Sheep Wreck!

**Sheep Wreck!** is the ninth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the forty-third episode overall.

## Summary

A sheep named Arlon turns the usually tranquil sheep of Usapia into rebellious wolf-like sheep out for revenge on all of Puffy Town.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Arlon (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Aurora Man
* Beatrice (*no dialogue*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy
* Daisy
* King Leonardo
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin (*no dialogue*)
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Moonlight Man
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen (*no dialogue*)
* Snowdrop (*no dialogue*)
* Tommy
* Twilight Man
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins out in the countryside as Milly finishes reading a Puffy version of *The Boy Who Cried Wolf* story to the Puffy children. She tries to impart the moral of the tale to them, but they are more interested in thinking about the wolf and how they would trap it. Ultimately, she lets them leave after claiming there are no wolves in Usapia. Shortly after, Leeko comes into view and Milly greets him when a nearby sheep becomes strangely aggressive and rams Leeko, sending him flying. Later on, Milly tries to tell Chief Gordy about the incident, but after seeing a passive flock of sheep and Leeko resting with them, he makes a joke of it and leaves. As Leeko plays with the sheep, Milly tries to identify which of them had been aggressive. Without warning, all of the sheep turn hostile and chase after Leeko, knocking him around until he falls unconscious on the ground.

This time, Milly gathers many more of the townsfolk over and tells them about the sudden turn in the flock's mood, but they are still incredulous as they observe the docile-looking herd and Leeko sleeping peacefully at the spot where he landed earlier. After Mayor Bay arrives and laughs off her accusation, the town follows suit and goes home after delivering several sheep-related jokes. Milly gets upset and compares her situation to the story she read earlier, then heads off herself. Leeko wakes up when Cindy appears to get the sheep moving, and it is then revealed that King Leonardo and Tommy are monitoring the sheep from Castle Leonardo. They get the idea to abduct one of the sheep and make a meal of it using their new barbecue. That night, Milly tries to tell her family about the incident, but they also do not believe her, insisting that sheep are harmless and that she must have been imagining it. While they talk, Channel Lion Out Loud News turns on, and Tommy fronts a hit-piece about how Milly falsely accused the sheep of attacking Leeko, including testimony from Gordy, Bay, and even Leeko himself. Seeing this, Milly resolves to vindicate herself by finding and apprehending the initial aggressive sheep.

The next day, Milly heads out to the sheep pens and examines each sheep closely using her magnifying glass as she is watched by Manny and Leeko up close and King Leonardo and Tommy from afar. Milly finishes examining half of the sheep when Cindy rallies them, mixing up the herd and causing Milly to lose her progress. At that moment, the sheep turn hostile and chase Cindy down, and then run for the hills. Mayor Bay appears, demanding, answers and is about to fire Cindy, but Milly, Manny, and Leeko confirm what happened and offer to track the sheep down. Meanwhile, at a far-off location in the countryside, the initial aggressive sheep - Arlon - addresses the flock, speaking to them and calling for a revolution. To condition the sheep for the fight, he calls for them to howl like wolves from then on, and then sends them out to cause havoc across the countryside and in town. With this done, Arlon addresses them again, this time announcing that they will soon conquer the whole world, and then the entire universe. Milly, Manny, and Leeko observe from behind a corner as the sheep are directed toward the castle to complete their conquest of Usapia.

Milly, Manny, and Leeko run ahead of the sheep to warn the Puffies who have taken refuge at the castle during the attack that the herd is headed their way. Seeing the arriving stampede, King Leonardo is delighted, thinking he will apprehend all the sheep and turn them into dinner. The Puffies make it across the drawbridge and they start to raise it, but the sheep manage to leap onto the edge of the rising bridge and create a body-bridge to let the rest of the herd in, and they proceed to tear up the castle. The sheep soon have all of the Puffies cornered in the courtyard, and they admit to each other that Milly was right all along. As Moonlight Man and his apprentices observe cautiously from a balcony above, Arlon berates the trapped Puffies down below and humiliates them by forcing them to "baa" meekly. Meanwhile, Milly, Manny, Leeko, and Cindy are captured and thrown in with the rest of the baaing crowd. Milly tries to dissuade the rest of the sheep from their new master, but Arlon recounts his experience being nearly captured and eaten by King Leonardo, and from there, fleeing far into the wilderness until a bolt of lightning struck him and gave him the power of speech and cunning. Hearing the story, Milly tries to redirect Arlon's anger toward King Leonardo for his deed, but the crafty king steps forward and offers a mock apology in order to lure the sheep to their slaughter. Arlon demands that King Leonardo and the rest baa to show their submission, and King Leonardo obliges, but Milly and Manny refuse. Arlon, outraged at this defiance, transforms into a monster to attack them.

Arlon, in his monster form, leaps down and attacks Leeko by shooting his horns at him. King Leonardo and Tommy watch from cover and comment that they are in a win-win situation for once, as either Leeko or the sheep being defeated would be good news for them. However, Arlon inadvertently crashes through a door and reveals an area where the Viruses were prepared to slaughter some of his brethren. Arlon takes his revenge by ramming King Leonardo and Tommy out of the castle. He then turns to attack Leeko again and shoots his horns, but Leeko vacuum-mouths them and gains the Needle Copy Ability. Needle Leeko tries to fight back, but his needles are no match for Arlon's horns. As he and the other sheep prepare to mow Leeko down, Milly assists by grabbing Cindy's whistle and blowing it, prompting the normal sheep to return to their normal docile state. Arlon tries to re-rally them, but to no avail. He gives up on them and returns to his normal form, ending the fight. That evening, Milly, Manny, and Leeko see Arlon off, wishing him farewell as he returns to the wilderness in hopes of finding others like him. The episode ends as he leaves Usapia with a howl and Leeko from atop his house, mimicking his howl.

## Trivia

* This is the third episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Needle Copy Ability.
* This may be the one of the very few times in the series where the sheep act aggressive.
* After commanding Leeko to obey, Arlon responds to his “woomy” as if he can understand him.
* The beginning of the episode draws parallels between Milly and *The Boy Who Cried Wolf*, the story she read at the beginning of the episode.
* The episode’s title is a reference to the word ‘shipwreck’.
* Despite initial claims made in this episode that the sheep are always docile, there are several instances in earlier episodes where a sheep attacked someone. One was in Princess Or No Princess?, where Princess Ray saved Leeko from a rampaging sheep, and another is in Forget-Me-Never, where Tommy gets rammed by one of the sheep when he antagonizes Mayor Bay.