeing. All of the portals were a dark-grey color- a sign that meant one of two things:

1. The areas on the other side of these portals was shut down, or

2. They didn't exist anymore.

Bass decided that someone else had gotten to the net's core before him and had caused option number two to come into play. Bass surveyed the small platform again. If These areas didn't work, why did his? Then, a small glow of light caught his eye. One of the portals had a hole about an inch in diameter in it, and the hole was getting bigger. Soon, it had reached the point where it was the diameter of the portal itself. "Maybe everything isn't lost," he reassured himself.

He stepped onto the hole and fell through.

Inside the "tunnel", the walls were a light green color, and bass could see faint squiggly lines passing in and out of his person. Suddenly, a sharp pain welled up inside his chest, and his navi mark began to glow. "EEARGGHH! AHHH! What -- the -- hell -- is -- happening -- to-- me?" He asked, teeth gritting from the pain.

As suddenly as the pain had come, it vanished. The tunnel's end was in sight. Bass noticed that he could not feel his legs, but to him, that mattered not. He was focused on getting away form this place.

When he exited the tunnel, he came to a stunning conclusion; he now HAD no legs.In their place were now strange purple tendrils….

What the hell is wrong with bass?