Knight Rider: Darkest Knight
(This story is rated M for Mature. Knight Rider is ©1982-1986; 2008-2009 NBC/Universal. All Smallville elements are ©2001-2011 CW Network/DC Entertainment. The Flash is ©2014-2018 The CW Network/DC Entertainment. Hannah Melvin is used by permission. All Batman Beyond characters & Elements are ©1998-2000 The WB Kids & DC Entertainment)
Chapter 5: Escape to Earth-1
Mike turned the wheel hard as the alternate version of KARR shot missiles at them. Mike activated ski mode and the missile flew by them. The car had previously picked up its driver the Mirror Universe doppelgängerof Michael Knight, who by the FLAG accounts on this side of the mirror was a murderer and abuser of his girlfriend Sarah Graiman. Mike had convinced the girl to try to change not only her life but the lives of those around her. It was Mike, Trinity & Terry along with the Mirror Universe duplicate of Sarah Graiman with them.
"He'll catch you," Sarah said. Trinity smiled at her with a wicked smile. She smiled at Terry McGinnis.
"There's a control switch that will rotate the seat. Let's switch places. There's a new program I had installed into KARR. I know Charles didn't like this program, but it will get our current problem off our tail," she said. Terry found the switch and the seat rotated around and Terry & Trinity switched places.
"What's this program Dr. Graiman would not approve of?" Mike asked.
"It's a hacking software that one of the geniuses at my company designed shortly after 9/11. When Dr. Graiman originally designed KARR IN 1999, the FBI was designing the software, but their version had bugs. They gave me 6 moths leave to go back to my company to begin re-designing the software. I did but one Alex Torres came across files submitted by Wilton Knight when the original KARR was put into production back in 1983. Devon Miles was ordered by the Government to mass produce KARR but given the issues with the 1st KARR, both men said no," Trinity said.
"You knew Devon Miles," Mike commented as he looked at the coding files that came up on the Heads-Up display and KARR was hacking his doppelganger at a superfast rate. She nodded.
"I also knew your father Michael Long, who became Michael Knight. Remember the younger Wilton Knight that came to our reality is a native to this one," Trinity said. The program was set.
"What now," Terry asked.
"Shut down this alternate version of KARR. It'll become an immobilized pile of steel," Sarah spoke up.
"Your boyfriend won't like it," Mike said. She frowned.
"Not to sound cruel, but I don't care. I just want someone to love me," Sarah said. Mike shrugged and spoke.
"Looks like we're taking another duplicate back home," Mike said. KARR initiated the hacking program and included with it, a pulse signal. They noticed the other KARR stop.
"Open the wormhole for home," Trinity said. A few minutes later they saw a hole open in space in front of them, like a black hole.
KARR turbo boosted through the wormhole. In what felt like an Eternity, they reappeared on the other side.
"Where are we?" Sarah said as she saw Gotham City.
"Home," KARR said after a few minutes. On KARR's heads-up display appeared the year 2018 and the date that they had arrived in to stop the Mirror Universe duplicate of Michael Knight.
"Where's KITT?" Mike asked.
"Jack Hurst has him in storage, in an unofficial government location known by conspiracy theorists as Area 51," KARR Said.
What about Dr. Barstow," Trinity asked.
"Enroute to Gotham. Apparently, the company known as WayneTech has a scanner they developed that Knight Industries believes will help them find the Knight 3000," KARR said.
"So, that's what she was doing in Gotham," Mike said as he turned the wheel hard as they turned toward the docks.
"I'm detecting a ship docking bearing the logo of Lord Enterprises owned by one Maxwell Lord," KARR said.
Trinity looked at the heads-up display and realized she knew that name.
"Damn!" She whispered.
"What's wrong?" Terry asked.
"Maxwell Lord is an entrepreneur from the same time period as The Reverse-Flash, the 22nd Century. I knew him from an accident that sent me forward in time to that era in time. He built an exo-skeleton system for KARR that He gave to Jack Hurst as a gift in our era, but Dr. Graiman refused to allow it to be used on KITT or KARR. The government then took over the KARR project from Charles and they installed the exo-skeleton onto an earlier prototype of KARR that they updated. They found you, Mike when you worked for Special Forces and wiped your memory of it. I'm sure Charles has told you this the first time You and KITT went after KARR. Apparently KRO was KITT's possible replacement should he ever go rogue," Trinity said.
"How do we deal with Maxwell Lord and your Doppelgänger at the same time," Mike asked. Terry smiled.
"One villain at a time, guys," Terry said. A proximity alert went off as KARR detected another two missiles locking onto the exhaust of the 21st century prototype.
"Lower the heat temperature of your exhaust," Trinity ordered.
"Already done, Miss Knight, but it is locking onto your Kryptonian DNA," KARR said. Trinity frowned.
"Don't tell me, I have a doppelgänger on that side," Trinity said glancing back at Sarah.
"Yes. Her name is Trinity Marie Knight and she used to take advantage of Garth Knight. Michael didn't like it. He wanted revenge," Sarah said.
"Missile encoding," KARR reminded them.
"Can we rig it to explode prematurely or change it's coding protocols?" Mike asked. Sarah shook her head no.
"That thing is designed to explode but will neutralize your natural gifts," Sarah said.
"KARR, feed me into the FLAG COM systems he's using," Mike said.
"You're in, Mr. Knight," KARR said.
"Michael, deactivate the missiles. What will neutralizing Trinity accomplish? It has no purpose or plan. You wouldn't do this if there was no purpose or meaning," Mike said.
"The Trinity that is from my reality has a God mentality. She has no ethics, no morality. She kept taking advantage of my brother Garth, or anyone for that matter. It didn't matter who she hurt," Michael said as he was in pursuit of Mike.
"Your missing one problem," Mike said.
"And what's that?" Michael said.
"I'm not her! I would never do that!" Trinity protested calmly.
"You could be! Just like Bonnie! The only difference is you have powers that I could only dream of," Michael yelled.
"I have never taken a life unless it was a last resort, if I had no choice. Your sister Trinity Marie Knight chose to use her natural gifts for selfish reasons just like you are," Trinity said.
"You lie!" Michael screamed.
"There is a variation in her DNA that is not present in Trinity Marie Knight's genome. She is from an honorable House from Krypton although she was not born there," the alternate KARR said to Michael.
"Shut up you piece of garbage. You only speak when I say you can!" Michael roared at KARR.
"KARR, in this reality we are a team, a family. What are you back home? A tool? We are much more than that. We were designed by Wilton Knight to make a difference. What have you done to make a difference?" KARR said to his doppelgänger.
"Missiles disabled," the other KARR said.
"Thank you, KARR," Mike said. The other KARR thanked them.
"Now this is a fair fight," Mike said turning the wheel and aiming KARR at his doppelgänger.
"Now what?" Terry asked.
"We send them back home," Mike said as he nodded to KARR to drive as he brought up the weaponry they had armed KARR with from the Mirror Universe.
"What's a displacement EMP?" Trinity asked, afraid of the answer.
"It is electromagnetic pulse that will reset the other KARR's programming to the way it was but will also send them back to where they came from," Mike said as he read the notes attached to the software and the program began to power up as energy began to build up from the solar cells KARR absorbed. The weapon which had been mounted under the vehicle's scanners hit the other vehicle's scanner and the crimson almost blood color of the scanner went dead. They then saw a wormhole open behind the other Mustang and the car was sucked in and the car was gone, and the wormhole closed.
"Let's get to the docks!" Mike said. He pressed his foot down on the accelerator and the heads-up display had them at 100 miles an hour in a second. They arrived at the Gotham Docks and saw a Ferrari that had a purple colored scanner driving ahead of them.
"Looks like we have a problem," Mike said.
To Be Continued….