Great, Rayquaza flies out and nobody even bothers to catch it? Hello people, evil possesed men on the loose here, we could have used some fire power -_-.
I noticed something. In the issue where Wally awakened Rayquaza, it shot a thunderbolt from between it's horns. Close up examination reveals there is a circle there, which branches off into the various markings covering Rayquaza. Now to turn to the anime for a second.
In the Kyogre-Groudon two part, Kyogre slammed it's fins together to create the violent storm. Any guess what's on those fins? Yep, another circle on each of them. I'm guessing these are Kyogre/Groudon/Rayquaza's sort of areas where they release their energy. Logically, wouldn't it be better to hit those circles to weaken it, as most of it's power is stored there?
I was wondering this for a while, but with the last issue in the Sky Pillar, all my beliefs were confirmed.
I don't think this is exactly SPAM, since it does relate to the manga somewhat and since i missed the last month's discussion, i'd thought i'd post it here.
So the tentacles belonged to the tentacruel? Let's think about why that might have happened:
Courtney had some information on her firelighter, except we don't know what. It's obvious Archie didn't want that information to spread, so it could possibly have had some information about stopping him and Maxie. Yeah, I'm saying him and Maxie. Notice how they were standing together in the picture at netkun. I think we can assume that they are working together, so that information in Courtney's fire lighter had something to do with them. They didn't want the information to get out, so they buried her alive.
Another evidence that they are working together is that when the tentacles grabbed Courtney, the Cave of Origin caved in on itself, a power only something with a high attack or earth powers could do. Houndoom and Maxie fit the qualities.
All we know about the information Courtney had is that it came from the Mossdeep Space Center. Space Center. Anyone notice how the ozone layer is quite close to space? The information could have something to Rayquaza, which brings us around full circle.
Rayquaza stopped Kyogre and Groudon's fight, but it left too early. The plot's going to bring it back somehow, and it'll help to end the saga at a happy end.
One odd thing is that Courtney had a drawing of the Balance Badge on the paper with the firelighter. How this relates to Norman, i don't know. Legendary Pokemon speculation is my strong area, I'll leave this mystery for someone else to solve.