Akatsuki (Earth-8949)

The Akatsuki was a secret group of alchemists outside the usual system of Walls and nations led by Pain. Through its twenty-year existence, the organization was widely seen as criminal and terrorist, though its core tennet claimed the search to make the world a better place through their own means. The Akatsuki possessed no single base of operations, and instead operated in a network of lairs across the world, hidden and inacessible to others.