A/N- This is written as a fun idea of what would happen if Michael Knight and KITT really showed up at the upcoming Knight Rider Festival in Las Vegas. I do not own KR but I will be celebrating it in Vegas with everyone else. *giggle* My best regards to all the KR cast, you guys are the best!
Okay without further ado…..
Knight Rider Festival '09
It was early Friday morning on March 20th 2009. So early, that it might still be considered Thursday night.
Mike has just finished up filing all his reports on the espionage case with the local Flagstaff, AZ. authorities. He yawned deeply.
"KITT, you drive. Take us home." He said as he curled up in KITT's driver's seat.
"Michael, you look exhausted." KITT added with concern as he easily navigated the barren city streets.
"You know, we have been on four cases in six weeks. I do need a vacation." Mike said softly while in thought.
"Las Vegas is on the way home. You can vacation there." KITT offered.
"I would like to go back to Vegas and not be on a mission while I'm there." Mike agreed. "KITT, patch me through to Sarah."
"Mike, do you know what time it is?" Sarah complained.
"It is 2:30am." KITT interrupted.
"We just closed the Daniels case, Sarah." Mike spoke as he straightened up in KITT's seat. "He is now in custody and will be there for a while."
"Good, now come on back. I have a new case for you." Sarah said in a straightforward tone.
"KITT and I were wondering if we could have a couple days off." Mike asked with puppy dog eyes.
"But we are so busy now and it's Billy's turn for a day off." Sarah complained.
"Come on?" Mike begged. "I'm not far from Las Vegas. Please?? What would Billy do with the time off anyway?" Mike begged Sarah pitifully. However, he was glad that Billy was asleep somewhere.
Sarah was always a sucker for Mike's puppy dog eyes. "Okay, but just two days." Sarah relented. "You come back on Sunday, okay?"
"Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!" Mike said jubilantly.
"Have fun and don't get in trouble." Sarah said with a smile.
Before Mike could answer her, KITT interrupted, "I will be sure of that."
Sarah let out a chuckle and their chat line closed.
"KITT just drive." Mike said through a low growl as he repositioned himself into a relaxed curl.
KITT drove silently through the early morning hours. He even did his best to avoid the potholes in the road so as not to wake Mike.
As KITT pulled into Las Vegas at sunrise on Friday morning, he saw a sight that he knew could not be true. So KITT double checked his scanners for a malfunction.
He saw before him an untold number of his predecessor, Knight Two Thousand, randomly parked all over Las Vegas.
Shocked by what could only be a systems malfunction, KITT decided to wake Mike, who had been sleeping soundly now for hours. "Michael? Michael, are you awake?"
"No KITT" Mike grumbled.
"Michael, I seem to be having a sensor malfunction." KITT stated worriedly.
Mike opened one eye slightly and glared at the globe-like voice modulator. "You look fine, KITT." Then Mike heavily rolled over to face away from the lighted voice modulator and toward the dark tinted window.
"Michael, this is serious. My sensors must be malfunctioning," KITT stated with a little more fervor. Then to help arouse the obviously comatose Michael, KITT turned on every light in his cabin to full illumination.
Mike let out a high pitched whine and lifts his hand to cover his eyes. "KITT, turn those off!" He finally screamed.
"Michael, I see numerous versions of my predecessor scattered about the city. I even see a few copies of me." KITT said worriedly as he pulled over onto the dusty desert shoulder and returned the lighting in the cabin to normal.
"KITT, that is impossible." Mike scoffed as he sat up straight in KITT's warm comfy driver's seat.
"See for yourself." KITT then brought up on his HUD pictures of the Knight Two Thousand replicas centered on or near Fremont Street on one screen. Then in a separate window, he brought up pictures of the replicas of him.
Mikes face showed slight worry as he saw the vast number of look-alikes. "KITT, what's going on?"
"Michael, I am monitoring a televised transmission." KITT announced as he replaced the replica pictures on his HUD with the televised feed.
A young Hispanic male newscaster was speaking to a girl that looked identical to Sarah. "So what is it like to work with a talking Supercar?"
Mike's eyes fill with surprise, "KITT, that's Sarah!" he yelled.
"Physically, she is identical to Sarah even her voice is a perfect match." KITT said in an astonished tone.
"It took a while to get used to talking to a car and having someone reading Val's lines off camera." The Sarah clone answers with a smile. "Now, I find myself talking to my own car sometimes."
"However, her voice inflections and dialog do not match with Sarah Graiman." KITT accessed.
"KITT, locate the source of the transmission and take us there." Mike said with determination as he righted himself firmly in front of KITT's steering wheel.
"So, what's it like to work with former Soap star and heartthrob Justin Bruening?" The interviewer asked as he raised one eyebrow and smiled.
As Mike continued watching the interview, KITT deftly navigated through the 7 am rush hour traffic in Las Vegas. By the views from the satellites above him, KITT could see to avoid the Las Vegas Strip. However, he did want a better view of all of the clones of Knight Two Thousand and himself.
A few minutes later, KITT pulled easily into the new station's crowded parking lot and was quickly surrounded.
A crowd of bystanders rushed the black GT500KR Mustang. The crowd consisted of both males and females ranging in age from tiny babies being carried by their parents to one older male in his 80's.
A group of about seven females in their 20's, ran up to KITT's driver's side door screaming "Justin" at the top of their lungs. They all had on pink t-shirts that had Mike's picture encased inside a red heart with the words "Justin's Girls" surrounding the heart shaped picture of Mike.
Beyond the screaming crowd, a raised stage with a long folding conference table had numerous microphones scattered over it randomly. Above and below the stage were banners announcing the Knight Rider Festival with KITT (Two Thousand) and KITT (Three Thousand) pictures prominently displayed.
The male announcer sitting next to the Sarah clone stood up and yelled over the screaming crowd, "He's Here, Justin has just arrived and he is in KITT!"
"KITT, stay here," Mike said firmly as he opened KITT's door to the frantic crowd.