Midnight At Leo’s Castle

**Midnight At Leo's Castle** is the twelfth Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the twelfth episode overall.

## Summary

After an odd sighting of a ghost in a picture, Tommy and King Leonardo suspect that there is a ghost haunting Castle Leonardo.

## Characters

### Primary

* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Gene
* Helios & Luna
* Lady Chanter
* Leeko
* Manny
* Marvin
* Milly
* Moonlight Man
* Oorameshia (*debut*)
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Viruses

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Castle Leonardo, where Tommy has acquired a new digital camera, and wishes to use it to get a new portrait of King Leonardo. On the balcony, the king poses for a picture, but the resulting image shows what appears to be a ghost beside him which has Tommy spooked. Leonardo plays it cool by insisting he isn't afraid of ghosts, but later on, he can be seen visibly shaking in fear from the idea of a ghost roaming his castle. Later that night, they drive their Tank car down to Puffy Town and visit Marvin to get Leonardo's fortune read. He confirms to the king that a vengeful ghost is roaming Castle Leonardo, and will come for him that night. Leonardo and Tommy return to the castle, still trying to find a rational explanation, when the drawbridge starts to raise on its own while they are on it. After recovering from this, the two are spooked by the appearance of Sir Pathogen out of the darkness.

As Tommy scolds Pathogen for his lack of caution, the ghost appears to swoop out of the sky after King Leonardo, but only he can see it. As Leonardo and Tommy make their way back indoors, they encounter Sir Chanter, Lady Chanter, and Milly, who also report having seen a ghost. Leonardo tries to brush it off, but Milly recounts her experience with the ghost in detail, followed by Lady Chanter and Sir Chanter. Leonardo starts to suspect these tales are meant to scare him away from the castle, but Moonlight Man interjects, suspecting Leonardo may be to blame for the situation. As the group confronts Leonardo, the king breaks down and hurries to the throne room to order something from Nebula Enterprises to take care of the ghost, but Gene turns him down due to his overdue balance.

Out of options, King Leonardo resolves to search the castle to find out what is causing these hauntings. He starts to get spooked by footsteps in the distance, and runs into Tommy again, scaring both in the process. The king tries to get Tommy to help him search, but Tommy flat-out refuses and runs to his room, locking the door behind him. Getting spooked again, Leonardo rushes to his bedroom, where he hopes to sleep until morning to avoid further incidents. This fails, however, as he starts hearing voices and a violent thunderstorm kicks up outside. He tries to close the window, but it swings open again and a bunch of bats fly in and out of his room. After this and some other spooky phenomena, King Leonardo develops the sudden urge to use the bathroom, and ventures back out into the halls. Demanding that Tommy comes with him, Leonardo busts down the door to Tommy's room with his hammer and forcibly pulls the frightened turtle out.

After rushing Tommy with him to the bathroom, Leonardo uses a stall, but when he comes out, he finds that Tommy is no longer in the room. Leonardo hears moaning from out in the halls, and runs out to find three floating apparitions with sheets thrown over them. As they approach, King Leonardo makes a run for it. The floating specters fall back and find Manny, who pulls off the sheets to reveal them to be Leeko, Helios, and Luna. They gloat over how much they scared King Leonardo, and continue with their plot. As Sir Chanter and company try to find where King Leonardo has gone, Leonardo finds himself chained to a table in the dungeon. Manny, Leeko, Helios, and Luna up their games by swinging a massive axe over the king, then dropping a fake wall on him and following up with dancing skeleton puppets. At all this, King Leonardo finally faints from the shock. From here, Tommy shows up and congratulates the group for their efforts, rewarding them with lollipops. Soon after, the rest of the castle's residents find the group, and prompt Tommy to explain himself.

Tommy explains that he had set this whole operation up in order to get revenge against Leonardo for all the times the king has pranked him, including recruiting Marvin and the kids to help him pull it off. After finishing his spiel, King Leonardo pipes in, having apparently been faking being passed out. He appears to be sorry for all the trouble he caused Tommy, commending him for his elaborate ghost setup, and convincing Tommy to release him from the chains. As soon as Leonardo is free, however, he immediately loses it and starts chasing Tommy and the others who helped with his scheme down the halls. As they run, what appears to be an actual apparition swings around the corner and into Leonardo's ways. As the ghost phases through him, Leonardo sees that Leeko, Helios, and Luna are still present, and soon runs from the ghost into his throne room, opening up the safe to try and get the spirit with his money. The ghost grabs one of the sacks and takes it to the Monster delivery system, teleporting back to N.L.E. Gene tells those present in the room that this was a scheme to collect King Leonardo's overdue payment before signing off. The episode ends as King Leonardo makes his way into the room and prepares to exact his revenge on Tommy.

## Trivia

* This is the fifth episode where Leeko doesn’t use a Copy Ability.
* Leeko does not appear until towards the end of the episode.
* This is the first episode where Gene has spoken in the presence of Leeko and most of the castle residents.
* First episode where Tommy cries.
* Featured monster: Oorameshia
* This is the first episode in the series where a monster has been sent to Usapia and succeeded in its task; in this case, it's the ghost monster Oorameshia being sent to collect King Leonardo's money.