Just...cuz... ^_^;;;

[knightind2000]

'Verse: Erm...Transformers?  Iono...
Characters:  KITT (the Knight Industries 2000) and...?
Rating/Warnings:  IC-fail cuz the mun couldn't wait to be sure of her characterization?  9,9;;;;  IDEK
Content:  "I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore, Michael."

A sleek, black car slowed to a stop in the unfamiliar surroundings, ruby scanner light dimmed a bit

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[fool_npc]

"Well, I'll be," Hound said, looking down at the newcomer from his vantage point in the California cliffs.

"What is it, Hound?" Spike asked, climbing over to look as well. "Is it another Autobot?" he asked.

"I don't think so," Hound mused. "I don't see an insignia anywhere -- Autobot or Decepticon." It had no driver, so it had to be a robot of some kind. Whether it was Cybertronian or not remained to be seen. He considered what to do -- the newcomer certainly didn't seem hostile, but.... "Better alert Prime anyway," he muttered. "Spike, go tell him. I'll see if I can talk to him."

"Right." Spike nodded and climbed down the backside of the cliffs, headed for the half-buried spaceship, while Hound made the transformation into a jeep and drove down for a closer look.

"Whoever you are, identify yourself," Hound called through his speakers. "Are you a friend, or an enemy?"

[knightind2000]

KITT had not expected to find evidence of...well, any other activity out in the middle of nowhere like this, let alone such a proliferation and variety of vehicle tracks. Who in the world could be out here? He brought the rest of his sensors and scanners back online just in time to note two...beings...at the top of the rise.

Something flared through KITT's CPU, a jumbled wealth of randomized information that flashed by too quickly even for the supercomputer to make sense of it. One might have called it emotion, but KITT was incapable of such a human trait. Still, from here, the angle was wrong for him to manage to scan which symbol they wore. If they were Decepticons...

Tires spun for just an instant on the fine layer of dust coating the surface of the hardpack before KITT gained enough purchase to back several feet from the military-green Army jeep that sped to the foot of the cliff with an ease and agility that would have given even him a "run for his money," as the saying went. And like him, the other vehicle had no

[fool_npc]

"Whoa, easy there," Hound said, mechanized voice conciliatory. "I'm not gonna hurt you. KITT, was it?" He scanned the vehicle. It wasn't Cybertronian. Didn't smell like it. So it had to be some other form of life. "But I do want to know what you're doing here.

[knightind2000]

KITT didn't answer right away. For one, he wasn't so sure he could. "I don't know what I'm doing here" was hardly a satisfactory reply. What was he doing here? And where was "here" exactly, anyway? He accessed his GPS and cross-referenced it with a collection of sources

[fool_npc]

Descending from the sky, the Decepticons flew straight at the side of the oddly-shaped building. The Autobots moved to intercept. If what they'd heard about this groundbreaking source of power was true, then damage to the building could be extremely dangerous.

"It's the Autobots!" Starscream cried. "What are they doing here?" Usually, those fools didn't arrive until after they'd attacked!

"Pay them no heed!" Megatron commanded. "Soundwave, Skywarp, Thundercracker, hold them off! Starscream, come with me! Our first priority is acquiring this plant's energy!"

"Not if I can help it," Optimus Prime declared, placing himself firmly in Megatron's path.

"You're a fool, Prime," Megatron snarled, bringing his cannon to bear against the Autobot leader, who let off a shot from the ray-pistol in his hand before dodging Megatron's blast.

[knightind2000]

Him!

Something hot and white flashed through KITT's processors in response to the voice of the red-and-white fighter jet, chaotic and blinding and terrible in its intensity. He'd not initially recognized the Decepticon in his vehicular form, but now that he compared elements of that plane to the form of the leader of the attack on the business building, he knew he had found his main opponent, the one who had fired the shot that killed all those people.

The one who had killed Michael.

He activated a laser scanner, one he thought the others should be able to sense, and pinged it, one after another, off of four of the Decepticons in rapid succession, starting with the red-and-white fighter jet. "That one, that one, him, and him," he called through his external speakers, boosting his volume with the megaphonic setting to be heard over the noise of joining combat. "Those are the ones who destroyed the building in downtown

[fool_npc]

Megatron made a break for the side of the power plant, shooting his cannon at the side of the building. Before he could go through, though, Optimus Prime leapt at him, bringing one giant metal fist into the gray Decepticons' midsection.

On the inside of the power plant, the human workers yelled, running for cover. Starscream glanced around -- no one had their eyes on him, and certainly not Optimus Prime. If he could steal Megatron's kill, then he could hold his defeat of Prime over the heads of all the other Decepticons. "He'll never see it coming," Starscream muttered to himself, aiming his ray gun with a smirk.

[knightind2000]

"OH NO YOU DON'T!"

KITT sped at the trailer in Pursuit Mode, the one most programmed for high-speed maneuvering, hitting his turbo-jets to leap to its roof...and again just as he landed, powerful rocket thrusts catapulting him from the elevated surface to nose-plow into the back of the Decepticon's shoulder, knocking the villain off his feet. His fender took the impact without even a scratch, though some of the components behind it would need realignment after this . . . but at the moment, KITT didn't care. His wheels and chassis rested on Starscream's back, and he kicked over a system he'd never imagined he would use in any such manner.

"This one's for Michael!" he informed the downed robot firmly, his voice coming out - to anyone's hearing but his own - as a furious growl, and the Electronic Jamming System flooded the Decepticon with waves of powerful, component-scrambling energies. He ran the risk of depleting his power packs prematurely if he kept it up for too long - more than a moment or so, as he was spreading his efforts

[fool_npc]

When KITT came to himself again, he would find himself in the interior of a spaceship, the same one the Autobots inhabited. His coating felt....odd, like it had when he'd been hit with the glass gas, and his central processor had just been shut back into its casing.

"KITT?" a familiar voice -- Ratchet -- said. "KITT, can you hear me? Do you remember anything?" This was the moment of truth -- it didn't look like his memory circuits had been erased, but this was an unfamiliar piece of technology.

[knightind2000]

KITT gathered information as soon as his CPU finished booting up. He'd . . . gone offline? How long had he been off? How many systems were functioning? Not many, he realized - mostly just the basic ones. Some of his surface sensors were working, as was his etymotic equalizer. And . . . that voice . . . he knew that voice.

"Ratchet?" he intoned hesitantly. He managed to bring another system to bear, scanners that could tell him about his surroundings. He was in the base ship. "What . . . happened . . . ?"

[fool_npc]

"Good, he hasn't lost his memory databanks," Ratchet said, a relieved smile on his face. "Prime hit a bump in the road, and it knocked you out, KITT. How're you feeling? I'll get your other systems back as soon as I can. You gave us quite a scare."

Another robot appeared, looming over Ratchet's shoulder. "Welcome back," Wheeljack said, tone communicating the smile that his covered face could not. "It's about time. I've got something I need to ask you about."

Yayy, edit.... 9,9;;;

[knightind2000]

KITT couldn't "see" yet, per se, as none of his optics were functioning, but he had enough scanning ability to locate objects around him and determine general shape and what they were constructed of. He sensed Ratchet beside him, and another come up just behind the Autobot. KITT had heard the voice before, though he wasn't yet sure of a name. Still, twice now he'd heard names in a pair in conjunction with working on him, so this other voice must be-

"Wheeljack?" he ventured, then turned his attention back to Ratchet. "I . . . well, I've certainly been better, but I suppose I can't really complain, all things considering. I'm sorry for worrying you. Wheeljack, what do you need to ask? And . . . how long was I off-line?" At another thought, he added, "What about the others? Did they make it back all right?"

(ooc: Did you get my email about them finding his full schematics in a hidden cubby under his dash? =3)