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.

"Looks like our cover's blown," Tommy muttered to Logan as the Shi'ar were suddenly more alert, looking for the source of the chorus of growls as they were already starting to move to round up their prisoners as a precautionary measure.

"Get 'em out," Logan replied. "Then we can break everything you don't like the look of."

"Thought you'd never ask," Tommy said, giving Logan a little two-finger salute before he dashed off in the direction they'd come, headed for Noh and Jubilee, while the bamfs seemed to have things well in hand for Kate and Kurt, teleporting the two of them out of the mining complex and then returning a few moments later with murderous glares as they turned their fury toward the Shi'ar who had done their friends such damage.

As soon as the bamfs started to scatter and get to causing trouble, Logan let his claws fly and just tore into the nearest guard, though Scott was sure to bark out a warning to the Young Avengers to stay clear of Logan, and once Logan really started to let loose, Scott quickly amended his advice for them to avoid him entirely.

Scott started blasting, but it wasn't too long before one of the Shi'ar guards got the drop on him and made the poor decision to try and remove Scott's ruby quartz glasses. Instead of getting nervous or even the least bit upset, Scott calmly responded by closing his eyes just long enough to face the guy, then retrieve them from what was left of the guard.

America was leaving her own mark on the Shi'ar who came anywhere close to Billy, who was still pretty wiped from keeping them invisible and powering the blackbird on the trip over — and it didn't take long at all before her fists and face were pretty well splattered in enough blood that she looked like she could have been related to Logan.

Meanwhile, Teddy had shapeshifted into one of the Shi'ar guards and was getting the drop on them the sneaky way — though he made it a point to stay clear of Scott and Logan while he looked like that. It was also an effective disruptive technique, as the guards were suddenly wary of even each other.

A few minutes later, Scott was surprised when Tommy burst through the wall next to him and then put his hands on his knees to get his breath. "Gah. Alien metal tastes weird when you go through it," Tommy muttered, shaking his head and making a face.

"How are Noh and Jubilee?" Scott asked.

"They're going to need juice boxes or something at least," Tommy said. "But I left them with Kate and Nightcrawler and a couple of those little demon things. But maybe we should finish this up quick. They, uh, don't look too good. Any of them."

Scott nodded his agreement and just went back to blasting blasting as the former Young Avenger beside him just started to throw out his hands and send out destructive waves that blew the Shi'ar apart from the inside out. Between the two of them, they were dealing damage not only to the Shi'ar but also to the mining operation — and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

Logan, in his raging, had just torn through two guards at once and turned to find his next target when two more guards opened fire on him, hitting him in the chest and neck. From where he stood a ways back, Scott could hear it when the projectiles ricocheted off the adamantium bones, and with a wicked roar, Logan completely lost what little grip he had on his focus and sanity.

Scott was quick to hop on the comms as he cautiously watched him from behind a rocky outcropping to direct the Young Avengers as well as he could. "Keep far away from Logan, he's gone berserk — no one is safe, our side or theirs, until he comes out of it."

"Good to know," Teddy's response came over the comms, sounding a bit worried until America reported that she was taking Billy and going somewhere else to see if they could collapse some mining equipment.

Leaving Logan to just rage behind him, Scott followed America's signal until he caught up with the rest of the Young Avengers. The kids seemed to be having a blast — especially Tommy, who seemed to relish the excuse to destroy things as he just shattered equipment and aliens as quickly as he could.

"Join the party," America called out to Scott when she saw him, and he had to smirk as he did just that, helping Tommy to destroy equipment while America and Teddy punched their way through Shi'ar, and Billy's little glowing projectiles kept up a steady stream of distractions for the guards that tried to stop them.

Behind them and through his haze, Logan was still working his way toward the exit, if nothing else because he was chasing down those Shi'ar that were trying to run away from him and cutting them down from behind, their screams echoing ahead of them to warn the others of his impending arrival.

The Shi'ar fired increasingly desperate shots his way, but it was only answered with an enraged roar and more screams from the guards that were trying to hold their ground as Logan tore into them in his frenzy.

"Stay back," Scott reminded the Young Avengers as he put a hand on Billy's chest to remind him to stay where he was. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the kid had his cell out to record — and likely had been doing so for much of their adventure - and he just put his hand out for it. "Not this."

Billy blinked at Scott for a minute and then put the phone in the palm of Scott's hand with a bit of a sigh. "Don't lose it."

"How would I get a hold of you otherwise?" Scott said with a tiny smirk.

It wasn't long before the previously enslaved teammates arrived on the scene to help. It looked like Noh had managed to get his hands on a Shi'ar gun, which he had used to blast a hole in the wall, though he tossed it to Kate once the little group saw that they had finally found their teammates and he ran in to fight hand-to-hand, with Kate firing behind him and Jubilee working up a few plasmoids to help break equipment. Kurt teleported over into the middle of the rest of the bamfs, who were delighted to have him around to help them wreck the place.

Before too long, there wasn't much to do for most of the group but just keep out of the way and wait for Logan to make his way to the entrance of the mine and then head out, but when Jubilee heard his snarl, she stopped dead in her tracks and turned in his direction and started to walk forward.

When Noh saw where she was headed, he stopped what he was doing and redirected his attention her way with wide eyes. "Jubilee — no, that... do not do that," he half-spluttered even as Scott was saying more or less the same thing, trying to get her to back down.

Instead of finding cover or even acting like she'd heard what Noh and Scott were shouting, Jubilee just started running right for Logan past the flow of traffic that was trying to escape, and when she found him, he was still pretty well wrapped up in a full rage. Scott called out for her to stop, back up, hide — any number of reasonable suggestions that he could come up with — and Noh was simply positioning himself to take down Logan if he hurt her ... but Jubilee had her own way of dealing with a berserk Wolverine and simply ran right for him against everyone's protests.

Logan was mid-snarl when he spotted her, but she didn't even slow down as she rushed in and simply wrapped her arms around his neck in a hug. She started whispering something to him that Scott had never managed to catch over the years, and after a few moments, he retracted his claws and just returned the embrace with a heavy sigh.

Noh looked entirely relieved and leaned against the side of a demolished mining rig to get his breath as he looked over the rescue team. For a long moment, there was silence in the demolished mining facility before he caught Scott's gaze. "I am not sure whether to joke here and ask what took so long — or to thank you profusely and genuinely," he admitted with a small smirk.

"Let's just get outta here," Jubilee suggested, as she and a very blood-soaked Logan walked up arm in arm to the group.

"No arguments there," America agreed. "This place is pretty well trashed anyway, and you look like you need a shower, Glitter Bomb." She tipped her head Jubilee's way with a small smile. "Nice to see you in one piece."

"Nice to see you too — love the hoodie," Jubilee replied with a little wink, to which America just responded with a brilliant grin.

The group of rescuers took just a moment to take stock of each other and especially of the four they had come to rescue in the first place. More than anything, it looked like they were just tired and half-starved — so they just needed to get to the ship so Hank could double-check and then stuff them with Twinkies.

They were about halfway to Noh's ship when the next wave of trouble showed up, however — in the form of a Shi'ar ship coming in for a landing.

"Ah," Kurt said quietly, almost weary as he glanced up at the new challenge. "I believe that was meant to be our ride," he said to the other three former captives, who all glared at the ship like it had personally insulted them.

"You have any more in you, Logan?" Scott asked, to which Logan just nodded.

"Yeah, I think so," he replied, stepping out from Jubilee's grasp and shaking his arms out. "Be easier if I had someone that could give me a lift though."

At that, Tommy looked Logan over sideways for a moment before he broke into a wide and cocky grin. "Yeah, I think I can throw that far."

"You sure? I'm not exactly a lightweight," Logan replied with a raised eyebrow.

Tommy just let out a little laugh and flexed his muscles. "I might not look it, but I can handle heavy loads. Just tell me you don't weigh a ton or something."

"Right around three hundred pounds. Give or take," Logan replied. "Metal's heavy."

Tommy nodded and thought about it. "Alright. I'll have to take a running start."

"Usually a fastball special is Colossus' turf," Kurt told him, but Tommy just seemed that much more excited about it on hearing that — not at all discouraged or dissuaded.

"Uh-huh." Tommy held his hands out in front of him, making a little square with his fingers to size Logan up one more time before he just nodded once, backed up several steps, and then took off at a run — and before Logan knew what had quite hit him, he was flying toward the ship.

He popped his claws and got them in front of him just in time to breach the hull, though he didn't go all the way through the ship. Instead, he hit a supporting beam inside and sliced that into shreds before tearing into every bit of machinery and weaponry around him waiting for the guards to show up.

Outside, they didn't have to wonder long if it had worked as the ship's sirens began to go off not long after the hull breach, and shortly after that, it began to spew smoke and list to the left hard. The ship set down quickly, and the group rushed forward to meet the Shi'ar that were sure to come out looking for a fight as small, muted explosions echoed inside the crippled ship.

"At least it's just a prison transport and not a warship," Kurt called out to Kate as the two of them dove into the new battle alongside the bamfs who were clearly tickled to have them both around to cause more trouble — while still keeping half an eye on their tired and dirty big brother and pretzel friend. One of the bamfs was even perched on Kate's shoulder and bared his teeth at every. Single. Shi'ar. who looked at her sideways.

"Ah, there's the silver lining I was looking for!" Kate called back to Kurt as she used the borrowed Shi'ar weapon to blast the guards that poured out of the new ship. "I only have half a warship left in me anyway."

The battle got all the more interesting a short time later when there was a cry from the guards still on the ship, and shortly afterward, all sorts of different species of life began to trickle out of the transport, including a pretty healthy population of Kree, some of which were armed with Shi'ar weaponry.

Noh burst into a wide grin when he saw that and called out to Jubilee, who was nearest, "Remind me to thank Wolverine. I'm sure it's his doing that my fellow Kree are free and armed."

She just grinned his way and blew him a kiss before detonating a particularly large paff in the face of a quickly approaching guard.

With the prisoner population armed as well, this battle didn't last nearly as long as the one in the mines, which was a relief especially to the X-Men who had been captured - as they were tiring out fast. By the time the Shi'ar had been thoroughly routed, and Logan had finally gotten tired of sabotage and killing to just cut his way out of the hull of the ship, it looked like the prisoners Logan had freed had more or less taken over, so the X-Men and Young Avengers decided to leave them to their revenge and just get back to Noh's ship and get some much-deserved rest.

Once they got back to the ship, Noh gave the hull an affectionate sort of pat and a muttered, "Miss me?" on the way, though his sedate smile slipped substantially when he saw that Hank was waiting to look them all over — and he quickly skirted around the good doctor to the cockpit with a muttered excuse that he was going to get them "off this hunk of rock."

Hank glanced toward Noh with a frown before he turned his attention to the rest of the group the moment they were all inside, with a sideways glance at the very bloodied Logan as well as the nearly-as-bloodied Tommy and America.

He ignored Logan for a moment in favor of the other two. "Are either of you injured?" Hank asked kindly.

The two of them glanced at each other, appraised the other, and then shook their heads almost in perfect sync. "Not unless you count a couple bruised knuckles," America said with a shrug.

"And a real need for some food," Tommy agreed as he bumped America's shoulder with his.

"Ah, well. I find that when observing a fairly bloodied person, if it's not Logan, I am compelled to be sure of their condition without making rash assumptions," Hank replied, though he did look a bit relieved to hear that neither of them had been hurt. "If you feel woozy at all, you know where to find me."

"Actually, this is pretty normal for them," Teddy explained helpfully.

"It's nice to know that there are others out there capable of giving most doctors a small coronary episode," Hank replied before moving on to the ex-prisoners.

"Ooh! I need a check up," Jubilee volunteered, rushing over to start by wrapping Hank in a warm hug. He smirked her way, knowing exactly what she was up to, but still went through his standard triage on her before giving her a kiss on the forehead and a Twinkie.

"You seem a bit in need of sustenance, rest, and water, but otherwise — you are free to go, Jubilation," he told her with a bit of a smile.

"That's a little more substantial than a lollipop," Kate said with a little smirk as she tipped her head at the Twinkie in Jubilee's hand.

"I couldn't keep the lollipops in stock," Hank replied. "Not with her in the house stealing them all the time. Besides," he shrugged. "I prefer a Twinkie while I'm hard at work."