New Challenge: Title Track
Tolkien's titles range from epic to lyrical to metaphorical. This month's challenge selected 125 of them as prompts for fanworks.
The One told everyone He was ejecting Melkor from the world, but He didn't tell anyone where He was ejecting his best and most problematic child to.
He ejected him into Kanto. Into the middle of the Viridian Forest, sans pokemon. A hundred giant insects begin swarming in Melkor’s direction the instant he begins failing around in the long grass. Upon lifting his iron head he notices the approach of the creatures, so leaps to his iron feet, and moves into a battle pose. However, this is not Arda, and he can't go clubbing the local wildlife with his iron mace. Instead, a red and white ball rolls out of nowhere, slamming into his foot, a last* gift and clue from his disappointed creator.
Snatching this ball up, the Dark Lord to end all Dark Lords, using his prodigious intellect, presses the huge white button dead in the centre. The thing flips open in a burst of blue light, releasing an immense dark/spider type into the world.
“What have you done now, Melkor?!” hisses Ungoliant, her vast body knocking down oceans of trees, tidal waves of venomous bug pokemon being sent towards the local towns.
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It (apparently) is part of the local tradition not to steal the fighting beasts of one's opponent once one defeats them. However, Melkor has always been a rule breaker, and he can't understand such foolish traditions. He wins, therefore he gets the money, the candy, and the pocket monsters. Especially as his main ‘mon requires constant feeding least she end up eating him. He and Ungoliant make their way across the land, defeating everything in sight. This includes at least one gym leader, a flying type specialist named Krivus who unleashes a horde of pigeons and sparrows upon Melkor, and then a horde of tomatoes when he loses.
However, all the wanton theft leads to a veritable eruption of Officer Jennys appearing on the horizon. The nation of blue haired women surround the Dark Trainer…Too bad for them then, that by now his one spider type pokemon has multiplied into six spider type pokemens, to whom Melkor has given idiosyncratic nicknames.
Although spider type is weak to fire, Gloomweaver by herself is the size of half of Kanto, while Shelob is a shiny. The Officers and their fire dogs stand no chance, especially when Melkor climbs onboard Gloomweaver’s back and surfs to another island in the Pokemon Archipelago.