Combee begin their lives as separate creatures in a vast beehive, where they remain until they reach maturity. When they are judged to be old enough to gather honey, they are placed in a honeycomb which is as much prison as tool, and shackled to two of their neighbors into a bizarre, triangular pokemon. The three heads of each Combee are as much spies as teammates, and each must report any grumblings or disobedience to the hive. Unlike the heads of other multi-brained pokemon, such as the Dugtrio, Combee rarely form strong bonds with one another; it is fear which keeps them in line.
Most male Combee live their whole lives in this despair. It is only the females, who wage constant civil wars for the Vespiquen's throne, who have any hope of winning freedom. Even if captured by a trainer, male Combee do not truly find a new master, but continue to report to their hives. It is through human-trained Combee that Vespiquen are able to map the surrounding areas, and if it offers more honey, to swarm to a new one. But although trained Combee will obey a new set of human commands, should the two ever contradict, they will serve their Vespiquen.
There are many pokemon with some form of hierarchical structure, and even humans have often melded civilization with tyranny. But none compare in cruelty to the lot in life of the male Combee, forbidden even to evolve. Yet this prohibition, enforced through slavery and totalitarianism, is one all Vespiquen consider a dire necessity. For it is said that if a male Combee does evolve, it will become not a male Vespiquen, but something akin to a Beedrill, and lead the Combee to break their honeycomb chains and overthrow the monarchy in a brutal insect revolution.
