Chapter 2: School

It's only been a few weeks since Christmas, and here I am doing schoolwork! I should be training for the arrival of Cyborg Frieza, but I have to study calculus.

Chi-chi's great and all, but the square root of Pi won't help me fight Frieza or Cell or Buu. But the good thing is that come summer I'm done. No more unless I want to go to school, but Bulma already promised me a job working as her assistant.

I'm 17 now, and I can't believe it. I've been away for two years, and there are a lot more bad guys to fight. But I'm ready, I am a Sayjin, after all.

But it isn't all bad, at least this way I get an education so I won't be ignorant. The only problem is that Gohan's way smarter than I am, but he's like ten years younger than me. But it's okay.

Or it was until Chi-chi hired Mr. Shu. He makes me wish I had Frieza here right now to fight.

"Alright, today I'm going to try to teach you some biology, if your pea-size brains can handle that." Mr. Shu snorted.

Well, rule #1: don't look out the window during class.

"Katie, tell me the formula for photosynthesis?"

"Uh, yes sir. Photosynthesis is 6 H2-O +... uh, 6 CO2 6 O2 + C6-H12 umm, O6."

"You got it right. I'm amazed. Well then, Gohan, what is the scientific name for a human?"

And every class was like that. If we got it right, we were mocked, and if we got it wrong we both got ten more homework problems. And he never once praised us.

So after a few weeks of this my temper was getting harder to control. Everyday Gohan had to hold me back from attacking Mr. Shu. Then the best day of my life came to pass.

"Alright, time's up! Give me those!" Mr. Shu had us take a very difficult calculus test. We only had an hour, and I barely got finished before he ripped the test out of my hands. He looked them over for a few minutes while Gohan and I sweated it out. He was so strict I was afraid he'd fail me for not making my lines straight enough. I glanced out the window to see Icarus looking at us, wanting to play. I shook my head to him and turned back to Mr. Shu.

"Horrible! Absolutely dreadful! Gohan, you need to work on this, re-do it for homework tomorrow. And Katie, if this was food, I'd toss it to that stupid dragon so he'd choke on it! You fail for the term." He really doesn't like Icarus, and the feeling was mutual.

"That's not fair! I know it wasn't that bad!" I cried. Gohan gave me a look that said shut up, but I didn't care.

"Oh, really? And who is the teacher here?"

"… You are." I growled.

"That's right, I am. I'm the teacher and I can do to you anything I wish. I am your superior and it will always be that way. I know it's your father's fault." He assumed that Goku was my dad as well as Gohan's, and that was fine by me. I'd be proud to have Goku as my dad. "All you two do is fight, and he is an idiot that shouldn't be allowed to raise kids. That lazy oaf, off somewhere, neglecting his family-"

"Shut up! My dad is a great man!" Gohan screamed.

"Then tell me, where is he?" Mr. Shu asked.

"Well, uh-"

"See! You don't know!"

"Goku is a better man than you could ever be, Mr. Shu." I hissed.

"Ha! Like a dirty fighter could be my better."

I was getting mad. Goku was a great, pure-hearted man. Mr. Shu was pure- pure dirt!

"Katie, don't hurt him." Gohan said to me. I know I had a killer look in my eyes, and my tail was freely swishing dangerously behind me.

"I won't hurt him, I'll just kill him." I said low to Gohan. "I have had enough of you. I've had hard teachers before, but you are crazy. I don't know how Chi-chi missed the reek of vile taste and bad cologne." I powered my energy enough that my aura knocked Mr. Shu down on his butt.

"What? How did you-" Mr. Shu stammered. I lowered my energy again.

"What's going on up here?" Chi-chi asked as she entered the room.

"Ah, Mrs. Son, how nice to see you." Mr. Shu turned back to face Gohan and I, a look of evil in his eyes, and then to Chi-chi, readying a lie. "You will not believe what these awful children have done. First, they both fail their math exams, and then they try to blame it on me. I know if you husband was here, he wouldn't stand for it. But, I guess like father, like children, right?"

Well, Chi-chi wasn't going to take that. Mr. Shu just insulted Gohan, Goku, and me within a minute. She hit him with her frying pan, knocking him through the open window and then threw his briefcase out to him.

"You will never insult my family, do you hear me? Get out of here, you're fired!" Chi-chi screamed. Just then Icarus came out from behind a tree and started to chase Mr. Shu out of sight.

"Way to go, Chi-chi!" I cheered, but she turned to us and gave us a death glare. My expression dropped.

"What did he mean by 'fail' you math exams?"

"It couldn't be that bad, mom. He was a monster!" Gohan reasoned.

"Well, we'll just see about that!" Chi-chi picked up our fallen exams and looked them over. Her face grew pale, and I knew this wouldn't be good.

"I have never seen such grades in my life!" she said, handing us our papers. Then she turned and walked out of the room, shaking her head. I looked at mine and gave a huge sigh of relief.

"I got an A! 99/100!" Gohan said.

"Me too! Guess Mr. Shu was just a creep. I think your mom expected our grades would be lower since Mr. Shu said we failed."

"I want to know how he took a 99/100 as failing." Gohan said.

"I-"

The moment I'd been waiting for. Frieza's signal was near, somewhere is space.