A Dash Of Fiction

**A Dash Of Fiction** is the fourth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the thirty-eighth episode overall. It is notable for the first appearance of the Cleaning Copy Ability.

## Summary

Leonardo’s monster is an imposter author of the Wizard Wally book who transforms into the Broom Prince.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Athena (*debut*)
* Aurora Man (*no dialogue*)
* Beatrice
* Broom Prince/Dr. Bookworm imposter (*debut*)
* Bubbles (*no dialogue*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Cindy
* Daisy
* Dr. Bookworm (*debut*)
* Dr. Medico
* Felix (*no dialogue*)
* Gamba
* Gene
* Helios & Luna (*no dialogue*)
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Moonlight Man
* Parker (*no dialogue*)
* Professor Antico
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop (*no dialogue*)
* Twilight Man (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins in Milly's bedroom in Castle Leonardo, where Milly is writing a letter to the author of a book titled "Wizard Wally and the Fool's Stone", praising the book and wishing to write as good some day. Manny asserts that Milly's letter will likely not be responded to by the author, as he gets "zillions" of letters, but Milly does not mind this as long as the letter is received. Once she finishes the letter, Milly resumes reading the book to Manny and Leeko. Meanwhile, King Leonardo is reviewing his questionable television performances on Channel Lion Out Loud when Tommy bursts in to his living room and reports that the channel's ratings have plummeted to zero. Demanding answers to this catastrophic drop in popularity, Leonardo and Tommy go spying out in the countryside and find all the Puffies reading Wizard Wally instead, including the sheep. Seeing this, King Leonardo becomes interested in the book as well, and heads to Athena's bookstore to get a copy. Waltzing to the front of the line, King Leonardo snatches one of the books on the waiting list and runs out with it, with Tommy providing compensation despite the infraction.

After escaping Athena, King Leonardo and Tommy have a look at the book. King Leonardo is set to read it, but becomes dismayed when he realizes there are no pictures inside. After some confusion, Tommy realizes that King Leonardo does not know how to read. After a brief moment of panic, King Leonardo hastily denies this observation, but nonetheless lets Tommy read the book to him instead. While Tommy reads, King Leonardo becomes frustrated when he does not read every sentence out loud, and antagonizes him over it. After a brief chase, Tommy evades his aggressive king, prompting Leonardo to search for anybody else who will read the story to him. He shortly discovers Milly reading it to Leeko and the other kids in a park. Knowing that his presence might disturb Milly, King Leonardo sneaks in closer so he can overhear the reading. He briefly puts his head out of a nearby bush which gets Leeko's attention, but he slips back in before anyone else notices and Leeko is scolded for making noise during the reading. Milly finishes reading for the day and Manny points out that nobody in Puffy Town has actually reached the end of the book yet, which gives King Leonardo an idea. After the other kids leave, King Leonardo snatches Milly's book from her using a grabbing arm from the Royal Racecar and drives off with it. He then steals every other copy of the book he can find from the Puffies to prevent them from reading to the end, proclaiming officially that the book is banned from Puffy Town.

Back at the castle, King Leonardo gloats about having the only remaining copy of Wizard Wally to Tommy, who points out that somebody will need to read it to him. Leonardo proceeds to activate the Monster delivery system, and through it comes Dr. Bookworm, the author of the book. King Leonardo had requested him to read the book to him, but Bookworm insists that he only reads for large audiences, and recommends that Castle Leonardo be transformed into a "magic school" to attract such an audience. Shortly after, the denizens of Puffy Town gather at the castle gate to protest about King Leonardo's earlier confiscations. Against their expectations, the drawbridge is lowered and Sir Pathogen tells them they can come in for "free magic lessons" and to hear how the book ends. At this news, everybody rushes in except for Milly and Leeko, and Milly believes it to be another of Leonardo's schemes, but they are unheard, so Milly and Leeko run in after them. In the courtyard, King Leonardo and Tommy greet the assembled crowd dressed as professors, and ask them to put on uniforms before entering the school.

As Moonlight Man and his soldiers watch from a hidden alcove above, the people of Puffy Town enter the main hall and all sit at long tables. King Leonardo soon greets them and introduces Dr. Bookworm to read the book to them. Bookworm starts by asking if anyone has questions for him, and Milly rises to ask if he received her letter, but Bookworm explains that he cannot stand fan mail. Milly then asks what Bookwork's motivation to write the book was and Dr. Bookworm replies that he was only interested in the profit. Milly resigns with a fake smile and her hopes crushed, while the other kids insist he gets on with the story. Dr. Bookworm then tells of the part when Wally learns to play a ball game on a broomstick, and Tommy brings out a bunch of brooms for the Puffies to practice flying on. Leeko tries to join in, but is specifically barred from doing so by Tommy. Out in the courtyard, the Puffies take off on their brooms, and become entranced by them. Milly notices this, but is unable to stop them from attacking Leeko and using him as he is crammed in a plastic ball for their game. Milly looks on in despair as Dr. Bookworm laughs at Leeko's misfortune, when another Dr. Bookworm shows up besides Moonlight Man and accuses the other Dr. Bookworm of impersonating him. The Puffies on the brooms see this and are broken out of their spell as the real Dr. Bookworm clears up the misunderstanding and explains his motive to write the book, which inspires an ovation from those present. The fake Bookworm then attempts to attack him, but is stopped by Moonlight Man. In response, he throws off his disguise and transforms into the monster Broom Prince. The broom monster then takes control of the other broomsticks and sends them after the Puffies.

As the brooms attack, Leeko is sent to vacuum-mouth one of them. He does so and gains the Cleaning Copy Ability for the first time. The rest of the brooms try to smother Cleaning Leeko, but after a brief struggle, he brushes them off and sends them flying. Broom Prince then attacks by conjuring a wave of dust and garbage to toss at Cleaning Leeko. Cleaning Leeko is then set up on and smacked by Broom Prince for a moment, but he recovers and fights back, repelling another wave of dust. Broom Prince then attempts to flee by flying away, but Cleaning Leeko chases after him using his broomstick and gives him one last smack, which causes Broom Prince to be launched away and to explode. Cleaning Leeko returns and approaches Dr. Bookworm as the town asks to hear the rest of the story. After promising that everyone will get their books back, Dr. Bookworm reveals to Milly that he came to Usapia specifically because of her letter. King Leonardo then storms in to request Bookworm's autograph, trying to pretend he was fooled by the Broom Prince. Dr. Bookworm grants his request, but Leonardo finds he cannot read the autograph either. The episode ends as Tommy chuckles and Cleaning Leeko is superimposed on the book's cover.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Cleaning Copy Ability.
* This episode shows that King Leonardo is illiterate, but in other episodes, he appears to not having trouble reading.
* During the makings of this episode, there is a scene where King Leonardo burns all of the Wizard Wally books. This scene was cut off, possibly for religious reasons: it may have also been that it was a bit similar to the Nazi book burnings (especially because Leonardo is saying the book is “anti-Leonardo”).
* This is one of the few episodes where Moonlight Man uses a physical attack.
* The entire episode is a parody of the *Harry Potter* books, most notably *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*.