Time After Time is the tenth episode of Loonatics Unleashed. It first aired on February 11, 2006.
Synopsis[]
Time Skip, a villain with the ability to control time, wants revenge on the military for stealing his design of the Trolbot 9000. He steals it back, and the loonatics have to stop him. In the process Ace gets deja vu thanks to Time Skip's grandfather Dr. Fidel Chroniker who asks them to stop Time Skip.
Plot[]
A TV news reporter frantically catches an attack on the city by a new military weapon the Trolbot 9000 which the Loonatics are busy fighting against. The machine is resilient against the team's superpowers though Ace manages to use his laser vision to disable its flight. Unfortunately all their attempts to stop the machine including using Tech's new machine to turn the bot into dust fails resulting in the tower toppling down, and Ace getting crushed by the Trolbot.
Suddenly Ace wakes up, believing it to be a dream, or at least he thinks it is. Coming out of his room, he sees the rest of the group having breakfast before Zadavia contacts them, telling that a new villain named Time Skip has broken into the Acmetropolis military defense lab attempting to steal the Trolbot 9000. The Loonatics rush off to get ready while Duck receives a call from Dr. Fidel Chroniker where he rudely hangs up despite Chroniker's plea to stop his grandson.
At the lab, the base is already under attack by Time Skip who's using his time powers to get past security with ease. The commander at the lab says that Time Skip claims that the military stole his design for the Trolbot 9000 even though they have no idea what he means by that. Time Skip eventually summons the Trolbot and uses his powers to stop time and get into the robot unnoticed. Once Time Skip gets in, he escapes the base and the Loonatics follow pursuit.
As Ace eventually finds out, the events that previous happen, happen again including the inability to stop the Trolbot, Ace waking up from a dream, the breakfast scene (which Ace believes he's suffering from Deju Vu) as well as the attack on the Acmetropolis military defense lab. After Time Skip steals the Trolbot again, Tech suggests they should go to Dr. Fidel Chroniker about what to do. Duck remembers that he tried to call them earlier about his grandson being out of control, though Ace believes that Time Skip is the grandson. He then tells Lexi to go after the Trolbot while he, Duck and Tech go to see Dr. Chroniker.
At his lab, Dr. Chroniker is finally relieved to see the group, revealing that he was responsible for the Deja Vu. He reveals he's been resetting the day five times already in his attempt to warn the Loonatics about his grandson Time Skip whose real name is Arthur Chroniker. During this, he reveals that Arthur gained his powers when he was irradiated by his grandfather's time displacer and gained his powers of time manipulation which includes teleportation, stopping time and time displacement. He also reveals that Arthur created designs of a robot that looks similar to the Trolbot 9000, but took it hard after learning the military created a more effective robot. Soon after everyone angrily glares at Duck as his rashness got them stuck in the loop in the first place to where Duck loudly complains that he'll do better. Chroniker proposes to set a time trap to capture his grandson and Ace proposes they do it.
Chroniker restarts the day again and sends plans of his time trap with the Loonatics. At breakfast, Ace tells them their plan to capture Time Skip. Meanwhile at the military defense lab, Time Skip easily breaks in due to the place being empty. When he tries to get the Trolbot, he finds that Lexi, Duck and Slam have already infiltrated the robot and the trio escapes with Time Skip chasing them in a modified ship. Upon getting closer, Tech who has finally managed to fix his dust turning machine successfully fires on Time Skip causing him to crash. The Loonatics then capture him in an anti-time bubble where Chroniker announces that he'll neutralizes his powers. Relieve, Lexi says that she thought this day would never end to which Ace replies that he didn't predict that.