Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his ancient Dragonite fought Kyogre and Groudon, but Mega Rayquaza arrived and defeated them. Team Flare stole the Legendary Giant Rock during the chaos, leaving Xiao Yan to head back while the mysterious plan remained unknown.

• Kyogre and Groudon attacked Xiao Yan and Dragonite, whose ancient power awakened and transformed him into a golden-marked giant.
• Dragonite struck both Legendary Pokémon with Thunder, but Kyogre and Groudon joined forces, broke his Protect shield, and sent him and Xiao Yan plunging into the sea.
• Xiao Yan's other Pokémon pushed him back to the surface, while Mega Rayquaza arrived, Mega Evolved, and drove Kyogre and Groudon into the strait.
• A submarine used an energy net to steal the Legendary Giant Rock, and Rayquaza returned to space after it vanished.
• Xiao Yan left on Charizard, saw Alain and Mairin embracing, and learned that the news credited Steven and unidentified Trainers with averting disaster.

After Lysandre promoted Xiao Yan to Team Flare executive, he sent him to recover Mega Evolution Stones from a cave in the Andes Mountains. Xiao Yan and Pikachu fought off a swarm of Zubat and Golbat and continued deeper into the cave.

• Lysandre met with Xiao Yan, praised his role in the battle over the Giant Rock, and promoted him to executive.
• Malva told Lysandre that Kalos’s news stations had concealed the battle and the Giant Rock from the public.
• Xiao Yan returned to the assembly hall in his new uniform, surprising Aliana and the other recruits.
• Lysandre assigned Xiao Yan to recover Mega Evolution Stones from Mine No. 8 in the Andes Mountains.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the mountains and entered a cave with Pikachu, where Zubat and Golbat attacked them with Supersonic.
• Pikachu used Thunderbolt to drive off the bat Pokémon, and Xiao Yan continued farther into the cave.

Xiao Yan retrieved three Mega Stones in the Angus Mountains, killed the Pokémon Hunters who tried to steal them, and reported his success to Lysandre. Later, Lysandre’s aid mission to a poor town left him disillusioned, and a mysterious hooded man began persuading him that the world needed a drastic remedy.

• Xiao Yan found the Scizor, Alakazam, and Ampharos Mega Stones in a cavern and defeated five Pokémon Hunters who tried to take them.
• Xiao Yan killed the Hunters and their Pokémon, then returned to Team Flare headquarters and handed the Mega Stones to Lysandre.
• Xiao Yan reflected on how his experiences with Team Flare had changed him, while Lysandre fell asleep after reading a report on the Legendary Giant Rock.
• Lysandre visited a remote town with supplies, but the residents fought over the aid and demanded more, leaving him upset.
• A hooded stranger confronted Lysandre, overpowered his Pyroar, and argued that the world was contaminated and required a drastic remedy; Lysandre lowered his Poké Ball and listened.

A stranger showed Lysandre a vision of a world destroyed by humans and guided him to form Team Flare, then vanished as Lysandre woke from his dream. Lysandre received news of progress on a plan, while Xiao Yan reviewed Team Flare’s personnel records before several members arrived at his door.

• A hooded stranger showed Lysandre a ruined future in which the Ultimate Weapon and rampaging Legendary Pokémon had destroyed the world, then urged him to find the Ultimate Weapon and Legendary Giant Rock and capture Arceus and Zygarde.
• Lysandre agreed to form Team Flare, named the stranger his spiritual guide, and watched him disappear before waking at his desk.
• Lysandre opened an important red-envelope file, smiled at its contents, and ordered Team Flare’s executives and scientists to meet in half an hour.
• Xiao Yan accessed Team Flare’s internal system and reviewed the strength of its lower-ranking members.
• Several Team Flare members arrived at Xiao Yan’s door as he went to answer it.

Xiao Yan attended Lysandre’s meeting, then discovered he could use the Berry Blender to make exceptionally high-quality Pokéblocks. After overexerting himself and passing out, he left Aliana waiting at the head of two squads.

• Xiao Yan attended Lysandre’s meeting, where Lysandre announced progress on controlling the legendary Giant Rock and gave five executives sealed mission slips to open in three days.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room and found a Berry Blender, then made a batch of low-quality Pokéblocks using Pecha Berries and a Bluk Berry.
• Xiao Yan used his keen eyesight to operate the Berry Blender at medium speed and produced fifteen high-quality Pokéblocks from Mago Berries.
• Xiao Yan grew dizzy from the effort and passed out, while Aliana waited impatiently with two assembled squads and complained that he was late again.

Xiao Yan led a Team Flare raid on the Lumiose City Power Plant while secretly trying to stop the theft of its electricity. After Clemont arrived to investigate the blackout, Xiao Yan challenged him to a battle, but Mewtwo refused to fight.

• Xiao Yan joined Aliana's mission and led a ten-person squad to the power plant as a diversion while Michelle's team entered from the rear to drain its electricity.
• Team Flare grunts attacked the guards, and one grunt stabbed a defeated guard; Xiao Yan later knocked out other guards and hid them to keep Team Flare from killing them.
• The power plant's electricity was drained, plunging Lumiose City into darkness, and Clemont left Bonnie in the Absolute Defense Room before heading to the plant.
• Xiao Yan masked his face and confronted Clemont, wagering that Team Flare would withdraw if Clemont won and that Xiao Yan would receive the Voltage Badge if he won.
• Xiao Yan and Clemont began a 2-on-2 battle, but Mewtwo ignored Xiao Yan's order to use Swift and told him telepathically that he had no interest in the battle.

Xiao Yan battled Clemont, whose Heliolisk fell to Sceptile after a hard-fought exchange. Clemont sent out Luxray as his ace, and the two Pokémon continued fighting until both were badly injured and low on stamina.

• Xiao Yan sent out Sceptile, which endured Heliolisk's Razor Wind before using Screech to interrupt its Discharge.
• Sceptile used Agility and Leaf Blade to wound Heliolisk, then drained its strength with Mega Drain and defeated it.
• Clemont sent out Luxray, which spread Electric Terrain and attacked Sceptile with Discharge.
• Sceptile climbed the pipes and struck Luxray with Bullet Seed, but Luxray retaliated with Wild Charge and slammed Sceptile into a wall.
• Xiao Yan noticed Sceptile had twisted its ankle and ordered another Bullet Seed, while Clemont commanded Luxray to use Wild Charge again.

Xiao Yan defeated Clemont’s Luxray with Sceptile, but an explosion set the power plant ablaze and trapped Clemont beneath rubble. With Mewtwo’s help, Xiao Yan rescued Clemont and escaped the inferno with his Pokémon.

• Xiao Yan called for Sceptile to Mega Evolve, but Sceptile interrupted the process and fought on, defeating Luxray with a swift Leaf Blade strike before collapsing.
• A Team Flare member riding Charizard blew up the power plant’s machinery and escaped, while Xiao Yan was knocked unconscious by falling rubble.
• Aliana halted Team Flare’s electricity-siphoning mission and led the team out with the Power-Gathering Device as the power plant began to collapse.
• Mewtwo shielded Xiao Yan from falling stones and tried to carry him out, but Xiao Yan broke free to search the burning plant for Clemont.
• Xiao Yan found Clemont trapped beneath rubble and kept digging despite the fire, smoke, and falling stones; his mask broke, revealing his face to Clemont.
• Mewtwo cleared the rubble with psychic powers, returned Xiao Yan’s six Poké Balls, and carried Xiao Yan and Clemont out through an opening overhead.

After helping Clemont stop the fire at the Lumiose City Power Plant, Xiao Yan gave him evidence and a map revealing Team Flare’s headquarters beneath Lysandre Labs, then collapsed from his injuries. He woke in an old man’s room and slipped away before the man, who had recognized his Team Flare uniform, could decide whether to arrest him.

• Goodra used Rain Dance to extinguish the power plant fire, and Xiao Yan told Clemont he was not his enemy and gave him Team Flare records and a map to their headquarters beneath Lysandre Labs.
• Clemont agreed to build Xiao Yan an energy detector in two days and gave him the Lumiose Gym Badge after losing their battle.
• Xiao Yan found nine dead members of his squad at the power plant and suspected the missing member, Tu Yi, had escaped on his Charizard.
• Clemont reported Team Flare’s involvement to Moldo and Lei Yan, who decided to contact Diantha and move against the organization.
• Xiao Yan collapsed in Lumiose City and woke two days later in an old man’s room, where he learned the man had rescued him and then jumped out the window.
• The old man returned, found Xiao Yan gone, and reflected that the boy’s confusion, guilt, and integrity had kept him from arresting him.

After Team Flare’s power plant was destroyed, Xiao Yan escaped the protests in Lumiose City and received Clemont’s Energy Detector, which showed two unexplained gray dots near Lysandre Labs. He was drugged and abducted, while Lysandre prepared to use Arceus in his plan; Xiao Yan later woke in a muddy, unfamiliar forest.

• Lysandre ended the argument between Mable, Bryony, and Aliana, assigned electricity production to Mable and Bryony, and ordered Aliana to find Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan reached the locked Lumiose Gym, where Clemont let him in and Bonnie greeted him.
• Clemont gave Xiao Yan an Energy Detector, which revealed two flashing gray dots near Lysandre Labs.
• A Butterfree’s powder knocked Xiao Yan out in the protest crowd, and a woman dragged him away.
• Lysandre’s Mega Gyarados lost to Arceus, and Lysandre began his plan to make Arceus contribute to his new world.
• Xiao Yan woke in a rain-soaked forest far from Lumiose City and followed a rustling sound.

Xiao Yan followed Team Flare kidnappers and discovered their hidden mountain prison with Feng, his former instructor. Disguised as a guard and prisoner, they entered the facility, where Xiao Yan saw civilians imprisoned along the corridors.

• Xiao Yan tracked Team Flare members who had captured a woman, but Feng surprised him at a cliff and revealed a hidden passage.
• Feng broke through the cliff with Rhydon, and he and Xiao Yan navigated a winding underground maze to reach a concealed basin.
• Feng told Xiao Yan that Team Flare had been kidnapping civilians across Kalos and imprisoning them in the mountain facility.
• Feng disguised himself and Xiao Yan, then passed the guards by claiming he had caught a prisoner trying to escape.
• Xiao Yan and Feng entered the prison and saw civilians shouting from cells along the corridor.

Xiao Yan was imprisoned by Team Flare and met the black-haired woman who revealed she was Serena’s mother. While Team Flare launched a mission called “Peace,” Xiao Yan’s Pokémon escaped and Feng attacked the prison office; the chapter ended with the Pokémon’s escape causing a disturbance in the prison.

• Team Flare guards confiscated Xiao Yan’s backpack and Poké Balls before locking him in a cell with the black-haired woman.
• Bryony and Claire gathered Team Flare members at Headquarters and announced a mission codenamed “Peace.”
• The black-haired woman recognized Serena in a photograph, learned Xiao Yan knew her, and challenged whether he was strong enough to protect her.
• Xiao Yan’s six Pokémon escaped from the prison office, defeated the Team Flare members there, and left with his Poké Balls as the network signal failed.
• Feng revealed himself as a traitor in the office and attacked the Team Flare members.
• Xiao Yan heard guards shouting about the escaped Pokémon and fighting in the prison corridor, waking the other prisoners.

Xiao Yan escaped Team Flare’s collapsing prison, rescued Serena’s mother’s Rhyhorn, and earned her approval. He returned to Lumiose City and entered Lysandre’s headquarters, where Lysandre welcomed him with a suspicious smile.

• Xiao Yan and Feng freed the prisoners, and Mewtwo defeated the Exploud whose Boomburst was bringing down the prison.
• Xiao Yan followed Serena’s mother into the collapsing prison, found her injured Rhyhorn, healed him, and broke his chains with Suicune.
• Xiao Yan reunited Rhyhorn with Serena’s mother, who accepted him as a suitable partner for Serena and asked him to take care of her.
• Xiao Yan returned to Lumiose City, went to Lysandre Labs, and followed two armed men inside after they said Lysandre wanted to see him.
• Xiao Yan met Lysandre in his office and suspected Lysandre had hoped he would die in the prison fire.

Xiao Yan defeated Alain in a Mega Evolution battle, but an explosion interrupted the contest and enabled Red to escape Team Flare’s laboratory with Xiao Yan and Z2. Lysandre discovered Mairin in the wrecked lab and realized Z2 was still there, leaving his plan intact.

• Lysandre named the winner of Xiao Yan and Alain’s battle Team Flare’s deputy leader, and both Trainers Mega Evolved their Pokémon.
• Mega Sceptile and Mega Charizard X fought until their Leaf Storm and Inferno attacks collided, but an explosion in the facility interrupted the battle.
• Xiao Yan’s Mega Sceptile remained conscious while Alain’s Mega Charizard X fell unconscious, giving Xiao Yan the victory.
• After another blast, Xiao Yan found Red in the laboratory, and Red asked him to help carry the green Pokémon Z2 as they fled.
• Lysandre discovered that the fifth-floor disturbance had been a Ditto diversion, found Mairin in the damaged laboratory, and noted that Z2 was still there.

Xiao Yan and Red escaped Lysandre Labs with one of Zygarde’s Core Cells, while Team Flare’s Operation Peace and the Kalos League’s response began. Red and Xiao Yan flew toward their companions, but Red stopped to tell Xiao Yan he was glad they had met.

• Red used Charizard to carry Xiao Yan and the Core Cell away from Team Flare pursuers, but a Gust and Swift knocked the Core Cell from Charizard’s head.
• Xiao Yan jumped after the falling Core Cell, caught it, and summoned Suicune to save them; Red defeated the pursuer’s Fletchinder.
• Serena, Gary, Xiao Lan, and Meng Tingting learned that Team Flare had offered an executive position to anyone who captured Xiao Yan, and Gary quit the organization.
• Red told Xiao Yan that the Pokémon was a Core Cell of Zygarde and that another Core Cell remained in Lysandre’s hands; Xiao Yan named the sleeping Pokémon Xiao Q.
• Diantha led League Trainers from Kalos Pokémon League headquarters to begin their mission as Red and Xiao Yan flew over Dusk Forest.
• Red stopped Charizard and told Xiao Yan he was glad they had met in the enemy camp.

Red incapacitated Xiao Yan to keep him safe before Team Flare launched an assault on the Kalos Pokémon League Headquarters. Team Flare captured the League’s senior officials with help from the traitorous Sasaki, but hurried footsteps outside the conference room interrupted them.

• Red scattered a sleeping powder that knocked Xiao Yan unconscious, deciding to separate from him for his safety.
• Aliana and Bryony ordered Team Flare groups to begin their operation and capture the Kalos League’s senior officials.
• President Rhodes and the five elders debated Lysandre’s fate, and most agreed that Lysandre and Team Flare should be eliminated.
• Hong Wu led Group B into the conference room, where Sasaki revealed himself as a Team Flare spy and helped them seize the officials.
• Aliana ordered her members to confiscate the officials’ Poké Balls, and hurried footsteps sounded outside the room.

Aliana and Bryony’s rivalry was interrupted when Red exposed himself among Team Flare’s infiltrators and prepared to fight. Meanwhile, Lysandre launched a catastrophic plant attack on Lumiose City, while Xiao Yan discovered Team Flare’s hidden West District Branch in Dusk Forest.

• Aliana and Bryony traded taunts and slaps until they noticed Pikachu near the hostages, and Red revealed himself among the Team Flare members.
• Red blocked Team Flare’s escape with Charizard and prepared to battle them in the conference room.
• Lysandre rejected his doubts about humanity, and Diantha confronted him at the research institute as Xerosic activated the machine powering Z2.
• Vines erupted across Lumiose City, trapping residents, while Gary, Xiao Lan, and Serena tried to protect people from the spreading plants.
• Xiao Yan rode Suicune through Dusk Forest with Xiao Q, saw a truck carrying Team Flare members toward Lumiose City, and found their hidden West District Branch.

Suicune remembered how Ho-Oh resurrected him, Entei, and Raikou after a human betrayal at the Bell Tower, while Mable captured the wounded Suicune in the present. Across Kalos and the world, Lysandre announced Team Flare’s plan to create a new world and claimed Zygarde as its ally.

• Hao, Rong, and Leia rushed into the burning west tower to rescue the young monk and Xiuying, but the monk locked them inside to hide his secret.
• As the flames consumed them, Hao saw the old monk, then awoke before Ho-Oh, who had revived and renamed the three Pokémon Suicune, Entei, and Raikou.
• Suicune, Entei, and Raikou chose to leave the temple and promised to reunite there every five years.
• Mable placed a metal helmet on the wounded Suicune and knocked him unconscious while waiting unsuccessfully for the Northeast Base officers to respond.
• Jessie, James, and Meowth broadcast an emergency report from Lumiose City, but Lysandre took over screens worldwide to announce Team Flare’s plan and present Zygarde as its ally.

After Lysandre announced Team Flare’s plan to reduce the number of lives, Xiao Yan grieved over losing Suicune and met Silver in the fog. The two returned to face Celosia and the controlled Suicune, while Feng and Michelle attacked Team Flare’s Northeast Base.

• Lysandre declared that Team Flare would use Zygarde’s rage to reshape the world by reducing the number of lives, prompting panic across Kalos and spurring Serena and Xiao Lan to seek Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan blamed himself for Suicune’s capture and collapsed in the rain, while Zygarde stayed beside him and sheltered him with leaves.
• Silver emerged from the fog, introduced himself to Xiao Yan, and offered to help him find the way out of the forest.
• Feng and Michelle destroyed the helicopters at Team Flare’s Northeast Base, confronting Nord and Lulu as they prepared to leave.
• Silver encouraged Xiao Yan to face the place where Suicune had been captured, and they returned to Celosia’s laboratory together.
• Celosia sent the controlled Suicune against Xiao Yan and Silver, who Mega Evolved Sceptile and Shiny Lucario and began battling it.

Xiao Yan and his friends fought through Team Flare’s encirclement, and Xiao Yan headed toward Prism Tower after leaving Serena and a rescued girl at a shelter. As the battle for Lumiose City intensified, Lysandre released enormous figures from a rooftop cage, legendary Pokémon appeared over the city, and Diantha emerged safely from the rubble.

• Silver used Heatran to defeat five Team Flare Pokémon, but more Team Flare members surrounded the group.
• Gary, Xiao Lan, and Meng Tingting stayed behind to fight while Xiao Yan, Silver, and Serena rode Raikou and Suicune through the enemy line.
• Xiao Yan and Silver delivered the girl to her mother at a shelter, then left Serena behind and rode toward Prism Tower.
• Lysandre ordered Dr. Xerosic to open a rooftop cage, and enormous figures emerged from it.
• Grant and the other Gym Leaders struggled against waves of Team Flare members as legendary Pokémon from Kanto appeared in the sky.
• Diantha emerged from the rubble with Gardevoir after Gardevoir protected her from the collapse of Team Flare’s headquarters.