The current situation on the field is that Beedrill under the Beedrill leader's command and the temporarily recruited Pokémon Trainer are completely bewildered. What happened?
Why did Roy react like this after shouting?
Are you not going to fight anymore?
Then they saw the Beedrill leader slowly land in front of Roy, its red Compound Eyes filled with Roy's image.
It's him!
"Unicorn... no, I should call you Beedrill now."
"Buzz"
"Lamp!"
After greeting Beedrill, Lampent became Roy's translator.
"Yes, it's me. We meet again. Let's catch up later. What's going on? Why are you all gathered here?"
"Buzz! Buzz!"
The Beedrill leader explained while buzzing, waving its Twineedle.
After the Lampent translated, Roy understood.
To his surprise, the Beedrill were unaware of the Bug Tide at first. They were there because many of the Bug Catcher were still hunting their swarm's Weedle in the forest.
So they organized an operation specifically targeting Bug Catcher.
Beedrill and its minions pretended to go out to expand their territory to lure the group of Bug Catcher into a trap, and then chased them all the way here, annihilating all the Bug Catcher who were participating in the hunting plan.
He personally killed the Bug Catcher who had previously bound himself with Thunder Shock collar; he ended the boy's life with just two needles.
He will never forget the face of the other person when they begged for mercy.
When Beedrill was talking about how it led its Beedrill to kill Bug Catcher, it even looked up at the screen.
He never intended to deceive Roy, but he worried that Roy would hate him because of his actions.
Upon hearing Beedrill's words, Roy remembered something. He remarked that the person in the newspaper looked familiar, realizing it was the Bug Catcher had stopped him on the roadside years ago.
I remember that the other party contributed the first point of Popularity Points to my account.
However, Beedrill is overthinking it. Roy isn't some saint; every wrong has its perpetrator.
You can't say you can put a Thunder Shock collar on Weedle and then let Beedrill evolve and Revenge on you.
Honestly, if Roy hadn't been worried about losing his initial Popularity Points, he might have killed that Bug Catcher on the spot.
Seeing that Roy didn't seem to care about him Bug Catcher, Beedrill breathed a sigh of relief.
Now that they've taken their revenge, they should hurry back to the forest. Pokémon killing humans is absolutely unacceptable to the Pokémon League, and if it's discovered, their Beedrill will be wiped out.
"Buzz!"
Beedrill thought the same thing; after taking his revenge, he planned to retreat back to the forests of Lilycove City.
But just as he finished killing a few Bug Catcher and was about to head back, the Bug Tide had already gathered in the outskirts of Lilycove City.
He found himself already a participant in the Bug Tide, and even a vanguard of Bug Tide.
"So you didn't join the Bug Tide intentionally in the first place, and just happened to get stuck here on your way back?"
So what exactly is going on with this Bug Tide?
Beedrill nodded first; he had only learned the reason for the matter after inquiring with Pokémon from other groups.
"Buzz! Buzz!"
"Lamp!"
The real instigators of the Bug Tide are actually the Vespiquen Pokémon from the jungle, the true overlords of the jungle outside Lilycove City.
Meanwhile, this Bug Tide is also linked to Beast Tide in the forest, with the Primeape and Ursaring located in the eastern part of Lilycove City joining the uprising.
The Beedrill first explained to Roy the cause of the Bug Tide: it was because a Pokémon Egg from the Combee colonies had gone missing.
An ordinary Pokémon Egg wouldn't cause Bug Tide, but the key is that this Pokémon Egg was no ordinary Pokémon Egg.
That was the Pokémon Egg that the Vespiquen had been carefully tending to, and it could even be said to be the future inheritor of the Combee clans.
Just as most Magikarp in Magikarp population cannot evolve into Gyarados, only one Combee in a Combee population can evolve into Vespiquen.
Therefore, they valued that Pokémon Egg highly, as it was their future queen.
The day before, a human infiltrated the Lilycove Forest and rode on the back of a three-headed Pokémon.
The Pokémon's three heads Spit Up beams of fire, lightning, and ice energy respectively, successfully breaching the nest of the Combee species.
Before the Combee clans could react, they snatched the Pokémon Egg.
The Pokémon Egg was related to the continuation of the Combee race, so the Vespiquen was naturally angry and mobilized all the Combee in the forest to find that human.
Since the other party had broken into their nest, he had more or less the Sweet Honey on him, so the Combee could still track him by smell.
Moreover, the Vespiquen not only relies on her own colony, but also issues bounties in the forest.
Whoever finds that human can then freely visit the hive of the Combee and enjoy their finely brewed Sweet Honey.
Upon receiving this news, the Bug-type Pokémon in Lilycove City Bug-type Pokémon completely crazy. Sweet Honey is a treasure of the forest, and it can even improve the potential of young Bug-type Pokémon.
Beedrill only became a member of the Bug Tide vanguard after hearing about the reward and wanting to lead its swarm to take a chance.
With the Captivate of Sweet Honey and the recent influx of humans into the forests of Lilycove City to capture their people, countless Bug-type Pokémon have gone berserk.
They followed the scent of Sweet Honey all the way to the outskirts of Lilycove City.
A creature named Ariados, who had sneaked into Lilycove City, brought back news: he had smelled a unique Sweet Honey aroma in the Lilycove City.
Another Butterfree said it saw the three-headed Pokémon that stole the Pokémon Egg in Lilycove City.
That almost certainly means the other party is currently in the urban area of Lilycove City.
Ultimately, relying on fragmented information, the Vespiquen Lock-On Hunter X's whereabouts and once again promised a generous reward if these Pokémon helped find the Pokémon Egg.
As a result, more and more Bug-type Pokémon joined the Bug Tide for the reward, and as the Bug Tide grew larger and larger, it spread towards Lilycove City.
Then Roy saw what had just happened, which led to the current situation.
This is why the Bug Tide developed. As for why the Primeape and the Ursaring species in the Beast Tide joined this uprising, Beedrill has no idea.