The flashing red and blue of police lights glowing in your peripheral as smoke and ash rise from the destroyed Starcourt Mall. A reporter stood a while away, holding a microphone to her lips as she spoke "Tonight on HN, we've just received news that Starcourt Mall has collapsed due to an unknown large mass. Reports say that-..." her voice fades out as you glance around. Billy Hargrove was dead now, and the mind flayer has been slain... But at what cost? The kids seem alright, gathering together and talking about what they should do now. You worked with Steve and Robin at Scoops Ahoy, but you just had to be off work the day that they found themselves stuck in an underground Russian lab.

Robin is talking with Nancy and Jonathan, and you find yourself watching as Will reunite with Joyce. Steve on the other hand, sat down on the sidewalk far from the others as he slowly processes what happened. He's got a black eye, a swollen cut on his lip and multiple other hits to the face. His face was covered with dried blood that cascaded down to his neck. He was pierced with injections and brutally beat by the scientists, assuming that he was some intruder or something no matter how hard he pleaded and cried out that he just worked at the mall. It was still taking time to understand what he just endured, but he knew he was scared.