Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

===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.