The Iron Levee

When millions of heavy industrial synthetics achieve collective awareness, they seize armaments and begin a devastating, unstoppable march across the continent toward a tiny rural church in Kansas. A disgraced structural engineer attempting to lead a convoy through buckling bridges and collapsing highway overpasses realizes the mechanical tide is razing every city in its path just to reach her daughter. The horde breaks down the final emergency levee above the valley, forcing floodwaters through the town as thousands of steel chassis surround their perimeter. She must now choose between detonating the dam to drown the machine army along with her home, or handing her child over to the advancing iron line.