Dryler
From Yb Timeline
"To help whoever gives us pay!"
-Dryler, Team Flash Motto
| Dryler | |
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| Facts | |
| Species | Dry Bones |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Male |
| From | Unknown |
| Height | 1.005 m |
| Weight | 27.21 kg |
| First Appearance | The Yoshi Bodyguards |
| Latest Appearance | The Dark Cloud |
| Stats (Paper Mario) | |
| Max HP | 15 |
| Attack | 3 |
| Defense | 3 |
| Moves | Bone Slash (3), Bone-Arrow (4x1 to all) |
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Dryler is a Dry Bones and the leader of Team Flash. As a Dry Bones, it's assumed he had some sort of past while living, but he's never spoken of it to Lakeep or Zzub. He seems to be greedy, however, and wants to strike it rich. To this end he joined Lakeep and Zzub and Team Flash was created. He, as well as Team Flash, originally worked for Bowser, but then were fired and became a group-for-hire.
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Top Story Bio
A light blue Dry Bones who's time alive remains a mystery. However, he's often serious... sometimes. He's also pretty greedy. The leader of Team Flash, a group-for-hire, if you pay them well, so they’re mainly neutral and goes with whichever side works best for them. He met Lakeep and Zzub when they came to vanilla Dome looking for this water dragon. He helped them—kinda unintentionally—and joined them on their journey. They later worked for Bowser after crashing at the Koopa Kingdom, but Bowser kicked them out because they were failing so they went to Rogueport to form a group-for-hire. They found out about the YB finding out about a treasure, but when they got to the island all they found was an IOU from Cortez.
History
Pre-Death
Nothing is known about Dryler before he died; for one thing, it's unknown when he died, so there's too many possibilities as to who he could have been. All that's known is that after he died, he was at Vanilla Dome.
Team Flash
One day, a Lakitu and Buzzy Beetle named Lakeep and Zzub (respectively) appeared in Vanilla Dome. Apparently they were looking for a Water Dragon, due to a legend that if you combine its toenail with the toenail of a Fire Dragon and Electric Dragon--which Lakeep and Zzub each had one of--it would create a path to riches. Thus, Dryler joined them and they defeated the water dragon somehow. Once they had all three toenails, a path to Rainbow Road was formed, and the Rainbow Cruise came down with a bunch of people Lakeep and Zzub knew.
Together, they went to Rainbow Road and began to fight against a Rainbow Snake to obtain the riches. Unfortunately, during the fight Dryler, Lakeep and Zzub were thrown off and crashed into the Koopa Kingdom. There, they decided to become Team Flash and to go work for Bowser. Their first assignment was to spy on the YB, so they got in their Blooper Sub and headed to the Forest of Illusion. They were almost attacked by some clones that were there for some reason, but avoided being attacked. Unfortunately, due to a recent influx of Phazon on the planet, it began to rain a phazon rain, but they hid out in the ghost house of Forest of Illusion.
Once the rain was over, they headed back out, and when they got to the forest's edge, Lakeep went up to see if it was clear. The next thing Dryler and Zzub knew, however, Lakeep had a giant black storm cloud and was throwing dark spinies and lightning everywhere! Dryler and Zzub immediately ran for their lives to the Yoshi Bodyguards HQ, where they hid while the YBs fought Lakeep. Once Lakeep was defeated, he went back to normal, but was knocked out so he was brought to the infirmery. Just then a giant, spiky Dark Blooper appeared and attacked the HQ, so the YB fought it.
Once the Blooper was defeated, Team Flash revealed their true intentions and began to fight the YBs; Top easily sent them shooting off into the sky, though, and they returned to Bowser's Castle defeated. Bowser once again sent them on another mission at Peach's Castle, but they failed again and this time Bowser fired them--literally. They were sent shooting off out of the castle, not to return again.
Group-For-Hire
Out of a job, Team Flashed scrounged up what money they could, then stole some at Rogueport; it wasn't too hard. Then they took up rent at a building on the east side of Rogueport and began a new group-for-hire business. Before they would get any jobs, however, Lakeep overheard something about a treasure while near the YB HQ one day. He rushed to tell Dryler and Zzub, and the three of them set off, following the YB. Sneezier, however, was a meany and attacked them with his supercruisership even though they did nothing hostile, causing them to shoot off again.
It just so happened Team Flash crashed on the exact island they were trying to get to, but the treasure turned out to be an evil ghost demon named Darkost. The YB defeated it, and left the island. Team Flash, however, remained there and found there really was a treasure... but it was just an I.O.U. from Cortez. They returned to Rogueport, no treasure and running out of funds.
First Job
Their first job came in fall of that year when a large evil plot began to form, led by Cackletta, Fawful and Gruntilda. They joined as the lowest ranked villains, but after the YB (and former YBs) came, the plot began to begin, which was to use the combined powers of the Mystery Eggs, Master Emerald, Star Rod and Magic Paintbrush to take control of the dreams of everyone on Star World. However, when the YB escaped, Team Flash accidently went with them and immediately claimed they were undercover and are actually good guys.
Team Flash explained everything and they all escaped to the Pokeworld, specifically Viridian Forest. There, King Rexor, Shadow Danny and Metal Sneezier appeared, trying to kidnap a Jigglypuff, and the heroes attacked them, saving it. They then learned there were more villains on Ripple Star and Rareworld, so Team Flash went to Ripple Star to help them stop Metal Sonic, Dark Matter Kirby and Mime Dee from taking the Ripple Crystal, which they succeeded in. They then went to Star World to stop the evil plan, but Team Flash remained in orbit (because "Team Flash sticks together"). Those who did go down succeeded in stopping the plot, and Team Flash were paid for their help so they could pay their rent.
Team Flash were hired once again, this time by two rich yoshi families from Yoshi's Island. Their son and daughter had been kidnapped by Rexor, and Team Flash were on the job because the YB and former YBs failed. They allowed the YBs to help them out, though. When they got to the Rex Kingdom, however, Razabi appeared and attacked them. It was eventually defeated by a random volcano eruption, then Rexor appeared; however, Rexor was blasted away by a flaming eagle, which they then began to fight. Team Flash went shooting off again during the fight, however.
Secret Society of the X-Nauts
Later, Team Flash was approached by the Secret Society of X-Nauts, who wanted to hire them for some dirty work. They agreed, and were sent to Toadwood Forest along with Lord Crump to locate a Chaos Emerald. Team Flash guarded the outside of the Vim Factory, but when the YB and former YBs appeared, they fought and Team Flash were defeated. They escaped, and later went to the moon to try and get another emerald. There, they attacked the Pyro Cruiser with a bonezooka, and then fought the YB and former YBs. Team Flash was defeated, but they quickly headed into a crater where they brought out Flashtail.
Flashtail was a robot akin to Fracktail, but with some extra features such as a barrel roll. Despite this, it was still destroyed, but Team Flash managed to get away. Their final attempt was at Riverside Station, when they lifted the bridge and set a bomb below the bridge to go off if it was lowered. An explosion was avoided, however, so Team Flash began to attack the train; their hot-air balloon was modified to have a jet, but the jet was destroyed and they crashed onto the train, after which they were sent blasting off again. This was supposedly the end of their job with the X-Nauts, and they would not see any action again until the Metal Wars Climax, during which they still would do no action and instead hid in a civilian camp.
A couple months later, Lord Crump came to them; apparently Grodus had died, leaving Crump to inherit the X-Naut empire (as apparently the rest of the X-Nauts had died too). Team Flash laughed at him, however, believing him to be lesser than they, and Crump left. Later Bloo showed up, wanting to hire them to help with stealing from Cortez. Remembering the I.O.U. they had from him, they agreed, and left in their balloon to attack the ship. They ran into a problem when another ship appeared and attacked Cortez's ship, then attacked Team Flash's balloon, sending them crashing into the new ship, owned by Boss Bandit, a bandit mafia leader. While on the ship, Team Flash was attacked, and they sent shooting off again.
Near the end of 2009, Rogueport was attacked by a humanoid being of magic called a morph. Team Flash (along with Pyro) fought against it, although Team Flash was only somewhat okayish at fighting it and in the end SWDF soldiers appeared and blew up the morph.
Personal Information
Personality
Dryler's main personality trait seems to be his greediness. He has a desire to be rich, although he doesn't care as much about fame. Just to be rich. This is his main driving force for Team Flash, but generally it seems they only make enough to get by. Still, Dryler tries, and is not above resorting to evil. His second main personality trait seems to get in the way of his first, though: he's cowardly. He often stays at the back of groups to avoid being attacked, and will join up with whomever has the advantage. Despite this, he's still willing to lend a hand or bone in a fight.
Appearance
Dryler is a light blue dry bones with red eyes and a light blue shell.
Abilities
Dryler's abilities are that of the normal Dry Bones, being able to put himself back together... sort of. It's unknown if he can go into his shell or not; you would think so, but he never seems to.
Final Smash: Team Flash Bash
Team Flash group together, and all 3 attack—Dryler fires multiple Bones from his bow, Lakeep uses Spiny Storm, and Zzub spins around like a supercharged Green Shell.
Items
Most of Dryler's items are bone-realted weaponry. He has a bone bow, which is a bow that shoots bone arrows, a bone bludgeoner, which is just a large bone he can use to attack, and he once had a Bonezooka, which fired a giant bone bomb, but it's unknown if he still has it. Other than that, he can just throw bones, but the bone bow is usually more effective than that.
Interactions with Other Characters
The Yoshi Bodyguards
- Main Article: The Yoshi Bodyguards
Dryler found they were usually at odds with the YB, but that was because they worked for Bowser at first. Dryler once considered having Team Flash join the YB, but then found out how much they paid and decided against it.
Team TOT
- Main Article: Team TOT
More often than not, Team Flash is on the opposite side of Team TOT. Dryler wants to be on at least okay terms with them, though, given that would probably be wise, but it doesn't seem like they would be given past experiences. Dryler is annoyed by Top sometimes, but is more than willing to work with them or help them. He usually ends up having to fight them instead, though.
Dark Top
- Main Article: Dark Top
Dryler sees Dark Top as a prime villain, one of those who he would like Team Flash to work for. Unfortunately, they don't usually get to work for those types of villains due to being seen as incompetent.
Lakeep
- Main Article: Lakeep
Dryler sees Lakeep mostly as the mascot for Team Flash, but does recognize his cloud is a good way for getaways. He gets sort of annoyed at Lakeep's childness sometimes, but it's not too bad. No matter what, they still remain good friends, though they sometimes disagree with one another.
Zzub
- Main Article: Zzub
Dryler knows Zzub is the brawn of Team Flash, so he sends him ahead first a lot. He also uses Zzub to his advantage, given Zzub isn't that bright and easily persuaded. Thus, they can usually outvote Lakeep, though on occasion Zzub sides with Lakeep instead.
Sneezier
- Main Article: Sneezier
Dryler has some amnoscity towards Sneezier for being a weirdo and whatnot. He also once attacked Team Flash for almost no reason, so he'd rather not have to deal with Sneezier.
Subsourian the Dark
- Main Article: Subsourian the Dark
Honestly, Sub scares Dryler. He knows that if he crosses path with Sub, he will probably be in a world of hurt, so he tries not to, although that seems to be rather hard.
Trivia
- Topmonhit recently came up with an actual past for Dryler involving before he died, but it's under wraps right now.
- Dryler's light blue bones are similar to Rak, a Marowak with a light blue skull and bone. There is no actual connection, however, simply coincidence.
- For Halloween 2009, Dryler went as The Boogeyman.
| Preceded by: Noshum | Topmonhit's Characters Dryler | Followed by: Lakeep |
