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.	Episode Description: Noal is playing cards with Rebin and Honda, while Rebin tries to pump Noal about D-Boy. Noal tries to run a bluff but is called on it by both his companions. To their embarrassment, they realize that D-Boy has overheard their gossiping. Aki takes D-Boy to one of the monitoring stations, telling him about the alien attack during which the human’s orbiting stations were captured, much of the Earth’s population wiped out, and the seeding of the alien spores in Terran soil as they travel over the ravaged landscape. The Space Knights are still demoralized by their failure to protect the Earth from this alien menace. Tekkaman has to an extent given them some hope that they may eventually be able to defeat the enemy. Landing, D-Boy gets his first up- close look at the alien spores as Aki conducts her tests. Above them they can see the silvery ribbon that is the captured orbital defense ring. Aki agonizes a little that they still haven’t been able to find a way to destroy the spores. Noal, Rebin and Honda are still playing and arguing. Noal wins a watch off of Honda during the game, which he will hold until Honda can pay him off - or wins it back. Honda makes Noal promise that he’ll be careful and not break the watch. Aki and D-Boy have returned to base. Once more, the alarms go off, announcing another alien incursion. They are using a new, winged form of alien in this most recent attack. With Noal at the command seat, and Aki and D-Boy manning weapons and sensor stations, the “Blue Earth” takes off once more. As they approach the battle area, D-Boy goes to the lock and transforms into Tekkaman Blade once more. (By now that same transformation sequence is beginning to get a bit boring; shortly most viewers will be fast-forwarding through it as quickly as possible!) This new form of alien proves a much more difficult foe to defeat, and Blade is shortly in a good bit of trouble, being crushed in the talons of one of the winged foe. He manages to struggle free but at great cost. Hundreds more winged aliens appear. Aki opens the air lock to let the badly wounded D-Boy back into the ship. Unable to strap in before Noal has to do some frantic evasive maneuvers, Aki is thrown off her feet and hits her head against the corner of a wall. Noal makes a controlled- crash landing and finds both Aki and D-Boy unconscious. Frantic, he’s far more worried about Aki than D-Boy, and once they get back to base knocks the younger man around, blaming him for Aki’s injury. “If she hadn’t had to get out of her seat to let you in, she wouldn’t have been hurt! It’s your fault!” he’s screaming as the episode ends, Aki in a coma in sickbay.	.
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