The Next Fifty (pgs. 51-100)

The lady that worked at the soup kitchen that Bean and the others in his gang went to was happy that the kids were starting to act more civilized. She looked for the person that started this and she came up with Achilles. Then, after looking into it further she realized that it was Bean. She tested him, but the first time, he did it bad on purpose, so that she wouldn't know he was smart and single him out. Then when she told him that he would be able to go to space if he did well enough he tried a lot harder. He did better than everyone for how old he was, so she sent in the scores. They didn't believe that the scores were real, so they gave him some other tests. They had the lady teach him, until he was five, then he went to space.

In the shuttle he paid attention to everything about everyone, just to learn how to act with the rest of the children. Then the adult in the shuttle singled Bean out because he had the highest scores on all of the tests. He also made fun of him a little, because he was by far the smallest of all the others on the shuttle. He arrived at the Battle Station and then observed other things such as the desks which were all electronic, the barracks, and the exercise room. He watold that each day they must exercise at least one half hour in the gym that had stronger gravity than the rest of station or they would lose their bone sturcture. The teacher also told them that if their heart rate didn't rise before they were in the room for five minutes, his computer would be allerted and they would be made an example for their laziness. This is in the middle of chapter six.