Barbossa handed them over to Fernando Garcia, the ship's mechanic. He was one of the men who had held down Ron.
"Sorry about before," he said while he shook Ron's hand. "Precautions, you know. We didn't know who you were."
"Sure," Ron mumbled.
"So, you kids figure out which world you from?" Garcia asked.
"No, but the Captain said that Doctor Philips had a book that could help us," Hermione said. "We didn't know of the existence of other worlds until now."
"Ah, well that's most of you interlopers."
"Interlopers?" Hermione asked.
"Inter-world travellers, interlopers for short," said Garcia. There was an awkward silence.
"So, you kids want a tour?"
"Yes, please," said Hermione.
Garcia smiled. "It's cute how polite you three are," he chuckled. "Anyway, follow me."
Garcia first showed them to where they'd be sleeping. The crew quarters were below decks. It was a long narrow room below decks with bunks beds built into both walls. There were about twenty bunks, but only six crew members, so they'd each taken a top and bottom set of bunks: One for sleeping in and one for their things. One wall was the outside hull so it curved with the curve of the ship, making the top bunk wider than the bottom.
They were introduced to James "Jamie" Hawkins, the helmsman and navigator (who had held Hermione), Edward "Eddie" Teach, the gunner (the bug-eyed man), and Bartholomew Swann, the carpenter (the other man who had held Ron).
Barbossa also slept in crew quarters. But, being first mate, he'd taken the four bunks at the end of the room and hung up a sheet across the aisle for some privacy.
"Usually, first mate gets his own quarters," Garcia told them. "But Cap'n gave it to Mandy and Doc Philips. So Barbossa makes due."
Harry and Ron picked bunks across the aisle from each other and Garcia took Hermione to meet her new roommates. The girls' cabin was on the deck level, next to the captain's cabin.
Turns out "Doc Philips" was the black woman that Hermione had mistaken for the captain. Her full name was Dr. Anne Philips, ship's surgeon. Amanda "Mandy" Frye was Garcia's assistant and apprentice. She was a tiny blond girl who claimed to be 20 but who acted like she was 15. Harry was a little shocked by her. She had beaten him so easily in the forest but she was only 5'3" tall.
"Garcia's givin' you a tour? Can I come along?" She seemed so eager that Garcia agreed. She spent the next quarter of an hour giving the three "interlopers" the history of the ship and everyone on it.
"Cap'n Jack was a sharpshooter aboard Mazu's Glory when she was called the Loyalty. But the Cap'n then was awful and the crew mutinied and left him on an island and elected Cap'n Jack as cap'n. First things she did was let anyone who wanted to leave, leave. Barbossa was part of that crew too, that's how he and Cap'n know each other so well. Barbossa don't talk much but he's real smart so when he do talk you'd best listen. Eddie was part of the old Loyalty crew too but he don't care who's Cap'n so long as he gets to be in charge of the guns. He's got a weird sorta relationship with the guns. They all got names and personalities accordin' to him. We think he's nuts but he's a damn good gunner."
Garcia cut in at this point. "By guns she means the shot and phaser cannons over there." Garcia pointed to the line of frightening looking artillery strapped in place by ropes. "Eddie's completely crazy he never misses and the guns never break, not when he's lookin' after 'em."
"I thought that was a gun," Harry pointed at the weapon hanging form Garcia's hip. The crew seemed to always be armed, even when there was no imminent danger.
"Anything that shoots can be called a gun," Garcia explained. "So pistols, rifles, blasters, cannons, and everythin' in between."
"Were you a part of the old crew as well?" Hermione asked.
"Nah, Cap'n hired me two years ago, just after the old mechanic quit. Been here ever since. Jamie and Bart joined up around the same time."
"I just joined Mazu's Glory three months ago," Mandy volunteered. "Garcia's teachin' me all he knows about engines. He knows a lot and it's takin' a while but I'm a fast learner, or so he says, so it's goin' pretty fast, or at least faster than it would and..."
While Mandy talked, Garcia showed them the rest of the lower deck. There was the galley kitchen, Doc Philips' surgery and the other crew quarters that was filled with cargo boxes.
"Why is the cargo in here?" Ron asked. Mandy and Garcia exchanged a grin.
"See for yourself." Garcia opened a door that revealed a staircase leading down into the dungeon of the ship. Hermione descended the stairs and was hit with a smell of engine grease and heated metal. The engine and all its parts took up the entire cargo hold. Hermione was amazed at the size. The only engine she'd ever seen was her parents' car engine. This engine seemed to have parts jutting out everywhere: Valves and pistons and things that Hermione had no names for. The engine was silent since the ship was careened. The only sound was their footsteps echoing in the room.
"This is our baby," Mandy said proudly. "Takeshi 46 is the best engine on the market for a ship this size."
"Why is it so big?" Harry asked.
Garcia raised an eyebrow. "Have you seen the size of the ship?" he asked with a laugh. "And we need the speed that the Takeshi has. We are pirates, after all."
A mechanical beep sounded and the Captain's voice filled the engine room. "Garcia?" her voice asked. Ron stared around, looking for the source of the disembodied voice.
"It's probably just an intercom," Hermione whispered to him. He clearly had no idea what that was, but he looked a little relieved nonetheless.
"I'm here, Cap'n," Garcia called back.
"Take off in ten minutes ok?" the Captain asked.
"Sounds good," he said. "What about the kids? They comin'?"
"Can't well leave 'em on the deserted island. They'd starve to death. Send them up to my cabin." The beep sounded again, signalling the end of the call.