Lucas to sign a contract to kill the vermin. Later that night, Zoc and a small troop of ants pour the potion into his ear; Lucas wakes up and discovers that he is shrunk and naked, and is carried to the anthill for the court. Zoc insists that Lucas should be studied then eaten, but he is overruled by the Queen, who sentences the human to hard labor. Hova volunteers to train Lucas alongside her friends Kreela and Fugax, much to Zoc's mortification, and they both learn about the differences between ants and humans. The ants are later attacked by tarantula hawks. Lucas finds a firecracker discarded by Steve and uses it to scare the wasps away. This earns him the admiration of all the ants except Zoc. Lucas is shown a painting that depicts the Great Ant Mother and the Cloud-Breather, and is told that the Great Ant Mother will return and shower the ants with honeydew, while the Cloud-Breather will spell destruction for all of them. Realizing the Cloud-Breather is actually the exterminator, Lucas convinces Hova, Fugax, and Kreela to go to his house for jelly beans, while he attempts to cancel Beals' contract, but unknowningly calls a pizzeria instead. Tiffany enters the kitchen and attacks Lucas and company before they flee through the sink pipe. When Zoc finds out that Lucas put Hova in possible danger, he tells Lucas that he will never turn him back to his normal size, causing Lucas to run away in fright. Hearing what happened, Hova gets angry at Zoc, scolding him for banishing Lucas only because of his prejudice towards humans, and goes out to look for Lucas with Kreela and Fugax. Once she finds him, he is swallowed by a frog. Zoc witnesses the event and realizes how much Hova cares about Lucas, so he frees him by making the frog to burp. Afterwards, they discuss their differences. Zoc explains that ants work for the benefit of the colony, whilst Lucas states that humans mostly work for personal gain. Lucas also admits that his actions against the colony wasn't intended, and that he simply didn't think through what he was doing, which Zoc understands and sympathises with. The next day, when Beals arrives to exterminate the colony, Lucas and Zoc enlist the wasps' aid; at first, the wasps want to eat them, but upon hearing that their hill is being