Blockbusters

**Blockbusters** is the second Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the second episode overall. It is notable for the first appearances of many others characters, including Hover and Snowdrop's fist speaking role, Chef Peppermint, the animal friends Hilda & Sandy & Lola, and many more of the Puffies. It is also the first appearance of the Stone Copy Ability.

## Summary

Milly and Manny try to help Leeko find a home. When King Leonardo and Tommy find out about their plans, they do everything they can to make sure Leeko doesn't stay.

## Characters

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* Helios & Luna
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Gene (*minor role*)
* Brickbuster (*debut*)
* Puffy villagers
	+ Felix (*debut*)
	+ Professor Antico (*debut*)
	+ Daisy (*debut*)
	+ Gamba (*debut*)
	+ Whitehead (*debut*)
	+ Snowdrop
	+ Mayor Bay Brittleton
	+ Chief Gordy
* Chef Peppermint (*debut*)
* Hover
* Animal friends
	+ Hilda (*debut*)
	+ Lola (*debut*)
	+ Sandy (*debut*)
* Moonlight Man (*minor role*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where King Leonardo is spying on Leeko playing with the kids of Puffy Town. He plots to get rid of Leeko by calling in a new monster from Nebula Enterprises. After Leeko suffers a mishap with a jump rope, Milly, Manny, and the other children wonder if Leeko should be playing around when a storm rolls in, prompting the children to seek shelter. Leeko tries to take cover in an opening in a nearby tree, but is pushed out by Hover who is resting there. Taking shelter at Snowdrop's house, the kids wonder if Leeko can stay with anyone. They ask Snowdrop to let Leeko live in her house, but after remembering the dinner scene from the previous episode, she curtly refuses with a fake chuckle.

The kids set out to find Leeko a place to stay after the rain stops. They start with Chef Peppermint, who agrees to take Leeko on as a waiter at his restaurant. At first, Leeko did well, but King Leonardo and Tommy, who dropped by, trip Leeko up and make him look back. This works, prompting Peppermint to fire Leeko, even though he and the other kids knew it's not his fault. The King then meets up with Hover, who also wants Leeko out of town. Hover flies off and finds Leeko in Professor Antico's collection place helping inspect relics, and sabotages Leeko's attempts to become Antico's assistant by making him break one of the pots. A similar sabotage prevents Leeko from pumping gas with Felix, blowing up the gas station/mechanic shop hybrid in the process.

After another rejection from Hover, the kids then plan to build Leeko a treehouse to live in, and recruit many Puffies to help them with construction. Seeing this, King Leonardo calls Nebula Enterprises to order a monster to get rid of Leeko. The monster they send is Brickbuster, a "super high density" rock monster capable of changing sizes, who demonstrates its abilities by crashing through multiple floors of the castle. Later on, the townsfolk gather to celebrate the completion of Leeko's tree house, but King Leonardo shows up in his Tank car and destroys it with a blast from his cannon. They then dispatch Brickbuster to defeat Leeko in combat. The fight does not go well for Leeko at first, and he ends up being flattened into a tarp that Milly and Manny have to wrangle with to get Leeko back to his normal shape. Leeko then attempts to vacuum-mouth Brickbuster, but to no avail, as the monster is simply too heavy. During the fight, Brickbuster topples Hover's tree, and when Hover flies over to the King to complain about this, he gets blasted away by the cannon on his vehicle, making the dragonfly realize that Leonardo was never on his side.

After getting away from Brickbuster, Milly and Manny try to prepare Leeko for a rematch. Using a tip from Moonlight Man, they have Leeko try to vacuum-mouth stones, but they realize he cannot inhale bigger ones. They do realize he could make them budge with the help of gravity, however, so they trick Brickbuster into standing on a cliff and use Leeko's vacuum-mouth to make it fall, splitting it into four smaller Brickbusters that Leeko is able to vacuum-mouth. Leeko absorbs one of the Brickbuster pieces and transforms into Stone Leeko. Stone Leeko then battles the remaining Brickbuster pieces and manages to best them. In a last-ditch-attempt, Brickbuster reforms into one monster, but Stone Leeko tricks it by going to an overhang cliff over the ocean and having Brickbuster pound through and sink into the water. Leeko turns back to normal by spitting out the remaining Brickbuster piece in the water, as the monster sinks into the ocean depths, never to be heard from again. The assembled Puffy Town residents cheer at this victory, including Hover.

Some time later, a new house is built for Leeko on a hillside near a tree. Leeko goes in to have a look and tries the bed, but he is thrown off by Hover who was sleeping in it. Hover says he is taking over the house, leaving Leeko to rest in the tree. Despite initial complaints from Milly, Leeko seems fine with the arrangement, as he immediately falls asleep in the opening. The assembled characters have a good laugh at this as the episode ends.

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first appearance of:
	+ the animal friends: Hilda, Lola, and Sandy.
	+ more characters: Whitehead, Daisy, Gamba, Snowdrop, Chef Peppermint, Professor Antico, Felix, and Hover.
* Featured monster: Brickbuster
* This is the first episode in the series to have a one-word title.
* This is the first appearance of the Stone Copy Ability in *The Beginning* series.
* The first episode to show Leeko’s dome home.