The Puffy Town Grand Prix, Part 2

**The Puffy Town Grand Prix, Part 2** is the second Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the thirty-sixth episode overall. It is the second half of a two-part episode. This episode is notable for the first appearance of the Speed Copy Ability.

## Summary

Leonardo sabotages Leeko’s vehicle and the mayor is ultimately victorious.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Hover
* Milly
* Manny
* Snowdrop
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Moonlight Man
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Aurora Man
* Beatrice
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy
* Daisy
* Felix (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba
* Helios & Luna
* Hilda (*no dialogue*)
* Lady Chanter
* Lola (*no dialogue*)
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Mayor Bay's grandchildren
* Narrator
* Sandy
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Twilight Man
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins with a narration which recaps the events of The Puffy Town Grand Prix, Part 1 and shows clips from that episode in that order to bring the audience up to speed. From there, the story resumes from just a short moment before the part it left off, in the midst of the Grand Prix race between the five racing teams of Leeko and Hover, Milly and Manny, Mayor Bay and Snowdrop, King Leonardo and Tommy, and Moonlight Man as they travel through a sheer-walled rocky canyon. Using the missile launcher on his Royal Racecar, King Leonardo shoots at one of the cliff walls up ahead causing a rock slide to tumble down toward Leeko's starship. After narrowly avoiding the rocks, Moonlight Man, Milly, and Manny check in on Leeko and Milly tries to scold Moonlight Man for letting Leeko join the race, but he doesn't respond. At that moment, King Leonardo pulls back to gloat and to remind Moonlight Man who he is supposed to be working for, and Moonlight Man appears to comply, making the kids nervous.

After completing the first of twelve laps, King Leonardo and Tommy are in the lead, followed shortly by the rest of the back. Leeko and Hover attempt to pull ahead of Moonlight Man, but he slams into them with his vehicle, prompting Hover to retaliate. After passing through a tunnel, Leeko and Hover manage to recover and pull ahead, and Moonlight Man commends Leeko secretly for his driving aptitude. Leeko then pulls up toward Leonardo again, prompting the king to pull out his next weapon: the "hub-saw". He uses this to cut down some trees on the path to land on Leeko and Hover, but the two manage to avoid each falling tree. King Leonardo next uses a bomb-tossing weapon and a powerful water hose to slow down the drivers behind. Lastly, he tosses out a field of cal-trips which succeed in stalling Leeko and Manny's vehicles as Moonlight Man slips past them. Milly proceeds to clean up the cal-trips, but when Mayor Bay's vehicle arrives, Snowdrop offers to take her place and let them go ahead despite their flat tires, frustrating her husband in the process.

After making another lap with King Leonardo still ahead, Manny and Leeko stop to get their tired changed, and Mayor Bay and Snowdrop stop for lunch against Bay's wishes. While they recover, King Leonardo and Moonlight Man finish two more laps, placing the rest of the drivers very far behind, but they get back in the race regardless. While racing near a cliff, King Leonardo pushes Leeko's starship off into the sea, but Sandy appears and helps Leeko back to shore by pushing his vehicle. Later on, another trap is sprung in the canyon which causes giant stone columns to appear on the race course. After going past this, Leeko and Hover have to dodge a falling brick trap as well. Milly and Manny catch up to King Leonardo and berate him for his tricks, but he brushes them off with a cloud of black smoke followed by an oil slick. Later, after Leeko dodges yet another attack from Leonardo, Moonlight Man is ordered by Leonardo to help them corner him. He complies, and Leonardo uses his hub-saw to flatten Leeko's tire again. At the pit stop, Leeko's old crew is replaced by Twilight Man and Aurora Man who replace his tire again. They also secretly sabotage Leeko's brakes on Moonlight Man's orders in order to truly test Leeko's courage.

As the race continues, Mayor Bay and Manny get more and more frustrated at being behind, and Hover becomes impatient and takes the lever. As King Leonardo and Moonlight Man continue to lead the pack by several laps, King Leonardo forces Hover and Leeko off the road again and they careen down a steep hill, unable to brake. At that moment, most of the drivers get out of their cars to observe, and King Leonardo sets off one more trap to create a massive crevasse for Leeko's vehicle to fall into. After a brief snooze, Leeko wakes up and activates the thrusters on his starship, taking flight. Seeing this, Milly apologizes to Moonlight Man for distrusting him. Leeko soon touches down and resumes the race on the ground, and the rest jump back in as well. King Leonardo decides to stop playing around and activates a Gatling gun on his car to shoot Leeko down, but Moonlight Man drives in and takes the hit instead, wrecking his vehicle in the process. Milly then tells Leeko to vacuum-mouth one of the ties that fell off of Moonlight Man's vehicle and he does so, gaining the Speed Copy Ability.

As King Leonardo enters his final lap, he and Tommy believe they have knocked Leeko out of the race and decide to take it easy. At that moment, however, Speed Leeko speeds past them in a flash, completes a lap in seconds, and then does so again and again. As King Leonardo and Tommy panic and try to finish their lap, Speed Leeko falls on them from behind and knocks them out of their car and out of the race. Speed Leeko then gets up just behind the finish line and rolls slowly toward it, but is just barely passed by Mayor Bay and Snowdrop who manage to take the win, despite initially appear to still have been five laps behind. It turns out they had managed to catch up by catching Speed Leeko's draft and were obscured by his dust cloud in each pass. Leeko ends up taking second and Manny takes third, with Moonlight Man and King Leonardo not finishing. After receiving the trophy, Mayor Bay hands it to Snowdrop, revealing that he wanted to win it for her as his 30th anniversary gift. Moonlight Man then appears and hands Leeko a pilot's license for his starship, which he promptly eats after admiring it for a moment. Once everyone is set to depart, King Leonardo and Tommy return in their wrecked car and try to challenge Mayor Bay to twelve more laps for the trophy, but Leeko splashes them with champagne which causes their car to break down completely. The episode ends as everyone laughs at the two sore losers.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of *The Beginning* series to feature the Speed Copy Ability.
* Even though Mayor Bay wins the race by drafting behind Speed Leeko, the leaderboard shows that he still has five laps to go after Leeko has already passed King Leonardo four times.
* In this episode, Helios and Luna say the name of Leeko’s transformation instead of Moonlight Man.