New Start (Re-written)

by lllBluebirdlll

It's been almost a year since Mike and KITT started their crusade as field agents for the Foundation for Law and Government, both return to the SSC from a mision to find everyone gone, the only lead, a mysterious call and an adress that will ultimately lead them to old enemies that would send them in a wild chase until they face again and finish old buisiness

2. Ch 2 The KITTnapping

Finally here comes the next chapter, expect regular updates every Wednesday, this will be shorter than the original story because I deleted some and combined some other into one to make them longer. anyway enjoy

Ch. 2 The KITTnapping

The four government agents stood in the middle of a room with computers and knocked out people littering the floor "I still can't believe this worked…"

"I told you to have a little more faith in us Billy"

"I just didn't think that anyone would be stupid enough to fall for it Zoey…would you have fell for something that stupid?"

"Probably not, but you still did a really good bait Billy"

"What, asking to go to the bathroom counts as a bait? You guys just went all ballistic on them"

"Hey, at least they had tranquilizers instead of actually bullets in those guns"

"Guys, we'll talk about this later" Sarah started "we need to focus on trying to find KITT now that we have access to the computers, we have to find him quick, we can easily take one of the cars this guys have and go find KITT. Billy, Zoe, I'm going to need you two to search through their computer to find him, the sooner the better" the two nodded their heads in agreement "let's go" the three went to the computers, Mike stayed standing behind the three of them, his mind was still filled with the same questions as before, the principal now was actually asking himself if KITT was okay, he knew for a fact the he wasn't coming for them, he probably didn't even knew where they were…hopefully they were still in time… about twenty minutes went by, Mike was already starting to lose the little patience he had remaining, there was still no clue as to where KITT could be and the sedatives that they had shot the people with sure wouldn't last much longer. "Guys" Mike looked up to Billy then

"You found something Billy?"

"Yeah…and I don't think you're going to like it all that much"

"Why, what happened?" Sarah and Zoe turned to look at Billy's screen and then turned to look at Mike with the same shocked expression. "Guys…what's going on?..."

"Mike…it's KARR"

To be honest he wasn't expecting things to work nowhere near the way they were at eh moment, the concentrated turbo boost managed to break the chains, sending him flying above KARR, landing hardly on the ground behind, people scrammed about the place, leaving their stations and running for cover from the two AIs, KARR turned around quickly and started to chase after KITT in blind fury. KITT still had the device attached to him, he was at a clear disadvantage against the other AI and even though fighting him was the last thing he wanted to do, the situation pointed that if he wanted to get a chance at escaping, he needed to fight him and somehow make him break the door that leaded outside, if he managed to do so then there was still a chance he could outsmart him or outrun him once he was out. He was not liking any of what was happening right now, not a single bit…

When he noticed that KARR was already chasing behind him he drove straight for the main entrance, when he was close enough he used his handbrake to keep moving in the direction on the door but moving sideways, before crashing he used his side boosters to propel himself in the opposite direction and stop the momentum that was carrying him towards the wall, he was hoping that KARR wouldn't brake in time and crash right through it, despite all this KARR mimicked his first move to reduce his speed, crashing against the door but not with nearly enough strength to break it, KITT landed closer to him than he had expected and immediately fought for grip in order to escape, to his horror the menacing AI unfolded and transformed, switching to his real form, he chased after the Mustang once more, his engine producing a loud, menacing roar that resonated with the cavernous acoustics of the building's high roof, in this form it took KARR barely any efforts to bring down one of his metal hands and swipe down, effectively sending the car drifting into one of the smaller stations in one side of the room, sending electronics flying in several directions, KITT managed to get out of the mess before one of KARR's smaller missiles landed where he had been standing mere seconds before, as he kept on moving around, the rogue AI stood tall in one spot and turned to chasing KITT with his shoulder guns, several hits managed to land in his target while some more ended up lodged in the some tables and other appliances, in one more attempt at stopping KARR's rampage KITT shot his grappling hook and it got stuck in one of his legs, he gave a quick drive around his legs before pulling back in it, the robot couldn't keep his balance and came back crashing down, the small victory was short lived, since from side doors came running armed men, a few possessed the infamous Knight Research rocket launchers while the others had high powered penetrating rounds, with how low KITT's systems where performing he was sure things were going to end u badly, when he realized his current predicament he immediately devoted most of is available power to his shields in order to have a chance at deflecting at least some for the bullets that where sure to come his way, the rockets…those he just needed to avoid at all costs, even when his shields where at full efficiency those missiles really gave him trouble. KARR stood back up and look menacingly back down to him, the Mustang just stood frozen in place, afraid that one move would bring the firestorm down on him. The men that possessed the rockets started to approach the car face on, the odds where not really in his favor, no matter where he looked, what he did, there was no way out of this situation, slowly he started to back up, some of the people that held the guns came around the back and managed to throw some hooks that got attached to his rear end, they started pulling on him then as the others kept closing in on him, the Mustang kept backing up while roaring his engine in warning, either way, there was nothing he could to get away while avoiding all the threats that surrounded him at the time, eventually they managed to lead him back into the same place he had been before, once again they secured him to the platform, this time securing his front as well in order to avoid a future escape, KARR folded back into his original form and drove out of the hanger once that was done, the cable was attached once more and the process started.

There was nothing much he could do, his current situation left him with very few options that could possibly work, and when he saw all of the hidden weapons they really had, there wasn't much of a fight to put up either, it would either end up shot to pieces or go into an emergency shutdown due to the power drain that was starting to take place, either way, the later seemed like a better possibility and he might even have a fighting chance with it, while the other one meant instant termination, not something he was really looking forwards to…if he managed to block the power drain long enough maybe Mike and the others might be able to find him, if not, well, then at least he was able to fight it, and by god was he going to take that chance to the fullest, devoting all of his resources to placing blocks and diversions that would delay the program that was draining his power, in his particular case it was very different to run out of fuel, and running out of power, if fuel was the case, he would remain active, just not able to use his engine, mainly because most of his central computes was solar powered, but if he manages to run out of power then the computer would shut down once the power got low enough, if the drain continues after that, then even the emergency shut down would fail, leaving him as nothing more than a normal car, that was what he supposed the goal of the people here had, in order to be able to access his core without any issues the emergency shutdown needed to be deactivated. And there was only one way of achieving that. With those thoughts in mind he focused on the task at hand, he was not going to go down without a fight…

It had taken them another ten minutes to find the address of the place where KITT was being kept, to their luck no one had woken up during that time and they had managed to get the keys to one their cars, the initial sock of KARR being back up and working had passes, ad was now replaced by a thousand questions, mainly concerning they why, how and when had all this happened, any why didn't they noticed. Sarah was sure that the team she called to the area after the fight where strictly there to clean the wreckage and dispose of the pieces, no one could've possible known what had happened, much less know which one of all the pieces spread around the field was KARR's AI chip, if said thing had even been able to survive the explosion, all those where things she needed to really look into once this whole mess was over, right now, Mike was driving to the address they got from the computer's files, surprisingly so for Mike, it had been really close where he had left him in the first place, so that meant the call they had received had been sent from where they were being kept. KITT had said that the building they had arrived to was covered with an electromagnetic shield that probably meant that some other building had the same shield that might've been why he wasn't able to detect any other signals from any of the buildings, and KITT was now inside one, inside the shield, he wouldn't be able to send out anything and probably his systems where being affected by it as well, if KARR was in the same building that he was, he wouldn't be able to detect him, while KARR might've improved his systems and bypassed the shield… "Mike…" He turned to look at Sarah then "I know you're worried, we all are, but we are going to get KITT out of there, no matter what"

"Do you have a plan already?"

"Not yet, we need to know what we are going to be facing, besides KARR apparently, and then we can think of a way of getting in"

"if KARR is in there he will know we are there before we even get out of the car, he's the main issue and we need to find a way to get past that, until we have a solution for that al else will be pointless"

"Guys?" Sarah then turned to look at Billy "I think I just found our way past KARR…" he added leaning to grab something from the seats behind him

"What did you get Billy?" at that he sat back down with one of the Knight Research rockets in his hands "we have four of this guys and two rocket launchers. I don't think we can take out KARR, but we might be able to at least stall him or create a distraction"

"They have our rockets?...but how?, I thought they had been decommissioned since that one mission last year…"

"Apparently not, either that or someone stole them and kept up the production. Either way, I think we just got more than what we bargained for, our main focus is KITT, after that we'll track down these rockets and get to the bottom of this"

Once they managed to find exactly the building that the address leaded to they parked a few blocks away in order to stay out view from anything or anyone, Zoe and Billy, rather reluctantly, took the rocket launchers while Mike and Sarah approached to the building, climbing some crates they managed to get a slight vantage point through one of the higher windows in the building, it was a mainly open area with some desks remained in place with various computers and other electronics while some other desks where knocked over and strewn about the place, at the back Mike was able to spot the black shape of his partner and friend, there was a cable attached to something on him that he couldn't see and he was secured to a platform, because of the mess that was still visible he supposed that he had managed to cause some trouble, if KARR was near then that might've been how he ended up trapped once more, what worried him, however, was the fact that KITT's usually bright scanner was now dull and blinking on and off at uneven intervals every once in a while, if they were going to do something, they were running out of time faster than they thought they were. The two shared a look before climbing down and Mike was the first to speak "okay, I have KITT, but something's wrong, we need to hurry up and get to him, KARR doesn't\t seem to be in the area, so we need to act fast before he manages to come back, Billy and Zoe, we need you to create a big enough distraction to draw out as many people as we can"

Zoe took one of the rocket launchers and mounted it on her shoulder "leave that to me, you two go save KITT, I'll meet you around the corner in the car"

"okay, Billy, we need you to cover us as soon as we run in for it, use the smaller gun first, it apparently has some high powered rounds so cover us with that first, as soon as we climb in KITT use the rockets and shoot the main station behind KITT, if they are indeed extracting or copying the information from him we need that destroyed"

"I'll do as best as I can" and with that he went to get the remaining Rockets before positioning himself in the window Mike had climber to before. Mike and Sarah positioned themselves behind one of the smaller side doors and waited for Zoe's signal, and after a few minutes the ground shook as a large explosion was heard not too far away, Sarah turned to look at Mike, mirroring his determined look "I guess that's our signal"

Fighting off the computer was getting harder and harder with every passing second, his emergency shutdown should've taken effect a while ago but he managed to push through it and stay active to fight with whatever remaining power he still had, most of his systems where already offline, but he was not going to give up fighting just yet, he could at least keep it up for another ten minutes before his power was completely drained, suddenly, the power drain slowed way down, he turned his attention to the outside world and found that many where running outside, something had happened and the guy that had been working in the computer next to him ran away as well, the few that remained then started to duck for cover under whatever desk the where able to as bullets rained from above, focusing on the source he felt relieved to see nothing else that Billy shooting around the hangar, keeping people away from where he was, to the far corner there where two figures running in his direction, it took him a while to realize but once they were close enough he finally noticed that it was Mike and Sarah, the later heading straight for the computer that was plugged into the device while Mike ran straight towards him "KITT!, KITT are you okay?, can you hear me?" in response the AI was not able to do much other than slightly boost the intensity of the red scanner for a few seconds, he was quickly going into shutdown and his vocal processors had been offline for a while now, Mike took the answer for what it was and quickly moved to unhook KITT, the back chains where easily removed, the ones on the front he was only able to remove from the ground, but not from the car, Sarah was typing away at the computer, trying to stop the program that was running in it "Sarah, you need to hurry up there, KITT's not doing too good and people are starting to come back in!"

"I'm trying my best here Mike!, this program is like nothing I've ever seen" Mike looked around for something that he could use to detach the cable from KITT, pulling it wasn't working, so instead he took a broken piece of metal that was laying around the corner, he rose it high above his head and brought it down hard over the large cable, it cut right through it letting out a flurry of sparks and electricity, Sarah jumped back from the computer, startled, and looked at Mike who simply threw the metal to a side before turning to answer "there, problem solved, get in, Billy can destroy the computers with the rockets" both got inside then, Mike turned on the key a few times, the engine stalled and refused to start, but after a few goes it finally roared to life, Mike looked directly at the flickering blue orb in the dashboard, and then to Sarah "I'm going to be driving, we need to get away from here as fast as possible, so hang on tight" Sarah nodded before Mike pushed the car to go forward, it started slow at first but they started to pick up speed quickly, as soon as they were a safe distance away from the computers one of the rockets landed in it, effectively destroying it and whatever information it might've stored, shortly after another rocket landed in the large doors that KITT had come in through first, creating a hole with just the perfect size for the AI to drive through, Billy climbed down and ran to where Zoe said she was going to be waiting, he climbed in just as Mike and Sarah drove by in KITT, the two took off behind the AI, driving quickly away from them, looking for any side roads that they could take in order to stay out of their sight, after a little while of driving around they started to drop their speed, when Sarah gave them the word in order to save KITT some power, even after that, along the way back to the SSC KITT's engine had stopped twice, and it was getting harder each time to turn it back on, by the time they reached the base they had to use the two remaining chains that where still attached to KITT's front so that he could be pulled in the rest of the way inside.

He still couldn't believe he had been able to avoid his shutdown for so long, his engine had given out twice now and it had taken the help from the car where Zoe and Billy where driving to manage to get it back up the second time, after that it didn't take too long until the little power he had left finally gave out, at last he reached the point in which the amount of power he had left wasn't even enough to keep moving his own weight, his speed started decreasing until he had stopped completely and couldn't manage to move again, Mike and Sarah tried helping by betting out to give him an initial push, but he really didn't weight as much as a normal Mustang did, all the extra parts and computer systems in him made him much heavier, the two were not able to push him more than a few meters before giving out, in the end they realized that he still had the two chains attached in the front, so they got those attached to the car Billy and Zoe had, managing to start moving, at a slower pace, but moving nevertheless, he had to stay aware of his surroundings, he couldn't go through the risk of letting his systems shut down while he was still out in the open with his team around and no way of protecting themselves, he had to at least make it back to their base, before being sure there was no risk in shutting down. It took them close to twenty minutes but after a while he was able to spot the outline of the hangar, the moment they entered the building and the doors closed behind him his systems weren't able to keep working with the lack of power and one by one started to fail until the last thing he was able to see was the opening doors of the entrance to the tunnel that leaded to the kitt cave.

If it wasn't because the two of them knew that KITT was running out of power the two would've been incredibly alarmed at the sight of the last remaining systems shutting down, several warnings flickered in the screen as system failure flashed in the top corners of the windshield, every light was flickering and as they positioned KITT in his gimbal the engine gave out, Mike and Sarah climbed down from the Mustang as Billy got down from the car while Zoe went back to drive the car outside. Billy walked straight to the device that was stuck to KITT's side with the small piece of the cable still attached to it, it looked like nothing he had ever seen, the round device still had a few lights blinking on and off, there was nothing in it that looked like a way of removing it "You managed to figure anything out about it Billy?"

"Not really Sarah, I've never seen anything like this before and I have no idea how we could take it off, it's really strange"

"We know that this was what was draining KITT's energy somehow while bypassing his systems and defenses without much effort, once we manage to take it off we could really use some more research on it"

"Any ideas on how to get it off?"

"Because of the lack of apparent release mechanisms the only thing that I can think of right now is by trying to see if it has any specific electromagnetic frequency and then match said frequency in order for it to just fall off"

"Wouldn't that take a while?"

"Probably, but what other thing can we do, this might be the fastest way to do this"

"I guess you might be right…well, let's get to it then, the sooner we get this off the sooner we can help KITT" Billy then walked off to get some equipment while Sarah stayed in her place, she gave a look over the shape of the Mustang, it had a duller look than it usually had because his Nano skin was deactivated, but otherwise he looked relatively fine, noting that he couldn't fix himself once he was brought back online, she turned around and found Mike sitting in one of the chairs in the large desk in front of the gimbal, looking at the AI, she approached lightly and placed a hand on his shoulder "he's okay Mike, you don't have to worry now that we have him here"

"…how long do we have to wait until he's back?"

"First we need to remove the device that was draining his power, after that we need to plug him into the base's power central and wait for him to fully recharge"

"I suppose that is going to take a while"

"Well…because KITT's systems where almost completely drained from their power it will take a few hours for him to be completely recharged and complete the system reboot…but he really did more than what I expected"

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, with KITT there is an emergency system that kicks in if the power gets below certain level, if that happens the computer shuts itself down in order to protect itself from any threat, KITT knew that if that was the case here they would continue to drain his power faster and ultimately they wouldn't have any trouble reaching his systems by hand once the power was completely drained, instead, he fought back the emergency shutdown and pushed through it while still fighting off the computer and slowing down the drain, that was why he went into full shutdown as soon as we entered, the small amount of power he had gave out before arriving"

"He fought the shutdown?...I thought that wasn't a thing"

"It's not supposed to…what I'm really worried about is if there is any internal damage done by the drain that we can't see, for that we'll have to wait for KITT to power back up and perform some scans, but considering that KARR probably had an encounter with KITT I'm surprised that there's not much damage to the shell"

"There shouldn't be any anyway, he had his shields and yet KARR somehow managed to get past that?"

"Not really, we believe that that device is more than just for draining power, I suppose it might also block or diminish some other systems"

"Yeah…you never told me what they wanted from him, what else you found in those files"

"They were looking for him"

"Well yeah…that's obvious but-"

"No Mike, I mean they were looking for who he literally is, not a single system in particular, but him as a while, the coding of his systems in order to recreate him"

"But they already have KARR, why not use his systems?"

"Because we both know that his systems are flawed, while KITT's aren't\t and are easier to work with, it would be way easier to slightly corrupt a perfect system than entirely fix one that is already highly corrupted, and KARR wouldn't let anyone access his systems"

"I guess it makes more sense…but why would they want to clone him?..."

"That is for them to know and us to find out" Just then Billy came back pulling a small cart with some equipment on it, shortly after Zoe came back through the entrance door "Hey Zoey"

"You got anything out of that thing in KITT yet Sarah?"

"Not yet, we're working on removing it first, by the way, what did you do back there to create that explosion?"

"Oh that little thing, I just found the place where they store all their cars and shot a rocket at the center of the place"

"Well that would make it harder for them to move around for a while. Mind helping us remove that thing?"

"Let's get to it, the faster the better"

It had taken around an hour for them to figure out what the exact frequency of the device was, but after some trial and error the device fell to the floor when the frequencies matched, Billy and Zoe took it to one of their stations and started to work with it while Sarah waited for Mike to find the special cable that plugged in directly into KITT's main systems in order for him to receive the direct charge, once he got the cable Sarah opened the Mustang's trunk and reached in to plug the cable in the special port in the engine compartment

"Well, now what?"

"Now, Mike, we need to wait for his systems to reach their full charge again, you guys can go get some rest, it's getting late, I'll stay here wait until he's back, I'll call you guys when he does if you want to" Billy and Zoe nodded their heads in agreement and and left to their quarters, Mike opted to stay in the room as well, he wanted to be around when the recharge was finally over. The hours went by and the graph that measured the charge level in the large screen, the line kept a steady rhythm and the clock signaled there was still at least another two hours until full charge, once again Mike turned back to his phone and leaned down on the chair, a few seats away from him was Sarah, playing with an empty cup of coffee with little interest "Sarah, you can go if you want, I can stay here, I promise I'll tell you when the he's almost done charging"

"I'm fine Mike. I can handle an all-nighter better than some of you have"

"Hey I was just asking, don't be mad at me for worrying about you"

"why would you worry?...I'm sorry Mike, I didn't mean to sound so harsh, I just really want this to be over right now, it's too much crap for one day. I just want to make sure KITT's okay before doing anything else"

"go get some sleep Sarah, I promise I'll go get you as soon as he's done recharging…"

"…promise you'll wake me up Mike"

"I will, now go have some sleep" after that Sarah stood up and lazily walked away, Mike moved to a more comfortable couch that was resting in one side of the place, le laid across the thing and continued to use his phone, it seemed to be working in keeping him awake so far. The charm lasted a little less than another hour before said thing fell to the floor as Mike too fell asleep. The cave remained in almost complete silence with the exception of the beeping and humming of computers, the atmosphere remained the same for a little while longer. The large screen suddenly came back to life, the graph had stopped moving and it now displayed a message that appeared in the center of it, the same message was displayed in the smaller computer in the desks "Charge 100%" a few seconds later and a louder humming sound filled the room as all the system sin the Mustang started to come back online, the red scanner came back on and after a few seconds resumed its calming tracking motion.

He felt the moment when he started to receive his energy back, it was a large continuous stream of power, a sensation that he last felt when he was first rough online, it was a very revitalizing sensation, time was no longer a factor for as long as he divided the energy into his different systems, without even noticing more and more signals started to flash his natural sapphire color signaling their full charge, after a while all his systems where back at full charge and he was ready to start his system once more, he got ready and activated everything, he regained his view of the world in front of him as several system schematics and measures starts to appear around his vision, after a minute or two he was back to normal, after that was done he set off his Nano skin to repair the few dents that had been caused by KARR. He took his attention back to his surroundings then, it would look like everyone had gone to get some rest, next to him, however, was Mike sleeping in the couch, his phone was laying on the floor next to him, he had probably fallen asleep a little while, and he couldn't blame them, after what they had gone through in the span of a single day it was only logical for them to be tired, with that he sat back in himself and waited, he still needed someone to extract the power cable from his engine compartment before he could close his hood, true it wasn't the most pleasant thing for him to have to keep his hood open for much longer, but what else could he really do at the moment?. For the rest of the night he stayed making sure that none of his systems had been damaged, and apparently everything was normal, there wasn't any malfunctions and everything was fully charged and operating at 100% efficiency.

The rest of the night went quick and soon enough the sun started to peek over the horizon, the first one to get up was Sarah, who came into the room in a hurried fashion "Good morning Sarah"

"KITT! You're back, how are you, are your systems all in order?"

"Yes Sarah, I already performed several tests and everything is working at optimum efficiency. There is nothing to worry about"

"I talk mike to go wake me up as soon as you where back up, did he fall asleep too?"

"By the time I had finished my system reboot he was already asleep, so yes"

"I knew I should've stayed here until you were ready, I'm sorry KITT"

"There is no need to be sorry, it was a long day for everyone, I don't blame you for being tired"

"I know you don't, but I would've liked to help you out in the reboot"

"Its fine, I still require of your assistance for one more thing"

"Really?...what is that KITT?"

"Would you kindly remove the power cable from my engine compartment so that I can close my hood?"

"Oh! Yeah of course" Sarah approached the Mustang and leaned into the engine compartment, she gave the cable a few twists to remove the locks and then plugged it out, and she straightened back up and reached up to close the Mustang's hood "there you go KITT, good as new"

"Thank you Sarah, I really appreciate it"

"Anytime KITT|"

Shortly after that happened, Mike finally woke up to an angry Sarah yelling at him for falling asleep and not waking her up, of course KITT jumped to cover him before he could even come up with an excuse for it, a while later Billy and Zoe followed and the four started to get to their usual daily routine, after they had all gotten something to eat and had changed their clothes, the four where currently in the kitt cave in their respective places, then Sarah called out to everyone

"Okay guys, we all know what we need to do now, we saw that those people are getting their hands on some pretty powerful, expensive and rare guns, we need to find out how and why, as well as find out why they needed to clone KITT's programing for. you all know what do, let's make this as quick as possible" with that the three nodded and focused on their stations, each one focusing on a certain task, they were going to get to the bottom of this, no matter what..