The Decepticon shakes his head, "Never had any hope to begin with. They aren't going to help, and the less that know about my diet the better."

The last thing he needed was people trying to kill him or lock him up. Anyone comes after him later, and then he'll know for sure that this was a trap. No one does, and then maybe Rung is a little trustworthy. Maybe.

"I've been drinking a lot of energon, not that it really does much," but it was better than nothing. Didn't really make him feel like he wasn't starving, but it lessened it just a little. "Wheeljack's let me... borrow some of the energy from his power core as well." Not that it filled him up either.