Starscream lets out an extremely pathetic sounding yelp, slowly stepping back from Arcee as she advances. His mind races; Orion showing up was certainly unexpected and it presents all kinds of problems, but perhaps he can still make this work in his favor.

He cycles away his blasters and holds his hands up defensively, wings tilting back as he tries to ham up the gigantic coward act as much as possible. His words rush out, eyes wide and pleading. "Now now, there's no need to do anything irrational-- This is all ancient history, but look back at things from my perspective, it's hardly as though she was defenseless or unarmed and I had my back against the wall against an enemy combatant-- what would you have done differently?"