The Things We Are

by Eevoi

Josh is having a normal day until 30 percent of the world is turned into Pokemon. He himself is turned into an espeon and must figure out how to live his life as one while the world around him changes. This story is in the Percentverse created by Jackboy0815.

3. Conversing: Ch3

Ch3: Conversing

Hey guys, this is my first time making a fanfic so sorry if my grammar isn't that good. Feel free to correct me or point out any grammar errors.

This story is in the Percentverse created by Jackboy0815.

I recommend reading their story: 30 Percent It is one of my personal favorites and is the original story in the Percentverse.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any characters from Pokémon. None of the people in this story are real people.

'Thoughts'

"Speech"

"Poke speech"

Setting: Dayton Ohio

Words: 3792

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Sorry this chapter took so long. I meant to get it done 2 weeks ago but I ended up getting 2 foreign diseases and the flu all within the last month.

I hope I'll be able to get the next chapter done by the same day next month.

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Edits: grammar errors, bolding and indenting.

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'Uuuugh, what time is it?' I thought as my brain started to turn on. I tried to bring a hand up to my face to rub my eyes but when I did there was a different texture on my face than I expected. I opened my eyes and saw that there was a purple paw in front of my face. I jump up in surprise and start panicking, "What, why do I!.." Then all the events from the previous day started flooding into my head. "Oh, it wasn't a dream."

I lay down again and flip over onto my back. I stare at the roof for a few seconds before I lift one of my paws in front of my face. "This can't be real" I say aloud while flipping my paw over now looking at the back side of my paw.

I lay in my bed for a few minutes, trying to take in what happened yesterday, before I realized something. 'Wait, why am I in my bed? Didn't I fall asleep on the couch?' I sit there pondering for a few moments before the obvious hits me. 'I guess either mom or Owen carried me to my room,' I concluded. I look up to my window to see that there is barely light.' Uuuh how long did I sleep for.' I roll over to look at my alarm clock and I see that it is 6:31 am.

'Huh, I woke up earlier than I usually do. Wait, I went to bed at 2 though, so that means I just slept for… 16 hours.'

'Well I guess that makes sense. Turning into a pokemon probably took a lot of energy.' I laugh a little before saying to myself, 'This is so absurd, I shouldn't even be thinking that sentence let alone actually being a pokemon.'

I sit there for a few more seconds, trying to figure out what to do with myself before I realize something. 'I really need to pee.'

I roll back over onto my stomach and stand up on all 4 legs before making my way over to the edge of the bed. 'Alright, just don't trip over yourself this time, 1… 2… 3… Jump!'

I jumped off the bed and landed on all four of my feet at the same time. I stood there for a second before I let out a sigh of relief, glad that it wasn't a repeat of last time.

I walked out of my room and to the bathroom where I awkwardly did my business. I thought about trying to brush my teeth but decided against trying to jump up onto the counter to reach my toothbrush and headed out to the living room.

It's still dark in the living room since no one else has woken up and turned on the lights yet. I decided to try to turn them on with my telekinesis and after a second or two of trying they turned on. I thought I saw a small blue hue around the switch for a split second but I dismissed it as me still being half awake.

I hoped up onto the couch with the intention of turning on the news but instead-

Ding!

My phone got a notification. I looked around for a few seconds before I saw it over on a chair in the dining room. 'I guess Owen must have moved it last night.'

I jumped off the couch and started heading twards the chair. 'It's a good thing that he didn't put it up higher. I probably wouldn't be able to get it if he put it up on the table. Well actually I might have been able to get it down with my telekinesis.'

I reached the chair and decided 'I might try to practice my telekinesis and get my phone off the chair using it. Yea, that's what I'm gonna do.'

I looked up towards my phone and focused on pushing my phone from the back side. It slowly made its way over to the edge of the seat before it eventually got there. Unfortunately when I fell over the edge I was not nearly good enough with my telekinesis to slow my phone's descent before it hit the ground. Fortunately I had a good phone case so the screen didn't crack or just flat out break.

I tried to lift it off the ground with my telekinesis but it is a lot harder to grab and pull than it is to push and my telekinesis simply wasn't strong enough. I started to get a slight headache so I stopped trying to lift it with my mind and opted for flipping it over with my paw and using it on the floor.

I opened my phone and saw that I had a text message from a group chat that I have with some of my friends.

Shade: Hey, are you guys doing alright (30 min ago)

Danial: I'm not dead so there's that :) (1 min ago)

Shade: Ha ha but seriously are you ok (now)

I chuckle a little before I start typing out a response

Josh: Apart from being a purple cat now I'm doing fine.

Daniel: Yea I'm fine

Daniel: I turned into a cyndaquil and almost burnt down the house though

Shade: Um, you sure your ok

Daniel: Yea, it's just a joke it wasn't that bad Daniel: Plus I can control my fire now so it won't happen again

Josh: Well I'm just glad you didn't burn down your house

Josh: There was a charmeleon that did that across the street

Daniel: Damn, the whole house. How's he doing

Josh: No idea

Josh: I haven't seen him since

Shade: damn

(about a minute interval of silence)

Shade: Hey can you two tel me what I am (He sends a picture of a zorua. It's a normal zorua except his fur is a little lighter in color than a normal zorua)

Shade: I'd like to know what I am and if I might blow a hole in the wall.

Me and Daniel have been into pokemon since kindergarten. I got a Ds one Christmas with a pokemon game. Daniel saw me playing it and got one himself for his birthday a month later. We'd sit next to each other on our DS's playing Pokémon together for hours. We both play the new games when they come out and have both played a little bit of competitive.

Due to this we both have a pretty extensive knowledge on pokemon and shade knows this.

Daniel: You're a zorua

Daniel: it's a dark type fox with illusion powers

Daniel: as for blowing a hole in the wall I'm pretty sure every pokemon can do that

Josh: you can probably find more information on bulbapedia or serbii

Shade: oh, ok thanks

Shade: what are you Josh

Shade: The description of purple cat doesn't help me much

Josh: well I got turned into an espeon

Josh: it's essentially a purple cat with psychic powers

Daniel: Omg I forgot about that

Daniel: How are the psychic powers

Josh: well so far I can push small objects but that's about it

Daniel: still it's telekinesis, that has got to be cool to have

Josh: I will admit I am a bit giddy about it

Daniel: We should meet up. I'm going to be really bored if I'm stuck here all day

Shade: well I don't know if my parents will let me leave the house

Shade: too dangerous outside

Josh: same, my mom probably wouldn't let me

Daniel: well we can just meet up in the forest or something

Daniel: There will probably be no one else out there

Josh: still, I would need to convince my mom to let me go

Daniel: well we can just plan for it and if your parents don't let you we can just call it off

Shade: sure, what time would we meat up though

Daniel: around 3?

Josh: sure

Josh: I'll text you if I can make it

Shade: same

Daniel: see you then maybe

Josh: see ya

Shade: see you

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I sat on the couch for another hour, mostly looking at social media and watching people freak out, before my mom walked out into the living room.

She hasn't seen me yet. Probably doesn't have her glasses on.

"Good morning," I say to her, letting her know I'm here before she trips on me.

"Oh, I didn't see you there," she says, "How are you feeling?"

"Um… about as good as I can be after sleeping for 16 hours." I responded.

"I have no idea what you said. Can you write still?" Mom asked

"No but I can type." I answered. I went over to my phone and started typing out my response (I feel good after sleeping for 16 hours) as mom watched me. When I finished I pushed my phone towards her and she picked it up off the ground and read it. "Well that's good." She said, sounding relieved. "I was scared how you would react to this change but you seem to be reacting better than most."

I tried to respond before remembering she can't understand me, I typed out "That's probably because I have been playing Pokemon since age 7. Most other people have only heard the name."

After reading my response my mom responds,

"That's true. It's completely bizarre that people are turning into video game characters though." She stops and thinks for a second before asking, "Also, do you know anything about what you are? I tried to do some research last night but there were a ton of bogus websites and I don't even know what you are called."

"Uh yea. I can write some things down that I know and I can also give you a few good webs— you have no idea what I'm saying." I say mentally sighing to myself.

I text out that "I'm an espeon which is essentially a psychic cat. I can write down some more things in a doc later."

My mom picks it up again to read it and responds, "ok, just try to get it done before I get home from work."

I responded (after she put my phone back on the floor), "Ok, also what would your opinion be on me hanging out with some friends later."

Mom looks at it for a second before saying, "No, absolutely no."

"Common, at least hear me out." I said, trying to convince her.

"Nope," my mom said, starting to sound annoyed. "I don't care what you said, it's too dangerous to even go outside right now and I don't want you to get hurt. End of conversation."

I mentally sigh to myself. I should've expected this response. I can't really blame her though. Most pokemon can probably kill a man without breaking a sweat.

"Anyways," mom says," I've gotta get my stuff ready. I've gotta head to work to help out at the hospital. Don't give me that look, the hospital is very crowded with people that are freaking out and scared and the hospital is gonna need everyone that they can get."

"I know I just told you to not go outside but I have to. Just… please promise me you won't go outside. I don't want you to get hurt especially when the hospital is as crowded as it is."

I decided it's not worth arguing. It would probably be really bad if I got hurt right now if the hospital is as crowded as she says. "Alright I promise." I say, nodding my head at her so she gets my point.

My mom seems a little relieved and says, "alright I'm gonna go get my work clothes on. I'll be back in a second." She then leaves the room to go get ready for work.

I'm about to go screw around some before I decide to do some of the research that I said I was going to do.

I open up bulbapedia in my search engine and pull up the page for espeon. It takes a few seconds longer than usual. Probably because of more "traffic" on the website than there usually is.

The page finally loads and I scroll through some of the stats before I hit "Biology". I open the tab and 3 paragraphs show up. The first one gives me details about my body that I could have gotten from a mirror.

The second paragraph is more interesting. It says that my fur is "so sensitive that it can sense minuscule shifts in the air, allowing it to predict the weather and its enemies' thoughts and movements"(bulbapedia). It also states that I build up my psychic power from sun bathing or being in the sun and that this energy is stored in the gem on my head.

The 3rd paragraph is just something about being rare in the wild and being more common in cities.

"Huh, I completely forgot I had this thing on my head" I said to myself while tapping it with my paw. 'I wonder how much this would sell for. Ugh there's gonna be a black market for this stuff isn't there?'

'You know what. I shouldn't think about this stuff. I should go back to my research.'

And that's what I did. I searched through a few more sites but I just got the same information written differently. After reading the same thing for a 3rd time I opened up docs and started writing it all down.

Espeon (what I am) is a cat(ish) with psychic powers and a fondness for the sun. It has telekinesis powers along with prediction powers. Espeon's fondness of the sun comes from needing to "sunbathe" in order to recharge its psychic energy. This energy is stored in the gem on its forehead which will glow when it is using its psychic powers.

Websites: pokemon.web

Bulbipedia.web

Serbi.web

I finish up the doc and read through it to check myself. 'I think this is good enough,' I say to myself before I sending it off to mom. At almost the same moment that I send it, my mom walks out into the living room with her work clothes on.

"Hey, have you seen my phone?" She asks while looking around for it, "I have no idea where I put it."

I look around where I'm sitting for a few moments before responding, "No idea, sorry," while shaking my head at her.

She sighs and moves to the kitchen to look for it. "Oh wait, I found it!" she yells from the kitchen. She walks back into the living room and grabs her purse before heading to the door.

"Alright, I'm heading to the hospital. I should be back by around 6… hopefully. Just make sure you stay inside. I know you want to hang out with your friends but I don't want you to get hurt ok." She then bends over and gives me a hug saying, "Love you to the moon and back."

I say it back to her even though she can't understand me. She lets go of me and heads off to work.

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I ended up doing nothing productive for a few hours. Most of that time was spent "refreshing" some of my pokemon knowledge by playing an emulator, specifically Pokemon White 2.

My friends Theo and Amondo woke up within that time. Both of them were surprised that me, Shade, and Daniel were all turned into pokemon. Daniel asked them if they wanted to meet us in the woods later but both of them said that they are getting out of the city. Both of their parents thought it would be better to head to areas with less pokemon. Apparently there's a rumor spreading that the further north you go, the more people turned pokemon there are, so both of their parents decided that they should head south.

Amondo's parents are super rich and have a house in a remote area that they decided to stay in until things calm down, while Theo is going to his grandparents house for a little bit.

I'm kinda sad that I didn't get to say goodbye to them in person but I'm still glad we can talk to each other over the internet.

Owen ended up sleeping in late like he usually does, causing me to be hungry till 9:50ish when I promptly woke him up and got him to make me breakfast.

Right now I'm just watching the news again. They have been mostly talking about local damage and global politics and how other countries were affected.

"Now to James with the current world news."

(Camera switched to James)

"Thanks Cassidy. We have a lot of news to discuss today. Firstly Hungary has been overrun by pokemon and collapsed.

At about 4:30pm yesterday the U.N. declared that Hungary had collapsed due to a large number of transformed people in the country. It is estimated that around 90% of the population has been turned into pokemon.

Some of the countries neighboring hungry like Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Yemen are setting up blockades and walls on their borders with Hungry as an attempt to keep out these Pokemon.

"Other countries have started to consider creating exclusion zones after the World Health Organization suggested that affected countries should do so. Both Spain and France have announced that they have started the process of building these zones both citing that it is for the greater good. Even though they say they have good intentions, civil unrest started rising quickly, especially in France where rioters and looters have taken to the streets of Paris."

(They start showing pictures of rioters and looters trashing Paris before eventually switching back to the news anchor)

"The United States president has released a statement saying that it's too early to do anything that drastic yet."

"Scientists all around the world have released statements saying that they have no idea how this happened. Certain labs are trying to collect blood samples from volunteers but they have yet to find any answers."

"In local news pokemon violence has seemed to calm down. There have been less reports of pokemon violence as compared to yesterday's statistics. Although there are less incidents today, pokemon are still considered to be extremely dangerous. You should take extreme caution when around them even if they are your friends or family."

'Containment zones.I hope they don't do those here. Although I have a feeling those will probably go horribly wrong. I mean, there will probably end up being a good amount of pokemon that will fight to try and keep their freedom. Even now they are already rioting in Paris. I swear they are gonna start a civil war there. I wonder if they'll bring back the guillotines. I probably shouldn't think about that.'

Ding!

'Uh, who is that?' I look down at my phone. 'Oh, it's Shade.'

Shade: hey guys, I'm not going to be able to come

Shade: my mom won't let me

'Shoot I forgot to tell them I can't come earlier. I'll just do that now.'

Josh: same, my mom isn't letting me leave the house either

Amondo: I don't blame her. With how the city's looking I wouldn't let my child out either.

Amondo: if I had one

Shade: I mean there was a dragonite playin King Kong earlier so I'm not surprised

Daniel: wait really

Daniel: when

Josh: around an hour after shit hit the fan

Josh: it was on the news, almost shot down the news helicopter

Daniel: wow, I gotta watch the news more often

Shade: I'm just glad no one died

Shade:It could have been a lot worse

Josh: yea the news reporter almost fell out the helicopter

Josh: got real lucky someone caught her

Amondo: huh, well it's a good thing she got caught then

Josh: yea

Josh: honestly this whole thing has been crazy

Josh: Never in a million years did I think I would become a pokemon and be able to move things with my mind

Josh: nor did I think 2 billion other people would also be turned into pokemon

Shade: yea this is definitely crazy

Shade: about gave my mom a heart attack when I started transforming

Josh: I think I put my brother into shock when it happened

Amondo: i honestly don't know what I would've done myself

Daniel: internally freak out for a few minutes?

Amondo: probably something like that

Daniel: nah dude, I thought I was flat out dying when it started

Daniel I started growing yellow and blue fur before I lit on fire

Daniel: I thought I got smited but it turned out I was turning into a pokemon

Josh: yea, who would've thought

Josh: but my god that hurt so much

Josh: I didn't even think I could feel that much pain at once

Josh: I feel like I should be traumatized or something but I don't really feel anything about the transformation itself

Amondo: yea I kinda wanted to ask how it felt but I didn't know if it was traumatic for you

Shade:I agree with Josh on the trama thing

Shade: it felt like your entire body shifting into a new shape while all your bones and organs change in the most painful way possible to match that shape

Amondo: that sounds… pleasant

Daniel: ha I wish. It was the same for me but I also felt like I was on fire

Josh: probably because you were

Daniel: ha yea I was

Daniel: brightest thing in the room for a few minutes

Shade: hey, I've gotta go eat lunch

Shade: brb

Daniel: I probably should too

Daniel: I haven't really eaten anything all day

Josh: ok, see y'all later then

Amondo: see you later