When Ash Turns to Mist

I looked ahead. There was nothing but trees, everywhere. We were lost.
"Tracey, where’s that map you always have with you?" I asked.
"Oh" he rummaged about in his bag for a while. Then pulled out a rolled up piece of paper.
"I think this is the one for the area" he rolled the map out, pointing to a spot in the forest.
"This is where we are, I think" he said.
"Then you go that way" Ash said triumphantly, pointing to my left. I nodded,
"According to the map" so we went that way. Not knowing what was ahead of us.

"Heh heh, they fell the our trick" chuckled James
"They’re heading right into our trap, get the tranquilizer ready" added Jessie. Meowth nodded, and the three of them jumped into the bush.
"Here’s yours, and yours" said Meowth, handing out the weapons.
After a while of crouching in the bushes, Team Rocket spotted three people, a Pikachu and a Tojepi.
"Jessie, fire for Misty and Togepi, James, you get Tracey and put the Pikachu in the bag. I’ll get Ash and Pikachu" Meowths fellow team mates nodded. They couldn’t fail on this plan.
Soon, the figures came closer, and team rocket were ready. Meowth quietly counted down from five, and they fired. Soon the twerps in front of them lay on the ground and fell asleep.
"Time to get the Pikachu, time to get the Pikachu" sang James in a whisper, stepping out from the leaves and twigs, with the electric-proof, sound-proof bag swung around his shoulder.

I yawned sleepily, getting up from the ground. I was the first to wake.
"Pikachu!" I cried. Pikachu had disappeared. It must of been Team Rocket.
"Wha?" Ash and Tracey woke up from my call.
"Agh! PIKACHU!" screamed Ash. But no call came back. Ash turned his head furiously from side to side.
"Where’d they go? Why didn’t Pikachu call back?" Ash went on and on with questions.
"Keep those inside your brain, we don’t have the answers" I said turning to Ash. As always, Ash was being stupid. I sighed, couldn’t anybody else get it?
"We split up, one of us go left, on of us go right, and the leftover one goes back the way we came" Everybody nodded in agreement. I set off to the left, Tracey went right so Ash shrugged, and headed in the last direction available.
I jogged along the track for a while, keeping my pace. If Team Rocket went this way, I would have to find them. There was a 33% chance they did go this way. I started slowing down a little. It had seemed like ages from when I set off. I needed a rest.
So I leaned against a tree trunk, breathing heavily. I rested my eyes. I hoped that Team Rocket had not already reached their boss.