What A Waste!

**What A Waste!** is the twentieth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the eighty-seventh episode overall. It is notable for being the first appearance of the Wing Copy Ability.

## Summary

King Leonardo hires a flock of crows to eat his garbage, but later they betray and tell the crows to get lost. Later, the crows’ leader is turned into a monster and returns to get revenge.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo
* Crowco (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Aerialessa (*no dialogue*)
* Athena (*no dialogue*)
* Beatrice
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chicky (*no dialogue*)
* Chief Gordy
* Daisy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Gamba
* Hover
* Lady Chanter
* Lola
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Parker (*no dialogue*)
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop
* Tommy
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at night out in the Usapian countryside. King Leonardo and his troops are hauling some cargo using the Royal Racecar and trying to keep quiet. Once they approach the riverbank, they dump the contents of their wagon into the river, which turns out to be their trash. At first, they think they have gotten away with this dumping, but they are immediately caught by Milly and the people of Puffy Town, who had camped there specifically to catch Leonardo and his troops red-handed for polluting their water supply. King Leonardo is forced to backpedal and order his Viruses to pull all of the garbage out of the river. Meanwhile, a strange bird watches from the distance and starts to caw, which catches Leeko's attention. The next day, at Castle Leonardo, Milly and her family are disturbed by a rancid smell, and discover that the Viruses are piling up the trash from earlier in the castle garden on Leonardo's orders. King Leonardo and Tommy then reveal that they are going to use a murder of crows to take care of the trash, and they proceed to pick it apart. Watching the crows divvy out the food scraps, Milly and Manny notice one of them in particular is ordering the others around. Leeko momentarily loses his inhibitions and tries to join in, but Milly pulls him away and flees the odor of the garbage.

As the people in Puffy Town notice the large number of crows around the castle, the birds become agitated and demand more food, harassing the Viruses in the process. The crow leader demands more food from King Leonardo, and he directs the crows of Puffy Town, where they raid the place mercilessly and cause a panic. The Puffies soon retaliate by tossing rocks at the crows, forcing them to flee. They attempt to return to Castle Leonardo, but King Leonardo wards them off using cannon blasts. A short time later, the crow leader - Crowco - rallies his flock out in the countryside, and swears they will exact vengeance for their treatment by the Usapians. He then proceeds to start divvying up the food they collected, and finds among it a container full of vials of strange fluid with King Leonardo's emblem on them. Crowco drinks these vials, which starts to have a strange effect on him. Later, Bubbles and Marvin are boating in a lake when a random bird attacks them. They recount this incident to Dr. Medico, but he makes light of the situation. Meanwhile, at Leeko's house, Lola and Hover are discussing how dangerous crows can be, when Lola is suddenly overcome by a strange spell and flies off. The rest of Usapia's birds follow suit and form into a giant flock in the sky.

Milly and the other kids notice the birds acting strangely while they are out drawing. They try to back away slowly but accidentally leave Leeko behind. When they call out for him, the birds attack, forcing the kids to flee. King Leonardo and Tommy report the sudden attack from all the birds on Channel Lion Out Loud while they themselves are being harassed. The Puffies hide themselves inside their own homes, but to little avail, and the birds cause havoc across the kingdom. Milly, Manny, and Leeko soon spotted Crowco, now grown to a much larger size, and Moonlight Man shows up with the vial that the crow drank, explaining it to be the cause. Milly and Manny recall the events of Stray Baby Vulture, and realize that the vial in question is the same insta-monster mixture from that episode. Milly concludes that if they are to stop these birds, they should request the help of Aerialessa, and head to her nest. Once they get there, however, they're unable to find any traces of Aerialessa or her chick. Aerialessa then returns with food for her chick, and Milly tells the giant bird about the situation with the crows. Returning to her nest, however, Aerialessa finds that her chick has been kidnapped by the crows, and rushes off after them. Aerialessa soon finds Crowco with Chicky in his talons, who warns Aerialessa not to interfere with their plans or else he will kill the chick.

As Milly, Manny, and Leeko monitor the situation, King Leonardo and Tommy show up and try to place pity upon themselves, and request that the kids find some way to stop the crows. Forced to hesitate for the sake of her chick, Aerialessa is knocked back when the giant crow zaps her with eye lasers. Milly orders Leeko to vacuum-mouth one of the crow's feathers, and he does so, gaining the Wing Copy Ability. Wing Leeko flies in and uses his Feather Gun attack to knock the crows down. From here, Wing Leeko uses a Condor Head attack on Crowco, and then rescues Chicky from falling. Once Leeko and Chicky are in a safe location, Aerialessa swoops in and knocks the remaining crows away. Crowco tries one more time to attack Aerialessa, but she knocks him away using her wings, causing him to crash into the mountain and knock away King Leonardo and Tommy in the process. This causes Crowco to return to his normal size and his spell is broken. Milly promises to help restore the crows' forest to ensure something like this does not happen again, and the episode ends as Leeko celebrates with Chicky and some baby crows.

## Trivia

* This is the first and only episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Wing Copy Ability.
* This episode is quite similar to the Season 2 episode Sheep Wreck!, particularly when Crowco gives his speech to his crow army in the same spot and manner that Arlon did for the sheep in the aforementioned episode.
* For reasons unknown, Leeko’s house is painted red in this episode.
* It is unknown why Aerialessa and Chicky weren’t under the effects of Crowco’s spell, as they are birds, or at least bird-like creatures.