Hey guys, chapter 33 is here! I hope you like it and thank you to hayknight for your comment on the last chapter!

The weekend then passed without a hitch with all of the family managing to get along, though tensions still existed between Ashley and Hailey and the two of them tried to avoid each other as much as possible. Indeed Ashley had been looking forward to to Monday and now it was finally here.

In fact it was the end of the day and she hadn't been pranked or picked on or laughed at all day! Yes she had hung out with Ruth and played hide and seek with her, Mathew and Kevin. She and Kevin had become friends now that they sat on the same table, especially since he was already Mathew's friend and he was turning out to be a pretty nice guy.

Anyway, things had changed a little since the incident with the glue on Hailey's chair as now Ashley didn't have to go straight home on Mondays anymore! She had a suspicious feeling it had something to do with trying to keep the girls separated from each other as much as possible. So now that martial arts had just finished, Ashley was going to Amber's house for the afternoon and she just couldn't keep the grin off her face!

After picking out some takeout as they arrived at her large house Amber decided to ask, 'So, is there anything special you'd like to do? Any games?'

Ashley thought for a moment, then she remembered a particular game she had enjoyed playing.

'Can we play Uno again?' She asked still feeling a little shy about asking for things.

'Sure, standard ruleset or slightly different?' Amber inquired as they sat down in the living room with their food and grabbed some board games as well, 'Don't worry about getting the cards or pieces greasy, I have extras. Anyways, how would you like to try learning these boardgames better after are game?'

'Lets do the slightly different rules and ok, I'd like to learn the others.' She nodded smiling. 'So, how are we going to change the rules?'

'It's generally the same except say you put down a Draw Four over my Draw Two, instead of four I'd have to draw Six. And the other thing is if neither of us have a card to put down then we're required to draw cards until we can.' Amber smiled, 'If you'd like I could add a second deck into the first and another time perhaps some custom uno cards for more options and colours.'

'Sounds good.' Ashley replied. So they got an extra deck and added it to the other cards as well as creating a few cards of their own before they started playing.

Ashley loved playing Uno this way, in fact she enjoyed the new rules more than the old one and once they were finished Amber taught her how to be better at playing Sorry, Chess and even Scrabble! The young girl enjoyed herself quite a bit, but there was something she hadn't done yet and she was hoping her teacher would let her.

'Um... Miss K? I-I was wondering if... I could use the computer and say hi to your friend?'

'Go ahead, he's not here at the moment but is linked to any messages sent from the computer. He will however get back to you as soon as he's able to.' Amber gave her permission as she cleaned up the mess and put away some of the games, though left some boxes out just incase they decided to play again soon.

The girl grinned then jumped up and went over to the computer where she eagerly began typing on the keyboard. She knew that Amber's friend, whoever he might be, wouldn't answer her straight away, but that doesn't mean that she was any less excited to talk to him again.

"Hello again! I'm sure you probably know who I am, but in case you aren't sure it's Ash. I know that would be pretty obvious given that Miss K wouldn't be so weird when she talks to you, unlike me, but I just can't help it and now... Oh gosh I'm rambling sorry. Um... Anyway... I guess that's it, bye."

Once she was done she sat back and sighed. She really wanted him to respond, but Amber had said he was busy and even when he did get time to answer her message what would he say? She sounded like an idiot and to be honest she felt like one too. Why did she even bother when every time she went to talk to him she did something stupid? It's a wonder Amber even let her use the computer.

Soon however the computer binged alerting of a reply, "How's school young one?"

"Good I guess... Though I nearly got a detention for pranking my sister."

"I'm sorry I can stay on long lest my signal is discovered by my brother, but don't let it get to you. Tell your teacher the truth about why you did it, and in turn said sister may likely explain her actions thus then you can both apologize next time you're in class. Take care."

Amber smiled on watching her talk to the AI, secretly KARR, 'Hey, would you happen to know how expensive Hailey's skirt was and her size? I don't mind taking you shopping to get a replacement which may help ease the tension between you two and your adoptive family. What else would she might like?'

Ashley typed her goodbye then turned to look at the young woman who had asked her the questions.

'I'm not sure, I'd have to ask her, thanks for the offer though. I appreciate... Hang on. How do you know what I did? I never told you! It was them wasn't it? The Riders told you, didn't they?!' Her eyes flashed dangerously as she spat out the surname of her adoptive family.

Amber shook her head, 'Nope. Rather, it was just who you were taking to. I believe he just gave you a hint about himself and a related family member.' The young girl's expression turned thoughtful.

'He mentioned his brother, but... He's an AI how can he...? Unless they were created by the same person, but how am I supposed to know what his brother has to do with anything?' She sighed. 'I'm not very smart.'

Amber glanced at her comlink before Ashley's, 'Why don't you ask them then?' She gestured to the comlinks though said no more instead pulling out Scrabble yet again as she took her seat to play.

Ashley stared down at her comlink, should she take her advice and ask her real family or should she ignore it and just play scrabble? She decided to ask.

'KITT?' She asked into her comlink.

'Hello Ashley, how was school today?' The AI's voice asked.

'Pretty good, but I need to ask you a question.'

'Go ahead, what do you want to know?'

'Well... I was wondering if you ever... I don't know... Had a brother? Or a car that had been made similar to you?'

At first her only answer was a stunned silence, then however the AI seemed to find his voice.

''Well in a matter of speaking yes, he was my predecessor, FLAG created him before me. In fact Bonnie was also his mechanic, she practically created him the way she did me, except I had a few more upgrades and slightly different design being the younger "brother".'

'What's he like?' She asked curious and interested to see if his description was anything like Amber's friend.

'He was...Older and...A lot like me actually accept of course that was more on-par with human relations and if I'm honest he was great...'

'What happened to him?'

'He had an accident one day when he was running a track test, what happened wasn't his fault, but the Foundation decided that he was "unstable" and decided to shut him down so he was deactivated. I've never hated anyone before, but that was the closest that I've ever come to it; I've never forgiven what the Foundation did.'

'Oh, I never...' She trailed off. 'Thanks KITT.'

'That's alright Ashley.' He replied and the conversation was ended.

She looked to Amber. 'So your friend is KITT's brother?!'

Amber nodded smiling, 'However for the time being it is better he stay out of sight of his brother. At least until they're, his family; FLAG, is willing to listen to his side of the story... Which doesn't seem to be any time soon.' Amber seemed a bit sad at that, though she continued with the scrabble game.

KARR had been keeping out of sensor range for the most part, though he had wanted to return to his recharge station in the garage he had to wait until KITT's radius moved. He growled slightly, having to leave his fast food parking spot early on sensing his oil leaking leaving behind a small puddle thus he headed to a nearby Gas Station which included a small Mechanic's shop. He then considered about calling his partner, his driver.

Before he did though, he made sure that he was definitely out of the range of his brothers range and upon establishing that he was he decided to make the call.

'Amber? I am sorry to have to call you, but I am at a Gas Station and I'm leaking oil. Given the recent activity of my brother I don't think it is wise for me to come back until I am no longer leaking something he could trace me with.'

Amber understood replying that she would meet up with him soon even if he had to moved from his current spot due to his brother, then looked to Ashley. 'Will you be alright while I go tend to him for five-ten minutes? Of course I'll be back real soon.' She then added, 'By the way that's not how his voice normally sounds.'

'I'll be alright.' She nodded, before glancing over at her bag remembering that she had homework to do anyway. 'I'm assuming that the normal "home alone" rules still apply here?'

Amber nodded on setting up a few things, amongst closing window curtains before she went off to find her buddy using her project ride.

At the same time KITT was concerned he had been thinking over the past few days about what had happened in the beach car park, how could those tyre treads be an exact match to his? Only one other car had those tyres and he had been blown up! Unless... No, it wasn't possible. KARR was for all intents and purposes dead. So how-

'Michael!'

Devon's voice rang out through the mansion!

'Uh oh...' Michael soon appeared in his office looking concerned.

'Michael what is the meaning of this?!' He held up a slip of paper.

'What is that?' The young man asked walking over to see.

'This, Michael, is a speeding fine!' He replied angrily.

'What?! But I never speed! Or at least not when there are cameras or police around...!' He denied.

'Then why did we get sent this?'

'I don't know!'

'I'll have to ground you for this Michael.' Devon said putting the fine down on his desk and looking at his employee sternly.

'What do you mean "ground me?" I'm not a child Devon, I can come and go as I please!'

'Not in KITT, you can't!'

'But Devon I swear-!'

'Don't try to deny it, the evidence is all here. Except...' He stared at the paper confused for a moment.

'What is it?' Michael asked.

'It says here that it was a two-tones trans-am. KITT isn't two-toned.'

'Wait, a two-toned trans-am that was caught speeding?! That sounds like the one everyone was talking about at the beach!'

'What do you mean?'

'When I took Ashley to the beach on Staturday I heard about an incident involving a two-toned trans-am that nearly ran over a family when exiting the parking lot and after skidding to a halt to avoid hitting the people he left skid marks. Once everything had died down a little I got curious and asked KITT to identify the tread...'

'And?'

'And it was an exact match with KITT's tyres!'

'What?! That shouldn't be possible!'

'I know! But... Let's think about this Devon, there's only one other car with tyres that matched KITT's and he was a two-toned trans-am! Maybe-'

'Michael you destroyed KARR, there's no way he could be back!'

'But it would explain everything!'

'You're right... Fine. I want you and KITT to go back to California and check this out immediately.'

'You've got it Devon.' He nodded and headed to the door.

'And Michael!' He turned to look at the Englishman expectantly. 'Be careful.'

'I will Devon, don't worry.'

With that he left.