A group of Masquerader grunts horded over to the area in which Cody had ran to. Leading them was the four sages: Bronius, Gorm, Ryoku and Giallo. The grunts sent out hordes of weaker pokemon, mainly Yanmasks.
"Where do you think you're going child?" Giallo asked, being one of the higher up members of the group of sages.
Meanwhile, in the room Patrick was in, he could hear Cody's voice. The Mask of Lightning, Ice and Stone all confronted Patrick, throwing insults at him. Patrick discovered a force field stopping him from leaving a specific area of the room. The mask of Lightning and Ice left the room to find Cody. The Mask of Stone went to the bathroom for a break. Patrick looked at the poke balls on the wooden table behind the force field. They were his. He stared at one of the poke balls. It shook, knowing that Patrick was there and then all of a sudden, Assan, Patrick's Samurott, was released. Assan cut at the generator which controlled the force field and Patrick was released.
"Thanks." Patrick whispered to Assan.
Patrick was about to leave the room when the Mask of Stone appeared. Before the Mask of Stone could react, Assan brutally stabbed the Masquerader in the chest. Assan and Patrick looked at each other, guilty.
"It had to be done." Said Patrick, looking at the dead Masquerader's body. There was a roar from behind them though: the Mask of Stone's treasured Gigalith charged at them and attacked using stone edge. Assan dueled the pokemon and managed to make it faint using an aqua jet attack.
"Come on let's go." Patrick whispered, grabbing the rest of his poke balls.