Chapter 4: Say your Goodbyes

May was still cuffed but she hovered around coulson feeling a strange belonging. She told them all the ways around the building and the guard times. Daisy was getting everyone geared up for the fight when she confronted simmons."Jemma I need you to promise me you wont let your guard down because fitz isn't the same person." Simmons hung her head knowing the truth but didn't want to believe it.

"I understand." Daisy sighed looking in may's direction as jemma pointed it out. "We will take her with us, but she should stay back until its time to go. And how are we going to stop robbie if he becomes a problem?"

Daisy pulled out a picture of gabe. "Maybe we don't have to."

"Daisy, now your acting like me. He will distract you."

"No this is different, every time he fights there is always this small piece of him that wont let anything get between him and seeing his live brother."

They continued getting prepared. The team felt almost whole again. Coulson, May, Mace, Mack, Daisy, and Simmons. Everyone and twenty plus soldiers loaded onto the quinjet and made their way to hydra.

Ophelia and fitz held a meeting with all the districts of hydra. They told them of there new weapon. Afterwards they moved to her living office where they met his father. Fitz had a different attitude around him, more quiet but strong.

"So I heard you made a huge advance in operation WILDFIRE. How did you ever get him to comply?" Fitz smiled and a joking manor.

"He handed himself over for the preserving of the base. He forced us to test the hive mind control on the plane but there was only two ways it would go down. The luck was on our side."

His father placed a firm hand on his shoulder bringing him in closer. "I'm proud of you my boy. Now how about we see this obedient dog?" Fitz nodded to one of the guards at the door. The guard retrieved the rider and came back. Fitz put the metallic headpiece on. His father circled robbie slowly inspecting him like a dog at a show. "This is both surprising and disappointing."

Fitz snickered. "Exactly what I said."

"He looks 'small' and weak."

Ophelia moved beside fitz and took a serious tone. "Trust me sir, he is a force to be recon with. He once nearly took my life until I killed his brother. He was too distracted by rage to see the dagger that gave him that." She said pointing to the scar on his face. His father put his arm around fitz's shoulders with dark smile.

"I am so proud of you son, a few years of tough love has made you a great man." Robbie was sent back to confinement while they had a lunch. But they didn't know what was happening in robbies head, the fight for control.

The demon in his mind rattled around. "Robbie this thing has taken too much, I am all for extra souls, but those people didn't deserve to be killed. That scientist tortured them."

"I don't know how much longer I can handle this I feel weaker. We need to find a way to destroy that thing on his head or in ours."

"We could just burn him."

"No, he is one of daisy's friends from the other world. Gabe is there too, so we need to escape. If I know daisy she will come for me and fitz and make the move to leave."

"Well, if were pulling daisy into this... There is a very painful way, but after I do my part I will be too weak to help, you'll be on your own."

"Its a chance, lets take it."

Alarms started to go off at the hydra base. Ophelia knew what was happening. "Get all agents to bottom floor we have intruders." People with hand guns and rifles were running around shield had landed.

Daisy was first to step out and quaked all the people behind the jet. Cross fire was the only thing that could be heard so shield fired back to back all together. They lost at least twelve men before clearing the lot, luckily non of the important members were harmed. But as robbie once said, "There is no such thing as luck.", speaking of which. They watched ophelia and fitz walk down to their level with a familiar person behind them.

Robbie stepped forward guarding the two. Daisy saw fitz with a earpiece speaking into it. Daisy yelled across the good distance separating them. "Robbie don't do this. You are stronger than what they put inside of you." He stood tall and lifeless with no sign of himself.

"Rider, take out these traitors." He growled with his skin burning away and pushed forward unraveling the chain wrapped around his chest. He charged towards the shield guards flying his chain and burning them alive. Daisy put her hand up.

"Robbie, you don't want to do this. Don't let her ruin your life." He kept going until he got right in her face. She had to squint from the fire, but she heard his voice.

"Daisy, listen carefully, and use your powers on me to the max."

"What?"

"Now!" He yelled as he raised his fist to strike her. She used her powers to set him off balance enough to give robbie a brief moment. He used his fire to build a fireball close to his chest increasing in size. He kept it under as much pressure he could with fitz giving him orders and daisy quaking him. Simmons and fitz realized what he was doing at the same time and yelled at everyone to get back. But there was so much the explosive force of a medium bomb went off in and around him.

The building around them started to collapse and crumble and they all rushed out. There was a bright flash and everyone was forced down by the blast. There was so much dust from the fallen building and smoke it was hard to see until a few seconds passed. There was a ringing in daisy's ears as she pulled herself up, only slowly realizing what he did. Her mind was racing with denial as she raced around moving debris looking for him. Her eyesight was clouded with tears filling her eyes. Ophelia screamed in anger.

"What have you done? You destroyed everything I worked for."

Daisy looked at her with piercing eyes. "You sadistic bitch, you didn't do anything but ruin peoples lives. And now I'm going to kill you for what you have done." Daisy saw a spot on the ground that had scorch marks and a glowing pile of ash. Everyone stepped up to daisy's side and prepared to fight for there lives.

But something beyond their imagining happened. Fire burst from the pile of ash into a large flame and robbies body regrew and pulled itself from the pile of ashes, and the fire dissipated when he was fully revived. He opened his eyes looking at daisy. He spoke with the weakest and hurt voice but made it sarcastic. "I told you girl, I'm not that easy to get rid of." As he slightly collapsed mace caught him. Daisy wiped her tears away so he wouldn't see her like that.

"So, got any fire left?" He smiled slightly and nodded standing on his own he limped his way to the front line. Ophelia was becoming overwhelmed with trying to find a way out.

"Stay back! Fitz help me!" Daisy nodded to mack and mace and they left scene to set up a surprise. Robbie felt the full power of the rider unlocked to him and it felt good. He and daisy walked closer. Aida teleported behind robbie and stabbed him with a blade and bounced back but was sent flying back by daisy's power. With everything going on robbie didn't even fell the pain.

Fitz charged simmons with a gun and by instinct she just put him in a arm lock making him drop his gun. He threw a punch striking her down and simmons grabbed the gun. "Stay back fitz! I don't want to hurt you." He went at her but she just used the handle of the gun to knock him unconscious.

Robbie turned into the rider being in full control and daisy pulled out her gun if aida was going to play hard to get. She came from nowhere and fired lightning at his chest only to piss him off and receive a bullet to the arm. Daisy was happy in her shot until she saw it heal very fast.

"What have you done?" She gave him a grave look. She ran up to him and threw him hard against a pillar that collapsed on top of him. Daisy fired more rounds only to be forced back too. Fitz woke and tripped simmons as she watched the fight. He shifted through the rubble looking for something deadly, sharp, and golden.

Robbie rose out of the rubble and saw Fitz, and Aida were still standing. Aida was angry, ran up to robbie and held him by the suit collar. She spat her words with such rage. "You will regret ever messing with me." Robbie started laughing and decided it was time this came to an end.

"Funny I was about to say the same thing. Now!" Mack flipped the switch to inhuman power dampeners from old containment devices making aida defenseless. Robbie pulled himself up with his last remaining strength. He felt a dark part of him return remembering he was back. Grabbed her by the throat robbie let the rider do what hes been dying to do.

"Look into my eyes and feel the pain you inflicted on countless others. This is for gabe bitch!" She let out a awful bloody scream as she was burned alive, slowly. Seconds after a bright portal opened at the base of the fountain. Fitz freaked out screaming her name.

"YOU KILLED OPHELIA!" Fitz charged towards daisy with the golden sword. One of the angelic weapons. She closed her eyes bracing herself for the inevitable, she knew it. Someone wasn't meant to make it back home. There was a noise of sliding gravel and a sharp touch to her stomach, and when she opened her eyes robbie was in front of her. Fitz backed up with a demented and crazed look in his eye. Robbie took the sword for her while it went through him it scratched the surface of her skin. It was then that seconds seemed like an eternity and daisy realized what was happening. Robbie dropped to his knees blood starting to drip from his lips. Simmons punched fitz cold and mace ran over to help take fitz through the portal.

She was in panic. "Robbie, come on, robbie focus on me." Daisy bent to him and held his shoulder to pull out the sword. It felt like literally every fiber of his body was being slowly torn apart and set fire, but it was a peaceful pain.

Robbies breath was staggered and he actually had a tear as he smiled at her. He brought his hand up to her face and wiped hot tears from her face with his rough thumb. He pulled daisy closer to whisper in her ear. "You look so beautiful when you cry. Daisy,.."

She didn't want to accept it and spoke with a lump in her throat. "No, you are staying here. Don't leave." Her bottom lip quivered and he brought their heads together.

His voice was breaking but he managed to say his last words. "I love you Daisy Johnson. You were my angel."

Her heart stopped and tears ran down her face as he rested his head on her shoulder and collapsed into her arms. That pit in her heart returned, the same feeling when she lost Lincoln, when she discovered wards secret. But for some reason it was worse, was it because she loved him? Her voice was cracking and out of tune. "No, were so close don't leave. You cant leave me after that. Robbie?" She held him close cradling his upper half in her arms. She felt a hand on her shoulder, it was coulson. She looked back to robbies battered face and blood ran from the corner of his mouth. "We need to bring him home coulson. He doesn't deserve to die here. Can you help me?" They carefully took a side of him and walked his still warm body through the portal.

Daisy and simmons woke up on the zephyr at the same time. Simmons looked at daisy as she was collecting her thoughts on everything that just happened. She leaned over hugging daisy as the tears returned. She was receiving the memories of her framework double, all the memories of his warm smile and stubborn nature. Then the feeling of his callused thumb dragging across her cheek.

"I.. I cant believe robbie's dead." She started shaking and simmons remembered robbie telling her something.

"What did he tell you?" Daisy buried her face into her hands remembering those last words, 'I love you.'

She looked up at simmons with the look of pure sorrow and that of a broken heart."He said he loved me, the real me. He called me his angel." Daisy's face was now red, and her breath jumped and she tried calming herself. Simmons saw piper run in.

"I'm sorry but we need to go and get your friends were running very low on fuel, do you know where they are?" Simmons nodded and left daisy to herself. It wasn't long before they had landed at the oil rig.

Coulson woke and saw everyone already out of there stations. May held him up. "Thanks for saving my ass back there Phil." He still had a dark look on his face as he could barely move he saw aidas body still in station. Mack had the same idea and cut her head off with an emergency fire ax. They looked around and didn't see robbie's body. But Fitz was freaking out.

Fitz was collecting his thoughts and realized what he did. "Oh, God what have I done?" Mack went to his side. "None of us knew what we were doing fitz. I'm sure he would forgive you."

"No, I killed so many others. Inhumans coulson, innocent children and people." Coulson nodded and stood tall speaking with his commanding voice.

"We still need to find robbies body and bring him home. May with me. Mack, Mace, and fitz. lets go get a soldiers body." They split up and went searching all over the rig. Coulsons team meet up with the others when it came to the last part of the rig. When they came to a dark room blocked off by a locked iron door.

Mack said, "If I was holding a ghost rider captive this looks like the room." There was a opening at the top of the door for air to get in. Mace boosted may up so she could look through and she saw robbie still in the terminal.

"He's here!" She jumped down letting mack cut the lock off with the ax and mace muscled the door open. He was dressed in the same dark T-shirt and sweat pants as everyone else, and dried blood cornered his lip. Coulson went up to the terminal and shut it off, and took off the cranial apparatus. He looked like he hasn't eaten in weeks, they didn't even bother physically aiding his body while he was out like they were.

He spoke with a heavy heart as everyone stood back. "Come on robbie, lets take you home." Mack and mace carried him out. Out of the corner of coulsons eye he saw robbies jacket resting on a metal chair. He picked it up and followed the others out.

On her way out may knew what was going to happen catching up with coulson. "Daisy isn't going to take this well, is she?"

Coulson shook his head. "But its important were there for her this time, we wont let her go so easily."

Just as they reached the landing zone for helicopters a quinjet landed. Simmons, Daisy, and Piper were inside. Daisy ran out and saw mack and mace carry robbies body inside. Coulson walked up to her and handed over his black leather jacket.

Simmons sat there the longest time possible trying to find some sign but nothing. They started there long trip back to the destroyed SHIELD base from the LMD's. Daisy laid her head on his chest dying for the smallest beat, sound of hope, his salvation of life. She was like this for at least an hour, and everyone became worried on how hard she was taking it.

Fitz stayed away but stared at robbies body wishing for movement in his chest. It haunted him, of course the inhumans were programs, but robbie was a real person. Daisy stayed there a second longer and the words seemed to slip from her mind that everyone heard over the silence.

"I love you too."

In those long seconds daisy heard something that made her cold and breath cease at her lips. A solid thud that based from his chest cavity. She jumped to her feet and everyone looked at her petrified but surprised face. "He's still alive, I heard it." Simmons gave her a sad look and embraced her.

"Daisy I know sometimes our minds can play tricks.."

Daisy pushed her away in denial. "No I heard his heart beat."

Simmons listened herself and coulson rose to his feet in high hopes. Everyone's attention was drawn to her, waiting for approval. Simmons looked confused, nothing. Then she grabbed his arm and saw a slow wave of fire run through his veins just once, but it was a sign. "Get us to base quick we have a dead man walking!"

Daisy held his hand. "Hold on robbie, we hear you." Daisy wiped the tears from her face and coulson patted her back.

"Hes going to be okey daisy." Simmons did what she could with a small medical kit.

Once they touched down the remaining shield medics rushed him into critical unit. He remand there for two weeks in a comma. Everyone went on doing there missions and rebuilding the base but daisy visited him as much as she could. Some nights she would eat dinner there and tell him about there missions. She remembered it was what the others did for her when she was shot in the stomach and dying. It was strange because soon there was waves of fire constantly but slowly running through his body like some sort of organic 3-D printer repairing him from the inside. Everyone feared he wasn't going to wake any time soon.

Coulson poured may whisky. "Do you think her hopes are too high for him?"

Coulson furrowed his brow to her question. "You know shield, the impossible is the everyday norm. Simmons says his recovery is almost complete, shouldn't be long. In fact she said his body seems to be in a state of powerful regeneration." Mack and yoyo were at the counter waiting for dinner to finish cooking but flirting with each other. Fitz was explaining to simmons his latest invention. A bracelet that can track her patients vitals while she is away.

"The next morning daisy was asleep at his bedside when simmons went to check on his progress. Simmons saw nothing not even the casual glow then had an idea. She used her light to look at his eye reaction and when she looked there was fire in his eye. "Oh.. this is fascinating." She jumped back not expecting a powerful jolt of his muscles.

Daisy sat up stretching and saw simmons. "How is he?" Simmons looked at daisy with a frantic look. There was a low moan that startled both of them. A gravely worn voice broke out.

"Whats going on?"