(this takes place in the future)
Dib is in collage now. (he is in his early twenty's) he has left his fathers home when he was just sixteen, and has not spoken to his father in years. he has sort of mellowed out a bit, both from maturity and he is a little bit down. (not really depressed, just has bad days) he moved into his collage, because his best (and only) friend named Anna is there.
they met when she moved to his school months after the florpus incident in his youth. she wanted to be his friend, and partner to take down Zim, as she one who saw them fight that day, and since then her eyes have been open to the fact that aliens are in fact real, and thats bad news for earth. Dib was suspicious at first, thinking it was a bet/prank from the other students. but Anna proved herself to be genuine. they become best friends ever since. one day Anna invited Dib to meet her parents, and seeing just how kind and supportive they were, made Dib realize just how terrible his own father was. one day, him and his father got into a argument, and Dib moved out. he joined Anna's collage shortly after, as he has no one else, and they were inseparable.
Now, Dib has a little bit of a crush on Anna, but never really asked her out, in fear that she does not feel the same way. also, it would be hard, i mean, he has to stop Zim and save the world right? not settle down and marry and have a family someday, right? one day, a new student came to the collage, and is a BIG fanboy of Dib. his name is Judas, and wanted to join him and Anna as their number three. Dib was not so thrilled about that idea, but Anna was, saying that Dib needs to be not so clingy and have other friends besides her. now, this collage is not just a normal collage, but a collage of geniuses and inventors. and Judas wanted to show his idol his invention: small robots that can repair nerve/tissue damage. Judas hopes that it could get rid of physical disabilities, and even possibly cure things such as memory loss. impressive, but Dib was still suspicious of Juda's motives. he is nice...TOO nice.
Its the day of the tech conference, a yearly thing that happends where the students show their inventions/discoveries to the big brain geniuses of earth. oh gosh, its Dibs worst nightmare. of course his father is going to be there. great. for some reason, Zim is absent. odd, and mega suspicious. Dib allways seemed to miss out on the conference every year, mostly because he feels its a waste of time, but the real reason why was because he does not want to be face to face with his father. but Anna insisted that he should be there for Judas. Dib still finds Judas suspicious, but does not feel comfortable being without Anna, so he went. hopefully nothing bad will happen there.....right?
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