Editing Advance Guard (section)

===Early [[Ward]]===
[[Victoria Dallon]] encountered one of their members, [[Shortcut]], when he was responding to a car crash that had damaged a memorial. The crowd were hostile toward him; Victoria tried to ease the situation and complimented him on his response time.<ref name="II1.1">[[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref> Shortcut took that interaction the wrong way.

Victoria later applied to join the team, but was rejected without a reason being given. She speculated it was because she had a two year "gap" in her records.<ref>There weren’t any openings.  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.  As it was, the field was fairly cluttered. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/12/flare-2-2/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.2]]</ref> According to [[Shortcut]], however, it happened because he personally nixed her joining.<ref name="II2.3">“Reaching out and talking,” he said.  “I just wanted to make sure there’s no hard feelings.”<br><br>“About you not getting into Advance Guard.”<br><br>I’d emailed, they’d sent a reply a couple of hours later saying no.<br><br>“I didn’t devote a lot of thought to it,” I said.  “Sucks, but you guys have to do what you have to do.  And so does everyone else, apparently.  I’ll figure something out.”<br><br>“They didn’t tell you it was me?”<br><br>“No,” I said.  I frowned.<br><br>“I told them to tell you no and to tell you it was me, and why.”<br><br>“Alright,” I said.  “They just told me no.”<br><br>“Well fuck that.  I thought you needed to know, what you did back there, it was shitty.”<br><br>“Beg pardon?”<br><br>“I realized after your face came up on some of the events about the Norfair community center incident.  You went up against Lord of Loss?”<br><br>“I don’t see what the issue is,” I said.<br><br>“You happen to beat me to the scene, and then you use your secret identity, condescension and anti-parahuman shit to take me down a notch?  And then you want a place on Advance Guard?”<br><br>“I happened to be there.  I’m sorry, it was not my intention to come across that way.”  I tried to help you out some. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/16/flare-2-3/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.3]]</ref>

A team of Advance Guard members led by [[ReSound]] arrived to interfere in [[Cedar Point]], despite not having communicated with [[Chatroom group|the team]] whose jurisdiction the area fell under. After Victoria and [[Sveta]] confronted their member [[Spright]], they agreed to call off their attack and retreat.<ref>[[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> [[Mayday]] attributed their presence in the area to tip-offs from local civilians, but Victoria remained suspicious about who had called them in.<ref name="5.5" />

During the [[Mathers Compound Assault]], [[the Wardens]] delegated the team to containment efforts. They mainly dealt with the [[Fallen#Crowleys|Crowleys']] combatants and were beaten by them. At the end of the fight it is revealed that two members of Advance Guard were undercover [[Fallen]] – [[Scapegoat]], who was captured, and another who died during the fighting.<ref name="WP6.5">[[Pitch 6.5]]</ref> Victoria later attributed Advance Guard's unplanned interference in Cedar Point mostly to Scapegoat's interference.<ref>Houndstooth was absent, but two of his subordinates were present.  I recognized Foxtrot and another member of the Kings of the Hill.  Foxtrot’s chatter about the Cedar Point operation had led to Advance Guard jumping in and our involvement being spoiled.  Well, I had my suspicions that Scapegoat might have helped matters.  The defected healer from Advance Guard was the primary one to blame- but Foxtrot had let some minor things slip. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/21/beacon-8-6/ Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.6]]</ref>