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"Very well." With that, Michelle's KARR was on the move out of the parking lot and heading towards the salt repository.

"They're moving," the Milliways KARR announced. "And it's still possible that Kitt might exist here in a different form." Or state, such as 'dead'.

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Bonnie exhaled as she sat there, watching the route and considering.

"There's Karr here, and Karr there." She pointed out the windsheild. "The difference is that Karr, there, is - like Kitt said... he's the primary Knight AI here. We have no idea how he'll react to seeing Kitt. Even though it was Kitt he first detected.

"Good feeling... maybe not. But I'm not as on guard as I thought I'd be, either."

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Ray ran a hand over his face. "As long as we're on our way," he said, "I don't suppose you're picking up any other signs of possible hostiles? Or support vehicles, or anybody else we should be careful about? I don't know how these things work..."

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"I'm not picking up on anything. Although they've stopped moving now there at...a salt repository, it seems. Hm."

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"It's a site I would have chosen," said Kitt. "It has both cover and multiple exits. It seems they are no more confrontational than we - and on their guard."

Kitt had learned a lot since his first release into the field.

"Karr, I believe you should enter first. You've been detected, and they expect you."

Even if what they really expected was a car looking like him.

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"All right. I'll try to not attack anything."

That might've been a joke. Might've.

KARR drove forward towards one of the entrances, slowing slightly. His scanner, however, sped up when he saw a car that looked exactly like he had, its red scanner moving steadily.

"...I think he might be more confused than we thought, if he thinks he's me," Michelle's KARR finally said. "The scanner and the paint are wrong."

"Hello," he finally said. It was KARR's old voice, before salt water had warped it. The cartoon-inclined would notice that he sounded like Optimus Prime.

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Michelle shook her head. "No kidding," she murmured. "That, or someone wasn't particularly careful when they tried to make a second copy of your programming from that old backup."

This could very easily turn messy, though she had no desire to see it go to pieces. Not now. Not with things so tense already.

Ray, for his part, did his absolute best not to snicker at the sound of the voice. Fortunately, only Kitt was likely to hear it.

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Kitt didn't bother scolding Ray. Instead, as he drove up beside Karr, he remained quiet.

Black facing black. It was a recent memory for Kitt. One that almost chilled him. He remembered this situation before. This, he hoped, would be more pleasant.

His scanner whispered side to side. The moment of truth.

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Bonnie went quiet. This was going to be a telling moment. "Not too close," she warned needlessly, watching, looking at the other driver for some sort of visual cue.

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"...Oh dear," KARR finally said to Michelle once he found his voice. He backed up slightly as he saw Kitt, and his scanner flared, speeding up until it was nothing but a blur. "Kitt?" he said, speaking slowly. "Kitt, please don't hurt anyone. We don't want to fight with you."

[Apparently, they think you're the dangerous one,] the Milliways KARR sent to Kitt. [Interesting.]

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Michelle swallowed. "Oh, hell no," she said, her throat gone dry and her palms going wet. "This can't be happening..."

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Kitt's scanner whispered. "...I can't say I expected this," he said, rather observant.

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Tony? Welcome to the Twilight Zone. Or yet another dimension in the Twilight Zone. Things had been reversed—now KITT was the dangerous one, not KARR. He glances over to Bonnie. “Shit, let’s hope they don’t call for back-up. And KARR, better not do anything to provoke them,” he adds cautiously.

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"Is the semi anywhere nearby?" she asked, mostly of Kitt as Kitt would certainly know the semi on his scope. "That'd be their only chance at backup."

Kitt... dangerous? Ray had one hell of a strange reality.

"Keep this calm."

But then, Bonnie opened Karr's door, beginning to step out.

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"I am unable to hallucinate, and even if I could, I don't think we would see the same thing," KARR said to Michelle, attempting to keep a semi-level head despite the situation. "Who are you? And why are you with Kitt?"

"You don't listen very well, do you? I am the Knight Automated Roving Robot-KARR. And Kitt is with me because this was a joint trip."

"Even his voice isn't right," KARR muttered. "You do not make any sense."

"Well, travel to another universe generally doesn't."

"...You are insane."

The Milliways KARR just revved his engine a bit at that. So much for keeping calm. "Bonnie, what are you doing? Get back in here!" he hissed.

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"...um," said Ray. "Do you think I should, uh..."

If anyone around here could possibly convey the alternate-universe issue, he figured it was probably him. But Bonnie sort of made the point moot.

He slid down behind the wheel and tried not to be seen.

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"He is Karr," said Kitt, "and I am Kitt, but I don't believe I am the one that you believe I am."

Then he paused. "Ray, you could exlain if you wanted, but the choice is indeed yours. You would be one of the obvious choices."

That, he kept to the inside of his cabin.

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"And my name is Bonnie Barstow. Maybe you've heard of me," she said, staying in the crook of Karr's door. She wasn't going far - intentionally. "We aren't here to start a fight."

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Michelle's KARR, meanwhile, made a strangled noise at the appearance of Bonnie. "She...she's supposed to be retired. As well as older."

"I told you we were from another universe." He sounded smug.

"You...you...this is not right! None of this makes sense! Explain yourself!"

"I already did. Good god, my alternate self is almost as dumb as Knight, it seems."

"I am not stupid," Michelle's KARR growled back.

So much for not starting a fight.

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"Okay, that's it," Ray muttered. "Let me out, Kitt."

He hopped out of the car's driver's seat and held up both hands. "Okay, guys? Could you possibly consider breaking it up for just a bit? Nobody's here to cause any kind of trauma, thank you..."

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Tony instinctively reached for his gun, not removing it, but ready to draw when necessary. His free hand touched KARR’s side door.

He hoped this would be a mere word fight, and nothing more.

But he wouldn’t jump out. Not just this yet. It might make them more than a little suspicious that there was an extra man with a gun.

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"Would you two be quiet?!" Kitt demanded of both of them, his accented voice bright compared to the two Karrs. "Bonnie and Ray are both right in declaring we aren't here to fight - and Ray can make a very good explanation as to how and why we're here. He can't explain over the quarreling of Knight AIs. So If You Please."

Kitt, when using this tone, sounded quite certain of getting his way.

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