DISCLAIMER: I do not own any parts of Treasure Planet; Jim Hawkins; Captain Amelia, Long John Silver; Interstellar Academy etc.

And on to numero six. Thanks for the reviews, I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy them - so you know, I wouldn't say no to any for this chapter, hehe.

Ok moving on, I'll stop yabbering and let you get on with the story. Silver is slowly beginning to come through in the story more, but has he arrived in the flesh? We shall see …

Enjoy!

Delbert's observatory was illuminated by an orange glow from the fire, and candles placed at random around the room. The company from the inn was present, lounging about the room, chatting quietly while waiting for Jim to arrive. A letter had come to the inn for him that morning, claiming that someone in town wanted to speak to him. Sarah had been curious but Jim had assured her that it was most likely some connection of Ralph's giving him a message from his friend. Truly enough Ralph did seem to know at least several people on every planet. It had seemed odd to her that he hadn't simply sent the message in the letter but she didn't let the thought bother her. Far be it for her to analyse the ways of seventeen year old boys.

Olivia was sat up above the rest, in the chair behind the huge telescope facing the sky. Her leg was bent, resting her foot on the large contraption, and her hand idly manoeuvred the eye hole peering at different parts of the sky before moving on.

Down below Delbert was explaining his findings of a new star in the Coral Galaxy.

"You see as the person who makes a new discovery gets to name it, I'm at a total loss as to what to do. Do I name it, and have a star in the sky that only I know what it means, or do I let some other more well known academic have the honour, I don't know what to do I, get so confused," he said, hands fidgeting in front of him. He was sat in the large armchair, Sarah and Amelia on a large couch opposite. The three adults looked up at the sound of Olivia's voice calling down,

"Jim's back."

"How can you tell? The telescope doesn't revolve down beyond a 45' angle," Delbert questioned the ceiling, as the staircase hid the girl from view.

"I can hear him," she responded, her head resting lazily back against the chair.

The three adults turned their ears towards the door listening for sounds of Jim approaching. Almost immediately Amelia nodded confirming what Olivia had said while Sarah and Delbert remained straining to hear anything.

"He should be here in a minute," Amelia said. "Olivia did you really manage to hear him from up there?" Amelia knew that her own hearing was acute and she hadn't been able to hear him approaching until it had been pointed out. Though Olivia held a few similar features to her own, Olivia was easily more like her father than her mother, in looks and ability, and if anything had strengthened eyesight and reflexes not hearing.

"Yep. That and there's a hole in the roof up here that faces the pathway."

At that moment Jim entered the room, but was not alone. Jim turned to look at the robot behind him who stood slouched against the doorframe, body quivering. Sarah stood up quickly and made her way over to Ben.

"Ben! What happened?"

"Nothing, he's just not used to the walk."

"But he walks here all the time," she responded picking Ben off the wall.

"The town is a lot further away than the inn," Ben said a mechanical arm rotating supposedly indicating back towards the town. "I remember now why I don't like going down there - ahh!!"

Ben jumped behind Sarah as Olivia landed next to him, having leaped down from the balcony above. He stuck his face out at her from behind Sarah's shoulder, ignorant of the amused looks coming from the group at his reaction and high pitched yelp. Olivia straightened up and stared back at the robot.

"You must be Ben," she said after a moment.

"Yep. Good old friend of Jimmy," Ben moved away from Sarah and fell onto Jim, his arm looping around Jim's shoulders. Turning to him Ben leant in to speak confidentially to Jim, but without lowering his voice everyone heard. "She your girlfriend?"

"What?! No."

"There's nothing to be ashamed of," Ben began but Jim unhooked his arm and stepped back from the robot.

"I'm not ashamed she's just not."

"Are you sure because they told me that about the Captain and Doc and, look how that one turned out!"

"Somehow if I were I think we'd know," Olivia said relieving Jim of persuading the robot. She had moved behind Delbert's chair and was leaning on it with her forearms. Jim looked over at her, his face having previously fallen into his hands. It wasn't the first time the robot had opted to embarrass him, or place him in a potentially dangerous situation. Her own glance caught Jims, but her face held a grin, apparently finding the situation amusing. Jim let out a sigh of exasperation and eyed the robot before moving to lean against the bookshelf.

Delbert stood next to Ben, hands placed inside the pockets of his maroon robe.

"Look at this. My dear fellow you've got strange markings on your, erm …" Delbert looked uncertain as to where to claim the markings were. His finger pointed to the cogs of his shoulder and his mouth opened a few times in an attempt at what to say before words fully came out, "… body."

"Really Doc? What're they look like?" Ben twisted his head round and elongated his eyes to see the point Delbert was pointing at. The others closed in around him. Olivia was the first to speak.

"That's Caledonian. How on earth did you get Caledonian markings?" Her face held a confused expression as she asked Ben. He simply shrugged and waved his arms.

"Not a clue!"

"You were in town for several days Ben what did you do?" Sarah asked.

"Well, I, I … er …" Ben stammered while trying to regain his thoughts. The robots delay in answering brought Jim off the wall and he looked down at the markings on his metal body. Ben was still trying to get the words out and Jim frowned at the situation. The last time Ben couldn't remember he had been messed with. Just to check Jim looked at the place that Ben's memory plate should be. As he thought, it was still there. "Yes! That's it!" Ben suddenly exclaimed.

"I was in town getting things for Sarah, and I got lost, I got lost. Then there were these guys who took me to an old maintenance shop, telling me they knew this guy who could, give me a body transformation. Oh you don't know what it's like to be a dirty, rusty old robot, in a world of other more refined models!"

Ben began to dry cry and flung himself on Jim who stood stoic for a moment before patting the robot gently on the back.

"It's ok Ben. It'll be ok, but, you are aware you look exactly the same?" Jim asked.

"Yeah but I feel great!" Jim pushed his face close to Jim's before moving back. "In fact I feel so great I'm gonna go have a peek at the little ones. They in their room?" And he quickly dashed from the room, on his knee wheels.

"No Ben, morphs already in there." Jim called after the robot but gave up as he was already gone. He rubbed his face with his hand, Delbert doing the same motion on the other side of the room. He was waiting for the imminent squeals from his children. Ben was good with the children, but they loved him a bit too much.

"Morph?" Jim looked up at Olivia's question. She hadn't seen the shape shifter yet, which he thought was a bit odd as Morph seemed to be everywhere. Leaning against the book shelf again he attempted to explain.

"Yeah Morph's sort of a shape shifting blob …" Jim turned his hand, indicting the shape of a … blob, as he called it. Olivia moved nearer to him, nestling herself against the shelf as well, though her shoulder was against the wood. Her face showed she still didn't fully understand. "You'll see what I mean soon."

Nodding she looked back at the room. The others had returned to their positions near the fire. Remembering what she had said a few minutes ago, Jim asked Olivia,

"How did you know those marks were Caledonian? What's Caledonian?"

"Engineering History," She replied. "really riveting stuff." Hr voice held the un-missable note of sarcasm, and Jim smirked down at her. "Caledonians invented solar sails, but were a really malicious race, and I mean truly viscous, most of them were pirates, and pirates are despicable in themselves but Caledonian pirates … you didn't want to get in their way."

Jim looked at the floor at her mention of pirates being despicable. His own encounters had taught him that yes it was true, but there was always that one contradiction; the man who threw all notions of pirates as wholly evil out of the window. It was at that point he realised that, whatever Amelia had told her niece about the voyage to Treasure Planet certain details had been left out.

"So it's bad that Ben is marked with their language," Jim continued, bringing his attention back to the present but Olivia shook her head. She wasn't finished.

"Well yes, but it's not so much bad as odd," For the first time she turned her gaze up at Jim, and for the first time he saw her truly serious. "Caledonians disappeared from every Galaxy several centuries ago."

At that moment, as if on cue, a loud banging commenced on the Doctors door, making everyone, especially Jim and Olivia jump. Amelia disappeared to open to the door and presently returned with the President of the Academy and the robotic policemen that Jim knew, oh so well. Olivia stepped forward a few paces at the sudden appearance of the President and Jim folded himself off the wall. Amelia went to stand by Delbert who placed a hand around her waist while Sarah remained seated but attentive.

"Captain Amelia, we have an emergency. You are needed immediately." His tone sounded apologetic but urgent and Amelia turned to Olivia and Jim and motioned for them to leave.

Olivia looked resilient to resist but by the look in her aunts' eye made to comply. At the sudden information of an emergency Jim instinctively reached inside his pocket, a new and less crumpled note in place of the old one, and bearing information on the emergency that had suddenly been exposed. Keeping the information from the Captain had been a hard choice but if he hadn't then curiosity as to where he got it from would be sent his way. He had been disappointed that upon entering town he hadn't finally met Silver again, a note being left instead. Of course he had no definite proof that it was Silver sending him notes, save for a feeling in his gut and the image he had seen outside of the window previously. He believed it strongly to have not been his imagination.

The note pressed against his fingers he thought of the dangers it held. It provided information that he should not know about, to help those around him, and yet he wasn't able to show it to anyone. It was like being trapped in a horrible physical limbo. On his way back he had considered showing it to Olivia since she was his own age and maybe more likely to help him without much prosecution. That notion however left him when he realised that, young as she was, she had been brought up around Captain Amelia, and pirates would not be on her friendship list, which happened to be the main problem since the note was from a pirate. A reformed pirate in Jim's eyes but probably not in hers.

As the two teens made to leave the President placed his arm out stopping them going any further. "No, we're going to need you."

Yey, Ben arrived! As in the film I'm trying to make him some comic relief (gotta love comedy characters), so hopefully it worked. I'm aware that Caledonians probably didn't invent the Solar Sails (since they are actually a term used by historians to describe people living in Scotland in the Iron Age who were enemies of the Roman Empire) but meh, just go with it.

Argus456 – Silver making a come-back? Hmm … all will be revealed, later!

Courage Sun – Thank you. I was trying to get that across. Yes Olivia is Amelia's niece but is also first and foremost a 17 yr old girl.

Vinillii – Hehe, I'm curious too!

Lady Safira, the wanna be dwarf, Nathaneal Jacobs – Thanks all for the reviews. Hope you continue enjoying the story.