The Liberation Army fleet struggles to understand what is going on with the spaceships, detecting abnormalities and realizing that their communications with their fellow soldiers had been cut off. They realized that the Armstrong Cannon wasn't for shooting the Army but for releasing a virus. Near the cannon, the machines, Kintoki and Tama continue to pour energy into it. Tama thinks back to before the battle, where Gengai reveals that the virus actually came from nano-machines, called Bees, that once released, float into the atmosphere, land on machines, inject a virus to control them, and then physically destroy their circuitry, immobilizing them. He notes that this will force the Amanto Army to fight using simpler weapons on open fields but then adds that they must create a barrier over