"man this war has been going on for nine years one would think we'd catch a break every now and then"

"cool it commander after all I did warn my former captain that this war may last longer than it took us to get home from the Delta Quadrant in fact isn't this the nine year mark for the war?"

"yes it is why do you…oh I get it now"

"yep starting tomorrow this war will have officially lasted longer than our nine year mission of survival"

"it's already been that long admiral?"

"yes it has"

"looks like this war is going to take us a while if it's already been nine years"

"not to mention we still have to free Earth seeing as how I don't think the rest of Starfleet knows of it's capture"

"correct Seven they may not know yet I think that DS9 isn't compromised anymore I just monitored a transmission on a Starfleet channel if I'm right they're free and so are a few ships maybe it's time to team up with them and start really planning freedom plans for everyone"

"you know the admiral has a point ok lets do it guys"

"and so they go to DS9 who were not very happy at the moment seeing more ships due to the fact that they had no way to recognize if they were friend or foe at the moment unless you had already been in the vicinity and had a special signal to transmit to them

"sir five ships have just come into our area of space and they're not friendly"

"explain chief"

"easy sir they haven't given us the ally code yet"

"go on standbye chief I don't want to hit allies just because I couldn't recognize them"

"yes sir"

well fifteen minutes later they saw that it was a Starfleet vessel and four Dominion ships all looking like they had been through Wolf 359 and then some

"Starfleet and Dominion shuttles identify yourself to be as such"

well the Starfleet vessel gives the correct code for the Jewel and the Dominion vessels give the universal Dominion code seeing as how they had decided that they could use personal ships codes amongst each other but since Starfleet already had plenty of codes to memorize might as well just stick with one code for all vessels

"well sir they just gave the correct codes all of them"

"than let them know they can dock and also tell them they have to get a new ally code until our systems are finally fixed we just freed ourselves two weeks ago I don't want to go through it again so soon"

"yes sir"

well the ships docked and things were fine until Jewel went and grabbed her neck in pain and went down on her knees and only those with her when it happened at the time knew why it was happening

"the trackers activated again hasn't it?"

"yes it has you know how it gets when they force the homing device to try and find me"

"this is the sixth time in a week"

"I know that and there's nothing I can do about it"

"I say you should rest for a bit I think part of it is how hard you're stressing yourself"

"look you know as well as I do that the tracking devices is only activated when the homing devices is trying to really find me give me a few minutes and I'll be fine"

"are you sure?"

"positive"

a few minutes later the pain did indeed pass but those that had witnessed what had happened the first time knew that they had to be on their guards just in case something were to truly happen to Jewel or if the tracking device had finally given where they were

"do you guys know why this is happening to our admiral?"

"unfortunately yes we do and also unfortunately there's nothing we can do the tracking device was a clever one it was originally made to torture people with brief amounts of pain wherever the chip was imbedded but the Romulans somehow found out that it can also track people down"

"well that's not good news for us"

"no it's not"

suddenly Jewel's former officers saw a look in her eyes that made them slightly afraid yet at the same time made them grin in a knowing way one of her current officers decided to ask what was going on

"um why are you guys grinning like that?"

"Survivor and Jewel are having a special meeting in the largest meeting room in one hour so that everything can be explained" said James

and hour later they were in the meeting and her current captain spoke up

"so why was the crew of the Survivor grinning like that?"

"simple" said Jewel "they know that the look in my eyes is a very special look"

"but what does it mean?" asked an ensign

"oh that's simple" said a Lt. "the Romulans are in big trouble now she got that look in her eyes that said she was mad and that means the people she's mad at are in trouble due to the fact that when they come after her or if we go after them there is no mercy given to the enemy"

"nice so if the Romulans decide to attack they're going to be in a lot of trouble aren't they?"

"yes they are and they don't know it yet"

"well that means that we have one up on them don't we?"

"yes we do for the moment"

"what do you mean for the moment?"

"simple they may get the advantage over us again but for now they don't"

"James think we should do our old plan when we were a crew?"

"nope because they already know what we're going to do however while you guys have been fighting Romulans for a while now they haven't fought you guys when they do something stupid so if you come up with a completely new plan they should be caught off guard of course if they beat you guys they win"

"valid point but it's the only plan we have right now"

well the new crew of the Jewel comes up with a pretty good plan too bad the Romulans came in part way through the planning process but they rolled with the punches and actually succeeded in getting the Romulans off DS9 but they knew that they would be back if not for Jewel than for the simple fact that DS9 was a base for Starfleet at the moment and the Romulans knew it would be a formidable place if left alone