"How're we gonna find out who he is?" Jiminy wondered as Sora ran into the dark portal after the cloaked figure.

"What if he's Organization XIII?" Donald suggested.

"Not likely." Ignus shook his head. "Remember, they didn't get involved in this until the Castle Oblivion incident. But with everything else that's been happening, maybe the journal formed one of them too."

"Don't worry." Mickey smiled. "Sora will catch him. Then we'll know for sure."

A loud bang sounded across the room. Everyone turned to the door and Ignus recited the Oath of Spark. Another bang came from the doors and they buckled a little.

"Who's there?" Donald wondered.

"Chip and Dale musta come back to rescue us!" Goofy cheered.

"That sounds a little big for Chip and Dale." Ignus took a fighting stance in front of the doors.

The doors flew open to reveal Sora, keyblade in hand.

"You're here?" Mickey said in amazement.

"That voice…Mickey? Is that you?" Sora stood up and his keyblade vanished. "I was just…following that guy, and…"

"Majesty!" Jiminy called. "There, on the monitor!"

Mickey turned back to the screen to see the static give way to an image of the room they were in, all of them crowded around the desk. Suddenly, a loud noise came from the corner, where a gridded cylinder of light had just formed around the dark-cloaked figure that had appeared there. A small interface console appeared around his head and the hood vanished, revealing Riku's face.

"Riku!?" The group exclaimed.

"Sorry, not quite." The boy responded. "Much like Sora there, I'm just zeroes and ones that look like somebody you know."

"That's it. That's why I don't feel Sora or Riku's hearts from them." Ignus relaxed his body. "So if you're not them, who are you?"

"Memories used to fill Jiminy's journal, but when they were pulled apart and then stitched back together, bugs appeared. It was these bugs that kept the book from being completely restored. Of all the possible vessels to protect the data, I was chosen from the journal's pages. The full set of memories was transferred inside of me to shield them from corruption."

The boy looked back at the confused faces before adding "So, in a way…what I really am is Jiminy's journal."

"You're my journal?" Jiminy repeated in bewilderment.

Journal tapped a key and the message in the journal appeared on the screen. "I took the liberty of importing all of you to help solve the mystery of this entry."

"Imported? Where?" Donald asked.

Journal cocked his head to the side. "You really haven't noticed?" He asked the room of blank stares.

"We're in the Datascape." Ignus answered after a moment.

"Datascape? We're in the journal?" Mickey replied.

Ignus nodded. "It's the only explanation that makes sense. How the Heartless got in. Why they didn't release any hearts when destroyed. How a pair of wooden doors stood up to my attacks. Not to mention these two." He pointed from Journal to Sora, who was dozing at the side of the desk.

Journal nodded at him and typed a bit on the keyboard. Chip and Dale's panicked voices came from the ceiling, calling frantically for the king.

"Chip? Dale?"

"We finally got through!"

"The room was empty when we came back, and we've been searching the data for you ever since!"

Goofy turned to Mickey. "Well if Sora's here with us, and Chip and Dale are out there lookin' in, then…"

"Then we really are inside the datascape, just like Riku said." Mickey finished.

Journal glanced at Ignus. "They're a little slow on the uptake, huh?"

Ignus smirked. "Only most of the time. So please tell me that this 'importing' process is reversible?"

Before Journal could respond, an alarm started to blare and the sky began flashing crimson.

"Oh no!" Chip and Dale exclaimed. "Someone's trying to break into the data from the outside!"

"A hacker!" Journal jumped to the keyboard and began typing furiously. "If that's true, then there won't be a way out for you."

"You have to escape before-" There was a squeaking sound and Chip and Dale were cut off.

"Chip? Dale!" Mickey called to the sky.

"No luck." Journal said. "The link from here to the real world has been totally cut."

"How 'bout some good news?" Donald tried.

"If we repair that link, a new pathway should open."

"Then let's do it." Ignus declared. "I didn't fight my way out of the realm of darkness to die inside Chip and Dale's computer."

"Of course, that's if these bugs weren't around."

"I don't understand it all, but…basically, this means you guys can't go home, right?" Sora spoke up. "Okay. Then I'll go bash the bugs for you."

"Sora, that's another one we owe ya." Mickey chuckled.

"Who says we're keeping score?" Sora grinned. "We're all friends, right?"