Ello Gov'nor

The story begins at the Movie Shack Hut. An employee is dancing in front of the store. He's wearing a costume that depicts King Kong climbing the Empire State Building.

Employee: Movies! Rent your movies!

Pietro and Pym rush out of the store, carrying a DVD case. He bumps into the employee.

Employee: Oh, sorry man.

Pietro: (chuckling) Nice outfit. (Grabs Pym and runs off with his super speed)

Employee: It's a costume! They make me wear it!

At the Avengers Tower. It's nighttime, and the Next Avengers are ready to watch a movie.

Sam: Movie night! (holds up a bowl of popcorn.) I got the popcorn!

Ava: Pizzas are here.

Pym: We got the movie.[holding up the movie case, showing only the back cover]

Wanda: Wait, I thought we were watching Shy Guy.

Wanda holds up a movie case. The front cover is pink and has a big red heart in the middle.

Pym: Wanda, you've seen that movie 100 times. I got something better. BAM!

Pym shows the DVD case to the team. It's called "Ello Gov'nor!", and it has a picture of a British taxi with sharp teeth on the front cover.

Thomas: Ello Gov'nor?

Pym: Yeah, man, it's foreign. Check it. (reading the back cover) "A British taxi is possessed by the soul of its driver, seeking revenge on the lowly gang members who murdered him. Pay the fare... (pops head from behind the movie case) ...or pay the price."

James: No, dude, not another horror movie.

Thomas: Yeah. Last time we had to walk you to the bathroom every night for a week.

Pym: No, man, it'll be different. This one is old and cheesy. It will be hilarious.

Torunn: You sure you can handle it?

Pym: Dude, it's in black and white. Come on.

Torunn: Mmm... alright.

Pym opens the case for the movie, and Pietro turns off the lights. Pym puts the tape into the VCR, and the movie begins playing, with ominous music. The card reads, "ELLO GOV'NOR, (c) MCMLXXXII." The Next Avengers fake screaming, but laugh pretty quickly afterward.

Pym: See, isn't this fun?

Kwannon: Yeah.

Now, we're in the movie. It is black and white. It starts at a boarding school. In the classroom, a boy sits quietly and opens his composition notebook to see a tire tread engraved in it. He gasps and then looks out the window to see a British taxi.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

The taxi drives into the window, and, off-screen, runs the boy over. Everyone chuckles, but Pym looks traumatized. In the next scene of the movie, a woman is in her bathroom combing her hair. She closes the cabinet, and, in the mirror, we can see the taxi behind the shower curtain.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

She turns around and sees the British taxi come out of her shower, which runs her over off-screen. The Next Avengers yawns in boredom, and Pym is scared, holding a pillow. In the movie, an old man is walking his dog and hears the taxi's engine revving. It's standing behind him.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

The old man tries to run away, but he gets hit. Pym watches in horror as the taxi eats the old man. He's also sweating hard.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

The taxi spits out some of the old man's bones from its exhaust pipe and, later, starts to kill more people off-screen.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor!

More screaming occurs before the movie ends and the screen goes to static. The Next Avengers snores before immediately waking up.

James: Huh? Is it over? (He turns off the TV and rubs his eyes)

Thomas: Dude, that was so cheesy. I mean, what was up with the taxi? Was it supposed to be evil or normal but haunted by a ghost...

Pym looks freaked out by the movie

Thomas: ...controlling the taxi or what? You know?

Fade into Thomas and Pym's room. Thomas is peacefully asleep while Pym trying to go to sleep. He gets up and looks out the window. He sees no taxi at first, but when he looks at the same spot again, it's there.

Pym: Tommy.

Thomas is still asleep. Pym turns around and sees the British taxi right by his window.

He screams and runs to Thomas.

Pym: (shakes Thomas) Tommy! Wake up! Wake up!

Thomas: (in the British taxi's voice) Ello, gov'nor. (turns around to show that his eyes were replaced with that of a car's headlights.)

Pym screams and steps back. Thomas sits up and the British taxi comes out of his body and drives towards him before his nightmare ends. Pym wakes up, screaming, until he gets hit by a pillow thrown by Thomas.

Thomas: Dude, chill out! You're screaming like that fricking maniac Green Goblin!

Pym: I keep having nightmares!

Thomas: Just dream about something else then. (lies back down) Dream like you're a tough guy or something.

Pym: (trying to sleep) I'm a tough guy. (He says "tough guy" repeatedly).

In his dream, he is a tough guy named Hank and is walking down the street at nighttime.

Hank: They say this city's tough. But I'm tougher.

Hank walks into a dark alley, and a gangster with half of his hair shaved off follows him with a knife.

Gangster: You walked down the wrong alley, Pym. (Fists pins him against the wall.)

Hank: The name's... (pulls fist back) ...Hank!

He's about to punch him, but then, the British taxi comes and shines its headlights on him and the gangster.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

Hank gasps before the taxi drives into him. Pym wakes up screaming from his second nightmare.

Thomas: Augh! (sits up) What the heck, Pym?!

Pym: It's that stupid British taxi! It's all up inside my brain!

Thomas: (groans) I knew it! I knew this would happen! I told you we shouldn't have watched that movie!

Pym: I know, I'm sorry. I can't help it.

Thomas: (sighs) Alright, dude, we'll just desensitize you to the horror. We're gonna watch "Ello Gov'nor" over and over again until you stop being scared.

Pym gets scared. Cut to the living room, where Thomas is holding Pym to the TV as it's paused on a frame of Ello Gov'nor.

Thomas: Look at it! Look at it!

Pym: Let me go!

Thomas: It's not real! You can see the microphone showing!

Sure enough, a boom mic is seen on the frame.

Thomas: Look at it!

Pym: Get off me!

Thomas: I'm sick of you keeping me up! You look at it!

Pym: Let me go! (fade to the daytime)

Thomas: Look at it!

Pym: Let me go!

Thomas: (fade back to nighttime) Look at it!

French Narrator:

Thomas: [tired] Look... At it.  You look at it. You... look at it.

Pym: Let... Me... GO!

Pym breaks free and gets the movie out of the VCR. He throws it against the wall as Tony and the others are in the living room, watching them.

Tony: What's going on?

Thomas: (pushes Pym) Pym's just freaked out by this dumb British movie we watched.

Felicia: Well, you'd better have this mess cleaned up by the time we get back from Laura's cricket game.

Thomas: Cricket?

Laura: Yeah. I'm trying new things. So what?

Thomas: (gasps) Will British people be there?

Laura: It's cricket, what do you think?

Cuts to a cricket match at Central Park. Sure enough, British people are there

Thomas: See Pym, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Zachary: Yeah. See how calm and collected these British dudes are?

British people come walking up to the heroes.

British People: Ello, gov'nor. Ello, gov'nor, ello gov'nor, ello, ello, ello...

Pym gets scared by their greetings. The British people look evil for some reason. Suddenly, the British taxi appears.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor!

Pym screams and flies away.

Thomas: Pym! PYM!

Pym's still flying towards the Avengers Tower. Dr. Strange walks up to the Next Avengers.

Thomas: Aw man, I knew we shouldn't have watched that lame car movie.

Dr. Strange: He's scared of cars now?

Azari: No, just British taxis.

James: Okay, we need to fix Pym's fear of British taxis. Any ideas?

Zachary: I could build a British Taxi at the lab.

Thomas: Great idea. If we drive around the city, he'll be cured.

Meanwhile...

Pym: What's underneath the cover?

Thomas: Something that's gonna get rid of your fear.

Zachary: [reveals a British taxi] Tada. Now, get in.

Pym: In that thing? No way.

Thomas: Pym, come on.

Kamala: It's going to be okay, Pym.

Pym: Uhh, I got to gotta the bathroom.

Cut to the bathroom, Pym washes his hands and pulls the toilet paper to see a tire tread. Pym is shocked as lightning strikes nearby. Pym looks up in the mirror and notices the British taxi.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

Pym gasps and runs out of the bathroom. He goes into a dark office and pants as he stands by the door. The phone rings and Pym grabs the phone to hear who's on the other end.

British Taxi: (over the phone) Ello, gov'nor!

Pym gasps and throws the phone to the ground. He turns to the sound of a fax machine printing out the words "ELLO GOV'NOR.

Pym:

Pym screams and then runs out of the office, and decides to go with Zachary, Kamala, and Thomas.

Pym: Let's go, let's go! (gets in the taxi) Drive!

Zachary drives through the city.

Thomas: What? What is it?

Pym: That British taxi, man! It's following me!

Thomas: Dude, come on. You're just seeing things.

Pym: No! It was the evil British taxi and it was real!

Kamala: So it came out of the movie then?

Pym: I don't know! Maybe.

Thomas: Alright, fine, look, you're safe now anyway. Let's just try to relax and calm down, Zach will drive us around for a bit.

Pym: Hmph.

Fade into sometime later. Zachary drives to the woods. Thomas and Kamala have fallen asleep, but Zachary, although tired, keeps driving.

Pym: Wait, Zach? Where are we going?

Zachary: I always drive deep into the woods when I want to clear my mind.

Pym looks out the window, at the trees. They all have evil faces on them. It scares Pym and leaves him panting against the seat. He looks out the window again to see the British taxi. Pym gasps and looks out the back window to see it driving closer and closer to Zachary's taxi. He whimpers as Zachary's taxi suddenly stops.

Zachary: Aw, man.

Pym: What? Why are we stopping? What's going on?

Zachary: We're out of gas.

Pym: Oh man, oh man, this is not good! He's coming and we're stuck here! Tommy! Kamala!

Thomas and Kamala: (Wakes up, screaming)

Thomas: What, what is it?

Pym: We ran out of gas, and he's coming for me! (ducks to the bottom of the taxi)

Thomas: [to Kamala and Zachary] Come on, we gotta get out and push. (to Pym) Come on, Pym.

Pym: No! I'm not going out there!

Thomas: Fine, Zach, Kamala, and I will push you all the way home then. Geez.

Thomas, Kamala, and Zachary come out of the taxi and start pushing it back home.

Pym: No, no, no, no, no, not back this way!

Pym notices the headlights of a car shining in the distance and gasps. A car is approaching them.

Pym: No, no, no, no, no!

Thomas, Zachary, and Kamala notice a car's headlights getting brighter.

Zachary: Alright, help.

Pym gets out of the taxi screaming and runs away.

Kamala: Pym!

The trio looks back and realizes that the car approaching them is a British taxi.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor!

Thomas:

Zachary: Run!

They run away. The British taxi runs over the taxi, shattering it to pieces. Pym's still running. The trio follows him. The British taxi is still chasing the four. They all jump over a log, but the British taxi keeps driving and runs over the log.

Thomas: Kamala, look out!

Thomas grabs Kamala in the nick of time. The British taxi continues to drive into the woods. Thomas realizes that it's chasing Pym.

Thomas: Oh no! It's going after Pym! We gotta help him!

Thomas, Kamala, and Zachary: Pym!

Pym is still running from the British taxi, almost running him over. Pym sprints, and ends up in a dead end. The British taxi drives up and corners Pym, leading him to lean against a tree. The British taxi isn't giving up.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor.

Pym:

Thomas: Pym!

The trio gets hit by the British taxi's doors, knocking them out unconscious.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor!

Pym: I'm no gov'nor!

Pym tries to run away but bumps into a tree. The British taxi laughs maniacally. Pym opens his eyes and sees the British taxi trying to run him over.

British Taxi: Ello, gov'nor!

Pym gets up to face the taxi.

Pym: (furious) The name's HANK!

Pym smashes the British taxi's headlights.

Pym: Leave me alone!

Pym punches the British taxi's front bumper and kicks its grille.

Pym: I hate you!

Pym pulls off its left door, bites off the "TAXI" sign, and pulls off the British taxi's roof. Then, he walks off-screen and smashes a tree atop the damaged British taxi.

Pym: Stop following me around!

In reality, Thomas and Zachary holding Pym down. Pym's squirming.

Thomas: Pym! Wake up!

Zachary: Pym, stop it!

Pym: Stop... guys?

Kamala: Oh, thank goodness you're alright.

Pym: I did it! I conquered my fear! I cleaned that taxi's clock, with my fists.

Thomas: Kind of, you hit your head and started going psycho on the taxi, but the taxi was just a guy in a suit.

The British taxi unfolds itself to reveal that it is the employee from the Movie Shack Hut in a costume.

Pym: You?

Employee: Yeah, what's your problem?

Pym: Why were you following me in that taxi suit?

Employee: (sighs. He's holding a paper) My boss made me wear this. I'm from the DVD store. Your rental is overdue.

Zachary: Why didn't you just call or something?

Employee: I did, and I sent a fax!

Pym: That was you?

Employee: Yes! So can you just return the DVD, please?

Pym: We broke it.

Employee: Well, you're gonna have to pay for it.

Pym, Thomas, and Kamala: Zach?

Zachary: Of course. I'm afraid the smallest bill I have is $100. Will that do?

Employee: Yeah. Sure.

Zachary gave him the $100 bill and the heroes went back home.

In Thomas and Pym's room.

Pym: Hey, Tommy?

Thomas: Augh, not again.

Pym: Don't worry, I'm not scared again. I just—Thanks, Tommy, for helping me out with my fears and stuff.

Thomas: No problem, man. Good night, Pym.

Pym: Good night, Tommy.

Ripple transitions to Pym's dream. He's in his Hank persona, driving a car.

Hank: They say this city's pretty tough. But I'm tougher.

The camera shows that he's driving a British taxi with Laura that is flying in the night sky. The British taxi flies off towards the moon, where we can see its license plate reads "FISTS".

The End

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