Ender keeps winning all his battles.  It’s been a week since their first one, and they’ve won all seven of their games.  Dragon army is at the top of all the standings, and people have finally started to talk to him, to try and get some of his genius to rub off on them or something, but more hate him even more for being the youngest and best, for making all their battles look pitiful.  Other armies have started catching onto his tactics, but he’s still way ahead of them.  In order to get some new tricks, he watches vids of the past bugger wars.  Other commanders copy him, but they don’t understand.

            Ender gets called to go talk to Graff that afternoon.  Graff asks him how his army is doing, and Ender tells him that they’re tired, but they haven’t broken yet.  He asks Graff when they’re going to give him a good army to fight, and Graff chuckles as he hands him the notice for a battle with Salamander army (Bonzo Madrid’s army) in ten minutes.  Dragon had already fought one battle that day and had practice, and most of them were just getting back from the showers when Ender told them to suit up.  They went to the battle room and found that Salamander was nowhere to be seen, even though Dragon was 5 minutes late for the battle.  Ender figures that they are lined up around the outside of Dragon’s gate, and so he puts together groups of 4 boys, one using another as a shield and the other two throwing them through the door.  They do this and destroy all of Salamander in about a minute.  Ender is outraged, he thought that the teachers would at least give him someone who knew how to use an advantage.  He has Bean, the smallest in Dragon army, tell everyone what fatal mistakes Bonzo made.  Ender realizes too late that Bonzo wouldn’t realize that this was actually directed at the teachers.  If Bonzo didn’t hate Ender before, then he certainly does now.