“I always wanted hypnotic powers,” Ben mumbles to himself, “I am sick and tired of my lazy big brother bossing me around,” the 12 year-old grins evilly, “time to turn the tables, let’s see how much Jeff enjoys being bossed around, forced to do MY bidding.”
Working quickly, knowing that Jeff might return any minute, Ben activates the scanner and after he is scanned, he opens the “Superpower” folder and selects, “Hypnosis”. The boy is then asked to select a “target”, of course he selects his own file, then a new message appears, asking him what why he’d like to hypnotize someone: by looking into their eyes or with his mind. Ben decides the best and easiest way would be to hypnotize someone with his stare, after selecting the “hypnotic stare” option, a message pops up, warning him that, if he looks into a mirror he could hypnotize himself, either he’d have to learn to control his powers, learning to activate and deactivate it at will, or add a protection so that he can’t hypnotize himself by mistake. ‘I think with a little training, I’ll get the hang of activating my hypnotic stare at will, but I should also add the protection, I really don’t want to risk hypnotizing myself,’ he thinks to himself, so that is what he does.
After confirming the change, Ben feels a strange tingling in his eyes, which causes him to blink a couple of times, “that felt weird,” he says. Jeff’s Laptop lets out a “ping” and Ben sees a message, telling him that the change has been successful, ‘I don’t feel any different,’ he thinks to himself, he then decides to check himself out in the mirror.
Ben closes his file and minimizes the program, he then hurries into the bathroom, entering the bathroom, Ben stares up into the mirror and gasps, his eyes widen in surprise, then a grin appears on his face: his brown eyes have turned into a beautiful blue colour, which seem to be glowing slightly, “hehe… I can sense that my hypnotic stare is active, but I do not feel affected by it, so the protection is working. Sweet,” he mutters to himself, “now, let’s see if I can “turn it off” by thinking about it.” The boy concentrates and wills his eyes to become normal, after a few minutes, Ben feels the intensity of his stare decrease, and notices that his eyes slowly start to take on their natural colour: brown. Ben then wills his hypnotic stare to “turn back on” and soon he feels the intensity growing, as his eyes once again change into the glowing blue colour.
Grinning to himself, Ben deactivates his “hypnotic stare” and rubs his hands together, his grin turning evil, “now to do a test run,” he says to himself. Just then he hears someone walking up the stairs and soon hears Jeff’s door close, the boy’s grin widens, ‘I could go straight for Jeff,’ he thinks to himself, ‘or maybe I should test my new found powers out on something… or someone… else? Hmm… as much as I’d love to put Jeff under my power as quickly as possible, maybe a little “training” wouldn’t hurt?”