Deep within Angel Island, Knuckles finds himself confronted with a series of extravagant booby traps. After carefully evaluating his situation, he decides to wing it and rush through the area. Knuckles manages to escape unharmed and thinks about how the mysterious Archimedes had kidnapped the Chaotix and taunted him with riddles for the past several weeks, as well as his people's history. Remembering that, after Dimitri was buried under the Dark Tower, the echidnas banished their technology to the Grand Conservatory under Mount Fate, Knuckles realizes that Archimedes is likely hiding in the conservatory.