A young teen.

With a bright future ahead of her.

A trip to Cancun for Spring Break.

Loss of friends.

Breaking my civilian habits.

Be all that I can be.

Female and male training integration.

Training to be Force Recon Marine.

Dropped out of a plane at 40,000 feet.

Snowboarding at 7,000 feet.

Stopping US Election Tampering.

The Villain rises as the Hero.

Climbing Mount Everest as a teen.

Recovering a Marine's body from the death zone.

Discovering what really is on the mountain.

To boldly Summit Everest and survive the descent.

Have not surfed in 5 years.

Surfing North Shore, Sunset Beach and the Pipeline Masters.

To surf is to get up on the flat, pop up and rip.

Winning the Triple Crown gets me an invite to the party.

I am Blackstone, Jessica Blackstone. Cancun was suppose to be a fun time with my friends. We were all suppose to go to the same college together. Them dying messes up my world and now things will never be the same. My parents are not my parents. Friends are gone. A task I must do and I have no skills to do it, but the will to live. I am scared out of my wits. Why is this happening to me? What did they do to me that I survive when I probably should have died with my friends.

A mission to kill and I have not hunted since I was a kid. I am just a girl that wanted to have fun. Now, I find myself doing a job that I never thought I would be doing. My sweet sixteen is suppose to be filled with pink bows and pretty dresses, not guns, drugs, and rock and roll. Becoming a Marine is probably the hardest and easiest thing to do in my life at the same time. There are no missions other than becoming a Marine, but to become it I must shed my old civilian life. Once a Marine that old me is gone, but not forgotten.

Firmness, Fairness, Dignity, and Compassion. The Eagle, the Globe, and the Anchor. Forged in the fire of the crucible and rising up in Force Recon. In most cases I have no clue what my mission is until my boots are on the ground. Going into the field knowing that the enemy knows more about my mission than I do is half the fun.

Worn out from my last mission I must climb mount Everest with the ever present threat of frostbite. At 27,000 feet I discover something while recovering a fallen Marine's bones. An alien infects me and my life is not the same. As I summit Everest I become a minor celebrity. Fresh from the trials of Everest, I am in Hawaii surfing the waves. Am tired but excited to do something gnarly. A kingpin invites only past and present winners to his island for a party. It is the party of the century, I am really there to find out what happened to some agents that were investigating the kingpin.

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