Sonic looked at them, perplexed "Who, me?" Chris leapt to his feet, sweeping Sonic up in a gentle hug, and setting him down just as gently, a smile overtaking his face "Yeah, you! I never thought we'd see you again!" Jill laughed nervously, a look of dread and anticipation on her face "Well, this night just got even stranger" Wesker pushed himself off the floor and dusted off his pants "We need to find Barry, he could have broken his leg in that fall if that pit was deep enough" Chris nodded "We should cordon off that trapdoor so nobody else falls down it" "You know me?"Sonic asked, eyes wide. Chris, his grin broadening, laughs "Everyone does! You're an international icon!" "I'm an icon?"Sonic asked his jaw dropped in awe. Chris nodded "Yup." he got up, and pulled the Samurai Edge pistol out of his secondary holster "Aw damn, they got to that one too." The barrel was smashed as if by a hydrolic press, teeth-marks riddling it up and down. "Two years of engineering to make the perfect handgun and all it takes is a dog bite to break it" Chris had to forcibly remove the clip from it, and after pocketing it, flung the broken pistol to the ground in disgust. After picking up Barry's magnum pistol, he checked the loading chambers "Well at least it's got a full load." Looking pensive, Wesker kept circling the trapdoor. Eventually he knelt by the trapdoor and started trying to activate it, with gentle pushes, taps, hard smacks, and attempts to pry it the tile loose. All of a sudden, a loud shot rung out from their left. With a start, they all turn towards the source. Chris was the first to speak "What was..." he trailed off as Sonic dashed past, making a gesture telling them to stay where they were "I got this, you guys stay here" Completely ignoring him, Wesker got to his feet and drew his gun "Chris, I'll take point. You cover me from the back and Jill? You cover me from the left."
Sonic, not paying any kind of attention to what they were doing, dashed into and through a large dining-room. As he made his way through the room, he passes a large grandfather clock. Through the door at the end of the room, a hallway led to some stairs and two doors on one side and a sitting room on the other. Another, louder gunshot rung out from the sitting room on the left, and a loud guttural moan echoed through the hallway. Tentatively, Sonic peeked around the corner into the room to see a dark-skinned man wearing a similar uniform to the members of STARS he just encountered, struggling with a pale man with blood dripping from his chest, staining his rotting green suit and leaking out onto the floor.
With a grunt, the STARS member brought his shotgun up to the head of the zombie and fired. As the buckshot collided with the weakened and rotted skull of the zombie, pieces of bone, brain matter and blood exploded through the room, staining the carpet, couch, walls, and paintings. With a grunt, the man shoved the body off of him and onto the floor. "Oh god, the stench..." Sonic could now see his name sewn into his flak vest, Kenneth Sullivan. Sonic walked into the room and said "What the hell is going on here?" Ken popped his shoulder back into place with sickening crack and grinding of bones. After stumbling onto the couch with a grunt, he looked over to the source of Sonic's voice, which was, of course, Sonic. "Am I hallucinating or something?" he said, pinching himself and rubbing his eyes. Sonic tapped his foot rather impatiently, waiting for him to open his eyes "Nope, still here" during that little exchange, a rather dusty version of the trio from earlier burst into the room coughing. "Why the hell did the ceiling collapse?" Chris asked, picking plaster out of his hair. Jill dropped off her Kevlar vest, pulled off her T-shirt, shook the plaster-dust off of it and used it to wipe off her face "Maybe a mansion out in the middle of nowhere has some rot in the rafters, or maybe it just wasn't put together right?" Wesker coughed and pulled off his sunglasses "It was a delaying tactic to keep us out of this room" he began to wipe off his shades, not opening his eyes until they were clean and back on "Speaking of which, it's nice to see you're alive Kev" Kevin saluted and stood to attention "What are your orders, Captain Wesker?" Wesker clapped him on the shoulder, a smile on his face "Follow us, and try to stay alive long enough to get out of here"