The Big Combat

**The Big Combat** is the thirty-second Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the ninety-ninth episode overall. This episode marks the fourth part of the five-part finale to *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy.

## Summary

Leeko battles Nebula’s powerful Shiny Crabler to protect the Flying Saucer, and the Flying Saucer, aided by three friendly Destrikers piloted by past friends, begins its assault.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Chef Peppermint
* Moonlight Man
* Twilight Man
* King Leonardo
* Nebula
* Gene

### Secondary

* Aurora Man
* Azure Man (*no dialogue*)
* Bubbles
* Chief Gordy
* Diamond
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Glimmer Man (*no dialogue*)
* Halcyon Man
* Hover
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Milly
* Minesweeper
* Sand Man
* Tommy
* Willow Man (*no dialogue*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins with the Flying Saucer and its crew preparing to jump through hyperspace. As they do so, the ship encounters turbulent currents as it travels nine hundred light years in mere moments. Despite the bumpy ride, the Flying Saucer concludes its jump through hyperspace with all systems and the crew intact, though exhausted from the experience. Twilight Man explains that they have arrived one light year away from Nebula's fortress in order to avoid immediate detection, and Moonlight Man instructs his crew to prepare for the fight ahead. Despite their attempt at secrecy, Nebula detects the Flying Saucer's arrival and sends a capsule its way containing a surprise for the crew. As it travels, the Flying Saucer crew take some time to become more acquainted with their ship. Later on, Sand Man starts running weight lifting drills, and Marvin surprises everyone by lifting his massive weight first. Meanwhile, the stowaways King Leonardo and Tommy attempt to sneak around the ship looking for something to eat, and immediately blow their cover when Leonardo burns his hands on one of Chef Peppermint's hot plates. The two are instantly apprehended by the crew, and Leonardo attempts to worm his way out by claiming to be on their side, but the crew refuses to believe it and locks him and Tommy in a holding cell.

While in the cell, King Leonardo receives a call from Gene, who informs him that he used the cell phone to track the Flying Saucer's location and sent a monster its way to deal with them, and sends his most loyal customer one last farewell, assuming they are done for. Once King Leonardo and Tommy put two and two together, they begin to panic. A short time later, the capsule arrives and pits its way into the Flying Saucer, allowing the monster Shiny Crabler to invade and start wrecking the ship from the inside. Sand Man reports the intrusion right away, and Twilight Man proceeds to track its movements using the ship's radar system. Two teams are then sent to try and deal with the monster, but it proves to be much tougher than they anticipated, and starts to give them trouble. Soon, Leeko and his friends are cornered by it, but Chef Peppermint steps in and tosses Leeko a frying pan so he can gain the Chef Copy Ability and defend them. However, due to Shiny Crabler's mechanical nature, Chef Leeko can do little against it, and he loses his ability almost immediately after taking a hit. The team is forced to pull back and think of a new way to stop the rampaging robot.

Shiny Crabler soon makes its way down to the holding cell, and inadvertently sets King Leonardo and Tommy free by blasting the bars away. Moonlight Man soon learns that Shiny Crabler is heading for the engine room in order to put the entire ship out of commission. The defenders move to the engine room to defend it, and as a last ditch effort, Chef Peppermint tosses Leeko some ice cubes so he can transform into Ice Leeko. Using his ice breath, Ice Leeko quickly freezes Shiny Crabler in place, making it brittle enough for Twilight Man to finish it off with a missile. Before the team has long to celebrate, Moonlight Man orders everyone back to the bridge, as they are nearing Nebula's fortress. Once everyone is gathered on deck, King Leonardo and Tommy show up and accidentally give away the ship's position to Gene by lodging a complaint against him. With their cover blown, Moonlight Man orders an all-out attack before they can be overpowered by the oncoming Destriker armada.

The Flying Saucer is sent flying straight toward Nebula's fortress as the defensive turrets open fire on the invading ship, landing a hit and causing a reduction in power. Despite this, the Flying Saucer prepares its guns and fires back, eliminating many of the Destrikers on its tail. From there, the Flying Saucer dives toward the fortress and activates a defensive energy shield to protect from further attack. As more and more Destrikers pour out of the fortress, the Flying Saucer's shields begin to fail over sustained enemy fire, but a surprise assist comes from three rogue Destrikers who take out the others. A transmission reaches the main screen and Minesweeper reveals himself as one of the rogue pilots. He is then followed by Diamond and Halcyon Man and his men, who are piloting the other ships. Halcyon Man explains that he and the others are going to clear the way for the Flying Saucer to enter the fortress so they can deal with Nebula directly.

Taking advantage of this help, the Flying Saucer moves at full throttle into an opening in the fortress hull, and after dealing with one more defending Destriker, finds its way into a massive interior chamber. The chamber is still, with no enemy fire despite several turrets poised to shoot. This unnerving quiet atmosphere starts to play with the crew's anxiety. Before long, however, Nebula himself appears before the Flying Saucer as a giant apparition. Nebula then issues a taunt to Leeko and his band of allies, telling them that their situation is hopeless. The episode ends on a cliffhanger at this point, leading into the final episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy: Fight To The End.

## Trivia

* This is the tenth episode in the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature more than one Copy Ability.
* This is the eighth and sixth, also final, episodes of the Chef and Ice Copy Abilities in The Beginning series respectively.
	+ Additionally, this is also the first time Leeko uses his Chef Copy Ability in an episode that has nothing to do with food or cooking.
* Despite Helios and Luna agreeing to join the rest of the team in the previous episode, they are nowhere to be seen on the Flying Saucer.
* This episode marks the first time that Nebula has been fully visible in *Leeko: The Beginning* series.
* This is one of the few episodes to not take place in Usapia.
* This episode marks the first actual appearance of Halcyon Man and his men. They were previously only known through figurines in the episode Attack Of The Capsules! - Part 1.