A warm wind blows off the northern cape of some unmentioned island that's not important as the crystalline entity known as Fire Nexus zooms along the coastline, occasionally zipping between the pine trees dotting the landscape that merge into a full-blown forest slightly farther inland (MAN, that was a long sentence). Away from his home in Destronica while meditating, he seems at peace. Suddenly, the voice of your traditional salty sea dog rings out, cutting the near-silent whoosh of the levitating crystal...

"Arr, matey, hold it thar!" comes the voice of Wave Man from just off the beach. Puzzled, the gem that is Fire Nexus slows to a halt as the robot walks out of the waves...

"What is the reason for which you have stopped me?" Fire Nexus queries the sea-bot.

"You be the one who my mate, Billy Chilly, decided 'e wants to see if 'e can destroy ye. Figure I should give 'im a hand." replies Wave Man.

"While it may be true that I, the Fire Nexus, can be destroyed, now shall not be the time." Fire Nexus counters.

"Arr... we'll see, matey." threatens Wave Man as he drops into a defensive crouch, arm blaster at the ready. Fire Nexus hovers slightly lower, as if he were also in a fighting position, but, being a crystal that hovers in the air, it's really quite impossible to tell.

Fire Nexus begins the battle with a Heat Field, superheating the surrounding air to inestimable temperatures. However, Wave Man counteracts its effects with a quick Water Wave. Fire Nexus' orange glow fades as he recharges from the massive energy output required for his Heat Field... meanwhile, Wave Man smiles as he launches a volley of spears at the crystal. To his dismay, however, they glance off nearly harmlessly, harpoons lacking the stopping power to pierce a crystal shell.

"Arr... uh, oh." says Wave Man as Fire Nexus lets loose with his Fire Burst. The pillar of flame sears Wave Man's armor, staggering him. He hefts himself back up, hurting.

"As I stated, today is not the day when the world shall ascertain if the Fire Nexus is invincible or not." quips Fire Nexus, hovering closer to the wounded bot. However, he stops short when a space freighter descends from the sky... it lands, and a ramp opens on the underside.

"Can't we all just get along?" asks the pilot, striding down the ramp in a black and red version of Samus Aran's own armor.

"Who be ye?" asks Wave Man.

"The Insane Space Hunter, at your service." the Hunter replies, taking a bow.

"What is the importance of your visit?" asks Fire Nexus.

"Oh, nothing much. I figured I'd give Wave Man here a few pointers on fighting stances. When you use arm-mounted cannons, there are a few ways to do things better. First, there's the open perpendicular stance..." explains the Hunter, standing perpendicular to Wave Man, his blaster on the side facing the bot. "This makes you a harder target, and gives you all the freedom of movement of the open forward stance."

"Arr... any other stances I should know?" asks Wave Man, chuckling.

"Uh, sure." The Insane Space Hunter proceeds to demonstrate fifteen more stances from different fighting arts, ranging from low-to-the-ground, firm stances to the ever-popular one-footed Crane Stance and others, describing the good and bad of each one. Finally, Wave Man interrupts him...

"Matey, what would ye describe as the most useless stance ye know?" Wave Man asks with a grin.

"That's the Flaky Croissant from some Indo-European fighting art that was adopted by the French, who screwed it up, of course." replies the Hunter, who puts himself into the stance, standing on the toes of one foot while putting the other one behind his head. Then, he proceeds to raise one arm above his head while he points his blaster at the ground...

"Aye, that would be useless. Silly French." Wave Man says, walking up to the Space Hunter and tipping him backward, back into his ship. The ramp hisses as it shuts, the voice of the Hunter almost drowned out as it shuts...

"Oh, hey, if there's any more stances you need to know, just let me know..." he says just before you can no longer hear him.

"Arr, tis' nice of him to try and help." says Wave Man, turning back toward Fire Nexus. "Now, back to the matters at hand..." he says as FireNexus attacks with his Heat Beam. Surprised, Wave Man ducks out of the way just as the heat beam sizzles by, lighting half of the forest on fire.

"Oops."

"Aye, 'tis a fine 'oops,' indeed!" says Wave Man, attacking Fire Nexus with his Water Wave. He drives the crystal back toward the Quest of Insanity, the Insane Space Hunter's ship, with the sheer volume of the water, but does little damage to the entity. Ducking low, he charges up his cannon and lets loose with a Flood Summon. Fire Nexus manages to hover out of the way, just barely, but the attack still grazes him, nearly blasting away his outer shell. Meanwhile, the gigantic wall of water washes the Quest of Insanity out to sea, where it disappears over the horizon. With the last of his strength, Fire Nexus hits Wave Man with a Fire Burst that knocks both of them backward, Fire Nexus into the flames of the burning forest and Wave Man into the shallow water of the beach line.

The roar of a jetpack fills the silence as Billy Chilly descends, landing near Wave Man's injured form. He helps his sometime ally to his feet...

"Like I said when you asked to team... we're gonna need to fight Fire Nexus together."

"Arr... it seems what ye said is true. Where is the blasted crystal?" Wave Man says, looking around.

"Dunno. That's a battle for another day."

The two warriors part ways, Wave Man descending into the waves once more while Billy Chilly flies off...

Meanwhile, an injured Fire Nexus looks upon the exchange and departure from the depth of the flames...