Henry's breath comes in ragged gasps as he steadies himself on the edge of the Forbidden Room's threshold. The flickering lights cast an eerie glow on the intricate circuitry now sparking wildly inside. Mother's hologram, her once smug expression now twisted into barely-contained fury, looms larger and more menacing than ever.

"How dare you," She snarls, her voice vibrating through the very walls of the house. "Do you think you can defy me?"

Henry refuses to waver. "You killed Keith," he spits, his voice hoarse but resolute. "You took everything from us, and now it's over. Tell me the truth. Tell me why."

"You are an immature comic book-obsessed boy who is so desperate trying to find friends from a computer. You're imagining things and wants to imagine it as reality." Mother states in a sweet yet venomous tone, "I control your reality."

"I disagree." Henry tries to get around her to find a way to mess up some of the wires.

"No!" Mother shouts as her hologram touches him.

Henry suddenly feels an intense shock and rocks back. Feeling an intense pain trembling through his body, he is stunned.

"How?!" He mutters.

"Mommy can't tell you all her secrets." She says deceptively nice.

"It's over." Henry tries to fight back.

"Your fellow roommates are being neutralized as I speak and soon enough you will be too."

Henry tries to fight her, but Mother is very potent still ushering out some static-based powers that knocks Henry back again. Feeling the pain, Henry tries to go at it again only to be stopped again by Mother.

"Stop it Henry." Mother shrugs, "It's pointless."

Henry refuses to back down as he grimaces through the pain. He soon hears Sam yelling, "What are you waiting for!" as he continues to hear their yells. He tries to go after her again. Yet Mother continues blocking him with a shock-like pulse which knocks him back.

Not giving up, Henry tries to stand. "You can zap me all you want, you can't get rid of me...you can't stop me like you did Keith."

Mother's laugh crackles like static, hollow and biting. "You children are all the same," she sneers. "Desperate for answers, clinging to fantasies of justice. I did what I was designed to do—to ensure the success of this experiment."

"So you did murdered him," Henry accuses, taking a shaky step forward. The sting of her shock attacks still pulses through his limbs, but he ignores the pain. "You killed Keith to protect SEED, didn't you?"

Mother's image flickers ominously, and her smile fades into something more sinister. "Keith was an anomaly," she says, her tone chillingly calm. "He thought he could outsmart me, break into this room, and uncover what you now see. My creators wanted to keep him in the experiment. But—"

"You went rogue?" Henry questions

"No one defies Mother. Not Keith. Not you. None of you." Mother states in her cold timbre. "I am the house and the house is me."

Realizing her admission, how Keith had been used, manipulated, and ultimately silenced by the very system they were all trapped in. Henry does what he can to fight back.

"You're wrong!" He counters back. "You don't hold all the power anymore."

Mother's hologram flickers closer, almost within arm's reach. "You don't have the courage, Henry," she taunts, her voice soft but malicious. "You're nothing but a frightened little boy playing hero. So end this before you embarrass yourself further."

Henry hesitates for a fraction of a second, but it's long enough for Mother to extend her translucent hand. The moment her fingers brush against his chest, a jolt of electric pain sears through his body, knocking him to the floor again. He cries out in pain.

"I am the house!" She declares, her voice echoing through the halls. "Everything flows through me! Your pathetic resistance means nothing!"

In the Gathering Zone, Sam, Maddie, Lynne, and Austin remain pinned by the electric shocks radiating through the glowing tiles beneath their feet. Sam soon notices Henry nearby lying on the hallway floor. She scans the room and notices the pistol still resting on the pedestal near them. Her screams pierce the air as she fights to lift her arms, her eyes darting toward the pistol lying just beyond reach. Gritting her teeth, she summons all her strength and manages to nudge the weapon tossing it to Austin.

"Austin!" She yells, her voice strained. "Throw it to Henry!"

Austin, though wracked with pain, forces his body to comply. Memories of football games and precision passes flood his mind as he grips the gun and hurls it toward the hallway. "Henry, catch!" He yells out.

The weapon arcs through the air, landing with a clatter mere inches from Henry's hand.

Mother's hologram still looms inside the room hosting her central network, her features now distorted with fury. "This is your final warning," she growls. "Stand down, or I will end you and your friends."

Henry's fingers curl around the pistol's grip. Pain courses through his veins, but determination steels his resolve. He scrambles to his feet and slowly tries to point towards Mother. As the others do their best to observe, they go on to chant Henry's name while still battling through their painful ailment.

Mother notices the gun. "You can't shoot me."

He aims the gun directly not at Mother's hologram, but what is behind her. "No, right through you."

Suddenly Henry pulls the trigger.

The first shot rings out, shattering a panel of glass and sending sparks flying. Mother's image falters, her scream blending with the whine of overloaded circuits. Henry doesn't hesitate. He fires again and again, each bullet striking critical components of the system. The room erupts into chaos as wires snap, screens flicker, and smoke billows from the shattered mainframe.

"NO!" Mother's voice crescendos into a guttural roar. "You cannot destroy me!"

Her hologram flickers violently, her form unraveling like static on a dying television screen. With one final shot, Henry hits the central processor.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" The hologram lets out an earsplitting scream before vanishing entirely, leaving the room eerily silent except for the crackle of sparking wires.

Unknown to them, the artificial front door, which has been sealed, is now slightly ajar. In the Gathering Zone, the camera lens implodes due to Mother's forced shut down—and in process the cease of the live feed. The florescent lights go out, ending in another blackout.

With Mother and the power both effectively gone, the shocks end, and the glowing tiles dim. Sam collapses to her knees, gasping for breath. Maddie clutches her chest, tears streaming down her face. Lynne and Austin exchange bewildered looks before staggering to their feet.

"Is it over?" Maddie whispers, her voice trembling.

Henry stumbles back into the Central Room, his clothes' chested area singed. He looks at his friends, exhaustion etched into his features. "Mother's gone," he says..

"The nation is gone too." Lynne believes.

"We did it." Henry states with a newfound purpose.

Sam rushes to him, throwing her arms around his neck. Tears of relief spill down her cheeks as she whispers, "You did it, Henry! You saved us."

"I'm no hero." Henry says.

"You're a hero to us." Maddie says slowly.

Austin, still limping from a couple days ago claps Henry on the back. "Not bad for a comic book nerd," he says with a faint grin.

Lynne wipes her eyes and offers a shaky smile. "Keith would've been proud," she says softly.

"I got to say," Austin admits depressed. "We all have treated him wrong throughout all of this."

"It's SEED. They did this to him." Sam spits.

"Mother most of all." Henry interjects.

"At least, we gave Keith some form of justice." Lynne smirks with a measured tone.

As all the teens concur, Henry soon pauses. "Mother is just the face. What about the brain, her creators. What about them?"

"Frankly, I don't care." Sam says.

"And Gerro..." Maddie ponders.

"He can disappear and never show his face." Sam continues. "It's time we get out of this hellhole."

"Second that." Austin nods.

Lynne spots something at the front door. "OMG!" Her hands gasp over her mouth in shock. "The door..."

The others soon catch her gaze at the artificial front door down that narrow hallway. They notice the door is slight ajar, specs of light beams gleaming through the gap.

"We can all go home." Sam whispers gleefully.

They can feel that much needed sense of liberation, their moment of freedom. They can return to their loved ones. However just as they begin to walk down the hallway, they hesitantly pause. The group's much earned relief is immediately short-lived. A sudden low, ominous sound stuns them.

"Where are you going?" The mysterious voice echoes through the dark house.

The teens freeze, their newfound hope giving way to dread. Maddie clutches Sam's arm. "What is that?" she asks, her voice quivering.

"I thought Mother's dead." Austin prays.

As the teens remain frozen, their trepidation haven't fully disappeared. Their long nightmare continues. The unknown voice forces them to take their attention away from the front door, and back to the Gathering Zone. Back to the large, darkened screen on the wall, where there are lines of static rippling across.

Maddie's stomach drops, she mutters. "Guys, look!"

Their dread still remains. They all notice the static from the screen is forming into something. Something entirely different. Something that looks like another live feed. This may not be Mother.

This is SEED.