pinocchio and jiminy make it back to geppetto's but find that he's not home because sofia gave him a flyer of pleasure island to let him know where pinocchio is and that he sold all of his clocks to buy a boat to go there. while trying to find geppetto, pinocchio reunites with vitelli and sabina, who tell him that stromboli has been arrested and they have taken over his puppet show. they offer pinocchio to join them, but pinocchio declines, wanting to save his father, which makes his donkey parts disappear. sofia pulls a rope for pinocchio to hold out to the sea, where they soon find geppetto in his boat. just as they reunite, they are swallowed by a giant sea monster named monstro. they take refuge in a giant boat in monstro's stomach, and pinocchio gets the idea to make him sneeze by starting a fire within him. the plan is successful, and monstro sneezes them out, but he gives a chase that ends with him and the group crashing on dry land and rendering geppetto unconscious.