The women were barricaded in the dining hall until Tommy and Joel arrived and finished off the bandits.Īfter the fight, Tommy pulled Maria aside to tell her about the settlement he and Joel worked out. Later, a group of bandits attacked the plant. While the brothers went off to talk, Maria ate with Ellie and told the girl about Joel's deceased daughter Sarah and showed her a photograph of the pair together unbeknownst to Maria, Ellie stole the photo.

At the time, the group of workers were finishing their attempts to repair one of the turbines to generate electricity for the settlement. Initially thinking they were hostile, she threatened them with her men, only calming down when Tommy explained the stranger was his brother, Joel. In the Fall of 2033, Maria noticed two strangers, a man and his teenage companion Ellie, as the pair attempted to enter the plant.

However, the dam suffered daily attacks from a group of bandits, making them rather hostile to strangers. The two grew close, eventually getting married. Maria would later meet Tommy after he left the Fireflies and his brother Joel in Boston. They soon became the leaders of their settlement as more families settled down in their safe haven.

Sometime after the initial outbreak of the Cordyceps brain infection, Maria and her father ran a settlement in Jackson, Wyoming, using a hydroelectric power plant to generate electricity for the settlement.