- Script
- Peter Gillis
- Pencils
- Kelley Jones
- Inks
- Danny Bulanadi
- Colors
- Ken Feduniewicz
- Letters
- Janice Chiang
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On the planet Aegis,
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Bug; Prince Acroyear; Marionette (Also in flashback story); Huntarr; Solitaire [All as the Micronauts]; Baron Karza (villain, in flashback story); Lord Edev (introduction, death, in flashback story); Unnamed Nobles (in flashback story); Diarmid The Dancer (introduction, in flashback story); Unnamed Acroyear Ambassador (in flashback story); Marionette's parents (in flashback story); Eved's father (in flashback story); Unnamed royal messengers (in flashback story); Unnamed royal waiter (in flashback story); Prince Argon [Force Commander] (in flashback story); Unnamed gift bearer (in flashback story); Ice-Hydra (in flashback story); Shadow Priests (in flashback story); Dog Soldiers (in flashback story)
- Synopsis
- Marionette tells the Micronauts a sad tale from her past about her friendship with Diarmid The Dancer and the tragic sacrifice the dancer made for her when a scheme by Lord Eved & Baron Karza went wrong.
A flashback tale of Marionette's past.