The Cyberpunk Villain of Metropolis

My Super Girlfriend

Kara Pov:

Math class. One of the classes I wish I was being beaten by some giant monster or stuck in a room with kryptonite. I start picking my teeth with a pencil when the teacher starts speaking.

Teacher: All right class. It's time for the morning announcements.

Finally, if there was something I love about school, it was the gym class. But now, Mason's "news" channel is another thing I love about school. Especially when he starts mocking the principal with the puppet. I watch as Mason turns from his chair with papers in his hands.

Mason Episode: Top of the hour and we're discussing the latest action of Supergirl, who has been seen stopping a huge bank robbery in Metropolis! Is there anything this girl can't do? Where was Superman in all of this? Saving a kitten from a tree. Anyway, now for our regular morning announcements.

I gave a small chuckle as he mentioned my dumb cousin. He's been doing that recently. Not that I minded, Clark got to get knocked down from that pedestal he put himself on. After the announcements, the teacher started handing out tests we took last week.

Teacher: I must say, Kara. You have improved.

She handed me my test and I got a B. Wow! A B! My parents are going to be impressed.

Kara: Thank you.

Teacher: I guess Mason's tutoring has been helping.

Kara: Yeah, it has.

Flashback

No Pov:

Kara was sitting at the library, struggling with her math homework. This had been the tenth F she had gotten and if she didn't get a good grade on this one, she'd fail the grade and go to summer school. A fate worse than death to her. She was about to give up and accept her summer school punishment when she heard someone put on the other chair. She turned to see Mason.

Kara: (Flustered) Oh, hey Mason. How are you?

Mason: I'm fine. Whatcha working on?

Kara: Just this stupid math homework. Ugh! Why did it have to be math? Whoever invented math clearly had no friends.

Mason: Yeah. I felt the same way about Geometry. My problem was that the teacher wouldn't teach. Let's see what you got. 

He grabbed Kara's math homework and examined it taking great interest in what Kara wrote.

Mason: Wow Kara. You actually got pretty close with some of these.

Kara: Really? Nice.

Mason: You just need a different teaching style. Now here's an example.

He was pointing at a math problem consisting of fractions.

Mason: Now it says here that, "Billy split the apple into 4/5ths." How about instead, we word it as, "Billy had grabbed a 4/5ths pound weight".

Kara: Ok.

Mason: So, if Billy had a 4/5ths pound weight, and he then picked up 1 pound, then how many pounds is he lifting?

Kara: One and 4/5ths?

Mason: Correct, but since they want it as a fraction, what's another way to say 1 pound in terms of fifths?

Kara: five fifths?

Mason: Right. So what's four plus five?

Kara: Nine. So the answer is nine-fifths.