A/N: Phew. I had start planning out to do the last Crash fanfiction for now, but first I decided to finish this off first. Oh and StarryEyes880. In this chapter, I had a suprise for you. Maybe you can do a sub story. Anyway, enjoy.

Chapter 7: Blackout!

"Good news and bad news" Sonic said as they climbed up the steps towards the balcony "the bad news is that we still need to capture the portrait ghosts before we haunt down Wario and Waluigi."

"The good news is that we know where they are AND we got this key before Waluigi got away" Crash smirked holding up the blue key.

"Well, let's-a go already" Mario smiled "we almost there now."

But when they reached to the door there was a strike of lighting. It hit the ceiling, which made Mario, Sonic and Crash gasped and Sonic curls up into a ball as Mario and Crash shielded themselves. When it died down, every light in the mansion was turned out.

"Uh oh" Sonic said as they got up again "This doesn't look good."

Crash's Game Boy Horror went off and they checked it. E. Gadd called them.

"Crimmy! What a calamity" E. Gadd said.

"Professor E. Gadd, what's going on?" asked Mario.

"The electricity had gone out" E. Gadd said. "that lighting strike must had made a blackout. And the ghosts will have a run around the place. Be careful." And he blanked out.

"Oh, now ghosts will have control of us, thank you Mr Obvious" Crash fumed.

"We might go and find somewhere to help" Mario said "quickly, though the door!"

They made a dash through it and hid in the telephone room.

"Let's hope they don't find us here" Sonic said.

Suddenly the middle phone went off. The gang looked confused so Crash answers it. "Hello?"

"Crash, are you OK?" asked a familiar voice.

"Benjamin?!" Crash gasped as Mario and Sonic looked on shocked "What are you doing here?"

"Well, Coco said that you and Spyro did not return, so I went out to look for you" Benjamin said. "I looked everywhere for you in this huge place but then the light turns on and I was in a room with mirrors and a ghost appeared so I hid myself in a closet, Crash, you must find a way to turn on the lights, otherwise I'm ghost bait."

"Benjamin, stay where you are" Crash said "we come and get you." He put the phone down and another phone rings.

Mario answered it this time. "Hello?"

"It's me, E. Gadd".

"E. Gadd? What are you're doing on the phone?!"

"I know I normally use the Game Boy Horror, but I decided to use the phone since you were in there. Listen, if you want to help your friend, you should listen to me. In that room, lives one of the ghosts from my paintings. He loves to live in the dark. His name is Uncle Grimmly."

Sonic looked him up in his Game Boy Horror. "Here we go. Uncle Grimmly. "Adrift in the darkness, he tends to keep to himself. Which suits the rest of the family just fine." Screwy."

"Room filled with mirrors…" Mario pondered. "That's-a it! The Wardrobe room! We might find them there!"

"Good, and with my speed, I can get us through these ghosts" Sonic said.

"Good luck everyone" said Gadd as he was cut off.

"Mario, Crash, hold on tight. I zoomed us back to the Wardrobe room" Sonic said.

Mario and Crash held onto each arm and Sonic zoomed past the ghosts and throughout the mansion back into the Wardrobe room.

"Thank you for boarding the Sonic express" Sonic smirked.

Crash begins to look around the dark room. "Well… Benjamin did say he was here. Where is he?"

"And I'm guessing he's Uncle Grimmly" Mario said pointing to an old ghost in a brown jacket in front of the mirror.

"OK, old man, it's sucking time" Sonic said.

And so Uncle Grimmly is captured and a key is revealed. Then Benjamin came out ofn the closet.

"Benjamin!" Crash helped his partner up.

"Crash, Mario, Sonic. Glad to see you guys" Benjamin said "Sorry about the trouble. Aku Aku want me to look for you. Where's Spyro? I thought he was with you?"

"He's in trouble" Mario said "He, Luigi and Knuckles are turned into paintings by Wario and Waluigi. And what's more worse is that Bowser and Demon Crash are somewhere in the mansion!"

"Crud! Crash, I am coming too" Benjamin said.

"No. I need you to get our friends and bring to E. Gadd's lab. That's the shed outside the mansion. Those ghosts are trouble and it may be dangerous if you don't have a Poltergust 3000. And if you get caught, you be turned into a painting too" Crash said.

"But…" Benjamin then realised the serious look on Crash's face. "OK… I understand. I'll do that."

"I'll take you outside" Sonic said "Mario, Crash, this key will lead you to the Beaker Room. That is where we turn back on the electricity."

"OK then" Mario said "Crash and I will be going."

"And don't worry" Crash said "Tell Coco and the others I'll be fine. Just get the others and wait for us. We come back with Spyro and the others."

"OK" Benjamin said.

Mario and Crash begins to run off.

"Crash!" Benjamin called back. Crash stopped to look back. "Make them pay" Benjamin smiled. Crash nodded and ran out.

As Crash and Mario ran out fighting ghosts, they make their way into the basement and into the beaker room.

"There it is" Mario said pointing to a huge switch. He lifted it up and the room lit up as did every room they explored in the house. And there was a key to the Cellar.

As soon as they walked out, Sonic approached them.

"Don't worry, Crash" Sonic said "Benjamin is on his way back to the others. They should be at E. Gadd's place by the time we're finished here."

"That's a relief" Crash said "we may keep going."

They entered the cellar. There's nothing much there expect catching the ghosts, room lit up, got the key for the Clockwork Room and had go back upstairs again. They went into the telephone room when they realise that it was still dark.

"How come it still dark?" asked Sonic.

"We haven't fought the ghosts in here" Mario said.

"And I can guess who" Crash said as 2 Mr Boneys came out of the chests.

After capturing them, the room lit and they entered the next room. They saw 3 tall men ghost who dressed like toy soldiers with a winder on their backs.

Crash examined them "The Clockwork Soldiers. "They onced belonged to a tightly-wound toy collector. But now they march on their own without any winding." Ghosts are toys too?!"

"Hmm… I guess turning on all the clocks wakes them up" Mario said.

They turned on all the clocks and the toys woke up and aimed some toy guns at them.

"Toy guns? Like that ever going to work" Sonic said "and 3 against 3. Seems fair".

Sonic begins sucking one a blue one as Crash sucked up a green one as Mario gets the red one. As soon as they were sucked up the room lit up and a door on a building opened revealing an elevator.

"It leads to the roof" Crash said.

"Let's go up it" Mario said.

They got on and they arrive on the roof. They saw some Shy Guy Ghost dancing around the fireplace. And there were two chimneys on either side.

"Let capture these pipsqueaks first" Sonic said.

After capturing them, some element ghost appeared but Mario used his fire powers to take care of that. On one of the chimneys, a chest appeared. Mario climbed up to get it. Crash climbed up the other one to see what down there.

"Wow. Long way down" said Crash.

"What do you mean, Crash?" Sonic asked as he came up to see only to knock Crash down the chimney.

"Crash!" Mario came up to see what happened "Crash, are you OK?"

"I'm fine. There's a secret room in here!" Crash called "Come on down!"

"OK. We're coming down" Mario called.

"Do we have to?" asked Sonic.

Mario pushed Sonic down the chimney and followed afterwards. They found themselves in the sealed room, and Crash was waiting for them.

"Look on where we stumble" Crash said.

"Look like a treasure room" Sonic said as he opened a chest to reveal a ghost.

"And it look it's ghostbustering time" Mario said.

As soon as they captured all the ghosts, they found a key to the Living Room. But the door was sealed.

"How do we get out?" asked Mario.

Crash found a mirror "E. Gadd did tell me to point the Game Boy Horror at a mirror."

"Let me try" Sonic said as he got out his Game Boy Horror. "Everyone. Hold on."

They did so and when Sonic send a beam at the mirror, they disappeared from the room and reappeared in the hallway.

"Now that was strange" Crash said.

"Too-a strange" Mario said.

"So… wanna check out the new room, hmm?" Sonic quickly changed the subject.

They all agreed. There was no choice left. They went up upstairs again to the Living Room where it was still dark.

"Turn on the candles, Mario" Sonic said.

As Mario did so, ghosts appeared.

"And the Calvary arrives" Crash said.

"Sonic, they had fire in them. Use water on them" Mario called.

Sonic sprayed them with water and the ghosts were captured and the room lit up.

As they entered the next room, their first words were "Wha…?"

They were in the Guest Room but everything's upside-down. The furniture is on the ceiling.

"What-a going on here?" asked Mario.

"Why everything upside-down?" asked Sonic.

"And look…" Crash pointed to a small girl ghost on a bed, trying to sleep.

"Leave me in my sleep" she said "LEAVE ME ALONE!"

But they didn't leave. They just stood there baffled.

Mario reached for his Game Boy Horror "Sue Pea. "What was meant to be a short nap has turned into eternal rest for sweet Sue Pea". Wow."

"I wonder…" Sonic crept up to Sue.

"Sonic, what are you doing?" asked Crash.

Sonic grinned evilly and sprayed some water on her. Mario and Crash looked dumbfounded.

"Quit wetting yourself, quit wetting yourself, quit wetting yourself" Sonic grinned. Sue groaned and woke up. "Now our chance. Guys, let capture her."

Awaking from their shock, Mario and Crash begins to suck her up. As soon as Sue was captured, the light was turned back on and Sonic smirked proudly unaware of Crash and Mario leaving the room in disgust, not because Sonic got the ghost, but...

"Quit wetting yourself?" Crash said "Sonic make up the worse catchphrase ever!"

Then there was a rumble and a scream from the room they came back out.

"Back into the room" Mario and Crash said together.

They went back in to see the room was back up again and Sonic was lying on the bed.

"What happened?" Sonic asked "Just a moment ago, the room spun and I was on the bed now."

"Now you feel-a how it-a felt like in a tumble dryer" Mario joked.

Crash and Mario laughed as Sonic groaned. After that, they continued their search in the Armoury Room.

To be continued…

A/N: Suprised? Maybe you can do a story that how did Benjamin enter the haunted house and get everyone to E. Gadd's Lab. Well, the next chapter will be updated soon.