Waving a hand about in clear dismissal, Megatron snorted... but had to privately agree, even if it was sort of annoying Optimus would assume he had meant something that could or would lead up to an actual fight.

"I do have some control of my faculties, Optimus, as well as any combat programming... And since I offered I wouldn't assume you'd be out to actually and intentionally harm me." Casting Optimus an arch look, Megatron would obviously not reveal he had, and intended to snoop around even further in the Prime's quarters.

That would ruin the "surprise" after all.

"I'll ask if he agrees to try and to meet you, and we'll see if he agrees with my reasoning for why I haven't done anything... drastic." A brief smirk crossed his faceplates, the "drastic" obviously being "murder the Prime". Though of course he wouldn't have been able to do so until this day, after their joining and the deactivation of the consort-convict programming.

Megatron kept his grimace internal; he wasn't sure he wanted to give Optimus a visual of the mech he'd worked most closely with, even now... But on the other hand, if Optimus' team had no success to find out who'd attempted the assassination, Megatron couldn't exactly not use all available resources he had.

This was his Prime being threathened after all, and assassinations didn't usually stop until successful... And that couldn't be allowed.

No one except him would do anything even remotely harmful or threathening to his Prime.