Pollen From A Caterpillar

**Pollen From A Caterpillar** (originally titled "**I’m Wormy And I Know It**") is the seventh Season 3 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the seventy-fourth episode overall.

## Summary

NLE gives King Leonardo two captive sisters from Centaur’s South Sea in order to get rid of Leeko. Meanwhile, a giant worm is giving everyone in Puffy Town hay fever.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Milly
* King Leonardo

### Secondary

* Beatrice (*no dialogue*)
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix
* Gene
* Hover
* Island Sisters (*debut*)
* Lady Chanter
* Manny
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Miss Yuubin
* Moonlight Man
* Mr. Mage
* Parker
* Professor Antico
* Sandy (*no dialogue*)
* Sir Chanter
* Sir Pathogen
* Snowdrop
* Tommy
* Viruses (*no dialogue*)
* Wormelia (*debut*)
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins on a distant island, where two tiny twin girls sing together on a flower, as a giant caterpillar eats vegetation nearby. After a brief moment, the skies go dark, and a large hand descends to grab the girls and then take them away into the sky. Meanwhile, at Castle Leonardo, King Leonardo is walking around the castle and notices that everybody except him is sneezing. King Leonardo makes light of their predicament, hinting that he may be aware of what is responsible. The same sneezing situation is present down in Puffy Town, and is starting to interfere with daily activities. Everyone presumes they have a cold, but Milly shows up and tells them that there is pollen in the air that is causing allergies, and has Dr. Medico confirm it, though he also loses their trust by suggesting they stop breathing to get rid of the symptoms. Milly then points out that the pollen must be particularly concentrated, and notices that it can be seen in the air.

Later that night, King Leonardo is seen disturbing cedar trees to extract their pollen. He tries to use the pollen to make Leeko sick by driving over to his house and dumping him into a pile of it, but he remains completely unaffected, forcing Leonardo to pull back. Once he returns to the castle, King Leonardo contacts Nebula Enterprises and asks them to send a monster with more potent pollen, and Gene instead recommends a monster that sheds "special dust". He informs King Leonardo that this monster cannot be called through normally, but instead must be summoned from its home island, so he sends Leonardo the twin girls that were captured earlier, now locked up in a tiny cage. King Leonardo promises to set the sisters free if they agree to summon the monster, so they begin to sing, which causes Milly and Manny to wake up and comment on it. From across the sea, the giant caterpillar Wormelia hears the song and swims to Usapia, arriving at the Crown Lighthouse.

Hearing the monster arrive, Leeko runs out of his house and sees Wormelia eating the pollen-filled cedar trees from earlier. Leeko approaches and tries to speak to the caterpillar, but she ends up spitting silk at him, which encases Leeko completely and sends him tumbling. From there, Wormelia makes her way to Castle Leonardo, causing the guards to go on high alert. King Leonardo sees the caterpillar and orders his guards to fire at it, apparently not recognizing it as the monster the Island Sisters were calling. Sir Pathogen orders the cannons to fire, but they do nothing to the giant caterpillar, and it proceeds to climb onto the castle. From there, Wormelia spits out a continuous stream of silk, encasing itself in a massive cocoon affixing itself to Castle Leonardo. At this moment, Leeko (having mostly freed himself from the silk) and Hover arrived on the scene. As day breaks, Tommy uses Channel Lion Out Loud to broadcast the news of the giant cocoon to Puffy Town, and everyone shows up to have a look at it. After Milly explains that it is going to transform into a butterfly, King Leonardo and his Viruses show up with torches and wood and light the cocoon on fire to get rid of it. Despite this attempt to kill it, the cocoon hatches and Wormelia emerges as a vibrant moth. She proceeds to flap her wings, spreading dust out that makes everyone sick, including King Leonardo. Leeko tries to vacuum-mouth this dust, but he ends up choking on it.

Seeing Leeko struggle, King Leonardo realizes that this was the monster he ordered, and tries to stick around to finish the job, but the power of the dust forces him and everyone else to fall back. To help Leeko, Milly calls for the Shooting Star, but despite this, Leeko still struggles against Wormelia. Tommy then decides he has had enough of the hay fever and helps Milly and Manny by giving them the key to the Island Sisters' cage. Milly and Manny then run into the castle and freed the trapped sisters, who reveal that Wormelia is not inherently hostile and promise to sing to pacify her. Milly and Manny take them outside and they start to sing, bringing Wormelia back down and causing her to perch on the castle. After the Island Sisters apologize for all the trouble, Leeko places them on Wormelia, and they proceed to return home atop the giant moth. King Leonardo calls out to the moth to return amidst a sneezing fit, but he is left unheeded. The episode ends as Wormelia disappears over her home island in the South Seas.

## Trivia

* The episode’s original title “I’m Wormy And I Know It” is a reference to the song “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO.
* The episode’s title is a reference to the movie *Advice from a Caterpillar*.
* The nineteenth episode to not feature a Copy Ability.
* This episode is one of the very few episodes where Tommy has directly gone against King Leonardo and helped Leeko subdue a monster.
* This is the seventeenth episode in *The Beginning* series where Milly calls for the Shooting Star.
* This episode is heavily based off of the Japanese monster film *Mothra*.
* Many characters can be seen wearing masks when they are affected by the pollen as if allergies are contagious. In real life, allergy sneezes aren’t contagious.
* The way Wormelia’s metamorphosis is sped up by the fire’s heat is similar to how Chicky’s egg hatching process was sped up by Leeko’s bonfire in the episode An Egg-cellent Friendship.
* This is one of the few episodes where the Viruses’ voices are heard. In this episode, they are heard when the Viruses are sneezing in the hallway.