Hawking picked up Wolf and held her in his arms to keep her from falling. When Dante got onto the ship, he handed her to him so that he could check her. He looked at her nervously before Scarlet hit Dante. He then looked at the Straw Hat crew and all of their weapons. He could see swords, a slingshot, a purple cane, a being that had shoulders and arms larger than his body, and three people without weapons, two of which were women. Hawking fought the urge to get into a defensive stance and simply stood there as a small reindeer walked up and examined Wolf. "It's a long story. She's a devil fruit user like herself, but something is seriously wrong. Her powers act subconsciously in times of fatal danger, and there are internal attacks on her body."