Flynn had one thought running through his head: This is bad.
Brother Iscariot stared them down, a pleasant smile still lingering on his face.
"Now you three will cooperate." He said. "I am going to dispose of this false Pokemon." Iscariot pulled out a Pokeball from waist.
"Wait!" Phillip yelled. Brother Iscariot stopped. "Aren't you at least going to tell us why you hate this Pokemon?"
Brother Iscariot's gaze pierced Phillip. His smile seemed to widen, becoming more manic. Flynn was reminded of some trainer's when they battled. They had the same look, like 'This is what I live for'. It was a look of absolute rapture. Only this look was less passion, and more obsession. Flynn could tell right then he wasn't completely sane.
In other words, he was sufficiently distracted. Flynn pulled out a Pokeball. She had a plan. She just needed Phillip to distract Iscariot longer...
"You call my Church a cult." Brother Iscariot said. "From your perspective, maybe we are. Regardless, we stand for what's right. This Pokemon is wrong. It's that simple, child."
"Why?" Milo argued. "Why do you get to decide what Pokemon are bad?"
Brother Iscariot laughed. "Me? I do not have such power." he said. "It was decided by Mew."
"Mew?" Phillip asked.
"Mew." Iscariot confirmed. "Our Holy book, Sanctus, is divided into 13 parts, each written by a human blessed by a legendary Pokemon. That Pokemon told the human it's decrees for the world, and the human transcribed them into a chapter of the book. In Mew's chapter, False Pokemon are condemned as demons, sent here to destroy us. When humans begin to accept False Pokemon, than the end of times is near. The Artless Brotherhood is committed to preventing this apocalypse by any means necessary."
"False Pokemon?" Phillip asked. "You mean Delta Pokemon?"
"Whatever you call them," he said, "They should not be permitted to live. By destroying them, we can postpone the end of days."
"That's insane." Phillip said.
"Completely." Milo agreed.
Iscariot kept smiling manically. "You can insult my religion all you want, but I am protecting you!"
Then Flynn snapped. "Shut up! Shinx, Venoshock!"
Flynn threw a Pokeball. Shinx erupted from the ball, sending indigo electricity into the trees.
"Deye!" From a tree behind Iscariot fell a green and brown feathered Pokemon, It scrambled to it's feet.
"How could you have found-"
"Shinx can see anything." Flynn said, balling her fists. "I can see through your bullshit. You claim that your religion is what causes you to hate Delta Pokemon? Hatred doesn't come from religion. You're just using religion to justify your bigotry. And I'm not going to sit here and let you do that! Toxic!"
Shinx shot gunk from his tail at Decidueye, who flapped his wings to blow it back at Shinx
Phillip looked at Milo, who nodded back. He and Milo threw a Pokeball, and Rosie and Bergmite appeared.
"Help Shinx, Rosie! Draining Kiss!"
"Take Down, Bergmite!"
Both Pokemon ran to Shinx, but white ropes shot from the trees and surrounded them, holding them in place.
"Did you honestly think my Archer was the only Pokemon I had hidden in these trees?" Iscariot gloated.
Meanwhile, Shinx wasn't doing very well against Decidueye. Shinx kept shooting gunk at him, but Decidueye moved swiftly from tree to tree, shooting arrows in between shots. Shinx was able to dodge each hit, but only by a hair, and none of her hits landed on the other Pokemon.
"Incinerate on Rosie!" Milo yelled.
"Magical Leaf on Bergmite!" Phillip yelled.
Both Pokemon launched their attacks, an array of rainbow leaves and a ball of fire surrounded by black bands of energy, at each other. The attacks broke the webbing around them.
More webbing shot at them from the trees, but this time they were able to dodge it.
Milo looked around frantically. "How do we hit what we can't see?" he said.
"We hit everything!" Philip yelled. "Disarming Voice!"
Rosie screamed, and waves of pink energy hit the trees. An Ariados and a Galvantula fell from the trees.
Meanwhile, Decidueye swooped down and hit Shinx with his wing, who blocked the attack with his tail. Decidueye flew back, then fell from the sky as the poison took hold."Give up!" Phillip cried.
"We're not letting you have this Snorlax!" Iscariot looked furious. "You three are dirty sinners! How dare you protect this False Pokemon. It is a harbinger of our destruction-"
"Snorlax is a Pokemon!" Flynn shouted. "It deserves every right any other Pokemon has. How dare you try to hurt it!"
Iscariot flinched. "You-"
"I'm not done." Flynn snapped. "You claim to be trying to help others, but you're trying to hurt Snorlax. All you are is a self-righteous, holier-than-thou hypocrite. If the rest of your church is like this, then the Artless Brotherhood is nothing but a group of bigots."
Iscariot was fuming. He took a step forward, but Flynn held her ground. "How dare you, you insolent child, insult my Church?" He shouted. He pulled out three pokeballs. "I'll destroy you all myself!"
Iscariot threw the balls, and three black pokemon with red hair and red claws appeared. Their blue eyes began to glow.
Flynn took a step back.
Iscariot grinned. "Zoroark, Night Daze!"
