It's hard to comprehend what Starscream is getting at at first - but it inspires him to think on it, which is more than enough to start bringing up latent worries. He's certain that what's been done to him is a complication, handling the guilt he feels has been difficult at the best of times, but that would be the cause of his own hesitation, not Megatron's.

"I have hardly had the opportunity to notice anything, thus far," he says with a note of stubbornness, mostly because inwardly he is trying to figure out what he's missing. He's now convinced that it must be something.