Buzzby, the wonder bee

“My Spider sleeping gas has worked like a charm”, thought the eight armed criminal genius, Professor Arachnid, cackling to himself as, with eight white gloved hands, he robbed the Bank of Beetropolis of all its glittering, golden jars of honey, emptying them into a large swag bag knitted from spider webbing, “All of the bees of Beetropolis are completely knocked out by it”.

And it was true. All across the golden beehive city of Beetropolis, just like a scene from the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, its bee citizens had been put to sleep by Professor Arachnids gas. The workers in the honey factories who were usually hard at work, making and packaging honey were lying on their backs or slumped over their machines snoozing instead of buzzing; the soldier bees whose job it was to defend the beehive were all fast asleep in the bunks of their bee barracks and even the Queen Bee who ruled Beetropolis was lying in her four poster, queen sized bed snoring in a most unqueenly fashion.

But not all the bees were completely unconscious because, just at that moment, a humble factory worker named Buzzby was battling his way up out of the pink clouds of dreamland and struggling to open his little yellow bee eyelids.

“Must… wake… up!”, he said, talking in his sleep,”Hive… in danger”.

Ever since he had hatched out of his honeybee egg as a little larvae, Buzzby had been different from the other bees in his colony; a kind of super-powered bee you might say, because whenever Buzzby ate a jar of golden honey, it gave him amazing strength, speed and agility far beyond that of any normal bee.

And now, still so groggy that he was almost sleep walking, Buzzby dragged himself to his feet and, grabbing hold of a jar of Honey that was whizzing past on a production line conveyor belt before unscrewing its lid, he gulped down its golden sticky, sweet contents.

Suddenly, all throughout his bee body, Buzzby felt a strange, golden, sunlight like energy flow as the honey transformed him into a wonder bee.

“Un-bee-lievable!”, shouted Buzzby as he felt himself become not groggy now but bursting with energy, “Now to get to the bottom of this bee-wildering mystery”.

And, suddenly, from behind him, Professor Arachnid heard a loud buzzing sound, not like the buzz of just one bee but like a swarm of thousands.

“Shivering spiderwebs, what’s that?”, he thought, startled.

But then, turning round, the creepy crawly criminal was shocked and amazed to see what looked like a flash of black and yellow stripy lightning hurtling towards him.

Frantically, the professor tried to battle of Buzzby with all eight of his spider fists and even tried to tie him up and tangle his wings in spider webbing but before long the Professor realized that he was just no match for the bee-sized behemoth, especially when Buzzby zapped him with his super-electrified bee sting.

Defeated, Professor Arachnid abandoned the stolen honey and raced as fast as his eight legs could carry him towards the exit of the beehive city, only stopping to shake his eight fists at Buzzby and declare, “But I’ll get my revenge on you Bee-brain and, like that honey I was going to steal, it will be sweet”.

Fortunately, just at that moment, Professor Arachnids sleeping gas started to wear off and, all across the hive, bees who were waking up saw what the heroic Buzzby had done.

And, later that day, in the palace of the Queen Bee, in front of loudly cheering and buzzing bee citizens, the Queen gave Buzzby a special honour normally reserved only for Bee soldiers.

“For services to the hive”, she said, “I, Queen Beatrice of Beetropolis give you, Buzzby Bee, the honorary title of ‘Defender of the city’”.

And then, best of all, the Queen gave Buzzby a great big smacker of a kiss which he thought was sweeter than all the honey in the world.

But that was only the bee-ginning of Buzzbys un-bee-lievable adventures.