[Maes shouldn't be surprised by the suggestion per say. In fact, there's a brief sense of deja vu when Roy mentions his 'plan.' It's less a plan at the moment though and more a suggestion. Although, knowing Roy he's already starting to move past that and into something more concrete.]

While I get where you're going with this and you know I'm going to follow you no matter what, I feel like I should point out a few things with this "plan" of yours. Starting with the fact that it took you several years to build up the connections and support necessary to begin your plan of overthrowing Bradley, and that was before you knew he was a puppet to something else. Not to mention that was working within a system you already knew with a reputation that took you an additional number of years to cultivate within the academy and on the front lines.

Not to mention the whole part where overthrowing Bradley happened during the chaos of the Promised Day anyway which took the cooperation of several forces from the North and Xing as I recall you telling me.

[He's not even getting into the Elrics' part in all that mess. His point is, he wants to hear how these two situations are in anyway similar aside from the fact that they're attempting to overthrow one powerful entity.]