Delivery Time

**Delivery Time** is the first Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the sixty-eighth episode overall. It is notable for the first appearance of the Jet Copy Ability.

## Summary

Chef Peppermint starts a delivery service for his restaurant, but Leeko is sorely attempted to eat his food.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Chef Peppermint
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Chief Gordy
* Daisy
* Delivery Boy (*debut*)
* Dr. Medico
* Gamba
* Gene
* Hover
* Madeline
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sir Pathogen
* Slammer (*no dialogue*)
* Tommy
* Whitehead
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins in Puffy Town, as Leeko, Milly, and Manny are walking toward Peppermint's Table. Inside, Chef Peppermint is bemoaning about his lack of customers and is considering quitting the restaurant business, but Milly tells him not to give up. She then suggests that he starts up a delivery service, and offers to help with the delivering while Leeko looks around for anything to eat. Chef Peppermint accepts this offer, and they proceed with their plans, inviting the Puffy kids to help with the delivery. Meanwhile, up at Castle Leonardo, a sick King Leonardo is desperate for something to eat, and commands his court to fix up something quickly. Instead, one of the Viruses brings him a phone which he answers, and Chef Peppermint tells Leonardo over the phone about his new delivery service, but Leonardo is not interested and hangs up. This darkens Peppermint's mood, but Milly tells him to be persistent, and helps by calling Mayor Bay and convincing him to place an order. From then on, Milly agrees to make the sales calls while Chef Peppermint gets busy making the orders, and soon gets the entire town interested.

Shortly into this new venture, Peppermint's Table suddenly becomes very busy as everybody wants to place an order, including two-thousand of the Viruses. Once King Leonardo sees this order being carried out, he decides to make a call himself - having apparently forgotten about Chef Peppermint's solicitation from earlier - and orders a "mess of noodles". Milly accepts the order, but realizes all of her deliverers are busy. Against her better judgement, she sends Leeko to deliver King Leonardo's food, as she cannot deliver it herself. She specifically tells him that he cannot eat the food on the way to the castle and sends him off. Leeko understands this order and heads to the castle, but he is repeatedly stopped when he smells the ramen inside, wanting desperately to eat it. Due to this slowdown, King Leonardo grows impatient for his food as it becomes later and later. Meanwhile, Leeko is forced to rest as he tries his hardest to overcome his instinctive desire for the food he is trying to deliver, and the sun goes down with no progress.

The next day, Chef Peppermint and his helpers awoken, having slept in the restaurant. New orders come in which fully wakes them up. As they get started, Manny wonders where Leeko is, and the other kids assume he must have made his delivery and then gone home. However, it is soon shown that Leeko slept out at the spot where he placed down his delivery, having still not made it. Hover wakes up, wondering what he is doing there. Meanwhile, King Leonardo entered a sleep-deprived state, having apparently stayed up all night waiting for his delivery. As Tommy walks in, Manny delivers a bowl of noodles which King Leonardo is eager to have, but the order was placed by Tommy and he eats it right in front of the king, mocking him in the process. Manny confirms that the order was for Tommy, and then realizes that Leeko never made his delivery. Fed up, King Leonardo decides he will order his own deliverer from Nebula Enterprises to ensure that this never happens again. Once the monster arrives, King Leonardo tests him out by sending him to Peppermint's Table to pick up two orders of noodles. As soon as the noodles are done, the Delivery Boy picks them up and rides back to the castle, delivering them to King Leonardo in seconds.

The Delivery Boy then proceeds to take over all deliveries for Peppermint's Table, putting Manny and the Puffy kids out of a job. The deliveries then start coming in so fast that Milly and Peppermint have to frequently switch roles in the restaurant. It turns out, however, that all of these calls are coming from King Leonardo and Tommy pretending to be other people in Puffy Town ordering hundreds of dishes. Without a second thought, they prepare and deliver all of these orders, but shortly after, they start to wonder about these orders. Their suspicions are confirmed when they receive complaints from the Puffies, telling them they did not order these meals. King Leonardo gloats about this, with his plan apparently having been to dry up Chef Peppermint's other customer-base so he can only deliver to King Leonardo instead. Seeing the dearth of new orders, Milly and Chef Peppermint begin to lose hope, and Milly decides she is going to go look for Leeko to find out what happened to him. She eventually finds Leeko on the road and apologizes to him for setting him up to fail like that, having assumed he ate it. However, when she picks up the pail, she realizes the soup is still in there, and congratulates Leeko for resisting the urge to eat it.

At that moment, the Delivery Boy spots Leeko on his way to the castle and attempts to charge him down, having apparently been looking for the pink mouse this whole time. Milly tells Leeko to run, and he does so, but the monster soon catches up with him and attacks. After getting run off a couple times, Leeko is knocked down. The Delivery Boy then moves in to finish Leeko off, but Moonlight Man steps in to defend Leeko and severs one of the Delivery Boy's rocket boosters on his bike. Leeko vacuum-mouths the severed engine and transforms into Jet Leeko. From there, Jet Leeko and the Delivery Boy race in tandem, as the Delivery Boy tries to swipe at Leeko with his foot, and then fire missiles at him. Leeko dodges these missiles and tosses his own energy blast at the Delivery Boy, defeating him in an explosion. With this done, Leeko takes his delivery pail and finally brings it to Castle Leonardo, delivering it to the king. After hearing what happened to his Delivery Boy, however, and seeing how stale the noodles look, King Leonardo decides he doesn't want it anymore, and lets Leeko keep it. The episode ends as Leeko finally gets to enjoy the noodles he had been craving this whole time.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Jet Copy Ability.
* Since this is the first episode of Season 3 to be produced, the animation is slightly different as the episodes following this one look more saturated.
* Sir Pathogen orders 2,000 steak sandwiches for the Viruses of Castle Leonardo, implying this may be the number of Viruses that live and work there.
* It’s not known how Manny did not see Leeko on his way to Castle Leonardo when delivering Tommy’s order.
* King Leonardo was shown using chopsticks, which he struggles to use in the episode Come Get Your Meals!.
* This is one of the few episodes where Leeko keeps his Copy Ability by the end of the episode.