Chrom's sword recklessly swung towards Viridi as she run throughout Bon Bon's home, holding its owner's hoof the whole time. It bashed into multiple portraits and furniture as destructively as a tornado.
"Now I'm angry!" Chrom yelled.
"Really? Couldn't tell!" Viridi said sarcastically as she dodged a flurry of slashes. With every strike, Falchion's edge grew closer and closer. Eventually, Bon Bon and Viridi were pinned against the wall with no possible way to escape. All seemed lost.
"Um...Viridi?" Bon Bon whimpered.
"Yes?"
"If I die first, tell Lyra I..." Before Bon Bon could finish her supposed last words, Chrom had a look of unimaginable pain and fainted right in front of them. His fall revealed Lyra, standing there while telekineticly holding a large tree branch.
"Tell me what?" Lyra asked. Viridi and Bon Bon siamotainously let out a long sigh of relief. "Also! Is it ok if I get a strand of his hair!? Opportunities like this don't just fall out of the sky!"
"Sure, Lyra. I know how much your research means to you."
"Sweet! You're coming with me to the basement, big guy!" Lyra grabbed the unconscious Chrom and took him down the stairs into a small room, squealing the whole way there.
"That was a close one..." Viridi said, rubbing her head.
"So, this Hades character is sending assassins after you?" Bon Bon questioned.
"A-apparently."
"Well...we'd better head down to check on Lyra to make sure she doesn't do anything too crazy. Maybe we can even get some information out of him!" Bon Bon said, trotting in the direction Lyra was headed. Viridi followed.
Viridi and Bon Bon arrived in a dark room. On the walls lay ancient portraits of what Viridi could only assume were humans and sketches of what they might have looked like, done by Lyra herself. Though a few parts were off, like the two noses and the six eyes, it was pretty accurate. A grand chandelier hung from the ceiling that sparkled like the sun. The two spotted Lyra in the room with the most light. She was writing on a piece of paper and would occasionally look up at Chrom, who lay down on the desk in front of her, nude. Don't worry, I won't go into detail.
""As I suspected. The nose doesn't go on the bottom! Wait, no. I was wrong," Lyra mumbled.
"Lyra! For my sake, put some clothes on him!" Viridi said, covering her eyes and blushing.
"I'm afraid I can't do that, Miss Viridi," Lyra said, walking towards her and picking up reading glasses from the counter next to her. "Research must be done! For science!" She posed like a superheroine in front of the two confused girls. ".....for science!" The two only looked at each other. "Science!"
"Okay, we get it! Now put some pants on him!"
"Fine...." Lyra sighed. She outfitted Chrom with the clothes he wore beforehand with great effort. "There! Happy?!" Suddenly, Chrom's eyes opened. Amazingly, they had returned to normal. Bon Bon immediately grabbed onto Lyra with fear. "It's woken!" Lyra exclaimed.
"Wh-where am I?" Chrom mumbled.
"Lyra, you must've beaten the sense back into him!" Bon Bon said, letting go of the anthropologist. "Even his shadow eyes are gone!" Viridi, however, was less convinced. She summoned her staff out of thin air and pointed it at the exalt.
"Who are you working for!?" Viridi shouted.
"I...I'm sorry, I can't seem to remember a thing. I only remember seeing Robin partake in a glorious battle, but...that's it. My mind's a total blank," Chrom replied.
"He's been brainwashed! Believe me! It's happened to me before!" Lyra explained.
"Viridi, if Lyra's right..." Bon Bon began.
"Which I am," Lyra gloated.
"Then, the true mastermind must be H-"
"The Chaos Kin!!" Viridi answered.
"Um...no. I was thinking of Hades. He's probably going around hypnotizing assassins to take you and Celestia down! I wouldn't be surprised if one showed up at our door right now!"
"If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to help you. If it wasn't for you, I'd still be under that dastard's control. I'm in your gratitude," Chrom said as he bowed.
"Just try not to be a total dork," Viridi teased.
"You certainly remind me a lot of my younger sister."
Lyra suddenly noticed something dripping from her head.
"Ew...gross!" Lyra said, wiping the substance from her mane.
"That's weird." Bon Bon examined the mystery liquid closer. "It looks kind of like...ink!" She was surprised to see that the same type of ink covered the ground near the door and left a trail that led to the ceiling.
"Ink? Oh no...." Viridi whispered as she looked above her to see a little girl with what looked like orange hair in a white t-shirt hanging from the chandelier. She was armed with a gun that had orange ink dripping from its edge. The girl had some sort of electronic collar around her neck. Her eyes were shadowy like a cold winter's night.
"Stay fresh, suckers!" The girl said as transformed from a kid to a squid and back again, jumping onto the floor. "Who wants some!?"
"Another human?" Bon Bon said, bewildered.
"That's no human!" Lyra yelped, as she skimmed through her notes for reference.
"That's an Inkling!" Viridi defined.