A Puppy To Love!

**A Puppy To Love!** is the fifteenth Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the fifteenth episode overall.

## Summary

Seeing that Leeko doesn't have anyone his size to play with, Milly and her family buy him a robotic toy dog that, unbeknownst to the group at first, is from Nebula Enterprises.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Madeline
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Daisy
* Gamba
* Hover
* Lady Chanter
* Manny
* Robo-Puppy (*debut*)
* Sir Chanter
* Tommy
* Whitehead
* Viruses
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers (*have no lines*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins out in the fields of Usapia, where Milly's peaceful reading is interrupted by a loud game being played by Manny and the Puffy children. They attempt to direct Leeko in their game, but he doesn't quite know what to do, and ends up tripping down a small cliff side toward Milly's general direction. Milly scolds the kids for treating Leeko, so roughly, but they blow her off and walk away. Milly then reassures Leeko, suggesting she could try to find him a more suitable playmate. Later on in town, Madeline is taking inventory at Playtime Fur U when Sir Chanter brings his family in to acquire something suitable for Leeko. Madeline points them to a box she recently obtained from a suspicious source and opens it up for them to see.

Later that night at Castle Leonardo, Milly presents the toy to Leeko, placing a small robotic dog in front of him. After turning it on, the dog identifies Leeko and begins to relentlessly follow him. He follows Leeko out into the countryside as the latter tries to get away, eventually running up a tree where the pet cannot follow. Watching this, Hover, shows up and pecks at the dog to make him go away, causing him to fall into a pond. Hover then continues to bully Robo-Puppy, causing Leeko to retaliate against the dragonfly and run off with Robo-Puppy following behind it. At a perilous river crossing, Leeko attempts to once again get away from Robo-Puppy, but as he is still trying to follow him, the dog falls into the river. Leeko sees this and runs to his aid, using his vacuum-mouth to suck him out of the river and back to shore. As time goes on, Leeko shows the dog around as the two grow closer, in the process revealing a few questionable peripherals. Over the next couple days, Leeko and Robo-Puppy grow closer as the toy antagonizes the kids when they grow jealous of it.

One night at the beach, Leeko and Robo-Puppy are eating fish when King Leonardo and Tommy roll up in their Tank car and notice Leeko's new pet, causing Leonardo to get jealous and wants one as well. Unable to get one at Playtime For U, the king makes plans to get Leeko's toy for himself. Milly soon learns from the kids about the self-defense measures the dog has and goes to Madeline to ask about it, learning that Leonardo wanted it as well and discovering the label on the box. Meanwhile, Tommy and King Leonardo plot to steal Leeko's pet, eventually finding the dog and taking him while Leeko is napping. Back at the castle library, Milly discovers that the toy was sent by Nebula Enterprises. She tries to dissuade Leeko from finding his pet, but he doesn't listen to her, running through a storm and trying to find him. Leeko shouts loud enough that the dog hears him from inside a cage at Castle Leonardo and breaks out of it, meeting back up with Leeko out in the fields.

The reunion is interrupted by King Leonardo, however, who orders his Viruses to catch Robo-Puppy and bring him back. After a brief setback, they manage to corner the two at a cliff overlooking the ocean, but Milly and Manny show up again to find them. Milly once again warns Leeko about the dog, but he runs back to his side. The dog later trips off a crumbling section of a cliff and falls into the ocean, prompting Leeko to dive in and swim after the dog. While in the water, Robo-Puppy's programming is overridden and he begins a self-destruct sequence. As King Leonardo pursues in a motorboat, Leeko manages to catch up with Robo-Puppy as he counts down. Remembering the times Leeko spent with him, Robo-Puppy speaks for the first time, telling Leeko how much he values him as a friend before diving into King Leonardo's net. He promptly detonates, destroying the boat and dumping King Leonardo and Tommy into the water. All Leeko found left of his pet is his mechanical ear.

That night, Leeko looks out toward the ocean motionless. Milly and Manny watch from a distance and wonder if the dog really was a monster. Madeline then shows up with a plush doll version of Robo-Puppy which she made himself, intending to give it to Leeko, but she realizes that it can't replace Leeko's lost friend. Leeko then steps out somewhat into the water, seeing his robot pet as a constellation in the sky for a moment and silently weeping as the episode ends.

## Trivia

* This is the sixth episode in the series to not feature a Copy Ability.
* First episode where Leeko cries.
* This is the first episode to have a sad ending.