Treasure or just A LOT of sand?

Silverdawn was pleased to sense that her companions followed her suggestions, and bared her teeth at the sandshrew threateningly. "Leave us alone!" she hissed menacingly, even though she knew the feral couldn't understand her; it would get the point. "You'll not win, I promise that," she added, her tail rattling warningly. The Sandshrew looked around it, fear crossing its features. Silverdawn edged closer, tail starting to glow with a purple energy, and the desert pokemon looked at it nervously. She hissed again, and the pokemon lost it's nerves and scrambled away from her, fleeing between Ned and Sova. Ned scrambled away as the Sandshrew fled. Silverdawn nodded, satisfied. "Well now that that is taken care of, shall we continue?" she asked her companions.

Silver carried out 1 launched of one Scorchfall Desert :

Sova giggled momentarily after the Sandshrew fled, not that he was laughing at it. He was just happy to be having a fun time exploring. Oddly enough, this was his idea of fun. "Yep, to the tower! Not too far now." He replied to Silverdawn and started back up walking towards the tower, though at a slower pace to avoid any more unexpected attacks. Despite just being completely serious and focused on the battle, he was again perky and unworried, even with the danger of more enemies sprouting out of the ground in front of him.

Lord E V carried out 1 launched of one Scorchfall Desert :

"Urgh...", the Nincada let out a sigh of relief.
At least this creature had disappeared. There would most likely be quite a few more the group would have to encounter, but right now they had managed to save themselves.
Why did these things always have to hapen to him? Even when just spending his time waiting, he still managed to find a way to get himself into trouble. And he couldn't just have ended up in a place full of Grass and Psychic types. No, it just had to be Fire and Ground types. The universe hated him - this much was clear. But why? Not finding an answer to the question, Ned saw no choice but to simply wander along...

Energy: 11 + 1 (page) = 12
12 - 1 (roll) = 11 (^^')

Silverdawn was excited to find a gravelrock; this would be good for her shop! She continued on, and trilled again, and realized that there was nothing around. Wait, where was the Temple that Sova had seen earlier? Something was wrong here... maybe it was a mirage? She slithered forward, wondering what the group would find next.

Silver carried out 3 launched of one Scorchfall Desert :

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(11 energy)

Sova had been distracted looking around for any more attacking Pokemon, and hadn't been looking forward at the 'goal'.  He had almost forgotten to check how close the temple was....but it was nowhere to be found.  He thought he was still going in the right direction.  Maybe he just imagined it?  Was it a mirage?  He stopped to consult his allies.  "Hey, uh....did we get turned around?  I thought....I thought I saw the temple earlier...."  He said as he continued looking around.

Lord E V carried out 1 launched of one Scorchfall Desert :

Lord E V carried out 1 launched of one Scorchfall Desert :

Lord E V carried out 1 launched of one Scorchfall Desert :

Ned had noticed it too. The building, that one had clearly been able to see just moments ago was nowehre to be found all of a sudden. But why?
Suddenly an idea appeared in the Ground type's head.
"Dehydration. That's why that temple isn't there anymore. One of us was dehydrated and influenced by the heat enough to see a hallucination of the temple. Then they started talking about it, which caused the other two of us to see it as well as we believed for that Pokémon's words to be the truth."
Now even his mind was too weak to function properly. If only there was a way to grow stronger safely, without having to visit all these horribly dangerous places...

(10E+1E=11E)

Energy 11 - 3 = 8

Silverdawn hissed in alarm as her trilling highlighted two more pokemon on the defensive: two hippopatus, groaning and hissing like trickling sand. Silverdawn's tail rattled in warning to the other two, barely noticing Ned's worried rambling to himself. None of the pokemon here were too good against desert creatures like these; why on earth hadn't she invited a water pokemon along? It would have made this fight much easier. Well, there was no use dwelling on the past, she reflected, jabbing at one of the pokemon with her poisonous tail. There was only the now, and right now, they needed to win this battle!

(6 energy)

Sova took note of the warning and spotted the two enemies, but instead of attacking, he just sat there for a moment. He was thinking. None of the group could do much against these enemies with attacks, and this time there were two to worry about. So why were they continuing to just attack? Eventually they would probably find an enemy that wouldn't be scared off easily, then they'd be in trouble with this strategy.

"Wait, our attacks won't do much. We need a different plan. What items do you guys have?" He looked around at the environment, looking for some kind of backup plan if neither of his allies had any useful items with them. Sand and rocks. Well, knocking the enemies into a large rock if all else failed would be better than knocking them into the sand. But he wanted to wait for his allies to respond before needlessly attacking head on.

Oh, just great. More enemies. This proved it - the universe was out to get him.
Again it was an enemy that would be highly resistant to anything the Nincada could throw at it.
Unlike last time however this time there were two of these vile creatures. They were officially and completely screwed.
While the Eevee's plan was to the Nincada's liking, not barging in headfirst, but rather using items strategically, there was one problem to consider.
"I've got nothing. I wasn't expecting to be ending up here, so I didn't bring anything."
The others just had to have some item of use. They would have to get out of here somehow.
Preferrably alive.

Silverdawn shook her head as she dodged another blow from one of the hippopatus. "I've got no items that would be of any use in a fight, unfortunately." she said as she struck the hippopatus with her poisonous stinger. "If you guys could find an item, be my guest, but I'll keep trying to defeat them the old-fashioned way!" she flicked her tail against the hippopatus, and it wailed, backing away as poison snuck beneath it's skin. It snorted at silverdawn irritably and charged at her.

"I don't have any useful items either. Great." Sova said as he considered other options. As much as he wanted to just fight the battle, he knew it would probably be fairly easy and much less risky to just run. "You know, they ARE pretty slow. We could probably just outrun them pretty easily and there's not really any point in fighting....why don't we just retreat?" He would have went with his own suggestion and just ran off if he were alone, but he wanted it to be a group decision. Sure, he could just run off alone, but dat ain't how he rolls.

The Nincada was dumbstruck for a moment.
Run...away? He had always advocated that idea, he would have been the first one to flee, but...another Pokémon had actually had the same idea and voiced it without him even mentioning it?
Maybe there were sane Pokémon left in this world after all. Maybe.
"I find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with this here Eevee. There is no need to battle an opponent without anything to be gained from it, much less with us at a disadvantage like this. So fleeing seems to be our best option here."
Now hopefully they could get the Ekans to agree. She seemed to be more of the fighting character, the Pokémon who wouldn't even consider an option like this. Still, maybe it could work.

Silverdawn froze at the suggestion from behind her, allowing the hippopatus to swipe her across the muzzle. She hissed and backed away from it, almost bumping into the other hippopatus. "Wh-whaaaat?" she spluttered. "R-r-run away?!?!" she had never considered such a thing! "...run away." she repeated, stunned. She swung her head around and considered her two companions. Both of them seemed eager to utilize this option. Perhaps they were afraid? Or maybe they wanted to conserve their energy. Silverdawn considered this, thinking that perhaps if she helped the other two, it wouldn't be cowardice on her part to run away.... right? "Alright," she decided; turning tail and heading back toward her companions. "Let's get out of here!"

Now that Sova's allies had both agreed to just running away, he darted off in the opposite direction of the enemies.  The sand slowed his movement a bit, but there was no way something as slow as a Hippopotas would ever be able to keep up.  "What was that about, Silverdawn?  You seemed so hesitant.  Why would you want to keep fighting such a pointless fight?"  Normally he would have understood not wanting to run away, but the Hippopotas' would simply have been an energy draining and long battle, in the desert.  Who would want to do that?

He then considered that there would be a lot of Pokemon like those hippopotas' and the sandshrew in the desert.  They didn't have anything to deal with those types of enemies, they would certainly run out of energy fast in this environment.  And was there really even any treasure in this desert....or just a lot of sand?  Yes I just referenced the thread title.  "Well, we shouldn't stay here much longer."  He said, a bit disappointed in himself.

Not understanding the Ekans' hesitation or the Eevee's disappointment, Ned was happy that for once everyone could agree, that fighting wasn't neccessarily the best course of action.
As quickly as he could, which wasn't much but he was trying at least, the Nincada was skittering across the hot desert sand, trying to remove himself from the victinity of the opponents they had been facing.
Now, maybe the other two would give up their pursuit of whatever it was they were looking for, having seen the enemies in their way. Okay, most likely not. After all this still was a world in which you could expect to battle thrice on your way from the bed to the kitchen. At least they had managed to avoid fighting this battle in particular.