Mummies Everywhere

**Mummies Everywhere** is the seventeenth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the eighty-fourth episode overall.

## Summary

King Leonardo tricks Professor Antico into opening a box containing Mummy Babies, small mummy-like creatures, which run rampant in Puffy Town before targeting Leeko.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* Professor Antico

### Secondary

* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Daisy
* Felix
* Gamba
* Hover
* King Leonardo
* Lady Chanter
* Marvin
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Mage
* Mummy Babies (*debut*)
* Sir Chanter
* Tommy
* Whitehead
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at night at Leeko's house. A dense fog and ominous noise fills the area, so Hover wakes Leeko up and orders him to go check it out. Leeko walks into the forest and discovers a large hole in the ground. When he gets closer, he sees Professor Antico digging out a relic. Leeko calls out to him, but Antico turns around with an evil look in his eyes and shouts at Leeko, demanding him to go away. Leeko runs off in a panic, and Antico returns to his excavation while giving off an evil laugh. The next morning, Manny and the Puffy kids are playing ball while Leeko sleeps nearby. Gamba and Whitehead accidentally kick Leeko again, and he flies off and hits Antico while he is carting the relic from earlier. Manny apologizes to Antico and offers to help push his cart, but Antico uncharacteristically shouts at him to go away. That night, Manny tells Milly and his parents about Antico's odd behavior, but they are hesitant to believe him. Meanwhile, deep within Antico's home, the professor is engaging in a dark ritual and summons the monster Mummy Babies from the relic he uncovered. Once freed, Mummy Babies proceeds to fly out of Antico's shop and antagonizes the other residents of Puffy Town.

Soon, Mummy Babies find its way to Leeko's house and proceeds to attack the pink Star Warrior in his sleep. Leeko tries to escape the monster by fleeing out into the countryside, where Mummy Babies pursues and attacks him with laser blasts from its eyes. Leeko manages to run all the way to Seashell Valley, where he is shortly blasted in by the pursuing Mummy Babies. After relocating Leeko, the monster hits him with a blast and then tries to carry him away in its mouth, but the sun rises, forcing Mummy Babies to flee before it can finish Leek off. While Mr. Mage warns Leeko about the monster that just attacked him, Mummy Babies returns to its urn to sleep and Antico watches it uneasily. Meanwhile, Hover tells Milly and Manny about what happened to Leeko, accidentally revealing that he did not care to protect him in the process. Before Milly can scold Hover, Leeko finds his way to their door - still covered in burn marks - and collapses in front of them. Later on, the Puffies report to Chief Gordy about the monster they saw the previous night, as Professor Antico stands nearby looking very nervous. Manny soon asks Antico about the monster and, in a panic, he denies any knowledge of it before running off. King Leonardo and Tommy are monitoring this situation from the castle, and gloat about how their plan is working out perfectly.

That evening, Manny, Gamba, and Whitehead head into Professor Antico's shop, having become suspicious of him. They find the broken window the Mummy Babies flew through earlier and sneak in through there. After finding Antico's manual, the kids head down into the basement and discover a secret entryway to the chamber where Mummy Babies is resting. They soon discover Antico in the deepest parts of his basement, engaging in further dark rituals. Manny then reports back to Milly, who is tending to a still-sleeping Leeko in his house, and gives her the manual he retrieved. The book explains that Mummy Babies is a good luck monster that will help those who find it recover treasure, and Milly and Manny decide to return to Antico's house to demand an explanation. They interrupt Antico just as he is about to pour a strange purple substance on Mummy Babies as it sleeps, and the creature escapes to go hunt for Leeko again. Moonlight Man then joins the group and tells them the book was a lie planted by King Leonardo, and the Mummy Babies is a monster that specifically hunts down Star Warriors and tries to kill them. Antico explains that the substance he brewed and tried to pour on Mummy Babies would have sealed it away again, but before they can get too far into this conversation, Moonlight Man reminds them that Leeko needs their help.

Mummy Babies soon finds its way back to Leeko's house and attacks him like before, with Hover letting Leeko outside again. As the others catch up, Leeko leads Mummy Babies into the watermelon patch, buying himself some cover as Mummy Babies accidentally targets some of the watermelons. Leeko momentarily loses Mummy Babies in the field, but then accidentally gives himself away when he takes a bite off one of the melons. Leeko then flees from Mummy Babies through Puffy Town, waking up all the Puffies in the process, who don't even try to help him. Leeko is eventually cornered by the monster, but Milly and Moonlight Man call out to him, and tell Leeko that he can defeat it if he stands his ground. However, Mummy Babies uses its hypnotic gaze to make Leeko grow tired, and then it bashes him around. After being snapped back awake by Milly, Leeko tries to vacuum-mouth Mummy Babies twice, but ends up spitting it out and gaining no ability. King Leonardo and Tommy then show up in the Royal Racecar and mock Milly and the others. After Leeko is sufficiently weakened by Mummy Babies' attacks, King Leonardo decides to step in and toss a bomb at Leeko to finish him off. Tommy tries to stop Leonardo, but to no avail, and Leeko vacuum-mouths the bomb to get the Bomb Copy Ability.

Once Leeko has transformed, Leeko calls for the Shooting Star to give Leeko further assistance, while King Leonardo is in his limousine, completely shocked by what has happened as Tommy sarcastically congratulates his master for failing to realize the outcome of finishing him off would backfire. Bomb Leeko and Mummy Babies proceeds to duel in the air, but despite Leeko's bombs, he is unable to overcome the monster, and it latches onto him again and tries to carry him away. However, the Shooting Star swoops back in and pushes Leeko and Mummy Babies far out into space, where the light from the sun hits Mummy Babies and causes it to start burning. Leeko holds onto Mummy Babies to prevent it from escaping, and it goes up in flames and then turns to dust. As Leeko returns to the ground, he immediately falls asleep. Milly, Manny, and Antico comment on the mistakes they made to put Leeko in danger like that, and promise to do better in the future. The episode ends as Milly wishes Leeko sweet dreams.

## Trivia

* This is the fourth episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Bomb Copy Ability.
* In one scene, Moonlight Man explains that the book given to Professor Antico was a forgery written by King Leonardo. This contradicts the notion implied in several episodes (most notably the previous one Schooled 3: Teacher’s Threat and the Season 2 episode A Dash Of Fiction) that King Leonardo is illiterate and incapable of even writing his own name, let alone a book that could fool Professor Antico.
	+ It is possible that he had one of his servants scribe for him.
* This is the twenty-second episode in the *Leeko: The Beginning* series where Milly calls for the Shooting Star.
* King Leonardo and Tommy’s roles in this episode are very minor. They appear for only a few seconds in the middle of the episode and appear again towards the end.
* Strangely, the Mummy Babies did not attack Moonlight Man, even though he is a Star Warrior.
* Leonardo seems to have forgotten Bomb Leeko, despite seeing him in the past.