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I've spent this year as a ghost

DAISY stood to the sidelines as Mack, May, Gabe, and she watched, on a camera, what looked like a shock wave hit the others, and they just disappeared.

"This is a tragedy." The new director was the first to say anything. "We have to prepare for the likelihood—"

Daisy cut him off, "Whatever you're gonna say, don't. I see the way you're all looking at that screen. We don't know what happened."

Mack cleared his throat. "Daisy."

The new director shook his head. "It's okay. This is a process."

She shook her head at him. "No, it's S.H.I.E.L.D. Impossible things happen all the time. That — That machine ghosted that Lucy woman."

"So what..." Mack stood up and turned to her, ""Coulson and Fitz come back in five years, bloody and insane?"

"I don't know!" Daisy shouted, her brain buzzing with ideas. "That's my point. They could be stuck in one of those boxes or—"

"Or maybe they're gone."

She looked to May, frowning. "M — May." She took in a breath before walking towards her. She has to listen. "I know it's crazy, but Coulson came back from the dead, Fitz pulled Jemma through space through a rock, and Robbie's head lights on fire."

"Simmons," Daisy heard Mack mutter under his breath.

The new director turned to Daisy, "We need to approach this with level heads."

She shook her head again. "No, we need to call Jemma. She can solve this, if anyone can."

"And she deserves to know." Mack decided to put his two cents in which made Daisy give him a smile in thanks.

"Okay." The new director nodded.

"But why did Eli turn on us?" Mack asked the right question. "What does he want?"

May crossed her arms. "What he wanted all along... a power. I bet he hired the Chinatown Crew to steal the box in the first place."

Mack walked over to them, determined. "We need to take him off the street now."

"No." They all turned to the new director. "Daisy's right. Simmons needs to study this tech first, see what makes Eli tick."

"He'll kill again, sir."

"Eli killed four agents with his mind. Go after him now, and you'll make it five."

"Those agents died for no reason," Mack continued to try to get his point across.

The new director stood tall. "And, hopefully, Simmons will give us a way to avenge them. And if we're really, really lucky, maybe she'll find hope for saving our friends. I'll call her now."

He went to walk away but May called out to him. "Mace. When you talk to her..."

He nodded. "I know what Agent Fitz means to her."

DAISY listened to Gabe as he talked about everything he had just discovered about his only living relatives. "They were my closest family, and I didn't know them at all. They both... I knew Robbie was disturbed, but... I was afraid that was 'cause of me — cause I was holding him back."

She shook her head, frowning as she thought about the relationship between Scott and her. Ever since they both changed, their relationship has been rocky. Actually, all her relationships have been rocky since she changed. "No, you — you were what he held onto. You grounded him."

He looked down. "But I wanted him to leave... You know, figure himself out. I didn't know that was what he was up against."

"Your brother loves you more than anything."

"I just wish we had talked. You really think he's not gone?" He looked to Daisy, his brown eyes shimmering with tears.

She gulped, her mind replaying everything — everyone — that she has lost. "I know the feeling when someone's gone, and I don't feel that now." She clicked her tongue and chuckled. "Plus, your brother's pretty damn stubborn."

Gabe chuckled with her. "You have no idea." He smiled before frowning again. "If he is out there, he's gonna go straight for Uncle Eli."

They turned around abruptly as machinery whirred. The ramp to the Zephyr was going down. They then turned around to see Mack putting his axe-gun weapon in a sheath on his back before hoping onto his motorcycle.

Mack looked ahead with no emotion. "And he'd be doing the right thing."

Daisy stood up, raising her eyebrows in worry, "Mack, what are you doing?"

"Sir, you got to stop." A man — and agent — walked towards Mack as well. "Director's orders... We're about to take off any minute." He grabbed onto Mack's arm but Mack slammed hia arm into the guys stomach before upper-cutting him.

"Hey!" Daisy shouted at Mack in shock, "What's gotten into you?!" He revved the engine before peeling out of here, tires squealing. She tried to run after him. "Mack!" She turned around and grabbed her leather jacket. "Tell May what happened. And if we ever get the chance, never tell your brother about this next part."

Daisy jumped into Robbie's car and zoomed out of the compound and into the road, quickly. She was peeling tires and swerving. She can't help that shes not the best driver in the world, she didn't drive back in Beacon Hills except for once in Derek's car. She basically had to learn how to drive in the van she had when she showed up at Robbie's.

Catching up to Mack on the motorcycle, she drove up by his side. "Pull over! What are you doing?!"

"What needs to be done! Don't get in my way!" He zoomed off, going faster.

Daisy gritted her teeth. "Damn it, Mack." He turned a sharp corner and she followed. She swerved around a trashcan which ended up making her scrap against the wall of the building beside her. She grimaced, already hearing Robbie yelling and glaring at her even though he's not here. "It heals itself," she told myself. "Scientifically impossible self-healing car."

She swerved around another corner but was stopped by traffic, but Mack got through it easily. She hit the steering wheel. "This isn't over." She turned her body around in the car and started to back up. She swerved around and quickly peeled off.

She stopped at the side of the road and groaned, realizing that she had lost Mack. She picked up her phone and tried to find anything that could help her, but, then, she paused as the cars left blinked went off. She tilted her head and smiled a little. "Robbie?" She put down her phone and turned left.

Minutes later, she was driving down a street, looking for where Mack had gone, but ended up seeing a couple people run across the street.

"Well, this looks like the place." Daisy served over to the right and quickly went into the lock and then the building. She swerved again just as some guys came out and pointed their weapons at the car. She ended up serving so much that the back end of the car hit the guy all the way to the right, knocking him down.

Daisy got out of the car quickly, bent down in time as a guy fired off his gun, and swiped the other man's feet from right underneath him. She got up quickly and blocked his hand that had the gun in it, punched him in the gut, twirled around and elbowed him in the face, knocking him down.

She turned around as another guy came up to her, and twisted his arm, bent down, and threw him over her. She grabbed his gun and shot him.

She walked into a hall to hear Mack talking, "It's not ideal, but Mack... he has a lot of pain. He lost hope. I could survive off his pain for years. I know where you're being dragged down to. I've escaped it before."

"Mack..." Daisy trailed off, confused and worried. He turned to her. "You need to come with me."

"I'm never going back." He turned around and she gasped as she saw that he had turned into Ghost Rider.

She shook her head as her breathing quickened. "Mack, don't do this. That's not you. You got to fight it." Ashes continued to stare at the Ghost Rider fear as he slowly approached her.

She watched, confused, as he reached his hand out to something and then, the Ghost Rider disappeared and Mack fell to the floor.

"Mack?" She questioned. "What happened?"

He weakly looked up to her, "Robbie, that — that thing... He took it out of me."

Daisy swallowed thickly. "Are you all right? Some of those things you said... you — you said you were in pain."

He shook his head slowly. "No, it's just a rough day. I'm okay."

"Good." She smiled lightly. "Where'd he take it?"

Mack looked up at her, "Hell."

DAISY walked towards May and Coulson, the latter walked towards. She swallowed thickly, fixing the strap on the backpack she had slung over her shoulder. "Mack is still upstairs. I think he needs some time alone."

"Is he okay?"

She shrugged. "Don't know. Bad day."

"And Robbie?"

She turned to May, the one who had asked about Robbie. "He pulled the Rider out of Mack, but he's gone, I think."

"I'm sorry."

Daisy slowly nodded. "Yeah, well, what he did should count for something. Mack got a lead on his uncle... Possible location."

"We'll follow it up, make sure he doesn't hurt anyone else."

"Good." She nodded and smiled lightly, and then looked down at the ground before walking away. "Hey, erm," she turned to May and Coulson again. "I-I'm going to Beacon Hills to, um." She cleared my throat, "To check in on my fri — brother and the others."

"Okay." Coulson nodded. "Just come back."

Daisy inhaled deeply before releasing it. "Okay." She nodded at him before walking down the ramp.