Atmospheric Reentry Damage

"Cars, you OK there?" I asked, and Cars slowly returned to humanoid form, but had clearly taken quite a bit of damage. He wasn't steady on his feet.

"The extra mes covering the ship burned up just above the surface," he said, hoarsely. "Seems we were one me short."

He was standing bolt upright, his legs slightly apart, and the burns covering his body were visibly healing. A pus was squirting out of the wounds with an oozing, popping noise, and when it hit the ground it sizzled and evaporated.