It didn't spread, but the frost and part of whatever material the wall was constructed of crumbled just a tiny bit from that prodding. Hot Rod eyed it, shaking his head.

     "No, I...don't feel any different at all. I thought it was weird though, when we were down there. I had to make contact with the pillar again, help distract it so that the others could take care of the parts that had spread within the Core. It didn't seem like anything much had happened to me, then."