[b]"Not good."[/b]
Ryder was pinned down by the two FRAMEs as they rounded the corner. She cursed to herself. No matter how good she was with her melee antics, there was no way she could run up and punch these guys, despite her powerful urge to do just that. She zigzagged a moment try to find cover in the nearly barren street, which allowed the two enemy FRAMEs to easily fire straight thtough her Zaruga's weak armor. She was continuously peppered with fire from both angles and she had to do something quickly. It seemed kind of ironic how she could charge one machine and fight it up close while the other would be cut off from firing at her, but it was definitely not the time for that.

Theta was damaged pretty heavily, and Ryder knew it. The panicked flashing screens of the inside of her FRAME really did not help. Trapped within the clutches of a miniscule amount of cover, Ryder felt as if it was a waiting game that her survival depended on. She knew Cecilia knew her location, but with all the AP rounds that tore through Theta, she didn't know how much longer she could last. As seconds passed, a panicked Ryder threw the switch that activated her LMG. She decided her best option was to at least [i]try[/i] and suppress the enemy FRAMEs.

With her torso mounted gun's 7.62 mm bullets firing rather inaccurately in one direction, Ryder brought up her AFC-40/L in the other direction, firing in the general direction of Shāyú-Sān. Less than a minute had passed before Ryder heard the futile [i]click click click[/i] of her LMG sputtering out of ammo. She merely sighed, mouthing the words [b]"Really? Why now?"[/b] to herself as she spun around to face Shāyú-Èr and trying to land a few solid Autocannon 25 mm rounds into his FRAME while she had a few seconds break from Shāyú-Sān. 

Theta wasn't going to last much longer in this fight. Ryder planned to give her teammates a minute more before she tried something drastic. After all, she was nearing the end of her ammo, Theta's systems were steaming as if in agony, and Ryder couldn't handle much more of this heavy fire rocking her FRAME.