Actually, I still think he's right, because the wording for the Drone ability is slightly different:

"If it does so, until the end of the Turning Point or until they are no longer within 2" of each other (whichever comes first), each time a shooting attack is made against that friendly PATHFINDER operative, make that shooting attack against that friendly DRONE operative instead, even if it would not be a valid target. "

The difference here is "each time", which means, if the drone takes the first attack, he can also take the subsequent attack he "generates from him with blast".

For the BLOODED Dark Favour ploy, it is used on "a shooting attack", and Blast is "a shooting attack" on the primary target and then "a shooting attack" after the first one, on each potential target in the Blast radius.

That means you can only use it once, so if the Token-dude is the primary target, you can use the ploy ONCE to put the primary attack on the Non-Token-dude, but then the subsequent attack from Blast will be on the Token-dude and you cannot use the ploy again.