Hello, Lively Town!

"There it is! I see an exit!" Patience exclaimed as she ran towards the exit. Ian and Gadget following after her.
When they exited Gentle Slope Cave, a bright light blinded them as their eyes adjusted to the outside light, when it finally did, they noticed that they were by an edge of a cliff, Patience standing by it.
"Look! Over there! Is that Lively Town?" Patience said, pointing at an area which looked like a city by the ocean.
"It is indeed." Gadget replied. "That right there, is Lively Town."
Patience expression changed to that of excitement at the mention of Lively Town, Ian smiled as well, they had finally reached their destination.
"What's that building over there?" Patience asked, pointing towards a tall structure that was next to the sea. Ian squinted and eventually found what Patience was pointing at.
"That's a lighthouse." Gadget replied. "It's a structure for Pokemon traveling here by sea to show that they are about to hit land at night."
Patience continued looking at the town in awe, unable to control her excitement, she dashed ahead and ran down the hill, towards the path that leads to Lively Town.
"What are you waiting for Slowpokes?" She yelled, as she continued running ahead.
Ian and Gadget both sighed, amazed at how energetic the Fennekin was.
"She's really hyperactive." Gadget commented.
"You think this is bad, you should have seen her when we got our Expedition Society kit." Ian said, as the two ran to catch up with Patience.
A whole new place, a whole new attitude.
----Ampharos woke up, feeling groggy and sick. He was surprised he even managed to get a wink of sleep, considering the fact that they were always rocking from the constant waves, made him dizzy and seasick.
Goodness, I think I'll just head straight to my office and go back to bed when we get back. He thought, a few more extra hours of sleep seemed like a luxury at the moment.
He turned to his right and saw Mawile, who was already awake and was reading one of he many books she had back at the Expedition Society.
"Good morning boss." She greeted. "Slept well?"
"My neck aches and I feel like I'm about to throw up, so no." Ampharos replied.
"We still have a few more hours before we reach Lively Town." Mawile said, as she continued reading her book.
"What are you even reading anyway?" The lighthouse Pokemon asked.
"Oh this?" Mawile said, raising her book. "It's a book on Pokemon evolution. Tell me something, are you able to still evolve?"
"Of course not," Ampharos replied. "I'm already at the final stage of my evolutionary line."
"Well, what if I told you that is not entirely true? That there's actually sort of 'further evolution'."
"You're joking."
Mawile shook her head. "For the past decade, Pokemon across the world have reported changing appearance despite being fully evolved. The strange part is that those Pokemon returned to their original appearance after a short period of time."
Ampharos was suddenly intrigued with this discussion. A new form of evolution? How has he not heard of this? Then again, he wasn't really a Pokemon that reads a lot, he preferred to learn things through experience.
"Are all Pokemon capable of this?" He asked.
"So far only a few Pokemon are capable of this new form of evolution." She replied.
"You think I could achieve this new evolution?" Ampharos proudly asked.
"Who knows? Maybe you can."
Ampharos smiled at the thought of that, he felt like he needed a change in appearance, perhaps maybe he could get some fabulous hair? That'll definitely make him stylish.
"What is this evolution called anyway?"
"There's a lot of unknowns regarding this, but everyone can agree on the name of this new form of evolution," Mawile said.
"Mega Evolution."
----Ian's expectations on Lively Town was that it'll be bigger, more Pokemon and... well, livelier. But he seriously underestimated. Dozen of Pokemon walking around, going about their daily lives, buildings left and right towering over them, he also only now noticed that the ground was even tiled.
It's a town alright. Ian thought.
"Could you two stay here for a short while?" Gadget asked. "I have something I need to go check before we head to the Expedition Society."
"Why can't we just tag along?" Patience asked.
"It's... business. But it won't take long, so don't go wandering off on your own alright?"
Ian and Patience both nodded.
"Good, I'll be right back."
Gadget went off in an instant, disappearing into the crowd of Pokemon. Patience looked around her in awe of her new environment, being raised in a quiet little village, the noise and excitement was something unseen to her. Ian watched as the fire fox Pokemon jumped and skipped happily in excitement, it oddly made him smile, happy to see his partner happy.
"You think we should look around?" Patience asked.
"I think we can do that later." Ian replied. "Gadget told us not to go off on our own."
"Oh come on, I'm sure it won't hurt if would just look around for a-"
Patience was interrupted when she bumped into something and fell on her back. Ian rushed over to his partner and helped her up, he turned to look at what she bumped into and it turned out it was a Pokemon, dark yellow with black stripes on his body and had a long mouth, like a crocodile.
"Hey! Watch where you're going punks!" The Pokemon said in a gruff voice.
"Sorry sorry!" Patience apologized.
"Wait, you kids are not from here, are you?"
"No...?" Ian replied.
The Pokemon's suddenly changed, a large grin formed on his face.
"Oh where are my manners? Being rude to visitors, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Krokorok and you do you happen to have any Poké on you?"
Ian and Patience looked at each other in confusion, what's with the sudden change in attitude? Less than a minute ago he looked like he was about to explode.
"No, sorry." Patience replied.
"Come on, help a friend out?" Krokorok approached closer to the two Pokemon, Ian stood in front of Patience, protecting her.
"We said we didn't have any Poké to spare! Now go away!" Ian exclaimed.
Krokorok's face turned red, his eyes were twitching and he gritted his teeth. Looks like that wasn't the best of ideas.
"Alright you punks! You better hand over your money this instant or I'll-" Two shadows appeared behind him. One was a blue amphibian-like Pokemon and the other was a bipedal, draconic Pokemon.
"Or you'll what?"
"Back off Krokorok." Krokorok turned to the two behind him. He locked eyes with a Swampert and Charizard. 
Gadget stood in front of Ian and Patience, towering over the desert croc Pokemon. Krokorok froze and shivered at the sight of her.
"G-Gadget! Funny to see you here!" Krokorok nervously said, Ian could definitely tell that he was scared.
"You weren't trying to extort money from this kids now were you?" Gadget said, glaring at Krokorok. "Remember last year?"
"No! Please! My jaws are still recovering from that incident! I won't trouble them no more!"
"Good, now scram!"
Krokorok ran off in terror, Gadget being satisfied, turned to face Ian and Patience.
"Who was that?" Patience asked.
"You just ran into Lively Town's resident troublemaker Krokorok. He's no threat, but his boss Krookodile is a different story." Swampert explained. Swampert and Charizard headed in the direction of the Expedition Society as they were also members.
Ian shivered when he heard the name. Krookodile sounded like a pretty scary name.
"But anyway, let's make our way to the Expedition Society shall we?" Gadget said, as she turned around and the three continued walking through Lively Town towards the it's main point of interest: the Expedition Society Headquarters.
----Ian had always imagined that the Expedition Society Headquarters would be one of the many buildings that were in Lively Town, but nothing like this.
Standing almost 20 meters in height and was the biggest building in the entire town. The Expedition Society Headquarters was a sight to behold. The structure of the building almost made it look like a castle of sorts.
"Wow! Is this where the Expedition Society is?" Patience asked excitingly.
"It is indeed." Gadget replied, she walked over to the board that was by the main entrance and inspected it, there were multiple pieces of paper pasted onto the board. Odd, back then there was only one piece of paper on the board.
The first one read "Welcome to the Expedition Society! If you require assistance, come right in! If you're a sales Pokemon or something then go away, we don't want anything."
The second one, written in red read "Actually, any sales Pokemon that sell food are welcomed! Our stocks are running low again."
The third one, pasted over the second one read "For the love of Arceus Slurpuff! Maybe this wouldn't have happened if you didn't eat all of our supplies!"
The fourth one was simply a drawing of a smiley face winking. Gadget sighed in annoyance, knowing who had written down these notes.
"Let's head in." She said.
As the three Pokemon entered the building, they were greeted with a large room, the floors were covered with a bluish color in the center of the room was the logo that was identical to the Expedition Society badges that they were wearing. Two banners of the same logo were also decorated on each side of the stairs in front of them. The room was divided to three different paths, one that to the left, one to the right and a flight of stairs ahead.
"Doesn't look like anyone's home." Ian said, noticing the lack of noise.
Gadget looked around the room and frowned. "That's odd, usually there would be at least two or three Pokemon looking after the buil-"
"Swirlix! Get back here!"
The three Pokemon turned to the direction of the voice, outside, a few seconds later a pink Pokemon with no arms came running into the building, along with a stampede of five Pokemon chasing after it. The pink Pokemon, not looking at where it was going, bumped into Gadget and fell over, the five other Pokemon caught up but stopped when they noticed a familiar face, one that they have not seen for so long.
"Gadget?" The orange Pokemon with something wrapped around its neck like a float sac said. "Is that you."
"In the flesh, Buizel." Gadget replied. "It's good to see you all again."
"It's been, what, six months?" The brown Pokemon with large bunny ears said.
"The chief would definitely want to hear about this when he gets back!" The small, female mouse Pokemon said.
"And just when I was getting comfy in my new room." The blue, female Pokemon said, she had what appeared to be ice crystals hanging of her head.
"And I thought you missed me Glaceon." Gadget sarcastically said, to which Glaceon sighed in annoyance.
"Who are these two kids next to you Gadget? And why are they wearing Expedition Society badges?" The final Pokemon, a peach, blue and red coloured bird asked.
"I'll tell you later, what happened?"
"Swirlix ate all of the food supply, again." Buizel explained.
"The chief and Mawile are coming back in a few hours and we don't have anything for dinner!" The mouse Pokemon exclaimed, glaring at Slurpuff.
"I was just a little hungry and wanted a snack!" She said, to everyone's annoyance. Gadget sighed and turned to face Ian and Patience.
"I'm sorry to put this on you, but could you help us get some food? Normally we would have one of the other members do this but I figured you could do this if you really want to be Expedition Society members."
Ian and Patience looked at each other, a lot of emotions went through their heads in such a short amount of time. Confusion, excitement and nervousness, but mostly confusion.
"Fine, let's go Patience." Ian said, as the two ran out from the building and into the town.
All the excitement of joining the Expedition Society and the first thing we have to do is a fetch quest, great...