"Where am I?" Jean looked blankly at the familiar surroundings.
"Wait, this looks like... the Academy!" After a brief moment of confusion, clarity began to return to Jean's eyes.
She was standing at the entrance to Mutant Academy, but this Mutant Academy had undergone tremendous changes. The sealed walls and iron gates had collapsed, while the school buildings within had all been reduced to ruins. Blazing flames burned everywhere, and the air was thick with the stench of blood.
"What happened?" Jean rushed into the sea of fire in terror. There, she saw countless familiar yet unfamiliar corpses. Every mutant student in the school was dead.
Amid the central ruins, Professor X, Wolverine, Storm, Lu Yifang, and the others lay helplessly on the ground. Standing at the very center was a red-haired woman, and in her hand was Cyclops, who had lost all ability to resist.
The red-haired woman seemed to notice Jean's gaze. She turned around, revealing a face identical to Jean's. Her eyes, filled with brutality and destruction, looked down upon Jean from above. Then the red-haired woman suddenly grinned savagely.
Crack! The woman snapped Cyclops's neck.
"No!" Jean cried out in terror and abruptly sat up on the operating table in the laboratory. Terrifying energy erupted at that moment, making the entire room tremble.
"Calm down, Jean. Good girl, it's all right now." A gentle male voice rang out, carrying a peculiar power that soothed her turbulent emotions.
"Professor, thank goodness you're all right." When she saw that Professor X was standing safely before her, then noticed Lu Yifang behind him, Jean finally calmed down.
"You merely had a nightmare. We're all fine, and you'll be fine as well," Professor X continued reassuring her.
"No, Professor. If the Phoenix Force within me can't be stopped, that nightmare