A/N:  Wow!  Over twenty reviews!  I didn't expect to get over two reviews much less twenty.  I'm glad everyone likes it.  I'll give all my faithful reviewers a hint:  Just because Tobias, Rachel, and Ax are controllers doesn't mean the other Animorphs are.  But you won't find out what happens to them until later *shifty look*.

Disclaimer:  I don't own the Animorphs; I own Hope, Bade, Josh, Alexandria, and Sarah.  K.A. Applegate owns the Animorphs.

~~Alexandria~~

I won't even bother filling you in.  If you don't know what's going on, read what my other friends have written.

The blackness was gone and was replaced by…pink?

I looked around.  It was a girl's bedroom.  There were nine girls in the room having a pillow fight.  I concluded it must have been a sleepover in some other town.  I've lived in my town all my life and have never seen anyone of them.

Of course, they were affected by the time freeze like everyone else but us.  Feathers had stopped in midair and a very exasperated mother was standing in the doorway looking like she was about to yell.

CHOOSE YOUR FIRST MORPHS.

"What the…" I said.

"Has anyone else noticed that guy does not help one bit?" Sarah pointed out.

"Yup," Hope replied and then asked, "Where are our guys?"

I had just noticed that too, "Yeah, where are they?"

Sarah just shrugged and plopped down on the floor, "So…what are we supposed to do?  And what did he mean when he said first morphs?"

Hope sat down next to Sarah, "Don't know.  Hey, has anyone else noticed that our clothes have changed?"

Sarah tried to make a joke, "Oh my god, you'd think that would be first thing we'd notice after being transported to a frozen sleepover by a guy who has frozen time for everyone except you and your friends."

As usual, no one laughed at Sarah's joke.  I might have if it wasn't happening right now.  But Hope was right, our clothes had changed.  We were all wearing leotards: Sarah was wearing a dark green, Hope was wearing black, and I was wearing a cute leopard print.  And Hope was still wearing the necklace that had just changed our lives and was now completely healed of all scrapes.

Suddenly, I understood why we were here.  I understood why we were wearing different clothes.  "Do you think we're supposed to acquire them?" I asked.

Hope shrugged, "Maybe.  How am I supposed to know?"

"I don't understand," Sarah said.

I got up off the floor and walked over to an Asian girl.  Then I did something I've only heard about: I acquired her.  I know it's wrong to acquire sentient creature, but you know what, we had no choice.

"Oh, I get it!  Since they think we're dead, we've got to have disguises," Sarah concluded.

Hope and I both said at the same time, "Well, duh!"

I was finished acquiring the Asian girl.  I moved over to gold blond girl.  I saw Hope get up and start acquiring a white blond girl.  Sarah chose an African American girl.  My last choice was a dark brown haired girl.  I sat down and watched as Sarah acquired an auburn haired girl and a tall brown haired girl.  Hope's other two choices were a red haired girl and a short light brown haired girl.

Don't ask me how, but somehow I mixed all three of the girl's DNA together.

"Should we give it a shot?" I asked Hope.

"Give what a shot?" Sarah questioned.

"Morphing," I said as I rolled my eyes.

"Nah," Hope answered, "We have to worry about clothes."

"We're wearing skin tights, so it shouldn't be a problem," Sarah asked.

"Clothes aren't part of DNA.  We'd be naked," Hope replied.

"Go ahead, we don't mind," Josh said.

We had left the room so quickly that I hadn't even noticed.  I saw the guys in bike shorts and way too tight T-shirts.  Obviously, they had been through something similar.  However, I was hoping that their human morphs were guys and not girls.  I'm sorry, but if they became girls, that would be creepy.

"Please tell me you have guy morphs and not girl," Sarah begged.

"Yeah, don't worry," Bade reassured.

"Go ahead.  Try your morphs." Josh said.

"Perverts," I muttered.

~~Hope~~

A/N:  I know I usually devote a chapter to one person, but I've been getting complaints of shorter chapters and this is basically the only way I could think to fix it.  I will only be doing this occasionally.  I hope everyone thinks this is long enough.

We were all together again and we had gotten human morphs.  It had felt almost wrong to acquire those girls.

Josh voiced my disagreement with our first morphs, "It's not right to acquire sentient creatures without their approval."

DEAD PEOPLE DON'T TALK.

"Great.  Listen, buddy, I'm the only one allowed to make stupid and unfunny jokes around here." Sarah said.

"Great idea," I muttered, "Why don't we all piss off a guy who can freeze time?"

Amazingly, Sarah shut up.  As long as I've known her, she has never shut up.

"What is your name?" Bade asked.

I AM THE ELLIMIST.

"Okay, Ellimist, no offense, but where are we supposed to live.  In case you've forgotten, we're all 'dead'." I said.

YOU SHALL SEE.

"When Ellimist?  When shall we find out what we are supposed to do when what we are supposed to do is be dead?"

Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said that as sharply as I did.

SOON, MY CHILD, SOON.

Okay, this guy was irritating me.  But somehow, I don't think that mattered to him like it would to most people.

Josh talked very calmly, "Is there anything we need to know?"

I answered for the Ellimist, "Lots.  And I'm not leaving until I know everything that is going on."

"Hope, the world is in danger.  We don't have time to waste."

"Hello!  Time has stopped.  There is no way we can waste it."

Josh shrugged and figured there was no point in arguing.

YOU KNOW ALL THE RULES OF MORPHING.

"Of course," Alexandria answered, "You must acquire a morph, but only when you're in your original form.  You can't go from one morph to another.  And most of all…never stay in morph for longer than two hours."

THEN I SHALL LEAVE YOU.

I sighed, "Bye then."

I was suddenly alone in the black void.  The others had disappeared.

HOPE.

"What?" I asked.

YOU ARE NOW THE KEEPER OF THE ESCAFIL DEVICE.

"Huh?"

I HAVE INTERTWINED YOUR SPIRIT WITH THE NECKLACE.  YOU AND IT ARE NOW ONE.  IF ONE DIES, SO DOES THE OTHER.

At that moment, I felt strange.  It felt sort of like the shock I had felt when I first got the power to morph.  It wrapped itself around me and bound itself to my soul.  The necklace gave a faint glow and then returned to its normal dullness.

"Oh goody," I said sarcastically and then asked, "Is that it or may I leave?"

Then all of a sudden I was in a…bed?  I sat there for a minute and looked around.  Sarah was in another bunk bed.  On the top bunk was Alexandria.  The last remaining wisps of the Ellimist's voice sounded.

SLEEP.

I lied down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

A/N:  I hope everyone thought this chapter is longer.  Please review.