Silently, a faint gleam of dark gold appeared on Steelix's already jet-black body, joining the flowing tides of deep brown, tawny, and silver-gray energy.
Curving primal markings spread down its body from its neck, tracing an arc across each segment of its metal body and linking them together.
Its metal spikes, as steady as limbs, extended slightly, their tips crystalline and translucent. Guided by the energy, various elemental energies condensed into diamond-shaped crystals that orbited Steelix's body.
Three, six, nine, twelve...
They circled its body in orderly succession, all the way to the tip of Steelix's sharp tail!
Its scarlet eyes gleamed with ferocity on its huge, savage head. Above its Abyssal Maw, dark-gold hooks climbed like tear tracks, accenting the area beneath its eyes.
Steelix!
[Natural energy activated]!
[Primal markings] state engaged!
Boom!!!
The atmosphere roared like muffled thunder. Violent vibrations triggered a chain reaction as dense natural energy erupted, stirring turbulent currents. As torrents of force whipped wildly through the air, space could no longer withstand the extreme pressure, forming a static, expanded pocket of space!
On the black mountain range spanning heaven and earth, the electric arcs softened. The dark-gold glow brightened, and hazy mist carrying a faint fluorescence appeared over the illusory mountains.
The suppressive force grew stronger, even drawing slightly upon the power of nature between heaven and earth to bolster its binding, weight, solidity, and vastness!
"Rock Origin at its ultimate limit" was the natural bane of Zekrom's thunderous power!
Just as Zekrom was about to shatter the "meteorite," it felt itself lose control of its body. It was helplessly confined within a cramped, static space, terrifying suppressive force bearing down from every direction and locking onto it completely...
Then, before the astonished eyes of every human and Pokémon, visible waves of black energy