`Ender heads to the commanders' mess for lunch.  New commanders aren't allowed in until they have won a battle, and it is unheard of for an army to win their first battle.  He walks in, and when people see the Dragons on his uniform, it goes silent.  pretending not to notice, he gets his food and starts eating.  Dink Meeker comes to talk to him, and tells him that it was a fluke, that Ender's not going to beat him.  Other commanders glare at him, but Carn Carby, the commander who Ender had just beaten, comes over and talks to him.  He tells Ender how everyone was being messed up, how usually new commanders are cheered when they first come to the mess, and how no one deserves cheering more than Ender.  He also tells him about how no one believes him when he tells them how Ender's doing things people have never seen before.  As Carn leaves, the respect Ender had for him tripled.

    Ender decides that once he beats a few more of them, they will calm down a bit, that they'll stop treating him as if his army being at the top of the standings was a fluke.

    This is where I can't believe how stupid Ender the genius is being.  They hate him for doing well, and he thinks that by beating more of them he'll get them to stop treating him like trash.

    The next morning Ender comes back from the showers and finds that he has another battle in a half hour, against his friend Petra's Phoenix army.  They go and win, but not by the same margin that they had  when they beat Rabbit army.  Ender saw the hate radiating from Petra's eyes as he walked through the portal, past her defeated army.