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 8: KARRnapping

Tony Rev woke up as they had stolen a prototype that They did not know they would find. They had been requested by Lionel Luthor as they couldn't be traced back to him. Rev stared at the digital dashboard through the drunk eyes. They had read in an old newspaper about the death of Wilton Knight and some of the other homeless folks had told them where a Knight Industries facility. The group of friends had led Tony and Rev to this facility. Earlier that morning, Tony and Rev had found something in Lab 3 and a young man with a similar car had carried the guard to the car.

"It wasn't a dream," Tony said. Rev looked in shock. In his alcohol saturated brain, he had remembered the red glowing light tracking back and forth and the sounds of a turbine engine as they had activated power to something and now, they knew what it was.

"You're here, I'm here it's here," Rev said as both he and Tony climbed out of the relatively new looking Trans-Am. Tony looked around sleepily at the alley that they were in next to a dumpster.

"Where are we?" He asked not sure how He and Rev had gotten there. They then heard a voice speak. "This is where your companion told me to stop," the cold unfeeling voice said. Rev looked in shock. "I did?" He asked no one in particular, thinking it was a dream. The voice spoke again.

"Most of what you said was incoherent, but I distinctly recorded the word stop. So here we are," the voice said. Tony and Rev looked at the car. The voice, they drunkenly realized was coming from the car.

"You're just a car, aint ya?" Rev asked. The vehicle responded, "Not Just a car. I am the Knight Automated Roving Robot. I am the Vehicle of the future," KARR said, using his presentational introduction. To KARR, no time had passed since KARR had killed the Joint chiefs and last night when Tony and Rev had inadvertently reactivated the vehicle.

Meanwhile back at FLAG headquarters, Devon Miles smiled at Mike Tracer as the gentleman had requested to see him privately. Devon gestured to Mike to have a seat in the office that had once been Wilton Knight's bedroom. "What is so bloody important that you had to see me," Devon said in his English accent.

"I have to tell you something and I want you to keep it a secret from Mr. Knight," Mike began. Devon nodded. "My name is not Mike Tracer, but Michael Knight, and I am the son of your lone agent that you send out. I was sent back in time from the year 2018 when I discovered that in this point in time, someone is trying to change history. The man trying to change history is Lionel Luthor, the man this agency is currently investigating. The man helped Wilton Knight create KARR, the Knight Automated Roving Robot and at this very moment KARR is out there," Mike said. Devon couldn't help laughing at the utter craziness the much younger man said. "How can I believe you," Devon said. Mike motioned for the man to follow him down to the garage where the Knight Industries Three Thousand was sitting, waiting for Mike.

"Mr. Miles, I'd like to introduce you to The Knight 2000's successor, the Knight Industries Three Thousand built by Dr. Charles Graiman in the year 2008 and recently received an upgrade in 2018," Mike said. Devon stared at the Mustang then saw it transform into a black Mustang with a red scanner much like the Knight 2000 had. "A pleasure Meeting you, Mr. Miles," KITT said.

"where are you from again?" Devon said after a minute. "The year 2018. This version of KITT was pre-programmed with all the Foundation's hard copy files which Sarah Graiman converted to digital files in that time. Her father built this version of KITT after starting what was called The KARR project, of which I was the driver. This car was programmed with various modes which also includes a stealth mode and a camouflage mode which we have been using up to this point. Lionel, it seems, hired two thugs to find KARR, and bring him to LuthorCorp so Lionel could build his own version of it," Mike said.

"How do you know so much about the Knight 2000?" Devon wanted to know. He smiled. "When Sarah started running FLAG, she came across the old Knight Industries files and she scanned them and downloaded them to our online servers along with my father's missions, as they were in hard copy form. She scanned them too and they were uploaded to our online Cloud server. Lionel built a copy of KARR exactly as he is, but there were advancements and technology that Knight Industries that Lionel didn't have like the artificial intelligence software and the voice Modulation systems," Mike said. In came a 10-year-old girl.

"Who is this?" Mike asked. "Her name is Trinity Jean Knight. She claims that she is the daughter of a drifter who traveled through LA and Elizabeth Knight, who is the biological mother of Garth and Jennifer Knight," Devon said. Mike stared in wonder. "Wait a minute. Jennifer Knight is my mother. Wouldn't that make Michael Knight and Jennifer Knight brother and sister?" Mike asked. Bonnie then walked in.

"Not exactly. You see, Wilton Knight had a sample of his blood taken when He was younger, when He was 30-years old. He had that blood sample frozen and Knight Industries came up with a very basic cloning facility that was located offsite, so the Federal Government wouldn't shut it down. It was mainly a research facility located in Switzerland that was held under the Knight Industries name but was run by a 3rd party company. As far as KARR goes, that's the only area where Lionel Wilton really competed, but from what we've been able to determine, Lionel's trying to start the cloning process that Wilton started years ago," Devon said.

2018-Sarah smiled as Dr. Barstow, much older than she was in the 1980's, made a tweak in KARR's security system. She smiled at the younger woman. "It's done," Bonnie said to Sarah. Bonnie had since gone to work for Queen Industries. They turned to see the young teenage Trinity Jean Knight who walked around KARR, her creation, but at this point age-wise, she had not created yet. Trinity had contacted Queen Industries CEO Oliver Queen about upgrades for a project that her own Company, Knight Industries Technology had sold to Oliver's Research and Development team a few years ago, but She had not told Oliver what the project was. The upgrades were new Transformation protocols and a newer Heads-Up Display software upgrade for the windshield. She inputted a code and the HUD, and the computer linked. They then heard an alarm.

"What the hell?" Sarah said as they heard an alarm. She remembered that the alarm was an alert of a violation of the access code key for any Knight Industries facility. She pulled up on the big screen a video shot of a Chicago Knight Industries facility. Sarah noticed the camera go black.

"KARR, can you help me restore access to the State Street facility?" Sarah asked. "Negative, but I have found the user's access code and it is Michael Knight who is relative to this era," KARR said. Trinity climbed out of KARR and saw the camera angle go back and they saw the facial ID pop up and it was Michael Knight, but this version had a red scar under his eye. The ID card that came up was Mike Tracer's ID as Michael Knight.

"Crap," Trinity said as she stared at the screen to see the somewhat ravaged face of Michael Knight.

Sarah stared at her. "Don't tell me, that's Michael Knight," She said, not believing the image on the screen. "Yes, and No, Sarah. This Michael Knight is from a parallel universe from a United States called The United Empire of America ruled by an empire that had run out of things to conquer and control," Trinity said. "You ever hear of a train that came from nowhere that appeared in Seattle Washington in 1983? The Government had asked the vigilante known as Batman investigate that train. It bore the LuthorCorp logo as well as gold that came from a place called The United Empire of America and the gold was carbon dated 1864, which should have been come from the Civil War but according to the paperwork that was on the train, there was no Civil War. It was to be delivered to the Empire's headquarters in Washington DC. Well there was something our government didn't know at the time but was discovered later when the train was moved to a Knight Industries Technology location deemed Top-Secret. That Train also carried passengers and one of them was Mike Tracer's mother from that reality, Jennifer Anna Tracer, allegedly died on that train. She didn't die but ended up here. She has lived under an assumed name, Lisa Jenkins that according to my older self's notes, came to work for her and a lot of genetic Engineering to make her pass as one of us," Trinity said. Sarah stared in shock.

"Does Mike know?" Sarah said after a minute. Trinity shook her head no. "The government gave us specific instructions not to have the two meet as Mike would think it's his mother. Hence the reason why she lived in Chicago, and we are not permitted to tell him about her and her about him," Trinity said.

"We need to let Mike know his doppelgänger is here," Sarah said. Trinity set up the link. The static appeared then Mike appeared on the HUD. "What's up guys?" He said as he was in pursuit of KARR.

"We have an issue that we will have to deal with once you get back," Sarah said. Mike then asked, "Have you informed Director Bishop?" Sarah then shook her head no.

"He's out of town, in New York to talk with the Director of The FBI about his being appointed here. He's also asking if other sub-directors could be placed in our other locations with them answering to him," Sarah answered.

"Let him know. In the meantime, we got a drunken confession out of the man known as Rev as to who authorized Tony Cox and Rev to steal KARR. Apparently, Lionel Luthor wanted to take some of the components out of KARR and put them in his version, but Tony had other ideas. Michael is pursuing KARR after he dumped Tony after they tried to steal diamonds out of a Museum. We are in stealth mode which you uploaded when you updated KITT's software. It renders us invisible to the Knight 2000. KARR just ejected Tony, so we are pursuing him, but KARR is fast. Michael won't be able to catch him. Should I help him?" Mike asked.

Sarah shook her head. "No, Mike. We can't affect history. If the need arises, and you feel you have no choice, but we cannot leave any historical markers," Sarah chided him. He nodded and the chat link closed out.

"That thing is fast," Mike commented. "It is outfitted with a top-secret turbine engine, similar to mine. Shall we get involved?" KITT asked. Mike shook his head. "There's a five second space between KITT KARR but for some reason KARR is slightly faster than what we have on file. Mike then pressed the Pursuit Mode button and the HUD showed the mode switch from Manual mode to Pursuit Mode and the car picked up speed even thought it was in stealth mode. Mike the dropped Stealth mode as the stealth Mode was hampering KITT's speed. Mike then saw the Knight 2000 speed past and the Michael rolled down his window and the Mike did the same. "Nice Ride," Michael commentated. Mike nodded. "Can you help me with this prototype?" Michael asked. Mike nodded. "Michael, I am scanning that vehicle he is driving, and is a Knight Industries vehicle, but its configuration is blocked from my scanner. Where is he from?" The Knight 2000 said. Michael shook his head. "Not sure, buddy but we need to stop KARR," Michael said as he saw Mike's mysterious car back up as he then broke off pursuit and took an alternate road to set up a cat-and-mouse confrontation with the renegade Knight Automated Robot….

To be Continued…