For this particular illusion, all five members of the After School Magic Club walked onto the stage in a line, one after each other. The Head was at the front of the procession, wearing white. Vella in second, wearing blue. Eden, green. Miranda, red and Tracy black. This wasn't unusual. What was, was what they were carrying. A large television screen was being carried by them, and as they reached the front and center of the stage, they held it out in front of them.

"Welcome," the Head said from behind her mask. "Our first performance tonight is a fun little thing that was suggested to us, and we decided to give it a go." As one, the five performers lowered the screen down so that everyone could see them properly, then they lifted it back up. This time, however, the screen was on!

Reaching from their shoulders to their shins, all five women were hidden behind the blank screen. "Allow me," Tracy said on her end, and she pressed a button on the side of the screen and it flicked to life. Now, the screen showed the five women behind it. It showed how the Head and Tracy were holding the frame on the edges, and the support the other three gave. It matched the ways their legs and feet moved, all to prove that what was being shown was a live image, and not a pre-rendered one.

"What we are doing," Eden said from the middle, is we're going to change positions!" At that statement, Eden walked over behind Vella and took the Head's position, she reached around the edge of the screen's frame and took the weight of it from the Head. Then the head moved to take Eden's former position. No, that was what was shown on the screen as Eden's head and feet stayed in the same spot, and so did the Head's head and feet.

"Like that!" Tracy said as Vella stepped behind the screen and took Tracy's space, repeating the same motion of just moving on the screen but leaving herself standing where she was, her dark skinned hand now supporting things on the side while Tracy stayed still.

"However, we're not just going to do that," Miranda said as she raised her arms up over the screen, no longer visible on the flat projection in front of them. She then walked over to Vella, and Vella walked back to Miranda.

Miranda raised Tracy's arms up, making four, while Vella was left with nothing, and a distinct air of not being bothered by that state of affairs at all."

"You better be helping with those," Eden said to Miranda. "Tracy, if you please?"

"Right!" Tracy agreed, and with Vella's hand, pressed the button again. The screen flickered, and this time a black bar showed up on the screen, which in anything else would have been a technical fault in the digital display. But here, it was magic. It crossed everyone's waists. "Let's do this!" she announced as below the black bar, her hips and her legs walked behind everyone else all the way over to the other side, where they bumped the Head's lower half out of the way. Then the Head's lower half walked over and stood below Tracy. As this all happened, there was nothing holding Tracy up, save perhaps her grip on the screen.

"I think one more is needed," Miranda said as she and Eden then switched top halves, the black bar showing their chests moving along with their heads while their respective lower halves stayed in place.

"Now we should lower it," Vella said. "Prove things."

"Agreed," the Head confirmed. "On Three. One. Two. Three."

She finished the countdown, and the screen was lifted up over everyone's heads.

The Head had Eden's green chest, and Vella's blue hips and legs. Vella for her part was stoic in the face of not having Miranda's arms, but did have that woman's hips and legs. In the middle, Miranda had Tracy's chest and her own arms in addition along with the Head's lower half. To her left, Eden has the Head's chest, but Tracy's lower half. Finally at the end, Tracy had Vella's chest and Eden's lower half.

The audience applauded this as the five women lowered the screen in front of them again. "Now, let's go!" Eden cheerfully proclaimed. "Woo!"

"Well, I for one don't feel like being Miranda," Vella flatly complained. "Anyone want to switch?"

"Not yet!" Miranda said as she and Tracy switched tops, now with two hands on the side, holding up the screen.

The Head interjected before anyone else could say anything. "I think it is rude to keep Vella away from having some arms," she said. "We'll all slide down one. Tracy, don't be a hog, or keep two left arms."

"Aww..." Tracy said.

"I'm fine without," Vella shrugged, armless. "Perhaps I'll wind up without legs either."

"Overruled!" the Head proclaimed. "This is the first act. If you want to be a limbless body pillow, do it on your own time, that's not one of your acts tonight."

"Fine," Vella gave in. "Everyone, move."

Tracy arranged herself so that Miranda's arms were in position around the screen, so when her upper torso moved to Eden, giving her Tracy's chest, but with Vella's arms, and Tracy had temporarily no chest with Miranda's arms. This moved down the line with Vella's chest going to Miranda, Miranda moving the Head's chest to Miranda, Miranda moving Tracy's to Vella, Vella sliding Miranda's temporary armless chest to the Head, whom in turn moved her chest - but not her arms - all the way back to Tracy on the far end.

"I feel like I should take a turn holding this up," Vella said as she flexed her new arms. She moved completely over to take the Head's position, the two women switching. As they did that a quite argument on the other side resulted in Tracy and Eden switching spots, leaving Miranda by herself, still in the middle.

"Status Check!" Miranda called out. The five women lifted the screen one more time! Vella was on the right of the line, with the Head's chest, and Miranda's lower half. The Head beside her with Miranda's chest, and Vella's lower half. Miranda in the middle with Vella's chest, and Tracy's lower half. Then Tracy, with Eden's chest and the head's hips and legs with Eden having Tracy's chest and her own hips and legs on the end.

"That needs fixing!" Miranda announced sternly. They lowered the screen again. "Head! Gimme Vella's hips!"

"Done," the Head agreed, causing her hips to slide to switch places with the ones Miranda had. Their legs and upper halves didn't move at all. Vella and Eden then switched legs, the pairs of limbs walking across each other as the whole line was held up by the three in the middle.

Then, CHAOS! Above and below the screen, on it on the top and bottom, everyone started moving back and forth with no rhyme or reason. "Hey!" "Excuse me." "You can't have that, you already have one!" There was no way for anyone to keep track of what was going on on the whole, so they were reduced to focusing on the part they were most interested in.

"STOP!" The Head commanded, and everyone stopped where they were, instead settling into facing forward for everyone. "Now, the screen?"

The five lowered the screen. Tracy stood on the right of the line, with Vella's blue chest, Eden's green hips and Miranda's red legs. Then the Head stood atop Miranda's chest (and her own arms), Tracy's hips and Vella's legs. Eden, in the middle, had Tracy's chest (and Vella's arms), Vella's hips and the Head's legs. Miranda then had Eden's chest, the Head's hips and Tracy's legs while on the end, Vella had the Head's chest, Miranda's hips and Eden's legs.

The audience applauded hard at this new arrangement. "For the evening," Vella announced, "We will be performing like this," she indicated her modified body.

"And for now," the Head announced, "these ladies will take a walk about the audience, get everyone to have a look at that while I put this away," she indicated the screen at her feet. "And our next performance will begin shortly."

*  *  *

"Wow," Tony appreciated his fiancé's temporary body. Her neck flowed into the dark skin of Vella smoothly, even though he knew that the latter had a thinner neck than Tracy. There should have been no way for their waist to match up, but they did, the skin transitioning from dark to light without blemish, then closer to the knees, Miranda's legs still had her slippers. "That's amazing!"

"Thanks," Tracy smirked. This was enjoyable actually. "But before you give into your insatiable carnal lust for me," which was utterly true," the girls wanted to play a game."

Tony was on guard. "What sort of game?"

"Every time I orgasm," she told him sternly, "I'll switch parts up again. And then again and again until we've gone though all of us."

"Uh...."

"And then, in the morning, you'll tell the Club which you liked the best!"

"You and yours, obviously!" Tony gave the only sane, intelligent and reasonable response.

"Nope," she put a finger against his lips. "That part of me is someone's prize tonight. You get this game instead, as a reward for a long year's worth of sharing. Their treat."

"Well, I want it clear that I love you," he told her. "But if they're offering, then I suppose in the interests of science, I can tell them which order they are in from second to fifth."

Tracy giggled. "And I'm in first."

"Always will be," he assured her then pushed her onto the bed. "Let's get started."