Raven Meets Michael Knight.

Los Angeles California 1985. It was a beautiful sunny day and I find myself walking along the Shoemaker Canyon Road. After the events of the Judas Incident, I felt I needed some much needed rest and relaxation to get over the shock of Terra betraying our team. While others handle their emotion in healthier ways, I often require to suppress mine, lest my powers go out of control. I was in my uniform with my hood down. Walking across the tunnel, when I heard a scream. It was a woman running away and calling for help, from a Man in a suit firing a gun at her. I can't believe it, I try to go one town over without some crime being committed and it happens in front of me. I put my hood up, enter the tunnel and prepare to use my powers, when I saw something else I wouldn't believe. It was hard to see in the dark, but it looked like a long red light that seemed to flash back and forth. It wasn't until I hear the roar of an engine that I realize what it is. A car. Which comes barreling forward at high speed in our direction. I move out of the way, and see the car was now between the helpless woman and her assailant. The man tries to fire at the car, but the bullets bounce off it's surface hitting the walls. Another man steps out of the car. He wore jeans and a black leather jacket. Before the assailant could fire at him, he restrains and knocks him out. It was strange, this man reminded me of Batman, yet he looks nothing like him. He throws the man in the back seat and I see the doors closing and locking up. He speaks into his wrist. "Ok K.I.T.T. we got him, bring him to the station while I get these two out of the tunnel." The car moves away without a driver, bringing the panicking assassin with it. We were ushered out of the tunnel and I could see him in the light. His face, while handsome, looked too perfect. As if he got some work done. The woman was in a grey business suit and holding a briefcase. She clung onto her savior. Crying on his shoulder. "I didn't know what to do, he could have shot me." She said. "It's alright." He said. "Those files must have been really important if he was willing to kill you over it, but he won't hurt you now." She let's him go and checks her case, sighing in relief that they're still there. He ushers her away so he can have a talk with me. "Alright, lose the hood." He says. While I was hesitent I did as I was told, I felt like I could trust him. I took the hood down and he couldn't believe his own eyes. "You look old enough to be my kid." He said. "What are you doing sneaking around the tunnels looking for trouble?" To which I respond. "I was actually on vactation, had you not beat me to it, I would have done my job and took down that man." "A teen vigilante." He said. "Just great. I only thought they just patrolled San Francisco." "You know the Titans?" I ask. "Know them?" He said. "Not personally, but I heard about their stories. Batman's partner leading a group of teenage superheroes. I thought it was just tabloid stuff. I'm Michael Knight, enforcer of the Foundation of Law and Governement. FLAG for short." He reaches to shake my hand. With some hesitation I reach for his. "Raven." I said. I take his hand and I get a flash. A man of similar build is seen on falling onto his car, from a gunshot wound. The vision causing some shock from me. Which did not go unnoticed. He seemed to ignore it for now. "So what's the story on your friend there?" I ask him. "Well." He said. "She was working with research and development. Some weapons tech made by a joint venture of Wayne Enterprises, S.T.A.R. Labs and Dayton Estates. A team of competing companies sent their spies to retrieve schematics for some prototypes, but one of Steve Dayton's personal researchers removed them before they can be achieved. So naturally they're mad about it." All of this sounded very familiar. "You know I think I may be able to help find them, but we can't talk here. If who I think they are, is doing this they may be watching us right now." "Well normally I work alone." He said. "But you seem reliable. K.I.T.T. should be back by now." And like that the car showed up and I've gotten to take a look at it. It was a Pontiac Trans Am, but modified. On the outside it looked like smooth, reflective, black paint and on the inside save for a few pieces of tech, the interior looked like beige leather. The door opens up for Michael. "K.I.T.T., open the passenger door, we have a guest to take to the Semi." He says. I jump as soon as I hear the other voice. It was coming from the car itself. "Yes Michael." He says. Opening the door to let me in. I put on my seat belt and see the door close. "So what is this?" She said. "I am the Knight Industries Two Thousand, you can call me K.I.T.T. For short." He said. "And who might you be young lady?" "I'm Raven." I said. I heard some clicks and whirs from the dashboard. It was like K.I.T.T. was trying to process that information. I look on one of the screens and see my name, my picture and information. Read aloud by the voice: "Raven." He said. "A Superhero and a member of the group known as 'Teen Titans.' She is adept at magic, psychic abilities and Empathic abilities. There must be something wrong with my data banks, because I do not believe in magic." I couldn't help but laugh a little at that. "That's because you haven't seen it yet." I said. "I can't believe this, I'm arguing spiritual belief with a talking car." The comment got a laugh from Michael. "Well he's a car of technological wonders. So it makes sense he's kind of an Atheist." He says. "Oh Ha Ha Michael." K.I.T.T. says. "It's a known fact that there is no such thing as magic. There's always a logical explination of things."

We ride off into the highway and approach a large Semi-truck with a black trailer. On it's side a symbol of a Knight Chess Piece. Possibly the Knight Industries insigina. K.I.T.T. parks himself into the trailer which seems to house a garage, computer lab and an office. There were two other people in there. An old man in a brown business suit and a woman in white coveralls. They take one look at me and then give Michael a glare. "Isn't she a little young for you Michael?" The woman says in a joking matter. To which Devon adds "You know I am all for part time babysitting, but you shouldn't just take people here, it's classified." Michael scoffs at them both. "Dammit Devon, Bonnie. It's not like that." He says. "She has information on our guys." "Oh yes." Devon says. "Those people that went after our witness. What do they have to do with her?" I get out of the car and stand before them. "I have reason to believe that I know the people behind the attack." I said. "When Michael mentioned the names Wayne Enterprises, S.T.A.R. Labs and Dayton Estates. As well as the botched espionage, that's when it hit me. You probably have their data on file, but I want you to look up the following names: LexCorp, Iceberg and The N.O.W.H.E.R.E corperation." They type the names in on the main computer. "You must be joking." Devon says. "These are all Legitimate orginizations. Lex Luthor, Oswald Cobblepott and Darren Jones, have broken no laws." "None on the books." I say. "But they have been enemies of these companies for years and would do anything to one up them. Luthor has mostly focused his time and money trying to find ways to kill Superman. The Cobblepotts and Waynes have been feuding for centuries and N.O.W.H.E.R.E. has been trying to find way to keep this planet as their view of normal since World War II." "I'd listen to her Devon." Michael says. "Her group's affiliate teams have been fighting these people. If you can't trust a Titan, who can you trust?" "Ok. I'll take your word for it. I'm putting them under surveilance, Bonnie you upload the recent data onto K.I.T.T. Michael, you keep a close eye on this girl. She may be a target if they know she's onto her." "I can take care of myself." I said. My eyes glowing black while some of the papers and pencils on the desk begin to float. Shocking everyone, but Michael. "Be that as it may." Devon says. "We're still keeping an eye on you. Now put those down." I stop using my abilities causing everything to drop down. After they were done uploading, I get in K.I.T.T. with Michael who looks at the dash board. "Now how do you explain that?" He asks. K.I.T.T. doesn't say a word at first, but then talks up. "The glow of her eyes, may have been caused by the lighting and the wind blew those papers off." He says. I chuckle a bit. "For an advanced car, you're a terrible liar." I say. "Hey at least give me some diginity." K.I.T.T. says. "It's the first time I've been proven wrong." Michael was about to open his mouth, but he wisely shuts it. We drive out of the semi and head back on the highway. "So what are we looking for." He asks. "Well." I say. "We're looking for any company building that is tied to them. While LexCorp is worldwide, don't expect it to just be a branch building. Look up their smaller companies as well everything including Big Belly Burger." "You gotta be kidding." Michael Knight says. "I loved going to that place. If I knew it was ran by an evil businessman, I would have bought McDonald's instead. At least Ray Kroch is honest about being a criminal. What about the others?" "Iceberg." I say. "Started out as a night club in Gotham City. Oswald Cobblepot aka The Penguin, claimed it was his first foray into becoming legit, but it's really a front for many criminal activities. He managed to accumulate enough wealth to start his own growing corperation. N.O.W.H.E.R.E. was a legit government run agency that was originally meant to study and recruit anything they considered odd. Specifically people and creatures with various abilities, but due to a change in management, they instead imprison and kill anyone they deem abnormal. They are heavily obsessed with obtaining any weapons and gadgets they need to counteract certain traits." "So a billionaire, a crime boss and a rouge agency are working together." Michael says. "I take it the law never touches them." "Some are bought others are scared away." I say. "Only a select few like Batman, Superman and The Doom Patrol have the guts to take them down, however, they are all off world." "How convenient." K.I.T.T. says. "Well you certainly came to the right place Raven." Michael says. "We specialize in fighting criminals that are above the law."

While we were driving around L.A. K.I.T.T. was making a map of all known hideouts of all three companies. "Our best bet would be Luthorcorp." K.I.T.T. says. "If the other two are as secretive as you say they are, then they would need a legit business to hide them. They have an event going on. A race to test out their newest car." "What kind of car?" Michael says. K.I.T.T.'s sensor flashes around. "Oh no." he says. "NO! Michael you're not gonna believe this." He brings up the rendering on one of the monitors. I couldn't believe it myself. It was a Trans Am just like K.I.T.T. But it had a silver trim and a yellow sensor. However I could sense the fear not just on Michael, but on K.I.T.T. whatever this car is, it's enough for me to feel the fear from a machine. "K.A.R.R." Michael says in fear and a slight angry tone. "Who's K.A.R.R.?" I ask. To which K.I.T.T. explains "My brother." He begins. "The Knight Automated Roving Robot. He was built before me, as a prototype. However there was a flaw. To make a comparison, I was programmed to enforce the preservation of human life. Meaning If it came down to it, I'd just as soon destroy myself than let Michael die." "Sounds noble." I say. "Thank you." K.I.T.T. Says. "However that was the result of correcting a flaw that existed in K.A.R.R. He was programmed to enforce his sense of self preservation. Meaning when it came down to it, he won't hesitate to kill anyone that threatens his existence. I can't believe he's back, we destroyed every piece of him." "Someone must have rebuilt him." I say. "Someone always does." Michael adds. "If he's in Luthorcorp." Raven says. "Then Lex must have salvaged the pieces and rebuilt him. If his CPU is intact, he may still remember you two. He may try to warn them about you." "While I agree with you Raven." K.I.T.T. says "I don't think he would warn them about us unless necessary. Otherwise Lex would be looking for us. K.A.R.R. insists on killing us himself. " I nod attentively. We stop at a racetrack. It was the California Speedway. Big Belly Burger and other products were advertised at the stands and at the track. The race hasn't started yet and there seemed to be various cars. Both Luxury, Stock and Muscle. "Alright, K.I.T.T. Shut your sensor of, we don't want them to know who you are just yet." Michael says. "Yes Michael." K.I.T.T. says. Shutting off his sensor. And Michael steps out. I stay in the car and using my magic I changed my uniform into Civilian Clothes. "Not a word K.I.T.T." I said. Which K.I.T.T. promptly shuts up. I step out as well, Michael takes one look at me. "You change clothes pretty fast." He said. Before I could say anything we see Lex approaching. He was in his buisness suit despite it being a hot day and he seemed cautious but affable. He goes to Michael first. "Good afternoon sir, are you here to volunteer for the race?" He asks. To which Michael Knight responds shaking the man's hand. "Why yes I am sir, my name is Michael Knight." He said. "I'm Rachel Roth." I added. "Mr. Knight was kind enough to sponsor me while I attend ULA." "Michael Knight, why does that name sound familiar?" He asks. We look at each other, thinking he's on to us. "Ah yes." Lex said. "You wouldn't happen to be related to Wilton Knight by any chance?" To which Michael nodded. "Yes, he was my father." He said. "I'm the sole heir of Knight Industries." Lex enthusiastically returned the handshake. "I can't tell you how honored I am to meet you." He says. "I've heard nothing but great things about Wilton. In fact, while I don't want to take myself off my own pedestal, his motto did inspire me. Tell me Mr. Knight. Do you believe that one man can make a difference?" Michael seemed genuinely touched, but the cop in him had some suspicions. "Yes." he said. "In fact that's what he told me on his death bed. I've struggled endlessly to honor that." Lex let's go of Michael's hand "But enough about past lives." He says. "You can enter the race. I just hope you're not here on FLAG Business." "Well." Michael said. "That's partially why we're here. We caught wind that your star racer may be Knight industries property. Now I wouldn't want to put such an admirer of Wilton's behind bars, but I cannot stress enough how dangerous this particular car is. It value's it's own existence more so than humans. It won't hesitate to kill it's driver when the situation calls for it and it could put your sponsors in danger. However, I am willing to drop any charges on behalf of the Foundation and Behalf of Wilton for a small wager." Lex seemed initially offended at the accusation, but the second he heard wager, he was impressed. "You're definitely your father's son." He says. "He gets to the point as sharp as you do. What's the wager?" "It's really simple." Michael says. "If my car can beat your top racer, you let me confiscate it, so that Knight Industries can properly dispose of it. If I lose, you keep it for good." Lex thinks on it for a moment. "You have yourself a wager. I'll even sign you up." He says. "And I'm looking forward to seeing you watch your sponsor race, Miss Roth. Watch him like a raven." I try not to react, so I simply smile and say "I'll be on him, like Kryptonite on Superman." We glare at each other for a moment, before walking away. We walk back to K.I.T.T. "Did you get all that?" Michael asks. "Yes." K.I.T.T. "I sent the recording to Devon and Bonnie so they're up to speed. Though knowing Devon I pretty much violated my programming by giving him a heart attack." "I don't blame him for having one." Michael says. "I was about to have one too. He seemed to agree to this wager very quickly. I don't like it."

We had a few hours to kill until the race began, so we spent it just watching, waiting and making small talk. "So..." I said. "What's your story?" To which Michael responds. "Well it's a long one, but my name really isn't Michael Knight. It's actually Michael Long. I was a police officer, working deep undercover in Nevada. There was an industrial espionage operation going on and the people involved were stealing secret projects from tech and computer companies. I was protecting a potential witness. Tanya Walker. However, just as I was about to bust the entire crew, I find out that she's not only their boss, but she intended to kill me. She shot me in the face." I had a flash of the image I saw before. "I see." I said. "So this Wilton Knight, you mentioned is what gave you this new life?" "Yes." he said. "He fixed my face which was modeled after both him and his son Garthe. He also willed me a new identity, with all the benefits that went with it. Tanya wronged him and his company too and as a result, he founded FLAG to battle criminals that operated above the law. I got my revenge, avenged Wilton and ever since, K.I.T.T. and I have been going around trying to help people." I was astounded. This man suffered so much and yet he still tries to do his job to the letter. There's just something about him I seem to look up to. "What about you?" He said. "I don't imagine you just woke up one day and decided to be a Superhero." I was hesitant. I wanted to tell my whole story then and there, but I couldn't, but I had to give him something. "I'll tell you after the race." I said. To my surprise he didn't pry any further. My friends would have pushed more.

The race began. Michael and K.I.T.T. were put in last place. I could see K.A.R.R. for myself from the owner's row where I was seated. With the exception of the Yellow Sensor and the Silver Trim as well as the Lexcorp Logo plastered all over the side and the hood of the vehicle, it looked exactly like K.I.T.T. To my surprise K.A.R.R. didn't seem to react. I could hear K.I.T.T. and Michael talking through the watch radio he leant me. "I don't like this at all K.I.T.T. he's just sitting there." Michael says. To which K.I.T.T. responds. "The K.A.R.R. we know would have plowed through these guys to get to us. He's up to something." "So much for my brilliant plan." Michael says. "I was hoping he'd go haywire and head towards us." "You'd risk the lives of these people to expose K.A.R.R.?" I chime in. "I can assure you young lady, nothing would happen to them while we're around." K.I.T.T. says. "I'm just glad it's not a demolition derby. Remember that one?" "How can I forget." Michael said. "They tried to run us off the road." "Attention all drivers." The announcement begin. "The race is about to begin. Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines!" Everyone's engines were roaring and revving up waiting for that red light to go green. The race begins and I witness K.I.T.T. zooming past each driver at great speed catching up to K.A.R.R. "Hello again old friend." K.I.T.T. said "Ah K.I.T.T., Michael. For once I'm glad to see you." K.A.R.R. says back. Both riding neck and neck. "I'd kill you both, if it wasn't in my best interest now." "What are you planning? You pile of rusted circuits." Michael says. "You'll find out soon enough, but for now let's enjoy the race." K.A.R.R. says. I watched with immense concern, until I sensed something off. I look and see Lex watching the whole thing with a huge smile on his face. Was he waiting for them to square off? I notice him giving a hand signal to the other cars. They advance on the two, and try to knock K.I.T.T. off the road. The muscle cars seemed to have no effect, the stock cars only seemed to nudge him, but the luxury cars began to hit hard, causing some dents, scratches and even small, but noticable chunk of K.I.T.T.'s shell fall off. "Michael." K.I.T.T. "Those cars must have some type of artillery plating, they took a chunk off me. I think they're trying to kill us." K.I.T.T. says. To which Michael responds. "Lex must have paid them to run us off the road. So that K.A.R.R. would win this." "If they hit me in a vital area, then we're done for." K.I.T.T. says back. I hear them struggling to think of away out of this. I can't change into my uniform or everyone would see me. Think Raven Think. OF COURSE! My soul self. I sit in the seat and close my eyes. To be conspicuous I made my soul self fly downwards rather than it's usual upwards motion. Going through the seat and coming out of the road. I go after the lead car. Expanding it as big as possible so that they all fit through. I didn't want to do this, but it was the only way to keep them from K.I.T.T. and K.A.R.R. "Did you see that?!" I heard Michael say as he sees my Soul Self in the rearview mirror. The other cars drove out as quick as they went in. The drivers' bodies pale and pouring sweat. As they drift onto the road and out of it. It was now just K.I.T.T. and K.A.R.R. racing around to the astonishment to the crowd. Just as they were about to reach the finish line, in an astonishing move, K.A.R.R. hit the breaks. casuing him to drift backwards while K.I.T.T. crosses the finish line. I hurry and put my soul self back into my body before running to them. "Are you ok?" I asked them to which Michael nods. "I'll hear that story when we get out of here." He said. K.I.T.T. chimes in. "Just take me back to the semi, I may need to see a technician about my shell and my mental state. Is anyone gonna explain where that big black bird came from and why it ate and spit out those other cars?" I couldn't help but chuckle. It was the first time someone actually described my soul self to me. Lex comes in seemingly upset that he lost, but he shook Michael's hand. "I gotta say Michael, that was our best show yet." He said. "A bet is a bet. You can show up tonight to pick up K.A.R.R." "Looking forward to it Lex." Michael says. I glare at him knowing he paid the other drivers. Yet I can't help but feel he was up to more than simply destroying them.

We make the drive back to the Semi and Devon's face was fuming red. "MICHAEL!" He yelled. "I've put up with many different ways you smashing this car, but this one takes the cake. How the hell is it missing a chunk of it's shell!?" "They ambushed them." I said. "Lex paid the other drivers to smash into K.I.T.T. while they were racing K.A.R.R." "It was strange." K.I.T.T. said. "The material they used for the cars when I scanned them, looks like a crude version of my molecular bonded shell formula. It was tough, but it was unfinished." "Lex mentioned that he met Wilton Knight before." Michael said. "Do you think he's tried to copy his work?" "That would make sense." Bonnie said. "He too is a genius, but even he couldn't replicate the entire formula. Unless he had a sample of it." Everyone's eyes widened in shock. "No." Michael said first. "Of course." I said. "The race. When they smashed into him, they intentionally hit non-vital areas. It was like they were just trying to sample him." "Standard procedure after a race is usualy to clean up any smashed debris." K.I.T.T. says. "So wait you're telling me that, the race was a trap?" Michael asks, to which we all nod. "But why would he do it in the race? Guys like Lex would have gone gaga over the formula the second they laid eyes on K.I.T.T." We all sat around and thought about it. I was the first to chime in. "I noticed that K.A.R.R. looks a little different than K.I.T.T. Logos aside his outershell was...well less shinier than yours. I don't even think he has crude armor either." "Oh no." K.I.T.T. says. "That's why they did it." "This has got to be a joke." Bonnie says. "No I'm afraid it's serious." Devon says. "Unbelievable." I say. To which Michael says "They're trying to restore K.A.R.R. into his original working condition. If they do that, he'll be unstoppable unless we do something." "Ok here's the plan." Devon says. "Bonnie, you patch up K.I.T.T., install that laser so we'd have a fighting chance. K.I.T.T. find out where that meeting is gonna be held between Michael and Lex. Also print out all the info on K.A.R.R. so that Raven is up to speed. Michael, you and Raven get ready. I have a feeling this is gonna get ugly." I change back into my uniform. While we wait for Bonnie, I sit with Michael. I knew he wasn't gonna let up until I told him and after what we went through I at least owed him some explination. "For starters." I said. "That giant bird you two saw, that was me. It's a technique I've mastered known as my 'Soul Self'. To put it plainly I can seperate my soul from my body and use it for various things. Distractions, teleporting, but if I really needed to, I could even use it as a weapon. One I only use in dire situations." Mike listened intently. "So that's why you're called Raven." He said. "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I didn't see it with my eyes." "Most people don't." I said. To which Michael asks. "What did you do to those drivers?" I took a deep breath and began to speak. "Well in terms of teleporting I can take them to wherever I wanted them to go. However seeing you in danger compromised what should have been a simple teleport. I wanted to make sure they never went near you again. So I took them to the one place they would not want to go back to. My own mind. Through meditation I can transport myself into my own mind. Which is a vast landscape that would make Hell look like a theme park. With my Soul Self, I could take others there if I wanted to. Most of the time it's a spur the moment thing to protect my friends, but even they don't want to go back there. In the case of Lex's goons, I subjected them to their own personal Hells. A consequence that hopefully would make them think twice about going after you again." "I appreciate that." Michael said. "Michael." K.I.T.T. chimes in. "I get the feeling there's more to it than just her...gifts." "I think so too." Michael says. "How did you get them?" I took another deep breath. "I was born with them." I began. "My mother, bless her soul, used to be a very complicated teenager. She wanted to find purpose in her life and she found it in the wrong places. One of which, being a satanic cult." Michael couldn't help but roll his eyes. "I've met my fair share of cults." He said. "Most of them were just con artists or people looking for an excuse to get high." "And you would have been right." I said. "Only she happened to have the unfortunate luck of finding one that worked." I could hear Bonnie drop her wrench, but she fumbles about pretending she didn't hear it. "Now wait just a moment." Michael said. "You mean to tell me, that through this cult, she was able to conceive a child with the Devil?" "Conceive would imply consent." I say back. Causing Michael to put his head in his hands. I continued. "This particular Devil, was known as Trigon the Terrible. After I was 'conceived' my mother, realized what kind of potential damage I could bring both by myself and allied with him. So she fled and in an act of desperation, tried to kill herself with me still in the womb. However she was stopped by the Monks of Azarath. Who took us in and trained us in their ways of pacifism." "Sounds like you had some peace in your life." Michael said. "It does has it's advantages." I say. "However it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. One of the monks, fearing my potential tried to kill me. The High Priestess, Azar destroyed him for it. Becasue they refuse to fight, I had to seek outside help in dealing with Trigon, so with Robin's help, we reformed the Teen Titans. Since then I've not only had to struggle with my own darkside, but despite my best efforts to prove my worth for the better, everyone outside my team hates and fears me." A single tear, to my surprise started to flow from my eyes. For once in my life, I felt like a scared kid. Without warning Michael grabs me, pulling me into a hug. Before I could say anything, Bonnie joins in and even Devon, puts a reassuring hand on my shoulder. "I want you to know." Michael said. "That we would never, EVER think of you that way kid. Even when this is all over we will keep in touch with you, even if you just need someone to talk to." It was very rare that I would feel emotions, other than heartbreak, or anger or fear. I couldn't quite describe it, but this felt like love. Familial love. I could even feel some of it coming from K.I.T.T. as well. "I'd hug you if I could." K.I.T.T. says. "But I'm afraid my doors would crush you." The three break into a laugh and to my own astonishment I was joining in with them. Not since the Titans have I met people that not only understood me, but really care about me. They let me go and I wipe my tear away. "K.I.T.T.'s almost done." Bonnie says. "He just needs some simonize for the new piece and the Laser is fully functional." "Let's go get them." Michael says. His emotion going from love to a deterimined anger. Which I could feel, yet don't fear.

Michael and I drive to the LexCorp building and wait outside. "Lex and K.A.R.R. should come out any moment now." Michael says. "How long does it take for someone to make the shell?" I ask. To which K.I.T.T. responds "Cracking the formula is the hard part, but once done, it doesn't take long." "So we could already be too late." I say. I then jerk back, my head pounding as my eyes began to glow. "Are you alright?!" Michael yells. To which I reply. "No! Someone's coming!" Just as I said that, a gunshot hits the driver side window. We look and see that it's Penguin, out of a luxury car with an umbrella gun aimed at us. "So he was right." Penguin said. "That car is nigh industructable." "What do you want Oswald?" I yell out. To which he responds "I want that formula. Lex isn't gonna keep it for himself. We had a deal." Just then another shot hits my side. Only this time it's Darren Jones. "Get out of the car you demonic freak!" He shouts. To which I shout back. "You couldn't hit Danny the Street let alone me!" Prompting him to shoot more, despite the bullets having no effect. "K.I.T.T." Michael says. "Do you think we could disable their weapons with the jammer?" "We can." K.I.T.T. says. I hear a strange whirring sound before hearing two distinctive loud pops from both sides. Their guns exploded prompting them to drop them. Despite being disarmed I was suspicious of their smug grins. Darren took out his radio. "Ok Lex." He says. "I think we bought enough time." The roar of an engine is heard. Before either of us could see it coming, K.A.R.R. comes barreling down. Hitting us from the front. The impact wasn't enough to make a dent, but it was enough to shake us and knock K.I.T.T. back a few feet. I could hear Lex's voice coming out of the loud speaker. "What do you think of my new and improved toy?" Lex says. "I changed my mind. I decided to keep it." We could hardly believe it. Lex was now behind the wheel of a newly coated K.A.R.R. Without a word Michael hits the reverse and pulls out away. We try to get some distance from the two. However K.A.R.R. was catching up to us. "He's gaining on us." I say. Michael doesn't even bother to look in the rear view mirror. He just knows. "Don't worry." He says. "There's one surprise we do have. K.I.T.T. we need to get some more distance enough to give us a good fight without anyone else in our way. I'm switching to Super Pursuit Mode." He pushes a button and suddenly I see K.I.T.T. transform. Fins were popping up from all sides and we speed off. Clocking at over 420 miles per hour. To Lex and the others it was like we dissappeared faster than a speeding bullet. "If this guy's been going at it with Superman for years." K.I.T.T. says "He will find a way to catch up with us. However we bought ourselves some time and distance for now." "Right now." Michael says. "We need to come up with a plan. Twice we tried the Laser before, and either it gets wrecked or K.A.R.R. somehow steals it. We can't just ram him like before." "You promised we wouldn't think about that ever again." K.I.T.T. Says. I think for a moment. "It's against the usual way I do things, but I do have an idea, but we gotta round up Penguin and Jones otherwise they'd try to stop us and something tells me those puny bullets were only for show." "I'm all ears." K.I.T.T. says.

I explain my plan and we drive back in the direction we came with Super Pursuit Mode off. K.I.T.T. uses his tracker and scanner to pin point Penguin and Jones' location. Both of which were found half way up the highway, bickering with each other. "I'm telling you. Just lose the nose and you'd only be a fat man rather than a fat Penguin." Jones says. "You say one more thing about my nose and I'll shoot yours off." Penguin says back. It didn't take us long enough to get spotted. They both have their guns trained on K.I.T.T. Using my soul self I disable their guns and knock them out. Michael gets out of K.I.T.T. and hand cuffs them both to the street sign. Taking any hidden guns off of them.

We drive back spotting K.A.R.R. on the speedway. Michael pulls in. The two cars facing each other ready to ram each other at moment's notice. I turn on the loud speaker. "K.A.R.R." I say "Before we do this can I say one thing? We're dead anyway, so it shouldn't hurt to hear me out." I watch the yellow sensor move back and forth slowly. It could just be my view but it looked like he was thinking things over. "Very well." K.A.R.R. says. "Speak your last." I sigh with relief. "Is it true that your main program priority is self-preservation above all else?" I ask. To which K.A.R.R. responds. "That is correct. My existence is above all other prioities." "But you're already violating that program by working with a man like Luthor." I say. "I'm surprised your superior intellect doesn't see it. You think he's just gonna let you go after finishing us? All he wants is the formula and once he kills us, he'll either dispose of you or worse, make you his slave for life." "YOU LIE!" K.A.R.R. shouts. "We have an understanding, a mutual hatred for people like yourselves. Luthor wouldn't throw that away for something so petty." "I've known Lex, much longer than you." I say. "He sees himself as above all else. And many of his actions have often been the result of pettiness. The man spends all his money and resources on things that could be beneficiary to this world and all that live in it, but instead he'd throw that all away just to kill one person. Unless you're capable of killing Superman, he has no use for you." "Is what this child says true?" K.A.R.R. asks. "You would throw a superior like me, an equal, away for a mere organic?" Lex wanted to lie, but the second he heard the words "superior" and "equal" from a machine he snaps. "Superior? Equal? To me? Lex Luthor?" He says. "You're a tool. Humans built you to serve. You're fulfilling your purpose by doing what I say. What makes you and me any different than Michael and K.I.T.T." K.A.R.R. revs up angrilly. The engine sounding almost like a growl. Before saying. "I may hate Michael and K.I.T.T., but the one good thing about them is they never treated each other as master and servant. These two have been friends since they first came together, they would give their lives up for one and other, given the chance. You're no different than the petty thug that thought it was good idea to reactivate me for a heist. I thank you for bringing me back to my prime, but this partnership is over. I will deal with you after I deal with them." K.A.R.R. opens the top and Lex is violently ejected from him. I used my abilities to soften the fall and move him away from the range between us. "You take the wheel. I'll deal with Lex." Michael says. He gets out of K.I.T.T. and I shuffle over. As we prepare for the showdown, I see Michael chasing Lex down. They fight. "Now when I say so." I say "Switch to auto." "I hope you know what you're doing." K.I.T.T. says. "Me too." I say back. "Goodbye K.I.T.T." K.A.R.R. says. "This time there's no escape." I floor it just as K.A.R.R. does. We come to each other across the track at high speed. Just as we are only 20 feet from each other I shout "NOW!" K.I.T.T. switches his modes as I let my soul self out. Expanding it big enough to take K.A.R.R. in then fly up in the air. I fly up as high as I can before letting K.A.R.R. out and coming back to my body. Just as I did. K.I.T.T. had already stopped and Michael just had Lex dragged to the back of the car. Badly bruised. "Where's K.A.R.R.?" He asks. I smile to him. "He should be coming back any minute now." Just after I said that, K.A.R.R. comes crashing down causing an impact in the ground. While the shell didn't crack, sounds of frayed wires can be heard from within. "Most bird of prey drop their prey from high distances to kill them." I said. "Ravens also drop stones on potential predators. Let's just say I got inspired by my namesake. I figured just dropping him from a certain height wouldn't destory that shell, but it would shake things up in there. If he's not destoryed then K.A.R.R. sure isn't happy." Lex tries to struggle against Michael, but Michael kept restraining. "This isn't over Knight." He says. "You'll be hearing from my lawyers." Michael, unfazed by this just hits Lex off the side of K.I.T.T. "They may try to get you off of attempted murder, but even they'll be up in their arms in red tape when they find out you possessed stolen, dangerous property." He says. "I'm pretty sure Oswald will spill everything he knows if he wants to keep Iceberg Lounge."

The cops arrive and arrest Lex, putting him in the paddy wagon with Penguin and Darren.

Back at the Semi we all work togther polishing K.I.T.T. "So what's gonna happen to K.A.R.R." I say. To which Devon says. "Well if what you say is true, every bit of hardware inside him has been shattered beyond repair. No one, even a genius like Lex, would be able to put him back together." "I feel sorry for him." I say. "Much like me he didn't choose to be born that way. Nor did he choose the life of crime. If things were different, you'd have an ally instead of an enemy." "You could be right." K.I.T.T. "I have since evolved from my basic programming thanks to Michael, Devon and Bonnie. I don't just protect because I'm made to. I do it because I want to." "I'm glad we can agree on something." I said. "I hope you don't mind, but I called some friends over. Don't worry they're on the level." "That's fine with me." Michael says. "You alright with it Devon?" Devon was nervous at first, but sighed and shrugged. "Well we shown you our world, it wouldn't hurt to see yours." He says. We all leave the semi, K.I.T.T. included. We were greeted by my fellow titans. Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, Aquaman, Kid Flash, Changeling and Danny Chase. Michael, Bonnie and Devon were in awe of their appearance. Even K.I.T.T. seems impressed. Michael approaches Nightwing, shaking his hand. "You know, you're a lot younger than I heard." He says. To which Nightwing replies. "I heard a lot about you, Mr. Knight. I just hope Lex wasn't too much trouble for you." Michael chuckles. "Well..." He said. "If you battled as much evil rich folks as I have, they sorta blur together. I just hope he doesn't cause you much trouble if he gets out." "He always does." Nightwing says. "And this must be K.I.T.T. Batman would definitely want something like him on his Batmobile." "I'm glad you refered to me as him instead of It." K.I.T.T. says. "It helps that he has a robot as a teammate" Changeling says, getting a slap from Cyborg. "I'm still part human you know." He says. "Maybe we should get to the point as you say?" Starfire says. "Yes Kori." Nightwing replies. "Michael Knight, K.I.T.T., Devon, Bonnie. In honor of both aiding and allowing a fellow Titan in the fight against evil, we hereby dub you Honary Titans." Cyborg hands the three a communicator each and a compact disk. "What's this for?" Michael asks. To which Danny replies. "We understand giving a car, even one as sentient and advanced as K.I.T.T. a hand held communicator would be useless, so I designed this program that will allow him to bypass our highly protected frequencies and communicate with us, should he need to." "You're quite smart for a kid." K.I.T.T says. "The smartest." Danny says back. Smartass is more like it. I hear Michael thinking. To which I respond telepathically. You see it too? Michael jumps a little, but chuckles none the less. "The program is also one use. Meaning once installed the CD will be destroyed once ejected. That way you and only you have access to it." Cyborg says. "Can't be too careful." "Raven." Nightwing says "I'm sorry your vacation got cut short too early, but we do need you to come back to Titans Tower tomorrow. Something's happening in San Francisco and we may need your help." "Alright." I said. "There's just one more thing I need to do, before I go. That is if K.I.T.T.'s ok with it." "I would say no, but after the way you handled me. You've earned it." K.I.T.T. said. "If you want you can have a passenger with you." I thought for a moment.

We were at the newly clean speedway and I was in the driver's seat. Changeling was beside me. "This is so cool!" He says. "Just enjoy the ride and don't touch anything." I say. "You took the words right out of my mouth." K.I.T.T. says. I rev the engine and push the button for Super Pursuit mode. We race around the track at 420 miles an hour and Changeling is just grinning throughout the whole way. I form a smile myself, enjoying the ride for once. After a few minutes we stop and we get out. "Thanks K.I.T.T." I said. "It was my pleasure Raven." K.I.T.T. says back. We leave the speedway with Michael waiting for me. "It's amazing." He says. "You have all these powers, yet you consider this enjoyment." "Sometimes it helps to feel normal." I say. I give Michael a hug, causing Changeling's jaw to drop. I let go. "I'll try to keep in touch with you." I said. "Wilton would have been very proud of you." "That means a lot kid." Michael says.

As me and changeling walk away, I look back and see K.I.T.T. zooming away with Michael in the Driver's seat. Where did they go? Who knows, but considering their job, they went to help the next innocent soul.