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// Scootaloo 
// Story: Cutie Mark Crusader Hypnotists! 
// by Butterfly Kisses 
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	Scootaloo had volunteered to be hypnotized first to test the hypnosis kit. Since Sweetie Belle had read the instructions, she was chosen to do the hypnotizing, while Applebloom would supervise. Sweetie asked Scootaloo to make herself as comfortable as possible. Picking up the pocket-watch, Sweetie began to swing it slowly back and forth, instantly, the pocket-watches' swirly designs began to rotate.
As if by magic, Scootaloo found she couldn't look away from the watch, her eyes following its every move. 
"Ok, Scootaloo, I am going to count backwards from ten, with every number I want you to relax. By the time I count to one, you will fall into a deep sleep, do you understand?" Sweetie instructed.
"Yes." Scootaloo nodded, never looking away from the pocket-watch.
"Ten...." Scootaloo visibly relaxed her entire body.  
"Nine....." 
"Eight...." Scootaloo's wings drooped, and she began to feel sleepy.
"Seven....."
"Six....." Her eyelids began to feel heavy.
"Five....."
"Four....."
"Three....."
"Two...."
".....One..." Instantly, Scootaloo fell to the floor, out cold.
Sweetie and Applebloom looked at each other, grinning. For a few minutes, Sweetie was unsure what to use as a command. It was only when Applebloom suggested something she remembered from when they were trying to find Fluttershy's lost chicken in the Everfree Forest, that they knew what to do.
"Scootaloo....I want you to listen very carefully to what I'm going to tell you, and whatever it is, you must do it, understand?" Sweetie asked.
"......yes......" Scootaloo said, still asleep.
"Very good. Now, whenever you hear the word "feather" I want you to cluck like a chicken, ok?" Sweetie commanded.
".....yes...." 
"By the time I count to five, you will wake from your trance, and you will not remember what you were told."  
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
"Four."
"Five." Scootaloo woke up, got back to her haunches, and yawned.
"So, did it work? asked Scootaloo. 
"Yea! Ya fell asleep an' everythin', just like the instructions said!" Applebloom excitedly exclaimed. Sweetie Belle nodded, noting that everything went perfectly, but they needed to test one more thing. 
"What? Didn't you just say it went perfectly?" Scootaloo asked. Both fillies exchanged mischevious glances. Applebloom looked back at the confused orange pegasus, smirking, and said, "Feather."
"Cluck!...." Scootaloo clucked like a chicken, then looked around very confused.
Both Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were on the floor of the treehouse, laughing. They knew it worked, now they had to choose new targets......And what better a place, then Ponyville?