They head down and start fighting to free the Captain, and as it turned out both Ashland and another officer had to fight Lockland and it was the other officer who managed to solidify Lockland's place in the group by stunning him unconscious and seeing as how he had Ashland's phaser after she went blind and he lost his it was understandable...to everyone who knew about the locked phasers anyways, that and everyone had agreed to keep their phasers on stun for this mission. Finally though they made it to the real Captain and free him, once that was done they immediately left the area. In sickbay
"Sentinel do you have any injuries that need tending to?"
"Yep, they managed to blind me, how's the Captain?"
"Not good right now, but he will be okay, he's going to recover fully don't worry"
"Good and Lockland is solidified in his place for now, but I hope his mission can end soon and he's allowed to come home"
"He will be, I may not be a Jedi and I may not be Force sensitive but I just have a feeling that he'll be able to return home soon"
"Let's hope so because I have to say he's earned his rest"
"From what I have heard I agree with you, now then let's get your eyes treated, the Captain is resting right now anyways and you have duties on this ship to perform"
"I know, but for now I don't have that many seeing as how we haven't quite escaped from those creeps space yet"
"They might still follow us and you're the best pilot we have right now"
"Except until we're out of their space I need my Force inhibitor because otherwise I will be affected by Sith artifacts that our newest enemies managed to get their hands on"
"Forgot about that aspect, my bad"
"Indeed your bad but once we leave this space I can take the inhibitor off and go full force in my abilities which is just fine by me I have missed being a full fledged Sentinel"
"Don't worry you'll be able to take that inhibitor off soon enough and then you'll be able to be yourself"
"Yes and I want to know when the Captain awakes Doctor, it's not an order but I have yet to meet the real Captain and I would like to meet my real commanding officer as soon as it's possible"
"Don't worry you will, in fact we have him in a bacta tank right now because of some of his injuries and he'll stay there for twenty-four hours and then we'll take him out to let him finish healing"
"Once my eyes are better can I see him real quick?"
"Sure after all I'm still actually new to that equipment so I would appreciate a second opinion"
Once Ashland's eyes are repaired she goes over to the tank to simply touch it as a means of making a sort of connection
"Oh Captain"
As soon as she touched the bacta tank she got a surprise she wasn't expecting her new Captain was Force sensitive
"Doctor did you draw any blood when he came in?"
"Yes why?"
"Can I see the sample real quick I need to check on something"
She's given the sample and Ashland does the special test and isn't completely surprised by the results
"Well looks like the Captain and I have some things to talk about once he's awake"
Two days later Ashland was actually in sickbay for a wrist injury when she saw the Captain wake up
"Doctor, Captain Frost's awake"
Once the Doctor finishes with the Captain Ashland goes into his line of sight
"Who are you and what are you doing on my ship?"
"First Junior Sentinel Ashland Portland sir, I arrived shortly after your last mission when you were captured"
"I see,so the transfer orders came in as soon as you returned to Federation space"
"Yes sir but I had another mission first, and while your entire crew knew something was wrong I was the only one who could raise the alarm with Command, we rescued you almost two days ago"
"I see, about my captors one of them..."
"I know sir, he's actually a Jedi deep undercover right now and while he had to do things to you to keep his cover he would have also made sure to do things to help you, like Force healing while hitting you"
"I think I felt that, though I don't know how"
"I do sir, you're Force sensitive, enough in fact that if you wanted you could train to be a Jedi"
"No, I knew for the past three years that I was different and was a little suspicious that it was the Force and I decided years ago that if it was I didn't want to leave to become a Jedi"
"Will you at least allow me to train you in meditation techniques and how to hide your signature naturally even if it isn't as good as the Starfleet inhibitors?"
"Yes I will allow that because it might prove necessary in the future"
"Exactly sir, we'll have special sessions as soon as possible but for now...I think you still need some time to recover from your captivity"
"I agree and know that, but just so you know I have a special diary that I have made for the past three years which will explain why I became suspicious of me being Force sensitive, though I never formally went through the test to confirm that"
"Don't worry the diary will most likely be sufficient enough to explain your suspicions though I do have to know if you talked to any of the other Sentinel's"
"No I didn't, though I can't really explain why"
"Either way sir is there a special lock on that diary I need to know about?"
"Yes, type in alpha one and also use the Force and it should open, I just hope it's not keyed into my Force signature because otherwise it's locked"
"If it is keyed to your Force signature I'm sure that I'll find another means of getting access to that information, don't worry Captain I'll read your diary without needing you"
"Portland, I'm sorry I wasn't here when you finally arrived on the ship"
"It's okay Captain I understand, and quite frankly I think it's a good thing that the imposter didn't know anything other than the fact that I was coming on board and didn't fully know about my abilities, otherwise even with the secure channel I have with Command I might not have really been able to warn them of the fact that there was either an imposter or you were being controlled"
"Good thing too, but did you really think there was alien control over me?"
"I had to think of all the possibilities so yes for a time I did think that, but eventually we managed to get the impostor into sickbay and that's when the truth was revealed"
"And while you were being ordered around by the impostor I was being tortured and simply held captive though I do appreciate your undercover Jedi because he kept me alive half the time"
"And the other half of the time?"
"He either wasn't in the area or I guess he had no choice but to go along with the torture"
"Captain how bad was it the times he intervened?"
"He prevented me from being beaten beyond into unconsciousness as far as I know and like I said he used Force healing whenever he beat me and sometimes afterwords as well but not often and not a whole lot, the times he was there and didn't intervene it got pretty bad, in fact according to the medic one time I almost died it was that severe"
Ashland narrowed her eyes at that and then started talking in a language the Captain didn't understand
*I am so talking to Lockland after this to get a full report on what he had to do and couldn't do while undercover and then we're doing Force meditation together to help him with his emotions *
"Portland are you okay?"
"Yes Captain I'm fine, I'll go get your special diary and learn about you and your revelations of you potentially being Force sensitive"
She leaves sickbay and gets his special PADD with the diary and successfully opens it with her Force signature and once back in her quarters starts to read so that she could learn about him and how he reacted to the fact that he was Force sensitive. She couldn't get that far that day because soon after she got the diary her shift started and she was actually needed in engineering so that's where she went and afterwords she got a quick bite to eat and went to bed, grateful that she would have time the next day to get in some reading time. The next day after her early shift she continued reading and realized just how hard it had been for her new Captain to not only conceal the possibility of him being Force sensitive to the crew but also to Starfleet Command because he really didn't want to be forced into becoming a Jedi not knowing that Starfleet would never order him to do something like join Jedi training due to just how long training could be and also because unless absolutely necessary to help control Force powers most Force sensitives weren't trained without permission from either the parents or because of the current situation without the permission of the Force sensitive person themselves. He also talked in his diary's about the fear he sometimes had for his crew because of his uncontrolled Force visions and she knew that they were truly Force visions. Once she was finished reading a few days later she sent a message out to her fellow Sentinel's in Huttese to let them know that she was serving under a fellow Force sensitive who had decided not to undergo formal Jedi training but was allowing her to teach him a few necessary skills and that if they ever met up with them not to force the issue with the Captain because it was his choice. The next day on the bridge
"Portland, I have a message for you but I can't read it, can you look at it?"
She looks at it and is surprised to see that it was from Coruscant and in Huttese but when she looked at it she paled because of what was being said and she knew that it wasn't good
"Commander, when will the Captain be released for even limited duty?"
"Not for another two days according to the doctor why?"
"Because there are some major problems back home that I need to deal with, why they're sending it in Huttese is between the two groups but I can tell you that it is vital that I get back ASAP"
"Sorry Portland but we can't do that, and it's not because you're being vague, we just got an urgent message from an unidentified source requesting immediate help out of the area"
"Is the message audio?"
"Yes, and it's actually a combination of what you call basic and another language, how we understood what we could is because of the basic"
"Mayday, Mayday, Mayday to any Federation vessel I need help I am on what is known as Tartus IV and..." *Get back you creeps or I will kill you* "as I was saying and I am in need of immediate pickup I will have a means of letting you know who to teleport as well as explain..." *I am so done with these creeps but without weapons I am useless* "who I am in person but for now call me agent 12" *I also have a private message for any Sentinel hearing this my cover is blown and I can no longer work undercover let the Council know that slavery will have to continue for now and that Lockland is coming home via Starfleet if at all possible* "I will do my best to be alive when you arrive you have my frequency agent 12 signing off"
"We have no choice but to go there Portland"
"No kidding I know exactly what he was saying and you're right he needs our help more than what's going on in Republic space right now not to mention..."
She suddenly stops and then her eyes go wide
"Look let's just pick him up and you'll understand right now I'm needed in sickbay"
She leaves and heads to sickbay and when she got there she put the Captain into a Force hold knowing that he currently wasn't in his right mind and believed himself a captive still
"Stand down Captain you're on your ship!"
Eventually the Captain tired himself out and finally he actually looked at his surroundings and realized where he was
"Sentinel Portland what are you doing to me?"
"I am keeping you in a Force hold so that you didn't harm yourself or anyone else any further while you were confused and you were confused sir"
"I...I was back there being tortured I didn't realize they were my own people"
The doctor speaks up
"It's okay Captain we know that you weren't aware of your surroundings, I think it's now more important that you do joint meditations so that Portland can help you heal along with visits to the counselor you should be released for full duty soon enough"
"You're right now then seeing as how I'm still stuck here I need to know one thing what are we currently doing?"
"We are heading to Tartus IV to pick up someone who will for now be known as agent 12 per their request, hopefully we'll pick them up before we lose them, all available ships are heading there so maybe another ship will pick them up first but for now as far as we know we're the only ones who heard the mayday and are close enough to do something about it"
"Very well guess I can look forward to a fellow prisoner"
"Yes, and by the way you will recognize him as soon as you see him but for now I am keeping his identity secret for everyone's safety"
Two days later they were actually intercepted by a Romulan vessel who had rescued "agent 12" right before he had been killed