Sonic Boom Mysteries #1: Lyric's Mechanical Armor

Theory 4: Direct Neural Interface. It's quite possible, that Lyric's armor is surgically fixed on him and is not removable and, for controlling it, there are electrodes implanted directly into his nervous system. If someone tries to remove it by force, he'll rip them out with a decent chunks of neurons, killing or, at very least, permanently crippling Lyric.