Outskirts of Musutafu

The orchestra played their beautiful symphony as hundreds of very well dressed people ate and chatted amongst each other in a marble ball room. They were the higher end of society, the rich and famous. CEOs, lawyers, politicians, royalty!

The man who organised this was, T.P Wyatt, a successful American businessman who earned his fortune with a luxury car company, 'Wyatt Motors'. And though his cars were great... his personality and ethics - were not.

Definitely not.

"Oh Wyatt!" A large and pompous woman called out to him, "you would not believe the day I had! Three of my management staff quit today! Three!!" She squealed, "they were saying something about being 'underpaid and overworked', how preposterous! Right?"

"Of course!" Wyatt sneered, "back in my day there was only ONE manager... the boss! Control was absolute! Anyone who tried to step up were sacked on the stop! I doubt those commoners even worked hard enough to deserve a raise!"

"Oh you devil!" The woman replied, "though, that is what we all love about you. Your willingness to go any distance, and trample over anything that obstructs you - all for the sake of profit!"

"Ohoho you flatter me" Wyatt said, "all I can say is that a convenient change to a inheritance will can take someone very, very far."

The two chuckled loudly, but their laughter was silenced - by the shattering of glass.

A black cloaked figure now stood before the crowd, in the centre of the room. All eyes were fixiated on his sliver mask, with red lenses obscuring his eyes. "Mr Wyatt! Looks like you've got a nice party going on around here!" He jeered to the silent audience, "harsh crowd huh? Well I'll cut to the chase and tell you why I'm here."

"You are all scum." He stated, his joking manner replaced with a stern cold voice, "dirty CEOs, crooked lawyers, corrupt politicians, useless royalty! You're the lowest of the low... but in society you stand right at the top! Well, we've decided to take that from you."

"You're all hostages, anyone who tries anything will bring hell on earth to all of you. You will give us all your valuable belongings, and Mr Wyatt..." the mystery man pointed at Wyatt, "where's the damn safe?"

There was silence.

And the crowd erupted into laughter! "Ohohohoho!" Wyatt was nearly tearing up, "YOU, one person, thinks that you can bend all of us to your will! Parents these days have really softened up on their children!" His face turned from pinkish-white, to bright red, as he screamed angrily, "GUARDS!!" About 20 large bodyguards assembled in the room, "APPREHEND HIM NOW!!!!!"

"Wow" the masked man sighed, as the small army of guards charged towards him, "guess you guys really would be begging for hell, wouldn't you?"

A thick black smoke was released from out of his cloak, it filled up the large ballroom in an instant, the guests' mocking laughter became desperate coughing and wheezing, as their lungs begged for air. "Dammit!" One of the guards coughed, "I can't see shit in this smo-"

But before he could finish his sentence, he felt a large sharp object pierce his lower torso. He looked down to see a large red spike straight through his gut, and as it retraced, the guard fell to the floor - his life faded.

"Pitiful" Lancer mumbled from behind the dead guard, he walked of to continue his slaughter, "useless guards die uselessly."

Screaming and terror swarmed the room as guests ran around aimlessly, trying to find an exit - only to find a black cloaked figure, and then - darkness.

Another one of the guards was slowly walking through the smoke, pistol in hand. He noticed two yellow glints through the smoke and pointed, pressing on the trigger.

But it didn't fire. In fact, the guard noticed he couldn't even move his own hand anymore! He couldn't even move his own body! He was stuck, staring at the bright lights as they got closer.

The black hooded figure, looked to be about 5'5", most likely female from her dark outline, and wearing a lime green snake mask with bright yellow lenses that were currently glowing. "I'll be taking that" she said as she snatched the gun from the frozen guards hand. She brought her mask to the bodyguard's ear, "you shouldn't bring weapons if you're too scared to use them" she whispered jokingly and then slammed the butt of the pistol across the guards head, who frozen body soon slumped over, unconscious.

Wyatt walked away slowly and quietly, his legs trembling, the screaming had died down and now Wyatt knew he was all alone - and that he was next. "Boo!" The silver masked figure appeared and Wyatt screamed in terror, falling over and trying to crawl away from the menace.

"W-w-who are you?!" He cried out, tears gushing out incessantly.

"Night Hood" The cloaked man replied, he pointed to himself "but I'm not Night Hood." The smoke started the retreat and flow right back into the man who had released it, giving Wyatt the air to gasp in terror, and a view to witness it.

"WE are Night Hood" he added, as he stretched out both his arms and revealed that Wyatt was surrounded by at least 50 other black cloaked figures, staring at him with their unique masks. Hundreds of bodies were scattered around them - all unconscious... or dead.

"So..." The leader continued, glaring at a pale-faced Wyatt, "where's the damn safe Wyatt?"

"D-d-d-down the stairs a-a-and by the golden knight statue, i-if you pull its left middle finger, the door will open! The code is 2113!" Wyatt sputtered quickly.

"Thank you Wyatt" the Leader mumbled as he made his way towards the door. Just before he left, he turned back to the snivelling Wyatt grovelling before the gang of cloaks, "one more thing" he added, "before you all come and help... don't forget to take out the trash guys" he said as he closed the massive marble door.

Immediately the other cloaked members closed in on Wyatt and grabbed him, he tried to scream but his mouth was clasped shut and then...

Everything went dark.

Outside the now silent manor, the group walked out and made their way towards the woods near the mansion to escape, each of them carrying massive loot bags (of well... actual loot).

Everyone was excited, they had just completed another successful mission, which meant more exposure to the media - the world would eventually come to know Night Hood.

"Woah! We really hit the jackpot now didn't we Hazer!" A skull masked man exclaimed excitedly.

"I already know exactly what I'm gonna do with my cut" a jackal masked woman added, "I've been eyeing this gorgeous necklace for-"

"Enough you two" the silver-masked Hazer replied, "never forget the reason you joined us. We steal not for our own gain, but for the weak and impoverished to thrive in a world that has abandoned them. The moment we forget that - we become villains."

"But funding is an essential part of an organisation" Lancer added, "without it, we can't prepare for our missions, some of our lives depend on our cuts that we earn from these heists, so shouldn't some cash be saved for us?"

Hazer stopped walking and turned halfway to lancer, his silver mask shinning in the moonlight, "of course my allies deserve a reward for helping with our missions, but remember that none of you joined Night Hood for monetary gain. You all joined because my ideal resonated somewhere deep inside your hearts! A world where everyone can live without the fear of sleeping on the streets, and begging just to get a bite to eat forever."

"He's right you know" the jackal-mask stated as she punched skull-mask on the shoulder. "I can't believe my mindset was almost completely like those pompous asses for a second."

"Super, duper sorry Hazer!!" Skull-mask replied, rubbing his sore right shoulder.

'Fools, the lot of them' Lancer thought, 'money is power... without it, the world doesn't function. To just give it all to homeless crack-heads and drunkards is absurd!! But... it doesn't matter to me. I've been embezzling money from the off-shore bank account since i joined Night Hood!' He looked up at his leader, "But-"

"Lancer, back off" the snake-masked member stated, "Hazer's word is final."

'Damn you, Viper' Lancer thought giving her a death stare under his mask, 'you may be his right hand, but you have no authority over me!'

"Hey!!" A clown-masked man interrupted, "Scouts are saying that heroes are beginning to make their way onto the scene... we gotta bounce!!" And the fifty dashed into the dark woods, their mission complete.

An Apartment

After depositing the haul, the members of Night Hood split off back to their normal lives. The door opened to a dark, small apartment, and two members entered in.

They turned on the light and colour flooded in. Though the apartment was small, it still looked cozy. The living room was large with a soft blue bed sofa, and large TV. At the back of the apartment there was a kitchen that was connected to the living room with no walls, displaying to everyone its sleek marble counter, with two large windows on either side of the kitchen showing off the large building outside the apartment, Musutafu City University.

The two that had entered were Viper and Hazer. "So... where's the money going this time, Yuu?" Viper asked as she removed her mask, revealing a smooth face with long bright green hair that looked at Hazer with bright yellow eyes. She was Iwani Hebine, a cool and friendly university student currently studying Psychology at the MCU.

Hazer's real identity was Yuu Fumei, another MCU student in his final year of a Economics course. He took of his mask and ran his hand through his messy sliver hair as he looked back at Iwani, with bright blue eyes.

"Well, we'll provide some funding to homeless outreach programs through our false company name like we've always been doing; give a bit to some soup kitchens around the city, and then give to charity, Little-light has been doing good recently so maybe there" Yuu muttered as he slumped onto the couch, thinking hard about what to do with the rest of their prize pool.

"Hmm, doesn't seem like that's the only thing bothering you" Iwani added, as she sat down next to him. "C'mon, spill it Yuu."

"I don't know" Yuu mumbled, "you might not really get what I'm worrying about."

"I'm a PSYCHOLOGY student Yuu" Iwani stated, pouting as she crossed her arms, "I can't help you if you don't tell me what's up."

"Fine..." Yuu sighed. He looked down to the ground, "I feel... like there's something bad going on within Night Hood. Like, some evil is corrupting the organisation, and slowing pushing many of us away from our goal."

Iwani paused, "so, do you believe that we're going to abandon you?" She asked.

Yuu turned his face towards her, both gazed into each other's eyes, and Iwani could see the truth spread across Yuu's face. It was that he believed, it was that he knew.

"I see..." Iwani replied, "Yuu, do you remember how we first met?"

Yuu's eyes widen for a sec, he nodded, "yeah..."

Two years ago

An 18 year old Iwani sat in the dark alleyway - dirty, starving... and lonely. Hiding herself from the public eye, though she knew she didn't matter to them. She was just another homeless person scattered around the city, suffering from life's cruelties.

All of a sudden, two large men emerged from the crowd, "oioioi! Lookee what we got here!" One of them said in a low grumbly voice as the pair made their advance on Iwani.

"Oh, poor thing!" The other sneered, "if ya looking for a place to stay, why don't ya come with us girl?"

They started grabbing her, Iwani wanted to scream for help, but she was too tired, too hungry - she was powerless. 'What are they gonna do with me?' She thought, 'is this it for me?'

A cloud of black smoke encompassed the three, Iwani instinctively covered her mouth while the two men coughed and hacked. Soon the sound of fight arose, with sound of two hard punches, and two people falling to the ground. A hand grabbed Iwani's arm and pulled her away quickly, almost flinging her right out the smoke. After a while of running, Iwani noticed the smoke was flowing back into the person pulling her along!

After running for a while, the duo stopped to rest, and Iwani was able to get a good look at her savior. He was a shaggy silver haired guy that appeared to be the same age as her. Once he recovered from the event, he looked up and Iwani looked into his calm, bright blue eyes.

"You alright?" He asked, he looked back down the alleyway they sprinted down, "they'll wake up eventually, but I think we got far enough from those two."

"I'm fi-" Iwani was about to replied, but a loud rumbling noise erupted around the two, and Iwani's face turned a pale pink.

"There's a burger place right round the corner from here, Let's get a bite to eat." The mystery man said, turning to head over to the restaurant. But Iwani quickly grabbed his arm before he left, "huh? Do you not want burgers?" He asked confused.

Iwani shook her head, "no it's not that. I just... don't want anybody to see me like this."

"I see" he replied, "I'll go fetch what you want and I'll bring it back here for you okay?" She nodded slowly and the boy walked off.

Iwani slumped down burying her head between her legs as she pondered, 'why? I'm just a random homeless person, I doubt even heroes would've taken notice of what was happening to me a couple minutes ago - so why did he protect me?'

After minutes of dwelling on what happened, the rustling of a paper bag caught her attention as she looked up to see the guy holding a food bag for her, "you didn't tell me what drink you wanted, hope you like cola."

Iwani thanked the man for his kindness, she opened her bag, and the smell of fast food flooded her senses. She hadn't had meal in weeks, let alone something as luxury as fast food. In mere minutes she devoured everything! The man stared stunned, as he was only half way through his burger, "guess you were really hungry huh? Oh, I never introduced myself, I'm Yuu Fumei, nice to meet you."

"I'm Iwani Hebine, nice to meet you too." She replied quietly.

"So Iwani" Yuu asked, sipping on his soda, "what's your story? I've seen tons of homeless folk, but your way too young to end up here."

Iwani's face saddened, as she looked down and sighed, "well... i've only been on the streets for about 2 months now. 6 months ago my mother married a new man. He was much more wealthy and he seemed nice when I met him for the first time - but, after the marriage..."

Yuu could see tears welling up in Iwani's eyes, "I see, someone with power uses it to harm those around them again" he kissed his teeth, and muttered, "despicable."

"Even though he hurt both of us, mother still stayed by his side, even supported him in 'punishing' me from time to time" Iwani broke down and wept, "I just couldn't take it anymore! So I left, after I froze the bastard and took all he had on him."

"Froze?" Yuu asked, as Iwani wiped her tears and pointed to her eyes.

"It's my quirk" her eyes glowed a bright yellow, "anyone who stares at my glowing eyes is unable to move anything as long as we keep eye contact." The glow faded, and Yuu instantly began to move again.

"Woah, that felt super weird" he added, surpised, As she smiled a bit.

Iwani's smile disappeared quickly as she continued, "eventually, the money dried up, and I had nowhere to go... so, the THIS became my home." As she stretch both her arms out to display the bleak grandeur of the cold, dark alleys to Yuu.

"Damn - life is so cruel" Yuu mumbled, he looked to Iwani, "I really enjoy spending time with people like you, everyone needs someone to talk to from time to time, and well - you guys need it the most in my opinion."

He stood up, and clenched his hands tight, as he yelled up, "IM GONNA FIX THIS DISTORTED WORLD!!!" As he sent out a hand to Iwani, "and I'll start with you. Iwani, do you want a new home?"

Iwani stared at Yuu, she couldn't help but see that, amongst the gross darkness of these alleys, something about Yuu was...

Glowing, or even...

Shining! As bright as the sun that beamed down on the earth. Tears again trickled down her face as she sobbed, with a smile, "y-yes, yes! I would like that so much!!"

Yuu's Apartment

The apartment was small, but cozy. The living room was large with a black sofa, and a small TV. At the back of the apartment there was a kitchen that was connected to the living room with no walls, with a marble counter, with two large windows on either side of the kitchen showing off the large building outside the apartment, the Musutafu City University.

"It's not much, but it enough to house two people" Yuu stated, "the bathroom's the door on the right of the kitchen, you can shower there, I'll leave some clothes on the counter for you." Iwani nodded and walked right over to the bathroom.

She left the bathroom, relaxed and refreshed - the feeling of warm water trickling down her had almost become foreign! She took the clothes that were left on the counter and put them on. While she dressed, she thought, 'an hour ago I smelt like a dumpster, and was near death from starvation - and now I'm here, clean, fed and happy.' She walked up to one of the windows, and looked at the large historic building.

Yuu came up behind her, "yep! That's my uni" his sudden statement startled her as she jumped, "woah, sorry" he said quickly.

Iwani smirked, and the laughed, "it's fine... I was planning on going here too before I left home" she looked to Yuu, "what are you studying?"

"Economics" he stated proudly, "that was my original plan to change the world - but now I feel like taking action to solve this problem as soon as possible."

Iwani stared at him again, seeing the same light she saw in the alley, "Yuu, I've decided" she stated, "you've done so much for me in such a short time. So, I wanna help you, I wanna change the world too!... I'm not that strong, but I'll do anything to help achieve your dream!"

Present day

Yuu's Apartment

"Hehe, to think that meeting you that day was what founded the beginning of Night Hood hehe" Yuu said smirking, "and after all that you were able to attend MCU the following year too! That helped us gain members from both sides of the financial coin."

To Yuu's suprise, Iwani warmly embraced him, "I-Iwan-"

But she had kissed him on before he could finish speaking, Iwani had kissed him! Though Yuu didn't expect this, he didn't mind it, he actually knew he had feelings for Iwani and was happy she felt the same. The two kissed passionately for a couple minutes, their love for each other being displayed openly for the other to accept. Afterwards, Iwani leaned away, and looked at her partner, "it wasn't just that, I wanted to remind you that - even if all the others left you, as long as your sparkling, golden ideal stayed pure within you, I would stay by your side - and well, I can say for sure that it's still pure alright."

The two laughed happily. "Iwani, thank you" Yuu said, "thanks to you, my goal is still strong in my heart even after these couple years."

"Right, and never forget that Yuu" Iwani added, "cause I'm not the only one who relies on that ideal, all of Night Hood does."

Somewhere in Musutafu

Lancer was walking down one of Musutafu's many dark alleys, in his usual silently menacing manner. He stopped at a wall with a green brick lodged in the centre of it. "Lancer" he stated in his digital voice, and placed his fingertips on the green brick. A portion of the wall retracted in on itself, and moved to the side to present an entrance, going downwards.

Inside, the base was huge, tons of members were using the myriad of computers: monitoring security cameras, hacking into company accounts, and contacting important people. Gear and tech was all on one side, like grappling hooks, smoke bombs and night vision goggles or non-lethal weapons like, staffs or sleeping dart guns. But the most prominent thing was the large metallic hologram table in the centre of the base, where Hazer and others created 3D plans on how they would deal with their target and acquire the cash.

Lancer walked past it all and went into another room, where two other members stood, one was wearing a viking helmet that obscured his eyes with grey lenses, while the other was wearing a red shogun mask, with crimson lenses. "You sure took your time huh Lancer?" The viking called out.

"I'm the only one that decides when things get done Raida" Lancer bellowed, and mumbled "only me and that fool Hazer." Lancer looked to the other, "you tagging along with this plan too Shogun?"

"Yes" Shogun replied, in a thick traditional Japanese accent, "change will never arise with Hazer in control, we need a powerful leader, one who will force the world to change, not persuade it."

'These two are some of Night Hood's strongest members, with them on my side, Hazer will fall, and I will be the one the rise to his throne!' Lancer thought, chuckling to himself quietly, "now... here's the plan - to destroy Hazer." Lancer began.

The next day

'Dammit, stupid villains, stupid essay! Ms Red even wanted us to write it out instead of type it!!' Mira thought angrily as he made his way to the shops to stock up on stationary for the gigantic essay he had to do.

"Alright" he said as he pulling out a shopping list, "i need: 20 pens, 1 stack of paper, maybe pencils if i want it to look neat? Then I'll need like 5 erasers."

While he was thinking aloud, he wasn't looking were he was walking as he bumped into someone, he looked up to see a couple, a shaggy silver haired man and a bright green haired woman, "sorry man, I wasn't looking where I was walking" Mira apologised.

"Don't worry, just be careful next time" Yuu replied, and they all walked off.

"Hey, I think the kid dropped something" Iwani whispered pointing to a white plastic card on the ground. Yuu picked it up and noticed it was an ID card for U.A High School, for Mira Kagemaru, a first year hero course student.

"He's learning to be a hero huh?" Yuu said curiously, he turned around and yelled, "hey kid!! You dropped something!!"

Instantly Mira froze, and checked his pockets noticed something was in fact missing, and ran over to the two quickly, "oh my god I'm such an idiot" Mira stated, "thank you for picking it up" he took back his ID.

"Eh, it happens to all of us" Yuu said. He and Iwani walked off, he yelled, "see ya later! Future hero!" Mira smirked, and walked off to buy his supplies.

Night Hood Base

Yuu and Iwani, adorned in their Night Hood gear had made their way down into the base, where Lancer was talking to the other members about their next plans.

"We're currently making endeavours to acquire a U.A ID card to plant a false student into the establishment and acquire some of their state of the art tech for future operations." Lancer said, but before he continued...

"We can't do that Lancer, U.A is not a target for us" Hazer replied, "we only target those who abuse their power, so I'm gonna have to shutdown your plans."

Lancer slammed his fist down on the table, to everyone's shock, "dammit Hazer! Why can't you see that this is for the good of Night Hood!" Hazer yelled, "if you think this plan isn't worthy to carry out, then what do you have in mind?"

All eyes were on Hazer, as he slowly walked towards the table, and put up two fingers, "hehe, I'm glad you asked Lancer. I got two words for all of you..."

"Sora Industries."