Nathan woke up the same place he had blacked out. The talking Alligator-Fish creature was at his toes, trying to gnaw away his expensive Clarks. 

He now knew that whatever fucked the world upside down is real, this was not the coke, or his own hallucinations. Nathan tried to shoo the creature away, it kept persistent in gnawing. He had to do something, his right arm sneaked around the swamp dirt as he looked for a stone or a stick. 

He kept searching with his arm, his eyes furiously staring at the creature in an attempt to shoo it away before getting physical. His arm was doing a lot of exploration and the terrian changed from a swampy dirt land to grass. Then bushes. Then trees. 

Nathan looked back at his arm, feeling it was just where it should be. In reality he saw his arm, or what it was once, stretching a few feet beyond him and into the nearby bushes. He freaked out, there is no logical explanation. Talking creatures that are half fish and half alligators are believable. More than whatever his arm is doing, he also noticed leaves and more twigs growing out of his sleeves. 

The creature stopped bothering Nathan, it walked back, Nathan retrieved the normal length of his arm and tried to sit up. It hurt but he managed to sit up. The creature glowed and spoke to Nathan, only in words he would never comprehend.  

"Various Valves, very venomous valves, visit valves, vengeance via Venora, Vanquish valves, Vo Venora's Vigilante."

The creature walked back to the swamp and a Nathan suddenly felt he was able to move. He got up and needed not flex his muscles or crack his joints for he felt none. It felt like roots and leaves, stems and vascular tubes all inside his body. He remained Nathan Thumberstock on the outside however, with the addition of a tiny twig that grew out of his cheekbone, now sprouting a tiny leaf. 

He decided to head to the flare, he was extremely thirsty for some reason and he needed hydration.  

"Venora's Vigilante? " he wondered.