Locke and Sabre discuss the situation at Haven while Knuckles, Julie-Su and Archimedes are escorted to a briefing room by the Echidna Security Team led by Constable Remington. The Constable apologizes for not recognizing the Guardian of the Floating Island sooner, but Knuckles insists he's just a normal guy and he'd rather people stop addressing him by his title. Remington disagrees with the sentiment and, explaining that there's someone who's very eager to meet Knuckles, presses a button that sends the trio through a set of trap doors. Archimedes and Knuckles are separated from Julie-Su during their descent and are greeted by Hawking, the former Guardian and Knuckles' distant ancestor. He welcomes Knuckles to his inner sanctum and instructs him to play a series of discs on his computers. The discs store video logs of Hawking's tenure as Guardian, 200 years in the past.
