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 <div style="float:right;">[[File:April Fools Day 2016.png|thumb|300px|April Fools' Day 2016]]</div>
-<center><span style="color:Red">System Overload. Error Code: #664 - Could not parse Scatterbug.</span></center>
+Just after the [[Super Secret Event]] ended on 31st March 2016, the [[Scatterbug|Scatterbugs]] unleashed their rage and attacked Pokémon Vortex in an attempt to take over the Grass Maps.
-Just after the [[Super Secret Event]] ended on 31st March 2016, the [[Scatterbug|Scatterbugs]] unleashed their rage and attacked Pokémon Vortex and took over the Grass Maps.
+For five hours, instantly after the event ended which required you to catch Scatterbugs and evolve them into [[Vivillon (Fancy)]] or [[Vivillon (Pokeball)]], all that could be found on the grass maps during the day were it's usual legendary Pokémon and Scatterbug.
+The top of the maps displayed the following error: ''<span style="color:Red;">System Overload. Error Code: #664 - Could not parse Scatterbug.</span>''
+A hint in the error code to point at the fact it was an April Fool's joke is that #664 is the national [[Pokédex]] number of Scatterbug itself.
+<div style="float:left; padding-right:15px;">[[File:aprilfooltweet.png|thumb|Pokémon Vortex's tweet about Scatterbug]]</div>
+An hour after this occurred, Pokémon Vortex updated it's [https://www.facebook.com/pokemonvortex/photos/a.186317008049791.52512.153637951317697/1279883895359758/?type=3 Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/Pokemon_Vortex/status/715897214921531392 Twitter] status' to explain that the maps had been overrun with bugs.