I MAY HAVE RESOLVED THIS ISSUE. As I was about to start taking the glove box apart, I had the passenger door open and I happened to notice that I could see the power antenna wires in the recently installed fender. I fished them out but I had this suspicion that they were WAY too close to each other. While keeping them separated I put a 20A fuse, dash came to life. Cranked and turned on the car, the radio time was not reset and dash stayed alive. I was unable to actually drive the car (I was on my lunch break at work) but I'm thinking those wires making contact with each other made everything else go crazy.
Thank you everyone! Especially marc, you had it the first time you mentioned it I should've checked that first!!