Bad Therapy Part 3

Chapter III

Hypnosis at the Hospital

Nurse Redheart fumbled with her stethoscope as she tried to get a semi-good grip on it before she finally put it in her ears.  She let out a slight sigh of annoyance.

“Some days I really wish I was a unicorn like you, Mistress,” she said as she focused her black and white spiral eyes on Spiral Swirl.

“You seem to be doing okay,” Spiral Swirl said, before taking a few deeps after Nurse Redheart’s prompting as she listened to her lungs as well as her heart.

Once she was done Nurse Redheart took off the stethoscope and said, “You are in wonderful health Mistress, and I must say it was an honor getting to examine you.”

“That’s good news,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, “Now I noticed you were one of the ponies signed up to attend my lecture on the health benefits of hypnosis here at the hospital today.”

“Oh yes, I was interested in it before, but now I’m even more eager to attend now that I’ve had the chance to experience your hypnosis first hand Mistress,” Nurse Redheart said.

“I see,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, as she directed her magic at her saddle bag and withdraw a small bottle, “I want you to take this.”

“What is it Mistress?” Nurse Redheart asked taking the bottle.

“It’s diluted lamia venom.  You might not use it much here, but it’s become one of the newer sedatives to be used in the medical field.  I want you to slip it into the communal coffee pot in the lecture hall before everpony arrives.  You will remain in your trance in the meantime, but act like you would if you weren’t hypnotized.  I’d do it myself, but when has the lecturer ever arrived on time?  I wouldn’t want to arouse suspicion would I?”

“Of course not Mistress.”

“And speaking of avoiding suspicion,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, as her horn glowed with magic again causing a bright flash to fill the room.

“What was that Mistress?” Nurse Redheart asked, as her eyes took on their normal appearance again.

“A simple concealment spell.  I can’t have you walking around with spirals in your eyes.”

“Does this mean I get to be under your spell permanently?” Nurse Redheart asked.

“No, because even though I told you to act normally your desire to serve me, praise me, and refer to me as Mistress, will eventually overpower your desire to act like you normally would.  But don’t worry, there’ll come a time when you will be placed back under my control permanently.  Now since there is time before the lecture I have some free time to kill,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, as she turned to leave the room.

“Um could I possibly ask you a favor Mistress?” Nurse Redheart asked.

Not used to being asked to do something by those she had enslaved, Dr. Spiral Swirl’s curiosity was piqued.

“Perhaps, what do you need?”

“Well as you most certainly know for every eighth accident a pegasus has that requires hospitalization they need to be cleared psychologically in order go back to weather control or other flight intensive duties.”

“Yes, I know,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, knowing where this was headed.

“And you see we are short staffed today so I was hoping you could give a patient her psych check.  She gets rather…difficult the longer she has to wait.”

“Alright I’ll do it.”

“Oh, thank you Mistress!” Nurse Redheart said happily, as she handed chart to Dr. Spiral Swirl.  She then left the exam room to return to her duties until it was time for the lecture.

“Let’s see here…Rainbow Dash,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, thinking out loud as she looked over the chart, “She’s a resident of Cloudsdale and not Ponyville, but she is the Ponyville weather manager.  Which means this will be the perfect opportunity to place her under my spell. After all the weather manager is not without sin either.”

She then left the exam room and made her way through the hospital corridor.

Stopping at the room number indicated at the chart she made an effort to knock on the already open door before going in.

“Come in,” said a voice.

Stepping inside Spiral Swirl saw Rainbow Dash propped up in her bed.  She had apparently been reading as a book lay at her side, one of her wings was in a sling.

“Hi there, you must be Rainbow Dash,” Spiral Swirl, “I’m Dr. Spiral Swirl.  I’m a psychologist and I’ll be performing your fit for flight duties evaluation today.”

“Yeah yeah, let’s get this over with,” Rainbow Dash said, not having the highest regards for psychologists having been through this many times before.

“Alright then, let’s get started.  First and foremost how are you feeling today?”

“Except my wing I’m fine.”

“Good good, speaking of which how did you get hurt?”

“It was that stupid Derpy again,” Rainbow Dash said, her voice taking on a combination of anger and annoyance, “Every time I need to do anything weather related out by Derpymail she always finds a way to crash into me at full speed going off on deliveries…and she always walks off without a scratch too.”

“I see, and it looks like you’ve gone through at least…EIGHT?! Fit for flight duty assessments recently.  That’s kind of high.”

“Like I said it was that stupid Derpy again.  She’s always sending me to the hospital.  I try and find ways around it.  I go by the Derpymail office fifteen minutes late…boom she rams me.   I try and kick the clouds over it from a distance…boom she slams me from behind.  It’s always a good day when there’s no weather over the Derpymail office.”

“So, your injuries are never your fault?”

“Well…I guess I do overdo it sometimes,” Rainbow Dash said, smirking, “But that’s just because I’m trying my best, to go above and beyond while being 20% cooler while doing it too.”

“And you’ve never had thoughts about intentionally hurting yourself right?”

“What?! No, that’s just stupid,” Rainbow Dash said, offended by Spiral Swirls comments, “I don’t know who you think I am doc, but I’d never do that.  Flying is my life, why would I try and sabotage myself?”

“Sorry sorry, I was just covering all the bases,” Spiral Swirl said, “And speaking of covering all the bases  I know that on the outside you say you’d never intentionally hurt yourself I’d like to know how you really feel, deep down in your subconscious.”

“Probably the same way,” Rainbow Dash said, trying to sound like she knew what exactly the subconscious was.

“That may be, but I’d just like to double check.  So in order to do so I’m going to need to perform hypnosis on you.  Have you heard of it?”

“Yeah, it’s that thing that happened to Daring Do in the latest book.”

Spiral Swirl was a little surprised Rainbow Dash had heard of hypnosis, she was less then thrilled about the source of that knowledge, “I’m afraid I’m not to familiar with that series could you explain?”

“Fine,” Rainbow Dash said in annoyance, her dislike for Spiral Swirl growing, not only was she a psychologist she also wasn’t a Daring Do fan, “In ‘Daring Do and the Temple of the Lamia’ she travels to the Pony-dian subcontinent to help out a small village who’s sacred crystals have been stolen by a Lamia cult.   Once she finds her way into the temple, in an awesome nonstop action sequence, she fights with the Lamia cult leader, but she uses her crazy spiral eye powers to hypnotize her and turn her into an evil jerk.  She even smacks around the annoying pony idol singer that came along with her for some reason.  Fortunately her young pegasus sidekick is able to snap her out of it and they get the crystals back.”

Once she was done she lied back down in bed since she had gotten a little over dramatic and began acting out scenes.

“….Wow,” was all Spiral Swirl could muster, “While it does sound like an interesting story I can assure you your hypnosis session will not be like that.  I am only going to use hypnosis to help you, not turn you evil.  Also that’s not how lamia powers work either.  Sure they can induce hypnosis with spiral eye effects, but their powers are more primal in that they use them to subdue smaller prey and occasionally ensnare larger predators to protect their territory during mating season.  They’re not bent on world domination or anything like that.  Now are you ready to get started?”

“Sure, I guess,” Rainbow Dash said.

Shows what you know about lamias, Rainbow Dash thought, knowing the truth about the Daring Do stories.

“Alrighty then, why don’t you make yourself comfortable and just relax and watch the watch,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, as she magically took her pocket watch out of her saddle bag and began to swing it back and forth in front of Rainbow Dash’s eyes, “Just focus all your attention on the pocket watch.  Just watch it swing back and forth.”

Ha if this is what regular hypnosis is like, it’ll never work on me, Rainbow Dash thought, her eyes following the watch, This is boring.  The lamia’s hypnosis was at least exciting with the spirals and happening instantly.

“You’re doing very good Rainbow Dash.  Focusing on the watch.  Letting your eyes follow it.  They're magnetized by it.  The constant simple motion of the swinging watch is beginning to relax you.  Just relax a little for me.  Why don't you start by slowing your breathing?  Taking slow relaxing breaths,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, continuing the induction.  She smiled when she noticed that Rainbow Dash was following along and had indeed slowed her breathing, “"That's it.  Now just relax some more for me. You're beginning to feel calm.  You seemed to be annoyed by my presence when I first showed up.  Allow that annoyance to fade and just relax.  You're beginning to enjoy this experience.  You're beginning to embrace hypnosis as you relax even more for me."

She’s right, she doesn’t seem all that bad anymore, Rainbow Dash thought, as she began to feel relaxation flow through her, And it does feel good to relax.

"You're being a very good hypnosis subject Rainbow Dash," Dr. Spiral Swirl said, "Now as you continue to watch the watch I want you to notice the rest of the room fading away as nothing else matters anymore except for the pocket watch and my voice.  You just want to ignore everything else and continue to relax.  Just relax completely for me.  Your whole body is completely relaxed and it feels wonderful."

This does feel wonderful, Rainbow Dash thought, though she found it was becoming increasingly difficult to think.

"This wonderful feeling comes with something else," Dr. Spiral Swirl said, "A feeling of sleepiness.  You're beginning to feel very sleepy.  And your eyes are beginning to feel tired from keeping a constant focus on my pocket watch.  You just want to drift off and go to sleep.  So now when I count down from ten to one you will close your tired eyes and drift off into a deep hypnotized sleep for me.  10…Letting my words guide you down into a deep trance.  9…Just drifting down deeper into relaxation. 8…So peaceful, sleepy and relaxed. 7…Your mind is calm and relaxed.  6…Your eyes are growing heavy.  5…You did so very well Rainbow Dash.  4…You're nearly there. So close to drifting off to sleep.  3…So close.  You want to sleep for me. 2…Your eyes are closing.  1…Close your eyes.  Fall into a deep hypnotized sleep for me."

At her count of one Rainbow Dash’s eyes blinked shut as her head flopped back onto her pillow.

“Now then let’s begin your therapy,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, putting away her pocket watch, “As long as you are in this hypnotized state you will find yourself open to my suggestions and willing to talk about anything to me, do you understand?”

“Yes, I understand,” Rainbow Dash said, her usually loud and boisterous voice now sounding closer to Fluttershy’s.

“Very good, could you please tell me what your greatest desires are?”

“To join the Wonderbolts, to co-author a Daring Do book, and spend as much time with my friends and Tank as possible,” Rainbow Dash said, without any restraint.

Hmmm no desires for self harm so she was telling the truth, Spiral Swirl thought.

“Alright, now please tell me who you are most loyal to.”

“The Princesses and my friends,” Rainbow Dash said her voice still quiet.

“Very good.  Now then I just want you to relax and go deeper into hypnosis for me.  You enjoy the feeling hypnosis brings you don’t you?”

“Yessss, I do.”

“Then just go deeper into hypnosis.  Letting me take you down further.  Letting me have more influence over you.  Letting any remaining thoughts you have drift away.  Let your mind grow empty.  Now just drop down into the deepest reaches of hypnosis as a new thought enters your empty mind: OBEY!  You must obey me Rainbow Dash.  You are my hypnotized slave and I am your Mistress.”

“I am your hypnotized slave,” Rainbow Dash said, her voice now a monotone.

“Very good.  Now then please remind me, what are your greatest desires?”

“To serve and obey you to the best of my abilities Mistress.”

“And who are you most loyal to?”

“You and only you Mistress,” Rainbow Dash said.

“Excellent.  Your enslavement is complete.  Now there are just a few more commands to give you.  First your trigger.  When you hear me say or see me write: Trance time, you will instantly fall back into this state of hypnotic enslavement.  Secondly our time together has come to an end so I want you to continue to enjoy your hypnotic slumber.  In a couple of hours you will wake up and return to normal.  You will remember me hypnotizing you, but you won’t remember anything that happened while you were hypnotized.  You won’t care about your post-hypnotic amnesia because I will have signed off on your fit for flight duties evaluation and that’s all that will matter to you.  Do you understand these commands my slave?”

“Yes Mistress I understand, I will obey,” Rainbow Dash said.

“Very good.  Enjoy your hypnotized slumber,” Spiral Swirl said, as she turned and left the room.  Pulling out her pocket watch to check the time she smiled and saw that her time with Rainbow Dash had made her fashionably late to the lecture.

She eventually made her way into the lecture hall.  A mix of ten doctor and pony nurses, including Nurse Redheart were there.  All were drinking from coffee cups.  Nurse Redheart gave her a wink indicating she had drugged the coffee pot.

Excellent, the lamia venom will make them all drowsy and dull their senses, making them perfect subjects for some mass hypnosis.  Of course a long boring lecture will help give some extra insurance, she thought as she made her way to the podium.

“Good afternoon everypony.  I apologize for making you all wait.  I am Dr. Spiral Swirl and today I will be talking about the health benefits of hypnosis…But first, what is hypnosis?” she said, in the most boring lecturer style voice she could come up with.

Twenty minutes later she looked across the crowd as she continued to speak.  Half the doctor and nurse ponies had their eyes half closed; one had his head tilted forward and was beginning to droll.  The only one still focused on her was the already hypnotized Nurse Redheart who was giving her her full attention.

“Now then, all these words about hypnosis are meaningless if you’ve never seen it in action.  So why don’t I give you all some first hand experience,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said, as she magically levitated her pocket watch in front of her and let it swing so that the gathered audience could see it.  Immediately ten pairs of eyes began to follow it.

Nurse Redheart smiled broadly at the thought of being hypnotized a second time.

“Yes that’s it.  Just watch the watch everypony.  Relax and watch it swing back and forth.  Everything’s going to be fine,” Dr. Spiral Swirl said with an evil grin.