The rolling thunder of drums and savage eardrum-tearing of guitar solo's heralded Farley's arrival as his Beast tore through the gates and into the Blue Eyes base, a massive tower of dust riding in it's wake. Anyone who had been sleeping, wasn't anymore. But none could complain, as the scavengers were the ones who brought in most of the BE's tools, equipment, and food. Several residents were already running up to the massive truck as it pulled up into the garage and halted abruptly, sending plumes of dirt out in front of the tires.
The blaring music cut out as he turned off the vehicle, then threw open the door and stepped out. One of the people, a shortish man with a strange lumpiness to his right shoulder that made him lean to that side a bit, scurried up to Farley.
"Farley! You're back! How did the trip go? Any wonderful things that you brought back for me?"
"No, sorry Phil. Nothing very good this time." Phil was one of the BE's that had received some deformation, but not much stupid. His right shoulder and neck were lumpy and weird, which gave him a lopsided appearance, but he was mentally sound, at least by their standards. Some people got stupid, some people got ugly, some got both. And some got neither, which was a rarity. Farley got the stupid, to a degree. His only real deformation was his size, other than that, he was just normal-ugly, not mutant-ugly.
"Oh, there's got to be something worth-while in here." Phil continued, climbing up onto the truck and rummaging around in the back. "What's in this bag? Generator parts?"
"Yea, from the power plant. That one I was wanting to check out." Farley replied.
"Oh really, was there anything interesting up there?" Phil said, picking up a length of copper piping and checking the inside for rust.
"No, just parts. And an annoying woman." He paused, then remembered the shiny ball. "Oh yea! Phil, there was one of those shiny balls, in the generator!"
"Really? Did you get it?" The man asked, suddenly alert to what Farley was saying.
"No, the stupid woman stole it and knocked me out." He slammed the door shut, a scowl on his face.
"A woman... what did she look like?" Phil asked, hopping down from the truck with an assortment of metal parts in his arms.
"Uhhh... she was about this high, and she had red hair. She was really sneaky, and fast."
"Mhmm." Phil replied knowingly. "Well, don't take my word for it, but I think you'll probably run into her pretty soon. If you do, make sure to try and not crush her head, ok? She's one if us." He turned to leave.
"What, you mean she's a Blue Eyes?" Farley asked incredulously. Phil nodded over his shoulder then walked off. Farley scratched his head for a moment, bewildered, then grunted and reached into the truck, grabbing his toolbox. He then walked over to the nearby workbench, near a row of eight-wheelers, and sat down to work on his latest project: replacing the blades on his tire rims. Car-chasing dogs were a nuisance when they got caught in the wheels, so to help with that problem, he had installed blades that stuck out several inches form the rims of his tires, to "deflect" the troublesome canines.