From the record kept by the twins Jenny and Barbie Crow, May 3

May 3, 2017

We did it! We made it into the security office after taking out the last 10 undead, including the monster.
When we went back down to there, I counted to three and we pushed through the door. It looked like a tornado had gone through the room with out barricades mostly knocked over and stuff thrown around. I am betting that when we got out the door last time, the monster was hungry and angry he lost his meal and threw a fit. I saw this in about five seconds and knew we were not going to be able to use the same idea of staying safe behind our barricades to take the rest of the zombies out. We both jumped back through the door and secured it. Then, we had to decide if we were still going to try to take the last of them out.
We grabbed our quiet weapons and checked our pistols before going back through the door ready for action. The monster was nowhere in sight, but five regular size zombies started shuffling towards us. They were easy to take out and only took a few minutes. Then, we heard the sound of a rhino coming down the hallway and knew the monster was on his way. I hid behind a knocked over metal filing cabinet and Barbie crouched behind a heavy oak bookshelf on it's side, hoping to catch him by surprise when he walked by us. That way, we would both be behind him.

He came barreling into the room and roared like some crazed thing. He started throwing furniture out of his way and stomped right by both of us. Barbie used her make shift spear and stabbed him in the back of his head, but all he did was shake his head like a bee had stung him. The monster turned, saw her and growled like a rabid animal before stepping towards he. I jumped up and used my spear to stab him through the eye closest to me, but again he just shook his head and kept going. I decided that enough was enough and pulled my gun. I lined up the shot, fired and kept firing until he fell to his knees before slamming his face into the floor. His arms were still moving and he tried to get back up. Barbie pulled her gun and put her full clip into the back of his skull. The monster was finally still.
Then I heard the last few zombies entering the room and we had to take them out with no rest. When we were done, we both collapsed onto the floor against the wall and looked around at what we had just done. I was exhausted and I knew that Barbie had to feel the same, but we got up and headed for the door to the security area. We hadn't made it  10 steps when pounding started on the main door we came through to take out the undead. We were going to have to fight our way out of here when we were done, but with a look, we kept going into the security area.

Inside, we found a lot of office space with nothing truely useful inside. The last office before security did have a water cooler with five unopened bottles and one on the cooler that was half gone. We would have to bring the cart down here to take them back to our apartment. We found a little bit of snack food in a couple of the desks and a carton of cigarettes in the bottom drawer of a desk. Barbie was excited about those although she has never smoked before. But hey, it's the end of the world. Having an occasional smoke might be nice.
Then we went into the security office. Monitors with blank screens formed a wall on the right. There were five desks around the office with filing cabinets and a sofa along the wall on the left. Next to the sofa on the wall was a locked gun rack with four rifles and seven pistols still on their pegs behind the glass. Jackpot! We moved to it and broke the glass, putting the guns in our nap sack. I opened the drawers below the rack and found boxes of ammo for all of the guns, which went into the bag, too.
Barbie grabbed my arm and pointed at a closed door on the back wall. We could see a shadow moving back and forth through the blinds of the windows andk knew our zombie killing job was not done yet. We used hand signals to make a quick plan and I stood in front of the door, ready to open the door. Barbie stood off to the left ready with her spear to stab the undead in the head of securities office. I turned the knob and tried to pull the door open, but realized it would have to be pushed in. I used a pantomine motion to explain to her what I was going to have to do and she nodded she was ready.
I turned the knob and pushed with all my might while jumping back to a safer distance from the now open door. The final undead security guard came barreling out with a loud snarl and Barbie slammed her spear through the side of his head. He fell to the floor and didn't more again.
We searched his office and found a couple of hand guns and some ammo, snack food galore and a couple of sets of handcuffs. We piled our supplies in the office closest to the main exit door and prepared to fight our way back to our place for our cart. We should have thought to bring it, but we were so worried about the monster that we didn't bring it along.
When we opened the door, there were like eight undead office workers mingling in the hallway and we drew them into the room we were in so we could use the furniture to our advantage. It took us around ten minutes to take them out and then we trudged up the stairs to our place. I knew we needed to go back to get the stuff we had gathered,  but exhaustion won out for an hour of napping. Then we carried the cart down the stairs and to the office. We piled our supplies into it and pulled it back up the stairs to our place. We had done it and I knew we would feel like we had accomplished something later, after we slept the rest of our exhaustion off. Mission accomplished.

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