ALL OF ALEXANDRIA HOLDS THEIR BREATHES AS THEY HEAR AN ENGINE ROAR. The Savior's are here and they're ready for a war but so is Alexandria. All day, Alexandria has been getting ready for a fight and now that it's here, they're brave.

Aria stands near Daryl, keeping her distance. Rick wanted the two down by the gate just so Negan can see that they're alive and they're back in Alexandria. The note runs through Aria's brain and she sucks in a breath, shifting the gun in her hand. She had told Negan that she wasn't going back to Alexandria yet here she is, in the place she said she wasn't going. Ironic.

Daryl and her have not even looked at each other, they're both to angry and distracted to worry about themselves right now. Aria looks out at the vehicle approaching, her blue eyes narrowing as she sees who's standing atop of it.

"All points are covered. Every contingency is already met. I come armed with two barrels of the truth. A test is upon you, and I'm giving out the cheat sheet." Eugene says into the megaphone, the truck parking in front of the walls. Looking around, Aria notices all of the shocked faces and she's sure she shares the same face.

"H — Hello. I come salved with the hope that it is my dropped knowledge that you heed. Options are zero to none. Compliance and fealty are your only escape. Bottom-lining it — you may thrive, or you may die. I sincerely wish for the former for everyone's sake. The jig is up and in full effect. Will you comply, Rick?" Aria finds herself looking from Eugene to Rick, her blue eyes softening as she looks to her leader.

Rick Grimes has kept her alive, he has kept this group alive. Even before when they were going through some tough battles, he never abandoned them — he always fought by their side, never once thinking about fleeing to save himself. He was a selfless man and Aria, she admired him greatly. She trusts him with her whole life.

"Where's Negan?" Just the sound of his name brings shivers down her spine. She may have forgiven him but right now, he's her enemy.

"I'm Negan."

Aria's head droops as she hears Eugene. Maybe if she stayed a little longer in the sanctuary, she could've helped Eugene stay strong instead of giving in to Negan's commands. Looking over towards Rosita, Aria knows that the girl is taking this the hardest. She has known Eugene the longest and to know he would turn on everyone like that is tough.

Rosita turns her head away, signaling that she has pressed the button but the problem is, no explosion went off. Alarm and panic fills Aria's body as she swings her head around, looking at Michonne from a far distance. Before she knows it, guns are being aimed at both her and Daryl and her eyes widen slightly, her lips parting. Jadis and her people have turned on Alexandria.

One of Jadis's people slide open the gate, revealing trucks. One of the doors open and out walks Negan, who is of course wielding his bat. Swallowing harshly, goosebumps covers Aria's body as she stares at Negan, her heart racing inside her chest.

"You ever hear the one about the stupid, little prick named Rick who though he knew shit but didn't know shit and got everyone that he gave a shit about killed? It's about you." Negan smirks, pointing up at Rick with a menacing look in his hazel eyes.

"You're all gonna wanna put your guns down now." Negan announces, glancing away from Rick before settling his eyes back on him.

"No one drops anything," Rick quickly says after, his fists clenched at his sides. It hurts Aria to see her leader and friend so vulnerable, it ignites a fire up inside of her.

"You push me, and you push me. And you push me, Rick!" Negan taunts, leaning back slightly. "You just tried to blow us up, right? I mean, I get me, my people. But Eugene? He's one of yours." Negan motions towards the coward that used to be apart of their community.

"And after what he did — he stepped up! You people, are animals. Universe gives you a sign and you just shove your finger right up it's ass." Negan throws his middle finger up, directing his hand straight towards Rick.

"Dwight, Simon. Chop-chop."

The two men pull the tan tarp off, revealing a coffin. Fear bubbles up inside of Aria and she glances around, making sure everyone she loves is here and they are. So who the hell is in the coffin?

"So, you don't like Eugene anymore. You guys gotta like Sasha." That's when it hits her. She thought Sasha was back at Hilltop, what was she doing at the sanctuary? She mentally curses herself for being so oblivious to her surrounding and just focusing on herself. Aria has never wanted to be the one to be selfish and not care about others so this is making her feel regret.

Negan raps on the coffin with his bat, smirking. "I got her right here packaged for your convenience, alive and well. Now, I brought her so I wouldn't have to kill all of you, and not killing all of you could get complicated. See, I know there's a lot of firepower left in there, Rick.

"So I'm gonna make this simple — I want all the guns you've managed to scrape up. Yep, I know about those, too. I want every last grain of lemonade you got left. I want a person of your own choosing for Lucille." Negan points to the bat, biting on his tongue as he showcases his pearly whites.

"Daryl — oh, I gotta get me my Daryl back." Negan taunts before his eyes move over, catching sight of the one girl he wasn't sure he would see here and a look of surprise flashes through his face.

"Shit! Aria, is that you?" He places his hand above his eyes in order to get a better look. "It sure as hell is. I wasn't expecting to see you here, I mean, you did say you weren't returning back to Alexandria. Yeah, I gotta get her back too."

Aria freezes, her eyes widening. She doesn't want to go back to him — she's sure not one ounce of her will be able to handle him again.

"And the pool table and all the pool cues and chalk. And I want it now! Or Sasha dies, and then all of you — probably." She can see the anger beginning to radiate off of him and that scares her. Anger makes people do irrational things and that irrational thing for Negan is bashing people's heads in with a barb wired bat.

"C'mon, Rick. Just because I brought her in a casket doesn't mean she has to leave in it." Negan sets a hand on his forehead, sighing lowly before chuckling, lowering his arm.

"You know what? You suck ass, Rick — you really do. I don't want to have to kill her, but that's exactly what you're gonna make me do."

"Let me see her," Rick steps forward, the gun Jadis has trained on him following his movement. Aria's eyes scan from Negan to Rick before settling back down on Negan, eyes narrowed at him.

"Alright. Just give me a second. I might have to get her up to speed. You can't hear shit inside this thing." Aria raises a shaky hand to her face, gently biting on the thumbnail as she watches Negan begin to open the coffin door.

Immediately, Sasha busts out of the coffin but she's not alive — she has turned into a walker. Fire ignites up in Aria and she spins around, shooting the people who have her and her family held at gunpoint. Soon after, all she hears is gunfire.

Bullets fly through the thin air as smoke rises up into the atmosphere, Alexandria fighting for their freedom. Game faces are on and nothing is going through their heads except being able to escape Negan's power — they don't want to live under his control anymore.

An arm wraps around Aria's waist and she brings her elbow back, knocking the person in the nose. She spins around, pulling the trigger and killing the guy that was holding her. She may have found it hard to kill these people at the outpost but now, she knows how they are and how they work.

Out of instinct, Aria looks up to Rick, and she lets out a few curse words as she sees Jadis standing above him. Nobody messes with her best friend's man. Before Aria can move to get up on the guard-post, Jadis kicks Rick off of it.

Looking around, Aria shoots at a couple of people heading her way before she runs over to Rick, crouching down next to him, blood soaking through his shirt. "Holy — Rick? Are you okay?" She asks, her eyes still looking around for any danger. But luckily for them, nobody seems them yet.

"Yeah." He grunts out, his hand covering the wound. Aria moves his hand and winces as she sees flesh. Moving quickly, she pulls off her jacket.

"You're one lucky bastard. It's just a skim." She tells him, lifting him up a little bit to slide the jacket under his body and tying it tightly around his waist, causing him to wince from the pressure on the wound.

"I gotta go but don't you dare get shot again or Michonne and I are going to kick your ass, got it?" Aria whispers, squeezing his hand slightly before standing to her feet and running over to the wall, peeking around it. A bullet whistles past her and she flinches back against the wall, not seeing Jadis take Rick.

She holds the gun steadily in her hand before looking back around the wall, shooting a man down. Her eyes trail over to where Carl is kneeled down with Negan's guys surrounding him and Aria let's out a few colorful words, running to where she just shot a guy down.

"Aria, you need to stay behind cover. You can't risk getting shot and losing the baby." Michonne's voice echoes through Aria's mind and for a second, she hesitates but then she remembers that Carl is in danger. She looks back over to the spot, only to see Rick now kneeled beside Carl.

Aria groans before pulling off the guys leather jacket and sliding it on, zipping it up to cover her shirt underneath. She ties her hair up into a ponytail, grabbing the guy's hat and forcing it on her head, hiding her blonde locks. She has to look like she's apart of the Savior's. With her gun in hand, she walks over to the group, her head pointed to the ground so nobody can see her face clearly.

Hearing a feminine scream in the distance, Aria looks towards where Michonne was at and she sees a body falling. Her breathing picks up as tears prick her eyes and her grip tightens around the gun, her jaw clenching. No, not Michonne. She tells herself, shaking her head.

Even if it was, she'd want you to save these two, not mourn over her. Blinking back the tears, Aria draws in a deep breath before looking back at Negan and Rick, her eyes narrowing.

"I'm gonna kill Carl now." After hearing that, adrenaline and anger races through Aria, a scowl forming on her face. She blocks everything out, her focus just set on Negan now. Her vision is clouded by all the anger, sadness, and pain he put her through. Just as Negan is taking Carl's hat off, Aria runs forward, dropping her gun to the ground.

Her body connects with Negan as she tackles him to the earthy ground beneath them, Lucille landing on Aria's back but right now, she couldn't care less about the pain. Nobody messes with her family. A gunshot goes off and pain sears through Aria's leg but the adrenaline pulsing through her veins pushes away the pain.

"I gave you a second chance, Negan. This is the biggest fucking mistake you could've made." She spats, holding his arms above his head as he thrashes around beneath her. Before any of his men can shoot Aria down, Shiva jumps in, distracting everyone as she attacks a man. Negan shoves Aria's distracted figure off of him, stumbling away as Simon grabs ahold of his leather jacket to steady him.

The Kingdom rushes in, shooting down many of Negan's men, "End these Saviors and their accomplices. Alexandria will not fall, not on this day!" Aria grabs onto her gun, shooting down at man that was heading her way. Pain soars through her back and thigh but she right now, all she's focused on now is getting rid of the Saviors.

As a man is creeping up on Rick and Aria, the Hilltop appears, shooting the man down. "Phalanx our, third group, now!" Side by side, Aria and Rick shoot down the men that are surrounding them, both of them fighting through the pain searing through their bodies.

With Carl by their sides, the trio run off into the direction of where their group is, Aria limping slightly. It reminds her of when they were back at the farm and it was just the three of them fleeing away from the herd of walkers. From the beginning they had each other's backs and that enlightens Aria.

Negan lied and Aria's ashamed that a part of her had listened to him. This group, they don't use Aria. They think of her as part of them and she realizes it now as they fight against Negan.

Smoke fills Alexandria, preventing them from seeing anything but Aria, she can see bodies retreating. She just can't make the people out and she doesn't want to shoot just in case it's people from Alexandria.

"They're falling back." Rick announces as they look around, wondering what to do next.

"Eduardo, Bertie, between the houses — cover the gate!"

The Hilltop runs off, heading in the direction of the houses while Ezekiel looks towards the trio. "Now, we finish this!" The Kingdom run off, the trio following after them.

After realizing that Negan and his crew bolted, Aria grabs ahold of Rick and Carl, looking at them with wide eyes. "Michonne." She simply says and they all run off, heading into the direction of the place where they saw the woman fall.

Staring down at the ground, they all glance at each other, hope filling their eyes. Michonne still could be alive and Aria — she truly hopes she is.

Rick walks into the room first, crouching down beside a weak Michonne, Aria crouching down on her other side as she pulls out her handkerchief. Her blue eyes soft as she looks at her friend's bloodied face. "Michonne." Rick says, grabbing ahold of her forearms.

"Michonne." He repeats more firmly, Michonne moving slightly. Her eyes open as she turns her head towards Rick, his hand on her cheek. Aria sits back, tears filling her eyes at the sweet moment, watching as Carl walks in, kneeling down beside his dad.

"We — w-we're.." Michonne trails off and Rick nods, caressing her cheek.

"I know, I know. We are." He mumbles. A tear slides down Aria's cheek and she hastily wipes it away. She's relieved her friend is alive and she's so happy Michonne has found someone like Rick in this world.

Her group, they'll fight no matter what comes in their way, and that's why Aria loves them so much.