Thanks to everyone who gave me a review.

Liv: Gambit will make his way into the story. He's one of my favorite x-men so he'll have his place

wahinetoa: I glad that you like the story. and yes Wolverine will enjoy all the fighting that will be going on both outside the mansion and within.

Nienna of Sorrow: thanks for your reviews you brought up many intresting points and I'll probably go back and do a few rewrites. Though there is one thing that I feel I should clarify. When the X-men fight the orcs in the first chapter and the end they fight the cave-troll from Moria. I agree an orc couldn't survive a lightning blast but I definitely think that a cave-troll could. Also if you consider the fact that Sabertooth was hit by one in the X-men movie and mostly all it did was frizz his hair. Plus lightning bolts vary in there intensity. Thanks again for the advice I hope that you enjoy this next chapter. Oh yeah and thanks for answering my question about rnrn

Brazos: thanks for the review. Your answer about Pippin is in this chapter.

Chapter 3

A whole lot of meetings

"Sam! Gandalf!" Frodo cried hysterically leaping from his bed. "Where am I?!"

"Just calm down son," a voice came from above him came. "You're fine, you're safe."

"Whose there?" Frodo asked still very scared but calming down. Frodo looked around; he had never seen a place like it everything appeared to be made of metal. Frodo could see nobody. "Who are you?"

"My name is Dr. Hank McCoy" the voice came. "You were injured and my comrades brought you here and thanks to my myriad skills in medical science you'll make a full recovery."

"Where are you?" Frodo said. "Why are you hidden?."

"Due to my rather uncommon appearance I was worried that I might frighten you ." answered the voice. "But if you promise to behave and don't scream I'll come down."

"I promise," Frodo said. At that Beast dropped down from his perch on the ceiling . Frodo looked the mutant doctor up and down. In Frodo's hobbit eyes Beast's clawed, dark, and fury complexion meant only one thing.

"ORC!" Frodo screamed and ran toward the door.

"I might have known." Beast sighed as Frodo began to pry at the door unable to figure out how to get the computer operated door to open. Frodo turned and looked at Beast who had his arms folded across his chest; Frodo screamed again and pried at the door again which to his surprise opened. Not because of anything he had done, but rather because Nightcrawler had opened it. Frodo looked at the pointy eared mutant.

"Demon Elf!" he yelled and ran the opposite direction.

"Please," Nightcrawler said "If your going to call me Elf could you drop the Demon part?"

Suddenly Frodo spied Sting his sword lying on the table that Beast had placed it when he examined the young hobbit. Frodo grabbed the blade while Beast and Nightcrawler stared at him confusedly. Frodo then saw the dead Orc lying on the other table. Frodo looked around the lab again. "Where am I?" he demanded "Where are the others? Sam, Gandalf! Where are they?" The door suddenly opened by this time Frodo was expecting no less than a troll to come through, but to his relief it was a bald man in a wheelchair accompanied by a tall, fair, woman with red hair and a younger girl with short dark hair and slanted eyes. The man approached the terrified hobbit.

"It's alright." he said. Xavier eyed Beast and Nightcrawler. "Don't be alarmed I know that they look rather ferocious but really they both are very gentle."

"Who are you?" Frodo asked. "Where am I? What happened to the others?"

"Hold on son." Xavier said "I'll answer one question at a time. First I am Professor Charles Xavier, and what is your name?"

"I'm Frodo," he responded "Frodo Baggins of the Shire."

"Good," Xavier said "Now as to your second question. You are at my School for the Gifted. In New York. These are all former students of mine." Xavier introduced the rooms other occupants. Frodo began to relax.

"Now," Xavier continued "I need to know how you got here."

Frodo tried to remember, he could recall being in Moria and fighting while the orcs stormed Balin' tomb, he remembered the cave-troll. Then a bright light. Frodo remembered falling through the air and hitting his head on a tree branch. After that he could remember nothing. Frodo suddenly realized that although he could remember taking the journey he couldn't remember what it was for. He felt as though he was missing something. Frodo began to feel for something around his neck but couldn't remember what it was he was looking for. Frodo was about to relate to Xavier his tale when the Professor stopped him.

"I think that it would be easier" the telepath said "If I just read your mind if you'll let me."

"Are you a wizard?" Frodo asked.

Xavier smiled realizing that Frodo understood nothing of where he was "No I'm not a wizard it's just a gift of mine." Xavier lifted his hand up to Frodo's forehead. And began to use his telepathy. In an instant Professor X understood everything, Hobbits, the Shire, middle-earth, Yet Xavier could sense that there was something that Frodo's mind was trying to cloud. Something that it wanted to forget. It seemed central to the Quest that the young hobbit had been on. Xavier ended the mind probe.

"Alright Frodo." Xavier said smiling "I don't know how you got here but I promise you that we'll try to get you back to middle earth."

"Thank you," Frodo said "but what do you mean, back to Middle-earth?"

Xavier realized that it would take some time to explain. "Why don't you come with me." He said. "I'll explain everything. Then perhaps Jubilee will take you to get something to eat."

Frodo followed him down the hall, with Jean and Jubilee in tow, leaving Nightcrawler and Beast in the medi-lab staring at each other.

"Orc?" Nightcrawler jested.

"Demon Elf?" Beast responded.

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"Where is that fool of a took!?" Gandalf growled.

"Pippin!" Merry called.

"Pipe down!" Gandalf quickly said. "He could be anywhere now. I told him not to break hands."

"Where are we?" Boromir asked looking at the trees. The fellowship had appeared in the middle of a forest glade. Sunlight drifting through the branches where moments before they could only see the dark halls of the dwarf mine.

"I don't know," Legolas said "But I am glad to be out of that dark hole Moria."

"That's enough," Gimli said "In it's glory days Moria was ten times the grandeur of any Elf-Kingdom."

"Is that so?" Legolas countered. "And a lot of good it did them. Digging up demons and everything!"

"Things are not going as planned." Aragorn mused "We're lost in the middle of an unknown forest. and we've lost two hobbits one of them carrying the Ring of Doom."

"I never said that this quest would be easy." Gandalf said. "But I know we are somewhere near where I sent Frodo. I only hope that he was able to escape the orcs and the cave troll that went with him."

"Maybe he used the ring to disappear." Sam said hopefully.

"I certainly hope not!" Gandalf said "I fear that the Dark Lord would still be able to track him even though we are no longer on Middle Earth. He is so connected to the ring; and if I can send us here then he could certainly send someone or worse somethings here as well. Frodo is alone and if he uses the ring there will be no one to protect him."

"Then let us search for him," Aragorn said "We'll split up. Legolas, Gimli, and Sam will come with me and Boromir, Merry will go with Gandalf. That is if you agree."

"I do," Gandalf replied. "We shall meet up here at sunset."

"What about Pippin?" Merry asked

"We will deal with that later," Gandalf said, seeing the concern on Merry's face he added "Pippin is a fool, but since he is alone I'm sure that he will lie low. I'm sure he's fine."

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"Someone help me!" Pippin screamed as he ran. Everything was a daze. One moment he was in Moria staring at the monstrous balrog. The next he was in an environment completely foreign to him. Everything was appeared to be made of rock. He knew he was in a city but he had never seen buildings as tall. The streets were filled with what to him appeared to be shiny monsters moving at incedible speeds, and all around him were loud noises. But that at the moment was the least of his worries. Pippin had appeared in the middle of this city with a huge flash of light. A crowd had seen him appear and to them he could only be a...

"Filthy Mutant!" one of the people yelled.

"Get the mutie!" called another.

Pippin screamed for help but most the people that were in the streets just stared and watched as the young hobbit ran past with twelve people pursuing him. Pippin was suddenly struck from behind by a rock. Pippin fell to the ground. The mob began to close in on him. In a desperate attempt to escape Pippin drew his sword and began to swing it wildly. The act paid of as the mob backed off. Pippin ran blindly into an alleyway. Only toward the end did he see the wall preventing him from exiting that way. Pippin turned to see the mob enter the alleyway. Some of them had grabbed more stones and others had broken off tree branches. Pippin held out his sword defensively.

"What do you want!?" he cried.

"Your head you gene-trash" the lead person said lifting hand high above his head, holding a metal pipe

"Yeah," another said. "the only good mutie is a dead mutie!"

The leader brought his pipe down but to Pippin's surprise it did not hit him nor did it hit his sword which was held up to block it. The pipe just hung there in the air. The human had let go yet it just floated there. Suddenly the sword flew out of Pippin's hand and stabbed the leader.

"What'd you do..." the human cried as he fell to the ground. Yet the sword pulled out of his stomach and began to fly toward other members of the mob. Screaming the humans ran away.

"How'd I do that?" Pippin wondered in a tone of amazement and terror as the sword floated over to him.

"You didn't," A voice came. Pippin looked above to see a man floating down he was wearing a cape and a helmet. "I did, My name is Magneto."