If I couldn't transform, actually asking for anyone with an altmode with similar mass and height to myself would be kind of redundant, wouldn't it?

[She might have put more bite in that if she wasn't more focused on another part, namely;]

But even if it didn't only scanning something shouldn't have any negative effects, it's not as if we transform upon completed altmode scanning... [pause] Or is that what happens in your reality?

[The tone of voice and maybe-smile gets a narrowed stare thrown at a random part of the wall; since it's audio, she can obviously not direct it towards Starscream himself.]