Another chapter up for you! I cannot wait for tomorrow; I have a feeling it's going to be a very fun episode ;)

Daisy was getting bored out of her mind. She was sitting in the Director's office, waiting for Mace to come back from his mission about picking up an agent from the Enlightenment Center. She'd been in there for hours, it seemed, and there were guards standing outside the door, blocking her exit. Sure, she knew she could use her powers to knock them out, but she didn't think that was a good idea. She didn't want to get on SHIELD's bad side any further.

It felt odd to have her powers back. She'd missed them. She also missed everything; yeah, she had Phil and Melinda and Jemma on her side, but they weren't the same. Nothing was the same. Yeah, she felt better after going through terrigenesis and was confident she had the skills and ability to get out of the Framework, but she really needed Radcliffe's help.

A knock on the doorframe interrupted her thoughts. Daisy stood, expecting to see Mace and Mack, but it was just Burrows. The young man's head was tilted down and he was clutching his notepad, his hands trembling.

"What is it?" Daisy asked him, getting a little closer to him.

"He-He...Mace..." Burrows stammered.

Daisy furrowed her brow. "What about him?"

Burrows looked up and Daisy noticed his sad and slightly-damp eyes. "He was killed."

Daisy was taken aback. She stumbled backward a step, trying to get her bearings. She knew that if Mace was dead in here, he was dead out there.

"They went in-into the Quarantine building where Hydra keeps the child prisoners and he...the Hydra jets shot at the building and Mace...the Patriot, he, he saved everyone but sacrificed his life in the process."

Daisy looked down at her feet and shook her head somberly. "I'm so sorry," she whispered. She knew Mace was like a mentor to Burrows, both in here and out there. Now both of them were dead.

"He'll be remembered as a hero along with the rest of them," Burrows said quietly a moment later. He looked up at Daisy. "I know he was supposed to check in with you when he got back, but..." His voice broke and he had to take a second to compose himself. He took a deep breath. "...I don't see a need. I trust you."

Daisy raised an eyebrow. "Mack, your second-in-command, sure doesn't."

"I'm willing to push past that," came a deep, booming voice. Mack entered the room, his expression saying loud and clear that he'd recently been crying. His clothing was covered in dust and a bandage was wrapped around his large hand.

Daisy opened her mouth to say something, but stopped herself. "How are you, Mack?" is what she settled upon instead.

Mack swallowed, clearly on the verge of tears. "I'm alive."

There was a moment of somber silence.

"My point is, Daisy, I trust you. I trust that you're a SHIELD agent in the real world and I trust that you're telling the truth about it all. I understand that you're an Inhuman and that you have powers that can be very useful to us. This world doesn't feel right anymore and I'm willing to give up the Resistance's resources to get us back to the right place."

Glad to have Mack on-board, Daisy pressed her lips together, gently patting his arm. "I can do this, Mack. I'll get us out of here."

Mack looked down at her with sad eyes. "I sure hope so."

After a moment, Burrows said, "Uh, Daisy, what are your powers, exactly? Or do you not know yet?"

"Oh, I know," Daisy chuckled with a smirk. She shrugged upon seeing the men's confused expressions. "I've been through terrigenesis before. Not a big deal."

"Well..." Mack began.

"They're seismic. I can cause earthquakes, basically."

Mack's jaw dropped at the same time as Burrow's.

Daisy smiled and strutted out of the room. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a man to speak to."

Radcliffe gave Daisy the specific location of the back door out of the Framework. Now all she and SHIELD had to do was prepare. She still didn't know how she was going to get Fitz to come through the portal, but she would have to try her best, no matter how angry she was at The Doctor. Fitz was still going to be Fitz outside the Framework.

"Are you sure we can do this?" May asked Daisy as the two sorted through the weapons stash.

Daisy raised her eyebrows, her eyes still focused on the gun she was loading. "Nope," she replied.

May narrowed her eyes. "I still can't believe you can cause earthquakes."

Daisy scoffed. "You should've seen me the first time I passed through the mist." She chuckled. "I cost SHIELD thousands in damage. You're lucky I already know how to control it."

May knitted her eyebrows, looking up from the weapon in her hands. "Who helped you control yourself? In the real world, I mean?"

Daisy smiled and put a hand on May's shoulder as she moved her head, pushing the hair out of her own face. "You."

A smile slowly appeared on May's face. She knew she meant a lot to Daisy, she just knew it.

Just as Daisy was about to leave, the older woman stopped her. "Hey, Daisy?"

The young woman turned around. "Yeah?"

"Why did you call me 'Mom' the other day? Am I your mother in the real world?"

Daisy's smile widened. "Pretty much."

May was left with more questions than answers as the girl turned on her heel, her dark hair flowing as she walked away.

"What exactly is the plan here?" Phil asked Daisy once they arrived at the location Radcliffe had given her. It was a semi-remote warehouse that had been abandoned for a few months. He, Daisy, May, Mack, and Jemma were in a SHIELD van together, and it was getting a bit awkward and crammed during the long ride.

"We look around and see if there's anything even remotely resembling a portal," Daisy responded.

"And what about the other man?" Simmons asked. Daisy thought it might be fate that made Jemma ask about Fitz.

"Leopold? Oh, he...I'm just hoping Hydra will come here with him."

"You're hoping Hydra will come?!" Mack exclaimed, confused.

Daisy looked over to the large man, pressing her lips together. "You couldn't understand, but Fitz is a good man outside of this Framework. He's a great man, and he doesn't deserve to die in here."

"He's killed hun- " Mack began.

"Hundreds, I know, and I know this is hard for you to comprehend, but no one in here is real except for us seven. Well, six, now..." Daisy said, stopping herself as everyone silently grieved Mace for a moment.

"We're doing this for him," Coulson stated as he slid the van's door open, stepping outside and clutching his gun. So Director-ly, Daisy thought with a tiny smile. She thought he might as well salute while he was at it. He nodded. "For the Patriot."

"For the Patriot," everyone chimed.

"This kind of looks like a portal," Jemma said to Daisy, pointing to a bathroom mirror bolted to the wall.

Daisy smirked, putting a hand on her hip. She looked from Jemma to the mirror to back to Jemma. "You're joking, right?"

Simmons looked confused. "I mean, no..."

Daisy decided to inspect the mirror just in case. "You know, in real life, you have, like, a 200 IQ."

"As if I don't in here!" Jemma huffed, offended as she waved her right hand around.

Daisy chuckled as she stepped back. "Nothing, like I thought," she told her friend.

"WE FOUND SOMETHING!" came a loud male voice. Daisy recognized it as Mack's, and she ran out of the bathroom and onto the overhead deck, Jemma following. Mack and Phil were standing over what looked like a large basin for hot, liquid metals. May was running toward them from the opposite direction.

"Now this, this looks like a portal," Daisy said.

"But it's just full of rusted, charred metals," Phil pointed out. "It's solid. We can't go through that."

"Let me see what I can do. Maybe I can break up the material..." Daisy lifted her hands, preparing to quake. "I would step back."

The various people and agents stepped away from Daisy as she shot the seismic waves from her hands. Once they reached the basin, the hard metal began to soften and break up, moving away from itself and opening up to reveal what should have been the bottom of the basin. Instead, a strange portal opened.

"THAT'S OUR WAY OUT!" Daisy shouted, loud enough for her friends to hear over her loud quakes.

"ARE YOU SURE?!" May asked, reluctant to jump into a normally very hot basin.

"I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER WAY!" was the Inhuman's response.

"I'LL GO FIRST!" Jemma shouted, eager to get into a better world where her 'James Dunn' lived. Before anyone could stop her, she thrust herself off the balcony and landed in the basin, disappearing.

"I GUESS IT WORKED!" Mack screamed. "I CAN GO NEXT!"

Daisy nodded as she bit her lip. It was getting to be too much quaking for her and her arms, but she knew it wouldn't matter anymore as soon as she jumped in.

Mack pushed himself off the balcony and he, too, vanished into the real world.

At least, Daisy hoped.

Just as Phil was about to jump in, they heard a door being kicked down. To their horror, a strike team of Hydra agents led by Leopold Fitz stormed into the warehouse, the agents pointing their guns at Daisy, May, and Coulson.

Daisy had to stop quaking for her own sake. She could already feel her arms bruising and her head aching. She stumbled back from the edge of the balcony, and Phil had to catch her from under her arms.

"Ophelia's friend Holden Radcliffe told me you'd be here at this precise time," Leopold said as he marched up the stairs to the balcony, leaving a few agents on the ground and bringing a few with him.

Daisy smirked. Of course Radcliffe would send Fitz right here. She found herself hating the worm who'd shoved her into this place less and less. She stepped away from Phil, able to stand on her own. "I'm sure you'd love to join us," she told him, before nodding at May. She started to quake again, not caring that a Hydra agent shot her in the arm as she did so.

"DAISY!" May shouted as the girl's blood splattered across her own Hydra jacket.

Phil took the cue to jump into the portal, knowing that that would be where he was most useful.

Daisy scrunched up her face in pain. "GO, MAY. I'LL BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU."

May did not want to leave Daisy here.

"YOU TRAITOR!" Leopold hissed at May. "YOU WOULD BELIEVE THIS INSANE INHUMAN OVER YOUR HYDRA SUPERIORS?!"

For some reason, his insane propaganda-blabber made May more inclined to leave this world. She touched Daisy's uninjured arm. "Please come through alive," she begged the girl, just loud enough for her to hear.

Daisy plastered on a smile through all the pain and nodded.

With that, May jumped through to the other side.

Leopold nodded at his agents to shoot Daisy dead, but before they could, she redirected her quakes to the strike team, knocking all of them over, including Fitz himself.

Breathing heavily through all the pain, Daisy rushed to Fitz, putting her arms under his and dragging the unconscious man toward the edge of the balcony. She used one hand to quake the portal open again and one to lift him by one arm, not caring how much she hurt him as she tossed him into the portal. Heaving a sigh of relief once he vanished, she took a deep breath before stepping to the edge of the balcony.

She kept quaking the basin for as long as she could before jumping through herself.

That's all for now, folks! Finally, the Framework is over and everyone is back, unlike the actual show. I promise there will be more on Aida's storyline soon, including her real body and Project Looking Glass. Please suggest or request anything you'd like to see in the reviews!