''How did you get here?'' Aida asked again, this time with Daisy awake.
Daisy looked at her beaten friends, ''Are you guys alright?'' She asked, completely ignoring Aida's questions.
Simmons nodded and so did Ward. Both of their minds were occupied of a way to get out, though they had none. Daisy widened her hand and stretched her fingers out. Nothing. Her powers didn't work.
''Don't bother trying.'' Aida said once she had noticed that Daisy was trying to use her inhuman abilities, ''They don't work here. Now, how did you get here? You better start speaking up or one of you will have to suffer.'' She quickly glanced at Simmons before speaking up again, ''I have already chosen someone I want to harm during this questioning session.'' A smile lingered on her face just for a slight moment.
''Hurt me all you want, Fitz is going to remember.'' Simmons said confidently, she was not going to lose hope.
Aida sighed and it almost sounded angry, ''Do you know why I chose to harm you? Because all this time you have prevented me and Fitz being together...'' Aida said as if she could have had Fitz in the real world.
''Don't hurt her.'' Daisy said, pulling against the handcuffs around both of her hands. Aida rolled her eyes, another not so android move.
''She isn't an android anymore.'' Simmons said with pride, letting Daisy know.
''That isn't going to help you get out.'' Aida informed with a smile.
Simmons nodded with a slight grin to show Aida that she wasn't afraid, at least not yet.
''For the last time, how did you get here?''She questioned with a deadly glare which she shared between the three people who were handcuffed to the chairs.
Daisy bit her lip, surely, revealing this wouldn't give the exact location of where their bodies were in real life. As Chris was about to hit Simmons across the face, Daisy almost yelled, ''It isn't hard to build a copy of the machine with all the programming to gain entrance.'' Daisy said as she swallowed down something, Chris looked at Aida and backed away from Simmons, showing that Daisy's answer did some good.
Simmons looked at the girl in front of her with a pleading look not to tell any more.
''Sorry.'' Daisy whispered, ''I can't let them hurt you.''
''I've been through worse.'' Simmons admitted, but they both knew that.
Aida smiled, ''Thank you for cooperating.''
Ward gritted his teeth again, ''What's in this for you? Killing us or letting us live here?''
Aida turned her head to him and faced him with a smile that had never disappeared, ''I just want everyone to be happy. A world without regrets, it does sound lovely, doesn't it?'' She explained and asked.
''Not when you take away what's important to us.'' Daisy exclaimed and relaxed back in her chair, remembering how Coulson always comforted her, how May acted as a motherly figure towards her some of the time, how Fitz and Jemma had an unbreakable bond.
The door behind Aida burst open, ''We have a visitor.'' It was Franco who burst into the room, ''It's Leopold Fitz, Ma'm.'' He informed and Jemma held back her urge to just scream out his name and get him to remember. Aida seemed panicky all of a sudden, she paced the room for a few moments before she head his voice coming from the bottom of the stairs.
''Aida?'' Fitz asked from the bottom of the stairs.
''If they speak, shoot them.'' Aida said and her gaze landed on Jemma, knowing that she would probably make the move of talking and yelling for Fitz's help. Chris nodded, not even slightly fazed at the cold order. Aida opened the door of the room and closed it behind her, completely disappearing from their view.
Chris reloaded his pistol and stood behind Daisy. Ward looked around confirming that nobody else was in the room. He quickly glared at Daisy, who nodded and understood that he was about to do something but needed her help. Jemma looked in between the two and decided to become some sort of distraction.
''You know if you shoot that gun you'll still attract him over here.'' Jemma said and Chris got closer whilst gritting his teeth almost painfully. He placed his finger on his lips and pointed the gun at her. Daisy, who sat a meter in front of Jemma stared at Chris's back and then at Ward, he nodded, giving her the 'do it' signal.
Daisy pulled her leg backwards since it wasn't tied up and then forwards, kicking Chris right at the back of his knee with huge amount of force. He stumbled forwards onto Jemma and fell down. Ward, the quick thinker he was worked towards his plan to get out.
He got up with the whole chair since his legs were free too and threw himself on his back to the ground with as much force as he could possibly muster. The wooden chair shattered beneath him into many pieces just like he'd expected it to. Chris was already up on his feet and aimed his gun at Ward, who was also up and inches from him. Ward ducked down from the sight of the gun before Chris could shoot at him. Ward pushed Chris's hand upwards, making him drop the gun and elbowed him in the stomach with the other, which made him drop to the floor.
Ward still had the handcuffs on both of his hands dangling downwards as they weren't attached to anything. With one hard kick in the face from Ward, Chris was unconscious.
''The keys are in his pocket!'' Jemma said, having observed everything the whole time. Ward dove for the nearest pocket, it took him a moment to get him the same pair of keys for all of the handcuffs. He ran over to Daisy, unlocking her first, she then unlocked his handcuffs from around his arms and proceeded to help Jemma, who was biting her bottom lip.
''I want to see what you're doing up there, Aida.'' Fitz said, almost yelling, ''There must be a reason to why you're here.'' His voice still remained calm, but they could hear it clearly.
''I need to speak to him, to remind him of the real world.'' Jemma said and walked towards the door that lead to the stairs.
Daisy grabbed her arm, ''Aida has armed men down there.'' She warned and shook her head, indicating that this wasn't a good idea.
''But he thinks I'm dead. If he sees me then we'll have him on our side!'' Jemma exclaimed, louder than she should have.
''What's going on?'' They all heard Fitz yelling again before hearing a set of footsteps coming their way, ''I'm just gonna check, whatever you're hiding I think I need to know. I'm your fiance after all!''
''Grab the gun.'' Daisy said to Ward, who nodded and took the gun of Chris's unconscious figure.
This time, Aida's voice sounded frightened, ''Leopold, It's best if you don't interfere with my work!'' She said, trying to reason with him.
Jemma remained standing in the middle of the room, Ward and Daisy took their positions to each sides of the door in case they needed to provide some sort of back up if this all didn't go according to plan they didn't even have.
The silver handle of the door twisted to the side and the door itself swung open with one push.
''Leopold, don't!'' Aida yelled and grabbed his arm, but Fitz had his eyes forward into the room.
''Jemma?'' Fitz whispered with his eyes wide...
So we have a few badass moves from Grant Ward! What do you think of this chapter? :) Thank you so much for reading and reviewing.
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