Knight 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 5: Prime Suspect part 2
Knight Estate: Hannah awoke to see Doctors around her and Michael Knight staring at her, with a pistol in hand.
"What's going on here?" Hannah asked as she struggled against the handcuffs as she was handcuffed to a bed.
"You shot a part of my team and an FBI agent," Mike said. He then motioned for the young woman to come into the room. In stepped Heather Melvin. Hannah stared at her in shock and fear. She started crying.
"I am Heather Melvin, assistant to Trinity Jean Knight, who I am told you are familiar with," Heather said tossing the high-powered gun onto the bed beside Hannah.
"I'm Hannah Melvin. I don't know how I got here or what happened, so could somebody please explain to me what happened," Hannah said scared. In walked Elizabeth Knight. Hannah curled her lip in anger at the woman.
"Sarah Graiman," She breathed out. Elizabeth shook her head, smiling at this woman who was in the alternate reality that both came from, a slave.
"I was invited to stay here and the breaches from our side of the Mirror have been closed so our government can no longer try to take over this reality. I agreed I would follow the laws and statues of the land, or risk being sent back where both you and I would surely face death. Since there was already a Sarah Graiman in this reality, I chose the name Elizabeth Knight, since I knew Regent Knight before his death I chose the name of his wife. I later found out his death was faked as he recently came through a one-sided breach. He now leads the Foundation for Law and Government on this side, however we were shut down by NSA operative Jack Hurst who became President. We discovered Wilton's original prototype, The Knight Industries Two Thousand and recently found some interesting facts about President Hurst that we are still working on and processing. Along the way we discovered a program that both the Rebellion and the United Empire of America were using. They installed into some slaves, your class, a computer program designed to give you the skills to assassinate anyone. We were meeting with Heather Melvin as Trinity is currently trying to expedite getting Billy Morgan and Zoe Chai out of Moscow. Heather recently discovered and had begun investigating a mysterious woman who bore her sister's name," Elizabeth said.
"What is this program that your people did to her?" Heather asked. Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
"On The other side of the mirror our society is divided into classes. The rich, the poor and the Slave class. The slaves were a made up of a unique human being only found on that side of the mirror. They have a unique DNA matrix which gives them the ability to live forever. This branch of humanity was called The Eternals. We discovered this breed were hiding among us and we forced them to work as slaves due to their durability and immortality. This woman was in Regent Graiman's household for years. She was subjected to the programming subroutine and more recently that subroutine was altered by Jack Hurst. We are reviewing KITT's files to find out how to undo it," Elizabeth said.
"We'll do everything in our power to make sure you are well," Mike reassured her. Heather spoke up.
"How does she look like my deceased sister," she wanted to know. Hannah asked the same thing.
"From what we can gather, Hannah Melvin on this side was killed in a car crash when she was a young girl, and on the other side Heather Melvin was killed by the Empire for being a part of the Resistance against the government," Mike said.
"I don't remember killing anyone," Hannah said glancing at her handcuffs. Heather stared at her.
"Have you had blackouts at any time?" She asked as she sat on the bed near Hannah. Hannah nodded.
"That's a result of the subroutine from the Empire. We need to figure out who Jack wanted you to eliminate," Elizabeth said.
"How do we scan for this anomaly?" Heather asked. Mike smiled. "We have KITT, the original version and he's been upgraded with the same software that KARR has so we could ask him to do an MRI for this program. Let's bring her down to introduce her to KITT," Mike suggested. Elizabeth undid Hannah's handcuffs and put back on her gloves and grabbed the gun and they walked down into the garage of the mansion which had been converted into a charging bay for a Knight Industries vehicle. Installed in 2 different charging bays were KITT and KARR. KARR was undergoing regular software upgrades, so he was shut down. Elizabeth gestured to the Trans-Am and both ladies climbed into KITT. Elizabeth then pressed the Power button and the digital dash came to life.
"How may I be of service?" KITT said, sounding more like KARR as technicians had not yet reset his voice processor.
"I need you to scan this young woman's brain for a computer program that was set by an Area Regent in the 1970's-1980s. The name of the Regent is Amy Walker, who was Regent Charles Graiman's supervisor back when the KARR project was started in my original reality," Elizabeth said.
"I will begin scanning this woman's brain momentarily," KITT said. On the heads-up display that KITT had been upgraded with, a multi-spectral view of Hannah's brain and then the computer program lit up.
"This is a viral program that switches off certain parts of the brain like the memory recollection centers of the brain. When the individual is infected with this virus, they black out. The assassination subroutine is imbedded within the computer virus and automatically takes over. The virus is dormant until a certain set of words or phrases are used and once the subject is either subjected to the same words or phrases or completes their 'hit' the virus goes dormant again. I am not programmed to wipe a brain, but I can scan for the author of this virus," KITT said.
"Who authored this virus and is he or she on this side of the mirror?" Elizabeth asked. KITT began scanning the virus, and then began scanning the millions of names that would have the technical know-how to write the software for the virus. An alternate list of names popped from the Mirror Universe that somehow had been programmed into KITT. Two names popped up.
"Jack Hurst?" Hannah said in surprise. Elizabeth looked surprised as well.
"KITT, where did you get the list of regents from our native universe?" Elizabeth asked.
"When I was brought to a secret staging area, President Hurst had a team begin the process of breaking down my programming, but one technician installed a roster of information on your reality. I was programmed with a software that would open a breach to the other side and aid the government of the United Empire of America," KITT said. Elizabeth breathed in shock.
"What's wrong?" Hannah said.
"My father had documents from his superiors downloaded to a vehicle alien to my world and plans on sending it to the other side to stop the rebellion," Elizabeth breathed, as she realized what was going on. She climbed out of KITT, and ran to find Mike. She found him staring at the TV.
"Citizens of the United States, we interrupt your news programming with this important news update," intoned a voice as a News update appeared. Then appeared a man on the screen but it wasn't Jack Hurst but Barack Obama, the previous President but on his shirt collar was a lapel pin of The Mirror Universe, a sword plunging through the United States of America.
"What the hell?" Mike said. Sarah who was with him looked in horror.
"That's the Emperor from my native reality. Your government tried to keep our reality secret from the general public fearing panic would sweep the nation," Elizabeth said.
"I am Barack Obama and I am the ruler of The United Empire of America and I brokered a deal with your President to put down a long standing rebellion. A piece of technology was prepared but was stolen. We demand the individuals that stole this technology to return it," Obama said. Wilton came in.
"He's lying. How could he know about KITT?" Wilton asked mostly to himself.
"Who were the technicians working on KITT?" Mike asked.
"Charles would know," Wilton suggested. They walked down to the lab where Charles was reviewing the upgrades to KARR.
"You saw them," Mike said staring at Charles's expression on the man's face.
"Yes I know. It's obvious the Emperor had spies here but who would know about KITT and then betray this country," Dr. Graiman said. Then in walked Trinity Jean Knight with Billy Morgan and Zoe Chai.
"Don't we have a list of the techs who worked on the original KITT?" Billy asked as he sat down at the computer and pulled up a file marked KITT project 1.0.
"Billy where did you get this file?" Wilton asked. Billy smiled.
"Alex Torres asked me to digitize the Foundation files from the 1980's back when we started the KITT project in 2007. I did and I discovered this one was already on the Knight Industries servers and was put there by one Vladimir Knight, Mike's grandfather," Billy said. They all looked at Mike.
"What do you know about your grandfather?" Charles asked.
"Nothing," Mike said. Billy threw up the file on the big monitor and they saw the Kryptonian hieroglyphs on the screen.
"Where was this guy from?" Sarah said walking in.
"Look," Trinity said pointing to the stylized Z. It flashed twice and then a holographic message played.
"Greetings, my children. I am Vladimir Zod and I hail from a reality where Krypton still lives. Our world and the Terran one was similar in that they were controlled by a military regime. In my reality Krypton was controlled by the brutally ruthless House of El. I escaped to Earth, your Earth. My ship landed in Moscow. I met an exiled man named Vladimir Knight who begged me to take his name and make a difference here. I had powers here thanks to your yellow sun, but I had taken a fragment from my native Krypton and had it crafted into a bracelet that I wore. I took Vladimir's name and made my way to the United States and created the company known as Knight Industries and had begun the work on the vehicle you know as both KITT KARR. The AI is based on and adapted from the Brain Interactive Construct. I met a young woman named Laura Hurst and she married me and gave birth to the man you know as Wilton Knight. She then murdered me, but I hid the primitive Construct which my son found which holds my memories. The Terran Empire that is assaulting your world seeks not only the Knight Industries Two Thousand the Knight Automated Roving Robot because in them is the Kryptonian Construct that the UEA thinks will help them against the rebellion, but it won't. When Wilton found the Crystal that bore my memory, he hid the Construct technology in the AI's programming software of both KITT KARR. Both those vehicles are a part of the Knight legacy. While Trinity Jean Knight is not my child she is the hybrid that bridges both Krypton and Earth. You my children must fight for your world as I struggled to do all my life on Krypton and Earth. Don't let our legacy die at the hands of Laura Hust's son Jack," said the holographic image and it faded.
"So now what?" Mike said. Zoe moved to the second computer and typed in the name Laura Hurst and a video of a conversation between Elizabeth Knight and Laura Hurst came up.
"Elizabeth, your husband's father hid an advanced piece of technology and I want it," Laura said to a very much younger Elizabeth Knight. They turned to see a 19-year-old Garth Knight walk in.
"Mom, where's dad?" He asked, sleepily as it was early morning.
"He's in the lab," Elizabeth said. She then turned to the bar and unknown to Laura, she slipped a small bit of poison into the glass and she then poured wine. She then poured a glass of wine for herself.
"I propose a toast, to my husband's legacy and the failure of yours," Elizabeth said as she handed the poisoned wine to Laura. The two lightly touched glasses and the two drank. Laura began to gag.
"What did you do?" Laura asked. "I may not agree with my husband all the time, but I love him, and what he represents. You will not get the Construct your seeking," Elizabeth said. The image froze and Zoe began to scan Laura's DNA.
"Crap! She's from the UEA, as a spy. Knight Industries hired her during the KARR project and apparently she had been sending encrypted files to government officials in the Empire. I can recover those but we need to find out who killed the President," Zoe said. Billy smiled at her and then began to work on files and another file popped up from within the White House.
"What did you do? Mike asked. Billy smiled almost wickedly.
"Trinity's company Knight Enterprises created the camera software for the White House surveillance, and I hacked in. No government agency knows we're in," Billy said as they saw President Donald Trump sitting at his desk. A young woman came in and she shot him with a silencer. The woman turned and they were surprised to see Lauren Hurst, Jack Hust's daughter. They saw the woman speak into a com-link.
"Can we get audio?" Elizabeth asked. Billy shook his head. "Since we're hacked in to one band all I can get is video, not audio. I can have Linda Walker our resident NSA contact look at it," Billy suggested.
"No, let's keep this on our own servers for a while. Find out where Lauren is living," Charles said, angered at the work they had been doing was compromised by someone seeking to line their own pockets.
"Got her! She's in LA. Do we know anyone who can get to her," Billy said. Both Wilton and Charles shook their heads no. Hannah spoke up.
" I do. In this reality she would be dead but one of our first spies the UED sent through, and she ironically was responsible for the miss programming of the original KARR," Hannah said.
You're kidding! Is it the same one we have a record of," Mike said. Billy and Zoe looked puzzled.
"Who is this person," Zoe asked. "She was known to you as Dr. April Curtis, but her real name is Lutessa Luthor, otherwise known as Tess Mercer," Trinity said as she moved to the computer and brought up an old video clip of a shot of a gorgeous red head having sexual relations inside the not-yet programmed KARR in August of 1982. She rolled the video image to Wilton firing the young woman.
"Where does she live?" Mike wanted to know, angered at how easily the UEA had compromised his nation with spies.
"Smallville, Kansas," Hannah said. She then brought up the Skype communication app on the computer. She logged into her account and saw Tess's account was active.
"Mercer-1, this is Hannah Melvin. We need you. Jack Hurst is here," she said. Then video of a redhead popped up.
"Oh my God, your alive! What do you need?" Tess asked.
"We need 3 decoders to erase an assassination software," Hannah asked. Mike stared at Elizabeth Knight.
"Psychic programmers who have a unique ability to to wipe a person's memories," Elizabeth offered. Tess smiled.
"Jack and Ben are on their way as am I," Tess said and the HD video went blank. They saw the look of fear on Hannah's face.
"What's wrong? Mike asked. Wilton smiled.
"These psychic programmers also have a way of making you live through your worst fears," He said.
To Be Continued…