Chapter 4
After my dad let me borrow his equipment and I had built my machine , I brought I outside. It picked up a signal down the road so I followed it. Generally the road was empty so I wouldn't have to worry about being interrupted. I walked down the quiet road listening to anything that sounded out of the ordinary. For half an hour, all I could hear were the birds and the steady beep of the detector. Then, it started to pick up when I came across a tall house. There was no field cleared around it. It looked like someone had built it there trying not to move anything.
" That's odd. The next house isn't for another twenty minuets. " I walked up to the blue front door. The walls were painted blue. It wasn't really a normal house for this area. Don't assume that Dib. It's probably not him. The door was opened. I couldn't believe what I saw. He was taller now. He had a straw hat on. He wore blue jeans and a T-shirt. He still didn't know enough to change his skin.
" Why hello earth creature. " He stuck out his hand. " My name is Zim. I am your neighbour. "
" Why are you here? " He put on an innocent face.
" Whatever do you mean? This is my parental unit's household in the country. " He continued to look at me.
" You followed me here. Why? Are you planning to kill me Zim? Whatever you're planning, I'll stop it! "
" Oh I remember you now! You're that Dib child that always called me an alien at my old school. I haven't followed you. My parental units wanted to move. " I didn't understand why he was playing dumb. There wasn't anyone around. " And even if I was planning something, you would never be able to stop the almighty ZIM! Now I must return to my guests. Goodbye. " He closed the door. I went back down the road, talking out loud to myself.
" Who did he have over? " I kept thinking of possibilities. None of them were all that good. It was possible he was talking to his leaders which would give him logical reason to pretend to be human. " They wouldn't want to see him talking to me the way he normally does. I decided on that as my theory. " What is he doing to disrupt the electricity? Maybe he's using a lot? Or sending off waves to communicate with different planets. Yeah. And he'll probably call in a whole armada. " I went back home, thinking about different possibilities and what I would do about them.