CHAPTER 1
EUREKA!
He had been working on it for two years now. Ever since Devon Miles and The Foundation for Law and Government gave him permission to use their laboratories to conduct his experiments, he made good on his promise not to conduct tests without Devon's approval.
The last time Doctor David Anders conducted his experiments without anyone's permission, it nearly cost Michael Knight's life, and almost destroyed KITT. The Foundation, and Dr Anders, were lucky to be able to recover Michael and KITT without hardly a scratch on either one of them! Had they been gone for good, Devon would've surely hanged Dr. Anders by the end of a rope! The Knight Industries Two Thousand was far too precious to the Foundation, as was his personalized driver. It would've been an irrecoverable loss for everybody, and the Foundation would've certainly folded not long afterwards!
Dr. Anders was a short man in his early thirties with medium length brown hair, and of average weight for his size. Being a product of Silicon Valley, he was a brilliant scientist who held a PhD in Quantum Physics. He married his long time girlfriend Caroline Jones a little over a year ago, and she was expecting their first child.
His main passion was time travel. He read every book and scientific papers there were on the subject! Everybody who knew about his fascination with the matter and resulting experiments all laughed and ridiculed him saying that time travel would never be possible, and that he was a "crackpot" for delving into the subject. But while everyone else laughed at him, Caroline Jones was the only one who really believed that he would one day make his time travel dream come true; and she supported him all the way.
It was out of desperation, however, that he decided to "experiment" at the expense of Michael and KITT. Silicon Valley absolutely refused to fund his experiments, and he took advantage of a Foundation sponsored experiment in teleportation to test out his time travelling theory. In the aftermath of their successful return to the present from the prehistoric past, Dr. Anders and Devon Miles made a deal where the young scientist would borrow the Foundation's laboratories and conduct his time travel experiments under a controlled environment.
He called everyone into the laboratory warehouse where he would make his announcement.
"What's this all about, David?" Michael immediately asked as he entered the warehouse room.
Dr. Anders had an exstatic demeanor about him. "I've done it! I'VE FINALLY DONE IT!!" He was giddy with laughter.
"If you're talking about sending a watermelon five minutes back in time, you've done that already!" Michael stated.
"No! I mean I was finally able to maintain a sustained time vortex for A FULL WEEK!"
Devon looked surprised. "Are you serious!!?"
"I AM serious, Mr. Miles!"
Devon rolled his eyes. "How many times do I have to tell you: PLEASE CALL ME 'DEVON'!"
"Sorry... Devon..." Dr. Anders said with a nervous grin.
"Did you really do it? Were you really able to sustain a stable time travel field for a full SEVEN DAYS???" Bonnie Barstow asked.
"Yes, Miss Barstow! I did!!"
Rebecca looked irritated. "David, please..."
"I know! I know! 'Please call me Bonnie'... Sorry..." Dr. Anders laughed nervously again.
"So what does all this mean?" Devon asked.
"It MEANS that we can move on to the next step in the experiment: Trying it out on a LIVE SUBJECT..."
"And by 'live subject', I presume you mean myself and KITT..." Michael flatly said.
"YES!" Dr. Anders cried out in joy.
"Great!" Michael said with a sigh. "And you're ABSOLUTELY SURE this time!?"
"ABSOLUTELY, Mr. Knight!"
Michael shot Dr Anders a glaring look.
"Sorry... MICHAEL..." Dr. Anders corrected, getting the hint.
"So you're finally ready to have KITT drive through your... time vortex... thing with Michael inside?" R.C. asked.
"MORE than ready, R.C." Dr. Anders smiled.
R.C. humpfed. "Better him than me!"
"Thanks a lot, R.C.!" Michael said as he glared at his Foundation colleague and friend.
"Anytime!" R.C. said as he jokingly slapped Michael on the shoulder.
R.C. was the nickname Reginald Cornelius the 3rd's friends gave him, but he liked to call himself "R.C. 3". He was the newest member of The Foundation, and has become a valuable member of the crimefighting team. He hailed from Chicago where he made himself a vigilante in the fight against crime out there, going by the alias "Street Avenger". It was after R.C. helped Devon out that he decided to bring him into the Foundation to help out Michael, KITT and Bonnie in The Foundation's main objective.
"A-actually..." Dr. Anders continued. "I think it's safe enough that ALL FOUR OF YOU can sit inside KITT while he drives through the vortex..."
R.C. looked surprised. "All four of us???"
Dr. Anders smiled and nodded. "AAAAND... I've perfected the time travel programming enough that you can select any period of time you want, and the vortex can send you there no problem."
"Wait a minute!" Michael began. "Did you say: ANY time period we want???"
"That's EXACTLY what I said, Mist.... Michael..."
Michael smiled slowly. "Weeeeell, in that case, I think I know just the place..."
Everyone looked at him curiously.
Knight rider.... A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man
who does not exist....
Michael Knight... A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of
the innocent, the helpless, the powerless... in a world of criminals who operate
above the law!