>>5905337“Why do you want to go to Conton City?” you ask, turning to face Ace. “Not the excuses. The reason. The REAL reason.”
He doesn't immediately answer, looking down a bit in what almost feels like shame before raising his gaze back to you, eyes serious.
“If I had never left the Time Patrol, I could have protected them.” Ace says, you hearing your daughter gasp behind you. But you don't focus on her, watching the former Time Patroller as he speaks. “It may not be entirely my fault, but their pain is because of me. So, I want to do whatever I can to make up for it.”
“Hmm.” you nod, turning from him back to Future Chaya. Who is clearly angry, fists clenched and arms trembling as she'd kept herself from shouting. “And what part of this makes you think he wants to rejoin the Time Patrol?”
“He told me he wants to lead them!” she explodes, you feeling a brow go up in surprise. “That he wanted to go back and 'take command'!”
“Only to-!” he starts, which is his turn for you to turn, glaring angrily at him.
“Shut up. Don't interrupt.” you tell him with a low growl, the far stronger Saiyan visibly gulping and taking an almost step back unconsciously. You then turn back to Chaya, gesturing for her to continue.
“Now that Chronoa's gone he wants to go back! He wants to take her place, and be just like her!” your future daughter cries out angrily, her aura starting to flare up around her as her emotions run wild. “We're finally free to live here, and now he wants to just leave!? After everything?”
“I don't want to leave. But...” Ace says, unable to meet her gaze and looking away. But you think you understand it, to a degree. They were HIS people after all, despite what Chronoa put him through. And you kind of get it, he wants to go make everything right with the people he feels obligated to. But on the other hand, your alternate timeline daughter has been fighting nearly her whole life to have the life stolen from her, to be able to live on New Salda with 'her' family the way she couldn't in her original timeline because of the Time Patrol's interference. Their wants seem diametrically opposed.
So, what now?
>Ask Future Chaya if she'd want to go help Ace, as they can leave there and return here whenever they want, with Towa and possibly Mechikabura's help porting them back and forth through the hidden gateway you'd gone through>Ask Ace if he has so little faith in Trunks that, at least in the short term he won't be able to handle the aftermath of what happened now that Mechikabura has assigned him leadership of the Time Patrol. That he has so little faith in a man he called friend?>See if Ace and Chaya can work out some sort of schedule, hours here versus hours there to compromise on this issue and put it behind you all>Tell them that they need to work this out themselves, leave them to it while checking up on your Chaya>Other(write in) 