Cocoon of Destruction ,is a huge black cocoon-like thing.
This is what the legendary Yveltal turns into after it sleeps—corresponding to the Tree of Life Xerneas becomes when it sleeps.
After Team Flare found the Cocoon of Destruction, they hadn't actually come close to it in any meaningful way.
Because in the legends, when Yveltal unfolds its wings and tail feathers, and shimmers with red light…
it absorbs the life of Pokémon.
With something like that, who would dare get close?
So Team Flare used helicopter ropes to haul the Cocoon of Destruction back to the Geosenge Town base.
And now, Xerosic couldn't take it anymore.
He had to Trigger the Ultimate weapon.
And to Trigger the Ultimate weapon, he needed Yveltal's energy.
Under Xerosic's harsh orders, Asai led two Team Flare members, and carefully entered the room where the Cocoon of Destruction was.
Asai didn't dare get close to the Cocoon of Destruction.
But Xerosic kept urged her through the headset.
Asai approached the Cocoon of Destruction, trembling the whole time, and slowly placed her hand on it.
How should I put it?
The touch felt a bit cold and a bit hard.
But maybe it was because she was too scared.
Asai didn't pick up on—
her palm was shimmering with a faint red beam…
and it had already gone into the Cocoon of Destruction.
"Sir, it doesn't seem to have changed."
After waiting a while and picking up on nothing unusual, Asai told Xerosic.
"How could it not?"
"So how would we make Yveltal wake up?"
"Do we have to attack it?"
Xerosic thought this through in confusion.
Because he really didn't know how to awaken Yveltal.
"Wait—SIR!"
"It's lighting up!"
Suddenly, the headset crackled with Asai the three of them's panicked screams.
Xerosic immediately looked at the monitoring screen.
The Cocoon of Destruction, which had been completely motionless before, was now glowing with an ominous blood-red light around it.
And the glow was getting brighter and brighter.
Obviously.
Yveltal was reviving!
"Yes!"
"So good, Asai!"
Xerosic was wildly excited.
Yveltal had awoken.
Perfect!
But Asai the three of them were staring at the front instead, terrified beyond belief.
The Cocoon of Destruction was gradually deforming.
And a dense evil aura was spreading like crazy.
Asai the three of them's legs were basically going weak on the spot.
"Run!!"
Finally, coming back to herself, Asai the three of them scrambled out of that huge room.
But at this moment, the Cocoon of Destruction was already slowly floating up.
Two wings—like the claws of demons—opened with a heavy spread.
The black claw tips were enough to make your eyes hurt.
Its tail feathers also looked like a huge claw.
"Kreee—!"
A sharp and hoarse screech echoed through the whole base nonstop.
Yveltal!
Awoke!
A Yveltal shimmering faint blood-red light scanned the surroundings with an icy, merciless, brutal evil aura.
"Great!"
"Yveltal, you finally woke up!"
Xerosic's voice echoed inside the room.
He was speaking through the broadcast facility to Yveltal.
Yveltal's merciless eyes turned to the corner of the room—the broadcast.
"Yveltal, don't you think this world…"
But before Xerosic could finish, an unbearably glaring blood-red beam already swept across.
It filled every corner with crimson.
That terrifying death beam, under Yveltal's control, instantly pierced through the entire space.
Xerosic's monitoring screen immediately filled with red light…
and then turned into snowflakes.
It scared Xerosic so badly he almost jumped out of his skin.
Boom!
A deafening roar hit.
The entire base shook violently.
Xerosic's face went pale.
"Damn it!"
"Sir! Run!"
"Yveltal is going berserk!"
Asai ran into the control room and shouted at Xerosic.
"Damn it! This guy!"
Xerosic gritted his teeth, cursing through clenched anger.
That damn Yveltal.
I was doing you a favor by awakening you!
And the second you wake up, you blood-bathe my base?!
But even so, Xerosic could only grumble in his heart.
He was preparing to leave with Asai and the others.
Boom!
Suddenly, a huge red beam blasted through the wall.
Xerosic was thrown flying by the shockwave.
He yelped in pain.
When he lifted his head, he saw it—
the blood-red beam had hit Asai and the others.
They didn't even have time to scream.
Every last life energy was sucked dry by that death beam.
That was Yveltal's Wings of Death!
Wings of Death that can steal the life of all things!
The Wings of Death gradually faded away…
but Xerosic was left with a face so pale it looked like a death omen.
He stared at the doorway in horror.
Several silent stone statues stood there in place.
They were Asai's group.
Even Xerosic could clearly see—
the fear-distorted, lifelike expressions on their faces.
They were…
dead.
Their life force was completely stolen by Yveltal…
causing them to turn into stone statues.
The violent roaring sounds still didn't stop.
Yveltal was mercilessly firing Wings of Death.
It was destroying the base—
harvesting the life of every Pokémon here.
"How… how could this be…"
Xerosic was terrified out of his mind.
His whole body was trembling violently.
Fear and regret tangled together in his mind.
Now he could only flop helplessly on the ground like a maggot crawling to survive.
He really regretted it.
If he hadn't awakened Yveltal—
how could something like this happen?
"Kreee!"
That cold, devil-like screech felt like it was right next to his ear.
Xerosic lifted his head.
He saw it—
a massive black-and-red giant bird spread its wings, floating in the air above him.
With godlike, merciless eyes, it looked down at him.
"No…"
The blood-red light condensed.
Yveltal's wings slowly drew in.
The red beam of death shone bright.
Wings of Death!
"Don't…!"
But how would the cries of ants matter to Yveltal?
Embracing death calmly—
wasn't that supposed to be their ending?
A violent red beam tore through the air.
Xerosic's entire pupils were filled with that terrifying, blood-scarlet color.
Just like Lysandre said—
Xerneas was the kind giver.
And Yveltal was the heartless taker.
To Yveltal, life was meant to be taken.
No Pokémon could avoid death.
And it…
had simply sent them on their way as early as possible.
Boom!
A thunderous boom echoed.
The black-and-red Yveltal rose high.
Its devil-claw-like wings spread wide.
Its merciless, icy eyes stared down at the lush green land below.
A black, ominous aura spread little by little.
It harmonized with the red beam on its body.
Evil, darkness, terror!
This was Yveltal's Ability: Dark Aura!
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After some time passed, when Damian and Caitlin arrived at Geosenge Town—
they were instantly stunned by what they saw here.
What greeted their eyes was only a dead gray.
That's right.
The only thing they could see was endless gray.
Trees, grass, humans, Pokémon—
all of them had become gray stone statues with not a trace of life left.
Every bit of those beings' life energy…
had been taken by Yveltal.
"This…"
Even Caitlin was so shocked at this moment that her scalp tingled.
This was simply too terrifying!
"Did Yveltal do all of this?"
Damian told her on the way here that they were coming to find Yveltal.
But Caitlin truly hadn't expected Yveltal to be this ruthless??
"Kreee—"
Yveltal's deep cry echoed in the distance.
Its black-and-red massive silhouette was flying toward them fast.
Looks like it sensed two more lives had entered this dead silence.
"Yveltal, a predator of life…"
"you really live up to your name."
Damian couldn't help but sigh.
Honestly, when he first saw this dead place, he'd really been shocked too.
He knew that as the "morning temper" with the heaviest weight among legendary Pokémon—
once Yveltal woke up, it would fire Wings of Death indiscriminately.
It would take all life.
But seeing this scene with his own eyes was still shocking beyond words.
In front of Yveltal—
how vulnerable these ordinary lives were.
They could only wait to die.
Damian couldn't even imagine what would happen if Kalos Region didn't have Xerneas to balance Yveltal.
Probably, Kalos would've turned into stone statues long ago, wouldn't it?
No.
Even without Xerneas, Zygarde should still stop and subdue Yveltal.
After all, Zygarde's job was to balance the ecosystem order.
But Yveltal's restraint-free life-stealing…
was clearly destroying the ecosystem.
"Kreee—!"
Yveltal had already come to the front above Damian and Caitlin.
Its wings and tail feathers bent slightly as it opened them—
like a huge "y."
That was why the public called it "y-god."
And Xerneas, overall, looked like an "X."
As for "Z"—
the Zygarde of a 50% form looked like a "Z."
And its signature move that punished with center his team…
carved out a huge "Z."
To be fair…
these factors were still pretty easy to notice.
Yveltal's wings drew slightly closed.
Blood-red light shimmered.
"Tsk~"
"No talking, you meet with a Wings of Death right away?"
"How simple and brutal."
Seeing this, Damian clicked his tongue.
He could only say—
as expected, it was Yveltal.
The blood-red Wings of Death tore through the air.
They shot straight at Damian and Caitlin on the ground.
No hesitation at all.
Shadow Mewtwo instantly appeared in front of Damian and Caitlin.
A deep purple psychic wall lit up.
Boom!
Wings of Death smashed hard into Shadow Mewtwo's barrier.
A blinding red beam狂 flooded outward—
and then—
it exploded with a boom.
The intense blast was deafening.
A strong shockwave spread out.
Dense smoke and dust dispersed under the gust of wind raised by Shadow Mewtwo's sweep of its arm.
Shadow Mewtwo slowly raised its head.
It stared at Yveltal in the sky.
Yveltal also narrowed its eyes slightly.
It looked down at Shadow Mewtwo.
Being able to take a Wings of Death head-on meant its strength was absolutely beyond question.
Looks like we ran into a tough one.
"Yveltal…"
"you're the symbol of death and destruction."
"but doing something that makes people hate you—"
"is unforgivable."
Damian stepped forward.
He spoke to Yveltal with righteousness and no fear.
Yveltal's eyes held no emotion at all.
It stayed cold and blank, just like it had been since it was born.
Being feared, disgusted, and blamed by other lives was always like this.
Just like the humans in front of it.
So what was the point?
"You're way too dangerous, Yveltal!"
"So for the sake of this world…"
"I have to catch you!"
Yveltal: "...?"
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