In the begining of Ape Escape Spike and his bestfriend, Jake are on their way racing towards the proffesor's lab. Eager to go see the proffesor's newest invention, the Time Machine. On their arrival, Spike and Jake see that Natalie and the Proffesor are tied up and the lab being ransacked by the Pipo Monkeys and their leader, Specter. Specter then orders one of his monkeys to activate the time machine, thus sending Spike, Jake, Specter, and every Pipo Monkey back in time along with two of the proffesor's gadgets the Time Net and the Stun Club which arrive with Spike. Spike lands in Fossil Field of The Lost Land time period where his first objective is to catch three Pipo Monkeys learking in the area. As Spike continues collecting monkeys from different time periods using the Time Station,