Alex & Alphys ll Fossil Discovery?

It was Creation Day and Alphys was spending the day watching anime and lounging about upstairs. She wasn't usually so lazy, but she didn't particularly celebrate the day and didn't expect any visitors. Who would come all the way out to a lab in the desert on the day everyone would be starting their Pokemon journey?

So she didn't hear the door open, not even noticing she had someone in the lab until they called out to her. She quickly fumbled, pausing her show and taking a moment to collect herself. Ugh, how embarrassing. The place was more of a mess than she'd have liked, and some of her dvds and figurines still strewn about the downstairs part of the lab. She was probably already making an awful impression. Great.

She hurried down from the second floor, hoping to quickly greet whoever it was before they could judge her too badly.

"S-sorry, sorry! I was upstairs-- doing work. Just, working on a few things." She covered lamely, tidying up a small pile on a nearby desk idly as she spoke. Okay, not too bad. Most of the things down here were actual work papers or obscure anime merch, and there wasn't that much of it. They probably wouldn't even notice that sort of stuff mixed in with all the sciencey things! She could try tell herself that, at least.

"Hi, it's, nice to meet you." She did the best to collect herself, walking over to the woman who had just entered and offering her hand to her. "I'm Alphys."

"I-it's fine!" Alphys brushed it off, hoping to save some face by making a better impression from here on out. Alex seemed so together and polite, Alphys couldn't help but feel she had some catching up to do.

She took the fossil, quickly forgetting about her worries for a moment. At a glance it wasn't like any fossil she'd ever seen. Was this something completely new? She didn't want to say as much yet, not before getting a good look at it first.

"Oh, sure." Alphys set it down gently on a table, not that you really had to be all that careful with fossils nor rocks; whichever it was, and walked over to the healing machine. A boot up and a couple button presses later and it was ready for the pokeballs to be set inside. The machine was hardy enough and Alex seemed nice so Alphys didn't bother keeping an eye on her with the machine. And, in all honesty, she was more interested in the possible fossil.

She turned on the lamp sitting on the table, getting a better look at it now.

"Where did you find this?" She asked over her shoulder, still not quite recognizing it. Something nagged at the back of her mind, as if she should know it. It seemed almost familiar, but as she mentally went through all the fossils she knew she still couldn't place it.

She turned back to face Alex, half ready to accept it was just some rock but hoping knowing where it came from would help all the same. And yet it didn't quite seem like a natural rock, the shape of it was too precise despite it's rough surface. She still couldn't shake the feeling she should recognize it, either.