Third year in the Academy

"This is not a good thing, let's see, separated and no commbadge so where can I go until I can link up with others again"

She keeps running while dodging several different people firing weapons at her and then she is forced to stop due to a chasm which while technically not too large for her to Force jump across was still pretty far and she had a feeling she wouldn't be able to jump high enough either. She looked back and saw them coming closer, looks back at her option and does the only sensible thing in her mind

"Oh for...very well, see ya never creeps"

She simply backwards somersaults into the chasm disappearing from everyone's view and landing safely several feet to the ground. After that the simulation ends and an instructor comes to ask her a valid question

"Okay just what did you do at the end?"

"I Force jumped into safety with a backwards somersault"

"But just how did you do that?"

"It's hard to explain just how the Force works but it's kind of like an instinct where you just know what to do, I figured it would be safer to just jump into the chasm than to try and Force jump across it even though I knew I would probably make it better safe than sorry, Jedi can jump further distances and fall further as well due to the Force. I can't fully explain it and I know I'm not explaining things very well but things are what they are in regards to Jedi, now then is there anything about my newest private assessment we need to talk about?"

"Not for now but you know that can change at a moments notice"

Present

"We learned to be very careful around you after that, though I still want to know just how you managed to pass that one test without the use of the Force"

"That's not exactly explainable Captain, but to be honest I think not having access to the Force on a regular basis honed what regular humans call a sixth sense, I can get very uneasy even without access to the Force though I should warn everyone that it is hit and miss on occasion"

"I think that forcing you to have inhibitors actually makes you more aware of your surroundings Portland because since you can't access the Force for any information or to help with your emotions any bad vibe you get is increased by ten fold at the very least"

"I think it's twenty fold whenever she does have access to the Force"

"What makes you say that Picard?"

"Easy, I have seen the differences between when she had access to the Force and when she didn't, the rest of the Jedi acted different when they had Force inhibitors forced on them but they didn't give us warnings whenever they were taking the inhibitors while Sentinel Portland here gave warnings both when she did and didn't have access to the Force. Once before they were forced to take inhibitors, shortly before we made it to town she alerted me to potential danger in the wildlife which actually saved our lives because that forced us to be together. Once we were in town she gave warning of occasional danger at least an hour before trouble actually hit, then when she was taking the inhibitors she warned us at least thirty minute, though once it was half a day"

"That day something just felt off though I wasn't quite sure what, turned out the enemy was planning a major assault on a town that was helping us for later that day. We weren't planning on going into town that day but because we did we actually saved several lives that would have died otherwise, my fellow Jedi didn't do that at all while taking the inhibitors"

"Well we're going to have to borrow these people's ships so that you can get back into the action but I also think some of us will stay here for now while they reestablish a defense"

"The Admiral is right, we need to continue freeing the Federation, by the way have you received any recent news on our refugees stuck in the Republic?"

"They're doing fine last I heard"

"Great"

"The only question now is who stays and who goes?"

"Well I for one think that those of the Enterprise and the Mississippi should be some of the ones helping free the rest of the Federation, but to be honest it will probably take years before the Federation is truly free, just like the Dominion war took years to fight"

"True, but there's also the fact that quite frankly as Jedi are fighting we might win faster than the Dominion war because we can sense things that normal humans can't, heck we can sense things that telepaths can't sense which gives us the advantage and will help in the long run in finding camps that the enemy has set up and also places where there is lots of fighting"

"And where there's fighting there's a resistance which we can use to our advantage"

"Exactly Commander, but we still need to figure out who's going, who's staying, and which ships the two crews are going to take to get back into the fight seeing as how we destroyed our ships"

They eventually settle everything out in regards to who goes where for the Jedi and who also is staying to protect the planet for a little while

"So everything is settled and everyone is ready to go right?"

"Hm yes but first..."

Suddenly Ashland whips around with her lightsaber and goes through the stomach of one of the officers that helped rescue them and then cut off their head revealing that it was a robot the whole time

"...I think we should get rid of this spy, our plans need to change otherwise the enemy will defeat us easier than before"

"How did you know he wasn't real?"

"Something just seemed off whenever I talked to him and then when I touched him just now in regards to asking him a question I didn't sense anything from him, no life, no Force signature, nothing, that meant it had to be a robot, I don't get anything from Lt. Commander Data but that's to be expected, but to not get something from the officer I just 'killed' is not normal so that meant something was wrong"

"Good catch, so let's start changing plans unless there are any more spies?"

"No there are no more spies from what I can tell"

"Then let's remake some plans"

They quickly make some adjustments and then they start freeing the rest of the galaxy. It would turn out that thanks to the Jedi the war would only last for eight months due to them knowing exactly when and where to hit the enemy. It would also help that resistance groups had quickly formed when the whole thing first started including on Earth where the Jedi that had gone to Earth for Starfleet training were part of the resistance there. They had quickly put on the wrist bracelets that acted like Force inhibitors so that they wouldn't be discovered that easily when confronted by the enemy, once that was done they along with several other cadets and teachers went literally underground while the rest stayed top side so as to gather vital information for the hidden resistance. They would occasionally lose people to death and other times to camps but they always worked from the shadows with others who wanted to fight back. On other planets they did what they could to blend in and stick to the shadows as a means to either free or keep free their planets, though it was very interesting in regards to Romulus and Vulcan because of the fact that they were essentially the same race. Those two worked together on the two planets to keep both free and the enemy never figured out how they were beaten so easily. While all of that was going on there were occasions where the rest of the Jedi needed to put on the bracelets as well, but also times where there access to the Force was crucial to their survival and the survival of the rest of the team as well it just varied on the situation whether or not the inhibitors were needed. But finally the Federation was free and the refugees that hid in the Republic just in case could come home, Ashland and Delgado were part of the team that brought them home and then Ashland asked a very important question to Picard seeing as how they were on his ship