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Stilson's Death
Once Ender's monitor was removed, the school bully Stilson and his gang, thinking that the I.F. was no longer watching, decided to gang up on Ender. After knocking Stilson to the ground, Ender, desiring "to keep them from taking him in a pack tomorrow," kicked Stilson repeatedly to show that he would be brutal to anyone who tried to hurt him. Years later,he realized that he had killed Stilson. -
Ender Chooses Battle School
The morning after Ender's fight with Stilson, Colonel Graff showed up to invite him to Battle School. He was brutally honest with little Ender, telling him that Battle School would not be easy and that his very existence caused his parents emotional conflict. After hearing what he had to say, Ender excepted and had to leave his family immediately. -
Brawl in the Battleroom
Ender, Alai, Shen, and some other kids would hold extra practice sessions to figure out new techniques. Once Ender rose to the tops of the standings, some older boys from various armies who were jealous of him began watching the practices and taunting the group. One day, the taunting turned into an all out brawl during which Ender's gave several of the older boys injuries while suffering none themselves. -
Room at the End of the World
Months before, Ender had reached a room in the Virtual World where he killed a snake and then was confronted with an image of Peter in the mirror. The room disturbed Ender so much that after being defeated by it a few times he gave up. Months went by until Colonel Graff had Valentine write him a letter meant to convince him that he was not a monster like Peter. It worked and Ender went back to the game but instead of killing the snake he kissed it and it transformed into Valentine. -
Dragon Army
After three years of being on top of the rankings as a member of the Salamander and then Rat armies, Ender was promoted to the position of commander. He was not given just any army, however, he was to command a new army called Dragon Army. All of his soldiers were inexperienced and, much to his disgust, he began to see in himself some of the qualities that he had hated so much in his past commanders. -
Death of Bonzo
Ender's Dragon Army did so well and fought so creatively, that many of the other soldiers became furious. Bonzo Madrid, the commander of Salamander Army, was particularly enraged when Ender defeated his army with ease. Blood-thirsty, Bonzo and his cronies followed Ender into the showers where the two fought and Ender unintentionally killed him. -
Ender Cheats
Colonel Graff, so as to test Ender, scheduled Dragon Army for many unfair battles far more frequently than normal. During the second battle of the day, minutes after having beaten Bonzo, Ender and his army were pitted against two other armies. Ender, Bean, and the rest of Dragon Army were so disgusted with the teachers for having set them up so unfairly, that they decided to forgo the normal battle procedure and simply go for the enemies gate without bothering to take out the soldiers first. -
Ender and Val at the Lake
After being transferred to Command School, Ender left Battle School with Colonel Graff. The two went to Earth in order to find a ship that could take them all the way to Command School, and ended up spending 3 months relaxing near a lake. Ender had come to believe that he could not beat the buggers no matter how hard he tried and had absolutely no motivation to try at all, so Graff brought Valentine to the lake to meet him and convince him to continue pushing himself. -
Meets Mazer Rackham
For a year Graff was Ender's only companion and playing against the computer slowly became easier and easier. The same day Ender mentioned to Graff that the games were getting easy, he met Mazer Rackham who had won the Second Invasion years ago. Mazer took over Ender's training, and told him, "From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose." -
Arrives at Command School
Three months after leaving Earth, Ender and Graff finally reached Command School. The planet Eros, though filled with thousands of people, was lonely for Ender because he never got to spend enough time with anyone to make friends. He spent his days with Graff as his only companion, practicing battles on the computer. -
Begins Training with Squadron Leaders
As soon as Ender began training with Mazer, he was joined by a group of squadron leaders. The group was made up of all the people he had trusted most back at Battle School including Alai, Bean, Petra, Dink, and Shen. During the simulations, they would each control a ship and Ender would give commands. -
Destroys Buggers
Ender fought battle after battle on the simulator with his squadron leaders. He became so fed up with his teacher that when he was pitted against a planet in the middle of the night he was determined to beat the Mazer so he threw everything straight at the planet. Afterwards, Mazer told him that he had really been fighting the buggers ever since they met and had just destroyed the last of them. -
Locke's Proposal Stops Fighting on Earth
While Ender had been away at Battle School, tensions had been rising on Earth with the Warsaw Pact and Peter and Valentine had anonymously become two of the most influential politicians of the time. As soon as the Bugger War was over, another war broke out on Earth. Peter, or Locke as he was known by the world, made a proposal with the backing of Demosthenes, that is Valentine, and managed to end the fighting. -
First Colonists Leave for Bugger Home World
Once the Locke Proposal went through, Ender's friends were slowly called back home where they were received with honor. Ender, however, was never called back but was met by Valentine. She told him that too many powerful people would try to use him so she had convinced Peter to send him away on the first colony ship. She was also going with him as was Mazer Rackham. -
Finds Hive-Queen
On the new planet, Ender found an exact concrete copy of Fairyland from the virtual game he had played in Battle School. He knew it was a message for him from the buggers and headed straight for the room at the End of the World. Inside, he found the mirror, and opened it, almost expecting to die as revenge for the buggers extinction. Instead, he found a hive-queen and she showed him the buggers' story and convinced him to help her find a new home.
