Sorry, But No

Pain, heat, and other sensations came flooding in. Agonizing pain beyond imagination assaulted Hive's nerves, bringing him suffering unlike anything he had ever known.

As mentioned before, Hive was essentially a mass of parasites, a parasitic organism that leaped from one host to another. His original body had been abandoned as early as the tribal era, along with many of the senses he had possessed as a human.

Under normal circumstances, he could not feel pain. Whenever he was attacked, only the host would be injured, while his true body remained completely unharmed. In the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., he could even take over the body of Agent Grant Ward after he had already died, proving that his host did not necessarily even need to be alive.

It had been thousands of years. He had nearly forgotten what injury and pain felt like, but now Richard had helped him remember.

Hive let out a thunderous roar, as though trying to conceal his fear with rage and aggression.

The Space Beast launched another attack, dragging along its pierced body. Its tens-of-thousands-of-tons body was like a hammer striking the earth, and the sharp blade on its arm carved a black trail as it slashed down.

He had been unable to hit Nexus before. Now that his body had been pierced and Light energy was ravaging his insides, he had even less chance of succeeding.

Nexus raised his right arm and swung his arm blade. A golden blade of light traced a graceful arc. The Space Beast's armor-like flesh was effortlessly vaporized, blood spraying out like a fountain as its entire arm flew far into the distance under the force of the blow.

At the same instant the blade struck, an overbearing mass of golden light was poured into the Space Beast's