Maya raised an eyebrow at the lack of care Aro displayed in handling the fossils. She knew they were more experienced than her at this though, so she kept her trap shut. 

[i]"I can´t seem to figure out why it took the three of us to dig up that fossil." [/i]

She smirked at Khelfin´s words and opened her mouth to speak. An odd noise stopped that from happening.

It was a family of grimer that had begun to encircle them. She hadn´t counted on their shapeless bodies making no noise across the landscape, but the sound of a loosened rock hitting the ground had fortunately gotten her attention. 

"Well, I guess this is what they must´ve meant by toughening up my pokemon." She took mental note of the sheer amount of them and continued. "Zombie, scary face!"

In an instant the once twitching pokemon puffed out its chest and delivered a striking glare to a pair of nearby grimer. An eerie glow circling his eyes had stopped them dead in their tracks. 

Maya squinted. Were they afraid, or were they just momentarily confused? One of the grimer wobbled in place, but the other seemed to have answered her question as it shook itself off and lunged for Zombie. 

"Rock throw!" She shouted.

Zombie materialized a large stone and sent it hurtling towards the blob. If there was anything he could do right, it was this. She had spent ages training his accuracy with tin cans outside the lab, so aiming for a fat ball of filth was the least of her worries. A confident smile spread across her face as it let out a wail of pain from the impact. Her happiness was short-lived however, and she´d have to do more than just that if she wanted to get out of here in one piece. 

"About that..." she muttered to Aro. "Zombie has wings, but he hasn´t gotten the hang of flying with them yet. The best I can get out of him is a hop and a glide, enough for a wing attack." Almost as if he understood her, Zombie did this exact maneuver to awkwardly dodge a stream of poison gas. 

She dug her boot deeper into the ground. "Good job Zombie, now use scary face again!"

The archen fidgeted with the satisfaction of having been praised and once more cast a striking gaze on the grimer, this time aiming for the ones near Red.