Team Flare

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Team Flare フレア団 Team Flare

Artwork of Team Flare Grunts from X and Y

Leader Lysandre Region Kalos Admins Aliana, Bryony, Celosia, Mable, Xerosic, Team Flare Admins Major targets Route 10, Kalos Power Plant, Poké Ball Factory, Frost Cavern Base locations Lumiose City, Geosenge Town

Team Flare (Japanese: フレア団 Flare-dan, literally Flare Gang) is a villainous team in the Kalos region.

In the games

In Pokémon X and Y

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Team Flare appears in X and Y. Their goal is to create a "beautiful and better" world while making money, eliminating everyone who doesn't follow their standards.

They are first encountered in Glittering Cave, where they attempt to steal the fossils of the researcher working there but are stopped by the player and Serena/Calem. This all occurs without the researcher even noticing. They next appear in a scene in Route 10, examining the mysterious rock formation. One of the Grunts defeated in the Glittering Cave challenges the player in revenge. In Geosenge Town, they are seen to be examining the rock formation there, where a Grunt is encountered by the player and tries to flee. Once he is followed, there appears to be an entrance to a cavern which has been blocked off. This is later to be revealed to be Team Flare Secret HQ.

In Route 13, it is revealed that a problem with the Kalos Power Plant is responsible for the blackout in Lumiose City. This blackout is preventing the player from accessing the majority of the city, including the Lumiose City Gym. A Team Flare Grunt outside the Power Plant drops a Power Plant Pass, which the player uses to enter the building. Inside the building, a Team Flare Admin and Team Flare Scientist Aliana are siphoning electricity from the Power Plant, causing the blackout. Once they are defeated, the player can progress to Lumiose City.

At Laverre City, Grunts block the player from entering Route 15 and the Poké Ball Factory until the player has defeated the LLaverre City Gym and received the Fairy Badge. At that point Shauna tricks the Grunt guarding the Poké Ball Factory away from his post so the player and Serena/Calem can enter. Although the player defeats them, the Team Flare Scientists are able to steal many of the Poké Balls they wanted, with the exception of the Master Ball.

In Frost Cavern, a trainer's Mamoswine, which the player needs to traverse the snow-blocked Route 17, is upset. Upon reaching the depths of the Cavern, Team Flare, led by Mable, are antagonizing an Abomasnow. Once she has been defeated, the Abomasnow gives the player an Abomasite, and the player is now able to traverse Route 17 on the Mamoswine. Team Flare does not make another appearance until the player has received their seventh badge from the Anistar City Gym, where Lysandre reveals that he is the leader of Team Flare, and sends out a live broadcast to all trainers via the Holo Caster. In this broadcast, Lysandre reveals Team Flare's plans of using the "ultimate weapon", a machine that was built by the king of Kalos 3,000 years ago that can wipe away all life. To achieve this, Lysandre plans to use Xerneas^X/Yveltal^Y to activate the machine in Lysandre Labs in Lumiose City.

Lysandre Labs' secret entrance is located inside Lysandre Café, where Lysandre greets the player with a battle, before moving to the basement. Once the player reaches the basement, he is revealed to have imprisoned AZ, who tells the player the history of the ultimate weapon. The player then encounters Xerosic in conversation with Lysandre, whereupon Lysandre promises to deactivate the weapon if the player defeats Xerosic. However, despite this promise, and if the player manages to turn off the ultimate weapon, Xerosic still activates the weapon by remote control. The weapoon, situated in Geosenge Town, activates from the three menhirs in the centre of the town.

The player then enters the Team Flare Secret HQ, to the Northwest of the town, which was previously blocked. After battling Lysandre at the beginning, the player, with the help of Calem/Serena and Shauna, makes their way down to the legendary Pokémon. The legendary Pokémon then shows itself to the player, and after the following battle, Lysandre battles the player for the last time. However Lysandre fires the ultimate weapon, with what power he had collected from the legendary Pokémon, to destroy the weapon, crushing him in the process. Team Flare is then to have disbanded.

Despite the collapse of the team, however, the player encounters them once more. After defeating the Champion, in the main post-game side story, Looker arrives in Lumiose City with the intent of apprehending a criminal he is tracking, enlisting the player and a young homeless girl named Emma to aid him. A crime wave breaks out in the city, and the culprit is ultimately revealed to be one of Team Flare's scientists, Xerosic, conducting an experiment using what little funds he still has following the disbanding of Team Flare. After the player defeats "Essentia," the creation of his project, Xerosic relents and surrenders to Looker, ending Team Flare's reign of terror once and for all.

Elite Four member Malva is also a member of Team Flare; however, she is not revealed to be with them until after Lysandre is defeated. Instead, she is the host of the newscasts occasionally sent through the Holo Caster. Her rank in Team Flare is unknown, although she knows classified information.

In the TCG

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Team Flare
Team Flare Secret HQ • Lysandre Labs
Boss			Administrators		Other members
Lysandre (Masters)			Team Flare Admins		Malva	Chalmers
Scientists					Grunts
Aliana	Bryony	Celosia	Mable	Xerosic	Team Flare Grunts
Animation and manga
Lumiose Press editor-in-chief • Alain