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There are scripts out there that allow you to have more direct control over an events "Z-Index". What you'd need to do is to increase the events Z-Index to be higher than that of the players sprite. Or, depending on how you are doing it, you could also just set up the event to have "Always On Top" turned on.
You could just do it by animation also, since I assume that you would only want it for a brief moment, and not to "walk around" with.