OK I've been putting this one off because I wasn't sure how to do it but I need to proceed with this story because I've connected it with another Mizzer Story so the two have to advance at a semi-regular pace

Finally it was Tom's turn to be put in the brainwashing machine…

'OK Tiff…' Tom thought to his daughter '...I hope this works…'

And so Tom was strapped into the chair and the helmet was put on his head, Tiffany concentrated her mental link even harder to begin to feel what her Dad was feeling…

What proceeded was not pleasant to say the least…

The message tried to program into Tom's mind 'Humanimals are monsters, Humanimals are dirt' and if Tom resisted the message he felt like we would get an electric shock! Tiffany because of her psychic connection felt it too so she could feel what pain her Dad was in!

'Dad!' The Cat-Girl thought 'You have to stay strong!'

'I'm trying!' Tom thought back in response 'But the pain is terrible!'

Tiffany tried to find a way if she could mess with the machine with her mind but no such luck that was beyond her power she could hear her Dad's thoughts thinking instead about how much he loved her and her Mom...It seemed clear he would rather die then be brainwashed into hating his own wife and child!

But then Tiffany got any idea

'Dad!' She said 'I got an idea! Lying fingers crossed!'

'What?!' It was clear Tom was beginning to run out of steam

'A way of rolling over!' Tiffany said 'Say what you're being told to say but think of your fingers crossed to know you're not meaning it!'

'You think that will work?' Tom asked

'It couldn't hurt to try!' Tiffany replied

And so Tom repeated to horrible things that 'Humanimals are monsters, Humanimals are dirt' that Humanimals are to be hated and shunned but every time he said one of those things he imagined himself as a school boy with his fingers crossed behind his back showing he did not mean a thing he said.

And it worked! The machine only programmed to respond to the words being thought it didn't understand the meaning of crossed fingers eventually released Tom who looked a bit pale and sweaty from struggling against the machine...When the Wrangler questioned his response on weather he hated Humanimals...Tom responded exactly as he heard the previous brainwashed humans but now he was taking what he remembered from New Hollywood about acting it wasn't that he couldn't act he would sometimes help Dorothea practice her lines in their house it was just he was terribly camera shy!

"All right…" The Wrangler said "...From what you said about your farming experience, we're going to put you in an agricultural research center in the countryside outside Capital City...You said what you had experience with was corn...There's a lot of corn being grown there!"
Finally Tiffany was snapped out of her trance by Dorothea shaking her shoulder

"Wake up Tiffany!" The Persian Cat-Woman said "We're being taken to...Where we'll live from now on…"
So this may be the first time I give any detail of how the mental conditioning works and showing how some of the Mizzerans tricked the brainwashing process