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.	Episode Description: Tekkaman Omega is talking to Tekkaman Dagger, as Dagger apologizes for failing to stop Tekkaman Blade and explaining his current plans to kill Blade. Back at the Space Knight base, the “Blue Earth” is once more being repaired - an on-going process. Freeman is briefing his team on their next mission. The “Blue Earth” is spaceborn once more, with Aki, Noal, and D-Boy on board. Aki is somewhat surprised by the accord Noal and D-Boy seem to have reached - there is still some hostility there, but mostly they are making sarcastic jokes to one another instead of taking full-bore pot-shots. The “Blue Earth” enters a section of the enemy-held defense satellite station. D-Boy puts on a spacesuit and goes out to look for clues that will help them defeat the enemy. Instead he is trapped by Dagger - who is revealed in this episode to be human, just like D-Boy/Blade is. Aki and Noal have been monitoring the confrontation over the communicator D-Boy is wearing. Dagger calls up his armor using a four-armed crystal like D-Boy’s. When D-Boy tries to change, Dagger activates a force field which discharges through the change crystal, and Blade screams in agony as the backlash hits him. For a moment he is frozen inside the crystal, which goes black. Dagger gloats - his plan has worked. The discharge prevents D-Boy from transforming into Tekkaman Blade; and the more often he tries to change the more damage will be done to the change crystal. Aki wants to go charging off to the rescue right away; but Noal persuades her their best strategy is to wait. Dagger goes after D-Boy aggressively, blood in his eye, armored weapon against unarmed human foe. D-Boy finally finds momentary refuge in a shattered tunnel, but his conversation with Aki on the communicator gives away his hiding place and he must run again. The communicator is broken in the subsequent beating. D-Boy runs and finally finds an air lock to escape through. (Whoever did this bit didn’t know proper English; “AIR LOCK” is rendered “AIR ROCK”!!!) He tries to change into Blade again as he is swept out into the vacuum, but the transmitter is still blocking the change - and he is paralyzed inside the change crystal, a vulnerable target - at least when the change crystal goes inert again he’s still in a spacesuit rather than in the nude... Noal decides to take the “Blue Earth” out. He and Aki see the transmitter built outside the satellite station and correctly deduce it is the reason for Blade’s difficulties. The “Blue Earth” destroys the transmitter (It’s interesting to note that this time it’s NOAL who’s screaming D-Boy’s name as they go to the rescue!). D-Boy makes the transformation successfully this time, but Dagger gloats - the crystal will be badly damaged and D-Boy may not be able to turn into Blade again - yet the Tekkaman armor uses up too much energy for D-Boy to remain Blade indefinitely. Sooner or later he will have to return to human form, and when he does he will be unable to become Tekkaman Blade again. Blade escapes to the “Blue Earth”. He tells them of his dilemma - and Noal tells him he must return to human form; staying as Blade isn’t worth the risk of letting him die. “You’re one of us now; you are more than just that suit of armor,” Noal says. Exhausted, D-Boy must obey - and the crystal breaks apart as it returns to its inert form.	.
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