A long, uneventful month passes. My soldiers know what they're doing and they are close to one another. I eat with Bean, Wolf, Dink, Fly, Tom, Allie, and Petra. They are also experiencing similar situations. I notice that three shuttles leave each week, with varying numbers of children. I try to keep tally, but end up hacking into the adults files instead. 80 kids gone in total. None sent to Command school. All iced. Failed. Going home.
After the typical one month of training, we get our first battle order. Fighting Salamander, under the command of David.
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The battle takes hours. We maneuver and outmaneuver each other. Ten soldiers total have frozen limbs or are frozen entirely in the first hour. The battle ends when toon A's commander, Louise, sneaks four people to the other gate. The lights come up and we are victorious. I put on the hook and form up my army. I then unfreeze David's army. He comes over to the gate and floats in.
"No hard feelings?"
"None whatsoever, sir!" He says. David wraps me in a hug and I hug back. I miss having him around.
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I walk into my quarters and find a notice on my desk. I pull it up.
"Amy Thompson, you have been transferred to Command School. Shuttle leaves tomorrow at 0330 hours. Color code black, black, black. Clothes will be left for you while you are at dinner. E-mail privlages will be restored upon your landing. Congratulations." The mechanized voice chirps. I stare in disbelief. I log in as an adult, using a stolen password, and triple check docking logs. I see a layer of coding that I missed before, and I decode it. It shows two other docking ops. One, earth bound, I assume was Ender's ship. He went home to look after Bonzo. And he missed his sister. But mostly, he didn't want to continue his training.
The other launched two days ago to unknown coordinates. I type them into a galactic map, and a small planet pops up. It's called Eros. I search the library and find some information. We took Eros from the Formics after the second war. It was a forward station for their invasion of Earth. It is now home to Command School and is a forward base for the Third Formic War.
I head to dinner still in a state of shock.
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I meet Petra and the others at our usual table. I sit down. Everyone else is in just as much shock as me.
"Did you all get transfered to Command school as well?" I ask. They just sort of nod and go back to eating their food in state of shocked silence. I attempt to eat some of whatever they glopped onto my tray, but nerves push it back up. I fight to keep down the two bites I ate and don't touch anything else. I pick up my tray.
"See you all tomorrow." They just nod like zombies. I put my tray in the disposal area and head back to my quarters.
When I arrive I find a neatly pressed navy blue uniform with my name emblazoned on a nametag. I also find a loose fitting white t-shirt and pants and shiny black dress shoes. I put on my Flash suit for the last time and head to practice.
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I walk back into my quarters sweating. We worked hard. I made them do a mock battle. Toons A, C and half of D won. I told them afterwards that I was being transferred. My toon leaders hugged me. I guess I'm a better commander than I thought.
I shower and put on the white t-shirt and pants. I set an alarm for 0300 and then crawl into bed and drift off to sleep.
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FanfictionEnder's Game fan fiction. Based on movie and book. Ender's isolation must never be broken, orders of Colonel Graff. But what happens when a girl named Amy finds her way into Salamander Army?
