Iris was deep in thought. Just who was Cassandra and why was she important to Pikachu? Iris honestly believes that she was Pikachu's first trainer. She saw Pikachu walk back towards the group after his time in the tree alone and she spoke;

"Hey Pikachu, are you ok?"

Pikachu sighed; he would honestly never be ok. But he nodded and then Axew spoke

"Who is this Cassandra lady? Was she nice?"

Pikachu smiled as he spoke

"You and Cassandra would practically be best friends. She was extremely nice."

Axew smiled before he spoke

"Where is she? Can I meet her?"

Pikachu's smile turned into a sad frown. He spoke

"Cassandra…died a long time ago."

Axew frowned before Oshawott entered the conversation.

"If you mind me asking about a sensitive topic, was this Cassandra your old trainer?"

Pikachu smiled before he shook his head and spoke;

"Cassandra was an Eevee and my old mate. She was easily the most important pokemon in my life."

Oshawott blinked before he spoke

"Then how did Raichu know her…oh my god he didn't!"

Pikachu scowled at the name of his older brother before he spoke

"Yeah he did! He killed her and…smashed the egg."

Oshawott and Axew's eyes widened in shock and horror; that was an act that only a monster would commit.

MEANWHILE

Inside a pokeball, that "monster" was crashing into the walls trying to bust out. He felt his portable prison move as if it was being picked up and he felt a few tremors, like the one who picked up his pokeball was walking. The tremors stopped and he felt himself being summoned.

OUTSIDE

Raichu appeared in a flash of red light. He blinked as he assessed his surroundings before he turned around and saw Iris looking at him. He turned to walk towards her but fell on his knees with a yelp of pain. He assessed his body to see cuts and bruises everywhere. Iris walked up to him and kneeled down and began to attend to his wounds. Iris spoke as she was healing him.

"Are you ok?"

Raichu blinked. He spoke

"What are you doing?"

Iris spoke honestly

"I'm healing your wounds. Nobody deserves to be in pain. Not even you."

Raichu scowled at her as he spoke

"I aint in any need of help lady! I'm fine. I can take care of myself!"

Iris sighed as she spoke;

"Look I understand. You used to be a pokemon who had freedom and now you have to listen to a human so you're rebelling. But you can trust me. Unlike the others, I think that you have the potential to be good."

Raichu blinked before looking at Iris like she had 2 heads. He spoke

"You obviously forget that I have a personal vendetta against you for capturing me so probably that weird ass hairdo is sucking out some of your IQ. I see that we are alone and you let me out of my pokeball. So this would give me the perfect opportunity to kill you without anyone being none the wiser. I have no "Heroic" bone in my body. I'm not my little brother! The joys I get from my life are ending the ones that belong to others."

Iris shook her head.

"I think your lying. You're saying that so you can distance yourself from us. You want us to either fear you or hate you so you don't need to rely on anybody to take care of you. I think that you prefer to have people hate you so you don't have to worry about getting attached to anybody only to have them hurt you down the line. It's your only way of defense honestly! But I think that your humanity is there. You just refuse to show it!"

Raichu's eyes widened before they narrowed dangerously as he growled and spoke

"You shut up. You honestly think that there is good in me? That I have Humanity left? There isn't. In fact to prove it to you, let me tell you this. Pikachu's old mate Cassandra. I killed her AND smashed the egg they had. Just to stick it to my brother. How's that for humanity?"

The minute a horrified look came across Iris' face, Raichu got up and stomped off. He heard footsteps behind him and saw Iris still trailing him with a determined look on her face. He stopped and turned to her, about to start an argument when she raised her hand and spoke.

"While yes, that is horrible; I bet you a lot of money that nobody got your side of the story. There is something that you left out. A reason why; why did you do it?"

Raichu scoffed as he spoke

"I did it because I saw something that made my brother happy and I thought about how fun it would be to take it away from him."

Iris shook her head in denial. She spoke

"You're lying again. There is something else isn't there. Something that I think you refuse to tell anybody. Something that might change their view on the whole subject."

Raichu's eyes closed. As much as she hated to admit it…she was right.

Flashback to an hour before he killed Cassandra

Raichu was hopping from tree to tree. He was collecting food when he saw something that made him smirk. It was Pikachu nuzzling Cassandra. He continued to watch until he saw it was an Eevee that he was snuggling with. His eyes narrowed. He knew a certain fact about Eevees that was obvious that his brother didn't know. Otherwise he wouldn't even be near one. He stayed silent for a couple moments until Pikachu ran deep into the woods to collect some berries. He saw Cassandra run into the bushes to use the restroom;

Perfect

Raichu scurried into his brother's burrow and approached the egg. He wanted to be certain before he did anything. He sniffed the egg. His eyes narrowed when he realized that his suspicion was right.
He shook his head; his brother was soo damn dumb it's sad. Pikachu obviously didn't know a certain trait that all Eevee's have in common or he would probably have avoided Cassandra as soon as he met her. He heard a voice behind him

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"

He turned and saw Cassandra looking at him with a scowl. He smirked as he spoke in pokemon language to not scare her.

"I'm Raichu. Your mate's older brother! Has he mentioned me?"

The Eevee relaxed but was still a little cautious. She spoke

"Yeah he has. He told me that you two hated each other. Why the sudden visit?"

Raichu smirked as he spoke, venom creeping into his tone.

"I saw you both together and decided to investigate. Beautiful egg by the way. Does my brother know it's not his or is he too in love to notice?"

It was then that Cassandra's blood went cold as she spoke with an edge in her tone.

"That's stupid. Of course it's Pikachu's. Who else could it have been?"

Raichu shook his head. Eevee's were by far the most unfaithful pokemon in the entire world. They more often than not played the "Gonna Grab Food" card so they could leave and never return. It was extremely RARE to come across one that stayed with one mate. Raichu knew what it was like to be betrayed by the person you care about most in this world. It's crippling. It's a pain that is gaurenteed to find Pikachu when he discovers this. It is something that Pikachu doesn't deserve to feel. And Raichu had a plan. He scowled as he decended on Cassandra as he spoke in english this time

"Cut the crap lady. I'm not my little brother, I when ever an Eevee tells me that they layed an egg with me I check to actually make sure its mine. They lie to me 99% of the time. I KNOW IT'S NOT HIS!"

Cassandra then smirked as she spoke

"Well like I said earlier, he hates you. Who is he gonna believe? You, his hated brother, or me his mate?"

Raichu smirked as he spoke;

"Your not gonna say anything. You'll be too dead to do anything ever again!"

Cassandra's eyes widened in Horror as Raichu decended on her chuckling cruely.

END FLASHBACK

Raichu scowled at Iris. He spoke

"Why? Why are you so determined to help me? I don't need help and I don't need saving NOR do I want it!"

Iris spoke

"Everybody needs help. Its just that not everybody chooses to ask for it."

Raichu blinked before he spoke;

"Why do you care? Lets be honest with one another. Even if I did allow myself to bond and get close to you, sooner or later, you'll just trade me with another trainer or plain out get rid of me. No trainer keeps the same pokemon with them forever. Pikachu is lucky. He will always have Ash with him and Ash will never get rid of him. That kind of bond is extremely rare to find in this world. I know for a fact that as soon as you don't need me, you'll make me somebody elses problem!"

Iris then pulled him into a hug. Raichu blinked before he began squirming and struggling to try to get out of the hold. Iris let him go and he screamed out in anger;

"STOP IT! Stop pretending to care about me when you honestly don't! I don't need any of that Bullshit! You were probably put up to this by Pikachu or Ash or somebody so that I will no longer be a problem!"

Iris frowned sadly at this obviously broken pokemon. He refuses to get close to anybody for fear of rejection. She spoke

"I will never get rid of you. You may not believe this, but I believe that Pokemon are equal to humans. You can change for the better. You just need somebody to stick by you and show you how."

Raichu blinked. Nobody actually tried this hard to befriend him before. But he was almost positive it was a sham to keep him from hurting anybody else.

He shook his head in denial and Iris sighed. She spoke

"One day, you'll learn that you can trust me. Now how about I continue to fix up those cuts and bruises?"

Raichu nodded unsure and Iris spent the next remaining half hour bonding with her newly caught pokemon.