Paperinik gets dragged in a mission from the Time Police when he's informed that professor Symorian, a time-traveller and inventor, has wrecked up somewhere in the 21st century with a whole ship full of 23rd century tech. To complicate things, he'll have to carry on the mission alongside the haughty Major Ray Pantha, of the Time Police, and the meddling of the Delta Family....
- Anachronism Stew: A plot point, the fact that the local company "Futurware" has announced the production of a 3-D Television is the first clue that they have professor Symorian in custody.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: When the various agencies try and catch him and Pantha, PK claims that Pantha works for a different and higher-ranked agency he's collaborating with and they're interfering.
- Break the Haughty: Ray Pantha is a massive jerk with an overblown ego and a rough approach to what's supposed to be a delicate investigation. He's throughly humiliated, gets out only thanks to PK and is ultimately chewed out by his superior and sent to keep an eye on the Triassic just to learn some manners.
- The Bus Came Back: Charlie Delta and Francisco de Gamma are released from jail after the events of Shooting Star.
- Call-Back: Lyla mentions that because of the events of The Day of the Cold Sun, Duckburg's current timeline is harder to read, and so they cannot locate the timewrecker precisely. Meanwhile, Pantha grows fond of "Patemi".
- Didn't Think This Through: Pantha asks for a person who looks like Symorian, but never consider the possibility of running into an ancestor, which unfortunately is a gun-ho terrorist wannabe.
- Distressed Dude: Professor Symorian, the titular timewrecker, is stuck in the 21st century with a boatload of technology from the 23rd century. Though at one point Lyla considers the possibility that he could have gone rogue and "played Leonardo" in the 21st century, she's later proven wrong.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Lampshaded In-Universe: when Bravo mentions that a factory where hi-tech gadgets are produced would be the perfect cover for PK's lair, Alpha (who's spying on them) comments that for once he said something sensible.
- Escalating Brawl: The attack on Futurware goes from being PK and Pantha vs security to a full battle royale when the various secret forces arrive.
- Exact Words: When Lyla informs PK of the timewrecker and gets him to help, she mentally apologise for not telling him that said timewrecker could be there already but could also appear in a year's time.
- General Failure: Technically, Pantha is in charge of the operation. He's such an incompetent and boisterous oaf his attempts to find Symorian fail miserably.
- Genre Savvy: When PK tries his Bavarian Fire Drill, the agents, knowing who they're dealing with, demand proof in the form of Pantha's agent ID. Thankfully, Paperinik too knew who he was dealing with, and had Lyla go to the Time Police, counterfeit one, and materialize it where he could just pretend it had been dropped during the chaos.
- Holographic Disguise: Donald is introduced trying on one which allows him to access the Tower without raising suspicion. When Pantha tries to show off with his model, Donald is nonplussed and shows him his.
- Jerkass: Major Ray Pantha of the Time Police is an incompetent, arrogant and obtuse officer who costantly badmouths Lyla, calling her "droid" exclusively.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: When prisoner, professor Symorian pretends to be dumb in order to not spill his secrets.
- Oh, Crap!: When the agents are convinced they interfered in the operations of a higher-ranked secret service agency, they're horrified. Then Charlie almost says its name out loud... And his father holds him at gunpoint because he doesn't have the clearance to say it.
- Out-Gambitted: Charlie, Bravo and Francisco are unaware that their father Duke is spying on them, while Duke is unaware that his daughter Alpha is doing the same, blissfully ignoring that her mother is watching over everything.
- Politically Incorrect Hero: Ray Pantha always refers to Layla as droid and never treats her as a person.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: In the end, Pantha is reassigned to the Triassic to learn a lesson or two in manners.
- Shout-Out: Invoked, when Charlie and Francisco are out of prison, in their black suits, waiting for someone, he claims this reminds him of Pulp Fiction.
- Theme Naming: Lamphaded, the Delta family named they children after the International Radio Code: Alpha, Bravo and Charlie.
- Whole-Plot Reference: A 1994 Disney Ducks Comic Universe story had a time traveler getting stranded in the past and being involved in introducing Artificial Gravity technology, with the Time Police (in their first appearance in a Disney comic, though named Guardians of Time) showing up precisely to fix that - and showing the same uncanny ability to track down a time traveler the PKNA Time Police would normally have.
