With Ahrzyal freed from conviction, Merrick decides to vacate her back and cautiously make his way towards WilyII to check up on him. Throughout most of the fiasco, he sensed more than one personality invading the doctor's conscience, trying to help ward off the evil that was manifesting his entire being. Deciding to want to help with those other invading souls, he presses himself against WilyII's back to meet them first before deciding whether he should enact his white magic repellent again or collaborate on what ideas they could use to permanently drive the evil infection out of his soul.
As Chariot was wandering about the fields, looking for any Pokemon to capture in the Park Balls he purchased at the lobby, Hierophant, Synthis and Genbu, who sat on the blue-haired priest's head to avoid being picked on by various field Pokemon became distracted by the distant presence of the Meowth balloon drifting away from the park. Synthis wrinkles his nose in suspicion and bounds off after it to figure out what it was doing here, prompting Hierophant to try and run after him only to feel his leg snag, causing him to fall into the thigh-deep grass with a startled yelp.
Chariot snaps his head around, noticing Hierophant and Genbu were no longer visible and attempts to look down only to barely notice Synthis almost swimming through the tall grass after a seemingly familiar hot air balloon.
"Sonava-!" he growled before tossing the Park Balls into the Chingling bag around Excalibur's neck and looks to Danny, "Keep an eye on them until I get back. I need to check up on something that might cause problems for the rest of this city."
Before the two could ask, Chariot rushes off after Synthis and the balloon. Excalibur looks down into the grass to find Hierophant trying to shake his leg loose, not noticing the mildly banged up Meowth clinging to his leg.
"Help...me...." he mutters strenuously, "Help...us...."
Excalibur reaches into the grass and hauls Meowth off the ground by the scruff of his neck, allowing Hierophant to get back up and dust off any loose grass that got onto his pure white and green outfit.
"Aren't you with Team Rocket?" he asked, recognizing him as the only Pokemon of the two white-dressed duo that could speak.
"I am...or I think I still am...." Meowth mutters half consciously. Hierophant sighs in concern before looking over to Excalibur.
"Maybe we should get him to the Pokemon Center down south," he said, "A good recharge should help him better comprehend his current situation."
"NOOOOOOOO!!!" Meowth yelps as he tries to wiggle lose from Excalibur's maw, "Don't take me to THIS Pokemon Center! Jessie and James are heading there to check on something and if the Nurse Joy there identifies me as their Pokemon, she'll ignorantly hand me back over and I'll be forced to cooperate with capturing Mewtwo again!"
He grabs his head and buckles his knees together, "Just remembering what that squealing brat drilled into our brains riles me up; claiming that Mewtwo befriended that green-haired trainer by brainwashing her into being his personal slave!? I still don't get why he chose her of all trainers, but certainly not through careless brainwashing! He's not that kind of Pokemon! Even his clones admit that the closest he came to becoming a danger to society was gathering all the trainers and their Pokemon onto a secluded Island and threatening to destroy them in a storm he conjured just so his clones could roam the planet, free of oppression!"
He then balled his paws and spread them outward, "But that shrilling brat and who knows who else got involved in recapturing Mewtwo somehow managed to deceive the entire organization into thinking he's a devious mastermind who brainwashed that trainer into being his protector, and I won't stand to humor them any longer if that's the route they were going to take to capture him and force him back into being THEIR personal psychic slave! If Mewtwo HAS to be captured, I'd rather it was because of his super-strong psychic powers, not his ability to erase memories!"
Hierophant compresses his lips in more concern before sighing and reaches into the Chingling bag, pulling out a Hi-Potion and spraying it onto Meowth, causing him to squeal in pain.
"Oi! Hey! Couldn't you use your magic to heal me instead of this stinging piece of junk!?" he yelps.
"I only use my spells for emergencies," Hierophant said, "Ethers are expensive back home, and I'd much rather not reveal that location even though we believe everything you said." he adds by looking over to Danny, who was grumbling in begrudging agreement while laying flat on Excalibur's back, then the card, though no one could hear what the Tarot was saying due to the picture being concealed between his back and the non-animate picture on the other end of the card.