It's A Wonderful Life

Scarlett glanced around the destroyed ball, feeling empty. Picking up a broken ornament, she frowned. "I didn't think this would hurt as much."

"Alton Scarlett!" Zinnia yelled alongside Emil and Gale. "Are you guys, alright?"

Alton was still engulfed in his trance as he licked his lips. "Yeah… Time to go home now?"

"Go home? But what about the ball? What about Christmas?!" Zinnia cried.

"Look around Zinnia, there's nothing less. We stopped Syndicate but at the cost of the ball. This was my fault pushing the people at risk…" Alton was about to walk off when he stepped on a pile of snow that began to fizzle and fall apart around him. "What the hell?"

The once destroyed ball began fading away into an empty lot with nothing. In the not so far distance lights burst into the sky. Gale and Emil started chuckling to themselves as Scarlett raised her eyebrow. "Something funny?"