S1E00: Sidekick

"Sidekick" is the first episode from season 1 of MultiMayhem. In it, Leon tries to get a sidekick to help him fight against crime. Unfortunately, Star, Spark and Ted aren't willing to collaborate.

## Characters

* Leon Hail
* Bubbles
* Criminals
* Star Madison
* Spark
* Ted
* The Leader

## Plot

The episode opens up with a fading in view of Enore City. Soon, Leon gives off a speech about the hero he became in the distant future, before saying he wasn't always like that. Then, a montage of Leon being beat up by several criminals in different instances is shown. Leon tries to stop a Bank Robbery, a Jewelry Robbery, a Museum Robbery and a Hostage Situation... Only to lose every time, and even become one of the hostages in the last case. The last scene of the montage shows Leon falling down and passing out.

The next scene shows Leon slowly waking up, in what seems to be a Hospital Room, in there, Bubbles relieved to see Leon still kicking. The water entity tells Leon that maybe it's time for him to give up on being a hero, as Leon is only hurting himself by trying to help, and his attempts are slowing down the police force she commands. In a desperate moment, Leon tries to grasp at straws with a random suggestion: Getting a sidekick. After a lot more convincing, Leon was successful, despite Bubbles saying that it would be his last chance. Leon gets for a hug, but then his back starts hurting from the beating he got on the previous scene.

***2 WEEKS LATER.***

The scene reveals Star waking up. He yawns and leaves the room. The next scene shows Spark devouring cereals like a madman directly from the box, standing on the table. Star walks in and asks for some, to which Spark replies that there are no more cereals. Star looks to the side. In the ground, there are multiple other empty boxes of cereal making a mountain of boxes. As Star looks back at Spark, the rat is already eating another box. In response, Star shoots a hole in the box, making the cereal fall off before sliding a bowl to the place the cereals fell into. Spark calls Star a thief but the cat ignores it. But before the cat could even eat his cereal, Leon comes in and takes him away, saying that he needs Star's help. Spark eats Star's cereal.

Next, the screen shows Leon and a grumpy Star on top of a building observating a bank robbery. As the robbers come out, Leon tries to go to stop them, but he's too slow, as Star snipes both the robbers down. Leon is shocked, but Star says the crime was stopped. As Leon noticed Bubbles staring at them in disapproval, Leon runs away with Star.

Afterwards, they are behind a jewelry store that is being robbed. Leon manages to break open a door and instructs Star to follow him, but instead of listening to the fox, the cat threw 7 Smoke Grenades into the building before fixing the door and locking it, leaving the robbers to suffocate. Leon tries to keep calm and decides to give Star one last chance. The cat just whatevers it out. He just wants to eat his breakfast. Leon runs away before Bubbles could arrive at the scene.

Now, they were inside the museum, sneaking by the robbers, Leon comments on how the last sequence of crimes were very similar to the one from the montage, but it was no time to think about it, they had to stop the thieves. As he looked back at the crime scene, he noticed that the robbers had been crushed by a T-Rex skeleton, with Star standing on the roof with his claws out, right next to the now cut ropes that were holding the fossils. That was the last straw. Leon started yelling at Star about his murderous antics. Star kept on ignoring him until Leon said he was fired. At first he was shocked Leon had actually done it, but then he happily left the place now that he had no orders to follow. He was starving and needed food quick. Bubbles saw everything. She admired Leon's ability to stand up against Star and since the cat was sabotaging the fox's progress, Bubbles decided to give Leon one last chance.

After that was done with, Leon tried to take Spark as his sidekick. It didn't go well, as Spark would end up being distracted by anything else happening on the scene, either it be hot dog stands, nearby arcades or even butterflies. During this time, Leon noticed that the sequence of crimes were also very similar to the one from the montage. It was as if the crimes were looping. However, as soon as he noticed that, Bubbles appeared.

Unfortunately for Leon, his last chance had been used, since Spark technically wasn't sabotaging Leon. Bubbles couldn't afford keeping on letting the criminals get away because of Leon, so she offically prohibited Leon from trying to be a hero. Leon begged and begged for more chances, and even tried to get a nearby Ted as his sidekick, who refused the offer. He also tried to tell Bubbles how the robberies were repeating, to which Bubbles said she already noticed and that she already had a plan that didn't involve Leon. Mostly making her squad guard the bank 24/7, as the crime would probably repeat again. She then ordered Leon to go home.

Back home, Leon cried his eyes out about not being able to be a hero anymore. He had failed his parents and all the future people he could've saved. However, he was interrupted by some breaking news. Apparently, the police had been tricked into guarding the bank, only for every other place to get stolen. Seems like habits really did backstab them.

However, Leon had noticed a bunch of thieves running away outside. Despite being prohibited from doing anything, Leon decided to go after them. They were fast, way faster than him, but Leon managed to keep up the pace, however, he was so far behind that the robbers didn't even notice he was there. He followed them into a backalley, only to be knocked out by one of the robbers with a baseball bat.

The fox woke up tied to a chair, next to several capsules containing clones of the thieves he had chased. As he tried to get out, someone told him it was futile, as even if he did broke free, he would be electrocuted back into his place. The voice soon revealed itself to be from none other than the robbers' leader, the Clone Lord, who said that their plans had worked perfectly. As Leon asked what he meant, the leader told him that the plan to trick the police into guarding the bank using soulless clones of the robbers to perfectly replicate the crimes was successful, and that now that they had Leon, an ally of the police, they had no choice but to listen to them, or else Leon would suffer. When Leon asked why clones in specific the Clone Lord told him it was his trademark and his thing. Besides, it wasn't easy to exactly replicate crimes. Leon saw his point and shut up.

And so, the Clone Lord called Bubbles, and his plan worked perfectly. Since Bubbles didn't want anything bad to happen to an innocent soul such as Leon, she listened. While the leader ordered for 50M dollars in cash and Bubbles silently cursed out at Leon for not listening to her and going after criminals, Leon decided to pray, as that's what he usually does in desperate times...

...And his prayers were answered! Just not in the way he would expect...

Back home, a meditating Ted had received Leon's prayers as a mental message thanks to his psychic power. At first he ignored it, thinking it was spam mail, since that's usually the kind of mail he gets, but then he remembered his mind isn't his E-Mail and that it was actually Leon begging for help. He immediately got Star and Spark and took them to where the message had been transmited from.

Once there, they busted in, interrupting a discussion between the leader and Bubbles, who were arguing about how possible 50M in cash really was. The leader tried to call his clone troops and run away, but he was stopped on his tracks by Ted's psychic power while Leon, Star and Spark took care of the troops with perfect teamwork moves. The Clone Lord tried to fight back against Ted's control, but it was no use. He was trapped in there until Bubbles arrived.

Once there, the cop shut the whole cloning operation down and arrested the Clone Lord, who assured this wasn't the last they would see of him. Once alone with the boys, Bubbles congratulated the group and apologized to Leon for not giving him a chance. Leon told her it was OK, as all she had done was give him endless chances actually. He also used this opportunity to beg to Bubbles to let him fight crime again. Bubbles was finally convinced again when the whole group started begging except for Ted, and so she let him be a hero again, as long as he kept everything under control like how the previous fight went.

And then, the screen transitions into the group observating the city on top of a building again, while the Future Leon voice talks about how he didn't make it alone, and that he owes his friends everything for helping him become what he turned into, specifying that they helped him everyday of his life. But as soon as that was said, the group like as if they had heard the voice, started complaining about helping *everyday* and started leaving one by one. Leon just sighs and accepts it.

## Trivia

* The reason this episode was scrapped is because Mega Kirby 123 didn't like how the Clone Lord's introduction was executed and because Star acting that murderous was completely out of character.