A/N For those of you who don't know I am Jetravenex.

This will be my first KR fanfiction, so please rell me what you think.

I must warn you their will be some OC's and for this chapter it'll be mostly OC orientated but don't worry you'll see Micheal and Kitt shortly.

This is based on the 1982 Knight Rider mostly.

And as for the disclaimer, I, Jetravenex do not own Knight Rider whatsoever.

Chapter 1

Fires burned throughout the night. Cries and screams, sometimes it was from men, others from machines.

Two powerful forces had met at this city. Battled with the only thought of destroying the other and now the once beautiful city was a mass of burning rubble and with masses of dead or dying as its current inhabitants.

Any survivors had moved on leaving the city to fight another day or to run and hide to escape the conflict.

Only one word could be used to summarize this.

War.

The United States, America was at war and not with an external foe, but internal. But, their foe was not human.

Their foe was their own creation, the pride of their modern society; it was a war between man and machine. Or better put as Man vs. Artificial intelligence.

The year 2040 marked the beginning, and many were wondering when it would end.

However, the burning city wasn't as uninhabitable as originally thought.

Two beams of light flickered on slicing through the smoke and gloom and slowly a car pulled itself out from beneath a pile of rubble.

It looked like a mini-van, its color a drab gray thanks to the soot plastered against it, though a deep shade of green filtered through at some places that the soot did not touch. It scanned the streets, switching from visual to infrared and back again. It scanned the life signals of the people around it and was saddened by the same results it received.

Dead or dying, dead or dying. And there was nothing the van could do.

"Just another city turned graveyard, eh Speed?" A voice quipped from over the communications system.

"I fail to see how death can be humorous." A calm female voice retorted. "The destruction and death toll are almost too terrible to compute, I'm having trouble just trying to reach the subway tunnels Speedy. Request permission to abandon mission?"

"You should be asking the boss that, but I suppose its okay." The van replied over the comm. As he started up his engine and began to carefully make his way down the street taking care to avoid as much burning rubble as possible, but couldn't help but internally wince at the sound of crunching beneath his tires and trying hard to not even think what it could be.

"Hey, Zephyr all I was trying to do was lighten the mood a little! Jeez, do you have to jump down my throat?"

"What are you talking about Rex? You don't have a throat!"

"Neither do you for that matter!"

"Rex, Zephyr, stop arguing please, my CPU can only handle so much arguing." Another female voice came from over the channel though it was hard to hear since it was staticy.

"Can you and Hawkeye see anything up there Typhoon?" Speedy asked continuing down the ruined street swerving to avoid falling debris.

"No, visibility is way too limited. All I can really see through the smoke is the light from you guys' headlights and I can vaguely see the shape of Zephyr sitting on the rails on the outskirts of the city." Typhoon replied. "I've also lost visual with Hawkeye and Risk."

A sigh could be heard from Speedy. "All right keep your scanners peeled, maybe try Infrared."

"I can't, a blast clipped me and it's not working right."

"Well, this just keeps getting better and better." Rex grumbled.

"Typhoon do the best that you can, Rex I've been scouring through the streets looking for you, where exactly are you?'

"Sitting by one of the last few standing buildings Speed, trapped under some rubble." Rex said

"Speedy what can I do?" Zephyr whined. "Without access to the subway lines I can't enter the city."

"Bad day to be a train, huh Zephyr?"

"Oh, go shove it up your tailpipe Rex."

"Ooooohh burn!" Typhoon taunted.

"Come on guys!" Speedy said beginning to sound exasperated as he continued to work to find Rex. "Can we please get along until we can find our friends? Hawkeye and Risk have yet to call in."

"Right right, I know Speed I'll ring you guys when I find something, Typhoon out."

"I'll be waiting at the outskirts of the city by the rails…Alone, useless, abandoned,"

"Zephyr, I can look for Rex a little better without any extra interruptions."

"10-4 Speedstar, Zephyr out." Speedy let out a sigh of relief at the quiet, now for the task at hand.

He let his scanners run over the area when he picked up Rex's signal.

"Rex I've got a lock, no worries buddy I'm coming for you-" He was cut off as a man leapt out from one of the crumbled buildings farther down the road. The man's eyes were wild and when he saw Speedy he reached down and grabbed his machine gun.

"Die you blasted AI!" The man pulled the trigger on his machine gun and the rounds began to slam into Speedy's front. The minivan was too surprised by the sudden attack to do anything but watch as the bullets hit and then ricocheted back at the man. The man blinked and within two seconds was down on the ground bleeding from several bullet wounds.

Speedy stopped dead and stared, after seeing so much loss of life on both sides death wasn't anything new to him, but he had never actually killed a man before.

"Speed? A life signature just flared up and I heard a couple of gunshots, you okay Speed?" Rex's voice sounded coming from the comm.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Even though he said those words with as much calm as he could muster, his chassis gave a slight shudder. "I'm picking you up just 'round that corner up ahead, give me a few seconds I'll come get you out."

He pushed himself back into drive, and winced as he heard the cracking of bones underneath his tires. As much as he'd have rather avoided the body, he was closed in on both sides by rubble, and he didn't have the time to try and scale them to get to Rex. He reached the corner and executed a perfect 90 degree turn. His headlights flashed brighter as he scanned the area and he almost laughed at the sight.

Sitting in the middle of the street sat Rex, a navy blue corvette, who was pinned down by a large piece of concrete that had fallen from some building. His front tires were blocked by a large piece of rubble in front of him.

"You look like you could use some help brother." Speedy said switching from using the comm. to speaking out loud. He scanned the concrete again and virtually winced. "But its not help I can give you, we need Hawkeye to get that concrete off you."

"But where is Hawkeye?" Rex whined.

"I don't-" Speedy was cut off by the sound of a helicopter rotor nearby both AI's scanned upward to see their friend hovering over head.

"Need some help?" Hawkeye asked as a port from his underside opened and four grappling claws shot out. The claws latched onto four corners of the concrete and slowly and with obvious strain the helicopter lifted it off Rex. "Ok-ay Re-x get ou-out before I dr-drop th-this." Hawkeye said groaning from the effort.

"Don't have to tell me twice!" Rex said as he fired up his engine and plowed through whatever rubble happened to be in front of him until he was nose to nose with Speedy.

With a relieved grunt Hawkeye let the piece of concrete drop back down to the ground and the helicopter retracted his four grappling claws. He lowered himself down slowly until he landed on the ground beside Speedy. His rotors spun once more before coming to a complete stop.

"Well, I'm glad that's over! Look at my paint job!" Rex whined. "That rubble stripped away some of my paint!"

"Rex," Typhoon said reopening her comm. "Get a grip, you're alive, be grateful for that."

"Hey, I'm sort of out of the loop here, what's happening?" Zephyr called.

"Sorry about that Zephyr," Speedy said. "I found Rex and Hawkeye came to assist me with getting him out from underneath some rubble."

"That's good to hear, any sign of Risk?"

"No," It was Hawkeye who answered. "I lost sight of him after a charge went off to close to me and I had to gain altitude to avoid being knocked out of the sky." His voice dropped. "maybe I should've stayed low and blocked the shot for him, I don't know if he came out alive, I should've-"

"Whoa whoa! Slow down kiddo!" Zephyr said. "What happened now?"

"I-I don't know really, all I remember was I was following Risk from above trying to find a spot to hide, when a charge blew up right next to me, and I-I went up to avoid the debris, but Risk," His voice broke off as he moaned in distress. "Risk was stuck in the street and the debris would've landed right on top of him."

"How big?" Speedy asked.

"Wh-what?" Hawkeye asked.

"How big was the building that blew up."

"Too big, Speed, the building was tall and I was flying low and-" Hawkeye broke off with another distressed moan.

"Easy kid," Rex soothed. "Head back towards Zephyr, I don't think you're up for the fly back to the AI camp."

"Yo-you're probably right Rex." Hawkeye murmured, his rotor started up ad slowly the helicopter rose back into the sky and then headed towards Zephyr.

As soon as he was gone silence fell upon the two AI's. Speedy's headlights flickered off and the AI's engine shut off.

"Speedy." Typhoon murmured the minivan started up his engine after a minute.

"Typhoon, head for the camp." Speedy said. "We'll meet you there."

"But-"

"Now, Typhoon." Speedy said as he began to head out of the city.

"Very well, I will see you by the air strip back at the camp." The fires in the city were beginning to burn out, but the smoke had formed an impenetrable black cloud over the city. Rex and Speedy could faintly make out the sound of Typhoon's turbines as she flew back towards the camp.

"Come on, let's get out of here." Speedy said cutting off whatever comments Rex might've made.

Rex merely made a sound of agreement before he followed the green mini-van out of the smoking city.

Well, what did you think? Is it too confusing? Is it good? Should I continue? do you like the characters?

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