janssen's depiction continues to work at xavier's school, while her powers have slowly been growing unstable since the battle at liberty island. following an assassination attempt on the president by a mutant, nightcrawler, jean and storm are sent by xavier to track him down. they find him in an abandoned church and realise he was acting under mind control. after colonel william stryker attacks the school and most of the mutants are forced to flee, logan contacts jean to pick him, rogue, iceman and pyro up in boston; they arrive just after a fight with the police which leads to the air force chasing after the blackbird. despite storm's best efforts at shaking the fighter jets, one is able to launch two target-locked missiles at the blackbird. when the team realizes what has happened, jean falls into a trance and taps into her increasing abilities with startling results: her hair blows back from her face, her skin flushes with an almost fire-like glow, and her eyes burn with red flames as she telekinetically destroys one of the missiles with apparent ease. shocked at what she's done and exhausted by the sudden power fluctuation, jean loses her control and the other missile hits the blackbird. they are then saved by magneto and mystique, who offer their aid in stopping stryker from using xavier to kill all the world's mutants with a second cerebro. while camping, logan makes a pass at jean, who gently turns him down. logan is later seduced by jean, though he discovers it was mystique in disguise.