Mr. Arrow led the boys to the ship's galley where they heard someone whistling in the kitchen.
"Mr. Silver?" he called out.
"Why, Mr. Arrow, sir!" Silver replied. "Bringin' such fine-lookin', distinguished gents to grace my humble galley! Had I known, I'd have tucked in my shirt!"
Jim looked closer. The left side of Silver's body was normal, but his right side was all mechanical.
By putting the pieces together, Jim immediately remember Billy's warning.
"It's him!" he whispered to his friends. "The cyborg!"
"May I introduce Dr. Doppler, the financier of our voyage," Mr. Arrow said to Silver.
"Love the outfit, Doc!" said Silver as he scanned Doppler with his laser eye.
"Well, thank you. Uh...love the eye." Doppler replied, feeling embarrassed.
"Uh, these are the boys who'll be working with you, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and Jim." said Rabbit as he pushed his friends towards Silver.
"Top o' the mornin' to ya!" Silver said, extending his right hand, which was an array of kitchen utensils assembled.
Silver quickly transformed them into a clawlike metal hand to extend a hand to his new mates, but Jim remained cautious while Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger just waved hello.
"Nice to meet you." groaned Eeyore.
"Now, don't be too put off by this hunk o' hardware!" said Silver as he went back to the kitchen and, using his robotic arm as a cleaver, he chopped a pile of vegetables, cracked some eggs and poured them into a pot.
Silver poured some stew into a few bowls and served them one by one to his guests. "Here. Now, have a taste of me famous bonzabeast stew!"
Very slowly, Doppler took a sniff at his stew, and touched it with his tongue, like a dog that he is.
"Mmmm, delightfully tangy, yet roboust." he announced with satisfaction.
"Old family recipe." replied Silver, who noticed an eyeball floating at the top of Piglet's bowl, causing him to panic.
"In fact, that was part of the old family." Silver added as he let out a hearty laugh, plucked the eyeball from Piglet's bowl and ate it up.
"Could use a smackerel of honey though." Pooh said as he looked at his stew.
"Well, if it's honey you want." said Silver as he pushed Pooh towards the kitchen. "Why don't you take a look around and see what you can find."
Jim, on the other hand, was looking at his stew as well until suddenly, his spoon came to life and swallow some of it.
"Morph!" scolded Silver. "You jiggle-headed blob o' mischief! So that's where you was hiding!"
At that moment, Morph had just tranformed from a spoon into a pink blob of protoplasmic jelly, who then turned into a straw and drank up the rest of Jim's stew.
Tigger examined him a little closer. "What is that thing?"
"What is that thing?" Morph repeated before Tigger touched him, who transformed into a mini Tigger.
"He's...a morph!" explained Silver. "I rescued the little shapeshifter on Proteus One."
Morph transformed back into his normal self, licked Tigger, and went back to Silver.
"He took a shine to me. We've been together ever since."
As the men watched Silver and Morph cuddle with each other, they heard the ship's whistle blow.
"We're about to get under way." Mr. Arrow announced. "Would you like to observe the launch, Doctor?"
Doppler's face lit up. "Would I? Does an active galactic nucleus have superluminal jets?"
Everyone looked at Dopper with confusion.
"We'd be happy to." Rabbit answered for him.
Jim and the others tried to follow but Mr. Arrow held out his rocky hand.
"Mr. Hawkins and company will stay here, in your charge, Mr. Silver."
Tigger was just gorging down his stew, but when he heard what Mr. Arrow said, he just spit it out in surprise. "What?"
"Beggin' your pardon, sir, but-" Silver began.
"Captain's orders!" Mr. Arrow interrupted. "See to it the new cabin boys are kept busy."
With that, he led Dr. Doppler and Rabbit up to the deck, leaving Jim and his friends alone with Silver, who just shrugged and went back to his duties. "Well, who be a humble cyborg to argue with a cap'n?"
Jim examined Silver a little closer. He did seem nice at all, but can he truly be trusted due to the fact that he's a cyborg?
"You know," he began as he noticed a nearby barrel. "These purps are kinda like the ones back home, on Montressor. You ever been there?"
"Ah, can't say as I have, Jimbo." Silver replied.
Jim turned around to see that Pooh was covered with honey.
Disgusted as he was, Jim went on. "Come to think of it, just before I left, I met this old guy who was, uh, kinda looking for a cyborg buddy of his."
"Is that so?" asked Silver.
"Yeah." Jim replied. "What was that old salamander's name?"
Pooh began to ponder as well. "Think, think, think."
Morph turned himself to a mini Pooh and did the same thing he was doing. "Think, think think."
Finally, Pooh spoke up. "Wasn't it, uh, Billy Bones?"
"Bones?" Silver repeated. "Ain't ringin' any bells. Must been a different cyborg. There's a slew of cyborgs roaming' this port."
"Yeah, right." smirked Tigger.
At that moment, the ship's whistle blew again.
"Prepare to cast off!" announced Mr. Arrow.
Silver smiled and told Jim and his friends to go up on deck and watch the launch.
"There'll be plenty o' work waiting' for ya afterwards." he added.
"Whatever you say, boss." groaned Eeyore as he and his friends went up the gangway.
As soon as the boys were gone, Silver's smile began to fade.
"We best be keeping' a sharp eye on these lads, eh, Morph?" he said as he gave Morph a scrap of food. "We wouldn't want 'em strayin' into thing they shouldn't."
