"She'll be fine Captain, but she'll be stuck here for a few days while she's healing"
"Do you know if there were any Force inhibitors around her at any period of time?"
"No I can't tell you that, what makes you ask?"
"She was sounding really strained when she held the ceiling up"
"It could have just been the combination of the injuries and having to use her abilities so soon afterwords we just don't know right now"
Two days later Ashland woke up and she realized she was stuck for a few days
"Hey doctor how long am I stuck here?"
"At least another two days seeing as how you've been out for two already, I know it might be too soon but considering you were strained when trying to keep the ceiling up the Captain is wondering if you were around Force inhibitors at any point during the mission so far"
"No I haven't been around Force inhibitors for a while, what happened was that I was in several phaser fights and a few hand to hand combat fights that lasted at least fifteen minutes a piece, and then when I was in the building seeing what might have been needed there they building collapsed and I used the Force to keep everyone safe and alive. However doing that combined with the physical exhaustion pushed my body over the limit and I knew that I would collapse right after transportation or soon after"
"As soon as you arrived in sickbay you passed out, and if you're wondering if you missed anything between the transporter room and here you were transported directly to sickbay once everyone was evacuated from the building"
"Okay, so what can I do to help out from here?"
"Nothing, the mission is almost over anyways, it appears that with this most recent attack it's been decided by the people who have been trying to reestablish this colony that it's not worth it anymore, so we're destroying all the evidence we can and then go from there, the Federation already knows about this and approves. After we drop them off at another place to establish a colony we're heading to DS9 for resupply and to help them with some tech from the Republic"
"And since for now I'm the only person who truly knows Republic technology I'm the one to help, even though you were in the Republic for several months you never really had to learn the tech because you were basically on the Texas"
Five days later the Texas left the new colony where there were other Federation groups there to help them start up and headed towards DS9 not knowing that the rogue Dominion had taken over the station and through hacking into Starfleet databases had managed to make a crude Force inhibitor that would hurt any Jedi that had the collar on them as a means to control everyone. When they arrived the Texas crew realized something was wrong but they didn't know what and that would cost them as they would suddenly be knocked out, waking up several hours after the initial attack groggy and for Ashland in pain thanks to the inhibitor, and Ashland would also wake up alone. Several hours after being knocked unconscious in engineering
"Oh my head...ow that hurts!"
She quickly felt the collar around her and when she tried to access the Force she realized she had a Force inhibitor collar on her, one that was extremely painful whether or not she was actively seeking the Force out
"Okay situation report, I am all alone on what I presume is DS9, I have a Force inhibitor collar on me making me unable to access the Force to get a sense of what is going on here and it also looks like I'm stuck until I can get myself out of...whatever this place is"
Ashland was looking around while giving herself the situation report and noticed she was in what looked like a room without a door to enter or leave, though she did notice that she had a replicator unit, which quickly gave her an idea for escape
"Wait, this is a replicator unit, and it leads to another room I presume, but these units are connected to Jeffries tubes if I recall correctly and if I can move through the tubes I can figure out where I am and might also be able to free other officers also trapped, but that's only if I can escape through the replicator unit in the first place...well worth a shot anyways"
Ashland quickly gets into the corridor that was underneath the replicator unit and then slowly starts figuring out where everyone else is and starts freeing them as well. She makes sure to free officers and civilians alike as a statement that everyone was equal in her eyes, though she was hoping to free some medical personnel soon so that they could take care of the collar. Everyone that joined her noticed that she was in constant pain but unfortunately they couldn't understand why seeing as how they all had collars on them, but those collars weren't meant for anything other than to not make them suspicious of Ashland's collar, though of course they didn't know that and wouldn't for several days yet. Ashland took several days to free half the station due to the fact that she didn't want to get the enemy suspicious too quickly and cause people to die needlessly. Finally though she managed to free Bashir, Crusher and Kohler
"Hey guys, think you can figure out how to get this blasted collar off of me, because I can't access the Force without pain, heck I can't even wear this collar without being shocked on occasion"
"We'll see what we can do and since you're in pain we'll get yours off first"
"Excellent, by the way Crusher do you know how my fellow Jedi did, seeing as how you were to stay there until you received word?"
"Well all but one made it into Starfleet first go around, but there's a very good reason why one of the Knights didn't pass"
"Why?"
"It turns out that he contracted a virus while undergoing one of the unnamed tests and is now undergoing medical treatment, it's a very tricky virus that unfortunately requires some long term treatment unlike most viruses"
"How long must they undergo treatment?"
"He'll be in medical for at least a month, once treatment is over he'll stay at the housing they were provided during the testing and hopefully he'll pass next year"
"How did he get in contact with the virus in the first place?"
"Testing to see if he would fit into the science department seeing as how he had expressed interest in that from the beginning, while on board the ship"
"Okay then at least it's treatable, but Crusher if he goes into a healing trance he might heal a lot faster than medical thinks"
"Um not exactly, you see they told him to go into a healing trance for twenty-four hours and that failed completely and spectacularly, he almost wound up in a coma if not for their quick reaction"
"Okay that isn't normal, can he still access the Force?"
"Yes he could when I last saw him but something is preventing him from entering the trance properly and we have yet to find out why"
"Starfleet Medical will figure things out, now then about the blasted collar"
Bashir speaks up then
"I've got it figured out and can safely get it off of you, in fact everyone else's collars are fakes yours is the only real one. Once I figured that out I knew what to do to safely disable a few booby traps"
"Go for it then Bashir"
Five minutes later Bashir had the collar off and Ashland physically looked relieved at that
"Okay now that the collar is off we still have a few problems"
"Like what Sentinel?"
"We have no weapons Lt. what are we going to do to fight back with no weapons?"
"Good point"
"Exactly, plus I need my lightsaber no questions asked it's the weapon of a Jedi and it's a part of me"
"Don't worry we'll get everything figured out but for now I think we might have to hit the enemy hard and steal the weapons they're using"
"That should work, let's just hope they don't discover where we're hiding"
"Oh I have a solution to that though no one's going to like it"
"Don't tell me"
"Yes doctor, we split up, big time"
"That won't work Sentinel besides you need authorization from either Colonel Kira or Captain Sisko"
"Well we don't have them Lt. and quite frankly I highly doubt we will for some time, they're quickly catching on to what I am doing and we only have about half the station freed. That is not counting those on the ships that are still docked and people are simply stuck there"
"You still can't give orders Sentinel"
"Well...not exactly, we're still trying to figure out just where I fit in the pecking order especially considering I'm the only Sentinel currently on active duty"
"There's also the fact that if she senses a disturbance in the Force she's allowed to act as she sees fit"
"Okay so we still don't fully have your role set in stone but we still don't know what we're going to do when we need Captain Sisko to formalize any plans made"
"Except when things happen in the field like now"
"She has a point"
"Look for now let's go with the Sentinel's plan and adjust as we find people of higher rank because the only person that has the highest rank is Koran and he's only a Lt. Commander that's not really a very high rank especially as he's only been that rank for about three months"
"Okay we'll go with it for now, but once we have things fully settled in how you fall within the ranking system you will obey the rules"
"No problem, the only thing I'm confused about like you are is why that hasn't been figured out in the almost year and a half since I was informed of my new rank, because before this I was an Ensign, unless they were expecting the Texas to figure it all out"
"Who knows we'll figure that mess out later for now we have a station to free"
They start doing what Ashland suggested which turned out to be a good thing because the enemy did catch on and tried to start killing people in the Promenade. Since there were multiple teams they freed people before they reached the Promenade and soon enough Sisko was freed and he quickly changed the plan that Portland thought of but that was because he was better informed about the enemy than she was