Starscream's expression flattens. "It sounds like that was on you," he says airily, rolling his eyes. "But that's not what I asked. I want to know how he got to be second-in-command in the first place."

Both Megatron and Starscream in this universe seem to be total disasters, a thought that occurs to him with absolutely no trace of irony whatsoever, but whatever this Starscream did, maybe that holds the secret to how he could become second-in-command.