Puffy New Year!

**Puffy New Year!** is the thirteenth Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the thirteenth episode overall.

## Summary

King Leonardo orders Crackle, a firework monster and excellent builder, and attempts to destroy Leeko and ruin Puffy Town’s New Year’s celebration.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* King Leonardo
* Chief Gordy
* Tommy
* Mayor Bay Brittleton

### Secondary

* Aerialessa (*cameo*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Crackle (*debut*)
* Daisy
* Felix
* Gamba
* Gene
* Helios & Luna
* Hover
* King Forrest (*cameo/has no lines*)
* Lady Chanter
* Madeline (*has no lines*)
* Manny
* Marvin
* Milly
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Mage
* Professor Antico
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop
* Whitehead
* Viruses
* Various Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins as Castle Leonardo, where King Leonardo is ordering a new monster from Nebula Enterprises to get rid of Leeko for his new year's resolution. After pointing out his low funds, Gene sells Leonardo a monster at a fairly low price, sending in the fireworks expert Crackle. Meanwhile, in Puffy Town, many of its residents have gathered to decide what, if anything, they should do to celebrate the new year. Before they can elaborate, however, King Leonardo and Tommy come driving in on the Tank car and start announcing their intention to host a new year's eve celebration using fireworks, but insists that only the king is allowed to plan the events. After he drives off, Milly and the assembled crowd decide they will defy the king's orders and make their own fireworks show, which was apparently what Leonardo and Tommy had predicted they would do.

The Puffies got to work with collecting gunpowder from the police headquarters and measuring it out. Unfortunately, this plan backfires when Leeko cluelessly brings a lit sparkler into the room, causing the entire place to explode. After this setback, the Puffies realize they don't know how to hold a celebration, so they ask Milly for help with the planning. Milly suggests the town set up a bunch of floats representing their various occupations and interests. During this, Lady Chanter mentions that Leonardo has a new monster, prompting Manny to go to the castle to check it out. Back at the castle, Crackle is hard at work setting up a massive structure that resembles King Leonardo on its own accord, prompting the king to ask him about this. Crackle rudely blows them off with a flurry of projectiles, which prompts Tommy to plead with Leonardo to use his rocket instead.

A short while later, Manny, Leeko, Helios, and Luna discover this rocket, but must soon hide behind it as Leonardo and Tommy enter the room and discuss it. Soon, Leeko lets out a sneeze and is discovered by King Leonardo and Tommy. He is then captured by a robotic grabber and thrown at high speed into a wall, prompting Manny to grab him and get away quickly. They report back to Puffy Town, asking them to cancel the festival, since King Leonardo is using it as a trap to get rid of Leeko, but the town refuses, insisting they can hold it regardless. That night, festivities begin as Mayor Bay leads the proceedings with his own sheep-themed light float. Following floats include ones made by Chef Peppermint, Professor Antico, Chief Gordy, and Sir Chanter and Lady Chanter. As the floats march on, King Leonardo reveals his displays with a massive fireworks show and float of his own. The town looks on with envy, but Manny explains that the monster built the floats for him.

From within the King Leonardo float, Crackle uses a bomb barrage to blast the Puffies' floats down. It then targets Leeko by using a bunch of bombs designed to look like him. To counter this, Leeko inhales all of the firecrackers thrown at him and gains the Fire ability. Moonlight Man appears on the scene to comment on this as Fire Leeko sets off against his opponent. The two exchange firecrackers as the town watches, thinking it to be part of the show. Fire Leeko starts to falter, prompting Milly to call for the Shooting Star. Fire Leeko takes off using the star, but is knocked off course by a continued barrage. Fire Leeko sprays one more barrage of firecrackers on the float, destroying it in a mushroom cloud explosion. Crackle manages to escape, and runs back into the action using Tommy's rocket as Leeko falls through the air, once again with no ability.

Crackle lights the rocket with himself attached, launching toward Leeko and colliding with him, sending both of them high into the sky. Leeko wakes up and tries to climb down the rocket as it ascends, with Crackle moving to intercept him. Seeing this with a telescope, Tommy orders Sir Pathogen to launch the castle's remaining fireworks at the rocket. As Crackle draws near, Leeko vacuum-mouths the monster just before the rocket explodes, creating an extravagant fireworks show for all of Usapia to see. The rocket itself comes crashing down right on top of the tank car, and Leeko comes floating safely back down, having obtained the Parasol ability for the first time from Crackle. Puffy Town counts down to the new year as Parasol Leeko floats gently down. The episode ends with the words "A Happy New Year" written behind Parasol Leeko as he descends.

## Trivia

* Third episode in *The Beginning* series to feature the Fire Copy Ability.
* First appearance of the Parasol Copy Ability in *The Beginning* series, although there wasn’t a transformation sequence shown, which would make this the first episode in the series where Leeko gets a Copy Ability offscreen.
* This is the first episode where Leeko uses more than one Copy Ability in an episode.
* Fifth episode where Milly summons the Shooting Star.
* This is the first New Year-themed episode of the series.
* The episode's title is a play on "Happy New Year!", a phrase said on New Year's Day.