t everyone in Battle School wasn’t normal.The next day fewer boys were at Ender’s practice session during Free Play. Word had gotten out that launchies who go to Ender’s practice session wouldn’t amount to anything. Fewer and fewer boys were coming to Ender’s practice now because commanders were taking down the names of the boys who did. Ender was hearing stories of launchies getting slapped around the bathrooms, accidents happening to them in the mess hall and game room, and older boys trashing their computer files. The next day the older boys came again, but this time they weren’t commanders. They were soldiers within Rat and Salamander Armies. They came to fight. Ender threw a frozen launchie in the face of one of the older boys and his helmet struck the older boy’s face. Ender gathered his group into a corner and then they all shout out in different directions for the door. Ender shout out to get the boy he threw at the older boy and pushed him to the door. Ender was stuck in the middle of the room. The older boys surround him. Ender got out of it all hurting every older boy who came to fight. Ender began to the Giant’s Drink again and went to the tower where the cloud took him. The rug unraveled into a snake and Ender killed it and looked in the mirror in the tower and saw Peter’s face with blood all over his mouth and the snakes tail hanging out of his mouth. Ender was again seen as what he hated the most, being like Peter. Ender threw the snake at the mirror and shattered it and from the corridor behind the mirror came loads of little snakes and they bit Ender’s character to death. Peter and Valentine had made up fake names on the nets and were writing about important political subjects. Peter was disguised as Locke and Valentine was Demonsthenes. The public took a liking to Demonsthenes and disliked Locke at first. This was Peter’s brilliant plan to take over the...
