Night Knight/Issue 1

This is the first issue of Night Knight.
== Transcript ==
It begins in a giant church as an old man dressed in black robes stands over a young red headed woman.
* High Father Octavius Sinclair: Catherine St. James, you know why you are here right?
* Catherine: Yes, High Father.
* High Father Octavius: Good. So you believe you are strong enough to become a Night Knight?
* Catherine: Yes, High Father.
* High Father Octavius: Then repeat after me. I, Catherine St. James swear to put all innocent lives before my own.
* Catherine: I, Catherine St. James swear to put all innocent lives before my own.
* High Father Octavius: I will devote my life to fighting the forces of darkness, creatures of shadow.
* Catherine: I will devote my life to fighting the forces of darkness, creatures of shadow.
* High Father Octavius: For I am a Night Knight, bastion of the light and angel of the night.
* Catherine: For I am a Night Knight, bastion of the light and angel of the night.
* High Father Octavius: Good. Now (he grabs a box) put your hand in the box.
Catherine does so as suddenly a strange goo begins to surround her body. It attaches itself to her as it soon merges itself with her, revealing a suit of armor, having completed Catherine's transformation into a Night Knight.
* Night Knight: Thank you, High Father Octavius.
* High Father Octavius: You look good. Now head out, show us that you have what it takes to fight the supernatural, to fight the night.
Catherine heads out, using the gooey aspect of the suit to grapple out of the church. It cuts to an alleyway as an innocent woman is running from a rough looking man wielding a gun.
* Mugger: Give me all of your money!
* Woman: Please don't hurt me!
He walks closer, gun to her head, when suddenly a gooey whip slaps the gun away.
* Mugger: What the hell?!
He turns and sees Night Knight standing in front of him.
* Mugger: What are you?
* Night Knight: I am the defender of the innocent and crusader of the night. I am Night Knight.
* Mugger: (laughing) Oh my we got a funny little cosplayer here.
He rushes towards the gun and fires it at Night Knight, as she creates a shield that deflects the bullets. The mugger's face goes from laughing to pure horror.
* Mugger: No, no, no. Please don't hurt me!
He cowers as Night Knight walks closer and closer.
* Night Knight: No worries, it won't hurt. Much.
She clocks him in the jaw as he passes out. Night Knight turns to the woman as she looks at her.
* Woman: T-thank you.
She rushes off. It cuts to a warehouse as a few thugs are working on drugs. Suddenly, a woman in a mohawk and leather jacket barges in.
* ???: Greetings cocksuckers!
* Drug Maker 1: Who the fuck are you?
The woman growls and walks to the drug maker.
* ???: That isn't how you treat your new boss.
* Drug Maker 1: We don't work for you asshole. We work for Don Vitacco.
* ???: Not anymore. I am taking over.
* Drug Maker 1: Over my dead body!
* ???: I never thought you'd ask.
She begins to roar as suddenly her skin starts to turn into fur, her face resembling a wolf as her clothes rip, only keeping her leatherjacket. She roars and scratches the drug maker, ripping off one of his arms.
* Drug Maker 1: AAAAAAAAAAGH! W-what are you?
* ???: Alexandra Lupe. But the rest of you can call me Feral.
She stabs deep into the Drug Maker's heart as the rest of the drug makers stare in horror.
* Feral: Anymore doubters?
* Drug Maker 2: No ma'am!
* Feral: Good. I want those drugs made. AS-Fucking-AP.
It cuts to the Church where the Night Knights live as Catherine collapses on a bed. She falls asleep and begins to have flashbacks as it cuts to a small village in the Midwest burning as a little girl is crying. Strange masked men surround the girl as suddenly a Night Knight reveals himself and creates a sword construct slashing all of the masked men, seemingly just knocking them all out. Catherine looks in amazement as the Night Knight walks to her.
* Night Knight: Are you okay?
Catherine simply nods.
* Night Knight: Everything is going to be okay. My name's Lucian. What's yours?
* Catherine: C-Catherine.
* Lucian: You know, you probably need a place to stay. Follow me, I have some friends that can help you.
She takes his hand as Catherine wakes up in a cold sweat with Octavius standing in front of her.
* Catherine: High Father! What are you doing here?! You scared the shit out of me!
* High Father Octavius: How was your sleep?
* Catherine: Okay. I dreamed of Lucian again.
* High Father Octavius: I assume you miss him?
* Catherine: (sighs) I do. He disappeared without warning.
* High Father Octavius: Do not worry dear Catherine, we will find Lucian.
* Catherine: I assume you weren't here just for a mental health check.
* High Father Octavius: Quite an astute observation. I have a task for you. Our spies caught wind of a brutal murder. Conveniently a few blocks away from a drug house owned by the local mob boss Alfonse Vitacco.
* Catherine: You want me to investigate a murder why?
* High Father Octavius: We have reason to believe the cause of the murder is a lycan. They are dangerous, especially considering since unlike the movies they can keep their intellect. We need that Lycan gone before it can cause harm.
* Catherine: Lycan, huh? On it.
* High Father Octavius: And remember, no killing. We hunt monsters, killing them means we are the real monsters.
* Catherine: I know.
She gets up as the Night Knight armor wraps around her skin. It cuts to a drug factory now owned by Feral as the drug dealers are working when suddenly Night Knight busts in.
* Drug Maker: Who the hell are you?
* Night Knight: Tell me, where is the Lycan?
* Drug Maker: Ha! Like we'd ever tell you!
Night Knight jumps to the drug maker and throws him at some other drug makers.
* Night Knight: I am being nice. Tell me, where is the Lycan, or else I will be less nice.
* Drug Maker: She-she's here.
* Night Knight: Oh really huh?
Feral walks in, drinking some beer.
* Feral: What the fuck is the hold up?! (she turns and sees Night Knight). Oh, a Night Knight huh? Never thought you pompous monster slayers would find me. Why the hell do you care about me anyways?
* Night Knight: You killed people. You're a danger to society.
* Feral: (laughing) A danger?! All I killed are fucking drug makers! People who are already blights on society. I am helping the world! Using the profits to help innocents! Donating to the poor, the people who need it most. It was never about money, it was about helping others.
* Night Knight: I don't trust you.
* Feral: Oh why? Come on and humor me!
* Night Knight: You're a monster. I have been told that monsters deceive people. Make them believe that they can be trusted and then they get stabbed in the back.
* Feral: The propaganda really got to you huh?
* Night Knight: Propaganda?
* Feral: Oh, so so naive. Let me ex-
Suddenly a gunshot is heard as Night Knight instinctively uses her suit to create a shield to deflect it. A man in a cowboy hat and a skull mask walks in.
* Skull Hunter: Howdy ladies. My name's Skull Hunter and you, werewolf, are going to die.
* Feral: Fuck!
Skull Hunter reloads his rifle and fires at Feral. Feral dodges the attack and rushes to Skull Hunter to attack him. Suddenly Night Knight stands between both.
* Night Knight: If you kill her, you will have to go through me. I have a specific mission. Bring the Lycan in alive. Let me do that and your boss won't have to worry.\
* Skull Hunter: Can't do tincan. My orders were to kill her. Now get out of my fucking way or you will have a bullet in your head.
* Night Knight: Try me.
Skull Hunter surveys Night Knight and fires at Night Knight's neck. Suddenly, Feral grabs Night Knight and pushes her down.
* Skull Hunter: You little bitch!
He loads his rifle again and aims at Feral as Night Knight gets up and creates a sword and cuts the rifle in half. Skull Hunter screams in anger and jumps on Night Knight, punching her with deep fury and anger. Night Knight grunts and then punches Skull Hunter directly in the face. 
* Feral: Well that was fun! Well, I got to go. If you need to find me, here.
She hands Night Knight a business card.
* Night Knight: But I have to turn you in.
* Feral: Then you can turn me in there. Well have fun, I am sure your boss will be happy that you caught an assassin.
Feral runs off as Night Knight sighs and grabs the unconscious Skull Hunter. It cuts to a deep dark dungeon as Octavius walks down. He walks by numerous cells to one big cell, holding Lucian, clearly older and worn out.
* High Father Octavius: Lucian, I hate having to do this to you. You had potential to be the greatest of all of us and you threw it away to act outside of our ways?!
* Lucian: Not all people are good and not all monsters are monsters Octavius.
* High Father Octavius: Heresy! Such a shame you turned out to be a monster, Lucian. Catherine liked you.
* Lucian: She'll understand what you are doing is wrong. Just you wait.
* High Father Octavius: She never will. Perhaps, I can string up a story, say that you went mad, tried to murder me and that you must be defeated. Perhaps I could even give her the authority to kill. She is my weapon Lucian, quite like what you were once.
* Lucian: She... won't be your weapon for long.
High Father Octavius punches the tied up Lucian unconscious and heads upstairs. When he heads up, he sees Catherine up there waiting for him with the unconscious Skull Hunter there too.
* High Father Octavius: Catherine, who is that?
* Catherine: An assassin. He was going to kill the lycan and me.
* High Father Octavius: Did he kill the lycan?
* Catherine: No. She left but she gave me a card. To find her. But we can lock up this Skull Hunter.
* High Father Octavius: We will not. He is not a monster.
* Catherine: But he could have killed me and the Lycan.
* High Father Octavius: My dear Catherine, we capture monsters because they are active threats to the survival of humanity. Assassins are not.
* Catherine: (feeling defeated) Right High Father. What should we do with him?
* High Father Octavius: Throw him out to the streets. Someone will find him. Now about the lycan. You said you know where she is?
* Catherine: Yes, I do High Father.
* High Father Octavius: Then find her and bring her to me.
Catherine heads out. It cuts to a soup kitchen as Alexandra, in her human form, is volunteering and giving the sick and homeless food as Catherine walks in, also in her civilian guise.
* Catherine: Feral? Where are you? I have come to speak.
Alexandra perks up and points at Catherine.
* Alexandra: You're that knight lady? You know, I expected you to come dressed in all of that knight get up.
* Catherine: I figured I should just talk. Know more of your story. Because I had an encounter.
* Alexandra: Follow me then.
Alexandra leads Catherine to a small room in the soup kitchen as she sits down and gestures Catherine to sit down.
* Alexandra: Name's Alexandra Lupus. And yours?
* Catherine: Catherine St. James. So about my encounter, I brought that Skull Hunter figure to High Father and he told me to let him go.
* Alexandra: (starts laughing) My, I didn't expect you zealots to be such good jokers.
* Catherine: It's not a joke.
* Alexandra: Oh you're for real? Why?
* Catherine: Because he was not a monster. Which confuses me because he wants you to be imprisoned and what have you done? Just killed one guy? I saw you save my own skin and you're helping innocents. You seem to be more good than bad.
* Alexandra: And that guy I killed? I have access to the personnel of all of the drug keepers since I took over that factory and that guy had killed three people. One rival gang member and a woman and her husband, who walked in on the shooting.
* Catherine: Oh... that guy sounded like a monster.
* Alexandra: Believe me, he probably was. Do you think I am all evil now?
* Catherine: I don't. Maybe I can talk to High Father. See if he can recruit you. We could change the Night Knights for better.
* Alexandra: Good luck with that. Cult leaders don't really change. But hmm, I'll save your ass if things get bad.
* Catherine: Thank you Alexandra.
Catherine bows and leaves as she heads back to Octavius who is sitting on a throne.
* High Father Octavius: Where is the lycan? Did you get attacked by another man in a mask?
* Catherine: I let her go. I talked to her and I saw how she is not a monster. She saved my life, she works at a soup kitchen and that guy she killed? He killed two more people and two of them were innocent.
* High Father Octavius: ...are you suggesting that monsters are not monsters?
* Catherine: Yes, exactly! We can use her, High Father. Show that the only monsters that people have to fear are those with cruel hearts.
* High Father Octavius: That is... preposterous. Monsters aren't capable of feeling anything. And you are suggesting we recruit one?! 
* Catherine: Alexandra is a good person High Father! She can be of use-
* High Father Octavius: They're only use in life is to be experiments!
* Catherine: W-what?
* High Father Octavius: Don't act surprised. What else do you think we do with them?! Why else do you think we tell you not to kill them? It's so we can study them and become better than them! That is what we are! Better than those inhuman freaks!
* Catherine: I trusted you. I trusted this entire system!
* High Father Octavius: Then you should have captured that Lycan! Listening to IT only made you weak. It made you just like Lucian!
* Catherine: Lucian?! What the hell have you done to him!
She transforms into Night Knight and slashes Octavius as suddenly, goo surrounds Octavius, revealing he has his own pure black version of the armor.
* High Father Octavius: You think I don't protect myself huh? Well, it will be your last mistake.
He grabs Night Knight and walks towards a window as he throws her out of it. She crashes through the window and miraculously lands in a nearby river. She floats, memories of Lucian and how he rescued her consuming her thoughts and then rage. She puts her hand on a rock she was about to pass by while on the river and stands up weak. The only thing she can do is scream loudly. Suddenly she sees someone walk by with a smile.
* Feral: I have no idea how long you can scream.
* Night Knight: Alexandra?
Feral reveals herself and gives a cocky smirk.
* Feral: Looks like I was right about my hypothesis that this wasn't going to end well.
* Night Knight: I trusted him and now I learned my mentor might still be alive and that my other mentor is a terrible person.
* Feral: So... what's your next move?
Night Knight removes her helmet with a face of determination.
* Night Knight: I am going to kill Octavius Sinclair.
The issue ends on that line.