As she watched over the burned remains of Master King, Lea deactivated her suit. The other four followed her example, and all turned to look at her. Bernard is the first to approach her.
"Lea... after everything my parents and grandparents told me... it's a real honor to finally meet you." he said, "To see you do wha..."
Lea raised her hand, which Bernard took as his queue to stop talking.
"As I have already said earlier, you have done more than enough for us." she told him, "Why do you keep acting so formal?"
"Eh... It's just that I was told that if I don't treat you with respect, you would..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Bernard fell something going through him. Literally. He frowned as he felt it, shortly before Eva started scratching her chest, after which Daguerre cried in pain. Lea, having faster eyes, saw what was going on. She turned her head, and the others followed her lead. Surrounding them were a group of children, each of them holding a rock.
"Monsters!" one of them shouted, "You killed Master King!"
Setuh growled: "They always think they're so tough in group."
Lea snorted: "So what? We're in group ourselves."
One of the children threw one rock at Lea. But as it was about to hit her, she caught it with her left hand. For a brief moment, the child in question seemed frightened at the spot.
"Rocks won't do them any good." they all heard someone call out, "Bub. Attack them!"
From somewhere among the children, a man emerged, who looked to be someone's grandfather, dressed in a business-suit, but had a blank stare on his face. He seemed to be completely fearless as he approached them.
"Is that a Re-Active?" Eva asked.
"This will be too easy." Daguerre was raising his hands, but Lea placed her hand on his shoulder to stop him.
"I have a better idea." she said, as she stared at the Re-Active.
The one the children called "Bub" kept walking toward the five monsters, but as Lea stared at him, he slowed down., until he came to a full stop.
"What is she doing?" some of the children were wondering.
"Go on, Bub!" the candy store child was shouting at him, "What's the matter with you?"
Almost in response to what he said, the Re-Active turned around, for the first time ever moaning loudly, raising his hands, which somehow made him look bigger than before, and started back toward the children. Ever one of them, including the candy store kid, looked at him with wide eyes and stretched faces, as if the mere sight of him changed from admiration to fright. As soon as Bub reached for one of the kids, he yelled and started running, as did the ones near him.
"Go on, assist him." Lea suggested to the other four, "We are monsters after all."
Setuh, in response, mumbled a few mystic words, and so when he approached the children, they witnessed how the mummy aged rapidly, as if he was turning back into the lifeless body that he was before. Several more children ran away at the sight of him. Another group of kids started to shiver, as if winter had arrived a lot earlier than usual. Suddenly, one of them saw something crawl out of his chest. It looked like a hand, that started reaching for his face. All the nearby children who saw this screamed and ran away, while the kid to whom this was happening stood frozen in fright. After the hand came a whole arm, followed by the full body of Bernard. While he himself thought it juvenile, he allowed his face to come closer to the child's face, and said "boo", to which the kid screamed and ran away. Daguerre raised his hands, which before everyone's eyes got hairier by the second, while his nails grew sharper. As he approached, his ear grew pointier, his nose and mouth grew longer, his eyes turned yellow, while his pupils took on a more oval-shape. As he changed, his moaning slowly grew more fierce, like he was already becoming a rapid animal. One of the kids, thinking himself to be braver than the others, decided to toss a stick at Daguerre. The latter caught it with his one paw, and snapped it, showing them that he wasn't amused with the thought, making him look more ferocious, causing the children to run away yelling. Eva approached another group of children, by stomping her every step, and punching her punching her fist into her hand. Combine this with her overall misshapen appearance, and the kids could each imagine what she was planning to do with them, making them run away crying their heads off. Lea approached the final batch of kids. One of them decided to hold her fingers in front of her face, crossed, to their overall shape looked like that of a crucifix. Other kids followed her example. Lea merely sighed at the sight of it. She placed her hand on the crossed fingers, balling it to a fist, instantly crushing the two fingers. The other kids lowered their hands as they witnessed this. Wondering why they haven't left yet, Lea decided there was only one way left to scare them off. She allowed her eyes to take on a red color, while her long black hair started to move about, as though caught in a wind. A wind that seemed to affect only her, but nobody else around her. That same "wind" caused her cape move up, making her look bigger than before. As she could sense their fear reaching their peak, Lea bared her teeth, showing them just how unusually sharp they are. This was the final draw, which sent the kids home crying and screaming.
With all the children gone, only the five monsters were left, along with one Re-Active.
"They're not so brave anymore." Daguerre said.
"I wasn't even going to do anything." Eva laughed.
"Now, we better do something about that Re-Active." Setuh said.
"Yes." Lea hissed, "Let's take him in."
The other four looked at her, all equally confused about why she said that.
"I have seen the state of our lair." she explained, "It will be best for all of us to take some extra hands."
"Speaking of which." Bernard started, "Cefabew has cam... I mean, they have their ways of seeing what's happening in the streets, without actually being there. How do we get home without them seeing us?"
"That shouldn't be a problem." Lea replied.
She grabbed hold of her cape, spread it out, which somehow created a puff of smoke, which engulfed the six of them.

From the CCTV room, it looked like smoke appeared, blinding their cameras from seeing anything, and as soon as it cleared, there was nobody left in the streets.
"Where did tey go?" Van Helsen asked.
Welles tried looking at other screens, searching for answers, but found nothing: "I don't know."
"Search for tem." Van Helsen ordered him, "Tey must not escape us!"
"Dr. Van Helsen." Easton spoke up, "What do we do now?"
"What we wanted to do from the beginning." he replied, "Hunt them down and..."
"No." Easton interrupted, "I was talking about Master King. Did you see how devastated the kids were? All of his lessons about courage and strength in numbers had already faded as soon as they saw the monsters."
Van Helsen realized the implications of this: "In one clean swoop, tey already destroyed much of what we hoped to reach."
"Looks like we should not underestimate them." Welles said.
Van Helsen tried to stand firm: "We must not be downed by this. Let us do whatever we have to, to find and stop them."