Chapter 4: Dragon Slaying
Vespiquen had trouble sleeping that night. She tossed and turned and woke up Beedrill with the noise. He rushed over to help his queen, but received a punch in the face and a violent push away.
"Queen?" Beedrill was puzzled.
"Do not call me your queen! All you wanted from me was to be a drone! You aren't even who I sent for! You're just some perverted freak!" she was shaking with rage "And you know what else? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have had to waste guards making up your cell! That little difference could have been the push we needed to save the hive! You should have never came to my hive!"
"But queen! I had no choice! It was fate that brought me to your hive! If I hadn't, you would have died along with everyone else!"
"I won't hear any more of it! Begone!"
"I could never-" Beedrill started before he was cut off and knocked to the ground by an air slash. When he tried to get up, he could see that she was ready to fire off a hyperbeam. At this point, he fled to the nearby bushes. Vespiquen fired where he was, and went off. Of course, Beedrill couldn't not follow her. He owed it to the hive to do everything in his power to protect her. He tagged on at a distance where he wouldn't be noticed.
She was heading to the site of the hive. He pleaded to Arceus that she wouldn't try what he thought she would to. When she came to the charred remains of the hive she looked at the ground. She could see a trail. She followed it to where the reason for her despair must be. Beedrill kept following, harboring a fear for her well being.
At last, Vespiquen found what she was looking for. Two Charmander and a Charmelon were playing in a group somewhat distant from the rest of the lounge. Vespiquen charged a hyperbeam and sniped the three in one splash hit. This way, there was nobody to alert the rest of her presence. From Beedrill's standpoint, she was terrifying. She was consumed by rage, and she had just taken out three youth with deadly precision. On top of that, she was attempting to take on the entire lounge! She would certainly die trying, but what scared Beedrill most was that she probably knew that. Following her had also gotten difficult. Before he had the high ground, and he felt much safer. Now, the ground was relatively level. Vespiquen fired off another hyperbeam, having charged when she was getting closer to the group. This shot was aimed at a Charizard. He was down for the count, but now they were on to her. They were all furious. One of them charged the vengeful queen, and he was made short work of. Beedrill did not want to intervene, and so far it looked he didn't need to. Vespiquen was faring well on her own. There was still no telling how many were there though. Vespiquen was slaughtering, and was almost awful to watch not knowing what the did, but they kept coming, almost faster than she took them out. The fire starters weren't just letting her get away with it all. They fought back fiercely. They seemed to be now overwhelming her. It was foolish to have attempted this in the first place, Beedrill didn't care. He was going to do anything he could to help, how the Combee wanted. They surely wouldn't have wanted to have her waster her life in a pointless act of revenge. Then the entire hive would have died and died for nothing.
Beedrill assumed his charging figure, all drills and his stinger pointed forward, and charged. He wasn't close to her, and she had gon deep into the enemy's territory, but he didn't care if he was noticed. He closed the gap rather quickly and he had his sights on a particular Charizard. Before he made contact, the Charizard to notice and ducked. Beedrill plunged straight into the ground, his lower arms and stinger stuck. This was noticed by just about everyone, but the battle continued. The only one not to notice was Vespiquen, but at this point she didn't seem to notice anything in particular. Beedrill fought as an immovable sentry. He couldn't change this if he tried. He delivered poison jabs and X-Scissors to anyone who came near. As he couldn't pursue, most wounded fighters simply stepped away from him. After a short time a Charizard charged him with a flare blitz, uprooting him and sending him into Vespiquen, who was in here own skirmish. He quickly recovered and sort of threw Vespiquen up, and she remained in the air. She turned in confusion to see Beedrill, who gave a quick wave.
"I thought I told you to leave!" she shouted angrily as she dodged a fireball.
"I did leave! Then I came back!" Beedrill said before he X-Scissored some guy in the face. Another Charizard tried to hit him with a flare blitz, but he protected himself.
Vespiquen didn't like his answer, nobody would, but the more pressing matter for her was avenging her hive. She took out multiple Pokemon with her hyperbeams, but those had to recharge. The number of Pokemon was decreasing at least. She saw that that was because they were fleeing. There was no way she was going to let a singe one escape. She left the rest near her to Beedrill, (she didn't care if they managed to kill him or not )and chased down the others. The Charizard flew, and the Charmander and Charmelon ran as fast as their legs could take them. In realization that they were much faster than she, Vespiquen charged a hyperbeam and fired, aiming where they were going to be, and eliminating all but a Charizard, although it was almost to wounded to fly or move quickly. Vespiquen easily caught up with her and finished them off with an attack order.
Back where Beedrill was, he had finished off all but two, and was in bad shape. Luckily, one fainted of poison and he was quick to assure that he stayed down. Vespiquen was arriving then. This last one was furious knowing that his lounge was now almost all dead. He would have been the same if it weren't for the fact that he was domesticated. He was released from a trainer a year back, and with him he had a mega stone. Normally, mega evolution is achieved through a strong bond between a Pokemon and it's trainer. In this case however,his bond was with his friends in the lounge, and he was able to trigger his transformation with his rage. He was enveloped in stone and as always the transformation was radical. Within seconds the stone sphere cracked and was blown apart by the newly formed Mega Charizard X.
"X?" Beedrill exclamation was immediate "I Y every time I see it." His voice infuriated Vespiquen. As far as she was concerned, he was her enemy too. However, the focus was on the dragon. It's attention was more on Beedrill, and Vespiquen liked that. He charged with a flare blitz and Beedrill used protect. Beedrill was able to pull off two poison jabs and an X-Scissor before he was smacked to the ground by Charizard's tail. He was sent past Vespiquen who had just healed with an order. She then used an attack order on Charizard, who dodged and shot a fire blast that made contact.
Seeing his queen hurt enraged Beedrill, and he charged the enemy with a drill run. The result was a super effective crit that landed on the side Charizard's chest/neck area. Beedrill hit so hard he embedded his drills and stinger into Charizard. Charizard struggled as they fell, but it was futile. By the time they hit the ground, he was gone, and Beedrill was fainted. Vespiquen approached the two, and contemplated killing Beedrill. After a while, she reached the conclusion that he was loyal, and only wanted what he thought was best for her, and even if he was wrong, his heart was in the right place. Vespiquen pulled him out of the Charizard and carried him somewhere more tranquil.