Knight Rider: Time Warp III
(This story is rated M for Mature. Knight RIder is ©1982-1986 NBC/Universal. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are ©2001-2011 CW Network/DC Entertainment. Hannah Melvin is used with permission)
Chapter 1: Dude what have you done with my Garthe?Michael and Hannah stared at the pile of dust that Michael was carefully sweeping up that had been his "brother" Garthe Wilton Knight, the estranged son of Wilton Knight. He saw Goliath nearby. "What happened?" Hannah wanted to know.
"He said something about changing history. He said he had outfitted Goliath with a time travel device. We need to load KARR in the trailer and figure out what Garthe did," he commended. Hannah looked at the keypad on the trailer doors.
"It's locked behind a code," she said as it started to rain.
"What's his birthday?" Michael asked. She inputted it but she got a negative response from the keypad. "What about the year of his birth?" Hannah suggested. He then nodded and she inputted it and the keypad lit up green and the doors lowered like a ramp and KARR drove up. Michael and Hannah walked up to see on one side a computer. He then saw a email waiting that was addressed to him from Garthe.
"What the hell?" Hannah said, caught by surprise. He pressed enter on the computer keyboard. A nearby camera projected a holographic video of Garth Knight.
"If you're seeing this, Michael, it means I've been erased from existence by a decision I made to be rid of you, and my father. I thought being rid of you would solve my problems, but in doing so, I was wiped from existence. I discovered a way to travel through time. I pre-programmed Goliath to take you to the year 1978 when my father began construction of the Knight Automated Roving Robot. You must find me and somehow stop me," Garthe said and the mini-video ended.
"What date did Wilton build KARR?" Michael asked and the Time Displacement Network gave the time stamp as May 5, 1978, Los Angeles, California State University.
"We also need to pick up Bonnie as well," Michael said. She nodded. She climbed into KARR and she backed the car up and 16 minutes later, she drove up the ramp to see Bonnie climb out of the car.
"What the hell is going on here, Michael?" She asked. "Garthe killed his father, which means we have to go back and stop him," Michael said. She looked at her husband with surprise. She looked around the trailer which she said almost looked like the FLAG semi. She looked at the computer and it read, please input time destination. She saw the waiting date.. "what do we do now?" She asked. "All you gotta do is press enter and Goliath will take us there. There's an automated pilot system which means no one needs to drive," Michael said. She then nodded & said, "here goes nothing," then she pressed the enter button. Then they felt G- forces gently throw them back onto KARR's hood.
The truck then came to a crawl then stopped. The rear door lowered as a ramp and Hannah, Bonnie and Michael walked down. Michael then saw all the 1970's cars and he said, "We're here"...
To Be Continued…
Chapter 2: May 5, 1978Michael looked at the college that Goliath had brought them to. California State University. He had studied here in their law enforcement department. He walked back up the ramp and on the time displacement computer he typed in the name Wilton Knight and nothing came up. He then typed in Wilton Vladimir Knight's name & a complete list of the man's schooling came up. While Michael Long had studied Law Enforcement, Wilton had studied business Management with a minor in law enforcement. He had recently transferred from Kansas State University.
Michael had known Wilton had conceived of a truly autonomous vehicle with the help of his college roommate Lionel Luthor.
Michael looked at Hannah and Bonnie. "Do we need new identities here in this time?" Michael asked. They then heard KARR speak.
"Considering, there are now two different versions of the three of you, that would be a good idea," the vehicle's female voice said.
"My former self, Michael Long had just enrolled at California State University a few days ago, and Wilton just finished a bachelor's degree in business and was teaching here part-time, while he waited for the government to grant him approval to build what would become KARR for the military," Michael stated.
"I live here, well, the native version of Hannah who doesn't have the extra genome in her DNA. I think her & her sister live in Houston, Texas," Hannah said. KARR then spoke. "Miss Melvin, you're incorrect. This alternate reality version of you isn't born yet until 1993, but your mom lives with her husband Hank who is a computer programmer for IBM. How I know is I was created with a DNA scanner. Your replication on this side is not yet conceived. From your perspective you can keep your first name but you must change your last name so you are not detected," the female artificial intelligence voice said. Bonnie used the computer in Goliath to hack the California DMV to create new identities for her husband and the Eternal who she was developing a friendship with.
She came back out with driver's licenses for all three.
"We need a car to search for Garthe. Michael, please stay close to Wilton," Bonnie suggested. Michael nodded and the two kissed. They saw a '78 Firebird and KARR quickly created a owner tag and insurance for the car and the two young women climbed in. Michael moved toward KARR and he climbed in.
"How can I work with Wilton without revealing who I am?" He asked. He then saw on the HUD a name. Xavier Holmes, a teacher's aide to visiting teacher of business, Wilton Knight who was on the board of directors for the business class at the college. He saw the California state drivers license print out of KARR's also noted the car printed out a badge.
"Time to go to work," he said, climbing out of the car and the vehicle activated its camouflage mode…
To Be Continued….
Chapter 3: searching for GartheNorth LA: Hannah looked at the makeshift DNA scanner Bonnie had put had been briefly shown how to use it, but the technology to her was pretty basic as it was technology from the Terran Empire that was used to scan for slaves. The only difference with this one was the fact that there was no database to search from.
She noted that the genetic code for this reality's Garthe was off from the one from her reality. They had rented a car from Hertz Rent-A-Car and they had rented a newer 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. The scanner they had plugged into the car's cigarette lighter and they had been led to a Ramada Inn where Garthe was.
Ramada Inn-Samantha Thorne poured the man a drink. She was 28, a gymnast that had fallen in love with this mysterious man with the goatee. But she held a deadly secret. Unknown to Garthe Knight, she was sent from the future to kill him, unaware of Michael's team that went back in time to stop him. She handed the man his drink.
"Thank you," he said, as the two lightly tapped their glasses together and he drank it in one gulp. He then felt it. The ooluta was mixed in. It was a truth serum from an African tree he had discovered when he had asked a tribal chieftain for his daughter's hand in marriage but the man had said no. He, in turn had raped the woman, then killed the woman's father and burned the village down. This version knew that that event wouldn't happen for a couple of years, but somehow the ooluta was found and it's powers of truth were being used against him.
"Who are you?" She demanded to know. She recognized his face. Garthe Knight, in her time was dead, allegedly drowned in Goliath with Adrienne Margeaux, a woman who had stolen the Knight Industries Two Thousand in 1984. She hated the corruption the man had created because his legend in 2050 had made him an anti-hero and martyr among young people in her time.
"Garthe Wilton Knight," the man said. "You're displaced, aren't you? She asked. He nodded. "Why are you here?" "To kill my father's Legacy. He has all these contracts and he cares more about himself than his children," Garthe said. She pulled out a gun. She aimed it at him, and then thought about it. She then put it down on the table. He then tackled the woman and she landed on the bed.
She felt him as he unzipped her pants then his own and he forced himself on her. She tried to push him off of her but he was too strong. She began to cry at this violation of her mind, body and soul.
He climbed off of her and he grabbed the gun and left the hotel room.
10 minutes later, Michael opened the door of the hotel room to see the young woman crying.
"Where is he?" He asked. He looked at the crying young woman. "He left. He took a gun. He said he was going to kill his father's legacy," She said as she looked at him. "Why do you look like him?" She asked. Hannah walked in. "Where's Garthe?" She asked. "Gone," Michael said. "Who are you?" Hannah asked the young woman."Samantha Thorne. I was sent here, to stop him. I want to kill him for what he's become," She said through clenched teeth. Michael looked at her.
"We can't kill Garthe. No matter how much we want to, we can't. If we kill him, we erase all existence of Wilton Knight," Michael warned. Samantha nodded through her tears.
"We know where Garthe will show up right?" Samantha finally asked. Hannah shook her head no.
"We do however know who will be in town," she said. Michael looked at her bewildered.
"Who helped Wilton build KARR in both your reality and mine?" Hannah asked. "Lionel," Michael finally said….
To Be Continued…
Chapter 4: Lionel LuthorA few Days Later: Michael Long pulled up to the campus. He was 19, had boyishly good looks and was in his first year of his law enforcement degree. He grabbed his backpack.
"Let's get this day started," he said to his buddy Philip. The two people had been friends for years.
He looked at the girl's who's attractive body caught his eye, and the young man bumped into Wilton Knight. His books and notebooks went flying.
"I'm sorry sir," he said apologetically. Wilton simply smiled at the young man. The two picked up Michael's books and notebooks.
"What's your name?" Wilton inquired of the young man. "Michael Long. I'm in the law enforcement class taught by Mr. Rutherford," he said. Wilton smiled as he had previously had lunch with Richard Rutherford the day before. He remembered Richard mentioning Michael's eagerness to learn everything there was to be a cop. Wilton smiled at this as he knew the young man would show promise.
My name is Mr. Knight. I'm an adjunct teacher in the business wing of the campus," Wilton said. Michael nodded as he ran off to make it to his class. He then saw his wife Elizabeth come into the campus with a young girl who was clearly the man's daughter although he didn't know that.
"Wil, let's do lunch," Elizabeth said, gently. He nodded as he looked at Michael walk away and the three walked to his classroom and he motioned for them to come to a nearby lab where Wilton was working on the voice modulator for his prototype. They then saw Lionel Luthor, his old college roommate. Unknown to them, the man had recently killed his parents, making him wealthy and he was starting his own company called LuthorCorp.
"Good Morning, Wilton," Lionel said as they moved toward the table where the voice modulator was waiting.
Elizabeth stared at the man, clearly not trusting the man. "Come now Trinity. Let's let them work," she said and Liz and Trinity left.
Wilton looked as the techs finished hooking up a separate power supply for the voice modulator. They then heard the voice modulator speak.
"Good Morning. I am the Knight Automated Roving Robot, the first in a bold new line," the voice said. It was female voice but a husky female.
Wilton frowned at the voice. It was not what he wanted. His technical assistant Agnes had recorded the lines, but the voice wasn't right.
"I need to fix the voice. I don't want the pilot falling in love with my car," Wilton said, irritated. Lionel then motioned to two of the techs he had hired from Central City's Star Technologies to come in.
"I'll take care of it," Lionel promised his friend. Wilton left with his wife and unknown daughter to have an early lunch. He motioned for Peter Simpson to come in. The man had a husky voice much like Agnes did. The man saw a tech hook up a microphone into the voice modulator inputs. Lionel looked at the lines both he and Wilton had written. "Read the lines please, Peter," Lionel said. The man began to read the words…
To Be Continued…
Chapter 5: KARR beginningsA few days later: Michael Knight looked at the blueprint that Wilton had designed. He was in his guise of Xavier Holmes, Wilton's assistant at this point in time. He looked at the design of the voice modulator in hand.
He heard the recording that had been recorded by Lionel's man. "Well, Xavier what do you think?" Wilton asked. Michael puts down the voice Modulator back on the table.
"It's good but I hate the voice, Wilton," he said. The older man nodded and the both moved to grab more coffee. Michael then saw her. This reality's Bonnie McPherson Barstow. The woman was barely 20. Michael felt his heart skip a beat for the woman he loved but he couldn't let that show in his guise as Wilton's assistant. He had KARR disguise his face in pictures and or videos as if he showed his face which looked like Garthe's.
Wilton went to the university cafeteria to get Xavier and himself dinner, unaware that his son was nearby…
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Chapter 6 Garthe attacks!Garthe looked at his father through the viewfinder of the sniper rifle he held. He had lived in his father's shadow for too long. He had long lived also in the shadow of Michael Knight, some throw away cop from LA. the Knight 2000 was supposed to his, but Wilton had given this no-name cop the wealth and resources of his family and he had begun a one man war on crime. He remembered in 1984 building Goliath and hurting both Michael & KITT but in the end Michael had won having Garthe thrown in jail for stealing missiles from the Red Bluff location.
Michael then felt his in-ear comlink vibrate. It was KARR.
"Mr. Knight, I'm detecting a bullet headed for you and Wilton," KARR said. He jumped on the man but the bullet hit his chest. Michael knew he had limited invulnerability but he still felt the bullet. He saw Wilton knocked out. He saw a student come in. "Call an ambulance! Mr. Knight's been shot!" Michael declared. He then felt the blood begin to flow. The girl ran to a telephone and called 911. Wilton sat up to see Michael on the ground with blood gushing from the bullet wound.
Xavier!" He said. He grabbed a set of pliers and began pulling the bullet out. The EMTs arrived. Samantha Thorne came in and she saw her friend on the ground. Samantha put her hands on the wound to stop the bleeding. Suddenly his chest began to glow and the bleeding stopped.
"What happened?" Wilton asked. "The power of God, I would assume," She guessed. Michael sat up. "What happened?" He asked. "You took a bullet meant for me," Wilton replied. Michael then spoke into his comlink. "KARR, any sign of him?" He asked. He got a negative reply. Wilton looked at him then finally noted what looked like in-ear monitors in his ears. "Who are you?" He asked. Michael asked Samantha to go get them coffee.
"Mr. Knight, you may or may not want to believe this, but I am from the future. My name is Michael Knight, and you saved me from an assassin in the year 1982. My birth name is Michael Arthur Long, the young man who bumped into you a few days ago. I came back in time to stop the future version of your son from killing you and preventing both of our existences from happening," Michael said, finally.
Wilton smiled. "I know. A man appeared before me a couple of years ago to warn me. He claimed his name was Vladimir Zod from a planet called Krypton. He told me both he was my great-grandfather and that you were coming to save me. He had crash landed near Moscow and he had accidentally killed my Russian born great-grandfather on my father's side of the family. The man took my family name to preserve the legacy of my family. He gave me a piece of Kryptonian technology of which I based a lot of my business around. I created a hydrogen fueled airplane that was kept off the market by greedy investors and businesses. How do we stop Garthe?" Wilton asked. Michael shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know, but I might know someone who can help," Michael said as they moved to the garage doors and Michael pressed the button to open the doors and the car rolled in on its own power.
"Mr. Knight, let me introduce you to KARR, the Knight Automated Roving Robot designed by an alternate version of you and Dr. Graiman," Michael said. Wilton looking in awe at this piece of technology not designed in this world.
"I have a plan," Wilton suddenly suggested…
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Chapter 7: The PlanA Few days later: Wilton reviewed the plan. Michael would call out Garthe and the two men would battle it out or talk it out.
"Are you sure this will work?" Samantha asked Michael as he was tinkering and tuning KARR's engine. The plan was simple. Michael would use Goliath to triangulate Garthe's location and lure him to arrest him.
"Not sure, but we'll try," Michael said. He had set the time coordinates to bring them back to the future when they were done. He looked at the DNA of Garthe that he had scanned for. One was on a plane to Nairobi, Africa and the other one was right here in LA. he noted that the DNA of the second one was off due to the displacement. He then sent out the pulse. Bonnie looked at him. "How will we know if he got it?" She asked, "Before he left, Billy told me that Garthe had broken into a Knight Industries facility in Chicago and stole a DNA scanner that Charles was working on. That DNA scanner was in tune exactly with the pulse that I sent out," Michael said as he keyed in another command into the time computer.
In another reality, the Knight Industries Three Thousand activated and a wormhole opened and the purple colored vehicle drove through…
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Chapter 8: The Plan part 2The Next Day: Michael looked at the techs as they installed the AI into the body of a 1979 Firebird Trans Am. They then lowered the engine into the engine bay. And Bonnie and the techs hooked the AI into the turbine engine and the engine roared to life. He then heard the roar of a motorcycle approaching. He heard the extra roar of the motorcycle. He saw the man who he looked like. Garthe kicked the kickstand down.
"Who are you?" Garthe asked. He pulled out the gun he had stolen from Samantha as he saw his father.
"Michael Arthur Knight. I came from the future to stop you," Michael declared. "I want to be rid of my father as he cares more about his contracts than his own children," Garthe answered him. Wilton spoke up.
"And do you know why I did what I did? To make sure your life was better than mine," Wilton protested to his son and they moved to where Goliath sat waiting to be used. Michael then pulled out the dust that had been Garthe Knight and suddenly electrical energy flowed from the younger version of Garthe Knight and reformed the older version.
"What is this?" The younger Garthe asked. The older version looked at his younger self.
"It's simple. I'm you." The older man said after his face finished forming.
"I'm here to kill my father," the younger version of Garthe said. "And you'll destroy us. My anger and hubris destroyed us. I had Knight Industries techs outfit my giant friend Goliath with a time displacement device and when I arrived back in the present time I felt myself beginning to disintegrate. A finger, then a toe. I found a doctor who explained what was going on. I brought this on myself. You can't do this," Garthe warned himself. The younger man aimed his gun toward Wilton, but the older version of Garthe grabbed the gun and the two men wrestled over the gun. The older version of Garthe accidentally shot his younger self.
"What did you do?" Michael asked. Garthe looked at him. "It was an accident," he proclaimed. Wilton then looked at his son as the older man began to blink in and out of existence.
"I'm sorry Wil," Michael said, shaking the man's hand as Michael's team reassembled. They all embraced the man. They then boarded the tractor trailer and Michael boarded and he inputted the time to take them back to the future.
Epilogue: LA, 2078, the time displaced truck arrived in the future. Hannah looked at the nearby bar.
"Where are we?" she asked. They walked into the bar and saw a news article on the TV detailing the recent closing down of FLAG and the manhunt for the son of Trinity Jean Knight, named Michael Knight. They looked at the people that were at the bar who were getting drunk. The bartender looked at the crew that had just walked in and saw Michael Knight's face. He pulled out a weapon that looked like a gun…
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