Sos from the past Sos from the past is a Time Cruisers Audio Drama released in 1996 . Plot . It ' s March 12 , 3777 , at 11 : 58 pm and 37 . 5 seconds ( thanks to Cranky for this incredibly detailed time ! ) and the gang is still working in the Lab . A few minutes after midnight ( so on March 13 ) Dr . Cyber finally finishes building his latest invention , the time transcendental receptor machine , a sort of radio that can pick up signals from other time zones which he invented after being unable to locate Cranky ' s signal during Operation Cybercom . They test it out , and the first thing they hear is a desperate call for help . So , they decide to home in on the signal by traveling to two time zones in order to find the location and time of the signal ' s origin . The next morning they take off in the 6493 Flying Time Vessel ( called Flybo in story ) once again , but decide to take Cranky with them this time . They choose a random time to gather the first half of the information , which turns out to be the year 1602 , the Pirates era . They land in the ocean and see the islander Islands as well as the Armada Flagship delivering a prisoner to Imperial Outpost . They decide to stop at Volcano Island as this seemed like a perfect place for the professor to set up his machine . They ' ve heard of the island from history books and , out of curiosity , enter the secret cave where they find a 250 year - old skeleton and a treasure chest full of gold . They leave the treasure and climb up the volcano . There , the professor sets up his machine and homes in on the signal while Tim watches the ocean for pirates . Sure enough , soon a large pirate ship sails straight towards them and starts firing its cannons at them . Tim and his monkey Ali return fire using a catapult and lava rocks . After a while , the pirates surrender and Captain Roger comes onto the island with a rowboat to talk to them . He asks if they were pirates too and what country they were from . They tell him that they are time travelers and that country borders don ' t exist anymore in the time they ' re from , although it could be said that they are from Europe . Redbeard doesn ' t believe them of course and tells them that his ancestors are from Spain . He then accuses them of attempting to steal his treasure . When they tell him that they ' re not interested in the treasure as it would only be " useless ballast " for them and that it was probably pirated treasure anyway , Redbeard believes them to be gods of the ocean and lets them go . As the Armada Flagship comes to fight the pirates , the gang returns to the Zero - time . Next , they travel to sometime in the 20th century ( a more detailed date is not given unfortunately as the time cruiser already starts landing while Dr . Cyber is still adding and subtracting years to the timer ) . They find themselves flying over Paradisa , and although it ' s nice and peaceful , they decide to keep flying as there are too many people there . They find the Gator Landing and believe the hut to be abandoned , so they set up their machine there . But just as Dr . Cyber gathers the last piece of information , a seaplane lands by the hut and the pilot gets out to meet them . It turns out that this was a rendezvous spot for smugglers , and the pilot mistakes them for the people who were supposed to deliver him the goods ( the pilot greets them with " Hello friends " but goes on to speak German , so perhaps this is an indication that Paradisa and the rest of the leisure sets are set in the US or another English speaking country ) . He tells them that his smuggler friends , Frank and Benny , are on their way , too , on different vehicles to put off the police . Dr . Cyber and Tim play along until luckily a police elite commando arrives to arrest the smugglers . In order to avoid getting arrested again , the gang quickly escape in their time cruiser . Using the information they gathered , the professor is able to determine the origin of the SOS , so they travel to that time and place . They arrive at the Main Street of Legoredo City in the Wild West at night and spot a large shed next to the General Store where they decide to hide their time cruiser . While inside the shed , they hear voices coming through the walls from inside the general store . There are three men holding a young boy and girl captive . Robbie Robot and Ali the monkey make so much noise that the men send the boy , Johnny , out to investigate , who claims that the noise came from rats in the shed and pretends to go drive them away . When he meets Dr . Cyber and Tim , he tells them that his parents own the general store , but they left town to go to a funeral and left the kids to look after the store . Soon after they left , the three men entered the store , took Johnny and his sister Lucy hostage , and started digging a tunnel underground in order to rob the bank next door . He then reveals that he ' s a young inventor and that he built a radio in order to secretly call for help . The men call him back , and so Dr . Cyber and Tim go to the sheriff and together , they devise a plan to stop the bandits . The next day , Dr . Cyber and Tim pose as delivery men transporting new money to the bank ( which they switched for rocks ) . When the three bandits , Luke , Jack , and Ken , come in to steal the money , they are surprised to find that the crates are filled with rocks , and Dr . Cyber blasts Jack and Ken with the Zero - time cannon , only leaving Luke . After Ali throws the rocks at him and his weapon has no effect on Cranky , Luke surrenders . The sheriff arrests him and the other two as soon as they reappear a few minutes later , and Johnny ' s parents return later that day , so it ' s a happy end . After another brief accidental detour to the Aquazone , the gang returns to their own time . There , they discover that Johnny left his radio inside their time cruiser as a gift for his heroes from the future . They also find that Cranky has fallen asleep due to the exhaustion from their adventure , despite claiming earlier that robots don ' t need sleep