[ WP ] You are brought forward in time by freedom fighters , in order to stop an evil dictator from taking over the world . When you ask why they chose you to help them , they explain that the dictator is your future self .

They described the camps to me. Labor camps where prisoners were forced to create arms to fight their own people. If you disobeyed, you died. If you slacked, you died. There was no in-between, and there were always replacements available. 
 
 I was winning the war. My enemies would not sink to my level, and were quickly running out of options. So they came and got me. 
 
 `` Why bring me forward? Why not just send someone back to kill me before I do any of this, stop it before it even begins.'' 
 
 They tell me how it started. We were invaded by an unknown extraterrestrial enemy. The world put aside everything. The oil conflicts, the water wars were all just trivial in comparison. Our enmities faded away as we were all given a common creature to hate and kill. 
 
 Apparently I rose to prominence in this time. Before I tried to conquer Earth, I saved it. I'd used my influence to get the entire planet to work together. The UN was changed to the United Earth. Resources were pooled, weapons that were on the cutting edge were developed and built in weeks. Our enemies had invaded us seeing that we were already at each other's throats, and that our most powerful weapons were as dangerous to ourselves as they were to them. I changed all that. 
 
 It was a long fought battle, the casualties on both sides were atrocious. Eventually, we sent them limping back into space. Humanity itself lost over 2 billion people in the war of the worlds. Every country had used up it's stockpiles of weapons. Even the nukes had flown, with makeshift atomic shields latched onto them to halt the radiation and nuclear fallout. 
 
 Well, almost all the weapons. During this time I'd had the foresight to stockpile my own weapons, Earth made and extraterrestrial. I'd been elected war leader during the conflict, and quickly abdicated the position after the war. 
 
 Only to start another one. 
 
 The Earth was defenseless. It did n't take much to cow the populace to believe that I was it's only protector, that they needed ME to save them from the next impending attack, which was always just around the corner. 
 
 I listened to them intently. Then took the time conductor from the machine they had used to bring me through time and smashed it on the ground. 
 
 They rushed to salvage the remnants, but the energy had already dissipated, the crystals only glowing a dull blue instead of humming with power in a radiant turquoise. It had been there last hope. 
 
 They turned to me. 
 
 I smiled. 
 
 `` What? You thought I would n't agree with myself?''
