Poor Orion. If it had been anyone else offering... Well, Starscream would probably still have had a less than savory response to that, but the point was that he was feeling extra hostile towards Orion in particular, considering that he was half the source of his angst.

So it was with no small amount of restraint that he held himself back from snapping entirely and instead settled for a cruel, humorless laugh. "Unless you have some sort of brilliant insight into how to keep Megatron from scrapping me the moment he returns, I think my problems may be a bit outside of your field."