Antonio is unhappily living in an ant farm until one day the ant farm is knocked out of the window of the child's bedroom it rests in. Antonio wanders the streets, until finding Bugtropolis, Verdebecia, one of the many metropolises populated by bugs. He then meets Phoebee and Snelson, and is hired as a clerk at Webster's mall, and the four instantly become best friends. Antonio also adopts a pesky pet flea named Itchy, which brings a whole slew of inventive adventures into the package, but when Antonio discovers a powerful crystal hidden in the city, he discovers that there may be more going on in the town than meets the eye...