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.	Episode Description: D-Boy, however, has managed to wiggle partly out of the way of Shinya's intended death-blow. Evil's lance catches him in the side instead of full through the chest. Shinya pauses for a second in disbelief - long enough for Takaya to roll over and use his jets, blowing a hole in the roof to get skyborne. Evil follows closely in his wake. Shinya then displays amazing bursts of speed that for a minute or two have Takaya wondering if the Radamu have somehow been able to give his opponent the ability to teleport. Evil seems to have the upper hand as he easily knocks Blade out of the sky. Aki and the others watch the battle worriedly on a viewscreen. Miri is using their sensors to try and find out where Evil's enhanced speed is coming from. Blade is again getting the worst of things when the Tekkamen Sol arrive to at least momentarily distract their foe. The two drag Blade back underground with them, and shortly D-Boy, practically foaming at the mouth, is demanding to be released so he can finish his duel with his brother. They tell him he won't be allowed to use the extra power drained from the Radamu "flower" to change into Blastor again - not for a while, anyway. "D-Boy..." Aki begins, but he cuts her off savagely. "Don't call me that again, I'm Takaya Aiba!" he half-screams. The others are all stunned by his attitude. He stalks off, and Noal is stopped from running after him by the Chief. "It won't do any good; this is as much a side-effect of his illness as the memory loss and dizziness is," Freeman says. Sword is reporting to Omega that all appears to be proceeding smoothly. When asked about Evil, Hun Rii tells him that Shinya reports that not only is his new speed an advantage, but that Blade seems to be showing signs of confusion and uncharacteristic bursts of temper. As they talk, for a moment Hun Rii sees Kengo Aiba standing there rather than the sinister, armored and cloaked form of Tekkaman Omega. As his image fades, she looks down at the ring on her finger...the engagement ring Kengo Aiba gave her before the Saturn Expedition had the misfortune to find the Radamu ship. She remembers the day he gave it to her. Following Omega's orders she armors up and heads down toward the Earth, where Evil is looking for his brother. D-Boy is trying to force his way to Pegas, blocked by Honda and Rebin, when Balzac comes to collar him. The former EDF officer sets him down to try and talk some sense into him. "I used to be the hot-head, and look where it got me - my best friends dead. Don't let our positions become reversed, D-Boy." But Evil has arrived at the base, and summons D-Boy once more with their non-verbal, almost telepathic bond. It is the Tekkamen Sol who face him this time, however, and they actually manage to surprise him for a few seconds - then Evil once more makes mincemeat of the two. Pegas and Blade arrive just in time to save the Earth-made Tekkamen from being skewered. D-Boy has not had time to recover, and Evil is beating him to a pulp within seconds. Evil slams Blade up against a cliff and pins him to the stone with his four-bladed weapon, the razor-sharp and crystal-hard edges cutting through Blade's armor with ease. Then Evil splits Blade's own two-bladed lance into its separate pieces, and nails D-Boy's wrists to the cliff. The two Tekkamen Sol watch in horror, their weapons and armor too badly depleted for them to even distract Shinya. Shinya is laughing, enjoying Takaya's pain, and backs off, intending to use his plasma bolt to finish the job. Instead, somehow D-Boy manages to absorb the energy of the blast, and when the Blade armor sloughs away it is replaced by the Blastor armor. Evil is momentarily paralyzed by shock, and Blastor Blade uses that opportunity to strike back at his younger brother. Driven half-insane by the agony of his injuries, D-Boy hits him with his armored fists, rather than using any of his power blasts at first. Sword arrives just in time to pull Evil out of the line of fire before Blastor Blade's twin Vortex bolts reach him. Blastor Blade watches them depart in frustration, then collapses. He wakes up - once more - in the base's sick bay, this time with huge swaths of bandages around forearms and torso, and blood dripping through an IV to replace what he lost. He recognizes Miri, and then sees the Easter lilies next to his bed. He apologies for acting like a fool. Then he remembers being told he wouldn't be allowed to turn into Blastor again, and starts up, demanding to know what happened. "It seems," Freeman says, "that you no longer require energy to be funneled from the Radamu flower through Pegas to fuel the Blastor Tekkaman transformation. This time you used energy absorbed from the attack of another Tekkaman to do it, funneling it through your own body...also, it seems to have done less harm to your nervous system than it did when we used Pegas." Rebin arrives to tell them that the new Blue Earth has finally been completed, and D-Boy realizes that the next step is to head for the Orbital Ring. On the moon, a wounded Shinya stumbles and falls to his knees before Tekkaman Omega. Omega is clearly unhappy with Evil's performance, and despite Shinya's protests and pleas is sucked away into the Radamu goo, only his tekkaset rising to the surface behind him. In the thick liquid, Shinya's clothes melt away, and his despairing cries are muffled by his new prison.	.
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