Wood Wars

**Wood Wars** is the tenth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the forty-fourth episode overall.

## Summary

Forrest’s friend, Redwood, is in danger until some animal friends help Leeko and friends fight the forces of nature.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Redwood (*debut*)
* Hilda
* Manny
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Daisy
* Gamba
* Hover
* King Forrest
* Lola
* Milly
* Numnum & Cece (*debut/no dialogue*)
* Tantan & Sunsun (*debut*)
* Tommy
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed animals - squirrel, woodpecker, smaller monkey

## Episode summary

The episode begins in the dead of night, as King Leonardo and Tommy travel through the recesses of the Eastern Forest looking to find the oldest tree in the woods. Once they find it, King Leonardo plans to chop it down to use in his fireplace, but is stopped by the various animal inhabitants led by Hilda who attack Leonardo and Tommy and drive the two off. The next morning, Leeko, Manny, Hover, and the Puffy children come to visit King Forrest in his forest to have some apples and pay the old tree a visit. Manny asks Forrest if there is anything they can do in exchange for the apples, and Forrest tells them about his friend Redwood who lives in a different forest and who may be in need of assistance due to his advanced age and a sense that he may be in danger. Manny and the rest agree to go to the Eastern Forest and see what they can do to help. Meanwhile, back at Castle Leonardo, King Leonardo and Tommy recover from the wounds they sustained the night before, and Leonardo reasserts his desire to build his country club by tearing down the forest. Tommy spots Manny and the others walking into the forest, and King Leonardo throws off his apparently superficial arm sling to confirm this for himself. As the kids head toward Redwood, they note the ominous weather, but proceed fast. Seeing this, King Leonardo pulls out the rebuilt Spyhopper robot from Baby Flower to spy on them again.

As the kids venture deeper into the forest and King Leonardo's spying machine follows secretly, the group stops for a moment to try and get their bearings. Hover reminds them to seek out a waterfall in the woods as they were told one flows near Redwood's spot, and they manage to hear its sound from their location. Shortly after, they discover Redwood and comment on his feeble appearance. Before long, however, Manny sees movement in the old tree and directs everyone to hide. The animals that live within Redwood stir and try to find the source of the disturbance, and end up antagonizing a woodpecker who is trying to feed there. Seeing this rough-housing, Manny grows concerned for the tree and calls out to the animals for an explanation. The group gets into a misunderstanding as Manny accuses the animals of harmony Redwood by living there while the animals insist that Redwood invited them in to keep him company. This leads to a fight between the two groups, though Leeko remains confused and does not fight alongside his team. During the squabble, Hilda tricks Leeko using a watermelon and catches him with a rope, but then ends up getting tricked and caught in much the same way by Manny. As the two dangle, Hilda and Leeko smack each other, which causes Leeko's rope to break and he falls onto Numnum, who accidentally ends up ramming into Redwood and waking up Lola, who was not involved until this point. Lola flies off in a panic as the animals continue fighting, and King Leonardo and Tommy watch through the Spyhopper.

Later on, Lola manages to reach the castle and informs Milly of the situation in the forest, then leads her there to try and bring a stop to the fighting. Meanwhile, back at Redwood's spot, the animals appear to have won the fight and driven their opponents off, but then a smokescreen produced by Manny and the others falls on them and they are forced to flee. The kids then approach Redwood and try to get him to wake up, but to no avail. Despite this, Manny decides that driving off the animals was enough help, and he starts to lead the group home. Along the way, they are stopped by a furious Milly, who berates them for driving the animals out of the tree. After accepting this, Milly and Manny soon surmise that King Leonardo may be threatening Redwood, and head back into the forest to try and stop him as he and Tommy approach the abandoned tree with a laser saw. The kids manage to knock Leonardo over with an acorn just before he can start chopping. King Leonardo attempts to retaliate using his laser saw, but Leeko vacuum-mouths it to gain the Cutter Copy Ability.

Cutter Leeko then has to face off against King Leonardo and Tommy in their Royal Racecar. They launch a missile at him and then attempt to "advance backward" to get away. Cutter Leeko throws a Cutter Boomerang at them which they manage to narrowly avoid, but then a Cutter Beam is launched which slices the Royal Racecar clean in half, causing the two occupants to drift apart and fall away. The kids celebrate Leeko's victory, but then a storm approaches, forcing the group to take cover under Redwood. The group then realizes that Redwood is being threatened by the storm and may end up falling over. At that moment, the previously-evicted animals return with ropes and wooden braces to prevent this from happening. As they struggle, King Leonardo and Tommy return to thwart them by causing their Spyhopper robot to explode near the waterfall, creating a torrent of water that sweeps Redwood and his protectors away. In the process, however, King Leonardo and Tommy also fall into the current.

King Leonardo and Tommy later awake in a different part of the woods and find that Redwood is still standing despite having been relocated. They are met by the group of kids and animals who tell them that King Forrest's apples were responsible for keeping Redwood safe. King Leonardo threatens to fight them all for the tree, but soon realizes he is outnumbered, and he and Tommy flee. At that moment, Redwood wakes up and introduces himself to those in the group he has not yet met. Redwood then tells of a dream he had where King Forrest sent some friends to take care of him, and insists that this was not necessary because he is still young and strong. The group laughs heartily at this assertion, and the episode ends as Leeko gobbles up a stray apple on the ground.

## Trivia

* This is the third and final episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Cutter Copy Ability.
* This is one of the few episodes where the Animal Friends and the other animals play a major role.
* This episode marks the first appearance of Tantan and Sunsun, also Numnum and Cece.
* In some concept arts for this episode, Leeko was originally going to get the Metal Copy Ability by inhaling Leonardo’s chainsaw. The chainsaw was going to be a regular metal chainsaw, but it was changed to a laser saw instead.
* This is one of the few episodes where Leeko uses a Copy Ability despite not fighting a monster.