((thats supposed to be flip a coin once for each woman.  IE, Heads, nail # 11.  Heads, do #12.  Heads, do #13.  Tails, you're done.  Not roll once to do them all.  If roll heads more than 5 times, you can pick who to repeat.  Sorry for the confusion))<br/><br/>Meanwhile.<br/><br/>Lurker carries the sleeping Eva to a cot in the mall and asks his wasp woman (wwomen) friends to take care of her.    Lurker had a deal with the woman he'd saved that she'd bear his children in return for saving her and her kid. (the kid had already been sent upstairs to the mall when that scene opened).  After Lurker explains the situation (and that wasp women larvae don't kill the hosts if the wwomen eggs are laid in the host's womb), the woman agrees to host the children of a wasp woman in return for the protection of the hive.<br/>That taken care of, Lurker gets some supplies and retreats into his tunnels to make sure that the trapdoor stays shut.<br/><br/>Outside, Nick counts 20 Jumpers circling them and stops counting.  The thugs are panicking, blasting away at the spiders with their pistols.  However, they have poor aim, and only kill one or two spiders, while drawing the attention from the rest.  Even the spiders that had been stalking Nick and the women, turn toward the thugs.  Nick would like to eat the women, but realizes that would cause trouble (with the wasp guards observing from the mall rooftop, if not his superiors) and decides to try and save them to avoid trouble.  He runs for the women, grabbing one under each arm.  As they raise fists to try and fend off what they think is an attack, Nick shouts “I'm trying to save you”.<br/>Nick's movement draws the attention of the closest spiders, while the rest of the pack goes after the thugs, burying the screaming men in a mass of fangs and legs.  Nick catches the first jumping Spider with his tongue and swallows it down.  Contracting his stomach muscles, he crushes it while it's inside him.  Seeing the other spiders bearing down on him, he abandons the idea of a run for the mall doors and leaps beside the open manhole cover in a single bound.  He shouts “Get in!” and shoves the women toward the hole where they climb down, reluctantly until they see the spiders coming.<br/>Nick braces himself for the attack and swallows down the next spider and the next, crushing them in his teeth or stomach as he goes.  While he could keep eating spiders for a while, he realizes that he could get too fat to escape through the tunnel and there are more than he could handle.  He grabs the manhole cover and uses it to clobber the next spider with a loud KLANG!  Holding the cover above his head he waits for the next attack.  He catches the next spider in his mouth and bites it to subdue it, but doesn't swallow.  Without that last spider adding to his girth, he leaps down the manhole, allowing the cover to drop into place as he goes.  Safely at the bottom of the chute, he swallows the last spider while the rest of the pack mill about the manhole in frustration.  He sees the dead trapdoor spider.  What the hell.  He swallows it too.  Now, he isn't as tempted to eat the women.  He starts to make his way toward the light, while the women whimper, following behind him.