Twenty-two year old Jim Hawkins sat on the lower roof of the Benbow Inn. Just four years ago he had sailed across the galaxy to Treasure Planet. Along the way he had befriended an old cyborg called John Silver. The cyborg had softened up to Jim, who later discovered that Silver was the very priate that had burned down the Benbow Inn. But Silver gave up the treasure he had spent a lifetime searching for and gave up his right ear, eye, arm, and leg for to save Jim, and Jim, in return, let him leave safely before they docked at the Montressor Space Port.
Morph flew up over to Jim. The little, pink, shape-shifter was all Jim had left of Silver. Morph had belonged to Silver and grew attatched to Jim, so Silver had him stay with the boy.
Suddenly a longboat crashed at the end of a small dock not far from the inn upsidedown, pinning any passenger it might hold underneath it!
Jim slid off the roof and ran towards the longboat with Morph following him. He lifted the boat so he could pull whoever was trapped beneath it out.
"Oh no!"
Jim strained as he pulled the person out from underneath the still slightly burning longboat.
"Morph, go back to the inn and get help!"
Morph nodded and flew back to the inn as fast as he could. He flew inside and whizzed about yelping wildly.
"Morph, calm down! What's wrong?" said Sarah Hawkins, Jim's mother.
"Indeed." agreed Amelia Doppler, former captian that had accompanied them on the trip.
"Yes, what is the matter?" asked her husband, Dr. Delburt Doppler.
Morph showed them the crash.
B.E.N., the robot Jim had found marooned on Treasure Planet, gasped dramatically.
"A crash on the docks!"
The Doc and B.E.N. followed Morph outside. They stopped when they saw that it was John Silver, the cyborg pirate, that Jim was kneeling beside!
"Silver?!" B.EN. cried.
"What's that blasted fiend doing here?"
Jim scowled at them.
"Nevermind that, just help me get him inside! Remember, if hadn't been for him we'd all be dead."
Remembering well how Silver had helped save their lives those four years ago on Treasure Planet and gave Jim the money needed to rebuild the Benbow Inn, the Doc and B.E.N. helped Jim get Silver towards the inn. As they were doing this it started to storm.
"Mom, open the door and call the doctor!" Jim shouted when they were close enough for Sarah to hear him.
Sarah quickly did as her son had told her to, frightened by the urgent tone in his voice.
When they came in half carrying and half dragging Silver, Amelia gasped.
"That blasted pirate! What's he doing here?!"
"Captian, remember, he did help save us." Jim said.
Sarah came in from the kitchen.
"The phone's dead, and it's not safe for you or I to go out right now."
Then she saw Silver.
"Jim, is that..."
"Yes, Mom, this is John Silver, but we'll take care of that later. Right now he needs help! He hasn't stopped bleeding!"
Sarah rushed upstairs and got a room ready, and Amelia helped them get Silver up to the room and in the bed.
Then the Doc and Amelia went home, having traveled between thw two places in weather like this before, though the doctor lived quite a ways away from them, otherwise they would've gone and got him.
"B.E.N., go get the first aid kit from the kitchen."
"Okay, Sarah."
B.E.N. hurried down to the kitchen.
"Jim, we need to get his coat and shirt off so we can find where he's bleeding."
They had no trouble getting his coat off but struggled with his shirt. Morph turned into a knife, and Jim grabbed him.
"Good thinking, Morph!"
Jim carefully cut Silver's shirt down the middle, and they pulled it off him.
"I'll get him another shirt."
B.E.N. came back up with first aid kit.
"B.E.N., go back down and see if there's any soup left over."
"Roger that, Jimmy."
After B.E.N. left again Jim and Sarah turned their attention back to the injured cyborg. Sarah carefully wiped away as much blood as she could, and they found he had a deep, ugly gash on his left side!
"There's no soup left!"
"I'll make some when I can!" Sarah called back down to him.
Around that time Silver started to come around. He moaned and stirred slightly.
"Silver?" Jim whispered.
Silver moaned again.
Knowing his friend hadn't heard him Jim spoke again, louder this time, "Silver?"
Silver stirred again and weakly opeend his eyes. He automatically tried to sit up, and pain shot through his body! He gave a small cry of pain, and a gentle but frm hand carefully pushed him back down.
His vision was still blurry and the lights were dim so he couldn't tell who it was. When his vision cleared he thought he was dreaming.
"Jim?" he said softly, as talking to a dream.
"Just take it easy, Silver. You're safe now."
A smile spread across the old cyborg's face.
"Jimbo, it is you."
Jim smiled, leaned down, and carefully and gently hugged his friend.
