The sound of the Prometheus hitting the atmosphere was like the sky itself being torn in half.
Inside the cockpit, the vibration was so intense I could feel my teeth rattling in my skull. The God Rod's energy surged through the Titan's frame, That the interior monitor started glowing so brightly in blue and white that everything became hard to see clearly. Metal screamed. Bolts groaned. The whole ship felt like it was seconds from shaking apart.
"Altitude: thirty thousand feet and dropping!" Glitch screamed, barely audible. He was strapped into the secondary engineer's seat. "Elias, the heat shields are overloading! We're going to melt before we hit the deck!"
"ARES—divert the excess heat into the kinetic batteries!" I roared, fighting the G-force trying to flatten me into the chair. "Eat the friction! Feed the core!"
