Oooh, revision!

I wrote this story so long ago (I published it here years after I wrote it), and I figured it was time for a revision. I've fixed some grammatical and spelling errors (as well as some poorly-worded phrases and the like), and I've also HTML-formatted the sucker so that it's easier to read. Nothing else has been changed. Still the same ol', silly, fangirlish story.

Oh, and I just noticed that the pages were out of order. Man, that sucked.

I fixed that too. .

And now... I Promise: Platinum Edition!

Chapter 1

This is it, Misty thought, stretching her arms and legs. She sat up, looking beside her, where Ash was sleeping, snoring loudly.

"Today," Misty whispered. "I promise."

Misty rose out of her sleeping bag quietly, as to not disturb Togepi and Pikachu. Luckily, Ash and Brock slept like rocks. She crept silently to the fire. Her goal was to keep it going since the weather was so chilly.

Once the birds started chirping and the sun started rising, she decided it was time to get back to her cozy sleeping bag. This time, however, she wasn't so lucky in her "let's not wake anyone up" endeavor. Brock, drooling and mumbling, "Nurse Joy... Officer Jenny..." in his sleep, rolled over. Misty stepped over him, trying to avoid him, but he rolled again - into her leg.

"Ahh!" Mistly let out a yelp and landed directly on top of Brock. His eyes snapped wide open, and he started blushing. "Why, Misty..."

"Aaiee!" Misty hurriedly got off Brock and ran into the woods.

"Misty! I know you want me!" Brock yelled into the woods.

This woke Ash up. He had been battling Gary in his dream, and he'd even been winning! "Grrahh... Brock, what are you yelling about?" he asked groggily.

"Oh, Misty loves me, that's all," Brock said dreamily.

Ash didn't reply.

It had been an hour and Misty hadn't returned.

"Well, maybe we should look for her," Ash suggested, now fully awake.

"Naw..." Brock said. "She'll be back for me sometime soon."

Ash rolled his eyes. He noticed something as his eyes reached their highest point."Hey, Brock. Whassat?" he asked, pointing to a mysterious object in the sky.

Brock looked up and squinted. "It looks like a blimp..." He studied it closely. "It has some writing on it. It says... 'Hey, twerps minus one! We've got the girl! Love, Jessie, James, and Meowth!'"

Ash and Brock looked at each other and shrugged simultaneously. Then their brains actually kicked in.

Ash was the fastest to react. "Oh my gosh! Team Rocket has Misty!"

Ash's statement sunk in quickly. In a matter of seconds, Brock had started to panic, Pikachu was shocked, literally (its cheeks surged with currents of nervous electricity), and Togepi had begun crying up a storm. Ash just hung his head defeatedly. Great way to start off the two-year anniversary of Misty and me meeting, he thought.

"Misty, I'll get you back. I promise."

Ash ran into the woods.

Brock was stuck with a super-charged Pikachu and a bawling Togepi to take care of. He himself had calmed down from panicking madly to being nervous and agitated.

"Oh, well. I'll make some mocha latte until she comes back for me."

Ash was short on breath, running madly, when he came across a clearing. He knelt beside the small pond and looked into the water. "Misty..." he whispered. He looked at his reflection. The water shimmered a bit as he saw a flash of yellow tank top and red suspenders. "Huh?" He quickly raised his head. No one was there.

"Must've just imagined it."

An evil laugh filled the clearing.

"Motto time!" another voice said gleefully.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"Make it double."

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our nation."

"To denounce the evils of truth and love."

"To extend our reach to the stars above."

BOOM! "Jessie!"

BOOM! "Oww... James..."

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!"

"Oww... surrender now or prepare to fight..."

"MEOWTH! That's right!"

Jessie, James, and Meowth looked at Ash, expecting to see terror in his eyes. Instead, he was perched on a large boulder, reading the latest issue of Nintendo Power.

"That ocarina sure is nifty..." he mumbled, totally engrossed in reading.

"BOY!" Jessie yelled. She threw Meowth at him, which was a surprise for both Ash and Meowth.

James started mending his injured leg (hit by the blast of the explosion of dust).

"What do you want!" Ash yelled, annoyed that Meowth had torn a page of his magazine.

"We've got your girlfriend!" James taunted. He pointed to the tree where Misty was tied up. She was asleep, but it was obvious that she had been crying.

"Misty!" Ash yelled. He started running towards her, but Jessie stepped in the way.

Unfortunately for Jessie, James ran after her and plowed into her. "James, you oaf!" she yelled as they rolled towards the pond. Meowth ran after them, and, in his vain attempts to save them, got tangled up in the rolling heap.

"TEAM ROCKET'S SPLASHING OFF AGAIN!"

KASPLOOSH!

Ash ran to the tree Misty was bound to and quickly woke her up.

"Misty! Misty, are you okay?"

Misty blushed. "Ash, you came to get me...?"

He paused and looked at her. "Of course. Now let's get back to camp. Oh yeah, Brock has the strangest notion that you love him."

"Oh no..." Misty groaned.

Ash laughed and took her hand, and they began traveling back to camp.