Knight Rider: Knight's Ghost

(This story is rated M for Mature. Knight Rider is ©1982-1986;2008-2009 NBC Universal. Trinity Jean Knight is my character, but her powers are ©2001-2011 CW Network & DC Entertainment. Hannah Melvin and Andrea Baros Swanson are used by permission. Smallville characters are ©2001-2011 CW Network & DC Entertainment. All other characters are mine.)

Chapter 7: Destiny

The young woman walked into the FLAG office with her purse. She was a farmer's wife who had traveled to LA from Smallville, Kansas. She stared at Sherri Luce, the secretary for the Foundation that had long been set up since 1965. She stared at Devon Miles who had come in with the agency's only agent, Michael Knight. Sherri shook hands with both men.

"What brings you to LA, Mrs. Kent," Devon said as He had them sit down on the couch as he sat down at his desk. "I live in a town called Smallville and my husband has become acquainted with a man named Lionel Luthor. A friend of ours went to Metropolis, Kanas near Topeka and interviewed for a job. His wife called me to say he was working on a top-secret project but was found dead. On his clothes was found a business card. I understand a man named Wilton Knight had some sort of a partnership with Lionel Luthor that ended before Mr. Knight's death, correct?" Martha asked. Michael nodded. "One of our technicians found him dead, possibly due to a heart attack," Michael offered. She nodded. She pulled out the LuthorCorp business card that had blood on it. Michael stared at it then smiled at her. "I'll be back," he said as he moved toward the garage where KITT was, not realizing the Knight Industries Three Thousand was parked near KITT. He climbed into the Trans Am and and smiled at the dashboard.

"Good Morning, KITT," he said as the analyzer came out and he put the business card into the device.

"Good Morning, Michael," the vehicle's artificial intelligence voice Modulator said with a Boston twang but was slightly metallic sounding. "Can you scan the blood to get an identification for me?" Michael said. KITT gave an affirmative response and the analyzer began scanning the card.

"This card belongs to a Jonathan Chance, a worker at LuthorCorp, which is located near Metropolis, Kansas which is about 4 hours from Topeka, Kansas. Don't you have friends in Topeka?" KITT asked. Michael smiled as He climbed out of the car and walked back into the main building of the Foundation headquarters and He went to his bedroom which was on the 1st floor. Bonnie walked in. "Where are you going?" She asked. He smiled. "I'm going to a town called Smallville, Kansas to investigate a murder," Michael said. He saw Mike Tracer walk behind Bonnie carrying a box. "Where are you going, Mike?" Michael asked him. "Devon asked me to throw out a box of files related to a project Wilton Knight worked on for the Feds back in the 1950's. It's not related to anything the Foundation is currently working on," Mike answered. Michael saw the LuthorCorp logo on the side of the box. He then moved in front of Mike and then grabbed the box.

"Care to go with me to Smallville, Kansas to investigate a company?" Michael asked Mike. "What company is that?" Mike asked. Michael then grabbed the box and pointed to the LuthorCorp logo. "I've been asked to look into that company for possible murder charges," Michael said. Mike smiled.

"Bonnie, can you prepare KITT?" Michael asked. She nodded and then went back to work. Michael, not seeing the "wet Floor" sign as they were walking toward the door, slipped and the box went flying and folders were everywhere. Mike started picking up folders and he looked surprised at a folder dated a few months back titled The KARR project that bore the names Wilton Knight and Lionel Luthor.

"Mr. Knight, since both of us are Foundation agents, in a sense, why don't you work on the murder case and I'll look into this," He said gesturing to the file. Michael looked at it. "What's that?" He asked. "Some secret project that Wilton was working on to sell to the government," Mike said as he scanned the project file.

The two men walked out and saw KITT, The Knight 2000. Mike motioned for the trunk to be opened. "Pop the trunk, KITT," he said. The Trans-Am's trunk popped up and Mike put the box with the files in the trunk and Martha Kent walked toward them. "I'll take my own car, and follow you guys," Mike said as he walked into the garage and the Knight Industries Three Thousand's scanner lit up. He climbed in to the car.

"KITT, follow them. I wanna know how the hell Lionel Luthor got a hold of plans for KARR," Mike said as he pressed the keyless start and the vehicle started & the followed the Knight 2000. KITT then changed his outer skin color from the blue to Black without revealing his original body design. The vehicle then took off after the 1982 Firebird Trans Am. Mike stared as the Knight 2000 picked up speed and they saw a cargo plane that he immediately recognized the cargo plane he first flew in on the Prometheus project years ago. He hit his hand against the steering wheel as they were not catching up to the plane.

"Can we use Attack Mode to get there before my father does?" Mike asked. "No, but I cloned some of the functions of the Knight Industries Two Thousand, and one of them is a function that is like Attack Mode and that is Super Pursuit Mode. Activating now," KITT said. Mike saw on the heads-up display the vehicle change. "How did you clone this? That mode won't be in existence for another three years?" Mike asked. "The programming protocols are within KITT. The transformation protocols are not yet there but I adapted it from my own Attack Mode program," KITT said. Mike pressed down on the accelerator and they sped from 30 to 200 in 5 seconds as Mike noted on the heads-up display.

Smallville, Kansas: Mike stared as KITT and Michael Knight pulled in to town from Topeka. He saw Michael climb out out of KITT. "Mike, when did you get into town?" He said, surprised.

"A couple of days ago, Mr. Knight," he said walking into the local bar with Michael. They sat the bar and ordered drinks. They then saw some bikers walked up to them with chains and knives. The bartender backed up and ducked under her bar. Mike & Michael stared at each other. "Didn't you tell me you were in the Special Forces?" Michael asked Mike. Mike nodded. He noticed that they were surrounded but he knew that that would not last for long. Both Mike and Michael took care of the bikers in 2 minutes. The two men shook their hands. They started to walk out when Mike noticed a card sticking out of one of the bikers' jean jacket pocket. He noticed the LuthorCorp logo and the CEO, Lionel Luthor's name on it. "What do you say we investigate Mr. Luthor?" Mike asked. "Let's, Mr. Tracer," Michael said grabbing the card from Mike.

LuthorCorp, Metropolis, Kansas. Michael was shocked as Mike was driving KITT, then remembered that Mike had driven some Knight Industries test vehicle like KITT to save Wilton Knight from an Assassination attempt. Mike looked at the attached garage to the LuthorCorp building. He turned into the garage. "KITT, can you make me copies of the KARR project?" Mike asked. Out from KITT's printer came the same files.

"What are you going to do with those Mike?" Michael asked as Mike grabbed the pages, careful not to let Michael see the pages and the image of the Trans-Am on the cover page.

"I need to see the President of Knight Industries about these files," Mike said.

"Remember Michael tomorrow we need to go to the Knight laboratory to secure it as the City of Los Angeles takes possession of it the following day," KITT reminded Michael. Michael Knight nodded absently as he also remembered a date He had tomorrow, so He knew he had to finish this part of the mission quickly. He then saw KITT print out a duplicate folder of the yellow LuthorCorp folder. He saw Mike put KITT in the Auto Cruise Mode as He put the File papers in the correct order and then put them in the LuthorCorp folder.

"You know Charles Graiman?" Michael asked as KITT parked in a parking spot on the 1st level in a reserved parking spot. Mike nodded. "He was the one who interviewed me," Mike said. The two men climbed out of the Knight 2000. Mike saw the Knight 3000 pull up. Mike climbed into the passenger side. Michael leaned down as the window rolled down. "Funny you should mention Dr. Graiman, He's in Topeka for a Conference," Michael said. Mike nodded. "So, I heard," He said. Michael nodded as He reached into the backseat behind the driver's side as Mike took off.

"KITT, find me everything you can about that technician. He's not telling us everything. Also, go to Surveillance Mode" Michael said. He grabbed the original file and walked toward the LuthorCorp building.

Topeka, Kansas-Mike arrived at the Knight Industries building as there was a conference scheduled later in the day and He smiled at the guard as He showed his Knight Industries badge to the guard at the guard shack. The guard waved him through as he went into the elevator and pressed the penthouse button that was reserved for the President and the chairman. He then placed his hand on the hand reader and his true name, Michael Knight came up. The elevator doors opened, and he saw Dr. Graiman's personal guards aimed their guns at him. He saw Charles.

"Who the hell are you?" a much younger Charles Graiman said. "Dr. Graiman, at this particular point in time, I haven't been born yet, but I was sent here because there is a man who intends to change history using a prototype that your business partner and friend Wilton Knight built for The Foundation for Law And Government before KITT, and he will change history. I'm here to make sure history unfolds as it should," Mike said.

"What are you talking about," Charles said. Mike slapped on his desk the files from LuthorCorp. Charles began going through the files and stared at them in horror.

"When I was hired by Wilton to take over as CEO of Knight Industries, I didn't realize how bad this prototype was. But Wilton had that prototype dismantled," Charles said. Mike shook his head. "Lionel hired two thugs to steal the KARR and bring it to his headquarters here at Metropolis. That prototype was put in storage. I should know, as I used KARR to get to Wilton, as there was an assassination attempt. I stopped the assassin, and discovered the assassin was from the League of Assassins. Turns out Wilton died due to the poisoning. It looked like a heart attack. Turns out the Assassin was hired by the CEO of LuthorCorp. Michael needs to stop KARR, as history records," Mike said.

"Why is your name Michael Knight?" Charles asked. "Because your lone operative is my father," Mike said. "He can't know about me," Mike said. Charles nodded.

2:32 am-Future site of the Knight museum of technology-Tony and Rev stumbled through the bushes as they had discovered their target had died but they could still keep the promise they had given to Lionel Luthor, but they were clearly drunk. They hid behind the bushes as the security guard walked past them…..

To Be Continued…