Rayquaza sensed it even before she did. It felt a mysterious power descending from above-no, not from the sky, but from somewhere farther, much farther away, so distant that even Rayquaza's command over heaven and earth could not easily reach it.
Gravity, air pressure, the direction of the wind-in the vast, boundless darkness of space, countless motes of cosmic dust floated. Now, as though drawn by some force, those motes began to move. Changes in air pressure created a vortex of wind, while shifts in gravity pulled the dust into the vortex down on the surface.
And so those drifting specks, insignificant against the scale of the universe, became meteors and rained from the heavens!
Draco Meteor!
Blazing meteorites filled the sky, tearing through the clouds and hurtling straight toward Rayquaza!
Salamence had already collapsed from exhaustion. Though its only role was to guide the meteorites filling the sky, even that simple guidance had drained every last bit of its strength and energy.
Anxiong recalled it into its Poké Ball and looked up at the sky. Most meteorites would burn away entirely from friction with the atmosphere on their journey from space to the surface, but Salamence's guidance had minimized that loss of mass. Instead, the blazing flames made Draco Meteor even more lethal.
The mountain beside Rayquaza shielded its body like a great shield. Meteorites collided with the enormous rocks in one violent explosion after another, sending shattered stone raining down. Anxiong's group had already gathered together, and beneath Naisha's protective barrier, no one was struck by the falling debris.
Like a battle-hardened shield bearer, Rayquaza deftly controlled the angles at which the huge rocks met the impacts, avoiding direct force wherever possible. With skill rather than brute strength, it deflected the meteorites one after another. Knocked off course,