Ender's Game Page #7

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Thank God for you, son.

Why are these images in the program?

Ender...

We won.

What do you mean, "we won"?

I beat him.

He runs the simulations.

He said it was a game!

It was them or us, Ender.

There was no other way.

With this victory,

you've won all future battles.

You destroyed them.

For all of us.

Stand down.

Move, move, please!

- Move!

- Make a way.

- Ender...

- Stay away from me!

- You lied!

- Son, we were afraid

- if we told you, you might...

- What?

Refuse to play?

I've killed an entire species!

They would have done the same to us.

No! They waited.

What were they waiting for?

Who cares?

We lost 1,000 men

on the transporters you abandoned!

I abandoned them in order to win!

Yes! And they died proudly!

For us!

They might not have died at all!

If I'd known it was real,

- I would have...

- What?

Called for "a dialogue?"

They can't even speak.

Watched them!

What were they thinking?

Were they building an army

for a second invasion?

Or... Or simply preparing

to defend themselves...

Ender, stop...

from us?

They came to Earth to

establish a colony.

We chased them away.

And in 50 years,

they never returned.

Makes no difference now.

I will bear the shame of

this genocide forever.

No. You will be

remembered as a hero!

I will be remembered as a killer!

It was us or them.

And you're sure we've killed

every last one of them?

I saw their whole planet destroyed.

How do you know there

isn't another colony?

- Or another queen out there?

- There isn't!

We won!

- That's all that matters.

- No.

The way we win matters.

Don't hurt him.

Go on. We need to let him rest.

May I stay with him?

Just so he's not alone.

Please?

Yes, of course.

Come on.

Just let him rest.

What if they could talk to us?

What were they thinking?

Valentine!

What if we could "think" to them?

Valentine!

Ender!

Ender, wait!

Ender!

What are you doing, Ender?

- I know what she wants!

- Ender!

Warning,

you are leaving an

oxygen-balanced environment.

Ender, stop!

It's not safe!

Ender!

Breathe. Just breathe.

In the mind game,

I saw this place.

What are you talking about?

The Formics accessed the

game through me.

Their thoughts. My dreams.

All mixed together.

They were trying to communicate.

What are you doing?

Go back.

No.

Please...

I have to do this.

"Dear Valentine...

"I now know my dreams

were never my own.

"They came from her.

"She was always trying

to communicate with me.

"I know the Formics

better than any living soul.

"I stole their future from them.

"Now I must find a way

to make amends."

You're dying...

Is it a queen?

I will find a new home.

I promise.

"I miss you, Valentine.

"You won't be hearing

from me for a while.

"I need to find out

"if I'm as gifted at

peace as I am at war.

"They've awarded me

the rank of Admiral

"and left me to my own devices.

"Which suits me fine.

"I'll travel the universe

"and carry with me a precious cargo.

"Because I have a promise to keep."

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