Then I offer my services to work with the Avengers and any other heroes that can be spared to look into the riot event, or to intervene should there be more such. And retrieve any evidence of what the masks are doing to them.
To my eye, which looks for attacks from all directions, it seems as though the common element of the masks suggests a common controller. One attack is criminal in nature, and the other suborns our defenses against the first. It weakens us not just by taking some of our warriors from the fight, but by distracting the rest of us with concern for them and the need to save them from the game state.