AN: Phew it's done!
Speedy: Thank you so much Bahamut-255 for telling Jet to update already.
Typhoon: Move Over! *knocks Speedy out of the way* Hi readers! *TO Speed* Stop hogging all the AN space!
Speedy: Sure Typhoon, then how bout you tell our loyal reviewers the disclaimer I'd hate to keep that from you.
Typhoon: Go get hit by Goliath, Jetravenex does not own Knight Rider she only owns me, Zephyr the second, Rex, Risk, Hawkeye, and unfortunately that piece of scrap metal over there.
Jetravenex: er, well enjoy!
Chapter 3
Rex was ripping down the destroyed street his tires squealing as he pressed towards the direction of the scream. His scanner pulsed madly as he focused on staying on the street. As he continued down the street a silver shape emerged from the smoke and Rex growled. He gunned his engine and sped towards the shape. The shape turned revealing a drone data scrolling across its screen as scanned and analyzed him, after a moment it raised its weapon and aimed it at the corvette. Rex snarled as he pushed forward only a measly 800 meters to go! The drone fired and hit his right wing mirror and then Rex slammed into it throwing the drone in the air and then drove over it after it had crumpled to the ground in his path of travel.
"Damn, drones.' He snarled as he continued down the road scanning his damaged mirror. "Great, now I've got a bullet in my wing mirror!" He gunned his engine as he pushed forward he took a hard left and then all of the sudden a pile of debris rose in front of him. Rex gasped and slammed the brakes, he fishtailed fighting to stop when his control slipped and he was sent careening into the pile.
The instant he hit the pile debris went flying. It flew out of the pile onto him and in every possible direction. Rex virtually winced as his body was pummeled by dust, debris, and god only knows what else. Finally his wheels were forcefully stopped and he grinded to a halt. He sat in the pile of the debris for a moment trying to recollect his wits. A hissing noise coming from his back left tire drew his attention. He sent a scan back and discovered it was punctured by a particularly sharp piece of debris.
He moaned. "Great, my paint jobs has now been oh so nicely ruined, my tire is punctured and I'm stuck?" He started his engine and tried to reverse but the weight all around him was preventing him from escaping. "Yup, I'm stuck to boot," With a sigh he opened up the comm. "Yo anybody out there?" He waited for a moment but only static met his voice. He groaned. "Come on, answer me! Guys? Speed? Ty? Zeph? Hawk? Risk? Come on you guys answer me!" He shouted as error reports started to scream at his CPU.
"Oh no."
Zephyr remained on the rails outside as she watched the fires within the city burn into the night. Her scanner bar pulsed every now and then, a small sliver of silver light in the deep oppressing darkness that surrounded her. She'd watched silently as the remaining drones self destructed outside of the city destroying the area that ran near the border. Worry began to prickle at her processor. The last she'd heard from her friends had been when she'd warned Typhoon of the building's collapse and that had been when the radio had gone out.
With nothing better to do she pulled up the city schematics and looked over them. She growled in frustration as the schematics confirmed what Risk had, said. All of the rail lines were either underground or had been out of commission for some time.
To put it simply Zephyr was stuck waiting on the rails with baited breath and praying for her friends return.
Speedy groaned as he fought to surface from being 'knocked out', slowly his systems crawled back to functionality. As his processor reached full functionality he activated the scanners in his headlights.
Before the minivan two beams of light erupted from the gloom and split through the dust, soot, and debris that continued to rain down upon the minivan.
Speedy scanned around. Debris was all around him, entrapping him on all four sides, he tried his tires and found that despite the amount of debris on him and around him they found purchase and he managed to push forward a few inches.
He froze when the amount of debris raining down on him suddenly increased, quickly he scanned upwards and found that the building had collapsed partially on top of him. But his force had made the building fall in the opposite direction he had been going thus he was not trapped.
Speedy let out a sigh and started his engine letting it rev in earnest, then the minivan began to push forward. The debris groaned against the minivan, and some of it held fast, but slowly Speedy began to push his way through the debris. Smoke curled up from his tires as he pushed them to their limits to get him through, while at the same time his scanners focused forwards trying to perceive anything else besides the amount of debris that was around him.
Speedy's tires suddenly jerked to a halt and the minivan growled slightly as he pushed against the pile of debris that blocked his way to freedom. His tires screamed as they turned struggling to propel him forward.
Suddenly the debris gave with a chorus of snapping and cracking and Speedy shot forward his headlight's blazed to life and he yelped as a wall came into view. Quickly he changed course and he turned left his end fishtailing slightly. He internally winced as his right taillight slammed into the wall
But he was free from his prison and he let out a whoop of delight.
Only to have it die from his vocalizer as he remembered how he'd gotten there in the first place. His tires slowed considerably to the point he was practically crawling across the ground. His headlight's dulled to the point where they were barely even emitting a glow. For the first time the minivan envied Talia and the humans, he had no way to demonstrate how awful it was that that mother and child were dead.
Then logic kicked back in, Speedy's headlights flashed back on to full power and his engines roared to life, he couldn't stay here, if he stayed here he'd be a target for both sides.
The minivan began to move itself through the debris, moving slowly to get his bearings before he picked up speed easily going just short of 60 swerving side to side to avoid the worst of the debris, internally wincing every time something cracked or crunched beneath his tires, and after a while he tried not to think about what they could be.
The remains of buildings rose high above Speedy, like walls that forced him to stay within the maze of the city streets. As he continued to travel down the broken road he heard gunshots up ahead of him. He activated his brakes and came to a smooth halt trying to be as silent as possible.
His headlight's flashed once before gaining a reddish tint as he activated his infrared scanners, which praise the great one, still worked.
As he scanned he inched forward, focusing more and more to the right where the gunshots had originated from.
He stiffened as he scanned a human sized source of heat. But he kept forward slowly scanning around still.
From what he gathered the human had taken cover behind some sort of ruined wall or something, and then more data came in and he let out a soft growl.
Two drones stood just outside of the humans hiding place.
Speedy winced as the gunshots started up the small flashes of heat registering to his infrared scanners but to his great relief the wall the human had taken refuge behind seemed to hold.
The images of the kid and the mother came into his CPU and the minivan growled. He flashed off his headlights and halted in the street, he flashed his scanners once more locking onto the drones and then he shut them off and fell silent increasing the strength of his audio receptors.
He almost jumped at the sound of cracking and he scanned around to find that behind him one of the ruined buildings had collapsed, he relaxed and focused back on the drones and the human.
The gunfire had stopped and a tense silence fell upon them.
Then one of the drones spoke up.
"Human, come out and face your termination."
"All humans must be terminated as decreed by the king." The other drone droned neither of them lowering their weapons.
Speedy growled at the mention of the monsters name. His engine rumbled in a dangerous tone.
Then a young man's voice reached his audio receptors.
"Your king can kiss my ass." The human trapped behind the wall spat.
The drones seemed to still and then Speedy heard the soft clicking sound of their guns changing from standard machine guns, to... Speedy decided he didn't want to know.
Nor did he desire to have the human find out. He crawled forward edging past the building that blocked his view of the scene, he scanned the weapons.
"Oh god," Speedy whispered. The weapons looked like a standard rocket launcher, but his past teachings from Risk told him otherwise, one was a rocket launcher, the other was a weapon the king had personally engineered.
The weapon shot out what looked like a metal sphere that burst after the one who shot it pressed a second trigger on the gun, then the metal sphere would let loose a rain of acid that would slowly eat away organic material and was said to do the same with AI's.
It promised to be a slow painful death for anyone.
The drones lifted both weapons and took aim at the human's hiding place.
"Prepare to suffer human!" The drones said as they prepared to fire.
Speedy beeped twice, causing the drones to pause in their actions and turn slowly towards him.
Speedy turned on his headlights, his brights, washing the drones in bright light that was not even they, with all their fancy smancy scanners could see through.
His engine roared to life, and his tires screamed as he leapt forward, the drones tried to lift their weapons but Speedy was already upon them, he slammed into them, and as he did, he cast a scan in the direction of the human and spotted a teenager clad in army gear staring at him with wide eyes.
The minivan winked a headlight at him before he focused on the drones.
He spotted one of the drones behind him crushed and mangled, and then he shouted in surprise as something slammed into his hood.
His taillights blazed red flashing madly his way of demonstrating anger. He focused his headlights forward spotting one of the drones standing in front of him its rocket launcher held ready, aimed at Speedy.
Speedy quickly assessed the damage in his hood, he growled, his hood had been dented and he couldn't scan well out of the scanner hidden in his right headlight, leading him to assume it had nicked his right side and hadn't been able to take out much. It wasn't enough to hurt badly, but it sure as hell pissed him off.
"AI state your designation!" The drone said keeping its weapon trained on Speedy.
"My designation is your unmaker." Speedy spat two ports snapping open from his side doors and two rockets shot at the drone.
The drone's weapon clicked just as the two rockets hit it square in its chest and sent the drone backwards, it's gun point upwards and a rocket flew up into the air and exploded into a blaze of light.
The drone was ripped in two it's upper half clattering against the wall where it had made a nice dent in earlier, while the bottom half clattered to the ground.
Speedy grunted as he scanned the drone, when he became aware of the sound of tires squealing nearby.
"Rex? Risk?" He said turning to face the two vehicles only to freeze.
The human teenager stood in front of him with his machine gun aimed at him, two army vehicles with two rather large guns mounted atop them flanking him.
Speedy picked up footsteps approaching him from all sides and he scanned humans surrounding him. He tried to pull forward slightly.
"Freeze AI!" One of the men shouted from one of the vehicles.
Speedy froze and sank down on his shocks, "KARR be damned." He muttered as he killed his headlights and sat there surrounded by humans idling uneasily.
A/N
Speedy: Oh dear.
Jetravenex: uh oh Speedy's in trouble!
Typhoon: If we're all lucky maybe the humans will cart Speedy away and tear him apart...
Jetravenex: What will Speedy's fate be?
Speedy: What? I thought I was going to live!
Typhoon: kill him off please kill him off...
Jetravenex: oh and I know I asked this back in the original version... But of the six 'knights of tomorrow' (which is Risk, Rex, Zephyr, Typhoon, Hawkeye and Speedy) who do you like best?
Typhoon: And who do you hate/strongly dislike.
Jetravenex: oh and to those who read the original version of this, you remember who the 'great one' is right?