"I have my own justice I follow too. But in all fairness, the world government where I come from...wanted me dead before I was even born. Where else was I supposed to go?" Ace mused. "The way I see it, if I wanted to be a free man...I didn't really have another choice." He wasn't quite sure why he was sharing all of this with Espio..but he thought it might help relate to the chameleon.

"It's not a bad thing. It's not something I would hate you for. People are different for a reason but that doesn't mean that we couldn't be friends."