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Bean was so smart that he advanced very rapidly in his classes. Sister Carlotta talked to Dr. Volescu, who had run the illegal, what seemed to have been, organ growing plant. It turned out that he had actually genetically altered 23 fertilized eggs and were keeping them there, when he was discovered and as a result, killed all but Bean with poisons.

Since Graff and the other teachers knew that he had been using that teacher password, they thought that he knew a lot about all of the kids. They gave him the challenge of creating a roster for a new army. From the moment that they told him, he knew that it would be a real army, and that they would bring back the Dragon Army. He wanted to use the Army as a way to get closer to Ender, so that he would have some importance at the Battle School. The new army wasn't to have any soldiers in other armies, but only soldiers that were on transfer lists, or the launchies.

Sister Carlotta suspects that Dr. Volescu was lying about the whole operation, so she asks Dimak and Graff to look into it more closely. Ender, after they were first assembled told them to get dressed and them three minutes later had them run to the Battle Room for practice. There he singled out Bean during the exercises, and made him feel resentful towards Ender. Then after the free time's practice, he waited for Ender to tell him how he felt. He said, "I can be the best man you've got, but don't play games with me. Or I'll be the worst man you've got." Ender didn't seem to take much heed to that, because Bean wasn't put in charge of anything, even though he plainly said it later in their conversation.

Sister Carlotta reported back to Dimak with news that Dr. Volescu was lying about the fact that he was Bean's twin, but he was somehow related to Bean. In the barracks, Bean heard a commander say that Enders move of splitting the army into small sections was a bad move, so he commented and as a result got a little fight going. Nikolai tried to help, but was also small. Then both Fly Molo, who was the commander that commented and Bean made up for it by explaining what they thought. Sorry again, but this time it also went longer than I expected.