Rude explained to Riku, Donald and Goofy about how Sora disappeared and that Rino went after him. While Rino was out looking for him he some how managed to get swallowed by a giant whale swimming around in space and now he couldn't get out. During Rudes explanation Riku was staring at him shocked.

"So you can talk like normal people," Riku said. Rude stared at him for a moment.

"Will you help?" Rude asked ignoring the comment.

"Yeah and I think I know where this whale is too. Let's go!" Riku said and they all headed for the gummi ship. Donald got them to the place where Riku originally managed to escape the whale but it wasn't there. They explored the area but they still couldn't find it.

"How does a giant whale just disappear!" Donald demanded.

"Maybe it swam away," Rude pointed out.

"Was this the area where Rino in countered it?" Riku asked and Rude nodded. "Then it'll most likely come back."

"So we just need to wait for it to come swallow us up?" Donald asked sarcastically.

"No. I don't think we need to wait," Riku said staring out into space.

"And why not?"

"Because I think it's going to swallow us now," Riku said pointing out.

"What?" Donald turned just in time to see the whale open its mouth and eat them. Once they were inside the whale they exited the Gummi ship while Donald was throwing a fit. "You sould have said something sooner!"

"I thought I was quite clear that the whale was right there," Riku said as he looked around. They were in the creature's mouth and there was a bunch or pieces of wrecked ships and some water. Donald grumbled in the background.

"Any idea where he might be from here?" Riku asked Rude. Rude just shrugged. "Then we should start looking." Riku said and jumped onto a floating piece of wood. Rude followed him across to the other end of the whale's mouth where a boat was mostly in tact. Riku could hear movement on the boat and went up to see if it was Rino but it was an old man instead. The man was pacing back and forth on the boat worried.

"Hey, is something wrong?" Riku asked. The man was startled by Riku but calmed down.

"Oh, Monstro must have swallowed you too. Well you see my boy Pinocchio was here just a moment ago but then he wandered off and I don't know why. It's dangerous here and I'm not sure I could go after him," the man explained pointing to a hole where Pinocchio went.

"Alright I'll see if I can find him then. I'm already looking for someone else so it's not a problem," Riku added as the man was about to protest.

"Alright but remember it's dangerous."

Riku nodded and headed for the hole the man pointed to.

Riku started to explore the different areas of the whale. He soon realized the place was like a maze. As he and his companions explored the area Riku got separated from the others. When he went to find him he ended up back where he started. Riku stared at the broken boats wondering where the others could be.

He went back into the maze to try and find everyone. He found himself in a pit like area that only had one reachable exit. There was a high area but he couldn't reach it. Riku crossed his arms and looked around trying to figure out if the pit looked familiar but all of the placed looked a like.

Riku suddenly heard a loud squak and looked up to see Donald and Goofy falling from the upper area. Riku moved out of the way and watched as the two hit the ground. "Well this seems familiar," Riku said as Donald got up. Donald grumbled as Rude jumped down from the ledge.

"Heartless!" Donald yelled pointing to where they had all fallen from.

"Rino," Rude stated.

The Heartless was big. It had two arm-like appendages that were swinging around wildly. It used its arms to swing its self over the ledge and they all had to move so it didn't land on them. Riku didn't know why Rude had said Rino until Riku noticed that in the Heartless's mouth Rino was caged with a wooden puppet.

"Guys. Some help would be nice," Rino said.

Riku charged at the Heartless and started attacking. Shortly after Rude, Donald and Goofy joined in. The Heartless swung at them knocking them back for a moment. No matter how much they hit it the thing didn't seem to want to let go of Rino.

"Why isn't it working?" Rino asked.

"Why don't you ask the Heartless?" Riku said. He jumped back just as the thing started swinging at them again and before they could move in to attack it went up the cliff and disappeared.

Rude started running and the others followed. They went through several doors and found themselves on the upper area where the pit was. The Heartless was there and it didn't seem happy to see them. It attacked them and managed to knock Riku back. Riku got back up and saw a glimpse of dark hair and a red outfit.

"Sora?" Riku wondered but before he could go after him the Heartless tried to attack Riku again. Riku blocked and jumped to hit the thing in the head. The attack seemed to stun the Heartless because its mouth fell open. Rino got out of it as Donald cast lightning that finished the Heartless off.

The second the battle was over Riku ran after who he thought was Sora. "Sora!" He called in the next area but there was no sign of anyone else. Riku kept going until he was back where the shipwrecks were. He spotted the red outfit again just to realize it wasn't Sora. "Pinocchio," Riku stated looking at the wooden boy. The others caught up to him as he looked at the boy and started feeling sad.