The Best Eco Tour Ever!

**The Best Eco Tour Ever!** is the second Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the sixty-ninth episode overall.

## Summary

After catching the Puffies leaving their trash in the Vinebush Forest, Milly, Manny, and Leeko plan an eco-tour of the forest. However, King Leonardo and Tommy intercept their idea and host the tour themselves, with the intent of setting it ablaze so they can build the country club.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Beatrice
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Daisy
* Gamba
* King Forrest
* Lady Chanter (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Numnum & Cece (*no dialogue*)
* Sir Chanter (*no dialogue*)
* Sir Pathogen
* Slammer
* Snowdrop (*no dialogue*)
* Tantan & Sunsun (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed animals (*no dialogue*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins in the night hours of the Vinebush Forest, where Milly and Manny catch Chef Peppermint dumping trash and berate him. The chef insists that everybody in town dumps here, and this is proven when another person manages to dump and then get away. Milly, Manny, and Leeko later visit King Forrest and - while tending to his Rosa patch - explain the problem to him and try to convince him to ban people from entering the woods. King Forrest disagrees with the idea and instead suggests that they organize a tour group so the townsfolk can see how important it is to keep the woods pristine. Later on, at Castle Leonardo, King Leonardo and Tommy spy on the kids while they prepare their brochures to advertise the tour, and get the idea to steal the tour so they can gain an opportunity to destroy the forest and build their golf course. Shortly thereafter, a broadcast is sent in Channel Lion Out Loud where they promote their own tour, and despite their lack of research, they get the people of Puffy Town interested and Milly furious.

Some time later, the tour is underway, and King Leonardo and Tommy lead a small group of Puffies into the woods with heavy backpacks in tow. Milly, Manny and Leeko then join their tour in order to ensure that nothing fishy happens. As the tour progresses, King Leonardo makes note regarding how he can make use of the landscape in his golf course, and his choice of words leaves the other tourists none-the-wiser. He and Tommy make their first mistake, however, when they drink sodas and then toss the cans on the ground. Milly berates them for this, but they predictably brush her off and continue the tour. Further in, King Leonardo marks a nearby tree in order to cut it down later, and Milly spots him doing this. King Leonardo nearly loses his cool when she scolds him again, but Tommy tells him to play along with it for now. As the tour continues, Milly's nagging starts to bother the other tourists who want to take souvenirs. After their lunch, Milly is left to clean up the trash, as she curses their lack of decency toward nature. While she is distracted, King Leonardo tricks Chief Gordy into cutting down some of the trees near a pond in order to improve the viewing conditions for a photograph. When Milly discovers this, she demands that King Leonardo and Tommy stop the tour, so they comply and hand responsibility over to her as they slip away with their supplies.

As Milly leads the group home, they end up getting lost in the woods and start to panic. At this moment, they are startled and ambushed by a bear, who chases them down. After they stumble down the trail and smash into a log, the bear leaves. Later, it is revealed to be King Leonardo in a bear costume, who was using the trick to scare them away from the construction site of his country club. As the group continues their walk, Milly realizes they are walking in circles, and decides to have them camp for the night so as not to walk in the dark. As they set up camp, Milly lowers her prohibitions and allows the group to gather food and resources in order to make it through the night. As the night passes, King Leonardo and Tommy finalize their plans for the golf course. Later on, as they head out of the woods, they cross a rickety bridge, but King Leonardo decides to torment Tommy by jumping on it. This ends up causing the bridge to collapse, and the two of them fall into the river below.

As Milly and her party continue to trek through the first, they manage to find the river, and recover King Leonardo's satchel which he dropped when he fell in. The river contains the plans for his golf course, finally cluing everyone in on his real intentions. Meanwhile, King Leonardo and Tommy manage to get out of the river, and soon realize they are lost as well. They end up spotting Milly's group on the other side and call out to them, but their shouts cannot be heard over the river. To get their attention, they light a signal fire deep in the woods. This fire gets Leeko's attention, but shortly after, King Leonardo and Tommy overdo it and cause a forest fire. Despite this being an accident, King Leonardo realizes that he can clear out the forest much faster this way and celebrates this turn of events, not realizing that he and Tommy are now in danger. Once they are trapped by the flames, King Leonardo decides to take his anger out on Tommy and chases after him with his hammer as the forest collapses around them.

After escaping to a fresh area of the forest, King Leonardo and Tommy run directly into King Forrest, who is using his roots to protect his Rosas. Forrest apprehends them, determined to make them share their fate with him for starting the fire. Meanwhile, Milly's group is trapped near the river, but they spot Sir Pathogen flying in using a personal helicopter looking for King Leonardo and Tommy. Manny tells Leeko to vacuum-mouth the helicopter, and he does so and transforms into Tornado Leeko from its rotor blades. Using this ability, Leeko hops into the river and creates a vortex of water that he uses to quench the flames. This comes just in time to save King Forrest and his captives. King Leonardo and Tommy celebrate their good fortune, but then they get zapped by lightning from Leeko's storm for good measure. Later on, as punishment for their reckless endangerment of the woods and everyone in it, King Leonardo and Tommy are forced to work to replant all the trees, which amounts to several thousand. The episode ends as Milly's tour group mocks them.

## Trivia

* This is one of the several episodes that has ecosystem preservation as its main theme, since the episode is about preserving nature. It also continues the series of episodes where King Leonardo tries to get rid of the Vinebush Forest so he can build his country club.
* This is the sixth and final episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Tornado Copy Ability.
* This is one of the few episodes where Sir Pathogen appears without the Viruses.
* This episode reveals that Leeko is bad at drawing, though this is mostly because he is only a baby.