Midsummer Night’s Scream, Part 2

**Midsummer Night's Scream, Part 2** is the twelfth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the forty-sixth episode overall. It is the second half of a two-part episode. This episode is notable for the first appearance of the Bone Copy Ability.

## Summary

When a storm arrives, the kids take shelter in a haunted house designed by NLE in which Leo sets a trap to capture Leeko.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Moonlight Man
* Milly
* Manny
* King Leonardo
* Tommy

### Secondary

* Dinobone (*debut*)
* Gene
* Mr. Ghost
* Narrator
* Spookles (*debut*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins with the narrator giving a recap of the events of Midsummer Night’s Scream, Part 1. From there, the story continues from where it left off with Leeko and Milly trapped in a haunted mansion being menaced by a spectral creature composed of a myriad of tiny lights while Manny and Moonlight Man rush to the mansion to rescue them. As Milly realizes the specter may be real, she runs away from it deeper into the mansion, as Leeko follows. When Manny and Moonlight Man arrive at the door, Moonlight Man attempts to slash the door open using the Dark Slash, but is repelled by a mysterious force, leading him to conclude that the mansion must be under the power of Nebula. Deep inside the mansion, Milly and Leeko are startled by what resembles a statue of Nebula and run up a spiral staircase but Milly soon realizes this staircase appears to go up infinitely and stops running. Leeko is startled by some bats and goes sliding down the staircase's handrail, and is nearly skewered by a trap set at the bottom but manages to avoid it and land back on the first floor. At that moment, the specter from earlier tries to make a sharp sword fall on Leeko, but Milly calls at him to jump out of the way and the two run into a different room.

Inside this room, Leeko and Milly find a gloomy green altar decorated with skulls and demonic wings. A blood-like substance starts to pour out of the altar, prompting Leeko and Milly to run. They stumble into a room full of possessed clocks and are assaulted by the noise therein. Meanwhile, King Leonardo and Tommy make their way toward the mansion looking for shelter from the storm. Manny and Moonlight Man watch from cover as King Leonardo and Tommy easily enter the door that Manny and Moonlight Man had trouble opening earlier. As Manny wonders about this, Moonlight Man tosses his sword into the crack of the door to keep it from closing entirely. Meanwhile, Milly discovers the "blood" from earlier is actually red paint and wonders about the mansion when she notices King Leonardo and Tommy wandering the halls. Milly believes Leonardo is responsible for this trick, when she is reunited with Manny and Moonlight Man.

The reunited group follows King Leonardo and Tommy only to find them sleeping in a bed. Tommy rolls over, causing King Leonardo to fall out of the bed and wake up, but this inadvertently saves Leonardo from a trap as Tommy is lifted by his bedsheets into the ceiling. This turns out to be a trick pulled by Moonlight Man and Manny, as they follow this up by splashing both Leonardo and Tommy with red paint, causing them to run away in a panic as they mistake each other for monsters. King Leonardo then stumbles onto a haunted painting where a blue ghost-like creature (Spookles) pops out and assaults him with bubbles, forcing him to run again. Meanwhile, Tommy finds a bathroom and goes in the shower to try to wash the red paint off of himself. As the cartoon changes to black and white and Tommy washes off, King Leonardo approaches from behind the curtain and lifts it, then proceeds to whack Tommy repeatedly with his mallet in a scene that mirrors the famous shower murder from Alfred Hitchcock's movie *Psycho*. After this dramatic scene, Tommy and King Leonardo reconcile, only to be frightened away by a flying glowing ghost that turns out to be Leeko with a sheet and two flashlights.

King Leonardo and Tommy flee deeper into the mansion and lock themselves into a basement room. After being spooked out by the decorations inside, a nearby television screen turns on revealing Gene. He explains that the haunted house was meant to be a trap for Leeko and that as soon as Leeko steps onto the hidden Monster delivery system, he will be transmitted to N.L.E and destroyed there. King Leonardo and Tommy agree to help make this happen by using Leonardo as bait, chaining him to the wall and painting him with fake blood. King Leonardo then pretends to call for help, prompting the kids to go and look for him. Along the way, they find a video camera with a tape showing King Leonardo and Tommy being caught in a trap. This trick works on the kids, and they rush to the area shown on the tape, leaving Moonlight Man to examine footage by himself. As King Leonardo continues to wait, the paint starts to drip into his eyes, putting him in actual pain and making the trap more believable. As the kids enter, Milly and Manny start to doubt the situation, but Leeko still goes to help him. Moonlight Man then bursts into the room and tosses his sword at Leeko, knocking him out of the trap right before he can be teleported away.

Frustrated with the plan's failure, Gene decides to send in a monster to bring Leeko back by force. Through the transmitter comes Dinobone: a small monster with a skull on its head. It attacks Leeko by throwing bones at him while Tommy tries to get King Leonardo down from his hanging position. While Dinobone is distracted by this, Leeko vacuum-mouths one of its bones to gain the Bone Copy Ability. As King Leonardo and Tommy slip away, Leeko has difficulty fighting against Dinobone and loses his ability. Moonlight Man steps in to help by throwing Leeko a nearby torch to swallow, granting him the Fire ability. Fire Leeko proceeds to quickly torch Dinobone and defeats it, but inadvertently lights the whole mansion on fire in the process. The group then escapes the burning building, leaving King Leonardo and Tommy inside by accident as day breaks and the mansion comes crashing down. Leonardo and Tommy later exit the door frame - covered in soot - and bicker for a moment about the whole situation before growing drowsy and falling asleep right there. Seeing this, the kids soon realizes that Leeko has followed suit and is also sleep off the whole ordeal near a tree, and the episode comes to a close.

## Trivia

* This episode is likely the most gruesome one in the series so far due to the red paint being used for its likeness to blood.
* It is not clear how King Leonardo managed to get the red paint off of himself before finding Tommy in the shower.
* This is the seventh episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Fire Copy Ability, and the first episode to feature the Bone Copy Ability.
* This is the first episode to air in 2004.
* This is the fifth episode where Tommy cries.
* This is the fourth episode in *The Beginning* series to feature more than one Copy Ability.
* Moonlight Man's line "It's a trap!" references *Star Wars: Return of the Jedi*.