Kevin tried to assess the situation as Shaun frantically tried to barricade the open doors with wheeled office chairs.
"Shaun, it's simple. We need to balance out the available resources so we have two barricades." Kevin pushed the nearest metal block from the first barricade and began building a second one at the other doors. Shaun cussed frantically, the word 'barricade' blocking his previous thoughts.
"No Kevin. I've been in this situation before, we stood, and we blockaded…"
"Barricaded."
"Whatever. I mean, we all died. Well obviously not all of us, I survived and so did my girlfriend Liz, have I told you about Liz?" Kevin shook his head at Shaun's question. "Well that's not important, what is important is we found a way out and survived and those who didn't, didn't survive."
Kevin stared at Shaun in confusion and slowly began to nod.
"I think I know what you mean, you want to make a stand."
"Yes!" As the first zombie stumbled through the double doors, knocking the chairs across the gleaming floor, Shaun lifted his weapon.
"You're weapon of choice?" Shaun asked Kevin as the zombie surveyed the room. Kevin lifted a crow bar from his trouser leg and swung it around menacingly.
"Wow, for emergencies?" Shaun chuckled as the zombie started to plod towards him, the space behind him revealing many more in the distance. "It's clobberin' time!"
Shaun charged but stopped when he noticed Kevin standing still with a bemused look on his face.
"It's cobbering time?"
"It's pronounced clobberin' time actually." Kevin shook his head at Shaun's geekiness and charged into battle.
Shaun lifted his bat into the zombies chin, sending him spinning into the barricade and collapsing onto and operating table. Kevin marched over to him and finished him off with two precise strikes to the head, covering him with stale blood. Shaun jabbed a female zombie in the stomach and into the incoming zombie hordes then span around to see a familiar face.
"Sir?" Shaun looked at a wrinkled zombie clawing at him. "Mr Perkins! Still teach PE?" Shaun laughed; realising Kevin was a bit busy to appreciate his joke. "This is for failing me!" The bat smashed into his head, merely forcing him to stumble.
"Bloody hell! This is for failing Ed!" Shaun swung again, this time unbalancing the zombie, knocking him into a cabinet fixed to the wall.
"Six points for the batsmen!" Shaun called as the zombie rolled over various pieces of equipment, hitting a purple vial onto the floor and across the room. Thumping another zombie back, Shaun spotted it out of the corner of his eye. Jumping out of the action, he picked it up and read the label.
Vaccine – Type D, successful"That's the stuff!" Shaun pocketed it and turned to see how Kevin was doing.
With a powerful swing, Kevin ripped of the nose of an incoming zombie and swung again, this time caving in his head. Hearing Shaun's seemingly euphoric shouts, Kevin turned to him.
"What happened?" Kevin asked jabbing another zombie at arms reach.
"Nothing, I found something I was looking for. Behind you!" Before Kevin could turn, the barricade clattered onto him and another wave of zombies stormed through.
"Shit!" Shaun charged at them, Kevin disappearing from view. Realising if he didn't leave now it would be too late, Shaun ran out of the room and along the un-barricaded corridor. Zombies continued to enter but were too slow to grab him.
"Where did I come from, where did I come from?" Shaun charged down identical corridors, not really having any direction. "Christ!"
Having turned from one corridor and not looking at the one he was entering, Shaun tripped over something on the floor. Looking up, he noticed the guard dog, slowly getting up.
"Nice doggy, you're scared of zombies, I'm a zombie! Wait so are you…" The guard dog turned round to reveal a large bite mark across its head and then began to plod towards Shaun. Twirling around so he can stand, Shaun kicked the zombie dog in the face and carried on running.
Emerging into the memorable (but now empty) captive zombie area, Shaun regained his memory of the surroundings.
Within a minute he had made out into the morning light.
"Holy… Thank God." Out of breathe and tired, Shaun still decided to run the whole way home. The door he had emerged from swayed in the wind.