"Mystic Island"
Sonic had all the help he needed and headed to the first of the 3 locations. The first location was a island called "Mystic Island" as they look around they got separated in the thick fog. Tails was panicking scared that something might happen so tails brought out his "ghost detector" and it was going wild as if a storm arrived but because of the loud "beeping" of his detector sonic was able to find tails but knuckles is still lost in the thick fog.
As sonic and tails went on they found one of the dark rings and the closer they got the more the emeralds reacted. When they were about to grab the dark ring someone was shouted and it was knuckles. Knuckles had these dark aura around him looked like he's being controlled by the dark ring and a quick second knuckles threw a punch at sonic but sonic was able to dodge it sonic kicked him and tails grabbed the dark ring and kept it in a special case that would stop it from unleashing its power. As soon as tails placed the ring inside knuckles returned to normal and thats when they found out what it can do when they're separated. The fog was slowly drifting away and when the fog was gone they left to go to the next location.
