Le Paradox used the time machine to travel throughout time, aiding him in his plan to both validate his thieving skills by stealing the Cooper Family Canes, and secure his future as a powerful ruler by forging royalty documents and hiding them in the past, to be found in the present. Inside the blimp was a time tunnel that Le Paradox planned on using to trap Sly Cooper and Inspector Carmelita Fox in an infinite loop through different time periods without sending the blimp through time with them. Sly ended up using the time tunnel to escape the blimp as it was being destroyed, and was sent back to ancient Egypt.