Editing Shortcut (section)

===Early-[[Ward]]===
Met an uppity girl who manipulated an accident scene to her advantage to make him look bad. Then she got into a cape fight of her own. He made sure such a person would not be accepted into Advance Guard.<ref name="2.3e1">“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>

When he heard this rude girl, [[Victoria]], was applying for an interview with Advance Guard he told the team rep to turn her down and to inform her it was he who made the recommendation. Instead Advance Guard never replied.

During a Riot, Advance Guard is deployed and Shortcut meets Victoria again. She is being chatted up by [[Spright]] and [[Tandem]]. He relieves Spright and reveals to Victoria his opinion of her.

Two weeks later, he is with [[Advance Guard]] when they tried to aggressively reconnoiter [[Cedar Point]].