Knight Rider: Insurgent
(This story is rated M for Mature. Knight Rider is ©1982-1986;2017 NBC/Universal. Trinity Jean Knight is my character, but her powers are ©2001-2011 CW Network & DC Entertainment. Any & all Smallville characters, elements, locations are ©C2001-2011 CW Network & DC Entertainment. All other characters are mine)
Chapter 6: Deprogramming part 1
Los Angeles, California, Knight Industries Technology, a branch of Knight Industries: Trinity Jean Knight walked in with Mike, Sarah Graiman, Elizabeth Knight, and Hannah Melvin and 4 bodyguards and included FBI agent Heather Melvin, Hannah's sister. Trinity saw Assistant District Attorney Andrea Swanson talking with her head of security. She was able to keep her company Knight Industries Technology due to her status as a special agent for the FBI, and they saw the head of Security Tom Wilson shake his head and Andrea stormed out but turned and saw the group and walked toward them. Trinity and Andrea stared at each other. The two had met during Trinity's sophomore year in college at Kansas State University, and while there was mutual respect Trinity did not like Andrea due to her friendship with LuthorCorp CEO Lionel Luthor.
"Miss Knight, good to see you! Glad to see you brought the fugitive Hannah Melvin in for questioning. I must inform you though you are all under arrest per the order of the President," Andrea said. Trinity stared the woman up and down. Andrea was married with two kids and was a DA for California.
"We have evidence that Jack Hurst corrupted this woman's mind and corrupted her training that she had received to help her aid an uprising from a Police State. Honestly, Andrea how much do you know about our President?" Trinity said.
"Not much, but I trust him," Andrea said. Andrea walked out. Two muscled men who bore the mark of the UEA came in. Trinity then picked up her cell phone.
"Lionel Luthor please," she said calmly as the two men took Hannah Melvin into a room. She then walked into her private office. She activated Skype and Lionel's face popped up.
"Miss Knight, what do you need?" Lionel asked. She smiled. "You helped Charles and my father build the Knight Industries Two Thousand in 1979. We found him and now we need your company's software protocols to help him adjust to the New Knight Three Thousand weapon and Nano skin upgrades as well as putting back in place KITT's original programming. We cloned over the same upgrades my company's version of KARR, but KITT is not adjusting to the newer tech. We also need the other KITT's GPS turned on. Jack's tech team disabled it. We also need whatever LuthorCorp has on Jack Hurst sent over to District Attorney Andrea Swanson's office," Trinity said.
"My tech team will be over in an hour. I have another surprise for you. Something your father wanted but Charles and I disagreed with. There is a backdoor into KITT that Charles built into all the Knight Industries vehicles. Something he didn't want you to know about. My lead tech Harold Fink will upload to your servers. The other Wilton will be aware of it as well," Lionel said. Her pretty face turned from a neutral expression to one of anger.
"What else are you hiding from me Lionel? She asked. "Your Father and Clark's mother were both here in California shortly before I started my company. Jor-El helped Wilton design what was KARR. I'm sure your aware of the Brain Interactive Contruct?" Your father brought a primitive version of that AI to Earth with him and part of that program was programmed into the Knight Automated Roving Robot when Wilton and Charles began to design the Artificial Intelligence for KARR. Graiman Industries installed a programming override on the Brain Interactive Construct and KARR's artificial intelligence took over. You should try to re-activate that Construct that your father installed into KARR. That Construct was built into every Knight Industries vehicle. That also includes your version of KARR. Except yours has Kryptonian technology, unlike the original KARR. I sent someone into the past to make sure that Construct was included in every version of a Knight Industries including KRO," Lionel said. Trinity closed the connection in frustration.
"Right now, I wish I could sic Garth on him," She said to no one as Mike and Sarah and Elizabeth came in.
"What's the problem?" Mike said. "that lying bastard created a back door into KITT and KARR," Trinity said. Mike smiled.
"We'll make use of the back door to download KITT's memories and download them into this alternate KITT," Mike suggested as he stared at Trinity's email and an email popped up from a LuthorCorp server. The subject line read "back door".
"What's this?" he said as he stared at the long string code that was in the email.
"A gift from Lionel Luthor. He said it was a back-door loop that Wilton didn't want installed into any Knight Industries vehicle," Trinity said. They then heard Wilton's voice.
"Your father didn't want the government to have access to the plans for KARR. They wanted KARR as a weapon against terrorists around the world. I was against the same thing. Government authorities kept putting pressure for us to build the ultimate weapon against the Rebellion. Same thing here if I had to guess from Wilton's notes. That Brainiac protocol Elizabeth stole from Jor-El was installed as a safeguard to prevent government officials from hacking KARR. It is written in as a backup security measure. Now that we have the backdoor code what do we do with it?" Wilton said.
"Turn on KITT's GPS and Bluetooth for locating him. We also would be able to retrieve the most advanced vehicle in the world," Elizabeth said as she typed in a website on Trinity's computer.
"Welcome to the Brain Interactive Construct. How may I Be Of service? "spoke a voice like KITT.
"This is Sarah Graiman, authorization Knight Kilo One. Security code is Krypton 2. Activate Knight Industries Three Thousand GPS and Bluetooth and internal cameras. Enable transformation protocols as well as weaponry and grant us computer control," Elizabeth said. They then saw a voice Orb like the one used by the Knight Three Thousand but this one was green. This was Brainiac.
"Of Course. What shall I do with the dominant program?" The AI asked.
"Return control of the car to the Knight Industries Three Thousand. There is also a viral program that would scramble your locator software. Infiltrate government computers with it and give video images of KITT still in the lab and disable their GPS," Elizabeth said. They then saw on the onboard camera built into the car the car motivates forward and the vehicle's offensive weaponry came online & the military vehicles were blown away.
"What is he doing?" Mike asked as they pulled up a different view from a rear camera of the car. "Brainiac is guiding the car out of there. You remember the late Dr. David Banner and his "Medical Problem?" the Hulking creature that would take him over when angered? David would not have any memory of what the creature did. Same process with KITT or any other Knight Industries vehicle. The host AI will not remember what's going on while Brainiac is in control. The Brain Interactive Constructwill release KITT back and KITT's virtual memory will be restored but we can create a virtual memory file to integrate the two memories, "Wilton said. He sat down near Trinity and began writing a program that both isolated and integrated the two artificial intelligence programs. They then switched back to KITT and the car was on the freeway doing about 120 as the car switched to a rear-view camera to see fading lights from sirens as the car picked up speed. The camera view switched to a forward camera view and the car was accelerating.
"Open the doors," Wilton said as Billy Morgan came in with coffee in hand from Starbucks. He put the coffee down and inputted a command code and the underground garage doors opened and KITT entered. The vehicle slowed down and parked into the Knight Industries Technology underground parking garage.
"Billy assemble a team to recover KITT's programming and look for Jack's digital fingerprint on the current AI program," Wilton said. They then heard over the intercom, "Heather Melvin, Trinity & Wilton Knight to deprogramming room #1". Wilton & Trinity stood up and ran to the room. Trinity got there first due to her super speed.
"What the?" She remarked again to no one as she saw Hannah Melvin and no one else.
"I'm okay, Jean," Hannah said using Trinity Jean Knight's middle name. Heather came in. "Where are the deprogrammers who came in with you?" She asked.
"They did their job and left via a portal that only they have access to. My memories of the corruption that Jack Hurst did to me is gone as is the corruption my slave masters did to me as well. My assassination skills are still there. They have their own portal access. Th UEA cannot close their breeches, and neither can our native government because the technology doesn't exist here," Hannah said. They walked back to hear alarms start going off.
"What's going on?" Trinity asked her technology supervisor, Karen Wilson.
"The FBI just used a Trojan virus to gain our financial records," Karen asked. She frowned. Trinity looked angered.
"Get me District Attorney Andrea Swanson, please," She said to Karen's husband Mike, who was her head of security. She was pleasantly surprised when on the video screen Andrea's face popped up.
"What's going on here Trinity? The state's financial records were just compromised," Andrea said clearly frustrated.
"So was ours. I'm having my cyber expert send you details of the virus. Also, I've had contact with the vigilante cyber hacker Watchtower, so She will examine the virus. We've also recovered the Knight 2000 and my team is recovering his data and memories, one of which my technology supervisor Karen Wilson will send to you. The only way to defeat those behind this cyber-attack is to work together, Andrea. I'm sending my best agent, Michael Knight and the Knight Automated Roving Robot to a location of your choosing. Please send it encrypted via email, as this virus is only interested in financial records," Trinity said as Charles Graiman & Wilton Knight stood behind her.
"Just tell me one thing? Who was responsible for Hannah's programming?" Andrea asked. Hannah smiled and said, "President Jack Hurst. The United Empire Of America sent him over as a sleeper agent when he was in his 20's. He did my programming when I was 10," Hannah said. Trinity stared at Hannah then turned to look at Andrea.
"We don't have to like each other to work together," Trinity said staring at the video image. Andrea nodded at her.
"Very well," Andrea said.
To Be Continued…