Head of the resistance.

So, back to the plot. We looked to the sky, trying to see where the man had fallen from, and saw a Helicopter hovering above us. It was behaving erratically, jerking around and tilting from side to side. We heard a scream, and the pilot was thrown out. A blast of energy shot from inside and hit him in the back, tossing him further his screams fading as, smoking, he vanished over the edge of the hill.
More helicopters closed in, guns protruding from the open sides.

'Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!'

Letting out a battle cry, a woman leapt from the Helicopter above us. She had smaller, cooler versions of the laser weapons HG's men had, and, spinning in the air, she let off a barrage of shots, like a Catherine Wheel of death, bursts of energy striking every gun and propeller, denting the Helicopters and making them spin wildly.

Suddenly, she yelled 'Forcefield!' and stopped twirling, now falling backwards as she raised both arms and fired a double shot at the one she'd just left, and did a backflip, bringing her closer to us and further from it. Me and Future Tempest both put up forcefields as the Helicopter exploded in a huge ball of flame. The fireball engulfed the other Helicopters as the woman landed in front of me, small jets on the sides of her boots slowing her at the last second to ease the landing.

She had black hair, holsters on her belt, and a samurai sword slung over her shoulder. There was a small scar above one eye, and her long black coat flowed out behind her.
'Wow.' I said, staring at her. 'That was.......impressive.'
'Impressive? What happened to SO COOL?'
'Well, you killed a LOT of people...'
'Yeah she did!' Future me grinned and ran to her, giving her a hug of welcome. 'I've missed you doing that. It's good to see you too, obviously.'
'She stuck her tongue out at him and turned to me. 'Name's Doom. You are?'
Before I could answer, she held up a finger for silence and stared at my face. 'Oh....Bloody hell, we're at this bit are we? Not that I was there when you went, but I heard about it pretty soon after you got back.'
'What?'
'You're from the past, aren't you?' She turned abruptly to Playwrite. 'Right, catch me up will you? What happened since he' She jabbed a thumb at me ' arrived. I need to what state we're in.'
Playwrite rolled his eyes, and Doom nodded. 'Ok, not bad' turning back to me: 'You did alright, didn't you? Shame about Cleo though, I liked her.'
'Wait wait wait, slow down, I have questions. How come you know about me? How come, considering you shouldn't know about me, and my future self has spent the last few years as a tree, you knew we were here to make you a forcefield? and what the hell happened to me that means the only thing that can make me smile is somebody making it rain corpes?! And don't go all 'oooh, spoilers on me, I've had enough, and if I succeed when I get back, this future will cease to exist, meaning they aren't spoilers at all!'
'Pfft, Spoilers be damned! Basically: Hana told me, I have super sight so I could see all of you perfectly clearly from up there, and this War has done a lot of damage to a lot of people, everyone's a lot harder now. And not in a good way.'
'Huh. That actually helps a lot thanks.'

We're preparing the final attack now, so I'll have to go. Bye!

You're the only one left.

Glutton, this is a message for you. You can still help us, and I think we'll need you to.

Me and Hana have talked, and asked the others a few bits, and we think we know what Future me was on about.

So, Parallel times.

What it boils down to is this: I am currently posting these to you through a connection that was created when I was 'time-napped' by Moira and Diffy. I was using technopathy to post a live, direct thought-to-blog post. This went from me, through my phone and Hana, and then to the main computer. When the time-napping happened, it opened a hole to pull me through, causing the two times to connect. The sudden transfer snapped me out of it, so I assume the blog will have uploaded that one unfinished. The connection between the main computer and my phone however, boosted by both Hana and my ability, remained fairly firmly intact. Now, while this does allow me to send these blog posts back through time to pop up randomly back in my time, where you're reading this now. However, it ALSO means that the join between the two times is being kept open. The link is only maintained by, and can only manage, the datastream between the two devices, I can't use it to get home, but it does mean that the future and the past are still touching, forcing when I left and when I am to run alongside each other.

Parallel Times. It's not too late Glutton. Your actions can directly affect the future, and not in the normal way. Normally, your actions in the past would have happened a long time ago, and you wouldn't be able to affect things that had already happened to us. They would be fixed events, and trying to mess with them would probably wipe me from existence along with the future I'm in. But because of the link, you merely alter the same future, changing it instead of replacing it with a new one. Things will actually change before my eyes, and I'll remember how it used to be.

Use this Glutton. Do what you can to change the future. Get jump, and fight for us. Help us get where we need to be.

Go to the VHS base, pray it's intact, and use the main computer to log your phone into the VHS mainframe. I programmed SOLAR into it's files, so it should grant you first level access. That's all you'll need if my plan works. Hopefully, someone will be in contact soon.

Parallel times?!

Future me. Is a Git. Let me explain.

A lot's happened in the last half hour. A reunion, some shouting, and some planning.
As I said, I went over to the huge tree and placed a hand on it. I felt the tree grow warm, and begin to glow faintly. I could tell at once that this tree was using a lot of power, with Plant manipulation shooting out from a point in the middle of the trunk and looping back in on itself, creating layers and layers of ability piling in on itself, and whatever was in the middle had been drowned by the tree long ago, and lost control, and was now barely aware of what was happening around them.
I sent a blast of raw plant manipulation deep into the tree, expecting resistance from the storm of power, but it seemed to accept it, respond, even...merge with it? The abilities were the same! They had to be, or there'd be no way I could have affected it so easily! At some point in my future, I must have made this tree.
The tree suddenly exploded in a shower of bark and leaves, throwing me backwards. I put up a hand to cover my eyes as green light blazed, lighting up the hill. Everybody gasped as we all stared. There was a tree made of writhing tendrils of energy, that were slowly shrinking and fading, withdrawing to reveal a blurred shape in the centre. As more and more layers faded away, the blur became a human shape. The figure became clearer, and my eyes widened as I started to recognise it. I heard FDiffy mutter 'You found him...you actually bloody found him...'
'Wow, is that? But it can't..this is Wierd! I do NOT look good with a beard...'
Future Me fell to the ground, and groaned. I ran over and turned him over, checking he was ok.
'Are you...? I mean...me and you, we're.....you alright?'
He shoved me away, dusting himself off as he got to his feet, scowling round at everybody. 'Of course I'm alright you moron! That was the point! I was a tree, it's not like I'm missing any limbs!'
'Yeah, you actually had MORE limbs...'
'Oh very clever Playwrite. Where were you and your telepathy when I got stuck? I get taken over by my own power, everyone's looking for me, couldn't you hear me yelling inside my head?!'
'One, I was imprisoned in a lab being forced to control HG's armies of flipbrains with a hivemind, and two, I don't speak tree!'
Bickering broke out, and I stood awkwardly at the side, watching the group I used to know so well hurl insults at each other.

'Excuse me? What do we do next? Track down HG? What?'
Future Me looked over, and sighed. 'WE don't do anything. YOU go back to your own time. You've done what you needed to, you've set me free, and god knows you took long enough...'
'......I'm sorry, I think I was fooled by the branches.....'
He scowled. 'You fool, can't you even recognize yourself when you're a tree? You've done all you can, as soon as the final member of the team arrives, we will take on HG together. You are too young and weak to win this.'
'I beg your pardon!? You do realize we're the same person!? What other member?'
'No. We aren't. I'm more experienced, I have more abilities, I've taken on more enemies, I can tell that Helicopters have nearly arrived with guards that want to kill us. I remember being where you are now, and trust me, we are not ready!'
I felt like hitting him, but decided that would just be too weird. 'Ok, when you were me, did you rescue you quicker than I did?'
'What?'
'Did you manage to save Cleo, did you kill HG already? Did you, in fact, do anything better than me? No, you can't have done, because you're me, and if you'd done it differently, I'd have done it differently, and we wouldn't be here!'
'Huh?'
'Oh good, all those years of wood for brains has slowed you down.'
This was infuriating, and confusing, I should have left him as a tree!
'Don't speak to me like that! Go home, and leave the rest to us! I admit, the parallel times you have set up might prove useful, but you? It's safer for us both if you just go home!'
'I can't go home until this is all over, as you should know! and what do you mean parallel times?'
I could hear helicopters overhead as Hana called 'I think he means the link we have because of the blog.'
We were all distracted by a scream, and a sort of 'PEW!' noise. A guard fell from the sky and landed in front of us, a smoking hole in his back.
'Ah.' Future me grinned at last. 'She's here.'

Sorry this isn't the best of posts, but as you can see, I'm in in a very weird and tense situation.
Parallel times however? That could be useful....