Math time shenanigans

[utopiamods]

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Location: Math class

It's a bright and sunny weekday morning. The sort of morning one should be spending sleeping in, or failing that, outside playing with friends.

Sadly for all of you, you're in this classroom studying logarithms. (Well, except for those of you who are cutting class. Good luck when finals roll around!) Right now, you've been split up into groups of three and four and should be quizzing each other on the questions from the end of the chapter in your textbook. If you're anything like ordinary high school students, though, you're probably discussing something completely different.

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[summerstars]

Grenn was starting to regret not skipping this class too. She'd thought that math would be one of the classes alike enough that it wouldn't clutter her brain up with things from other places, other times, that would be of no use. Well, she'd been partly right.

With time, all things get elaborated, changed, further explored and new ideas are found. The way she'd been taught maths and what was being explained here, didn't exactly match up. Matched enough she could do it, if she concentrated (math had never been one of her strengths), but this sort of open quizzing? It wasn't working.

And she had her suspicions about the teacher(s), too. There was something off that was almost familiar. With a groan, Grenn hid her face behind her hands.
"No more questions."

[myownfuture]

Reiko looked up from her textbook, across the table at Grenn. "You don't like math?" she guessed. She wouldn't be surprised if that were the case; who did?

[summerstars]

Looking up from her shield, Grenn grimaced and shook her head.

"... No. But I know this. I worked hard for my not-too-bad grades, but we did things differently," Grenn was aware she probably sounded a bit petulant, but, by the love of the Name, no she didn't like math. And being presented with things she was fairly sure she knew, but in a way so that she didn't immediately understand, was just insult to injury.

"If the universe could work without math, I'd... find some way to get rid of it." Ahh, sweet, sweet memories of math-related frustrations, she did not miss you.

[myownfuture]

"That sounds like a nice universe to live in," Reiko commented, hiding a smile. No, she's not a big fan either.

"But-- differently? I thought everyone would learn math the same way. Where are you from?"

[bitofafiction]

Sherlock has decided at last that he cares enough to attend a class.

He doesn't care enough to take off Tony's jacket for the occasion, however.

This may cause his entrance to the classroom to be something worth recording.

[chainedbyred]

Interestingly enough, Russel is not fazed by the entrance, he's far too focused on his work. Which he's flying through, by the way, but he's not getting it done so quickly that he's not answering Fletcher's questions along the way.

[greennotgold]

Fletcher is a little piqued by the entrance, though. A lot of the other students he's seen around have been wearing the school uniform without anything too unusual about it -- though many of the girls have been wearing the pants version -- but he figures that's mainly due to practicality. Then again, he's been wearing the uniform along with his funny green hat, so he can't say anything about a jacket anyway.

He's getting the hang of logarithms pretty quickly. His brother is the best.

[bitofafiction]

No trouble from the teacher, then? Good. He takes a seat in a corner well away from everyone else, but he does take the time to give Fletcher a smile along the way.

[dancingflames]

Well, if she's going to get some kind of normal high school experience out of this place, classes are kind of an unfortunate necessity. As such, Mai has shown up here despite the subject matter that is...not exactly her favourite. And now to have to quiz each other on this?

On top of that, she's got a bit on her mind, so she's not exactly paying the sharpest attention to her groupmates. She's been unable to call Takumi or her parents. At least at her last school run for mysterious reasons had let her keep her cellphone...

[willbeurprincess]

They never seemed to notice when Koharu forgot to attend classes, or mixed up this schedule for her old one. So she almost missed this one, but slipped in beside Mai, smiling sheepishly.

"I'm sorry, I didn't hear...Um. What are we supposed to do?" She opened her book to the page Mai had open and nodded. She had done this before, "This seems easy."

[allurprincess]

"Easy?" The mutter was one of resignation and despair, as Sora dropped her book next to Koharu's with a dull thump and slumped down next to her.

"Koharu, help?"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku followed Sora, he also looked despairing, but this was more to do with the fact he had just realised he had forgotten his native tongue- or that this exaclan system had decided English was his native tongue, than the actual maths.

But regardless of his thoughts the maths was impossible. As he sat down next to Sora he looked to the girl who he assumed to be one of Sora's princesses, Koharu, Sora had called her, in hope that she could help.

[swordofzero]

Maths. Suzaku disliked it, his schooling had been none existant from when he was ten and Britannia had invaded up until Euphemia had sent him back to school that he was always behind in all his classes. This was far too complicated for him to understand. Why wasn't Lelouch here? He hadn't turned up to any classes since they'd got here, and no one was making sure they were in class.

Still, any knowledge was good and maybe the classes would help them work out where they were and how to escape. Suzaku frowned and looked back at his maths book reading the question.

Then he blinked as he realised it was in English, so they were in Britannian territory, if they were anywhere recognisable at all. Well of course, Yuki had told him they were in Japan, it was still ruled by Britannia, well the small part of Britannia that Lelouch hadn't dissambled.

Glancing to the side he realised Sora was two seats down. She did not look happy, in fact she looked like she was about to cry, or maybe throw the book across the room. Leaning over Suzaku gave a small polite small. "Is it the maths that your stuck on Himoto Sora?" He was no help there, "If it's just the English I can help you," after all Yuki hadn't even known where Britannia was so he didn't know if Sora and her princesses knew any English at all.

[allurprincess]

"It's everything," Sora said, before her head thudded to the table. It looked a little like she was trying to commune with the sheet of questions with previously unexplored psychic powers. Or maybe just that she'd finally given up on trying to understand it. Then what he'd said hit her, and she sat up abruptly just so she could stare at him in complete and total horror. "There are questions in English? I can't speak English..." She looked down at the paper, trying to work out which ones he was talking about. "I can't do maths in Japanese as it is!"

[swordofzero]

Suzaku's eyes widened slightly, "The whole book is in English..." He peered over to look at her book, but yes it was the same as his, all the questions in english. "What do you..."

Wait wasn't she speaking in English, he thought back to his conversation and realised that yes, he had spoken to her in English and she had replied in the same. But... she had just said she couldn't speak English.

Maths forgotten for the moment he looked at her intently, "What language are we speaking?"

[allurprincess]

"Japanese?" She wasn't really paying attention to his confusion, too busy still searching through the questions for the dreaded English ones. "Suzaku, all of these are in Japanese."

And then her head hit the table again. "And I still don't get any of it!"

[siscon]

"Five... Eight... Seven...?" That didn't make any sense.

"Five... Four... Three..." No, that was going backwards.

Hiyo glared at the book in front of her, clearly frustrated with the numbers set in front of her. All of the printed numbers on the pages were clear as day, clear to see, however for Hiyo it was simply frustrating for her to understand what numbers came first and last and in the middle and... Math used to be one of her best subjects, and she couldn't even figure out how to count to ten.

She hung her head, foreheading hitting the desk slightly and growled. "Agh, I can't do this!"

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[aceofspades]

Jack was about ready to stab something.

Mind you, he was always about ready to stab something. But this was something entirely different than his usual rage. No, this was concentrated at one concept in particular.

Teachers.

Jack had only been here for a short while, and he knew without a doubt how much he loathed these wastes of body material already. Each one of them (all four of the ones that had politely stopped him and asked why he wasn't in math class) made him sick. Would've made him sick even as a body on the floor, but at least then he could retch without getting sweetly asked if he needed directions to the nurse's office.

And this uniform! While he did have to admit it was at least tolerably designed, being forced to wear anything by anybody was an immediate ticket into Rageville, population: Jack. And Rageville's only inhabitant had had enough trouble getting the damn thing on over his wings and tentacles that he was just ready to leave the damn things on so he didn't have to fiddle with them. He'd have just refused, but the teacher was quite adamant, and Jack didn't particularly fancy being locked in his room.

However, finally having managed to put on his uniform, the ex-Archagent of Derse stomped up to the math classroom. Without his walls, he couldn't see what was going on, after all, and that meant reconnaissance fell solely on his shoulders. Finally reaching the room, the mutated Dersite threw the door open and threw his gaze upon the first student he noticed.

"Hey, kid. Yeah, you." The Sovereign Slayer stomped over, stopping a few short feet away from her desk. "What the hell kinda place is this?"

[siscon]

She tilted her head up, taking a peek in the direction of which the sound of steps were coming from. Hiyo found her violet gaze concentrated on a male student that she could tell was older than herself. "What are you talking about?" she asked him inn response, feigning innocence, "It's a school, of course!"

[queenscheckmate]

"Hey." Kallen tried her best to reassure her. "This stuff isn't easy." Seriously, this was advance mathematics. Did this school honestly believe most of the students would actually understand this stuff? Of course, Kallen understood it, but she tried her best to calm Hiyo down.

"We should probably backtrack."

[siscon]

Looking up, Hiyo saw the older female and gave a small nod of her head. While she was still fuming about the supposedly difficult math problems, she did her best to really calm down and stare at the book in front of her.

"It's not like I don't know how to do this," she stated, her fingers playing with the corner of the pages quietly. "I just... I just can't count."

[queenscheckmate]

Where these teachers serious, or did Kallen, by mistake (or not so much), land herself into a completely over complicated math class? She looked around at some of her classmates and some of them looked like they should have belonged in middle school, or at least taking an algebra course.

Kallen saw, she learned, she conquered. So in the mean time, she wrote some down some notes in her notebook. No one said they were about the class.

[frozen_desires]

At the back of the class and out of sight, Tougyu sat in his desk with his head on the table and a fine puddle of drool in the making.

To say he was tired would have been an understatement, really. Exhausted would have been a much better word to describe his current state, but what could you do when you roomed with the bane of your existence and her crazy lesbian girlfriend who would have no trouble smothering you in your sleep? At this point in his life, a peaceful sleep was completely out of the question, which was why Tougyu had begun sneaking naps in classrooms.

Who was there to bother him anyway, besides the holographic teachers?

[summerstars]

She had simply planned to put herself at the back to get some actual math done... The discussion with Reiko had been interesting, but she didn't want to risk someone see her do math the way she'd been taught and wonder yet again what she was doing.

The back of the classroom had seemed like a good idea. It had been a good idea, until she found Tougyu sleeping there. Of course, the back of the classroom wasn't small, so she could, really, ignore him and just do what she'd planned to do.

Was he stupid? She didn't know if there was any sort of reprecussion for being found not doing the work set out. There was none for not appearing in class, so... But. still. And, well. Such idiocy...

She'd been about to shake his shoulder, when she remembered what Sora had told her, and abruptly picked up his math book instead, and put that on his head. It was already starting to slide off. Maybe that would wake him, because she wasn't going to touch him and risk getting hit, if he was the violent sort when waking up.

[frozen_desires]

The minute the textbook touched his head, Tougyu's eyes snapped open out of reflex. For a moment he expected to see a flash of silver coming towards his head or the sharp tip of a pen-

"Ow." The pained mumble escaped his lips as the memory all but vanished in a split second, leaving him wondering why he was tense and agitated. That was when the textbook slid off his head completely, landing on his nose. With a frown, the youth raised his head and absently wiped at his chin before taking in his bearings.

Math class was clearly underway and nobody was paying him any attention, so what had...? Oh. His eyes landed on Grenn with dull recognition. It was the girl who had been his first player, the one who had lost him to that human tree.

"It's you." He remarked in a bland tone of voice, as if that were the most brilliant thing he was capable of saying.