Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

==History==
===Background===
As a kid of known superheroes she was welcomed in the circle of elite students. Unlike her sister she was more receptive to this, although it made her question her social position. Later she recalls this situation as the starting point for her growing disillusionment with life at the time.<ref name="Ward9.2">[[Gleaming 9.2]]</ref>

Prior to gaining powers, Victoria wanted to be a superhero more than anything. This led her to play sports, an area she could finally shine, as well as to begin dating a hero.<ref>Wildbow: @ the topic - Glory Girl wanted to be a hero more than anything, she couldn't, she was frustrated, joined a sports team where she could give her all and actually shine, and connected with another hero in a romantic sense, out of that deep-seated need.<br/>Wildbow: Which isn't to say she didn't care about him, mind you.<br/>Wildbow: Took a bad hit, pent up frustration came to the fore, bam - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-12#post-20697825 Wildbow on IRC]</ref><!--19.9 implies them dating before her trigger--><ref name="II19.9">[[Infrared 19.9]]</ref>

Victoria [[Trigger Event|triggered]] in 2009, at 14<ref>“Hold on,” I said.  “I was asked, I’m answering.  I triggered at fourteen, I was patrolling within six months.  I had three years of time as Glory Girl, one Endbringer fight, and-” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/26/flare-2-6/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.6]]</ref><!--19.9, thus her birthday is closer to the second half of the year-->, when she was fouled in a basketball game.<ref name="4.3">[[Shell 4.3]]</ref><ref name="Story Arc" /> When she jumped to make a shot, another player slammed into her mid-air bruising her sternum, and she began flying.<ref name="PH1">Unsportsmanlike conduct between players. She jumped to make a shot, someone else slammed into her in mid-air, and she didn’t fall to the ground until she stopped flying. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/interlude-18-donation-bonus-2/#comment-10201 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Interlude 18.y]]</ref><ref name="II1.8 e1">“My entire life leading up to that basketball game, I wanted so horribly badly to be a hero, you know?  It felt like I thought about it every ten minutes.  My parents were heroes, my cousin was, my aunt and uncle were, and everything revolved around it.  I wanted it all so badly it hurt, and I didn’t have it for years.  Then that basketball game, and I wanted to have something where I was the hero, where I got to stand out.  Because sometimes it felt like my parents didn’t see me.”<br/><br/>“That’s been a recurring idea.  You talked about their missed visits.”<br/><br/>“They came a lot,” I said.  “I know that.  My dad more than my mom.  But every missed visit was a horrible thing, and the little things mattered so much when I had nothing else.  Um.  And this basketball game, I know I’ve talked about this before.  But this one girl kicked my freaking ass.  In my face, knocking me over, intercepting every pass, blocking every shot.  She didn’t have any powers or anything, she was just… good.  Better.”<br/><br/>“A lot of things came into focus in that moment.”<br/><br/>“Every time she or one of her teammates beat me, I could see the look of disappointment on my parent’s faces.  In the other moments, they looked so bored.  And it was boring, you know.  No parent wants to go sit through amateurs doing badly at a high school sport.”<br/><br/>“Some do.”<br/><br/>“Anyway, she hit me hard, she said something about me being overrated, and it was the last straw.  Realizing I stood so far from family, that I didn’t want to be there, but I had no other choice, my sternum was hurting where she’d driven her elbow into me.  I got my powers.”<br/><br/>“Years of wanting, leading up to that.”<br/><br/>She’d caught the thread I’d wanted to lay out.  It helped.  “And then just under three years as Victoria-slash-Glory-Girl.  And then… hospital.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/01/daybreak-1-8/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.8]]</ref> Around a year after triggering, Victoria had been hurt in an attack by a gang called the [[Chorus]]. Amy triggered as a result, and healed her.<ref>Even the day she’d triggered, now that I thought about it.  Almost a year into me having my powers, a gang called the Chorus had attacked a mall in Brockton Bay.  I’d gotten hurt, Amy had triggered, and she’d healed me.  The gang didn’t endure our retaliation or Coil’s expansion of activities as he’d claimed more of downtown.  It had seemed like such a rare, clear-cut case of a trigger event providing an answer to the problem at hand, no fuss, no muss. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/18/breaking-14-10/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.10]]</ref>

It was publicly known that she was dating [[Dean Stansfield]]. It was something of an open secret among the heroes that Dean was actually the secret identity of the hero [[Gallant]].<ref name=":0">'''*Who's Victoria Dating, Gallant or Dean? I imagine it'd have to be one or the other in public or else his identity would have come out by now.*'''<br/><br/>Dean, but it's sort of open knowledge among the heroes that Gallant is Dean, and Tattletale succeeded in connecting the dots. The Wards and New Wave don't necessarily cross paths all that much. Jurisdictions.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Aegis is 17, very nearly 18, old for his grade level, he's already graduated high school and is taking prelim college courses (not the same courses as Faultline & Glory Girl). He triggered at 15. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17584328 Answer by Wildbow]</ref>

At one point she met [[Madison Clements]], [[Emma Barnes]] and [[Sophia Hess]] at a photo-shoot. Despite initially being friendly she was put off when they made fun of a disabled girl (never quite getting along with Emma afterwards.)

Victoria was taking college courses as other parahumans did, though she did not cross paths with [[Aegis]] or [[Faultline]].<ref name=":0" />

===[[Boston Games]]===
Victoria was too young<!--13--> to follow the first generation of [[New Wave]] to Boston, but she helped with the organizational stuff.<ref>“Yes.  During the Boston Games,” Ashley said, as Mrs. Yamada stood and went to get the water.<br /><br />
“I was a little too young.  I followed along back at home, where we made the dining room into a kind of headquarters, putting up a few bulletin boards.  I colored in the maps and moved pins as the territories changed hands while doing homework and stuff. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23/flare-2-5/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref>

===Story Start===
After spotting a thug guilty of assault, Glory Girl whooped and landed in a practiced motion before she gave him a head start as he bolted. She caught up to him quickly, told him the name of his victim and said that she would catch him if he tried to run. When he denied doing anything, she used her power to intimidate him, grabbed him by the collar, and lifted him into the air, above a dumpster. She then threatened to break his arms and legs if he didn't tell her everything. He swore at her and she threw him.<ref name="I2" />

Glory Girl worried that she had killed him before she spotted him moving. She asked if he was ready to talk only for him to try limping away. Angry, Glory Girl kicked the dumpster and sent it towards the man. After it hit him and the man didn't get up, she checked his pulse, found the street address, and then called her sister for help.<ref name="I2">[[Interlude 2]]</ref>

When [[the Undersiders]] [[Battle at the Bank|attacked the Brockton Bay Central Bank]], her boyfriend [[Gallant]] invited Glory Girl along. She landed on the roof while [[the Wards]] lined up outside the building. [[Panacea]] sent her a text after she attacked [[Skitter]] with a fire extinguisher, which prompted Glory Girl to enter the bank lobby through the window. Skitter took Panacea hostage with a knife and [[Tattletale]] reappeared from the back office where she had gone for unknown reasons. Tattletale claimed that she is a psychic and proceeded to back up the claim by giving information about the circumstances behind Panacea's adoption. She then threatened to reveal a secret of Panacea's that she claimed would tear her family apart.

Panacea escaped Skitter's hold but was quickly knocked out by her batton instead. Glory Girl blasted the two villains with her aura and threw Tattletale into Skitter, talking at length about her intentions to have the pair thrown in [[the Birdcage]]. Tattletale was able to figure out Glory Girl's forcefield, and used a small handgun to disable it so Skitter's bugs could swarm Glory Girl and the Undersiders could escape.

In the aftermath of the fight at the bank, Panacea dealt with the physical effects caused by the insects, but she claimed Glory Girl was 'sulking' because of the mental shock of getting hurt while being nigh-invincible.

Glory Girl attended the fundraiser to celebrate the defeat of the [[ABB]], representing [[New Wave]]. When the Undersiders [[Battle at the Gallery|raided it]] she seemingly was incapacitated by Tattletale using containment foam and played no further role in the fighting.

When the secret identities of [[Empire Eighty-Eight]] were revealed to the public, [[Purity]] went on a rampage across the city in response to the [[PRT]] taking custody of her daughter [[Aster]]. During a large scale battle between E88 capes and local heroes, Glory Girl fought alongside [[Laserdream]], [[Lady Photon]] and [[Aegis]] against Purity, who was assisted by [[Crusader]] and [[Rune]]. The fight was difused when the Undersiders arrived and Tattletale gave Purity directions to recover her daughter from the PRT.

She participated in the battle against [[Leviathan]].<ref>[[Extermination 8.1]]</ref>

===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
With her father hurt and her boyfriend Gallant dead, Victoria was left adrift, unable to gain emotional support from her sister who was dealing with her own issues.<ref name="Story Arc" /> 
After a brief feeling-out period,<ref name="9.3e1">New Wave may be disbanding.  My mom suggested that if I wanted to keep being a hero, I should consider joining the Wards.  So I’m here, checking things out. [...] They’re willing, if I agree to some extra rules and stipulations.  They’d be putting me on probationary membership, like they did with Shadow Stalker.  I came by to get a sense of things, see if it’d be worth going through the hassle instead of going solo- [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-9-sentinel-interludes/9-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.3]]</ref> she joined the [[Wards]]<ref>When you had nothing, you groped for anything, even if it was the person who’d brought you to that point.<br/><br/>I’d reached out back then, too.  I’d turned to the Wards, because my mom had been the only person doing anything to keep New Wave in motion, the team had been falling apart, and I’d needed something.  Because the tests and briefings made me feel closer to Dean, reminded me of the study sessions.  Because the first time I saw her after the Endbringer attack, Vista had hugged me, because Dean, and it meant something to me that there was someone else properly upset for him. - [[Daybreak 1.6]]</ref><ref>“Are you ex-Protectorate?” he asked.  “I might have missed that if it was in your application.”<br/><br/>“No.  Ex-Ward, but only very briefly.” - [[Flare 2.1]]</ref> as a probationary member.<ref name="9.3e1"/>

Victoria was among the Protectorate heroes who battled [[Crawler]] and [[Mannequin]] in preparation for an airstrike, and was horrendously injured by [[Crawler]]'s venom, surviving only because Skitter carried her away from the battlefield on Atlas.

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
Confronted with an impossible amount of stress, [[Panacea]] suffered a breakdown and made Glory Girl reciprocate her love. She forgot how to put Glory Girl back together and, in trying to heal her, warped her into a mass of flesh made of the body parts Panacea found most appealing.<ref name="Story Arc">[https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?682837-Worm-Bet-the-Alternate-Thread-The-Star-Wars-Prequel-Trilogy-Still-Sucks-Though&p=16772221#post16772221 Comment by Wildbow regarding story arc]</ref><ref name="15.x"> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref><ref>[[Colony 15.2]]</ref>

Glory Girl was placed in the [[Parahuman Asylum]], where she was treated by [[Jessica Yamada]] and communicated through blinks.<ref name="18.z">[[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> She eventually was able to painfully type out messages on a computer.<ref name="II1.6e1"/> Her family would sometimes visit her, but often skipped visits.<ref>My visitors, my family, had decided that because they didn’t know how long the lockdown would be, they would come another day.  It was a long trip. [...]<br/><br/>The message had been left unfinished on my screen, only a few words of what I’d wanted to say.  Even completed, the statement wouldn’t have meant anything to the staff member, and they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.  All I’d wanted to express was that my family had missed the last two visiting days as well. - [[Daybreak 1.6]]</ref> She was able to make friends with Sveta however.

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Continued to take Parahuman courses online while in hospital.<ref name="5.6">“I used to admire that side of you.  It was a good thing when you were doing the physio, and when you were watching those videos of university classes.  Which were ''incredibly'' boring, I’m sorry.”<br/><br/>“They were the highlight of my day.”<br/><br/>“They were ''so'' boring.  I don’t know how you make powers boring, but they managed.  But you had the mental fortitude to push through it.”<br/><br/>“I enjoyed it,” I said.  “Really.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/17/shadow-5-6/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.6]]</ref> Had various forms of therapy so she could adapt to her circumstances.<ref name="5.4">It made me think of the hospital.  Of a time shortly before she’d left with Weld.  A couple of weeks before, maybe.  Physiotherapy, working on my manual dexterity, they’d given us video games and controls we could use.  Sveta had done a lot of it, and picked up more of it for the social aspect, so she’d joined me to egg me on.<br/>[...]<br/>It was a bittersweet memory, which was about as good as things had gotten, then.  Two or so weeks later, Weld had gone to see her.  I could remember her anticipation leading up to the meeting.  She’d been so upset over the Case fifty-threes defecting en-masse from the Protectorate and Wards, and Weld’s visit had turned that around.<br/><br/>It hadn’t gone well.  I wasn’t sure exactly what had happened.  Then Weld had come to see me.  He’d treated me with more human decency than I’d had out of anyone but my therapists, patient advocate, or the other patients for months.  He’d been patient, ignored my ramblings, he’d been gentle, asked what he could do for me.  It couldn’t have been easy.  I’d been a mess.<br/><br/>I’d convinced him to go back to her, with a renewed perspective.  Later on, I’d given them my blessings.  She’d walked away from the hospital with her hero and freedom.  Weld had gotten my only real friend and one of my only unabashed, unpaid-for allies. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref>

Around this time she got her parents to tell her about what had originally happened with Marquis.<ref>There were other thoughts.  In trying to get my parents to talk about Amy, the Wretch had typed out one word, asking for the story we’d never really gotten to hear in full.<br/><br/>M-A-R-Q-U-I-S.<br/><br/>My dad had told the tale.  Somewhere in there he’d said something about Marquis’ prize- Amy.  I remembered because anything to do with Amy had been something to fixate on, back then.  I remembered because there was something to the story that connected with what my mom had said, about the villains and their treasures.  Connecting those dots had helped bring the already vivid mental picture of the scene to life. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/21 Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.6]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
Glory Girl fought in the final engagements of Gold Morning. She was used to block a beam from [[Scion]] at one point during the battle.<ref name="II15.5 eTankScion">When the world had ended, the mind controlling entity that had seized us all and coordinated us for one phase of the attack had used me for this purpose.  To take a hit from Scion.  It had been almost absentminded. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/20/dying-15-5/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.5]]</ref>

She was later reunited with her sister, thanks to [[Khepri]].<ref name="30.7">I watched the individual members of the swarm touch ground.  The girl with healing powers had been placed deliberately next to a living pool of flesh with multiple heads of golden hair.  The healer’s hands were covering her face, but she didn’t step away.<br/><br/>Her hands slowly lowered, and she laid her eyes on the monster, which was actively, ineffectually reaching out for her. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/30-7/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.7]]</ref>

While Amy was able to correct Victoria's body, all the way to when Amy first 'misstepped', she decided to let Vicky decide if she was going to keep her memories, after first turning off all her emotions so Vicky could decide 'rationally'.<ref name="II1.8 e2">“Gave me a body again.  Um.  She made me seventeen again.  Walked back the clock, as if it… I don’t know.  So she didn’t take two years of my life from me in body, like she did in everything else.  I’m physically nineteen now, apparently.”<br/><br/>“You said body, mind and spirit.  She fixed one of the three.  Did she undo the effect on your emotions?”<br/><br/>I drew in a breath, sighed heavily.  I nodded.  “She actually- she turned off my emotions.  Suppressed them.  Then she asked me what I wanted.”<br/><br/>“What did you want?”<br/><br/>“I remember thinking, you know, it was really possible she wanted me to say that I wanted to go back to liking her.  And if she did think that, then it was unconscionable.  Divorced from all emotion, I thought it was unconscionable.”<br/><br/>“Okay.”<br/><br/>“And divorced from all emotion, I thought I’d be fair.  That I’d give her the benefit of a doubt.  That I’d assume that wasn’t what she meant or wanted.  I told her I wanted to remember.”<br/><br/>“To remember?”<br/><br/>“Those two years,” I said, my voice hollow.  I drew in another deep breath. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/01/daybreak-1-8/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.8]]</ref>

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
Victoria would regularly visit Earth Bet through the portal in the east of [[the City]] to search through abandoned buildings. She agreed to provide some of the materials she had found to a library in the City.<ref name=":1" /> At some point she set up a tarpaulin to try and prevent the old family home in Brockton Bay from being wrecked by rain, but suspected it was a lost cause.<ref name=":2">Glitzglam:  K.  Im visiting 2.  field exercises today tomorrow.  team want to meet for drinks on day off. <br/>I think I might take off nstead.  home 4 sure.  m/b u?<br/><br/>Point_Me_@_The_Sky:  I’m okay.  But do me a favor?<br/><br/>Glitzglam:  anything<br/><br/>Point_Me_@_The_Sky:  If you stop by? I set up tarps by house. Make sure they still there & no water getting through? Lost cause maybe - [[Glow-worm P.5]]</ref><ref>Glitzglam:  and speaking of places.  I got 2 take off becuz my place is 2 be doing drills<br/><br/>Point_Me_@_The_Sky:  Be safe.  Say hi to the family for me.  I’ll drop by soon. - [[Glow-worm P.5]]</ref>

She had applied to Nilles University and been turned down a year before [[Y1]].<ref name=":0" />

She had a job connected to a high school<ref>Point_Me_@_The_Sky:  Might go for long trip before h.school semester starts + I get busy with work.  Visit home. - [[Glow-worm P.5]]</ref> as an expert in [[parahuman]]s. Students at the school had classes for half a day, and worked various jobs the other half, one of those jobs was adjacent to the school [[Patrol Block]].<ref name="II1.1">[[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref>

She applied to Nilles University again, but after some time waiting<ref>'''Glitzglam:''' Have u got that email yet?<br/>'''Glitzglam:''' ? ? ?<br/>'''Point_Me_@_The_Sky:'''  If this is a pep talk it isn’t a very good one.<br/>'''Glitzglam:''' Thats a no huh?  fuck - [[Glow-worm P.1]]</ref> - despite excellent qualifications and references - she was rejected again.<ref name=":0" />

Madison Clements contacted her seeking information about Taylor Hebert (and expressing regret for whatever role she may have had in Skitter's birth). Victoria admitted that she had deeply mixed feelings about Taylor; she acknowledged that Taylor had been a hero and while she didn't say it recognized that she had saved the multiverse from Scion. However, she also condemned many of Taylor's actions (in particular Taylor's murder of Alexandria). She also criticized Madison for her previous cruelty towards Taylor; in spite of this she gave Madison advice on how to try to be a better person (especially since Madison was planning to be a teacher), warning her that redemption was not about forgiveness but trying to do better.<ref name="P.9"/>

===Early [[Ward]]===
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Victoria was forced to publicly use her powers when a mercenary group attacked an event the [[patrol Block|patrol group]] was protecting, resulting in her dismissal.<ref name="II1.7">[[Daybreak 1.7]]</ref>

She applied to almost every major superhero team, but they all turned her down for one reason or another.<ref>“Only one was actually posting any openings, a corporate team, Auzure.  Foresight and the Attendant were open to interviewing me.  There are two other big teams; one gave me a hard no, and the other is folding into the Attendant and won’t exist soon, they didn’t give me a response yet, and with how the talk with the Attendant went, I don’t think it’d work out.”<br/>[...]<br/>I was pretty sure Advance Guard had turned me down because of my background, the two year gap prior to Gold Morning.  Others had their reasons for rejecting me. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/12/flare-2-2/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.2]]</ref> She participated in patrolling during the rioting, as well as assisting during the [[Broken Trigger]] that occurred.

[[Jessica Yamada]] eventually reached out to her to get help with a [[Chatroom group|therapy group]] she had been working with. Seeing as they wanted to be a team Victoria decided to help them.

Victoria set her new team up against a group of B-list villains in the [[Cedar Point]] district.

She convinced the Wardens to back the [[Mathers Compound Assault]]. At the start of it she captured some bikers on the outskirts of the Fallen village and then led her team as search and rescue inside. The rescue efforts shortly devolved into series of skirmishes with incoming and local villains.

In aftermath she unsuccessfully pleaded [[Patrol Block]] leaders to pursue Fallen retreating into The City. Then, she and her team had a meeting with [[The Undersiders]] and together they deployed to New Boston to catch Fallen remains. Victoria was able to capture [[Vince Crowley]]. After short interrogation, combined team rushed to Fenway station and was able to secure it with the assistance of local Patrol.

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen Fall]]===
Got involved in legal stuff. Appeared on the talk show Hard Boiled along with Capricorn, Lookout and Swansong in order to defend Kenzie against the allegations made against her by her parents. Victoria spoke publicly about Gold Morning, and revealed the truth about Scion. 

Victoria reveals the truth of her forcefield to her team.

Breakthrough's appearance on Hard Boiled attracted the attention of Goddess. After discovering that Amy has some kind of connection with [[Goddess]], Victoria decided they should go ahead with the meeting. Breakthrough met Goddess through Lookout's projections in order to protect themselves from her influence, but this proved pointless, as Goddess was able to master them regardless. 

[[Panacea|Amy]] is not pleased with this turn of events. Goddess attempts to use Breakthrough to master even more capes. It is revealed that [[Tristan and Byron Vera|Byron]] has not been affected by Goddess' master ability due to Case 70 shenanigans and tries to stop everybody. He gets his ass kicked by Victoria, until he manages to get through to her by invoking Master-Stranger protocols. Goes with Byron to meet [[The Major Malfunctions]] who have found a crooked guard working for the prison. When they meet them, they are attacked by [[Teacher]]'s thralls. They handle these goons until they are reinforced by the prisons [[The Pharmacist|pharmacist]], who is a powerful cape. She fights them off and escapes.

Once they return to base, Kenzie figures out how Teachers portal machine works and devises a way to trap them on the prison world. She enacts her plan, and Goddess arrives at the base, mastering Byron.

The attack on the prison commences, and as they are leaving the hideout, Amy attempts to touch Victoria. Victoria nearly murders Amy in response. The attack on the prison commences.

Breakthrough, Goddess and members of [[Foresight]] fight off various Teacher thralls. [[Lung]], [[Blindside]] and [[Kingdom Come]] arrive. The team reunite with Rain and Ashley, and meet up with [[Ratcatcher]].

Victoria, Rain and Byron [[Antares vs Lung|fight]] Lung and the pharmacist while Goddess fights random capes in the background.<ref>[[Gleaming 9.11]]</ref> After a long battle, Victoria manages to capture the pharmacist, allowing Goddess to gain control of Lung. Goddess senses danger with her power, while Victoria makes a deal with [[Coalbelcher]]. Teacher plans to starve them all out. Chris and Amy arrive with Goddess' clustermate.

Breakthrough, [[Damsel of Distress III]] and [[Monokeros]] enter a tunnel and fight Blindside. Eventually getting passed him, they find that Kingdom Come has mastered Sveta and is unable to control her body. Byron floods the place, stopping them from setting off the ankle bombs. Victoria rescues everybody and they escape the tunnel. Monokeros tries to take Kenzie and gets kicked down a hole. The prisoners are all free, and Chris is revealed to have left Breakthrough.

The team and everybody in the prison prepares to fight [[The Wardens]]. [[Natalie]] and Ratcatcher point Victoria to some drugged food, which allows her to break free of Goddess' compulsion. She spreads the food around, before Goddess attacks them. Chris then hits her with a surprise attack and successfully kills her. He and Amy then leave with a lot of the prisoners to take over [[Earth Shin]].

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
Went shopping with the remaining members of the team, as well as some hangers on and new additions. Had an intense girl talk with Sveta.

Found out that the Undersiders were on the move, and went to investigate with the rest of Breakthrough. Finds out that [[March]] is after them with a team of mercenaries. Meets with [[Faultline]] and her [[Faultline’s Crew|crew]], who now go by Palanquin. Tattletale is present, and informs them of how capes in clusters can siphon powers from one another.

Breakthrough went to investigate [[Love Lost]] and her group, by staking out Lyme Centre. End up getting into a fight with an electricity tinker, and destroying the guns that Love Lost has just purchased.

Victoria goes to meet a returning Crystal and Weld with Sveta, and meets [[Golem]] and [[Cuff]]. She is then called into a crime scene, where [[The Navigators]] have been attacked, and dismembered. After discovering they are alive despite their grievous injuries, Victoria helps the police and ambulances, and tries to gain any information she can about the attack from [[Nailfarer]]. When she informs the other heroes in her network, some of them decide to go on the offensive.

Her and a group of capes return to the crime scene to do some investigating. She gets hit on by [[Anelace]] and handles it pretty awkwardly. The entire group is attacked. Victoria fights back against the attackers, including a cape called [[Noontide]] and an [[Contender|unnamed man]]. Sveta kills Noontide. It turns out Kenzie, Ashley and Tristan have all been shot.

Later, [[Dragon]] gives Victoria Yamada's notes and she finally discovers [[Chris Elman|Chris]]'s past.

Having not yet told her team about the recent revelation, Victoria and Breakthrough defend a police station from [[Bitter Pill]] and her group. After this, Vicky finally tells the team what she has learned and they do not take it well.

Vicky takes Kenzie back to her apartment with both Ashleys and does some research. She is attacked by [[Imp]] who threatens to burn all of her stuff, but eventually they sort out a deal and the Undersiders team up with Breakthrough to take on Love Lost, March and [[Cradle]].

The teams split up. Victoria, along with Rain, [[Foil]], [[Parian]], [[Chastity Vasil]], [[Candy Vasil]], and [[Aroa Vasil]] have been assigned to hunt down Love Lost. They run into [[Lord of Loss]] and [[Nursery]]. They successfully make it into Love Losts hideout, and gather some intel. Parian is attacked by Nurserys baby, and the team is surrounded.

Victoria fights off a cape who she compares to a hockey puck, while the others escape. She then takes the [[Blue Team vs Lord of Loss' Mercs|fight]] to Lord of Loss. Using Rains emotion ability to give her pseudo thinker powers, she manages to defeat Lord of Loss, but has to pull a Nursery baby out of her throat in the process. She then discovers that something terrible has happened to one of the other groups.

She discovers that the rest of her team has fallen victim to [[Cradle]]s separating whip and that they have all been horribly maimed in some way. With this knowledge, [[the Hunt for Cradle]] begins.

He had retreated to [[Earth N]], so Victoria follows him with a coalition of capes, including members of her team, the Undersiders, the [[Harbinger Clones]], and her parents. There, they find that Cradle has assembled an [[Cradle's Army|army]] of mercenaries. A large scale battle breaks out, with some of the residents of Earth N assisting the heroes, including the likes of [[Moose]].

During the battle, Victoria mistakenly hurts her mother with the Wretch. The damage done is enough that Brandish has to revert to her Breaker form in order to not die. Pushing on, Victoria continues fighting, until eventually Cradle is cornered, and with the assistance of [[Citrine]], captured.<ref>[[Heavens 12.9]]</ref>

Later, she watches as the [[Kronos Titan]] stands over the horizon.<ref>[[Heavens 12.none]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Victoria is a part of the group that oversees the exile of [[Drillbit]], [[Sightly]], [[Copse]], and [[Happyland]].

[[Jessica Yamada]] returns, and speaks to every member of Breakthrough, excluding Victoria. Later, they talk one on one, and Yamada reveals that she believes Victoria to be a threat to the team, as an incriminating diary had been found in her possession. One that Victoria did not write.
She leaves the Wardens Headquarters, checks her computer, finds the planted diary and shows it to Tattletale. Together with Sveta, they follow Tattletale's lead to figure out who manifactured the diary. During this process, Victoria meets [[Ratcatcher]] again, uncovers [[The Old Man]]<ref>[[Black 13.8]]</ref> at the [[Earth Nun]] villain hub and gets confronted by [[Engel]]'s emotion power, which almost causes a mental breakdown. However, with the help of the [[Case 53]]s, they are able to identify [[Teacher]] as the definitive suspect, forcing him to make a move and proving that the diary was not real.

Once back at the Wardens HQ, [[Dragon]] apologizes to Victoria for the suspicion. Shortly after, during a meeting with [[The Wardens]] and several team leaders, including Victoria, Dragon reveals that she is an AI.<ref>[[Black 13.11]]</ref> Victoria begins to disregard the teachings of her therapist and decides to prioritize her cape-life over trying to have a civilian life.<ref>“If we can’t beat Teacher, we might have to make hard decisions,” I said, still trying to get to grips. I was aware of Engel behind me.<br/><br/>“Hard? I don’t follow,” Sveta said.<br/><br/>"Whether we take our lumps, play nice, and trust that people will turn around… or if we stop treating them like they’re a consideration?”<br/><br/>“Them?” Sveta asked.
    “Civilians.”<br/><br/>“Victoria, no,” Sveta said, sounding genuinely horrified. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/11/black-13-11/ Excerpt] from [[Black 13.11]]</ref><ref>Jessica wanted to get us to a place where we were dealing.  Where we were equipped with the skills to battle our own issues, to handle conflict and confrontations.
I’d tried that.  I was so, so weary of it.  The game.  The back and forth.  Consideration, when none was extended back.  It was so hard, so difficult.  I was so tired of dealing.  I wanted to at least consider what we needed to do so things were dealt with. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/11/black-13-11/ Excerpt] from [[Black 13.11]]</ref> While the heroes and Tattletale talk, Victoria and Jessica have a short exchange, after which Victoria turns to [[Mr. Bough]] and proposes a deal. Bough is to restore [[Sveta]]'s body in exchange for a more comfortable stay in exile. Sveta and [[Vista]] burst in, but Bough accepts the deal and with Sveta's consent, the operation begins some days after and succeeds.

The Wardens plan a coordinated attack on [[Teacher]], who resides in [[Cauldron]]'s old compound. The attack is being delayed by several days due to preparations and team Breakthrough ends up having to confront [[Gary Nieves]] in public, who reveals that [[Panacea|her sister]] has mutilated another person on Shin, in a similar way to what she did to Victoria.<ref>“Your sister, Antares, who is supposedly being watched, apparently just did to someone else what she did to you four years ago, when she put you in the hospital.  She was sick then, she’s sick now, and no, I don’t think anyone’s watching closely enough." - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/25/breaking-14-3/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.3]]</ref> The group teams up with [[Miss Militia]], [[Golem]] and Vista to meet the leadership of [[Earth Shin]]. Together with the leadership, they also encounter the Dallon parents, [[Chris Elman|Chris]], [[Marquis]] and Amy.<ref>[[Breaking 14.4]]</ref>

[[Brandish]] is recovering from her injuries and signals to Victoria, that they are in need of help.<ref>[[Breaking 14.5]]</ref> Victoria confronts Amy, while Miss Militia speaks to [[Luis]] and the other leaders of Shin. Amy reluctantly admits, that the victim of her power use was [[Hunter]]. Vicky offers Amy to visit the Wardens HQ, so that she can talk to a therapist, but secretly hopes that the Wardens decide to dump Amy into the prison world. She also threatens Amy, that she will ensure her punishment, if Amy can't restore Hunter. Their talk ends and the group returns to Miss Militia. [[Luis]] then orders for the group of [[Earth Gimel|Gimel]] capes to be arrested. Trusting Miss Militia, they comply.<ref>[[Breaking 14.6]]</ref>

Team [[Breakthrough]], [[Vista]] and [[Golem]] end up in a prison on Earth Shin. [[Amy]] and her parahumans remain in supervision nearby. Once in private, [[Kenzie]] reveals that she is still connected to the rest of her new team via her tinker tech. Vista openly confesses to [[Byron Vera]]. Right on the next morning, the group is violently attacked by both guards and prisoners. They try to defend themselves without using their powers and suffer severe injuries. One of Victoria's hands gets skinned.<ref>[[Breaking 14.8]]</ref> They have a short meeting with [[Citrine]], who came to negotiate for their freedom. Victoria is led to a medical station, where she gets drugged and knocked out.

When she wakes up, she is alone with Amy and notices that the skin of her hand has been provisionally regenerated. The two sisters talk. Amy confirms that she used the opportunity to peek into Victoria's psychology. It is unclear if she changed anything. Implications suggest that Amy abused Victoria in the time before she went to the Birdcage.<ref>“I mean, it’s obvious that that kind of side of me is going to be bigger and more pronounced in comparison. You took all the parts of me you liked and mashed it all together into a big pile of lovey-dovey ‘Vicky’ you could cuddle with, kiss, use-”<br/><br/>She shook her head, violent.<br/><br/>“Don’t shake your head at me. Yes. You used me to soothe yourself. You said you loved me but well before you made me into the w- into that mess that had to go to the hospital, you made me into something that wasn’t Victoria, for your own selfish wants.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/15/breaking-14-9/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.9]]</ref> Amy also reveals a little bit about the [[Shard]]'s endgame<ref> Dot clambered up her arm to her shoulder. “The ‘because’ is that Scion’s species’ life cycle didn’t stop just because he did.  Even if you don’t fertilize an egg, the chicken is still going to lay it.  All of the passengers are going to fumble together for connections, gather and translate power, and they’re going to… try to spread themselves to other places of interest.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/15/breaking-14-9/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.9]]</ref> and parts of [[Teacher]]'s plan.<ref>“Teacher’s exploiting the system,” she said, her voice almost emotionless.  “He’s going to pick a fight sooner or later, and it’s going to be devastating.  He manufactured a crack, he’s going to intentionally create more.  Each one gives him more access to the system and more control over the levers and knobs that decide everything else.  He can force-create a Dauntless and the ones he makes will listen to him.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/18/breaking-14-10/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.10]]</ref> Victoria convinces [[Dot]] to ensure that Amy doesn't bring herself into more trouble. Once back with her team, she declares Master-stranger protocols on herself out of the suspicion that Amy altered her. The team brings her into the loop, namely that the Wardens mounted the attack on Teacher without them and that Sveta has been taken into custody.

Antares talks to Sveta. Then Kenzie informs the team that she was able to overhear a meeting between Shin officials.<ref>"Kenzie looked around, then slapped the wall.  She blinked a few times.  “Listened in on the phones, my team gave it to Miss Militia to translate, she got back to us while you were gone.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/22/breaking-14-11/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.11]] </ref> Breakthrough assumes that an assassination attempt is being planned by [[Yosef]]'s faction to frame them. Since [[Kamil Armstrong]] is being sent by to pick them up upon release, they suspect he will be the target. They convince some of the other prisoners to start a riot as a distraction. Using Vista's power, they escape from their cell. A fight with Chris and [[Coalbelcher]] breaks out, while [[Crock o’Shit]] escorts Armstrong. Breakthrough wins the fight and Vicky convinces Chris to play along.<ref>[[Breaking 14.12]]</ref> Meanwhile, [[Crock o’Shit]] prepares to execute Armstrong, but Sveta rescues him. Breakthrough is released, the assassination thwarted.

[[Laserdream]] welcomes Victoria and [[Brandish|her mother]] back on Earth Gimel, while her father remains on Shin with her sister.<ref>
“What happened?” Crystal asked, hugging back.  “Where’s Uncle Mark?”
“He’s staying behind, to keep an eye on Amy,” Aunt Carol said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/02/dying-15-a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.a II]]</ref> Victoria hides that she is mentally unwell. After returning to the Wardens HQ, she attends Citrine's meeting for the upcoming second wave of the attack on Teacher's base. Most of the Wardens, [[Advance Guard]], [[Foresight]] and [[The Shepherds]] were part of the first wave, all of which are now missing in action.<ref>“A few hours ago, our precogs and danger sensers gave us our best numbers yet for an attack on Teacher’s facility.  Many members of Warden leadership, Advance Guard, Foresight, and the Shepherds entered.  We received regular status updates-” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/02/dying-15-a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.a II]]</ref> Team Breakthrough leaves Kenzie and her team of children behind, proceeds to fight some of Teacher's thralls and enters Teacher’s facility through one of Teacher's portals, together with [[Imp]], [[The Heartbroken]], [[Love Lost]], [[Colt]], [[Fume Hood]], [[The Major Malfunctions]] and some of Citrine's [[Mortari]] capes.<ref>Dying 15.1</ref>

Within Teacher's facility, the heroes are almost immediately involved in non-stop fighting. Victoria helps to defeat some thralls and moves on alone, reaching the Gallery, where a rather large portion of Teacher's army fights [[Balk]], [[Stonewall]] and other presumably first-wave heroes. Victoria gets almost immediately shot out of the air by a sniper thrall with enhanced accuracy, but the Wardens save her life and take her into their PRTCJ flyer formation, where she witnesses how the Wardens kill dozens of teacher's minions.<ref>Dying 15.2</ref> The rest of Victoria's group catches up with her and while leaving Balk's formation, she notices that one of the flying capes among them is [[Lady Photon]], her dead aunt.<ref>
My eyes settled on the culprit.  The forcefield cape.  The feeling crystallized as I caught her looking back at me with those eerie eyes.
Aunt Sarah. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/09/dying-15-2/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.2]]</ref>

Antares is able to exchange a few words with her undead aunt, but the fighting continues. The heroes retreat deeper into the former Cauldron compound. They end up fighting more of Teacher's parahumans, this time unenthralled ones. Victoria hesitantly kills for the first time in her life, after [[Rain]] confirms that she should do it.<ref>“Do I count?” Rain asked.
“Yeah.  But do you really want to make that call?  Because I really don’t.”
“I don’t either.  But I think it’s necessary.  This guy won’t stop unless he stops for good.” - [[Dying 15.4]]</ref> During the short downtime after the encounter, Victoria calls Kenzie to give her a status update. There she finds out, that Kenzie has discovered dangerous intel from Teacher. She arranges for Tattletale to look after Kenzie.

She and her group are victorious against three [[Saint]]-modified [[Dragon]]-mechs<ref>[[Dying 15.5]]</ref>. Following [[Imp]]'s plan to free a high priority target from within the compound's cell block, the raiders split up. [[The Custodian]] guards the cells. Antares and her team keep her busy, while Imp frees the prisoner: [[Contessa]].<ref>[[Dying 15.7]]</ref> Contessa fends off the Custodian and offers the present heroes and villains three options for how her power should be used to stop [[Teacher]]'s plan. The group holds a vote. While doing so, Teacher collapses an entire part of the compound to hinder Contessa. They survive due to Contessa's directions. While Teacher's army begins to surround them, Contessa joins with two [[Harbinger Clones]] and [[Mortari]] capes, demanding an answer. Most of the others reveal their choices to each other and due to [[Sveta]]'s inteference, they decide to not give Contessa an answer, but she already figured it out. 

Contessa gives them instructions for the upcoming fight. Antares, [[Rain|Rain O'Fire Frazier]], [[Colt]], [[Love Lost]], [[Juliette Vasil]] and [[Chastity Vasil]] fight [[Valefor]], but not before Antares sees [[Mama Mathers]], becoming affected by her power. Before killing Valefor, Rain asks Victoria for confirmation to kill, which she grants him.<ref>“Do I?” Rain asked.<br/><br/>My turn to answer.<br/><br/>Aware of Colt, I nodded. [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/30/dying-15-8/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.8]]</ref> Afterwards, the group gathers again to move on to the next step of Contessa's plan. While doing so, Victoria realizes which option Contessa has chosen and that it was also the option she had chosen herself.

Is next seen under attack by [[Secondhand]] of the [[Speedrunners]]. She gets away mostly unscathed, but [[Byron Vera]] is badly injured.<ref>[[Interlude 15.y II]]</ref> Receives backup from [[the Undersiders]] and hears about the death of [[Ashley Stillons II|Swansong]] and [[Samuel Vasil]]. Enraged, she and the rest of Breakthrough move towards Teacher's location. While doing so, a strange phenomenon occurs, where her forcefield begins to act on its own in an unusual, highly coordinated way. [[Teacher]] reveals that Shards reside in a dream dimension, similar to the dreamscape of [[Rain's Cluster]]. Once arrested, Vicky has the opportunity to kill him, but does not use it. Immediately after, a traitor among the [[Wards]] teleports away with Teacher and [[Legend]].<ref>[[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref> 

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Victoria falls ill after the fight for several days. [[Dinah Alcott]] appears at the Wardens headquarters and attempts to convince the heroes that [[Contessa]] is dangerous and needs to be dealt with. Also, she alerts Breakthrough about [[Damsel of Distress III]] attacking evacuees of [[The City]] with her team "[[Deathchester]]". Before moving out to stop her, the others point out to Victoria, that the unusual behaviour of her forcefield played a major role in Teacher surrendering and not executing his plan. Victoria realizes, that she had not been in control of the Wretch during those moments. She does not tell them about it.<ref>“The guns,” Sveta said.  “You picked up six guns, using your forcefield.”<br/><br/>I looked through the portal at the distorted picture beyond it.  I thought of the rising anger, the frustration at Byron’s condition and not fucking knowing.  Then the black mood that had settled in, as Kenzie had reported that Swansong was dead.<br/><br/>In the midst of that mood, the Wretch hadn’t moved how I’d wanted it to.<br/><br/>I’d moved like it wanted. 
- [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/20/from-within-16-3/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.3]]</ref>

A similar event occurs during the fight against Deathchester, after [[Mockument]] agitates her. This time around, Victoria is a lot more conscious of the improved coordination.<ref name="II16.4 eWretchMirror">“Holy,” Sidepiece said, as I disengaged from her other self’s remains.  I reached for the Sidepiece caricature’s lower rib, then hurled it at Gibbet, finishing the action before I fully realized I wasn’t grabbing it with ''my'' hand.<br><br>It hadn’t been ''my'' idea, I was pretty sure.<br>[...]<br>But I was pissed, hurt, sad, sick, and a little door had opened before, back in Teacher’s headquarters.  Once opened, it didn’t close quite the right way again.<br><br>Hands gripped the side mirror, and I twisted as the Wretch did the same.  The mirror was flung so fast I had trouble tracking it with my eyes.  It hit Trophy Wife, ''hard'', and flew off with enough speed still driving it that it shattered a car window, striking ragged side first.<br><br>Trophy Wife was tough, and we’d hit her where the trophy rack was attached to her back.  But that was a hit that would have been bone-breaking without the armor, if not purely lethal. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/24/from-within-16-4/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.4]]</ref> Breakthrough and the [[Huntsmen]] manage to convince Damsel III to stop the pillaging with a ceasefire. She and her team then confront Deathchester at their hideout, together with [[Etna]]. Victoria offers Damsel III assistance with establishing Deathchester as a villain team, in exchange for the stolen goods, information about [[Ashley Stillons II|Swansong]]'s memory-bleed-through and an extension of the ceasefire.<ref>[[From Within 16.5]]</ref> She then visits [[The Undersiders]] together with [[Kenzie Martin|Kenzie]] and [[Natalie Matteson|Natalie]], to grab Kenzie's remaining tech. [[The Heartbroken]] lash out towards Kenzie, but the situation quickly de-escalates. [[Tattletale]] and Kenzie's friends join them on the nightly tinkering adventure.<ref>[[From Within 16.6]]</ref>

The meeting with Deathchester takes place at the old headquarters of Breakthrough. Together with everyone else present, Victoria witnesses what happens inside of the dream room of [[Rain's Cluster]].<ref>[[From Within 16.7]]</ref> Worried over the life of her teammate, she and her team enter the dream room via [[Kenzie Martin|Kenzie]]'s tech. Just as they arrive in the dream, [[Cradle]]'s [[Shard]] attacks. Also, Victoria now has one of the 15 sections of the dream room, but there are no walls that could stop the Shard.<ref>And then, as though a light switch had been flicked, the scene was gone, and we were in the room, divided into fifteen sections, each haphazardly connected to the last.<br/><br/>I had my costume and my buckler, but not my flight.  I hurried over in Sveta’s direction, crawling at first, then staggering, and crossed the boundary. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/07/from-within-16-8/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.8]]</ref> She suffers a severe burn while fighting it and as the fight seems lost, she orders for her team to go after [[Cradle]].<ref>[[From Within 16.9]]</ref> After dispatching Cradle and Grasping Self, they leave the dream room and enter greater [[Shardspace]].

[[Damsel of Distress III|Damsel]] shows the dream team how to do a full dream-body recovery.<ref>[[From Within 16.10]]</ref> Victoria traverses Shardspace, sees visions of memories inside of Shardspace-crystals and finds out about [[Gallant]]'s secret of him being a [[Cauldron Vial]]-cape.<ref>
“You couldn’t confide in me?  You couldn’t say ‘hey, I bought my powers’?” I asked.  “You had to lie about triggering, and dealing with that?  Did it even happen?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/17/from-within-16-11/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.11]]</ref>

She moves on ahead and finds a group of [[Shard]]s working together with fifty of [[Teacher]]'s thralls, messing with one of the dimensional fissures.<ref>And fifty of Teacher’s goons, dressed in white, carting in technology, working to build something connected to this tear.  Working with the agents. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/17/from-within-16-11/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.11]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] convinces the team to move towards her part of [[the Shardspace]], against Victoria's concerns. They run into Tattletale's Shard, The Negotiator, who alerts one of Teacher's Shards. Victoria uses the opportunity to question the Negotiator Shard's memory, stumbling on several harsh guesses about her family and friends until Tattletale steps in. Teacher's pet-Shard chases after Victoria and she successfully calls her own Shard for help. It follows a brawl with Damsel and Victoria against Teacher, his thralls and his Shard, where Victoria destroys Teacher's control network before waking up.

Victoria and her team face an angry [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]].<ref>[[From Within 16.12]]</ref> She is still shaken from the event. [[The Wardens]] have great concerns regarding Victoria's increasing sync with her [[Shard]]. Strangely, [[Dragon]]'s lie detector triggers when Victoria says her own name, but not when she says that she wants to save [[The City]]. Her team gets split up, out of action until further notice and not allowed to use powers. She visits [[brandish|her mother]] and confronts her about her parentage. While [[Laserdream]] and Carol argue, Victoria moves outside, breaks off the fingernail of the hand that [[Panacea|Amy]] healed and uses her power, noticing that she has control over it again.<ref>[[Sundown 17.1]]</ref>

Visits the Wardens headquarters on the next morning with her mother and cousin to see [[Valkyrie]], who sent for them so that they can meet [[Lady Photon]]. Victoria convinces Valkyrie to share information about [[the Shardspace]]. Together with [[Vista]], she meets [[Clockblocker]] and [[Kid Win]] on the garden balcony of the compound, both of whom are part of [[the Flock]].<ref>[[Sundown 17.2]]</ref> They deliver a message from Valkyrie to Victoria, the same advice that Glaistig Uaine had given to [[Khepri]].<ref>“I’m supposed to tell you that you need anchors,” Clockblocker said.  “You need things to hold onto.  Things from your past.  Your family.  Yourself.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref> Victoria reveals her intention to bring all the heroes closer to their Shards as well, similar to herself.<ref>“I want to open lines of communication,” I said.  “I kind of did, last night.  I called for help, and the Wr- my agent answered.”<br/><br/>
“And you said you have more control,” Kid Win said.<br/><br/>
“I want that for ''everyone'',” I said.  “Everyone on our side.  Can you tell me anything that would help?  Ways to close the communication gap, so we can reach out?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref> [[Narwhal]] then calls for Victoria, because [[Amy]] has become the new main threat. Victoria however has the suspicion that Amy isn't the real problem.<ref>''What are you doing, Amy?''<br/><br/>''And why the hell does it feel, deep in my gut, like this isn’t the thing we should all be worried about?  Are we overlooking something or someone in that long row of green and lime-green lights?'' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref>

Attends the meeting with Narwhal. [[Jessica Yamada]] and [[Wayne Darnall]] confirm that Victoria has not been mentally altered by Amy. Victoria gets briefed on the emergency situation. Amy wants her as negotiator.<ref>[[Sundown 17.4]]</ref> Victoria snaps during the negotations and begins to threaten Amy. Amy gives in to Victoria's demands, but too late, since [[Dauntless|The Titan]] already went on the offensive against one of Amy's creations. Also, Victoria tells Jessica that she knows about the event regarding [[Bonesaw]].<ref>[[Sundown 17.5]]</ref> Victoria watches how [[Chevalier]] stops The Titan. [[Cinereal]] assigns someone to get more info out of Victoria. Victoria's forcefield acts on its own again.<ref>I brushed his hand aside before it could make contact.  My arm and hand hadn’t moved in the course of the brushing aside.  I’d meant to do it and I hadn’t.<br/><br/>It had been a brief, natural expansion of my forcefield, a brief, natural movement of an arm that had no meat beneath the skin, no bone beneath the meat, and no and no rejiggered rat or feline DNA in blood, bone, meat, or skin.  Above all, it had been a gentle touch. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/sundown-17-6/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> Later, Jessica explains what happened to her and why she chose Victoria to look after her therapy group. [[The Wardens]] conclude that Victoria is to remain benched, where as the rest of [[Breakthrough]] is active again. Out of loneliness and prior interest, she visits [[Anelace]] and sleeps with him.<ref>[[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>

Later, Victoria begins to talk direct to her [[Shard]], even letting it braid her hair.<ref>
''Still there?''  I asked the void, my arms flat at my side, my hair still in the process of being braided.  ''Good.'' [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/22/sundown-17-7/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.7]]</ref> She returns to the Wardens and gets access to a computer to check on [[Breakthrough|her team]], which is investigating her sister. [[Kenzie]] secretly contacts Victoria and establishes a connection to [[Tattletale]].<ref>[[Sundown 17.7]]</ref> Victoria has a suspicion about some of [[Amy]]'s capes, expecting a skirmish against the Wardens' investigation team. Together with Tatteltale, she manages to stop the fight by convincing Amy of her instability. Vicky assumes that her recent precognitive suspicions were given to her by her Shard.<ref>[[Sundown 17.8]]</ref> While she takes a break, the Wardens call her and put her through to her [[Flashbang|dad]]. They argue over how to deal with Amy. After that, she calls Tattletale and they talk about potential threats.<ref>[[Sundown 17.9]]</ref> She figures out that anti-parahumans are secretly the real threat.<ref>[[Sundown 17.10]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Victoria is informed that everyone is allowed to use powers again. After getting scolded by [[Miss Militia]] for breaking the rules again, she angrily flies back home, only to find it destroyed. Using her improved power, she rips the ruined building apart to recover necessities and her costume. While doing so, she also tests the boundaries of the dimensional rift. Once returning to the former [[Cauldron Compound]], she sees that the heroes have gathered everyone who they could find to help, including [[The Undersiders]], her [[Breakthrough|team]], [[New Wave|family]] and [[Amy Dallon|sister]].<ref>[[Radiation 18.1]]</ref> There she assists [[The Wardens]] in spreading information about [[The Shardspace|Shardspace]].

After the speech, she gets sent to the old Fallen Camp with her team and affilates, positioned in between [[Titan Eve]] and [[Titan Oberon]]. She requests artillery from the [[Patrol Block]] on scene.<ref>[[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> She returns to the Wardens' headquarters for defensive supplies, then moves on to the battlefield with her group, where she assists in fighting Titan Oberon. Inmidst of the battle, [[Tattletale]] tells her about their grim future.<ref>[[Radiation 18.4]]</ref> Victoria ensures that the rear groups retreat alive, and helps [[Flechette|Foil]] and [[Damsel of Distress III|Damsel]] to harm the titans. They retreat just in time for [[Titan Skadi]] to arrive, demolishing parts of their reinforcements.<ref>[[Radiation 18.5]]</ref> With [[Parian]]'s full potential, they manage to hold Oberon and Skadi back for long enough that Eve can retreat towards [[Dauntless|Kronos]].<ref>[[Radiation 18.6]]</ref> She continues to help [[Legend]] fight Skadi, but twists her foot in the process and gets swatted by Oberon, dropping into a dimensional crack to catch her fall. While retreating from the battlefield, she visits Titan Eve to talk to her, after which she heads back to the Patrol Block, where she meets [[Lightstar]]. They tend to her injuries and realize that Victoria is suddenly losing a lot of hair. [[Jasper]] shows up to calm her down.<ref>[[Radiation 18.7]]</ref>

Receives a custom made laser-cannon from [[Dragon]]. Seeks out [[Tattletale]] to resolve a problem between [[Lookout]] and [[Rachel]]. Tattletale clarifies that the hair loss came from a chemical burn.<ref>[[Radiation 18.8]]</ref> Victoria talks with [[Natalie Matteson|Natalie]] and the rest of her team and takes a quick nap at Rain's old house in the Fallen Camp. After waking up, she gets the idea to send unpowered people into [[The Shardspace]] to overwhelm and sabotage titans from that side.<ref name="II18.9">[[Radiation 18.9]]</ref> She speaks to the people of [[Earth Gimel]] through Kenzie's tech and about five thousand volunteers join her cause. Together with [[The Wardens]], she leads them into Shardspace. Titan Skadi attacks the convoy and Victoria shoots her with the laser-cannon, after which more Titans move in to join the battle.<ref>[[Radiation 18.10]]</ref> The laser-cannon's charge is quickly spent after the Titans of [[Fortuna]] arrive.<ref>Narwhal shouted.  Capes hurried to the one side.  Ophion’s creation was attacking.  A tide of flesh.<br/><br/>I added my gunfire to the response, flying up for a vantage point that didn’t risk shooting some cape in the back of the head, then putting shots in the thing.<br/><br/>Until I pulled the trigger and nothing came out. <br/><br/>I dropped it, undid the clasps, and hauled out the power cell. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/24/infrared-19-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.1]]</ref> Victoria hands the empty power cell to a tinker and flies off to recharge the cannon, then enters Shardspace to protect the volunteers from Skadi. While leaving to fetch her cannon to help with digging, she notices that the Shardspace's crystals project the ugly and shameful memories of parahumans and potential parahumans to the volunteers.<ref>[[Infrared 19.1]]</ref> Vicky and the volunteers bomb Shardspace so hard that it temporarily incapacitates capes and titans. It also slightly changes some people's powers, including Victoria's Wretch. After suffering another flashback to her trauma due to [[Engel]], Victoria helps fend off the Ophion titan again, then leaves with her team to join the fight against the [[Contessa|Titan Fortuna]].<ref>[[Infrared 19.2]]</ref>

She fights the new titans created by the second Ice Break and attempts to save [[Snuff]], but fails and breaks the laser-cannon in the process. Has to withdraw to get it repaired. Briefs with her team on the new situation, [[Chris Elman]] included.<ref>[[Infrared 19.5]]</ref> She explores the new properties of her forcefield while fighting the [[Mr. Bough|Ophion Titan]], but gets stabbed by the titan's spikes and has to accept Chris's help to fix her leg. Chris tells her about [[Amy]] wearing bits of her skin. Deciding that they can't make a difference on the battlefield, [[Breakthrough]] heads back to Shardspace, leaving [[Tristan]] and [[Sveta]] behind.<ref>[[Infrared 19.6]]</ref> With [[Tattletale]]'s help, they make it to [[Contessa|Titan Fortuna]]'s part of Shardspace, where Sveta, Byron, Chris and [[Harbinger V]] catch up with them and they get a look into Fortuna's memories.<ref>[[Infrared 19.7]]</ref> Victoria gains insight on the [[Entity]] and [[List of Shards|The Eye]]'s origin. [[Chicken Little]] follows them into [[Shardspace]] and leads Victoria to an area where she sees images of her loved ones, which she interprets as her Shard being in love with her. She tells her Shard that she loves it too<ref>[[Infrared 19.8]]</ref> and goes through two trigger-related flashbacks. Once back with her team, Fortuna shows them a possible future of [[The Simurgh]] winning.<ref>[[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> Breakthrough investigates a little further and Victoria gets an idea on how to defeat both the Simurgh and Fortuna at once.<ref>“Let’s say we can get to this window of opportunity you’re talking about,” Sveta said.  “What do we do then?  You wanted them to stumble?”<br/><br/>“That’s the basic idea.  And for that, we need… something big.”<br/><br/>“Big in what sense?”<br/><br/>“Big in the messy sense.  In the… blood, guts, altering our machinery sense.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/15/infrared-19-10/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.10]]</ref> She decides to seek out Amy for help with her plan, going against the advice that Victoria had given to her earlier and Amy turns her down, refusing to use her power again.<ref>“Can we count on you?” I asked, and my voice was softer.  “We need help.”<br/><br/>“No,” she told me.<br/><br/>“No?” I echoed her.<br/><br/>“I’m going to keep talking to Dr. Darnall as long as he’s willing to listen.  Even if it’s only for the next two hours.  He was telling me about doctors, nurses and burnout, the effects it can have.  Um.  He said other stuff, it made sense.  I can give you guys information if it helps, I have a good mental picture of how a lot of this fits together.  But… I think it might be better if I never use my powers ever again.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/15/infrared-19-10/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.10]]</ref>

Victoria convinces Kenzie to surrender her tech to [[Dragon]] after an incident with [[The Heartbroken]]<ref>[[Infrared 19.g]]</ref> and joins the [[Wardens]] in their attack against [[The Simurgh]], for which she reclaims the laser cannon.<ref>[[Last 20.1]]</ref> Simurgh uses [[The Machine Army]] as a distraction to attack the [[Cauldron Compound|Wardens Headquarters]]. With the help of [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]], they chase after the Simurgh. Victoria's call to [[Bonesaw]] happens. She asks the girl to help her cause a genocide.<ref>“It would need to be deployed. I’d have to get it from here to there,” she said. “What is it?”<br/><br/>“It’s… genocide,” I answered her.<br/><br/>Chris was staring into my eyes.<br/><br/>“Oh. Of?”<br/><br/>“Us.” No use dressing it up. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/29/last-20-2/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.2]]</ref> The heroes fight their way through the Compound until Simurgh attempts an ambush. Through a flashback induced by the Simurgh, Victoria receives another upgrade to her power. With her newfound power, she is able to turn the tables on the Endbringer. [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] orders Victoria to move ahead and stand guard for [[Dinah Alcott]], assuming that she is the Simurgh's target.<ref name="II20.3">[[Last 20.3]]</ref> On their way, the group runs into [[Bloodplay]], who injures [[Byron]] and Victoria. [[Chris]] helps them tend to their wounds at the laboratory.<ref name="II20.4">[[Last 20.4]]</ref> Victoria moves on alone, finding the Simurgh having taken control over [[the Mathers Giant]]. She fights her way through Simurgh's trickery with the help of [[The Undersiders]] and Dinah, using an injection provided by Chris to remove Simurgh's control over the Mathers Giant.<ref name="II20.5">[[Last 20.5]]</ref> Antares attempts to hit Simurgh with [[Torso]], but that plan fails, so she uses [[Rain]] instead by putting him inside of her forcefield. Together they manage to bisect the Endbringer, who's remaining half escapes.<ref>[[Last 20.7]]</ref> Despite them mostly successfully fending off the Simurgh, Chris stopped going along with Victoria's plan. Victoria fights and defeats Chris, even while heavily injured.<ref>[[Last 20.8]]</ref> Victoria is sent to the compound's infirmary, where [[Tattletale]] confronts her about the genocide plan. Victoria manages to convince Tattletale of it. [[Semiramis]] heals her wounds. Vicky speaks to [[Contessa]], informing her that [[Fume Hood]] and [[Dauntless]] will help defeat [[The Simurgh]].<ref>[[Last 20.9]]</ref>

[[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] encounters her after the Simurgh's defeat. Victoria and her team found a way to set the genocide plan in motion even without Chris's help, beginning with themselves.<ref>Antares hummed.  It was faint, like a tuning fork.  Her teammates did the same.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>She took him by the hand.<br/><br/>With one gauntlet, he moved her arm up to a part of his forearm where skin was still skin.  He felt the hum shiver through flesh, making subtle changes.<br/><br/>A death sentence, like the one she and her team already carried. [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/28/last-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 20.a II]] </ref> As it turns out, Victoria's plan merely puts every infected parahuman to sleep, including herself. Civilians are given the cure. Victoria falls asleep at the old [[Breakthrough]] headquarters, dreams of past fights, then encounters [[Gallant]] and [[Swansong]]. After twelve hours of sleep, a civilian wakes her up. She dumps her costume, then checks on Kenzie at the Wardens HQ, where she runs into [[Tattletale]] again.<ref>[[Last 20.11]]</ref> 

Her plan worked somehow and [[Fortuna]] surrenders. Victoria leaves [[Breakthrough]], but continues to do work with [[The Wardens]].<ref>[[Last 20.e1]]</ref>

=== Ward Epilogue ===
Victoria rejoins [[Patrol Block]].<ref name="II20.end">[[Last 20.end]]</ref>