Editing The Irregulars (section)

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
During the fight with Echidna, [[Eidolon]] was captured by Echidna. She created a [[Ignis Fatuus|clone of him]], who, after killing [[Myrddin]], began revealing to the gathered Protectorate heroes the origins of Cauldron, their roots in the Triumvirate, and their involvement in the creation of [[Case 53]]s. This caused an upheaval among the ranks of the heroes, particularly the Case 53s, many of [[Gully|whom]] had in the past found themselves passed over for promotions and generally discriminated against due to their appearance. This later led to a schism in which many disenfranchised Case 53s split off from the Protectorate. Soon afterward was the formation of the Irregulars, who were largely independent from the Protectorate but still received equipment, funding, and contracts through them.<ref name="19.y">'''► Weld''' (Verified Cape) (Irregulars)<br>Replied on July 6th, 2011:<br>I dunno, I’m optimistic. 😉<br>For the record, I harbor no animosity toward the Protectorate.  We’re still attached, and we’re receiving equipment, funding and contacts through them.  They were very respectful as a whole, but we got a chance to interact a few weeks ago, and we collectively agreed that while the Protectorate’s plan to build a rapport between us Case-53s (as the Protectorate terms us) and the public was sound (making me leader of the Brockton Bay Wards, for example), it was too slow, and we could do more as a group. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]]</ref> The vast majority of the 'monstrous' capes who had split from Protectorate left to join them,<ref>Weld’s popularity and time in the spotlight made him a figure of interest when, following undisclosed events in Brockton Bay, he turned from the established heroes and brought vast majority of the monstrous capes in the Protectorate and Wards with him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/glow-worm-p-8/ Excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.8]]</ref> although some, such as [[Hunch]], chose to stay.<ref> The monsters in the Protectorate have almost all left. Only one who stayed, I think, are Hunch and Polish. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.y]]</ref> Later, the Irregulars reached out to Case 53s across the world, causing their numbers to swell tremendously.<ref>He reached out to monstrous parahumans both American and international, and he kept his together while carrying out deeds for the camera.  Maintaining a group of such size isn’t an easy task when its numbers are swelling like his group’s did. - [[Glow-worm P.8]]</ref>

In the period when the new [[Endbringers]] appeared following the defeat of [[Behemoth]], the Irregulars' numbers dropped somewhat, although they continued recruiting in the time that they laid low.<ref>Even the defeat of Behemoth or the appearance of the new Endbringers didn’t serve to bring Weld back into the fold.  If anything, Weld seemed to note that his team’s numbers were dropping.  He and the monstrous capes serving under him stopped making as many public appearances.  We don’t know what he started doing at this time, but this team was still recruiting. - [[Glow-worm P.8]]</ref>