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This story can be read at [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-bug-type-queen-worm-pokemon-cross.368877/ Space Battles]].
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This story can be read at [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-bug-type-queen-worm-pokemon-cross.368877/ Space Battles]].
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''The Bug-Type Queen'', written by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/lordcirce.294282/ LordCirce]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' crossover where Taylor gets sucked up by a side-effect of multiple Bakuda bombs, and finds herself in the world of Pokémon, filled with large, sentient, super-powered bugs. She had a long journey ahead, until she arrives home and makes her way through this world alongside her slowly expanding swarm.
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''The Bug-Type Queen'', written by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/lordcirce.294282/ LordCirce]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' crossover where Taylor gets sucked up by a side-effect of multiple Bakuda bombs, and finds herself in the world of Pokémon, filled with large, sentient, super-powered bugs. She had a long journey ahead, until she arrives home and makes her way through this world alongside her slowly expanding swarm.
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* InsultToRocks: Agatha's opinion of Mr. Fuji is low enough that once Taylor explains what she wanted, the Ghost trainer wearily groans she would have better luck consulting [[SitcomArchnemesis Professor Oak]].
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Weedle family sort out who is the "Elder" by who is the best at stabbing (i.e. strongest).
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The Weedle family sort out who is the "Elder" by who is the best at stabbing (i.e. strongest).
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* CryingWolf: Averted. When Grant, Rob and Salvadore see the Beedrill swarm, they run through town screaming "Beedrill Swarm!" The citizens think the trio is trying to panic everyone, having pretended they were chased by wild Pokémon before. But when Mr. Ridel is about to chew the three boys out, he looks up and sees the swarm and confirms.
* CurbStompBattle: Taylor's attack on the Game Corner. The only thing the Rockets do that has any real effect is blocking a hall with Sandstorm to buy time to teleport out.
* CurbStompBattle: Taylor's attack on the Game Corner. The only thing the Rockets do that has any real effect is blocking a hall with Sandstorm to buy time to teleport out.
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* CryingWolf: Averted. When Grant, Rob and Salvadore see the Beedrill swarm, they run through town screaming "Beedrill Swarm!" The citizens think the trio is trying to panic everyone, having pretended they were chased by wild Pokémon before. But when Mr. Ridel is about to chew the three boys out, he looks up and sees the swarm and confirms.
* CurbStompBattle:CurbStompBattle:
** Taylor's attack on the Game Corner. The only thing the Rockets do that has any real effect is blocking a hall with Sandstorm to buy time to teleport out.
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** The Gym Trainers at Pewter Gym are from the Pokémon games: Liam is from [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]] and Jerry and Edwin are from [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]].
** After Taylor talks with Brock about how the Pokémon world works and he suggests to talk to Mr. Fuji, Edwin teases Brock about not asking Taylor out to which Brock gets embarrased. This an obvious nod to his [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime counterpart]].
** The Gym Trainers at Pewter Gym are from the Pokémon games: Liam is from [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]] and Jerry and Edwin are from [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]].
** After Taylor talks with Brock about how the Pokémon world works and he suggests to talk to Mr. Fuji, Edwin teases Brock about not asking Taylor out to which Brock gets embarrased. This an obvious nod to his [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime counterpart]].
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* CryingWolf: Averted. When Grant, Rob and Salvadore see the Beedrill swarm, they run through town screaming "Beedrill Swarm!" The citizens think the trio is trying to panic everyone, having pretended they were chased by wild Pokémon before. But when Mr. Ridel is about to chew the three boys out, he looks up and sees the swarm and confirms.
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** The Pewter City resident's response to the [[ScaryStingingSwarm Beedrill swarm]].
** Brock and Jerry's response when they see the Beedrill swarm with some Weedle and Kakuna with Brock calling it a "migration".
** The Pewter City resident's response to the [[ScaryStingingSwarm Beedrill swarm]].
** Brock and Jerry's response when they see the Beedrill swarm with some Weedle and Kakuna with Brock calling it a "migration".
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* BeeAfraid: The majority of Taylor's swarm are Beedrill.
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** The Interludes depict this happening to anyone who meets Taylor in Brockton Bay after her time in PokeEarth - she's taken so many levels in badass (not to mention added in bugs that are meaner than any to ever live in Earth) that no one can defeat her.
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** The Interludes depict this happening to anyone who meets Taylor in Brockton Bay after her time in PokeEarth [=PokeEarth=] - she's taken so many levels in badass (not to mention added in bugs that are meaner than any to ever live in Earth) that no one can defeat her.
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''The Bug-Type Queen'', written by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/lordcirce.294282/ LordCirce]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' crossover where Taylor gets sucked up by a side-effect of multiple Bakuda bombs, and finds herself in the world of pokemon, filled with large, sentient, super-powered bugs. She had a long journey ahead, until she arrives home and makes her way through this world alongside her slowly expanding swarm.
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''The Bug-Type Queen'', written by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/lordcirce.294282/ LordCirce]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' crossover where Taylor gets sucked up by a side-effect of multiple Bakuda bombs, and finds herself in the world of pokemon, Pokémon, filled with large, sentient, super-powered bugs. She had a long journey ahead, until she arrives home and makes her way through this world alongside her slowly expanding swarm.
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* BerserkButton: Torturing Bug-Types (like Team Rocket does to break stolen Pokemon) feeds their suffering straight into Taylor's brain. The results are ... predictable.
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* CombatPragmatist: Taylor will not let Rockets or their patsies send out their Pokemon if she can help it.
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* OlympusMons: By the time she returns from her trip through the pokemon world, Taylor has befriend a few from her dialogue, including Hoopa.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: The Interlude segments have Taylor post-trip to the Pokemon world, where years have passed and she's in her twenties.
* PoisonousPerson: The Beedrill.
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Taylor with Bug pokemon, those with psychic abilities, and Rachel, who can partially understand canine pokemon.
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** The Interludes depict this happening to anyone who meets Taylor in Brockton Bay after her time in PokeEarth - she's taken so many levels in badass (not to mention added in bugs that are meaner than any to ever live in Earth) that no one can defeat her.
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* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: Tattletale ends up being a victim of this trope, as her SherlockScan (which she claims is mindreading) can be nullified by Ariados, who possesses PsychicPowers, ''including actual mind reading''.
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* BerserkButton: Torturing Bug-Types (like Team Rocket does to break stolen pokemon) feeds their suffering straight into Taylor's brain. The results are ... predictable.
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* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: Or at the very least really pissed off. The Pinsir that joins the Swarm basically attacked everyone it came across until they knocked it out after being hurt by the Rockets and Taylor has to try and keep in it check.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Let's see... you have Beedrill, Butterfree, and Paras to start with.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Spark.
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* BerserkButton: Torturing Bug-Types (like Team Rocket does to break stolen pokemon) feeds their suffering straight into Taylor's brain. The results are ... predictable.
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* NoSell: Volcarona casually stops Lung's fire in a flashforward.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. The Green Web Rollers look intimidating, but they're big fans of bug-types like Spinarak.
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* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Elder can sense relatively how strong his opponents are.
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* {{Hellgate}}: Mr. Fuji creates a machine to poke a hole into the Spirit World in Lavender Town. It... goes about as well as you'd expect and Agatha of the Elite Four is called in to deal with it.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Psyduck has to constantly put this on Bakuda because she keeps trying to make bombs out of the food she's given.
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* WheresTheKaboom: Paras' Damp ability stops explosions from going off, including Bakuda's bombs.
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* HollywoodHeartAttack: Danny has one when Taylor shows up in the first interlude, given everything that's happened to her without him knowing. Luckily, Clawitzer has Heal Pulse.
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* CuteMonster: Spinarak and Charmander.
* FlashForward: The Interludes flash to the future, where Taylor has spent years in another world/dimension.
* OlympusMons: By the time she returns from her trip through the pokemon world, Taylor has befriend a few from her dialogue, including Hoopa.
* PlotRelevantAgeUp: The Interlude segments have Taylor post-trip to the Pokemon world, where years have passed and she's in her twenties.
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* ThinkingUpPortals: Hoopa's ability.
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* ThinkingUpPortals: Hoopa's ability.
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''The Bug-Type Queen'', written by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/lordcirce.294282/ LordCirce]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' crossover where Taylor gets sucked up by a side-effect of multiple Bakuda bombs, and finds herself in the world of pokemon, filled with large, sentient, super-powered bugs. She had a long journey ahead, until she arrives home and makes her way through this world alongside her slowly expanding swarm.
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''The Bug-Type Queen'', written by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/lordcirce.294282/ LordCirce]] is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} crossover where Taylor gets sucked up by a side-effect of multiple Bakuda bombs, and finds herself in the world of pokemon, filled with large, sentient, super-powered bugs. She had a long journey ahead, until she arrives home and makes her way through this world alongside her slowly expanding swarm.
This story can be read at [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-bug-type-queen-worm-pokemon-cross.368877/ Space Battles]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Damian Daisuke wasn't a saint in how he treated Charmander in the anime, but here he has multiple warrants for his arrest for poaching, among other things.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Weedle family sort out who is the "Elder" by who is the best at stabbing (i.e. strongest).
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Let's see... you have Beedrill, Butterfree, and Paras to start with.
* BeeAfraid: The majority of Taylor's swarm are Beedrill.
* BloodKnight: A small case with Charmander wanting to prove itself in battle despite being only seven months old. Nurse Justine has to remind Taylor that he needs to be at least a year old before getting into serious battles or it would run the risk of stunting its growth.
* CorruptCop: Some of the officers in Cerulean City were corrupt and working with Damien, causing a conflict with Taylor. Officer Jenny is pissed when she becomes aware of them acting how they did without permission and opens an investigation.
* FierySalamander: Charmander.
* HiveQueen: Taylor, due to her power linking her to her swarm. The sense of unity causes the Beedrill to feel loyalty to her, though its not enforced via compulsion.
* PoisonousPerson: The Beedrill.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Officer Jenny, Agatha, Brock... honestly, Taylor is slightly baffled by the number of them compared to her experiences on Earth Bet.
This story can be read at [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-bug-type-queen-worm-pokemon-cross.368877/ Space Battles]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Damian Daisuke wasn't a saint in how he treated Charmander in the anime, but here he has multiple warrants for his arrest for poaching, among other things.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The Weedle family sort out who is the "Elder" by who is the best at stabbing (i.e. strongest).
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Let's see... you have Beedrill, Butterfree, and Paras to start with.
* BeeAfraid: The majority of Taylor's swarm are Beedrill.
* BloodKnight: A small case with Charmander wanting to prove itself in battle despite being only seven months old. Nurse Justine has to remind Taylor that he needs to be at least a year old before getting into serious battles or it would run the risk of stunting its growth.
* CorruptCop: Some of the officers in Cerulean City were corrupt and working with Damien, causing a conflict with Taylor. Officer Jenny is pissed when she becomes aware of them acting how they did without permission and opens an investigation.
* FierySalamander: Charmander.
* HiveQueen: Taylor, due to her power linking her to her swarm. The sense of unity causes the Beedrill to feel loyalty to her, though its not enforced via compulsion.
* PoisonousPerson: The Beedrill.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Officer Jenny, Agatha, Brock... honestly, Taylor is slightly baffled by the number of them compared to her experiences on Earth Bet.
