Knock Out will take what acknowledgement he can get, and Starscream's not wrong: he did, for the most part, follow orders. It helped a lot when he and Breakdown had been given a general directive and then left to their own methods to accomplish it, they'd worked best that way.

"Who says I let it 'get to me'?" he countered. "Just answer me one thing: I am still listed as the Chief Medical Officer on the Nemesis, aren't I? That wasn't also given to Shockwave along with my projects?"

All right, he's a little sore-afted about that one bit.