Knight Rider: Rising
(This story is rated M for Mature. All Knight Rider characters are ©1982-1986;2008-2009 Universal Studios. All Smallville characters &elements are ©2001-2011 DC Entertainment & The CW Network. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are ©2001-2011 DC Entertainment & The CW Network. All other characters are mine)
Chapter 3: Future
Smallville, Kansas, August 12, 2017: Michael woke with a shout. Martha Kent stared at him. "Well look who's up?" She said as she offered him a Mountain Dew from the Fridge. He turned to see a young man with her. "Where am I?" Michael asked as he sat up from the couch and accepted the soda from the young man.
"Smallville, Kansas, but you are in the executive home of Senator Martha Kent," The young man said. "Who are you?" Michael asked. The young man smiled. "I am Clark Kent," the young man said. Michael closed his eyes and when he opened them they were white as The Guardian flooded his brain with current information to get him caught up.
"You're Kal-El of Krypton. I met you in 1989. What year is it?" He asked. He then heard the voice of Trinity Jean Knight.
"It's 2017, and we have a problem, Mike. You remember my brother, Garth? Built an 18-wheeler and stole some missiles for African revolutionary Tsombe Kuna for the Pan Am Liberation Movement back in the 1990's and the man who's face yours was designed after," Trinity said. Michael nodded. "What's going on here," Michael nodded.
"Garth survived going over that cliff in California and went into hiding. Lex Luthor lost his presidential bid but now he's been funding Garth making the man wealthy, wealthier than you are," Clark said. He then motioned for another woman to come forward.
"I'd like to introduce a member of my team. Her name is Chloe Sullivan otherwise known as," Clark said but was then cut off by Trinity.
"Watchtower. The hacker that's been hacking both LuthorCorp & Knight Industries since 2003. She was on the FBI's most wanted list until she aided us in uncovering the company that destroyed KITT. We had to rebuild him so we bought in the original man who built the Knight Industries Two Thousand for Wilton Knight. Wilton and a man named Lionel Luthor had built KARR back in the middle to late '80s but when one of Lionel's technicians accidentally misprogrammed KARR, Wilton fired Lionel and Lionel pulled out of the KARR project, and Dr. Charles Graiman was brought in. both men started on The KITT Project taking the body of a Mustang Shelby and modified it creating a state of the art vehicle. Chloe was instrumental in creating KITT's coding to make the car hack proof," Trinity said. Michael smiled.
"Will he remember me?" Michael asked. Chloe smiled. "The one thing I was able to salvage was the Central Processor Unit so I used a state of the art online locker system that Knight Industries created so I stored all of KITT's memories online and his personality was stored online as well. I created with Dr. Graiman a self-replicating shell that worked better than the Molecular Bonded Shell that was used on the 2000 model. KITT was finished programming here at a company that Trinity has a minority stake in, Knight Industries Technology. He's waiting outside," Chloe said. Clark, Michael, Senator Kent, Michael and Trinity walked outside to see a black Mustang with a red scanner light imbedded into the hood scanning them. They then saw a man leaning against the machine.
"Michael, so glad to see you," the man said shaking Michael's hand. Michael remembered him from when he was suspended in 1985 by Wilton's daughter Jennifer Knight. Devon Miles had ordered FLAG on hold. "Devon had been killed by terrorists and his niece who bore the same name took over, but I'm CEO of Knight Industries. I rebuilt KITT due to new dangers in the world. KITT, meet Michael Knight,"Charles said. Michael walked around the vehicle.
"Welcome Mr. Knight. I've waited for this moment for you to wake up. If I remember correctly, you were downloaded with an alien artificial intelligence and have been in a coma for some time. In your absence, I have been doing some research on Alexander Luthor, CEO of LuthorCorp. He would like to meet you," KITT finally said. He climbed into the car.
"With Chloe's help we designed either a fingerprint identification software or an Eye scanner. You can also designate another driver if your missing," Charles said. Michael looked at the heads-up display on the windshield and files appeared on The Luthor family. He then heard a phone ring and what appeared was the name Lionel Luthor on the display. He saw a phone symbol and he pressed it to pick it up. He noticed KITT starting a trace on where the phone call was coming from.
"This is Michael Knight. Who is this?" Mike said. He then saw a video image of a man who was believed to be dead.
"Mr. Knight, my name is Lionel Luthor and while I am not native to this reality, I need your help. No, the world needs your help. Your duplicate Garth Knight has teamed with this reality's version of my son, Lex. This merger is a bad deal with unknown consequences for you and Clark. I'd like you, Clark, Senator Kent & Trinity Knight to come to LuthorCorp's Los Angeles office," Lionel said. Clark leaned in to see the video chat box open with Lionel Luthor.
"Oh, my God," he whispered. Michael motioned for him to climb into the passenger side. Clark climbed in and saw the heads-up display & saw the face of Lionel Luthor, a man who was believed to be dead.
"Hello Kal-El. I'd like you, your mother, Mr. Knight, Trinity Knight to come to Los Angeles to LuthorCorp. But not the one native to your reality, but the one native to mine," Lionel said. I have a gift to give to your team, one my doppelgänger screwed up on your end," Lionel said. Chloe leaned in.
"Do you mind if I come along?" She asked. Lionel nodded. "I'm sending someone from our end to cover your team. A man Senator Kent should be aware of. After all she was married to him," Lionel said.
Who would that be, Mr. Luthor?" Mike asked. Martha smiled sadly.
"My husband Jonathan who passed away in 2005," she said sadly. A portal opened and a man entered. Clark climbed out of the passenger side of the car and stared at Jonathan in disbelief.
"Dad!" He said staring at the man in disbelief. He embraced the man.
"I don't know you," Jonathan said. Clark looked at him in disbelief.
"This man did not find your ship," Chloe said. Clark frowned.
"If Jonathan didn't then who did," Clark asked.
"Lionel Luthor did on that fateful day," KITT said. Clark, Martha & Chloe climbed into the Mustang Shelby.
"How do we get to where you are," Chloe asked.
"I've had my Chloe Sullivan upload a matrix to KITT," Lionel said. KITT was silent for a couple of minutes, and then replied, "Files received,"
They saw on the heads-up display a mode switched from Normal Mode to Pursuit Mode. The vehicle began to accelerate from 0-100 miles in 5 seconds and the launched and energy surrounded them and they were gone, displaced from one reality to another, one far more sinister than their native one…
To Be Continued…