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Styx's death touch doesn't work through Spldey's mask because it's inorganic. After Cardiac punishes the wife beater, he joins the fight... on Styx & Stone's side, helping them escape. Spidey plants a tracer on the departing Styx. Later, Dr. Wirtham meets Stone in a diner. Stone was one of his top medical researchers until he left after accidentally creating Styx. Wirtham offers Stone his Hoboken labs to cure Styx. However; when Styx & Stone arrive, Cardiac puts Styx in a diagnostic tube, intending to kill him. Following his spider-tracer, Spidey arrives and fights Cardiac, allowing Stone to free Styx. The two depart on Stone's turbo-hopper but Cardiac blasts them out of the sky, to be collected by the police. After revealing that Spidey was his inspiration, Cardiac escapes.