Comms are quickly set up between the two vessels

"This is Sentinel Portland to unknown Federation Vessel I am on standby to be picked up"

"Sentinel Portland this is Captain Klomas of the USS SAVAGER, she is a new ship which is why you've never heard of her before and we are about to teleport you to the ship please have the ship you are on stay still so that it will be a smooth transition"

So the ship stops and Ashland soon ends up on the new vessel and when she sees the Captain and a few Admirals she knew that this was the crew that she would be with when the one vision happened

"Sentinel Portland requesting permission to come aboard Captain"

"Permission granted Sentinel, and by the way you have some explaining to do"

"I know, how new is this ship?"

"Just commissioned when we came to Republic space, this was actually our first mission"

"Okay and why are there Admirals on board this ship?, no offense sirs but you normally stay on earth"

"We know, the reason is because there were some matters that only an Admiral can discuss with the Chancellor so since I was available I volunteered and the others wanted to visit Republic space to understand our allies better"

"I understand sir"

"Now then, after you get some rest you are going to explain where you've been these past two years while we've thought you dead"

"Well I have two words for you in regards to that question, though it will garner more questions and a full update after I get some rest"

"Oh and what exactly are the two words that explain where you've been"

"Bounty hunting"

"Bounty...I never thought a Jedi would stoop to something so low"

"Yeah well I had my reasons behind that choice which I will explain in a full report a little later"

"Um what's a bounty hunter?"

"People who kill, or capture, someone for profit, they're technically legal or illegal depending on the situation and where you are but they are never acknowledged for working for a government precisely because of their questionable legality. I have heard that even other bounty hunters will take you down, either that or steal your bounty depending on several different factors"

"Some of what you've heard is greatly exaggerated but a lot of it is the truth, and like I said what I've been doing these past two years and my reasons will all be in my report, oh and by the way Sentinel's Defense is fully functioning and I will be recording it in the holodeck so that others can learn from the hologram if they too are Sentinel's"

"Never thought you would complete that and make it work"

"Well it does, and it might be handy in the future so it's a good thing I disobeyed your orders and then with your permission perfected the thing"

"Get some rest Portland, and then I want a full report so that I understand your decision to be a bounty hunter which still doesn't make sense for a Jedi to pretend to be one"

"Don't worry, you'll understand once I write my report"

A few hours later both the Captain and Admirals read Ashland's report which fully explains why she became a bounty hunter in the first place and realize that it really was the only option she had to hide in plain sight after having a bounty put on her real identity, though she admitted that she probably could have done something else there was risk of people being injured and that was something she wasn't going to allow if she could avoid it

"I just don't understand one thing about Portland's decision"

"What's that Captain?"

"Why didn't she immediately return after the bounty hunter who was supposed kill her was killed themselves later that year?"

"I think only she can answer those questions"

Ashland finished recording the unique style and then reported to the bridge to find out where she was to be temporarily stationed which was the helm or engineering depending on the day and the situation going on with the ship at any given point

"Understood Captain"

Six and a half months later she was back in Federation space but before she could return to the Enterprise the ship was asked to make contact with a new planet that had made contact with them first, and when she saw the people on the viewscreen Ashland knew that what had happened in her dream sequence was about to happen, but she also knew better than to say anything because while what she dreamed could happen, she also had a feeling from the Force to wait until absolutely necessary, that not all was what it seemed. She was actually chosen to be part of the away mission which she expected, once down there she found out exactly why she didn't have her lightsaber

"You need to give us your cylindrical device now please"

"Fine, just don't mess with it" (thinks) "at least now I know why I don't have my weapon in the dream"

"But Sentinel that's your..."

"I know it is Captain, just trust me will you?"

"Fine, I'll trust you for now, I get the feeling something is going on that I'm not aware of"

"Exactly, now then let's just start the mission and hope nothing happens because we could be in a boatload of trouble otherwise"

Everyone in the away team immediately got the message Ashland was telling them without out right saying something was up. In the middle of talks is when the attack happened and Ashland and the rest fought, they only had their phasers but they were actually pretty effective and both Ashland and the Captain both managed to allow people to escape but then the attackers took people hostage and they were forced to surrender. Once in the cell

"Okay Sentinel, what is going on here?"

"A few years ago I had a dream about this and knew that we would most likely be captured there's just one thing I didn't count on that I should have"

"What's that?"

"No matter what visions the Force gives us things can change without warning because the vision of the future is only a possibility"

"So what happens next?"

"I can't tell you because it's not a good thing necessarily, and besides I don't know if it will happen now so unless I tell you otherwise we have no clue what's going to happen next"

Several hours later a person came in with a gun and the Starfleet officers noticed Ashland stiffen slightly and knew something was up and the person pointed the gun at Ashland

"You're coming with me"

"Fine"

So she's separated from the group and taken to an interrogation room, and that's where everything changed, two of her guards attacked the others and started to push Ashland away from the interrogation room and towards a door that led away from the building and Ashland followed them figuring that something big was up and a few minutes later in an abandoned building she found out what it was

"Good thing you followed us without question, we're part of an underground resistance that has been in place since an assassination attempt on our planet's leader three months ago"

"What is going on here?"

So the people explained how the planet was divided between allying with other warp capable people and staying out of it and being self dependent still and how things had escalated to the current point

"Oh by the way we managed to steal this back as well"

The person hands Ashland back her lightsaber

"Great I need this, how did you infiltrate the enemy by the way?"

"It wasn't easy but we managed"

"Good thing because it's the only reason I'm alive right now, but what about my fellow officers?"

"We can't do anything right now but as far as we know they won't kill them immediately"

"Understood, by the way some of our people escaped in the initial attack do you know..."

"They're fine, at another base waiting for an opportunity to get you people back and help reestablish the proper government because several people of the government has asked for their help"

"Have you been told that we technically can't get involved because you're not part of the Federation?"

"Yes but what the insurgents don't know is that we secretly signed something that makes us part of the Federation, it was ratified several days ago"

"Okay then we can actually get involved, so what exactly are your plans and what have you done up to this point to stop those guys?"

Everything is explained and Ashland quickly starts helping out whenever possible, using her abilities as a Jedi to give everyone the upper hand. Eventually though things are back to normal for the planet and everyone is freed

"Looks like our work is done here"

"Yes, but now I need to figure out what I'm going to do from here on out, T'vran isn't answering any of my mental calls and quite frankly I don't even know if I still have a place on the Enterprise"

"We'll figure that out after we get back to Earth, let's face it this ship is in need of repairs and all of us need to be seen by Starfleet Medical especially you Portland, because we have no clue what you've been exposed to these past two years and from what I heard you never really got checked out by the Jedi Healers so that means you are to have a mandatory meeting with the doctors at Medical"

"I know and that's precisely why I didn't go to the healers on Coruscant, because I was definitely exposed to some things that only Medical can help with because we never know if other Starfleet officers might become exposed as well"

"Did you explain that to the Council?"

"No but that's because in my report I told them all the planets I had gone to and they knew that no other officer had been to those planets so naturally I would want Starfleet medics to check me out so that they can start preparing people in case they ever have to go to those planets while serving in Republic space for whatever reason"

"Did you also get samples just in case they are no longer in your system?"

"Oh yeah, right before I tried to kill the Senator I went back to those places and made sure to get the correct samples I needed, and then made sure they were properly preserved"

"Good then they will have everything they need to eventually counter-act whatever you were given while undercover"

"Exactly, though I will warn them that whenever a Jedi has access to the Force their bodies can and will act differently then the rest of the officers when exposed to foreign substances"

"Why is that exactly?"

"It's a natural resistance built up when you train in the Force, it's basically automatic Force healing unless of course you deliberately want to let the substance effect you, either that or it's potent enough to counter-act the healing a Jedi can do"

"Oh is that why we have reports of Starfleet Medical succeeding in keeping you under for long periods of time whenever you try to push yourself too soon according to them?"

"Yes, the first time was because it was very potent because they had seen me fight sedatives before, the rest of the time unless I am being very stubborn and not sleeping properly it's because I allow the substance to work on me because I know it's supposed to help. I actually had to do that every time the healers added a new medication that first year I was at the academy because those medications are so different from what the Jedi Healers use that my body would have fought every single inoculation I needed otherwise and I knew that was a bad idea"

"So you guys use a combination of healing techniques then?"

"Yes, Force Healing, Bacta patches, Bacta tanks, different types of medications, Healing trances each of these can be used individually and in different combinations depending on the situation and severity I know for a fact that I have had to have surgery at least once because my leg was that badly fractured"

"Then we will definitely be warning Medical about that, by the way you have official orders that just came in not fifteen minutes ago, though I'm not sure you're going to be to happy with them"

She looks at her orders and everyone could tell with just one look at her face that she was indeed not happy with said orders but then she just gives a sigh of resignation

"I understand Admiral, I will report to my new duty station as ordered unless something happens to either group before then, do you by any chance know of a ship or shuttle headed out that ways?"

"Actually yes I do, there's a shuttle leaving Starbase 12 in an hour if you hurry you can make it on time and start heading to your new duty station, maybe meet up on the way to your drop off point"

"One can only hope in that area"

She leaves the ship to head to her new duty station while the doctor on board the ship goes to Starfleet Medical and asks to see the head administrator about an important matter