It had been... he no longer knew how long it had been. Days? Weeks? Time seemed to drift along in bits and spurts, but it didn’t seem to matter anymore. What mattered was that he would not fail. Not this time. Not again.
The stasis cuffs locked too tight around his thin wrists seemed to bite deeper into him every time he shifted, but that small hurt vanished into the sea of other, brighter hurts. The Decepticons knew what they were doing, he had to give them that, and they were nothing if not thorough.
For a long time, he held onto the hope that soon his Autobot brethren had in fact recieved his message and were on the way to rescue him, but he had long since come to terms with the fact that his desperate cry for aid was lost to the blue skies of this planet. He would not be rescued. He would not go home.
His only hope now was that he could remain strong until they finally tired of him and finished him off. He could stay silent, and keep what precious little information he knew locked away, as his final service to the Autobot cause.