Uranus was immediately in a quandary as soon as the gushing pleasure from being with her Master abated.
Which was simply that her programming was at conflict.
On the most simple level it was that telling Ranma would make him happy, therefore it would make her happy.
If Pluto was correct, however, there was the chance of her returning to being the Haruka Ten'ou she had been. While that might please Ranma, it was less pleasurable for herself. If the matter had been that simple, she wouldn't have had to connect to the others for this to be discussed amongst themselves.
Because their programming was on several levels. Protecting Ranma and themselves was in there.
Ami had added further layers of protection since they'd come to be Master's servants, as it was a logical thing to do. If VonEcchi and Kujaku were to show up and try to command them again. While there had been no sign of the two and they were presumed dead, there might have been a backup of the notes. Someone trying to re-infect them or take control had been long developed. Ami had had a 300 IQ prior to her transformation, it had been those test scores that had gotten her kidnapped and transformed - and her data had led the two to discovery of the other Senshi identities. Only Rei's fire readings and Setsuna's intervention had given the other Senshi the information to mount a raid, otherwise they would have been picked off and converted while in their civilian identities.
Ami had used her considerable intelligence, now heightened to even greater levels and computational ability, to come up with thousands of potential dangers and ways to protect against them. Some were still being developed. The idea of backups had been especially tricky, but if one of them was destroyed - a duplicate could likely be activated of the ones Ranma felt most comfortable with.
Ami could find a lot of things that could go wrong with the plan. Even if Pluto was correct and the timestream repaired, and everything returned to normal, there were potential problems from temporal mergers and divergences. Not to mention that some of her own upgrades to the process might well adapt to the temporal flux and shift over to the new timeline. All of them discussed the matter at length, including Ryouga-chan, who was satellite linked but preferred to remain lost. She made Ranma uncomfortable after all.
Without knowing the details, other than it involved the Time Gates and the Remote, Ami gave it at best a 30% chance of success. Nearly the same odds that all she'd do is alter the programming so that anyone off the street could claim them, or so that they would be Usagi's harem.
It was decided after a long period and much discussion, that the deciding factors would be: Master's pleasure, Master's safety, their own pleasure and safety, the well being of the society as a whole.
For that reason, a delegation would take the remote and proceed to the Time Gate where Sailor Pluto was waiting. Once there they would:
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