A Whale Of A Time!

**A Whale Of A Time!** is the fourth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the seventy-first episode overall.

## Summary

King Leonardo organizes a whale-watching cruise, but he really wants to use it to catch a whale.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Sandy
* Whales - mother and baby

### Secondary

* Beatrice
* Bubbles (*no dialogue*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy
* Felix
* Gamba
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Marvin (*no dialogue*)
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin (*no dialogue*)
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins on a harbor in Usapia, where Milly, Manny, and Leeko are fishing. Sandy swims up to them and comments on how she does not want to end up on one of their hooks, but the whole group is interrupted when a nearby whale breaks the surface of the water to breathe, sending a large wave of water at them. Later on, a very large group of Puffies gather at the spot to see the whale for themselves. After they comment on it, Sandy informs the group that the whale showed up to look for her missing calf. As the whale looks, a large cruise ship enters the harbor bearing the royal insignia. King Leonardo and Tommy then emerge from the ship and announce their intention to host a free whale watching tour, and Milly objects saying they will scare the whale away, but the rest of the Puffies are on board with the idea. They then beg Milly to come with them, and she reluctantly agrees to do so.

The cruise ship sets off and follows the whale down the harbor, and King Leonardo shouts at the whale to demand she do tricks for him. As the whale notices them, Manny calls for Leeko to come check out the interior of the ship with him, while Milly asks Sandy to keep looking for the baby whale. Manny and Leeko get below deck and notice some suspicious activity. They soon determine that King Leonardo has plans for capturing the whale using harpoons, and likely killing her. As they try to escape, Leeko gets distracted by a decoration on the wall, and soon both of them are captured by the Viruses. Meanwhile, Milly starts to get upset at King Leonardo for steering the ship too close to the whale, but he predictably brushes her off. King Leonardo then has the boat ram right into the side of the whale, and proceeds to pursue her down the harbor as she tries to get away. The whale retaliates by turning around and slamming the boat, giving Manny and Leeko a chance to get away.

As King Leonardo and Tommy drum up excuses to capture the whale, Manny and Leeko return to the deck and warn everybody about Leonardo's intentions. Knowing the jig is up, King Leonardo and Tommy flip a switch that transforms the cruise ship into a whaling ship and gets it ready to fire the harpoons. However, finding deeper water, the whale swims underneath the ship and appears behind it to swallow the ship whole. As the group regains their bearings, they realize what has happened and make a joke about their predicament. They then start to look around the whale's stomach looking for a way out, and spot a huge mound of garbage in there with them. Sandy then appears - having followed them in after seeing what happened - and offers to talk to the whale about letting them all out. To sweeten the deal, Milly promises that if the whale lets them out, they will clear out the garbage inside her stomach. The whale agrees with this, and lets everybody out at a different coastline near Big Boom Volcano. Everybody tries to run away, but Milly reminds them of their duty, and they end up begrudgingly clean out the trash.

As they perform this task, Milly asks Sandy and Leeko to go looking for the baby whale. Meanwhile, the Puffies start to complain about being forced to take responsibility for this, and King Leonardo plays on this by telling them he will do it for them, dismissing the lot of them. Meanwhile, out at sea, Sandy asks Leeko to look around, and Leeko puffs up and flutters to a spot on a distant island. Back at the coast, Milly and the kids finish cleaning out the whale's stomach only to find everyone else missing. They look around and spot King Leonardo now sitting at the top of a submarine deck strapped to the whale that he and Tommy somehow managed to build within moments using the recycled junk. King Leonardo and Tommy then gloat about the fact that they turned the whale into a weapon, and proceed to pilot her away by pulling on her mouth. Milly and the kids manage to get onto the whale just as she departs, and climb into the deck on top. After forcing the whale to dive, King Leonardo and Tommy proceed to torture the whale by forcing her to turn using sharp spurs attached to the straps. They soon become too careless and crash the whale into some rocks, throwing them about the deck and damaging the apparatus.

After the whale surfaces, Leeko and Sandy emerge and greet them. King Leonardo orders Sir Pathogen to aim and fire their torpedoes at them, but the torpedoes miss and hit the island behind them. This causes the island to reveal itself as another whale, and it reacts by diving down, throwing a giant wave at those atop the submarine deck. The wave causes the submarine deck to detach from the original whale. King Leonardo and Tommy get thrown into the water, where they are then beset by the now-freed whale. King Leonardo and Tommy hop onto the whale island, which turns out to be the original whale's mother, and they end up getting blown away by her blowhole. The two whales then reunite and swim off into the sunset. The episode ends as those still watching from the detached submarine deck comment on the situation.

## Trivia

* This is the seventeenth episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to not feature a Copy Ability.
* This is the first episode to air in 2006.
* During the parts where everyone ends up inside the whale, the sound of the whale’s breathing and heartbeat can be heard in the background.
* This is one of the few episodes where Leeko flies by inhaling air.