night Rider: Insurgent
(This story is rated M for Mature. Knight Rider is (C)1982-1986;2017 NBC/Universal. Trinity Jean Knight is my character, but her powers are (C)2001-2011 CW Network & DC Entertainment. Any & all Smallville characters, elements, locations are (c)2001-2011 CW Network & DC Entertainment. All other characters are mine)
Chapter 3: running with the Knight
2 Days Later: Mike stared at the TV at the secret headquarters of FLAG as He, Chloe, Trinity and Sarah Graiman were trying to fix the glitches in the software updates to the Knight Industries Two Thousand. All three heads turned as they saw President Jack Hurst on the TV.
"Ladies & Gentlemen of this great nation, it has come to our attention that a sophisticated piece of technology was stolen that was classified top-secret years ago by President Bush has been stolen by members of a branch of the Federal Government that was created by former Knight Industries CEO Wilton Knight. I have declared by law and working its way through Congress, employees and staff of The Foundation for Law And Government are now declared enemies of the state. Anyone found working for this subversive branch of the government will be arrested and put of trial for espionage and stealing government equipment. All we ask is that this equipment, The Knight Two Thousand be returned," President Hurst said.
"Damn he wants us bad," Zoe said as she came in to update the Foundation passwords and encryption keys. She, like Chloe Sullivan was Knight Industries' resident tech.
"Everyone pack up! Just got word that military forces are on their way," The alternate Sarah Graiman said. They stared at the Mirror Sarah Graiman who had just come back from getting her name legally changed to Elizabeth Knight, as Mike's grandmother had died while in jail for a crime she committed with her son Garth. Billy Morgan came in with Wilton as they had begun running the shutdown protocols Charles had put in place before the alternate version of Wilton Knight had arrived.
"We are set to remotely access anything in the Knight Industries or Foundation files since all of them are stored on our Cloud based services," Wilton said as Billy began unplugging laptops. The Knight Industries Security Forces, a quasi-military brand came in and they began unplugging the larger computers, and began doing tear-down on the desks and chairs and began loading them into a semi-truck.
"10 Minutes people! Move it!" Mike shouted. The team was ready. Within 5 minutes, the headquarters had been torn down. It was like no one had been there. Sarah Graiman stared at her Mirror duplicate.
"what now, Elizabeth?" Sarah asked. Elizabeth smiled.
"I have contacts on the other side that could help us. There's not much we can do while we are the run, except take the fight back to the President. KITT, run unlock code 3412, authorization Knight," Elizabeth said to KITT. The Trans-Am began a massive file download to the Knight Industries Cloud servers.
"Files unlocked and downloaded to both Knight Industries and Watchtower servers," KITT said. Mike stared at her as they began to walk into the secret passageway that would take them back to a nearby Knight Industries Technology location.
Knight Industries Technology: Mike stared at Dr. Graiman and Trinity Jean Knight as they brought the computer system back up. Charles and Mike embraced one another.
"Hey Mike, we've begun decrypting the files that Jack Hurst downloaded to KITT's memory backs. A team of scientists and computer techs are on their way to help Zoe and Chloe decrypt these files, and we're hoping one of these files can help us understand and hopefully put that bastard behind bars," Charles said. They saw the two women going through video files that were downloaded to the Knight 2000's servers.
"What do we have here," Chloe said as she saw a video of Jack Hurst talking with a Doctor William Banner, a cousin to the late Dr. David Banner. She threw it up on one of the big monitors for everyone to see.
"How do I stop Michael Knight and his team of do-gooders," they saw Jack saying to Dr. Banner. The other man smirked.
"it's simple. They know the President and believe he will have their back. It's simple. Hire a hitman to take out the President. After all you are the next in line after the Vice-President. I have a team perfect for the job. LuthorCorp uses snipers for protection, but they also take side jobs as well. One of them I've used before. I'll call Hannah to come in and do the job. What's up with the old Trans-Am?" William said.
"it's ancient technology that I configured to serve me since its owner, Michael Arthur Knight is out of the country and the Foundation is dead since Charles deactivated it prior to 9/11. Not even Wilton Knight's daughter Trinity will be able to realize what's going on," Jack said.
"This car better not be the end of these plan of yours or I swear I will send somebody after you," William threatened. Jack smirked. The video feed then went blank.
"The time stamp on the video feed KITT was picking up places this at the time when you went to Earth-2," Chloe said.
"So, what do we do now, guys," Charles asked. They then heard KITT speak.
"Since He's so concerned that we will stop him, let's uncover more information, like who the sniper was that took out His Predecessor," KITT said. They then saw KARR's amber scanner light up.
"Perhaps a blitzkrieg of this video that was uncovered on your hard drive. Do you think the rest of the humans would accept this information?" KARR said.
"Not sure KARR, but we have to try," Charles said as he began going through the LuthorCorp list of snipers and found one that they knew.
"Hannah Melvin is on this list. Wasn't she a slave from Earth-2?" Charles asked. Elizabeth nodded. "She was also trained by the rebellion as a sniper with orders to take down the Regents, hoping that would take down the Empire," she said.
"Is she aware of the programming?" Mike asked. Elizabeth shook her head. "No. She would have blackouts when a set of code words were used. My father got a hold of her & twisted the program so she would be used as a double agent," Elizabeth answered.
"Jack must have discovered her programming and reset it," Charles suggested. "What makes you sure she's our Assassin?" Chloe asked. Charles pointed to the $10 million dollar deposit into her checking account.
"Got an idea," Sarah said. She climbed into KITT and began to scan through the stored files. One of them had just a date, 1984. She plugged a wireless keyboard into a USB located below the monitor. She began to input a backdoor password used by the United Empire of America and the file opened. It was a video. It was a video of Wilton, the one native to this reality and a very young Dr. Charles Graiman.
"Will, Sam Hurst just called again wanting to buy KARR. We haven't even finished it's AI programming protocols. Did you fire that tech that miss programmed him," Charles asked. Wilton nodded to him. He then noticed a scientist writing really fast on a chalkboard.
"Excuse me, but what are you doing?" Wilton asked. The woman turned and smiled.
"Creating a time displacement program into your prototype, ," she said. Wilton noticed it was written in an alien language.
"Who are you and what team are you from?" Charles asked, immediately suspicious.
"I am Lara and come from a place far from here, called Krypton. This program I'm writing will need to be encoded using Kryptonian technology that I've got with me," she said.
"I had heard tales of a meteor shower coming. My wife is hiding something from me, but not sure what it is," Wilton said. Charles then noticed a symbol that he had remembered from his college days in Kansas when he and Wilton and Jonathan Kent were college roommates.
"Your from the House of El, aren't you?" Charles finally asked. She nodded.
"How do you know?" She asked.
"I went to the University of Kansas, and my sophomore year, Wilton and I were college roommates with two men, a farmer's son named Jonathan Kent and an ambitious man named Lionel Luthor. A few months after we met, a symbol was burned on the roof of our frat house bearing the octagonal symbol with an S inside it. A few weeks later a man who went by the name Joe forewarned us of a coming meteor shower that was coming to impact Earth, which he called Terra. On his robe bore the symbol of the House of El. He left a Crystal behind which told of his family tree. What will that crystal do?" Charles asked. Lara removed a crystal from her jacket and gave it to Wilton. She then kissed him on the cheek. "Talk with your life mate,Elizabeth. She is pregnant with a daughter born with DNA from both our worlds, a hybrid of both Krypton & Earth," she said. The video went black.
"So now what?" Mike asked. Chloe then turned to the team.
"Here's what we do guys. Hannah Melvin currently lives in Houston so Mike, Elizabeth and Sarah kidnap her and find a way to turn off the sniper programming her brain was programmed with and Trinity, Charles & Billy will finish going through President Hurst's files on KITT," Chloe said.
"Which vehicle shall be used?" KARR asked. Zoe spoke up.
"We need to find the original Knight Industries Three Thousand's body and download the Two thousand's memories and programming into the Three Thousand's body," she said.
Charles spoke up. "That part will be easy. Remember when Jack and Alex Torres created KARR? I activated a tracker feature I installed should the Three Thousand be taken again. I encoded it with a code word. Computer activate Knightfall program," Charles said using a voice print program. A digital map of the United States lit up and a glowing red dot lit up bright.
"Elizabeth, I'm sorry about what my doppelgänger did to Hannah, but I can be a better father than he was to you," Charles said. The Mirror Universe duplicate of his daughter, renamed Elizabeth Knight smiled at this man who was and yet was not her father.
"I know Charles, but right now before I make things right with you, I need to make things right with Hannah, before she brings us down," Elizabeth said staring long and hard at Sarah, her "twin".
"KARR, Sarah, and Mike we gear up in 10 minutes. Pack enough clothes for we will be in Houston for a week. I know a church house that in my reality was a resistance cell with friends that Hannah knows on both sides of the mirror. Let's take her back to this Church cell. This Eternal woman needs to be reset. Chloe, have Clark meet us there," Elizabeth said to Chloe.
"What about KITT?" Chloe asked.
"Billy, you, Zoe will find KITT using this version of KITT. I've installed a camouflage software into the 2000. Dad, we need you to create a program to transfer the 2000's AI protocols into the 3000, and make sure the car doesn't reject it when they get back," Elizabeth said. All of them nodded, nervous about the team being split up..
To Be Continued..