The Sixth update (251-300)

Sister Carlotta knew that she couldn't get any useful results by interviewing Dr. Volescu again, so she looked into who his family was. She visited the house of Julian and his wife, who was a relative of Volescu. It turned out that their boy was in battle school, and that the 23 children that Volescu was trying to raise were actually their fertilized eggs. She told them about what had happened to them and that one of their other children was still alive. Bean and their boy were identical twins, except that Bean's DNA had been slightly altered.

Dragon Army had only been practicing one month before they had their first battle. They won it. Bean and Ender both caught on to why the teachers were pushing them through the classes and putting them into battles so fast, but the rest of the children didn't get it. Bean was tricked into playing the fantasy game at the arcade, because it was one of the games that no one else was playing, except he was a mouse, and the giant that gave them drink choices had Achilles head. Then after he caught on to what the game was, he started to leave, but was intercepted by Bonzo Madrid. He mouthed off to him about how dumb he was, which made Bonzo mad and resulted in Bean being pinned against the wall by his throat. He said that Ender's army would crush his, and they did.

The Dragon Army had a battle every day, which was more than any other Army. Then one day they had two battles in the same day. Ender was very mad. Almost everyone else was also mad because of their unheard of schedule. Then that night after their two victories in the same day Ender sent Bean a message on his desk. It told him to come to his quarters right away. There Ender gave Bean an assignment to choose five people, one from each toon, and use them in his own special toon. They would only be used on special occasions, but Bean was very happy anyway. He was longing for Ender to approve of him or to promote him and he finally had. Ender had seen how he was smarter and quicker at thinking than any one else, but had waited until now to give him an assignment.