Part 6, Victor: Guesswork, Reunion, Ender's Game, Homecoming, Chapters 21-24 Summary

In Chapter 21 Bean puts his Rabbit army through five practice battles and loses each one. He does this on purpose to teach his army how to carry on through the battles even when the command breaks down. His reasoning is that this will likely happen once the real battle with the Buggers begins. Nicolai takes over the Rabbit army when Bean moves on to Tactical School.

Major Anderson and Captain Dimak discuss the choices that Dimak made about training Ender for the coming battle with the Buggers, which is only four months away. The team consists of ten students, with Bean among them. Anderson does not think that the members of the team are equally comfortable with having Ender or Bean as leader, and Dimak argues that...