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.	Episode Description: Balzac returns in triumph to the EDF headquarters, which is heavily guarded by armed troops everywhere. He turns over the information he got from Freeman to them. Then he returns to his quarters, where he goes into the bathroom to shave off the ‘face fungus’ he wore as the “military journalist” Balzac. Knowing he’s probably being monitored, he turns to where he suspects the camera is and makes some nasty, somewhat suggestive comments to the woman who is watching the monitors. (The fact Colbert has even the bathrooms of his people constantly monitored says something about the good General’s bad case of paranoia, me thinks...) Meanwhile, EDF scientists are analyzing the data they’ve been given. Freeman’s people had even made the first steps in designing an armored, mobile suit using the information they got from Blade; the EDF refines those designs and proceeds from there. Soon they are actually constructing the first of the suits. “Balzac did a good job,” Colbert says to one of the scientists, Dr. Maro. “Soon we won’t need D-Boy or Tekkaman Blade!” Back at the Space Knight base, D-Boy is having nightmares about himself going crazy again and killing all his new friends as a berserk Blade. In his dream, Miri turns into his sister Miyuki. He is awakened by Miri, calling him to a mission brief with Chief Freeman. They are dispatched to Texas, where they must protect the old, abandoned particle-collider research station there. (Obviously this was done before the US Congress cut funds to build the collider...) Miri and Freeman both note D-Boy is acting strangely and wonder if perhaps he’s under too much stress for someone who already has enough mental problems to deal with, from his amnesia to his recent berserking under Evil’s prodding. At the EDF HQ, Balzac and Dr. Maro are talking - they seem to have been friends for a long time. The two head out to have a night on the town, going to a local bar called “Cats”. “Maybe here I can forget about the Radamu for a while!” Balzac murmurs. They see an old man, whom Balzac recognizes. The old man recognizes him, too, and reacts with real fear as the younger man questions him. It seems they were all once part of the same gang, robbing stores and the like. The old man was then the gang leader, who paid the youngsters off when they handed the loot over to him. When caught, he fingered all his youthful accomplices. In jail, the EDF and its predecessors took over their training, turning Maro into an accomplished scientist and Balzac into a saboteur and spy. As they drink, the two slip some pills into the old man’s drinks, poisoning him quietly. An old debt paid, the two slip off to return to base. Honda and Rebin are already in Texas working on repairing damaged equipment as they talk to Aki, Noal and D-Boy in the “Blue Earth” as the three head for Texas. The trio notice a sudden rain of meteors - which then is resolved by their sensors into a cloud of attacking Radamu fliers. Rebin runs off to help, calling an incensed Honda “Old Man”. Noal and Aki urge D-Boy to become Tekkaman, but he is paralyzed by memories of his most recent nightmares. Rebin mans a machine gun battery and has fun shooting Radamu; D-Boy snaps out of his funk to become Blade. Every time Blade tries to attack a Radamu, his mind insists on turning the alien into one of his friends. As a result he finds it increasingly difficult to fight the enemy. Rebin is running the machine guns into the red, much to Honda’s chagrin. “You’re going to freeze up the damn guns at this rate!” he mutters to himself as the temperature sensors slide into the red. The emplacement explodes, and Rebin is injured by flying debris. The Radamu attack him, as D-Boy, hallucinating, fights badly. A Radamu approached Rebin, and D-Boy has enough sense left to try and protect the bishonen. Before he can act, the Radamu are hit by an energy bolt from above - and, joined by Honda, they see an armored form above them, silhouetted by the moon.	.
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