Hank Pym jerked his head up at his daughter's words.
"What did you say?"
Hope looked at her father's reaction and said, enunciating every word, "I said I found out a lead connected to Mother."
Hank Pym looked at his daughter. In the end, he sighed and said, "So you already know..."
"Where did you get that information?"
"I took S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files with me when I left."
"The intel leaked on the day they collapsed didn't include anything about me and your mother."
Then Hank Pym muttered to himself, "It was the Ninja, wasn't it?"
Seeing Hank Pym admit that he had hidden it from her, Hope nodded.
"Yes."
After two seconds of silence, Hank Pym said, "Your mother convinced me to let her come on missions with me."
"They called her Wasp. She was very gifted."
Hope was deeply shocked by this news. She had not even gotten any of this information from the Sand Ninja yet.
Hank Pym continued, "From that day on, I regretted agreeing to it every single day."
"It was 1987. Separatists seized a missile silo in Kursk, Soviet Union, and launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at the United States."
"The only way to get inside its internal structure was through solid titanium."
"I knew the only way to disarm the missile was to shrink down to the molecular level, but my regulator had already been badly damaged."
"Your mother... she didn't hesitate."
"She turned off her regulator, went subatomic to disarm the missile, and never came back."
Then Hank Pym looked at Hope and said solemnly, "Your mother was a hero."
Tears were already running down Hope's face. This was the first time she had learned the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
"For the next ten years, I did everything I could to study