Ender's Game-Ender Wiggin
The Contender-Mr.Donatelli
Setting-New York City
“Okay Ender step on in, this is the next step of your training. You will learn how to fight from a great man. His name is Mr. Donatelli. Alright get in.” With a little push Ender entered the time machine. He was nervous but excited. Then all of a sudden with a flash of light he was standing on street in front of an old building. Ender looked up and read the words Donatelli’s Gym. He took a deep breath and walked up to the door and opened it. As he walked in he saw a flight of rundown stairs. He climbed them with great caution not trusting them. When he reached the landing he saw a door and walked in. He saw boys and men scattered throughout the room. Ender looked around nervously for a few seconds before realizing what he saw was a rundown gym with men teaching boys how to through punches, some were hitting large bags which resembled to him what looked like big overstuffed pillows, others were hitting a smaller bags with a constant pace. Others were looking into a mirror and throwing punches, and some were doing crunches and sit-ups.
A man then walked up to Ender and looked at him for a moment before saying, “Ender Wiggin?”
Ender was taken a aback, after a moment he replied shakily, “ How do you know my name?” Ender was confused. How did this man know his name? Had Graff or Anderson told him? But, how this was a whole other time zone, it was the past, how could they contact this man?
His question was soon answered when the man spoke again. “I’m Mr. Donatelli, Graff has a way of sending me information on the trainees I’m being sent, but that’s not important. What’s important right now is to get you trained. You need to be; so lets go. Start with push-ups, move on to sit ups, and then hit the heavy bag. Then after that come see me.”
“Okay” Ender answered. Then Ender went to work. Giving everything he had into doing what Mr. Donatelli had asked him to do. He figured if he could do what was asked of him, he could get back to the station as soon as possible. Once he finished hitting the heavy bag, he walked over to Mr. Donatelli and said, “What do you need me to do sir?”
Mr. Dontatelli replied, “Get in the ring son, we’re going to see just how good you are.” So, Ender climbed into the ring and looked across to his opponent, he was a little taller than Ender but didn’t have very much of a build. The bell rang and his opponent came out swinging wildly. Ender dipped a jab and dodged a hook then responded with a jab, jab, hook combination, which sent his opponent staggering backward. He then pursued his opponent and with a swift uppercut his opponent lay on his back unmoving. Ender then turned to Mr. Donatelli. Mr. Donatelli looked at Ender and said, “Good but that was only the warm up, the real challenge is Alfred Brooks his first fight is coming up and you need to show him how to fight. You must beat him to continue in school.”
Then the bell rang and Ender turned around to face a tall muscular boy who looked very athletic. Ender came out of his corner and met Alfred in the middle they exchanged quick jabs then with a quick uppercut Ender was knocked backwards. He felt a warm liquid come from his lip and spill down his chin. He knew the blow had cut him but he got up and exchanged blows with Alfred and then Ender caught Alfred with a jab, which he then capitalized on and threw a right hook which hit Alfred in the cheek and he fell to the ground. He then got up and got out of the ring. Ender knew he had won. He had completed his training and would now being going back to school. He turned to Mr. Donatelli and said, “Thank you sir. You have helped me very much”
Mr. Donatelli replied, “ You’re welcome Ender. Good luck at school. To get back to the station you need to go through that door and you will arrive there.”
With a final good bye Ender walked to the never to see Mr. Donatelli again.
