After looking around his company's half-built exhibition hall, Kraft took Alice, along with the cat and dog, to browse the nearby stalls.
Although the expo hadn't started yet, vendors selling drinks, snacks, souvenirs, and the like had already staked out prime locations. Plenty of staff came and went every day, too, and most of them had money to spare, so business was sometimes even better than outside.
True to his promise, Tony Stark had also arranged plenty of delicious food at the expo. It wasn't open to the public yet, since the expo hadn't begun, but Pepper took Kraft in for an early taste.
"Fine... making him a mechanical pet of his own wouldn't be out of the question..."
Swallowing his food, Kraft muttered under his breath. When tempted with good food, he was very easy to persuade.
"Meow~"
Nestled in Alice's arms, Bea gave him a disdainful look. Even without the scarf translating, Kraft knew she must have said something along the lines of "like owner, like dog."
While Kraft was busy stuffing himself, Peter Parker finally developed an antidote to the Lizard Serum after several days of frantic work. He immediately notified Norman Osborn and had him deliver it to the New York Police.
The New York Police weren't completely useless idiots, either. After a series of searches, they had roughly pinpointed the Lizard's location in the sewers.
But New York's sewers branched in every direction, and the Lizard moved far too quickly. Chief George Stacy spent a long time thinking it over but couldn't come up with a foolproof plan to surround him. To avoid tipping him off, he reluctantly settled for monitoring him from a distance.
In reality, the Lizard had seen everything the New York Police were doing through the ordinary lizards keeping watch for