This is a short Fan Fiction for ENDER'S SHADOW. It is from Bean, Nikolai, Ambul, Crazy Tom, and Itu's point of view when they trap Achilles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Bean tapped on Rat army's barracks at 1400. An older soldier looking to be about 11 opened the door. "Whaddya want?" he asked. "I need Nikolai." Bean said. The older boy turned his back on Bean for a moment. Then Nikolai, Bean's closest friend came to the door. When he saw Bean, his eyes lit up. Bean beckoned to him to come outside the room. The other boy slammed the door shut after them. Walking briskly, Bean told Nikolai his plan, and had him wait in his room.

Bean walked through the corridors till he reached the door saying:

Commander Ferret army "Crazy Tom," he whispered into the door. "You there?"

"Who is it?" Tom opened the door. "Oh, Bean. Why you here?"

"I got something for you to help me with."

"Eh."

"See, I have this soldier in my army"

Crazy Tom raised an eyebrow "Go on."

" But I used to know him, um before he came here." Bean bit his lip. "See, we grew up in the same place."

"Where?" Crazy Tom looked more interested. This was unusual.

"Rotterdam. But he killed someone that saved my life and his."

"I'll help." And Tom followed Bean to his Quarters where Nikolai was still waiting. Promising them he would not be long, Bean crossed the corridor to his own Army's Barracks. He called out Itu and Ambul and explained what was going to happen. Then he pried the covering off of his vent, and demonstrated to the others the way to climb into the venting.

3 minutes later, everyone had assembled in the first room. Bean opened the door to where he had assembled the trap. He grouped Crazy Tom and Itu over in the right hand corner, and situated Ambul and Nikolai near them with the recorder. He tied the deadline loop around Tom and Itu, and arranged it over the pit. It was all ready. Now all they needed was Achilles.