Resident Evil
The Ashley Graham Case

Disclaimer: I do not own any Resident Evil elements, characters, etc... this plot if purely of my imagination.

Chapter 10: T.E.A.M.

When the five fighters had gotten back to the intersecting and found everyone else there, Chris and Wesker looked like they were about to attack each other, Claire was keeping them apart and Barry and Sherry were just checking their guns. Rebecca Helped Jill down and gave her some medical attention and soon she was on her feet again.

Once everyone got together they headed for the exit...

"So... what do you do from here?" Ada finally said, for the first time unsure of what to do after the Island.

Everyone looked at one another, uncertainty falling upon them all as they walked to where a blinding light appeared.

Jill had Rebecca leaning on her in thought and she comforted her comrad.

Sherry honestly didn't know what to do from here on in... they couldn't go back to search for every entrance was caved in... so... she just thought more.

Wesker kept replaying everything that had happened up to here... everything, everything from the very beginning and frankly, it made him want to cry... how could he have ever turned into what he was now...

Chris and Claire were walking together, Claire happy that her brother hadn't died and while the group of five wwas away fighting, he had told everyone about what he had seen when he had woken up.

Barry wondered how this all had happened... they were suppose to be free... free from this horror, would this happen for their entire lives... could they escape it... or should they just embrace death now.

Ashley looked to her side to see, Leon also in deep thought and as they got closer to the light... she got more confused. Why couldn't they stop this! Why couldn't they put an end to this! Why did this just keep coming back!

Finally, she couldn't hold herself back and she stomped up to the front and stopped the convoy of people.

"Come on, why are you guys thinking this through! Isn't it obvious what we have to do!" she shouted, losing for cool for who knows what number of time.

They just stared lifelessly at her, and only Barry spoke...

"What's obvious, all we can see is the things you can't!, your just entering this! this is all we've known for our lives!" he said, annoyed by the girl's outburst.

"Well then" countered Ashley, but Leon stopped her; "Ashley... just, just stop... we are all tired of this... we just want to stop this all" he said, trying to get his girlfriend to just be quiet for once.

"Well then..." she persisted, "It's obvious, YOU people are the ones missing the point... we do what YOU HAVE always done... we fight it!".

"We HAVE fought it!" growled Jill.

"It just keeps coming back..." cried Rebecca.

"So... we just gotta... we just gotta..." she stuttered, trying to comprehend what she herself was thinking.

"We just gotta what!, Mutate so that we can even the odds, tried that, now look at me... I'm a freak!" Wesker yelled, for once in his life... small tears in his eyes.

Chris just looked at him and growled something about faking under his breath, but then turned to Ashley, "What do you want!, for us to put our family at risk!". Claire nodding sternly at this.

"I lost my parents to this... I might as well just die... I miss them so much, even if we never really did talk... I... I want to feel there warm arms around me again..." she said, wrapping her arms around her, tears beginning to fall from her eyes as she sniffed.

Ashley looked around at the group, until finally she found what she wanted to say...

"We just have to... keep tryin'" she finally spat out, "Even when we are in times like these, when there is no light... we have to be it! Guys... you have saved lives, and right now there are people who everyday praise you for just pushing your fears away... and putting them and your courage first. Umbrella may still be alive and well... but, let's be our own virial infection and take them down, we have to do this... WE were chosen to combat this nightmare... WE were the ones sent in for Leon and WE are the ones who brought down Umbrella before and we can do it again!" she said, more power growing in her voice. "We have to avenge the lives that were taken from good people and those people... they are still with us... I can FEEL my Father guiding my bullets and healing my wounds. WE have to do this... as a team... cover each other's weaknesses with our strengths. Now... you guys can go hide away somewhere and WAIT for zombies to come and tear your soul from you, but I'm going to go knock down a few of Umbrella's doors"-she put her hand out flat in the air-"I'm going to put my terror second and my courage and generousity first... who's with me!" she shouted, finishing and panting for air.

Leon finally spoke; "I follow the ones I love in to battle" and put his hand on Ashley's, who gave him a loving smile.

Barry then stepped forward, "I signed onto this to begin with... and I'm going to finish what Umbrella started", putting his hand on the their's.

Next, Jill and Rebecca came forward and Jill spoke; "I've got a wife to protect" she said, putting her hand on Barry's.

"And I've got a protector to aid" Rebecca said, smiling and putting her hand on Jill's, their rings tapping each other's and sending a light sound echoing through the mines.

Wesker stepped up next and put his large hand on the pile, "I've got these powers... might as well use them" he said, his once teary eyes back to their normal cat eyed form.

Ada waltzed forward then with Sherry and they both put their hand on Wesker's, "Let's settle the score" Sherry announced. "I got myself into this... now I'm going to get myself out" said Ada, raising an eyebrow and looking at the crew so far.

Then... everyone looked at Claire and Chris, who then looked at each other and walked up and put their hand in. "As a family!" the two said, smiling at everyone.

"Ready... BREAK!" and with that everyone threw their hands and up and everyone ran for the outside, little did they know that they were going to need all the team strength they had for what was brewing in the wind... for them, it was time to stop thinking it was over. It had finally began... the beginning of the past... and it was time to put a stop to the killing, to the all the slaughter and blood shed that Umbrella had caused. The only sure thing that laid ahead now was the future... and uncertainty...