Fight for the Future

The **Fight for the Future** was a big battle in the future from the movie, *Dexter's Laboratory - Ego Trip*. It deals with Dexter teaming up with his future counterparts across time, fighting to free the future from the tyrannical rule of Dexter's arch enemy, Mandark.

## History

### Background

It all started with the creation of Dexter's greatest and most powerful invention, the Neurotomic Protocore which was an unlimited power source that could change the fabric of the world itself. Mandark would often try to steal the core to try and use it to take over the world but he was always thwarted by Dexter. Then one day while Dexter was working in his lab, his sister Dee Dee kept bugging him until he told her to leave but she accidently went into his time machine by mistake instead of the lab exit. Afterwards, five robots came out of the time machine and confronted Dexter claiming that they were here to destroy the one who saved the future. The robots then transformed into powerful giant hi tech robots but Dexter fought them off and defeated them all with his inventions and weapons even though they hadn't attacked him. Afterwards, Dexter was so excited to know that he saved the future that he used his time machine to travel to the future to meet his future self to see how he saved the future. First, he traveled to a future where he is a wimpy office worker and Mandark is he abusive boss. When both Dexters meet each other Dexter shouted out his disappointment toward Worker Dexter for the person he had become then he finds the Neurotomic Protocore and plans on how to use it in Worker Dexter's cubical. Which makes Dexter change his mind about Worker Dexter and decided to take him to the future with him but after they left Boss Mandark got his hands on the Neurotomic Protocore. They both traveled further into the future where the lab had become a museum, Mandark had been reduced to a brain and is part of the museum, and that they are an elderly leader of a great futuristic utopia they made using the Neuotomic Protocore. However, when Dexter and Worker Dexter asked Elderly Dexter about how he saved the future he doesn't remember so all three Dexters went back in time to an earlier future.

When they arrive at the next future they discovered the lab in ruins then when they got out of the lab they discovered that the world had become a desert wasteland and that all the people are now incredibly stupid. When Dexter tried to make the people some fire, they are all attacked by some robots who serve an overlord who has prohibited all forms of science. But then another future Dexter arrives who is tough, strong, and fights back against the robots. After he defeated the robots, all three Dexters went to see him and explained to him about their time traveling trips. Then when they asked Action Packed Dexter about what happened to the world and who the evil overlord ruling it is, Action Packed Dexter revealed that the overlord was Mandark. Action Packed Dexter also revealed that long ago he and Mandark were hired by the Corporation as research scientists to develop new technologies for the betterment of the future. While Dexter came up with a bunch of brilliant ideas, Mandark could not and grew jealous towards Dexter. Eventually, Mandark began stealing Dexter's creations and presenting them as his own which allowed him to get rich and successful, he even gained favor with the executive hierarchy and was quicky promoted up through the ranks then after a diabolical coup, Mandark overthrew the president of the Corporation and became it's new president which resulted in Worker Dexter's future. After Mandark got the Neurotomic Protocore from Worker Dexter's cubical he tried to employ it's power but by setting it's positive charge to negative which caused the core to become corrupted. The core then started to twist Mandark's mind which caused him to become even more greedy and insane. Eventually, Dexter couldn't take it anymore and started digging a tunnel under the Corporation which Mandark had turned into his tower fortress which lasted for years and allowed Dexter to become his Action Packed self. But while Dexter was digging the corrupted energies of the core started to affect the world and made all the people dull and stupid which allowed Mandark to horde all forms of knowledge and science within society for himself. When Dexter emerged out of the ground he found the world broken and stupid and decided to do everything he could to help the world. However, with Overlord Mandark's robots enforcing his rule and the few resources Action Packed Dexter had it had become a fight just to survive. The three Dexters then all decided to help Action Packed Dexter stop Overlord Mandark by using the lab.

### The Battle

All four Dexter's return to the lab and start gathering up whatever pieces of the lab they could get which they use to build a giant robot to storm Mandark's tower and take him down. After working on it all day, they finish it at night and share a toast with root beer. The next day, the Dexters use their robot to storm toward Mandark's tower which attracts the attention of Overlord Mandark. When the Dexter's break through the door to the tower they take out all the laser turrets but during a fight with one of Overlord Mandark's robots the tread legs of the robot get cut off but are soon replaced with the robot's extra arms which allows it to fight off more of Overlord Mandark's robots but one of the arms gets damaged in the process. The robot then climbs to the top of the tower and fights off Overlord Mandark's robot guards and the Dexter's are able to get inside the tower before the whole robot gets destroyed. The Dexters then confront Overlord Mandark who summons other versions of himself from different times which include Mandark, Boss Mandark, and Brain Mandark. The Dexters then fight off the Mandarks but they all get beaten with Boss Mandark breaking Worker Dexter's glasses. But Worker Dexter gains the confidence to finally stand up to Boss Mandark, beats him up, and takes his glasses. He then tells the other Dexters that if they can set the Neurotomic Protocore's energy charge back to positive, everything will return to normal and the Mandarks will be defeated. The Dexters then defeat the Mandarks and head for the core but the Mandarks try to stop them with the Mandarks holding down the Dexters while the Dexters try to hold back the Mandarks. The Dexters then start chanting for Dexter to return the core's energy back to positive but before Dexter could push the button for the core, Dee Dee arrives through the time machine which causes the Mandarks to lose their focus and get love struck by her presence. Dee Dee the pushes the button for the core then leaves through the time machine which causes it to return to normal and transform the world and the people back to normal as well. The three Mandarks then disappear, Overlord Mandark explodes into a brain, and then Overlord Mandark's tower gets destroyed thus saving the future.

### Aftermath

The Dexters then emerge from the rubble of the tower with Elderly Dexter now remembering that Dee Dee was the one who saved the future not him. So out of anger and jealousy, all four Dexters use the remains of Overlord Mandark's tower to build five robots and order them to destroy Dee Dee then they all disappear through the time machine. After that, Action Packed Dexter decides to use the Neurotomic Protocore to clean up what's left of Overlord Mandark's empire then all four Dexters say their goodbyes and Dexter, Worker Dexter, and Elderly Dexter return back to their proper times through the time machine. But when Dexter gets back, he discovers that robots he fought from the beginning were the same robots he built to destroy Dee Dee thus creating a time paradox.

## Belligerents

### Dexters

* Dexter
* Worker Dexter
* Action Packed Dexter
* Elderly Dexter

### Mandarks

* Overlord Mandark
* Mandark
* Boss Mandark
* Brain Mandark
* Overlord Mandark's Robots

## Video

Dexter's Laboratory - Ego Trip (1999) 4K Upscale Re-upload
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