Summary:
The same comment of the previous chapter could be applied here: another parsonage with great potential wiped out in no time…
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Chapter:
Hive didn't expect to see that creature, when the Quinjet's cargo hold opened.
Hive felt that something wasn't right also before the Quinjet landed, because, when It tried to penetrate Lincoln's mind, It couldn't find him inside the plane. It was like the plane was empty.
But the plane wasn't empty, unfortunately for Hive.
When the two saw each other, it was like a spark in a explosives storage: they immediately started a fierce fight.
Hive couldn't penetrate Lash's mind: it was like he was impervious to Its telepathic power.
Hive could neither infect Lash with Its parasites: Lash had an energy field that protected him from them and that he could throw as a weapon. Hive avoided any blast of said energy with a speed and a grace worthy of a dancer, but, in doing so, It was impelled only to defend Itself. It hadn't any possibility to attack.
Hive calculated that, to beat Lash, Its only hope would have been to use the forces of nature, so Lash had to be brought outside, in the open.
In that moment Daisy come out, so weak and pale, to try to defend her master: "Stay away from him!" and Hive took advantage of that moment to run outside, while Lash freed Daisy from the parasites, scooped her up and brought her into the Quinjet. Daisy begged him to remain with her and return safely to the base, that Hive was too powerful for him, but Lash was unshakable:
"My mission is to put down Hive. And I will accomplish that."
While the Quinjet flied away, Lash went outside, in search of Hive.
And Hive was there, waiting for him.
In the meanwhile Ward was thinking of Skye: he knew she had been freed and was glad about that, even if he already felt the loss… having her so close for so many weeks has been comforting for him: it helped him endure the pain more easily…
But now Lash was in front of them: would be this creature to defeat Hive, in the end?
The battle was formidable: the two of them fought strenuously, running and hiding into the woods, until Hive managed to attract Lash in an open clearing full of sand. There It summoned a fierce wind, that generated a sand storm and made it almost impossible to see. Lash remained there, blinded and deafened for a little while, and couldn't see the black clouds approaching, nor the powerful bolt of lighting that reached him.
It burned Lash to the core.
And then everything was over.
Lash was dead.
But he died as a hero.
…
After that, after Daisy was stolen from her supposed home, Hive grinded its teeth against Shield.
It decided that enough was enough and that Shield would soon see its rage.
As predicted, as the disease spread around quickly, Hive's mental powers increased significantly. It could scan whole territories through the eyes, ears, activities, habits and knowledge of their inhabitants.
It was like that the Earth was enwrapped in big spider net with Hive in the centre, and all the human brains were transforming in a one whole unique brain: Its.
It sent its infectors where It knew there was more need for them.
But of Shield no trace. And It had to find their base!
While Daisy was with It, Hive didn't mind to investigate on the location of Shield's base, because it wasn't important from Its point of view. But nowHive was interested, and It was cursing Itself for its so limited thinking.
Shield was still in the shadows, until Hive noticed, through the eyes and ears of Its net of people, a strange behaviour in a man not already infected, but on the right way for that, that Hive knew from Daisy was in contact with Coulson: General Talbot. It mentally followed him to the path towards an isolated town, with nothing more than a little mall, a bar and few houses, in the middle of nothing. And, for good measure, It managed to have a little special heart to heart encounter with him…
And surprise, surprise! That was just the location for one of the most protected Shield bases! Daisy had to be there! And Hive wanted her back: she was too powerful, too intelligent, too good, and too precious to let her go.
Ward, instead, was torn between the desire to see her again without hate in her eyes, but awe and love (even if not directed to him), and the urge to drive her away as far and quickly as possible.