Hungry For Rebellion

**Hungry For Rebellion** is the twenty-fifth Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the ninety-second episode overall.

## Summary

When King Leonardo finds out that his Viruses’ meals are costing him a fortune, he makes them eat less, resulting in a rebellion until he orders a cooking monster.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Sir Pathogen
* Chef Peppermint
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* King Leonardo
* Fryguy (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Aurora Man
* Beatrice
* Gene
* Helios & Luna
* Lady Chanter
* Manny
* Milly
* Moonlight Man
* Parker
* Sir Chanter
* Snowdrop
* Tommy
* Twilight Man
* Various unnamed Puffy Town villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins in Castle Leonardo, where Tommy takes a peek at the Viruses having dinner in the dining hall. He catches Leeko mooching on a meal, but soon notices that the dinner the Viruses are having is much more gourmet fare than what he and King Leonardo are used to. He runs off immediately and informs the cup-ramen-slurping king how much better his servants are eating than him, which makes him extremely upset. Tommy is forced to stop King Leonardo from causing a scene in front of his soldiers, and succeeds when King Leonardo starts to wonder how Viruses eat anyway. They take a look at one of the guards to try and find out and offer him a cookie, which the Virus proceeds to absorb through his mouth less face, much to the observers' horror. King Leonardo then wonders how much it costs to feed his soldiers, and after several hours of calculations, Tommy comes up with $98, 800, 000 per meal, which is comparable to the average price of one of Nebula Enterprises's monsters. To help reduce costs, King Leonardo and Tommy put out a want ad on Channel Lion Out Loud to try and hire someone who will cook for cheap. This gets the attention of several Puffies, who are interested in making money by cooking for the Viruses.

Later, Manny ends up telling Milly about the situation and the siblings spy on the proceedings along with Leeko. The three bidding teams try to one-up each other with progressively cheaper meals, until raw greed takes over Chef Peppermint and he proposes his translucent "thin-wich" for just one dollar per serving. Seeing the thin-wich, all the other constants along with the eavesdroppers become offended at him and head out in a huff, leaving the chef to reap the inevitable consequences of his cheapskate tactics. The next day, when he serves the Viruses his thin-wiches, they all look visibly upset. Sir Pathogen goes to King Leonardo and warns him that if he does not feed the Viruses properly, they will go on strike, but Leonardo brushes him off. As time goes on, the Viruses begin to slouch and slack on their duties as they start to go hungry. Once they head to the cafeteria and get another serving of thin-wich, they decide they have had enough and turn on Chef Peppermint. Later on, they also turn on the other members of the court and become generally hostile, capturing and locking up everything they can get their hands on.

While Milly and her friends get to safety, King Leonardo and Tommy are surrounded by their formerly loyal soldiers and forced to cower in the throne room. At that moment, Gene tunes in and chides the king for his stinginess. He then offers them a solution by sending the cooking monster Fryguy. Fryguy proceeds to shower the Viruses with stir-fry dumplings, and Sir Pathogen thanks the chef, asking what he wants in return. Fryguy responds by telling them to attack Leeko, and they oblige, forcing Leeko and his friends to make a run for it. They use a secret passage in the castle while Moonlight Man and his apprentices fend off the Viruses, but Leeko and his friends only end up in the mess hall, where a trial is being held to falsely convict Sir Chanter and Lady Chanter for starving the Viruses. They go along with this due to being controlled by Fryguy's cooking, and Leeko tries to vacuum-mouth some hostile Viruses, but cannot copy them, so he ends up spitting them back out. As Fryguy continues to butter up the Viruses with his food, Milly and Manny get an idea to turn the Viruses to their favor by having Leeko feed them instead, so Leeko vacuum-mouths Chef Peppermint's frying pan to get the Chef Copy Ability.

From there, Chef Leeko and Fryguy proceeds to try and one-up each other by preparing dishes for the Viruses. Soon, the observers' see that the Viruses are starting to look big and heavy from the excess food they are being given. To rectify this, Leeko causes the giant food to vanish and instead gives the Viruses servings of the healthier dishes they are used to having. With the Viruses summarily taken care of, Fryguy resorts to attacking Leeko directly using his wok. He manages to get a first hit on Leeko by scorching his tail in oil, but Leeko retaliates by dunking Fryguy's head in that same oil. They then make one last strike, but Chef Leeko prevails, deep-frying Fryguy and destroying him. King Leonardo and Tommy celebrate Leeko's victory, since they are relieved that the Viruses are back to normal. The episode ends as Milly tells King Leonardo he better keep to serving them good food to avoid this happening again.

## Trivia

* This is the seventh episode of the *Leeko: The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Chef Copy Ability.
* This is the last episode to air in 2007.
* This is one of the very few episodes where Leeko has attempted to inhale the Viruses.
* This episode is the first time that Snowdrop and Beatrice have appeared in an episode without their respective husbands.
* Counting Leeko, Sir Pathogen, and the 2,000 Viruses, Chef Peppermint makes a profit of 2,002 dollars per day with his thinwiches.