Knight Rider: Déjà vu
(This story is rated M for Mature. Knight Rider is copyrighted 1982-1986 NBC/Universal Studios. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are copyrighted 2001-2007 The CW Network. Any and all Smallville references are copyrighted 2001-2007 The CW Network)
Chapter X: final destination
Trinity pushed the accelerator down on The Knight Automated Roving Robot as she was traveling back home to Smallville, Kansas, driving down the same route that Michael and KITT were. She was humming a Christian hymn when KARR spoke up.
"Miss Trinity, What if we don't find Michael Knight? What then?" The Artificial Intelligence wanted to know. The pretty young woman's face smiled.
"We will find him. We have to. I have no choice," She said as she was replaying a scene from the highway camera that had picked up KITT's last known destination.
"Can you get the camera to display the speed at which they were traveling?" She asked KARR. The AI was silent as it began to communicate with the LA City traffic cam computers.
"According to the last known log, the Knight Industries Three Thousand was traveling at a speed of 325 miles an hour turning onto a rural interstate to cut through the state of Nevada. Apparently Mr. Knight wanted to get to Kansas sooner rather than later," KARR said after a few minutes. She stared at the speed readout below the video then noticed the streaks begin to show on the video.
"What's going on here?" She said as she placed the vehicle in the Auto Cruise Mode as she tapped monitor #1.
"Were they also not testing the Super Pursuit Mode at the time?" KARR asked. She shook her head.
"When Michael constructed the Knight Industries Three thousand, he based the prototype on the original Two Thousand model. He didn't have access to any of the Knight 2000's parts, because Lionel's prototype destroyed it, and the Super Pursuit Mode at the time in 2001," Trinity said. She remembered her first meeting with Michael.
September 21st, 2001. In response to 9/11, FLAG had been ordered to become a part of Homeland security. One night while Trinity had been out shopping, she saw a car that looked strikingly familiar. She had approached it and saw the car that had been responsible for some recent robberies in town. It looked like KITT, except for one minor difference. The License plate was a Kansas license plate but the vanity plate was the same. "Knight". She had then rushed home and called the local FLAG office out of Metropolis. They then forwarded her call to the FLAG headquarters in Las Vegas, which was being transferred, to Los Angeles. She had spoken with a Devon Miles, a woman who was 1st cousin to the Original Executive Director of FLAG. She had then told Trinity she would order her best Operative to Smallville. Within days, Michael and KITT had arrived in Smallville. The young 40 looking man had interviewed everyone at Smallville high for the whereabouts of the duplicate KITT. Trinity meanwhile had been so fascinated with KITT that she began designing her own prototype based on Wilton Knight's original prototype. She then had seen Michael. She knew instantly that he was the one she was going to marry. Then the unthinkable had happened. KITT had been destroyed. Michael had lost his partner. To relieve his sadness, FLAG directors had appointed him Executive Director when they had discovered Devon Miles's involvement with LuthorCorp. Trinity had aided Michael in the construction of a new KITT. A model based on the 2000 model, but was hack proof based on technology not only from FLAG but also from her home of Krypton.
"Did you know that Michael had proposed to me a few days ago?" She asked as she pressed the Manual Cruise button. The AI was silent.
"I did. Mr. Knight had asked me to keep it a secret from you, because he wanted the timing to be perfect. He was going to call you and ask you to marry him once he got to Smallville. How did you know?" KARR asked.
She rolled her eyes at him.
"Remember who I'm related to. I may not have all of Clark's abilities, but I can read minds. When we last kissed, before he went to jail I read his mind. I need to find him, so my life, & his can be complete," She said. She then pushed the accelerator down to match the speed he had been going.
"Miss Trinity, something is wrong. We are going faster than expected." KARR said. Trinity then looked at the chronometer on the dashboard of the car. It had displayed for her the month, date, year and the local time of whatever state she was in. She noticed it was going backwards.
"KARR, I think we are going backwards in time," she finally said. Within moments the car and it's driver were gone, out of time but yet into the past.
To be Continued….