Kree, Shi'ar, and Skrulls, Oh My!

Jailbreak

When Noh's ship took the group of rescuers to Kree territory, they followed the ping that was Noh to the other side of the asteroid, past the Kree facilities that didn't seem to look twice at another Kree ship, until Scott landed them a bit outside the Shi'ar operations, well-hidden in a pocket of rock on the asteroid that they would not have noticed but for the persistent ping leading them on.

It seemed the Shi'ar were mining the asteroid for fuel, and as the group of Young Avengers and X-Men carefully made their way through the facility — with Billy muttering Wewanttobeinvisible the whole time they were searching — they only went deeper into the asteroid itself. As they went, each of them was frowning deeper as they saw a few captured Kree and other prisoners who were working in the mines — dirty, tired, and clearly on the verge of collapse.

The deeper they traveled into the mines, the more Logan was clenching and unclenching his hands in fists as they saw the state of affairs, and Teddy was surprised when Scott put a hand on his shoulder and very quietly pulled him around to his other side so that Scott was the only one standing close to Logan as they kept trekking further along.

They finally found the first of their friends after about half an hour of searching. It was obvious they were getting close when Logan very suddenly picked his head up to sniff the air and then took a quicker pace as he headed in a more determined direction instead of the wandering path they had been taking until then — and the rest of the group followed after him at a quick pace.

When at last they rounded the corner to find a very miserable-looking Jubilee they all had to simply pause. She was dirty and clearly exhausted as she and some other prisoners worked the mining equipment, but the thing that had Logan only just barely holding back the growl was the fact that he could see there were tear tracks on her dirty face.

Logan was halfway to her when Scott rushed forward and put a hand in the center of his chest.

"We haven't found the others yet, and you'll set off the alarms — who knows what they'll do to their prisoners if they think there's a jailbreak," Scott said reasonably in a low tone, though he was also looking Jubilee's way and looked simply thunderous.

Logan let out a frustrated huff but nodded, though it was clear he was mostly just worried for her. "I hear ya, Slim," Logan replied quietly. "I just don't like it."

"Yeah, I know," Scott had to agree, just frowning hard as the two of them led the charge deeper into the mining operation.

Though the two X-Men were moving silently, the rest of their group was not. They were doing well by Shi'ar standards, and even walking right past a guard, but Logan knew that was only a matter of luck because the guard was too focused on leering at one of the prisoners. So the soldier was not tipped off, but when they rounded the corner to spot Noh, it was clear to those that were watching him closely that he knew something was up. Like Jubilee, he was clearly dirty and tired, though he also had the marks of injury from his capture and from being a Kree in a Shi'ar mining operation — but he had his head tipped to the side as he was clearly just... listening.

Very quietly, Logan whispered out "See you in a few" as they passed through.

At that, Noh just smirked and nodded the slightest, but that was the only indication he gave that he had heard them — and none of the guards seemed to have noticed anything.

A while later, when they finally found Kate and Kurt, it was in a slightly more open area where there were more workers and guards. Like the other two, they were clearly exhausted, dirty, and worn as they worked the equipment under the watchful eye of the Shi'ar.

It was a good thing that the two of them were in the same area — though on opposite sides of the complex — because despite Logan's whispered threats to the bamfs to be quiet, they almost couldn't help but let out a little chorus of growls at seeing Kurt and their pretzel friend in such condition and, before anyone could stop them, they had teleported right over to the ceiling above their friends to be closer, only getting more upset and growling more obviously at the up-close look they got at the exhausted pair.