"What're you doing!?" Jessie screams at her Pokemon while stomping in place and blowing steam from her ears, "Pick a Pokemon that's weak to your abilities and use it to take them down!"
Woobat continues firing rows of Hidden Power orbs at Mabel while Yanmega fires a barrage of Silver Wind and Sonic Boom at the incoming Flareon and Seviper tries sink its long, sharp fangs into Blanc.
Just as it seems like one side was going to win, a Forretress suddenly drops in the middle of the skirmish.
"Forretress...."
Jessie almost freaks as the Bagworm Pokemon glows brightly in preparation for an explosion.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! NO-NO-NO-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MY POKEMON!!!" she shrills.
Hierophant panics as he points his staff towards Forretress, "OSMOSE!!!"
His staff glows a black and purple hue, causing a stream of light to slither out of Forretress' glowing form and fly into the card sticking out of his back, causing it to glow and fill him with sparkles as his magical energy strengthens until the Pokemon stopped glowing. Before it had a chance to react to its sudden lack of PP to perform the same ability, Synthis suddenly jumps out from behind the bush and Tackles it out of the way.
"Wow...." Hierophant sighs a bit with relief while pulling his staff back and rubs the back of his head, "I didn't think that would work...."
"Aha! For once, those bungling idiots did something right!"
Everyone turned their attention to the sky to see a short, child-like man wearing a sideways beret and what appears to be a white, green trimmed outfit with a familiar "R" tacked on the left side of the uniform sitting on the back of a Skarmory floating several feet above them.
"You!?" Jessie exclaims, "How did you get out here!? I was told you were locked away for trying to steal leadership away from the Boss!"
Carr tsks as he waves his finger side to side, "Dear Jessie and James; always the last to know what has been going on in the organization since your many failures to appease their cause. While they were busy hunting down a certain Legendary Pokemon you claimed to have befriended, I saw my opportunity to escape the smelly joint they stuck me in and reclaim the Pokemon they took away from me."
He then eyes Hierophant, who was the only one he saw casting a spell to stop his Forretress' Explosion, "And now that I've seen for myself what these cards you keep boasting on wanting to collect can do, I've suddenly become interested in confiscating them for myself and showing the entire organization why I should be the rightful successor to the throne!"
Hierophant compressed his lips as he starts to back away, keeping the card sandwiched between his free hand and his back while Jessie scoffs at the intruder's intentions.
"Fat chance of that happening! As long as we have the cards, there's nothing you can do to stop us from getting the credit for presenting the Boss with something that can greatly increase his chances of capturing all the Pokemon in the world!"
"Oh really?" the man snickers before reaching behind him, "Have you already forgotten where you got those cards to begin with? I believe it was made up of a device that controls holographic light and takes on the form of any card that's pushed into its mouth."
He then pulls out what appears to be a pure white Skitty with the usual round pattern on its forehead deformed slightly to look like a tuft of crescent-like hair laying limp on the palm of his hand.
Jessie lets out another scoff, "That broken piece of junk!? After I had Seviper squeeze the last card out of its stomach, it turned into that glowing white Skitty and began drifting aimlessly as if it were dead! We have no use for something that does nothing but drift like a balloon!"
The man's smirk only widens in more eagerness as a snicker escaped his throat, "And this is exactly why you'll never be taken as seriously as everyone else in that organization. All you care about is whatever will please your boss, damned if it requires something to keep them from falling into the wrong hands...." his features darken, "...unwittingly...."
Unbeknownst to everyone but Hierophant, Skitty's eyes began to glow, causing the rims of Jessie, James, Meowth and Hierophant's cards to flash before it opened its mouth and lets out an loud yowl, causing the trio's cards, and a fifth card hidden under the fur of Excalibur's chest, to rip off their bodies and fly towards the noisy, Pokemon-like entity of light.
The trio scream in panic as they try to get their cards back only to run into each other and fall into a pile on the ground below the Skarmory, while Hierophant increases the sandwiching pressure of the card on his back and Excalibur snags the last one with his fangs, watching somewhat helplessly as the three remaining cards are stacked upon each other and lowered gently onto the Skitty's back.