The Return of Inspector Gandalf

Saraman

A few years after the War of the Ring, Gandalf had to leave Middle-earth to go into the West. He took the ship with Celeborn, Galadriel, and Elrond along with Frodo and Bilbo. He was impatient to get there, so half-way through the voyage, he said, "Go go Gadget helicopter!" and he flew on ahead. The problem was, Inspector Gandalf didn't realise how far the journey was nor that he was low on fuel. So after about fifteen minutes, he started flying lower and lower and lower. Soon his feet were touching the ocean.

"Yikes! Cold! Uh oh!" shivered Gandalf. He plunged into the freezing cold water. "Ahhh!" shouted Gandalf. "Go go Gadget raft!" An inflatable raft popped out of his back and began to fill with air. "Ah, safe," said Inspector Gandalf. "Uh oh!" he said again, for the raft had sprung a leak.

"Go go Gadget patch!" Inspector Gadget taped the patch on. "Good. Now I'm safe." Famous last words. All at once, a giant wave came up and wiped out the raft.

"Ahhhhhh!" screamed Gandalf as he once again plunged into the ocean. Not able to think of anything else to do, he began to swim. Three hours later the ship was in sight.

"Ah, splendid," shivered Gandalf. "Now I'll be rescued." Inspector Gandalf began calling for help.

"Hey, over here! I'm over here!" No one heard him. "Uh oh!" said Gandalf. The ship was headed straight for him! He couldn't swim out of the way in time. The ship ran right over him. "Arghh!" sputtered Gandalf. He was able to grab a rope tied to the side of the ship and pull himself up.

"Well," said Galadriel. "Did you have a pleasant trip?" Gandalf said nothing. He went below deck to sulk.

The next day, the ship put in and everyone got off. Gandalf came out of his room. Celeborn showed him to his new home. A shack beside a smelly swamp! Gandalf asked him where he and the other Elves would be staying.

"Over there," Celeborn pointed. Gandalf looked where he was pointing and saw a beautiful white palace glittering in the sun.

"I yi yi yi yi!" said Inspector Gandalf. He was so shocked his jaw dropped. After Celeborn went to his palace, Gandalf grudgingly moved into his shack. It smelled so bad inside, he started to hack. After about a year, he was used to the smell.

Over the course of the year, he found there was not much to do but sit in the shack and smoke his Go go Gadget pipe. He was so bored, that one day he decided to see what was going on back in Middle-earth.

"Go go Gadget ear!" His ear flew over the sea for about an hour until it reached the home of Samwise Gamgee. Inspector Gadget's ear listened outside one of the windows until he heard voices.

"Do you miss Gandalf?" one asked. It was Merry.

"No," answered Pippin. "He would always call me 'Fool of a Took'."

"You're right," said Sam. "He never was very kind to me. Always grumpy. Mr. Frodo was his absolute favorite!"

Inspector Gandalf was shocked.

"I cannot believe my ear! This is terrible! I've got to teach them a lesson."

The next day, he stocked up on helicopter fuel for his journey. He walked out in his front yard (swamp) and said:

"Go go Gadget helicopter!" Away he flew, back over the ocean. His journey was quite easy the first few hours until he was attacked by a seagull.

"Go away! Shoo! Shoo!" said Gandalf. "Arghhh! Stop pecking me! Go pick on someone else!" His helicopter was going out of control by this time and a truly dreadful thing happened. A seagull feather got caught in the helicopter blade, wedging it so it could not function.

"Ahhhhhh!" shouted Gandalf as he plunged into the ocean, again.

A few days later, he crawled up onto shore soaking wet and exhausted, but triumphant.

"I made it! Now for those hobbits." He fixed his helicopter blades and said, "Go go Gadget helicopter!" Away he flew, towards Samwise's house. He landed right outside the door and knocked with his staff (cane).

A Hobbit opened the door. "Yes, who is it?"

"Go go Gadget butt!" cried Gandalf. Flames erupted through the door and a horrible, ghastly smell went with them.

"Ahhhhhh!" screamed the Hobbits. Inspector Gandalf entered the house to see the Hobbits, hair singed and soot covering their faces, lying flat on the floor.

"Meriodoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. I might have known. Samwise Gamgee? I never would have guessed."

The Hobbits stared apoligetically up at Gandalf. Merry turned to Pippin and whispered, "I knew we shouldn't have been talking bad about him behind his back. You can never get away with it. He's always eavesdropping!" With that, Inspector Gandalf walked, well pleased out of the house and began the flight back to his shack by the swamp. And then he ran out of gas!

The End