A/N: I am combining Grammarly on Google Docx with Microsoft Word Spell Checker. In this chapter, I used Microsoft Review Read Aloud. Hoping to catch more spelling errors and misplaced words. Exp. word and world sometimes get mist.

Chapter 13: Reborn an Enfield to defeat Goliath

Friday, October 7, 1983,

Nevada, outback

21:10

The sound of a properly performing Turbojet Knight series engine that had a slightly lower pitch to it. Like between Normal and Pursuit mode was coming from the Pepper Gray Metallic Chevrolet C10 truck that was rapidly approaching K.I.T.T.

When the Gray truck was closer, he could see the black bar of its biometric scanner in its grill below its gold Chevrolet badge. The bar did not have a light tracking back and forth in it and K.I.T.T. could not sense the presence of an AI like with his older brother K.A.R.R. or 001.

The Gray C10 stops 10 feet in front of K.I.T.T., with the unmistakable *whistling* of its Turbojet Knight series engine still running.

Michael spoke as he reached for the door handle to get out. "I'm going to see what's up, anything you can tell me."

As Michael was opening the door a voice K.I.T.T. recognized as Graces' spoke from a clear external speaker from the Gray C10.

"K.I.T.T., we do not know who shot the rocket yet, keep your driver and passenger safe for now."

Michael remained in his seat and closed the door, just as a low *rumbling* sound of a M.O.V.E. V8 series engine approached from K.I.T.T.'s left.

Now that it was closer and heading around them toward the trajectory of the first rocket fired they could all see that the truck was Night Black, the same glossy Black that the K2000 was.

The Black C10 made it to the base of the hill and its tires expanded into offroad sand tires, its whole-body lifts for more ground clearance, and its wheelbase widens. It shot up the hill like it was a 10-degree incline on a paved road.

Nickey went over every current feature on C10-003 multiple times for her test to be its Driver. She was still ranked a Sub-Operator, its previous Operator was reassigned after his wife used the emergency beacon for the 15th time without reason. Captain Right and her partner Teana were fed-up with false alarms.

They requested Alex to replace C10-003's Operator. He agreed and asked A.R.I.A. the Artificial Recovery Intelligence Assistant. This name did not suit her now that she was now beyond her original purpose to serve under another AI. She is an Asset and she picked her out of all the special agents HGI has.

Nickey went from driving the Escort unit Sub7012 to being called to Alex's private workshop. Alex, Grace, Trix, A.R.I.A., K.A.R.R., and C10-003 were all waiting for her.

The happiest day of her life was when they asked if she wanted to be trained to be 003's new driver and she added her voiceprint to 003.

At the top of the hill, Nickey turns the steering wheel to the left and immediately sees the destroyed Humvee she hit with the second interceptor rocket.

A man in a green camo uniform got up from his prone position to a crouch. He opened fire on the Night Black C10. His 5.56 Hard Point rounds sparked as they ricocheted off 003's windows, side mirror, and even the driver-side reflector.

Rounds that hit its Mark 2.0 Mimetic Mesh Armor lost 5% of their ricochet velocity as the Mimetic material tried to stop the flattened bullet from bouncing back.

This was her first live mission in 003, she could not mess it up. Nickey heard the man stop firing and saw him reach down and pick up a collapsible rocket launcher.

Without having to look she flipped down one of the many gray switches under the radio. Six 3-inch diameter spikes shot down from 003's undercarriage embedding themselves 4-feet into the sand and rock.

The rocket hit 003's driver door and ripples flowed towards the impact and then pushed out around and around 003. Nickey did not feel a thing, she locked down 003 just in case the rocket had managed to push 003 back at this distance down the hill.

The man was not so lucky, the shock wave deflected around 003 and back at him. He was picked up and thrown back 10 feet.

Nickey pulled her gun from the glove compartment and flipped the switch back up causing the six spikes to shoot back into place.

Before she opened her door the man was back on his feet and running for her. He looked so angry as he swung his arm back to punch 003's window. Nickey just looked at him like he was crazy and flipped the switch to the left of the steering wheel next to the door, up.

The instant the man touched 003 he dropped to the ground as he got shocked by the intruder defense system. Before Nickey opened her door she looked at the monitor, where a normal radio would be, and turned the dial to the sonar sweep 003 did when the spikes hit the sand. It showed nobody around but Grace and the others.

21:28

K.I.T.T. was being a baby about getting loaded in the RAVEN when it landed 50-feet in front of him.

Rita got into the passenger seat of the Gray C10 and directed Grace to where 001 was left. She was shocked to see all the switches, the two monitors, and the technology in the truck.

Rita Looked around the cab and felt the smooth ride as the C10 drove over the uneven ground. "Grace, What vehicle is this?" Grace glanced at Rita and said. "This is C10-00T it's the test mule for our C10 units. That Night Black one is unit 003, we recently replaced its last Operator."

"Oh, what happened to him?" Rita asked in a sad tone thinking about how she became 001's Operator after her brother was killed.

Grace picked up on this and said quickly. "No, he did not die, he got fired. He would let his wife drive 003 which is not a problem, but she would use the emergency beacon as a pager. It was making everyone angry that she would use it for nothing. Now where is 001?"

Grace stopped in front of what was left of C10-001. Before Rita could get out of the truck Grace stopped her and pressed one of the buttons on the overhead console. The monitor mounted to the top of the dash in the center of the truck came to life with a 2D-drawn plain with dots showing shrubbery and the parts of K.I.T.T. and C10-001 around them.

"Ok, it looks clear in this area." Grace opened the door and closed it behind her as she walked over to the cab section of 001. Rita followed closing her door as well.

Grace opens 001's passenger door and hits the ESC key three times. The monitor did not change from its dark gray powered-down state.

Reaching behind the armrest and center seat Grace flipped down a cover on the back of it close to the carpet. Reaching in she turned the horizontal handle from 3oclock to a vertical 6oclock. The top ¾ section of the armrest slid forward giving her access to a 5"x5"x5" square panel with a thumb scanner.

"Rita, do you have 001's keys?"

"They are still in the ignition."

Sighing, Grace turned, pulled the keys out of the ignition, and said. "You should always take these with you if you are going to leave 001 unguarded."

With the key, she reached down and turned the thumb scanner around twice clockwise. When the glossy black face of the scanner turned silver, she pushed the key into a gated slot. Turning the key 90 degrees to the left then pushing in and turning it 180 degrees to the right she then pulled the square panel off along with the key.

The panel was 2 inches thick and made of Acium. Behind the panel was another lever, pulling this one down the lid of the chest popped open.

All the sides of the chest were 3 inches of Acium alloy. Grace could see everything was intact inside C10-001's memory chest. She disconnected the primary and secondary data connectors that fed data from the Chevrolet C10-001's frame into the memory chest. She also disconnects the cooling hoses and the 12 Volt DC battery from the truck.

Grace placed the two data connectors on the lip of the chest and closed the lid to hold them in place. Getting back into 00T she backs up next to the driver's side of 001. Getting out she pushes the driver seat forward and connects the 1-inch-thick data cables to the light emitter on the driver's side.

She took the cable and with a splitter plugged the end with 1 on it into 001's primary data line and 2 in the other one.

After 5-seconds the bottom monitor where the radio would be in 00T, display changed to.

C10_001

Blackbox Protocol

100%

Status: Hibernation mode

C10_001/

Seeing this Grace began typing in commands using the keyboard connected to the Crystil-line Matrix.

C10_001/CR1/1963/Blackbox MTP

Status: Creator Grace code confirmed

Blackbox Memory Transfer Protocol

Status: Ready

C10_001/CR1/1963/Start MTP

Memory Transfer Protocol

Status: 5%...8%...

Rita got back into the Gray C10 to see that the progress percentage had not gone up in the last 2 minutes. "Grace how long will this take?"

"I do not know, 001 used magnetic tape to save data now it needs to use light wavelengths to record its data. The emitter will convert the data but 001 has to choose the wavelengths it wants to use to store certain information. Like sensor data, protocols, system operations data, fingerprints, voiceprints, and other forms of data. The best way to do it is to transfer temporary data and then try to read it before moving more sensitive data."

001 must have heard this because the percentage went to 12% then 20% and stopped there.

001 could hear Grace and Rita as he tried to move his consciousness to this AI Matrix. When Grace said to use temporary data to test the transfer, he realized he did not have any. He had to leave his temporary data in the C10 frame to store his being inside the limited space of 12Mbs.

The first thing 001 did was check the total storage capacity which was 2,500Mbs and then change the data compression to do a 1:4 ratio for every 10Mbs he stored.

That way every 10Mbs he creates it takes up 8.5Mbs instead and no data is lost in compression. After checking the integrity of the sensory data, to see If it was working before beginning to send his oldest memories from when Ron was his Driver all the way to when Ron gave him the Homestead protocol command.

They watched the percentage shoot up to 85% before stopping again. After 5 minutes of nothing the percentage went to 95% then 100%.

2 minutes after that, the display blinks off and then on, changing to.

C10_00T

Configuring…

001~00T Systems

5%...

When this came up on the display Grace disconnected the two trucks from each other and locked up the broken sand-colored C10.

Putting the key in her pocket she put the Pepper Gray Metallic C10 into Drive and headed for the RAVEN.

Friday, October 7, 1983,

Knight Industries F.L.A.G. Mansion

23:36

Devon sat at his desk as April paced in front of it. "April please sit, A.R.I.A. called said that Michael and K.I.T.T. are on their way here in the RAVEN."

"I know Devon, but she could not tell us if they were ok."

"I know April. She did not know and is working on getting K.A.R.R. back home for repairs. She is a very busy AI right now."

April stopped pacing at the *whistling* sound of a Turbojet Knight series engine coming from the courtyard.

They both move to the window to see an unknown Pepper Gray Metallic Chevrolet C10 truck with a paint-matched bed topper.

The sound of the Turbojet's whistling cut out as the truck parked in front of the mansion. There was a *rumbling* sound and another C10, this one Night Black pulled up next to the Gray one. The Black C10's engine cut off and they could see a woman step out of the truck.

The Gray C10's doors opened and the group of three women fell out of sight as they walked up the steps.

*Ring Ring* The doorbell rang throughout the mansion. April spoke first. "I will go see what our guests need."

April opened the front door to find Rita Wilcox, a short but toned built woman, and a tall 5'10" slim stature with dark tanned skin woman. "Rita come in and who are your friends?"

"This is Grace and Nickey, they are my new friends. Well, Nickey is new I have known Grace for the past 2 years."

Before April closed the door, she looked at the two C10 trucks. Turning to the women she asked them. "Where is K.I.T.T., Michael, and that sand C10 you were driving?"

Grace spoke up. "K.I.T.T. is on his way here on the RAVEN with Michael. We came here to let you know and give you this."

Grace handed April the diagnostic sheet K.I.T.T. printed out after she patched his systems to run a self-diagnostic.

April flipped through the 10 pages of self-diagnostics. "Is this just what is broken because I cannot find what is not? Oh, it's at the bottom ¼ of the last page. This is going to take me weeks to fix myself. K.I.T.T. is going to need to be taken to KNI's RND lab to pull his engine. We are going to need to video call Dr. Barstow to help with the K2000's Armor."

Devon's voice came from behind her. "That should not be a problem, I will call the Rook's driver to take the flatbed and pick up K.I.T.T. Where are they landing?"

23:48

K.I.T.T. was being pushed off the flatbed into his spot in the mansion's garage. When the flatbed wrecker pulled out, the lift in the garage's floor lifted his K2000 frame 4-feet into the air.

"I'm sorry K.I.T.T. it's late and I need sleep. Do you need anything right now? I will get to you around 07:30 in the morning."

"No April, Grace patched me up. If something arises, I will call your room."

"Ok, good night K.I.T.T."

"Good night, April."

Saturday, October 8, 1983,

Knight Industries F.L.A.G. Mansion

07:36

Grace was helping April to remove the K2000's left fender, door, and trunk hatch. They removed the driver's door to replace the Crystil-line window Michael had to break, with one of the two spares HGI provided them.

After they took off all the damaged parts, they could start making a list for the KNI RND lab to fabricate or pull from the backup K2000 frame Dr. Barstow asked to be finished. After the robbers destroy the K2000's windshield and biometric scanner.

10:28

001 revs his Turbojet engine in a jet-like *roar* as he detects the cab-over truck that was delivering parts for the K2000.

Rita and Grace ran out of the mansion as 001 launched from his spot to stop in front of the truck coming down the driveway. The right top side of the Pepper Gray Metallic bed topper slides open and the IEC's square-channeled barrel extends out.

Grace ran over and shouted. "Stop, power down the weapon now."

The IEC continued to *humm* as it charged to fire at the KNI delivery cab-over truck

"Rita you have to call him off now."

Rita made it to the Gray C10, opens its door, and shouts. "C10-001, manual override 0202."

The IEC stopped charging and Rita sat in the driver's seat to flip the weapon systems to off. The IEC powers down and retracts back into its compartment.

Rita did not speak until she drove the truck back to its parking spot. She had to pull her key from her pocket to put it into the ignition to shut down the truck. With the manual override code, 001 was force-locked out of all the 00T's systems.

Once the truck was off, she flicked the switch to the internal vocalizer. "001, why did you deploy your weapon and ignore Grace's order?"

001 stayed silent, which was making Rita angry. "Fine sit here and think while we try to apologize to the others."

Rita left only the internal vocalizer and Comlink transmitter on then slammed the 001's door. Heading back to where the others were standing.

Grace was apologizing. "I am sorry for that Mr. Miles, I…" Devon held up his hand to stop her. "Nobody was hurt, and it won't happen again, right?

Rita spoke then in an irritated tone. "Yes, he is in time-out, and cannot come out until I say so." In a calmer tone, she turned to Grace. "Can you set my Comlink to the 00T's frequency?"

"Yes of course." Rita removes it and hands it over to Grace to set up.

Monday, October 10, 1983,

Knight Industries F.L.A.G. Mansion

10:35

K.I.T.T. was back from the RND lab with a new Turbojet Knight series engine. Along with the passenger door and hood from his K2000 backup frame.

To prevent the K2000's old damaged beyond repair armor from getting lost or stolen it was de-bonded and melted down like the Frankenstein vehicle was.

Michael waited in the courtyard as K.I.T.T. backed out of the Rook. In the accident, he received a bruised shoulder from hitting the driver's window and a kink in his neck. The doctor said he would be clear tomorrow for work.

Rita and 001 were the only guests left. Nickey, 003, and Grace left Saturday after K.I.T.T. was pushed into the Rook.

In Devon's office with Michael, April, and Rita present, with 001 and K.I.T.T. listening through their partner's Comlink.

Devon began speaking. "Yesterday afternoon Garth Knight used his Goliath to infiltrate the Red Bluff Military base and got away with 3 heavy silo missiles. The good news is you will have an opportunity to stop him. A.R.I.A. was able to delay the cargo plane Garth is going to use to transport the missiles until Wednesday evening. The bad news is it will just be you and K.I.T.T. that can stop him. K.A.R.R. sustained damage and Alex is still out of the country. If Rita wants to assist you again I will not stop her."

Michael spoke up. "What about HGI's assault team."

Devon responded. "The 003 has a new Operator she does not have the experience to do a mission like this. If you fail in stopping the plane from taking off with the missiles, President Reagan and his administration have given the RAVEN permission to shoot down the plane."

Michael interjected. "That sounds like a better plan."

C: "Michael, the destructive force of those 3 missiles going off would wipe all of Los Vagas from the map."

Devon continued. "Yes K.I.T.T., that is correct, and shooting the plane over international waters could be seen as an act of war. We need to stop Garth after he removes them from his Goliath, but before they are on the plane."

Wednesday, October 12, 1983,

Nevada, Airfield

13:00

The Pepper Gray Metallic C10 parked next to a bolder of similar color facing the behemoth, Goliath.

The Mark 2 Biometric scanner in its grill under the Chevrolet badge flickered white and black static from the interference created by the Mimetic material. 001 used his new processor to try and fix the scanner with a software patch. After 3-minutes he shut it down and used a combination of sensors with a 50-foot radius around the C10-00T, along with mine-echo locator and low sonar pulses to get a reading on Goliath.

K.I.T.T. could not stick his Night Black nose out, in this sand-colored landscape without being seen instantly. He was using 001's way of seeing, to see what was happening.

After 20 minutes Garth's men had the missiles unloaded from Goliath and were in the process of transporting them to the plane.

"Ok K.I.T.T. we head off the forklift while C10 distracts Garth." Pushing the Pursuit Mode button Michael spun the Trans-Am around the rock, heading straight for the forklift carrying the missiles.

Garth heard the *whistling* of K.I.T.T.'s engine. Seeing the glossy Black Trans-Am he hopped into Goliath, determined to take out his imposter, Michael Knight.

Inside 001, Rita spoke. "C10 time to face our true enemy, all weapons authorized." She said as she flipped the three weapon switches to On.

With K.I.T.T.'s first scans and his current one, they found out that Goliath's gray body is Di-Helical Plasteel, with its razer grill the only part made of Tri-Helical Plasteel. This is all coated in the MBS (Molecular Bonded Shell) formula and not the MBS1 (Molecular Bonded Shell 1000) formula.

Along with the new scan of Goliath, K.I.T.T. was able to detect with his Biometric Mark 2, that there were thin spots in Goliath's MBS coating.

As Goliath headed for C10 and Rita steered head-on with the Behemoth, 001's image of it became clearer the closer he got.

Garth narrowed his eyes at the Pepper Gray Metallic C10 truck with a matching bed topper. That was until the top of it pops up just behind the cab, exposing three launch tubes.

Each of the 3-inch holes had a bright silver Acium MBS1 coated spire-shaped javelin. Garth was 6000 feet from hitting the C10 when the 4-foot long 2 ½ diameter 4lb spire javelin launched, punching through a weak spot in Goliath's MBS-coated windshield on the passenger side. It went straight through the seat, and out the back of the cab getting stuck in the back wall of the trailer.

Garth tried to make Goliath turn but the javelin was preventing the trailer from swinging. Still trying to turn Garth flips a switch.

The left side wall of Goliath's trailer opens to extend out an artillery cannon loaded with 25 Shock Pulls Shells.

001 detected the threat level just as the *BOOM* of the canon fires. Unable to dodge the shell slams into his grill just above the Chevrolet badge. Large ripples flow in and rebound around his grill, down fenders, doors, bedside, tailgate, and back around his frame until the shell is rebounded off into the sand.

The 10% of the kinetic energy and the electrical charge from its shock pulls fills both IEC (Impact Energy Canon) capacitors.

001 takes driving control of his frame, turns to the left, and alters the grip his U-Tracks are getting on the dirt. He drifts around Goliath on its left and deploys both IECs.

From both sides of his bed topper's panels fold out of the way and the canons extend fully. With the capacitor already full, he just has to set the diameter of the energy and the duration.

The IEC's square-channeled barrel slides its panels in, to shrink making the walls thicker to contain a 1.20-inch diameter or the size of an American half-dollar energy burst. Taking aim 001 hit the weak spot on the fifth wheel's mounting bracket and locking pins.

With the right IEC, the half-dollar-sized blue burst lifted Goliath's rear wheels off the ground by a foot and peeled the fifth wheel 70% of the way off. 1.26 seconds after C10's first burst he hit the fifth wheel with his left IEC. The fifth wheel tore completely off the semi and dropped the trailer.

In the cab, Garth felt the impact and saw the javelin get pulled through the back of the cab, as he lost the trailer since it was embedded into the wall of the trailer.

Shifting gears Garth heads away from the C10, knowing he lost the fight today. Looking in the driver's mirror he saw the truck stop its spin to face his retreat.

"C10 he is getting away, hit him again with the energy weapon." as Rita said this a *hiss* and a low *popping* noise came from both IECs.

The lower monitor in the center of the dash where a radio should be, displayed a line schematic blueprint of the bed topper. The inside of the green line drawn, 2D IECs were blinking yellow with text. 'Breach charge Rings overheat, IEC cooling in progress.'

*Hissss* The sound and white clouds of steam came from both Impact Energy Canons. "Ok then do something to immobilize that Behemoth so we can help K.I.T.T. with…." *Beep beep beep* The rapid beeping interrupted Rita as the bottom monitor changed to a top, left, and right 2D side view of C10. The top screen changed to display a 2D model of an XFIM-43 missile.

The model was filled in with green, meaning it would not do any damage to the 00T frame. The problem was the silo missiles were too close, if they went off the 00T frame would protect 001's Matrix but Rita had an 85% chance of being killed in the explosion.

Before putting the XFIM-43 missile threat on the monitors, 001 was already calculating and deploying his interceptor. The interceptors are designed to create a concussive blast to self-detonate an impact missile like the XFIM-43.

The back corner of the right side of the bed topper dropped and opened vertically stopping at 75 degrees with an interceptor loaded onto it. The instant it was at that 75 degrees 001 fired. It shot up then with 001's commands, twisting in the air to fly at the XFIM-43 missile. At 4 feet from the missile, 001 detonated the interceptor. *BOOM* Both the XFIM-43 and interceptor exploded far enough away not to set off the big silo missiles.

Folding the tube back up, 001 loads another interceptor, dropping it to 40 degrees, and launching it up. It hit the ground 10 feet from the guy holding the missile launcher. He is picked off the ground and thrown 40 feet into a boulder.

"C10 Garth is getting away." As he folded the launcher tube back closed, he fires the center spire-shaped javelin. It punches through Goliath's left rear tire but deflects off the MBS-coated barrel of the wheel. Even though it does not go through, the javelin's shaft swings forward with the wheel getting wedged between Goliath's left rear axle and its frame.

This locks up the axle completely and Goliath comes to a sliding stop, like its rear brakes locked up.

The force of the spire-shaped javelin swinging around, ruptured the fuel tank under the driver-side step. The spray of fuel hit the torn section of the fifth wheel, this reacted with the MBS causing the Di-Helical Plasteel to react like thermite.

The flare of white burning thermite caused C10 to tint his windows to 5% which is lower than welding goggles, to protect Rita from going blind as Goliath burned to the ground.