Lakeep
From Yb Timeline
"Team Flash works if you pay us well!"
-Lakeep, Team Flash Motto
| Lakeep | |
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| Facts | |
| Species | Lakitu |
| Age | 16 |
| Gender | Male |
| From | Flower Fields |
| Height | .875 m (1.119 m with cloud) |
| Weight | 31.25 kg |
| First Appearance | The Yoshi Bodyguards |
| Latest Appearance | The Dark Cloud |
| Stats (Paper Mario) | |
| Max HP | 25 |
| Attack | 3 |
| Defense | 0 |
| Moves | Spiny Flip (3), Spiny Storm (2 to all) |
| Appearances | |
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Lakeep is a lakitu with an orange cloud who is a part of Team Flash. His best friends are Dryler and Zzub, also part of Team Flash, though they're at odds sometimes. Lakeep is sometimes thought of the mascot of Team Flash, but there's no doubt he's also their ride when they need his cloud.
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Top Story Bio
A Lakitu with an... orange... cloud? Okay. He's 16, and from Flower Fields. He met Zzub after falling out of the Rainbow Ride Ship, and met Dryler at Vanilla Dome. They then formed Team Flash. He's not very serious, and can get annoying sometimes, but he's generally uh... neutral? He's like the getaway for them or something since he can fly. He’s from Flower Fields and stuff. They originally 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. He was flying by the YB HQ one day and overheard something about a treasure so they followed the YB, but they blasted their hot air balloon from the sky. Later they found on the island a treasure chest, but no treasure.
History
Team Flash Beginnings
Lakeep's early years were on Flower Fields, which was pretty normal and whatnot save for Huff 'n' Puff but he had nothing to do with that. Anyway, one day he won a cruise and went on to sail on the Rainbow Cruise. Unfortunately, while on the cruise, a dragon made of electricity attacked them. Although the cruise-goers banded together to defeat it, Lakeep was thrown off the ship and landed at Thwomp Volcano.
At Thwomp Volcano, Lakeep crashed onto a buzzy beetle named Zzub who apparently had a similar run-in with a fire dragon. Lakeep found he had gotten a toenail from the dragon somehow, and Zzub had one from the fire dragon; Lakeep then remembered an old legend he heard of where if you combine the toenails from an electric, fire and water dragon, they'll lead the way to riches, so they went to find the water dragon.
Their search brought them to Vanilla Dome, where they met Dryler. After telling Dryler about the legend, he wanted riches too, so they joined together, found the water dragon, and defeated it. The three toenails led to Rainbow Road, just in time for the Rainbow Cruise ship to come down and take them there. Unfortunately, when they got there, they had to fight a Rainbow Snake first, and during the fight Dryler, Lakeep and Zzub were thrown off of Rainbow Road and went plummeting towards the planet.
The Koopa Kingdom
The three crashed at the Koopa Kingdom, and decided to form Team Flash and go work for Bowser. They were hired, and sent to spy on the YB. They went in a blooper sub to the Forest of Illusion, but were almost attacked by patrolling clone troopers, but escaped into the forest. Lakeep was going to fly into the air to find their way out of the forest, but due to a recent influx of Phazon on the planet, it began to phazon rain so they hid in a ghost house. Once the rain was over, they headed out. Lakeep flew up to see if it was a clear path to the Yoshi Bodyguards HQ, but while he was up there he was suddenly possessed by some dark mist.
The next thing he knew he was in the YB HQ's infirmery; apparently he had turned into a dark lakitu with a huge storm cloud and was attacking everyone, including Dryler and Zzub. Once Lakeep was up, though, Team Flash attempted to attack the YB, but were sent shooting off again. They returned to Bowser's castle, where Bowser told them to attack Peach's Castle, but they failed and Bowser fired them--literally.
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 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
Lakeep's personality may show him a little Naïve and childlike, but he also seems to be the member of Team Flash with the most conscious. He sometimes goes with what Dryler says, but occasionally disagrees with him. Unfortunately, Dryler usually gets Zzub to go with him, outvoting Lakeep. Overall, though, Lakeep has a happy personality, even when things aren't going very well.
Appearance
Lakeep generally looks like a normal Lakitu, with the main exception being his cloud, which is a bizarre orange color.
Abilities
Most of Lakeep's abilities come from throwing things. And riding his cloud.
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
Lakeep has an unlimited amount of Spiny Eggs in his cloud, which may also be an item in of itself. He also has a good supply of bombs and Spiny Bombs. He's also used other weapons on occasion, such as a bazooka with an electric shot ammo, but that was destroyed.
Interactions with Other Characters
The Yoshi Bodyguards
- Main Article: The Yoshi Bodyguards
Lakeep has no real ill will towards the YB, but if his current employer doesn't like them, he doesn't like them. ...he'd rather be on their side, though.
Team TOT
- Main Article: Team TOT
It's a pretty similar situation here with the YB--he'd rather be on their side, but will fight them if he needs to. He always knows they won't win, though.
Dryler
- Main Article: Dryler
Lakeep respects Dryler as the leader of Team Flash, but has been at odds with him on occasion. He would follow Dryler to the ends of the earth, although if it's storming maybe not as much. He follows Dryler, but to a blurry point.
Zzub
- Main Article: Zzub
Lakeep and Zzub are both good friends in Team Flash, and sometimes they feel that Dryler gets on their nerves. More often, though, Zzub sides with Dryler, although this is moreso due to Dryler using Zzub's easily persuasionness.
Trivia
- In a beta version of Team Flash, Lakeep was the only one who remained, although he was known as Lacksy at this point.
- For Halloween 2009, Lakeep went as Steve.
| Preceded by: Dryler | Topmonhit's Characters Lakeep | Followed by: Zzub |
