Synopsis.

Essentially, a version of events where instead of Maria dying, Hank dies.

Maria was a Hungarian revolutionary who fled to America with her father. There she met and eventually married Henry Pym. For their honeymoon, they went back to Hungary, thinking their US citizenship would protect them. Secret police went after them and Henry died protecting Maria. Maria made her way back to the States and discovered that her father had been killed while she was away.

Maria completed researched that she and Henry had started together--Pym particles that allowed her to shrink, and a helmet that allowed her to communicate with insects and arachnids. She became the Ant-Woman and began fighting injustice.