A/n: Wow, the 4th chapter! This one is way longer than the last one. Well, I guess I should tell you that Red's first appearance is only 2 chapters away. Well, on with the story.

Disclaimer Thingy: I don't own any of the characters from the invader Zim show. I only own Kalli.

Chapter 4

Like a Good Neighbor

The next day, Kalli was on a mission. She figured that if she went over at 5 in the evening, she would be able to meet her new neighbor. So to pass the time, she decided to go look for a job.

After much stress, and many failed interviews, Kalli went back to her house. She was disgusted at the uncleanliness of the fast food restaurants. She didn't like the management at the disk rental place. So, she didn't have a job... Yet. When she got home, she saw that it was 5:27.

'Do I go, or do I board up the living room...' After a few minutes, she decided to go over. after all, she wanted to look like a good neighbor. As she walked across the lawn, she failed to notice that the lawn gnomes watched her go up to the door. Kalli knocked on the men's room door for a good 4 minutes before just trying the door. To her surprise, it was open.

"Is anybody home?" She called into the quiet house. When she turned to shut the door behind her, a little green dog came skipping around the corner and stopped in front of Kalli. "Um... Hi." Kalli said to the dog. She just about jumped out of her skin when the dog talked back.

"STOP! You are an intruder... Want some waffles?" Kalli gave the dog a confused look before answering.

"Um, no thank you, I just ate." Kalli smiled at the talking dog. But she noticed something shiny on the dog's stomach. "Is that a zipper?" she asked the canine

"Um... no?" Kalli raised an eyebrow. The dog took of it's head like a hood revealing a robot's head inside. "Oh, you're too smart for me. Me and my master are trying to take over the planet and destroy all human life because the tallest said so!" The robot began to cry but stopped abruptly, "I'm Gir!"

"I'm Kalli. Um... would you mind showing me where your master is?" Kalli asked Gir. She figured he'd say that the master wasn't home or something.

"Okie dokie! He's down in the lab!" Gir pranced off and Kalli followed. But Kalli began to question Gir's sanity when she was told to get into the trash can. Kalli was talked into trusting her new acquaintance and got in with Gir. When the bottom of the can began to lower, Kalli realized that it was a secret elevator of some sort.

'Wow... That's nifty...' Kalli looked down at gir who was humming elevator music to himself. Kalli was about to ask Gir how far they'd have to go down, but the elevator came to a stop before she could say anything. Gir led her to a room with a giant squid in it. When her eyes got used to the dim lighting, she could also see what seemed to be a green person running back and forth checking up on the test tube that the squid was in.

"Master! Somebody wants to see you!" Gir shouted at the green person.

"What! You let someone into the base! Gir you know that there are to be no humans in the base! How did they get past my amazing security!" Gir's master turned around to look at Gir.

"Well, the door wasn't locked, an-" Kalli was cut off by the green kid.

"Gir! You left the door unlocked?" he looked at his robot minion

"Oh Yeah..." Gir had a moment of realization before returning to his normal self. Gir left the room and Kalli and Gir's master stood there in an awkward silence.

"Well, my name's Kalli. I guess I'm your new neighbor." Kalli attempted to stop the awkwardness, but ended up making it worse.

"Eh? Kalli? That's a weird name." Kalli glared at him, she hated when people said that about her name. "I am ZIM! And you should be honored to be in the presence of zim..." Kalli raised an eyebrow.

"Um... Ok..."She decided that she would ask about the cables some other time.

A/n: I'm so so so so SO sorry If you thought that Zim was out of character... I felt it was inevitable for this scene. And it will definitely be practically impossible to keep him in character for what I have in store for him later. And, I used a line from Bestest Friends... The next chapter should be up on friday that's all for now, see-ya!