The Scatterbug Line

Scatterbug
The Scatterdust Pokémon
Type: Bug
Official Registration #: 664
Entry: A worm-like pokémon native to forests across the world. When threatened, it ejects a dust from its exoskeleton that is capable of paralyzing creatures on contact. However, this powder is also important for the regulation of its body temperature, and the loss of this extra coat may result in a scatterbug freezing to the point of being unable to move, thus providing a rather inconvenient downside to its primary defense mechanism against predators.

Spewpa
The Scatterdust Pokémon
Type: Bug
Official Registration #: 665
Entry: The evolved form of scatterbug, by battle experience. The bristles of this pokémon, in combination with the line’s paralyzing dust, provide extra protection against the beaks and claws of bird-like predators. So do, incidentally, the shards of reinforced, sharpened chitin which, when launched due to the raising of its bristles, can be thrown like shuriken directly into innocent bystanders. Trainers and researchers traveling through darker parts of the forest should be warned against this behavior, as spewpa have a tendency to hide in the shadows, coupled with an inability to discern a predator about to step on them from a passing human who has no idea that the spewpa is there.

Vivillon
The Scale Pokémon
Type: Bug/Flying
Official Registration #: 666
Entry: The evolved form of spewpa, by battle experience. Vivillon are famous for their wing patterns, which vary in color and design, based on the region its scatterbug form had originally been from. There are avid collectors all over the world who dedicate their lives to obtaining every form of vivillon in existence, to the point where entire conventions have been created for vivillon trading. As a note to the curious from an experienced collector, conventions for pokémon fanatics are both wondrous and alarming. On the one hand, they enable fans across the globe to connect with one another and to allow trainers from distant regions to meet and befriend pokémon they wouldn’t normally encounter. On the other, rare forms of vivillon have been known to cause fist fights between particularly enthusiastic fans.

To be fair, you were involved with three of the ones you’re referring to. —LH

At least I didn’t start them. —Bill