Vaniville Town/Manga

Vaniville Town first appeared in An X-cuse to Come Out and Play. It is the hometown of and, as well as their friends , , and. As a child, X had won the championship of a Junior Trainer Tournament, causing him to receive a lot of attention from the media. Eventually the pressure of being stalked by reporters and paparazzo led to X locking himself into his room, refusing to come out, despite Y's constant attempts to make him do so.

Worried about his friend, Trevor had called Professor Sycamore for help, and he had agreed to send him a set of the three Kalos starter Pokémon, hoping they would cheer X up. However, as soon as the package containing the starters and Pokédexes arrived, and  suddenly appeared in the middle of the town and started fighting each other, destroying the whole town. During the chaos, Trevor lost and one of the Pokédexes, Shauna lost her, and Team Flare attempted to steal X's Mega Ring. X and his friends survived the disaster, and, with their hometown in ruins, set off on a journey together.

Later it was revealed that Team Flare, in order to hide the truth about the fight between the two Legendary Pokémon, had made up a cover story about an unexplained explosion destroying Vaniville Town, and imprisoned every single citizen of Vaniville Town at their headquarters in Geosenge Town to prevent them from outing the truth to the world.

At the end of the, the quintet returned to Vaniville, and Y tearfully reunited with Grace. Three months later, X moved into a newly-built house in Vaniville, and thus removed the tent from Y's.