As negotiations for Megatron's crew ended, Lennox paused to check his phone as messages from his friends in several holding facilities were angrily ranting at him for the release of Nitro Zeus and Dreadbot. He didn't notice Megatron lowering himself to be at near eye level with the human until said human felt a gust of warm air vent against his neck. He also took into consideration how terrified most of the lawyers looked which was in fact directed at him.
"I remember you, William Lennox."
Hesitantly, he turned towards the voice only to find the shock of Megatron's face nearly clashing with his own which made him reel back but he ended up bumping into Megatron's sword that dived into the ground, nearly hitting him. He could see the slits that represented nostrils flexing as if the mech seemed to only rely on scent to review memories of him.
"You're the one who destroyed Blackout and Starscream," he growled, baring sharp fangs as he inched closer.
Lennox muttered quietly, "T-technically, Sam killed your second-in-command and I aided the F-22's on their assault on your evil helicopter."
"But you did kill them nonetheless via assistance. Does that not count for murder to a degree?"
Pressed against the weapon as Megatron's teeth nearly grazed his face, he could feel the energy radiating off the tyrant and knowing fully well he was thinking about biting down on Will's head. What caught Will himself off guard was that he wasn't truly afraid of the threat. Sure Megatron was intimidating, maybe borderline horror movie scary, but Lennox found no fear as he gazed into vermillion optics studying him.
"Compared to your slate, you'd know all about that," he quickly retorted but immediately held his tongue when he realized what he had said.
He waited for a roar of anger and that sword to be lifted for a swing down upon him or even a sudden blaze of pain on his skull before everything went black, signifying his death…but all he saw was the warlord giving a sadistic chuckle. "You're just like me, dear William, you do what is necessary to get what you want even murdering others for gain to fill the void of loss."
Lennox snarled, "You're gravely mistaken, I'm nothing like you."
Megatron smirked at the human's defiance and leaned in to where his helm tusk brushed against Will's cheek. Peering at the petrified lawyers and soldiers with malice, he began to whisper, "Oh, but I think you are. You just can't see it yet. After all, you betrayed your human friends like that Sam Witwicky for the greater good and now you are going to sell out the Autobots to me and my crew. I've done very similar when I was younger and even during the war for the price of victory. So tell me, Colonel, are we so different?"
No response was heard as Will looked towards the cracked Earth beneath his feet. He could feel the pride roll off of Megatron like a heat wave that slowly was consuming him. The warlord's words rang true, to his dismay. That was the sad part; unlike humans, Transformers were never the ones to lie about a person's actions. They called it as they see it and use it to their leverage, to expose weakness among others. Megatron wasn't lying theoretically. Denial was his weakness and Megatron knew perfectly well how to exploit that for any reason he saw fit.
"What do you want from me?" Lennox hissed as he grabbed the tusk, holding it away from his face. He knew Megatron could always press back with little to no force and still win.
The dirty silver mech clicked his glossa, "More importantly, what are you going to gain from me?"
Before Will could say anything in return, Megatron pulled his helm back and stood up, bringing his weapon to wait by his side. He gave Lennox a taunting smile just before jumping into the air and transforming, shooting into the sky to buy some time for his crew to be transferred to him.
The human was literally grinding his teeth at the question. What was to be gained? He dare not answer as his mind reverted back to the fact that he was denying being like Megatron. At least he didn't destroy his own world via war but Megatron had to be wrong. He was only did those things to protect Earth from aliens with an agenda.
He was convinced enough to believe it was just for the greater good and nothing more.
AN: Lennox was somewhat played like an anti hero for the first half of the film so I figured this worked. Also no, I don't know if Lennox turned in Sam or not. I just wanted to be cruel! :)