H&G vs HG

Hello, Hana again here. As Glutton has reported, he got our messages, and made it back to VHS base 1. I was inside the main system, checking on how much had changed in the world since we left, and I felt someone trying to gain access. The computer was damaged and low on power, so I could only just get into it. As soon as I saw it was Glutton, I went back to the primary console and opened the main hub. As the screen I was looking from slid into the room, I saw Glutton fully at last. He looked badly injured, and seemed to be in pain. 'Glutton, thank goodness.'
He looked confused. 'Er....hi?'
'Oh, sorry, should have warned you. Must be a bit of a shock, gigantic blue face suddenly appearing on a screen. I don't think we've ever actually met properly.'
'Hana?'
'Yes, nice to meet you. I'm sorry for the circumstances, and for what you've been through. Tempest needs our help.'
'I've been doing what I can.'
'I know, and we're grateful. But now we need to make use of the Parallel times. Tempest has been managing to blog, so the connection is still open.'
'So how do we do that?'
'The generator here is failing. Soon this system will be useless, but I need to get to HG's computers, and you need to help Tempest inside the base if he calls for it.'
'So what do we do?'
'There should be a round, handheld unit somewhere round here, we used it so non-technopaths
could access the system when out in the field.'
Glutton searched around, and eventually found it under a damaged table. It had clearly fallen off, but being underneath had protected it from any further damage. Imagine an iPhone, but with two rounded ends instead of being rectangular. It's Arctic Blue in colour, and the front is nothing but screen. Under my instruction, he slotted it into a dock, having to hold one side in place to stop it falling out, and pressed a button on the side. I downloaded everything I could, anything I thought I might need for hacking HG's system, and charged it's battery from the generator. Then I transferred myself to it. I looked up at Glutton, who jumped as lights and screens started going out all over the room. He managed to catch me, and I gave him an encouraging smile. 'T says he'll need me on the inside if he's going to beat HG. No pressure Glutton, but we're his only hope. You have to get me there. Glutton, last surviving member of SOLAR, friend of VHS, this plan relies on you. Tempest's fate, and therefore the world's, is, quite literally, in your hands.'

Operation Anti-John

This plan is fairly simple. Please let me know what you think, I'm pretty pleased with this plan, but if you think it should be changed, suggest it and I'll see what Precog makes of it.

We split into teams, Team A is Playwrite, Evan, Cleo and Broadcast. They have the most important job. Everyone except Broadcast can make a big mind block to prevent John from using his power, and Broadcast can silence John's Voice to stop him yelling commands in case his power is just weakened. I would use Pesuasion, but it can be fought by strong minds more easily than mind control so my other powers are of more use here, and I can't concentrate on using Persuasion while part of another group, I might accidently affect you lot aswell.

Freezeframe will surround him with her statue army, creatures he CAN'T control because they have no minds, and they will hold him down. Doolittle will translate for our foreign allies so that everyone can know what's going on, and her animal friends will help fight off any lackies John's picked up. Healthbar will be on hand to keep us all healthy, while Me, Damian, Arthur (Who now goes by Lighter), Shockwave, Chan and Shifter (Team B) deal with his henchmen. All henchmen and lackies should be stopped, but not badly injured if we can help it, and Tingle will go round them checking if they're free of mind control yet, and those that are, Sage and Tingle can get to safety. Omni and Precog can make sure everything stays on track by continually trancing, and letting us know what's coming next.

When we find Double and Pete, we MUST get them to safety, they are our priority.

When John is alone, and all his zombies are free, we move in. We need to get to him as quickly as we can, because Team A will get weaker the longer they block John. I'll hold him in one of my Moveable Forcefields, and we all use what we can to hold him and make sure he can't escape. Then we let Damian deal with him. It's his right. I have to admit, I'm probably going to break his arm in a number of painful ways for what he did to Healthbar, but Damian gets main resposibility.

I'm having Diffy wait at the base. He's not getting involved in something like this. I won't have it. He's too young, and this is too much like a war.

The Building 26 Rescue

Damian's still with his mum, so I thought I'd tell you how the trip went, because Diffy left some details out (Because I didn't tell him everything):


Ok, so, as Diffy explained to you, we all got back from B26 ok, well, alive, and we managed to save four people, they were the only ones we could find, there were some empty beds so I think REBEL must have helped some people too.



We got in ok, floating over the guards heads and phasing down into an abandoned room, the heat lamp one, and we made our way to a large area that Playwrite said everyone was being held drugged in. We got there and there were at least four empty beds, maybe more, one of them had a slight blood stain on it so I hope whoever used to be there is ok. There were three other people in the room, so we unplugged them all and Tingle explained the situation to them and made sure they were genuine prisoners, while Playwrite kept us undiscovered. Healthbar noticed that one of the ladies was bleeding badly, so she healed her and we discovered she was Damian's Mum! We'd found her! Healthbar went round the rest and healed their minor injuries, and then she and I went to check a couple of rooms nearby for other people. I wish we'd had Playwrite with us. In a room just round the corner (All the patrolling guards were ignoring us thanks to Playwrite, but that was it) we found a girl, a few years younger than us, about thirteen, connected to a drug shunt and being interrogated by a soldier. He was telling her that if she agreed to help them find the other specials, they'd spare her. We came up behind him, and said 'We'll here's two of them!' and Forcefield punched him, knocking him to the floor, and I erupted a small tree from underneath the concrete floor, smashing through and entangling him in it's branches. Healthbar healed the girl, and she told us her name was Molly, while I undid the drug shunt. Then there was a loud bang, and Healthbar screamed. She'd stepped in front of me and Molly, and there was a bleeding hole in the lower part of her chest. The soldier had brought out a gun and managed to fight the tree enough to get a good shot. 'Healthbar!' I screamed, as she collapsed to the floor, while Molly looked on shocked, muttering something, it sounded like 'Why does everyone that helps me get shot?'. 'You're going to be ok, right?' the soldier raised his gun again, but a grabbed it in a forcefield and threw in into a corner.


I was really angry now, and I did something that I'm now wondering was wrong, but she had to live. I told Molly 'Go round the corner from this room and through the door on your left. Our friends are there. We'll be fine, we'll be along in a minute. Run!' She looked worried, but she went. Then I gave Healthbar the soldier. I did. I still can't believe it, but I made my tree dump him in front of her, and told Healthbar to heal herself. 'Just take enough to live, don't kill him, but please live, you have to!' She looked at me strangely, but she did it. She reached out and grabbed his arm, and he screamed, as the black fog stuff sliced his arms broke his bones. The bullet shot out of her chest, lodging itself in the wall. The hole in her chest got smaller, and the soldier looked like he was about to die. This had gone too far. 'STOP!' I used full force persuasion on her, I refused to let her kill someone, especially as it was my fault she was using this power. She stopped draining him, and stood up, her wound still quite large, but much more manageable. I looked down at the guard. I doubted he'd ever walk again, but his basic wounds would heal well enough. We left the room, and made our way back to the others. Healthbar was quiet now, her face darker, the change in her more prominent than ever. We entered the room with the beds again, and Playwrite was staring at us. I knew he knew everything. He turned away and carried on explaining to everyone about how we'd leave. I wanted to help Healthbar, but there wasn't time. Playwrite had found the room with the files in a guards head, so we all went up to destroy our files, and those of our new friends. There were seven research type people in there, and Playwrite sent them out to the corridor while we went through, and Playwrite had to stop anyone coming in, which became increasingly hard when the researchers were discovered and more and more people were trying to reach us. Everyone gathered our files, and I set them on fire, containing them in a Forcefield until they were ash, and I used technopathy to destroy ALL their computer files. It would have been nice to destroy ALL the paper files, but by the time our files had burnt Playwrite was nearly unconscious, holding back all the guards, researchers and soldiers. I picked us all up in a forcefield as he collapsed, and the door flew open, and they all piled in.


We shot up through the ceiling, and set off for home. Playwrite woke up after a few minutes, and used his skills to keep everyone calm, as this sort of flight is strange if you're not used to it. We managed to have quite a good chat with each of them, and found out what each of them wanted to do now. He also tried to dampen Healthbar's darkness, because she was looking from her wound to all of us with interest. With his help, she managed to calm down, and look around a bit confused, as if she didn't quite remember the last few minutes.
The Lady that wasn't Damian's mum was the worst passenger I've ever had, she looked ill, and as we flew over the english coast she started to glow green and collapsed. She sneezed, and the Forcefield shook, I could barely hold it! I got us back as fast as I could, and we landed at the base. We carried her in, and Diffy looked scared at the sight of Healthbar, so I told him to update you guys on our progress.


I left the others to help our new friends, and turned to the important matter of helping Healthbar. I knew that healing people didn't harm her, just wear her out after a while, but it made her glow and feel really good, so I had an idea. I took her to a separate room, after asking Broadcast to make it soundproof. 'Take what you need from me.'I told her, gripping her shoulders and staring into her eyes. 'Take what you need to finish healing yourself from me' I didn't use persuasion, I hate doing it, I've learned to only use it as a last resort, but she didn't need persuading. She looked a little scared at using her power again, but she grabbed my hands. The pain was instantly unbearable, black fog racing over my body. I screamed, and my arms and legs were slashed open, and I fell to the floor as my left leg was forcibly broken. It felt like I was going to die, she knelt with me, our hands clasped, as her wound healed slowly, so slowly, and I kept dying.


My other leg snapped, and my right arm, and I felt like death was inches away, the pain was unbearable, I was being killed by one of my best friends....


And then it stopped. She let go, and I collapsed, lying on the floor, the pain now just a dull, throbbing agony, and looked up at her. Her wound was completely healed, but she looked half dead. It was strange to see her look so ill, BECAUSE she was fully healed. 'Now heal me...'I whispered, my strength failing, hoping my theory was right. Healthbar looked confused, torn between the darkness, now stronger than ever, and her friend. 'Please...heal me..for both our sakes...' I could barely get the words out, but I saw her frown, and she closed her dark eyes and shook her head, and opened them again with a determined look, her eyes back to their usual colour, but still a couple of shades too dark. 'Of course I will! Oh my God what happened to you! This was me wasn't it? Bloody Hell you fool!' She knelt down and placed her hands on me, and this time they felt wonderful, a cooling, calming sensation flowing over me as the healing began. 'What were you thinking! This was so dangerous!' She continued to yell at me as my bones clicked back together and the darkness slowly faded from her face. When I was fully restored and the colour had returned to her face, we stood up. There was still a hint of black to her eyes, and she still looked a little pale, but she was smiling again. 'Thank you' we both said at the same time, and laughed. We hugged, she said that I was still stupid for trying it, and we went back to the others. Playwrite was lying down, an icepack on his forehead, but he gave me a nod and a slight grin as we came in. Healthbar healed Jill, calming her so that she could power down and not destroy the base, and she tended to everyone else, even vanquishing Playwrite's headache. The darkness was gone from her face completely now, but I knew it was still there, deep inside her, waiting to suck the health out of another victim, it had just been...beaten, for now.


Damian arrived to see his mum, and I took him to the safehouse. I had to hide the location from him, Only three of us know the way, Playwrite's paranoid about it so he keeps wiping the others minds after they visit, only Me and him know, and Diffy because he threatened to spook Playwrite forever if he even tried to wipe him, and he has one of the strongest minds we've seen, especially for one so young, so it's a very scary threat. Damian's still in their now, his mum looked really serious, they've been there ages, but I'm leaving them to it.


Precog told me he'd been drawing, and showed me some pictures, telling me that we hadn't been followed, and that the others might be in danger, but he warned them on Diffy's post.


I'll post the plan soon, but I thought you'd want me to fill in the gaps in Diffy's tale of our adventure.

Me again!

Hello Blog Peoples, it's Diffy again!

Tempest (I rote it rite this time) and the others just got back from the Bad Building, and he said it mostly went good. He wants ME to tell you whats hapning again, cos hes busy and he says I did a good job last time!

Well,they got back about ten minites ago, and they had four people with them. Playwite had a hurty head again, and Healthy lookd scary, like she wasnt very happy, and her face was all pale, with dark rings round her eyes, like she was a zomby or somethin. She scared me, so Tempest told me to do this insted of staying with them until he could help her.

The four new peoples were two ladys, a young man, and a little girl, who's still older than me.

One of the ladys looked a bit like Damian, so I fhink thats his mummy, oopsy, I mean mom, thats how he says it. Tempest said they got her, so I fhink that's who she is.

The little girl Tempest says is called Molly, and she says shell be ok now that she knows what the baddies look like, shell be abel to see them coming, that sounds reelly cool! So she just wants to go back to stay with her granny.

The man is called Neil, I made Tempest spell it for me, and this is crazy, he not even got a power! He says he used to have a power, but he met that man who started the place that helped Tempest give me my spookys, and he had it took! That man did it both ways dint he? Anyways, he seemed intrested in helping Cleo (Needed that rote for me too) with HER group, cos he has experence? expieriense? he used to be special so he what its like anyways, and hed like to help find peoples like us and have a pardner with a power again. We going to bring him over wen he recovererd, becasue Healthy not done helping them all yet, becasue of her feeling stranje.

The other lady called Jill, I can spell that, and she was reelly ill when they came in, cos Playwite says her power went off becasue of stressedness or somethin like that. She was glowing green and she kept sneezing and everywhere kept shaking when she did. I hope she going to be ok, she lookd nice.

Oooh! Tingly and Pwecog comin downstairs quickly, they saying they have stuff to tell me, So I going to get them to tell evrybody.

Hello everybody, this is Tingle. Tempest wanted me to pass on a couple of messages, and Diffy wants me to write it. Damian, we have your mother, she had a couple of bruises and cuts, but Healthbar healed her before...well she was healed before Healthbar got...ill again...You can come and see her, but we are going to keep her over here, it is further away from Building 26 and your old house, and we have places not even Molly can find that she can stay in. I think Diffy explained her power, she can find anyone or anywhere, by thinking about it, it is most interesting, and now that she knows what the hunters look like, she can avoid them by watching for them coming. She told us she had dealt with one of the men there before, a man called Bennet, and he had pointed a gun at her. Clearly still doing the same thing.

To get back to the messages, Cleo, we will bring Neil over once he has recovered, he has experience of being an Evolved Human, so he can help with finding them.

Tempest also had a theory about John. Now that the John we are dealing with is a clone, the previous commands given to us should be negated, because they were told to us by what was technically a different person, and John has a very literal power, so he should be bound by it too. This was proved when we met up with Playwrite, Doolittle and their recruits, and none of us felt like preventing them from finding John, as we were commanded to do by Damian.
This means we can go after him afresh, but please wait for his plan, he thinks he knows how to get Double back safely.
That's about it, but I feel I should explain That Diffy calls his illusions Spookys, so that's what he was talking about.
I'll hand you over to Precog.

Hello everybody in blogland!
I'm Precog, the stickman future drawer, and this is a quick note to Damian and Cleo. Be careful, I was trying to find out if Tempest and the others were followed, and I found out they weren't but I also did a drawing of you two in Techpower co. being tortured by two people, who I couldn't tell for certain, but from other drawings looked horribly like Jorge and Amelia, so watch out. I felt it was important to let you know straight away, because I can't get any sense of time from this picture, I guess it's because of the RW powers they both have.
Anyway, watch your backs! And now, I'll leave you in the capable hands of our new specialist reporter:

Hehe, Precogs funny! He always truue, so if he draws you in a bad place, be cairful!

Thats about it anyways, so I going to check Healthys okey dokey again, and see if I can Help. Tempest going to do a plan for stinky John (I still dont like him, thats the rudest word I can fhink of!) and then we going to get him, and going to pay for being so stinky to my frends.

SuperDiffy, Away!

Important note from Tempest

Hello Happy Blog People!

My name is Diffy, and I'm one of Tempust's bestest friends, and I get to have lots of fun on his team, and fight lots of bad guys!

Tempust called to me on the way out to let you know something he forgot to say on his Blog, so I get to do it. Yay!

Sorry if my writing is bad, but I still learning properely

Dameeun, (Sorry your names weird I cant spell it right, I going to copy it from your blog at some point) Temuest and evryone are going to get your mummy while theys at the bad building, and we's going to keep her here until you can get to us, and we going to let her stay in our nice safe house that NOBODY can find, I dont know how, but its cool, becasue she can't go home becasue the bad men know where that is. We think it's better if she stays with us in england, as it's a lot furtherer away from your house AND bad building.

And Tempust wanted me to say, he has a plan for getting Duble back from John, who I don't like anymore, he was nice when we met him firstly and then he went weird and he hurt Healthy! I mad at him now.

Anyways, he wants me to say he has a plan, but it will take evryone, and he'll explain when he gets back and Dameeuns mummy is safe, becxause mummys are very importiant and we got to make sure yours is ok.

He going to tell you his big plan when he get back.

Thats all, fun chating to you alls, maybe I allowed to do it again sometime, byebye!

Diffy :)

The Lions Den

We're going into Building 26. Now. Just Me, Playwrite, Tingle and Healthbar.

Healthbar is almost completely fine now, she still has her other power but her normal healer skills are as strong as ever, and she's keeping the darkness under control.

Most of the new recruits are currently in our safehouse while they recover from the seige. Healthbar healed them all, obviously, but she can only make them feel calmer when it comes to their mental health, not wipe the horror from their minds. That was the first time they'd really done anything like this. They joined in willingly and eagerly as soon as they heard what was going on, of course, but I don't think any of them really thought what it would be like. They'll be fine, they just need...time...to...cope...

Anyway, we're off to Building 26, we're going to free who we can, and delete all the information on all of us that they've gathered. We're going to go for the plan I outlined before, but without group B. We'll be back as soon as we can, with as many escapees as we can save.

Building 26

Well, Me, Diffy, Playwrite and Tingle were shooting off to save Evan, and we touch down a little way outside the gates just as Damian, Aron, and John appear from nowhere. Damian said they were coming to help, and they wanted to come in with me. I disagreed, saying it was better they stay outside so we weren't too big a group, but he pointed out that I'd said Aron would be helpful with cell doors, he could teleport out quickly if we needed him too, and he wasn't leaving John outside on his own. I reluctantly agreed, but made them promise to stay with the group, and made Damian swear not to go looking for his mum. We were here for Evan, not the full rescue plan for everyone else.

They all promised, so I flew us in down through the top, While Playwrite made a large thought bubble round us telling people to ignore us and Diffy made us look like cleaners as soon as we landed. We walked quickly downstairs one level to the holding rooms, and found Evan. I turned to ask Damien to teleport him out, and noticed he'd vanished! John was muttering to a blank looking Aron, and they both told Tingle truthfully that they didn't know where he was, but John said they would go and look for him, and before I could stop them they ran up the stairs again. Playwrite looked troubled and I asked why, and he said something wasn't right with them, but something was making it hard to see. He said Aron's thoughts weren't as complex and normal as they should be, and he couldn't tell what was going on with John. I sent Tingle after them and went phased Evan out of his room.

We followed the others back up the stairs, and found Tingle lying in a corridor unconsious. It was a miracle he hadn't been discovered, hell even as we found him a guard came round the corner, and Playwrite had to tell him to ignore us, and I used to persuasion to make sure he'd stop people coming into this corridor for a while. Tingle had a small lump on the side of his head like in cartoons when someone's hit by a saucepan. We heard raised voices round the corner and we got there in time to see Damian teleporting away from Aron, who was in a very bad way. We listened hard, and could just hear a slight heartbeat. John was nowhere to be seen. We knew something was up, but at the moment, we needed Healthbar urgently. I made us a large Forcefield and flew us straight up and out, Phasing through the floors, not caring about hiding. The life of a friend was in danger. We were going too fast to be seen properly. Playwrite called Healthbar on the way back, I was flying us so fast across that ocean I couldn't concentrate on anything else. Playwrite got Evan to support him as he went into Aron's mind and made it concentrate, keep himself alive, keep his heart beating just a bit longer. Playwrite was literally being Aron's mind, demanding that his organ's keep working.

Healthbar met us near the coast, she'd got a late train so she could get there as soon as possible, we couldn't wait for us to meet at base. She healed Tingle (it was easier to do the simple heal first, it got her power flowing better), who woke up, and told us while she started on Aron that it was Aron that had hit him, because John told him to. Then Healthbar screamed, and we saw that Aron was still unconsious, but his biggest wounds had healed, including the hole in his chest, and that he'd be fine in a second.

But then it all went wrong.

Healthbar screamed again and fainted. Aron had worn her out, and he wasn't anywhere near fully healed yet. But he would live. I flew us all back to base, and we carried them both inside and lay them down to rest for a bit. Damian was there, in floods of tears, but I thought it was better we leave him to be unhappy and ask what happened later. I wish I'd got him out of there to talk then, I might have saved everyone.....

To the Rescue!

Writing this by technopathy on my way to B26. DON'T FOLLOW ME IN, BUT PLEASE BE READY IF WE NEED HELP. Too many people inside and we'll be caught. I'm off to rescue Evan, Danko tricked him and has him trapped. I'm going to phase in with Diffy, Playwrite, and Tingle, with Diffy hiding us, Playwrite working on the guards and finding Evan, and Tingle making sure we don't get tricked. Please be ready to help if needed, but don't follow us inside unless you really have to, this is the most people we can have in without being found, we've tried. This isn't the big rescue plan, just getting Evan, not Cienfuego's mum or looking for pete or anything. I'll let you know how it goes.

Call to Arms

Ok, here's the usual plan, and how you two can fit into it, I think it should work.

If we all go in together, we will definately be spotted, and look suspicious, and we need to split up eventually anway.

We usually split up into two teams. Me, Diffy, Healthbar and Playwrite head up to the roof in a forcefield. Cienfuego, I want you and Aron with me, you're new to the team, and I want to be sure you're alright. I FF us up to the roof, and we find a skylight or open topped courtyard. We're Team A.

Aura Girl, can you go with Team B? You, Tingle, Precog, and Doolittle make your way to a back door or side entrance. We keep in touch through Playwrite, who has discovered he can make a telepathic field between all of us. You being with Team B makes life easier, as I believe you still have illusion and technopathy, which means both teams have those powers. Doolittle will make sure the guarddogs are helpful. Illusion yourself and the others so you don't stand out. Disable the locks by your door and WAIT. DON"T KILL, MAIM, OR TORTURE ANYONE, ESPECIALLY MY TEAM. I want this to be done as discretly as possible.

Me and CF will Phase Team A through the skylight when the area below is deserted, or float us down into courtyard when it's clear. I'll disable the internal alarms, and Diffy will illusion us uniforms and age us a bit so we fit in if we're spotted. Playwrite will search the staff's minds for where the holding cells are and any other useful info, while I use persuasion to get some guards to help/ignore both teams. We'll send the guards to let you lot in at the side, while make our way to the holding cells.

You need to make your way to the main control room. Find our files and get rid of them. It should be harder to find us if all the records on us are gone. Precog will go into a trance and draw their attempts to find us at regular intervals in your search, to check how well they'll do. keep looking until he say's they'll fail. He'll also have the drawings he did this afternoon with him, so pay attention if he notices anything, it's probably important. If you're seen, get tingle to interrogate for any information you can get from them.

We'll make our way to the cells, break in (Aron will make that SO much simpler, I normally crush the doors with boulders) and Healthbar will heal any wounded prisoners. We'll grab who we can, and get out as quickly as possible, probably in a Forcefield through a tunnel I'll make with E/P Control. Team B come find us when you're done with the folders and we say we've found the cells. deal with (but NOT kill) any guards you meet on the way down. AG, You should be able to use your Aura ability to knock them out, I think squeezing theirs or taking just a little or something? Doolittle will set the dogs on the guards anyway.

We get out as soon as we can and get back to our base at the VHS shop.