Sorry, firesong77 was unable to attend the, uh, start of the chapter, as all Otto fans are attempting to turn her into a wolf beverage. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Chapter sixteen - The booming voice revealed

After a restless night, the contestants were wondering who to gang up on for the next Tribal Council. Then Sparx sat up.

"Where's Bill?" he asked everyone.

Nova shrugged. "I don't know."

Suddenly, the host walked into the camp. "Good timing!" said Antauri.

"Shut up!" the host snapped. "Anyway, Bill was becoming a nuisance, so we had him removed. He was helping you too much."

"Thank god!" said Sparx loudly. The host glared at the monkey, and walked off, muttering things like "I hate my job..."

Nova looked over at Mr Jeepers. "Well, Otto would want us to keep Mr Jeepers on the show..."

"Don't even think about it!" said Chiro loudly. "I'm voting off that dumb penguin! How could a toy last so long on Survivor?"

Antauri looked at Mr Jeepers. "I think I'm growing fond of that toy," he said.

Chiro glared at him. "I hate it."

"Well, I'm keeping it." said Sparx defensively. Chiro gave a "Hrmmph!" and said nothing.

The Hyper Force minus Gibson and Otto waited in silence. Waiting for what? I don't know either. Probably waiting for the dumb author to think of an idea for a task. Then suddenly a voice (angry... impatient... you know the one) boomed across the island.

"COME TO THE BEACH AT ONCE!" the voice yelled.

Nova stood up impatiently. "I'm sick of this dumb show!" she yelled, almost as annoyed as the voice. "I'm going to find out where you are!"

"NO, DON'T DO THAT!" the voice pleaded loudly. "IT'LL DESTROY THE WHOLE... MYSTERIOUS IDEA!"

"Ah, shut up." said Sparx. "I'm going with Nova."

The two monkeys disappeared between the trees.

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Sparx and Nova were hopelessly lost. They had to admit it. There was nothing but trees in every direction with only a few glimmers of sunlight streaming through the trees.

"We've gone too far in - we should go back!" said Nova, looking around her.

"Nah!" said Sparx certainly. "We'll go... this way!" The red monkey pointed to an eerie-looking area between the trees.

Nova shook her head. "Nope!" she said defiantly. "Admit it! You got us both lost! You were leading and went in the wrong direction!"

"If we're finding something, there's no right or wrong direction!" Sparx retorted.

The two monkeys fought until an ear-splitting scream boomed across the island.

Sparx and Nova blocked their ears until the horrible noise was over.

"What was that?" Nova exclaimed. "It sounded like the time when Antauri had found a bunny in his bed!" (A/N: Refer to The Attack of the Bunnies)

"No," said Sparx, shaking his head. "It sounded like the bunny when it found itself in Antauri's bed."

Nova nodded. Then she heard another noise...

"Shut up!" the other voice yelled. "We don't know where they went, you stupid voice thing! I'll give you laryngitis if you're not careful!"

It suddenly dawned on Nova - that screaming noise was the voice thing, and the reply was Chiro.

"Sparx! We're pretty close!" said Nova, and ran in the direction of the loud screaming noise. Sparx obediently followed.

The two monkeys came to a clearing. And in the middle of the clearing was a thing that looked a bit like a telephone box.

And on top of it was a loudspeaker.

Nova ran over to the telephone box thing and bashed the door open. Inside was the rather surprised host with large mufflers on his ears and a microphone in his hand.

"What are you two DOING?" he yelled. But his mouth was too close to the microphone and everything he said went screaming around the island.

Silent voices could be heard coming from the direction of the camp - probably Antauri and Chiro yelling curses at the host to shut up.

The host glared at the two monkeys, and slammed the door in their faces.

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Suddenly, the not-so-dumb author thought of an idea for a task, and soon enough, she put it into the story.

Well, that was... weird, and not to mention SHORT, but... oh well. Now you all have to wait until I update to find the next task, and trust me, I probably won't update in aaaaaaaagggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss!

Well, R&R or else I won't update at ALL, and you won't see who will win... so hahahahaha you have to review! (maybe I should shut up now...?)