Escort to safety and Intutive Pattern Recognition

[BigBlake]

I'm looking for clarification on this interaction.

Model A attacks Taskmaster

Model A declares the Attack, Targets Model B

Step 2 in the timing chart says "Starting with the attacker, both players resolve any super powers or effects that trigger when a character has been targeted by an attack. 

Taskmaster upon being TARGETED, can play the reactive card, Escort to Safety which  triggers "When an enemy character targets an allied character..."

So now Taskmaster has been successfully targeted, and escort to safety has been successfully paid for. Taskmaster gets pushed S and ends up outside of the range of the attacking character.  Escort to safety says that If at the end of the push, the TARGETED character is outside of the attack's range or attacker's LOS, the attack action ends. 

I read a ruling on here with Intuitive Pattern Recognition and bodyguard, but i feel like bodyguard states "This model becomes the target" and thus taskmaster is never officially targeted. With Escort to safety, I feel like he is targeted, and the tactics card states that he is targeted as as trigger, and then the attack ends if the targeted character is out of range and they may make another action, not that the first action never existed.

So now that is all processed and Model A gets to make another actions since you were out of range, he makes a move back into range and makes another attack, targeting Taskmaster. Does Intuitive Pattern Recognition grant taskmaster the 2 extra defense dice since hes already been targeted successfully this turn?

Thanks!

[Thoras]

On 8/8/2022 at 2:46 PM, BigBlake said:

So now that is all processed and Model A gets to make another actions since you were out of range, he makes a move back into range and makes another attack, targeting Taskmaster. Does Intuitive Pattern Recognition grant taskmaster the 2 extra defense dice since hes already been targeted successfully this turn?

Intuitive pattern recognition is looking at Step 13 of the attack timing per the below post and this was not satisfied in the suggested scenario, so he would not receive the extra dice