The Ultimate Weapon

The Ultimate Weapon is a device that the villainous team from the Kalos region, Team Flare, use in the games.
==Appearance==
It appears to resemble a crystal flower. The main blaster of the weapon is in the center. Majority of it is clear/white, but the center part is a sky-blue orb in Pokémon X and a medium red cone in Pokémon Y.
==History==
===Games===
3000 years before the start of the story of Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, AZ loved his Floette dearly, but it went off to fight in a great war. A box holding only the flower Floette held was sent back to him, filling AZ with grief. He built a device that restored his Floette back to life using the energy of Pokémon. However, the pain in his heart had not subsided, leading AZ to reconstruct the device into the Ultimate Weapon, which he used to wipe out many lives and bring the war to an end with the effects of the weapon also granting AZ immortality in the process and the blast from the weapon being so powerful it created a rift between time and space, creating two separate timelines, one where Mega Evolutions exists and another where Mega Evolution doesn't exist.
In the present day, in Lysandre Labs, AZ was captured by Lysandre. He warned him about using the Ultimate Weapon by telling the tale of his own mistake in creating it but was ignored. The player then battled Xerosic who, after the battle, asked the player to press either the blue or red button in the room, the latter of which would activate the Ultimate Weapon. However, regardless on which button the player pressed, the Ultimate Weapon would still be activated — Xerosic would manually activate the Ultimate Weapon if the player pressed the blue button.
In Team Flare Secret HQ, the player caught Xerneas in Pokémon X and Yveltal in Pokémon Y, draining most of the energy from the Ultimate Weapon. After that, Lysandre battled the player one last time, then mentioned that the energy remaining is still enough to fire the Ultimate Weapon. He then fired the Ultimate Weapon, which landed on the weapon itself, with the weapon sinking into the ground, vanishing everyone in the nearby destroyed Team Flare Secret HQ, including Lysandre, never to be seen again.
In Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire's Delta Episode, Zinnia mentions that there is another Hoenn in an alternate dimension, with the difference being that the war happened in Kalos never happened there, and thus the Ultimate Weapon was not even built.
===Anime===
The Ultimate Weapon does not exist in the main anime with Ash Ketchum. Instead, Team Flare attempted to use Zygarde itself, and later a Giant Rock, to destroy the world.
In The Redemption of Pokémon Generations, a mother tells her daughter of how AZ used the Ultimate Weapon to end the war of Kalos. Here, the weapon has a sky-blue orb like in Pokémon X.
In The Visionary of Pokémon Evolutions, the Ultimate Weapon was seen emerging from Geosenge Town. After his defeat, Lysandre tried to force immortality on him and the trainers with the weapon, but ended up destroying. Although, Xerneas was used to power the weapon, it took the appearance of how it did in Pokémon Y.
===Manga===
In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Team Flare mostly tried to obtain X's Mega Ring to power the Ultimate Weapon. They also hypnotized the people of Vaniville Town to unearth Xerneas and bring it back to their base. In tree form, Xerneas was hooked to an absorber, invented to suck the life force out of Xerneas and into the weapon. Also, unlike the games, the Vaniville children and the Gym Leaders tried to prevent it from opening. Due to this, Elec draining the electricity, Trevor removing the key, Xerneas awakening, and Lysandre hastily firing it, no lives were lost. Y tried to have Xerneas destroy the weapon, but they were stopped by Malva and Yveltal. Despite the manga being in black and white the weapon has a cone like how it did in Pokémon Y, despite Xerneas being used to power it.
Afterwards, Xerosic discovered that the stones on Route 10 were actually an ancient form of the Absorber. So, Team Flare decides to attach the Pokémon from Pokémon Village to them (this and Xerneas happened at the same time in the games) in an attempt to use the Ultimate Weapon again. However, they were stopped by the heroes. Later, when the Vaniville children found that nobody in Lumiose City even realized what was going on, AZ suggested that Team Flare's ambitions weren't wrong. He reveals that he took the key from their base and presumably went to activate it himself. When the Vaniville children tried to stop him, he used their attacks to destroy the key (in the games, the key presumably lost/destroyed in the destruction of Team Flare Secret HQ). AZ reveals that this was all an act to do this and so that they won't give into despair just as Lysandre did.
==Trivia==
*Somewhat humorously, the player can call Phil the Photo Guy and have him take a picture of them with the Ultimate Weapon, or the hole where it came from after Team Flare's defeat.
==Gallery==
The Ultimate Weapon Generations.png|The Ultimate Weapon in "The Redemption"
Category:Team Flare