They Bleed Black

A decade after colossal monsters known as Megapredators ― or Preds ― began ravaging American cities, humanity’s last line of defense is the Knight Program, a fleet of towering mechs designed to battle the beasts. At the heart of this war is the Abraham family of Detroit: parents Mose and Sami, and their children Zee, Yas, and Tep. When three Preds emerge from Lake St. Clair and devastate Detroit, the Abrahams scramble to the Knight factory where they work. Trapped inside, they climb into a nearly completed mech and, against the odds, defeat the attackers. Amid the chaos, they discover a fragmented warning from Tep ― now training at a Knight facility in Colorado ― suggesting he and the other recruits are in grave danger. With Yas discovering something strange in the Preds’ black blood, the family decides to leave the ruins of Detroit and embark on a perilous journey west to save their son. Their cross-country trek reveals a nation scarred by Pred attacks and deepens Yas’s suspicion that the creatures are not acting randomly. Outside Chicago, the Abrahams clash with another Pred and are then targeted by a government Knight unit, who accuse them of stealing their mech. The Abrahams refuse to surrender and, leveraging their intimate knowledge of Knight design, destroy the government machine ― capturing its surviving pilot, Captain Maddie Dell. As Zee bonds with Dell, she learns their mission was to eliminate the Abrahams before they reached Colorado, hinting at secrets far darker than anyone suspected. Meanwhile, a clearer version of Tep’s message surfaces: he wasn’t just warning them about Detroit ― he was telling them to stay away from the training facility entirely. Sami and Yas infiltrate the Colorado base while Mose and Zee stay behind to repair their Knight. There, they uncover a horrifying truth: the Preds are not aliens or monsters at all ― they are human beings, specifically Black men, who were lured into the Knight program and forcibly transformed through expo