Flash Clown

**Dante Williams**, known by the moniker **Flash Clown** or simply **Flash**, was a super-powered male bot and member of the Clown Force who possessed the ability to move at supernatural speeds at will.

Trained in the ancient Japanese art of *Sokudo* from his youth, Williams was one of several new members recruited by Guru in 2164. He soon became close with several other of the reckless, raunchy and untamed new recruits. After several manic incidents, Williams and his clique were soon kicked out of the Clown Force by Guru. As he deemed them too dangerous and powerful to remain functioning members of society, he exiled them to the mysterious Oléron Island, a small volcanic isle in the middle of the Sockrash Sea. The small gang of castaways became known as the **Rebels**, with Tiger Clown emerging as their de-facto leader. He also began a relationship with female member of the gang, Fuser, on the island. Soon encountering and teaming up with two elderly survivalist bots on the island by the names of Wolford and Freezo, Williams and his fellow rebels were targeted by a small army serving the legendary villain King Boulder, who had been in hiding on the island for decades. After Tiger Clown, Guru and Wolford defeated the king and foiled his plot to take over the planet, the surviving Rebels were offered re-inducted into the Clown Force and the splinter group subsequently disbanded. Williams's attitude then settled down considerably, mainly due to the fact that all but 2 of his fellow rebels had been slaughtered during their time on Oléron.

He eventually became a respected member of the force, fighting alongside his comrades during the Blockotron Crisis. While the team was temporarily inactive, he married Fuser, settled down in the city of Westbrook, but later rejoined the force during the War on Pirates. He came to be considered as one of the most useful and powerful due to his speedster abilities.

Flash was among the millions who met their doom in 2174 in the midst of the Second Coming of Vastuvius, where he was blasted off the rooftop of a skyscraper in downtown Cad City by skeleton soldiers, exploding on impact.

He appears in *Clown Force: Rebels, Clown Force: Steel, Clown Force: Pirates* & *Clown Force Apocalypse*.

## Life before the Clown Force

### Early Life

Williams was born in the Coral Bay Area city of Eastport, Cadaland Island in the year 3043. His parents were humans who had decided to apply to have a ZV-40 infant created for them as his mother was unable to have children of her own. After spending their life savings on the bot, they went broke and Williams grew up poor. The family lived in the derelict southside neighborhood of Cypress Heights. The young Williams was subject to a hostile environment of crime and debauchery, and was something of a petty thief throughout his childhood after falling in with a bad crowd.

### Learning *Sokudo*

At the age of 11, Williams was caught stealing from a decrepit, seemingly abandoned judo in the Little Tokyo district of Bayton City. His catcher was indeed the owner of the dojo, an elderly human woman of Japanese descent. Instead of turning the young Dante in to authorities, she gave him the opportunity to be taught the ways of the ancient, forgotten martial art of *Sokudo*, which when mastered grants the user the ability to move at supernatural speeds, along with greatly enhanced perception, reflexes and combat techniques involving speed. Over the next few years, he became devoted to the art and trained profusely in the dojo with his *Renshi*, and he achieved the state of "complete velocity" when he was 16. This enabled him to view the world around him in slow motion as he moved, a skill that later proved to be a valuable asset to the Clown Force.

Before he joined the force, Williams had successfully kept his abilities secret from the outside world, including his friends and family, as he feared he would be hunted down by the government for being a danger to society. However, he did occasionally save people in need, albeit never without an immediate escape afterwards. This gave Dante a reputation as "**The Speed of Light**", an unknown force that rescued the citizens of Eastport and disappeared instantly after.

According to Williams, he was one of the only bots ever trained in the art, and that he was the last individual his master had ever trained before her death a year prior to meeting Guru.