Crybaby Creature

**Crybaby Creature** is the twenty-seventh Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the ninety-fourth episode overall. This episode is notable for the first appearance of the Throw Copy Ability.

## Summary

An escaped monster named Cuddleshy comes to Puffy Town, and Leeko becomes friends with it. Later, King Leonardo finds out about this and orders a trainer monster to turn Cuddleshy into a real monster.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Cuddleshy (*debut; no dialogue*)

### Secondary

* Beatrice (*no dialogue*)
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy (*no dialogue*)
* Daisy
* Felix
* Gamba
* Gene
* Hover
* Madeline
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Moonlight Man
* Parker (*no dialogue*)
* Professor Antico
* Snapper (*debut; no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy Town villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins with King Leonardo having a nightmare about a giant creature resembling a clown that stomps him flat. He wakes up in a cold sweat and rushes through the halls of Castle Leonardo to wake his assistant Tommy with his hammer. The two then hear the Monster delivery system activating down in the throne room and run to see what is coming through, but when they get there, they see nothing at all. King Leonardo and Tommy attempt to brush the incident off as their imagination, but they are soon flattened when a monster resembling the one in Leonardo's nightmare runs past. The monster shortly escapes into the countryside and starts wreaking havoc in Puffy Town, revealing itself to be a cat monster with bird features wearing clown make-up. Hover warns Milly and Manny what is happening, and they rush off to town to see what they can do, while being joined by Leeko along the way. Back at the castle, King Leonardo and Tommy receive word from Nebula Enterprises that one of their as yet untrained monsters was sent free prematurely against their designs, identifying the monster as Cuddleshy. He explains that Cuddleshy is very skittish and would not hurt anyone intentionally, and asks King Leonardo and Tommy to keep an eye out for him.

Leeko and his friends soon join up with several of the Puffies in the central plaza to assess the situation. They suspect that King Leonardo may be responsible, but Leonardo soon rides in on his Royal Racecar and tells the Puffies he will hunt down the monster himself to try and prove his goodwill. At that moment, however, Cuddleshy returns, crashing through another building. Leeko rushes in to try and deal with the monster, but King Leonardo pushes him aside, insisting on handling it himself. After using Tommy as a shield, King Leonardo swipes at the monster with his mallet and knocks its clown mask off revealing it to be a large cat-like creature with bird features that some of the observers find adorable. With the mask removed, Cuddleshy becomes hesitant to fight, and runs away in tears as King Leonardo antagonizes Cuddleshy with his hammer. To help King Leonardo subdue the monster, the Puffies run in front to trap Cuddleshy's escape while King Leonardo whacks him repeatedly on the side. Seeing that Cuddleshy is blubbering and not fighting back, Leeko steps in to stop the fight by vacuum-mouthing King Leonardo's hammer and spitting it back at him and Tommy to knock them away.

Later on, Leeko and the kids attempt to befriend Cuddleshy and take him to see Leeko's house. However, Cuddleshy is still frightened of his small companions, and runs away from Leeko to cry in particular. After taking a different approach, Leeko manages to earn Cuddleshy's trust by feeding him apples. While doing so, Cuddleshy nearly eats all of Leeko's food, making him sad. Seeing this, Cuddleshy gives the last apple to Leeko, returning the favor and turning the two into friends. Back at the castle, however, King Leonardo decides to contact N.L.E again to get them to take care of Cuddleshy. They send the clown monster Snapper who is said to be able to whip Cuddleshy back into shape. While Cuddleshy is playing with Leeko and the kids in a pond, King Leonardo shows up and sends Snapper at Cuddleshy, using the electric whip to dominate Cuddleshy and turn him hostile. Cuddleshy is then sent after Leeko as Snapper rides on top. Leeko is chased into Puffy Town, where Cuddleshy proceeds to attack the pink mouse by tossing spiked balls at him provided by Snapper, who occasionally flings rubber bands. Leeko is hesitant to fight his new friend, and gets beaten up pretty badly, but Moonlight Man shows up and snaps Leeko back to his senses. Leeko proceeds to swallow a larger rubber band from Snapper and gains the Throw Copy Ability.

From here, Snapper attempts to use his whip to grab Leeko, but is not able to keep a hold of him for long. Leeko retaliates by inhaling Snapper and forcing him off of Cuddleshy. Leeko then catches Snapper and tosses him around before finishing by throwing Snapper so hard he flies off into space, straight into a black hole. Seeing Cuddleshy return to normal, King Leonardo and Tommy attempt to make a break for it, but Cuddleshy tosses one of the spike balls at their car to destroy it before they get away. As the Usapians realize Cuddleshy is not like the other monsters, they decide to let him stay in Usapia rather than go back to Nebula Enterprises. The episode ends as Cuddleshy and Leeko play some more.

## Trivia

* This is the first and only episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Throw Copy Ability.
* This episode reveals that Nebula Enterprises trains monsters using Snapper. Since Throw Leeko has thrown Snapper into space, it is possible that there won’t be any more new hostile monsters.
* As of this episode, Cuddleshy becomes a permanent resident to Usapia.