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....