On the fifth day of the riot, Grove Street Families were taking over more hoods from the Ballas and Vagos. They had already claimed Verona Beach and Temple. But there was still another obstacle that was keeping them from reaching their goal. So Sweet had called everyone in his house for a meeting. They were currently in his living room.

"Okay, guys," Sweet announced. "Now not only are we gonna take our territories back from them Ballas and Vagos, we're also trying to end the riot and find where Smoke is hiding at!"

"Jeah!" Ryder agreed. "Grove Street is coming back on top, and it's time we take that fat motherfucker down!"

"Yeah!" Sweet said. "But here's what's impeding our prospects – C.R.A.S.H. is still on our backs, and we won't be able to garner any information on Smoke's whereabouts with them hot on our gang! Remember, they're not here to stop gang violence. They're here to manipulate it! They know that the Ballas are rivals with us, and they only use them to make business for their own illicit profits! They just as bad as the gangs! Worst of all, they're also working with the Ballas and having them work against us! They're the reason the Ballas and Vagos are taking over, and they're responsible for this riot!"

"So what's the plan, Sweet?" Big Bear asked.

"Simple," Sweet told him. "We weaken C.R.A.S.H., we free to take out the Ballas and Vagos, and we get to Big Smoke. We need to get them off our backs if we want to continue our trip around the neighborhood in search of the drug lord. Plus it would also get us closer to Tenpenny to expose the bastard for what he's done. It ain't gonna be easy for us though. So we'll have to be wise about this, hit 'em with every weapon we got. We ain't letting them destroy the city!"

So Sweet put his hand up front, and the rest of the Grove Street Families members put their hands on top as well, including CJ. ""Grove Street 4 Life" on three!" Sweet announced. "1, 2, 3..."

"GROVE STREET 4 LIFE!" everybody cheered as they all raised their hands in the sky and dispersed around the house to head for the exit.


They were now outside, and Sweet was facing them to inform his first order for the task. "Okay," he announced. "we'll have to be more discreet this time, because we charge at them directly, they'll just send the whole army after us. So the first thing we'll do is take them out by distance – like we did when they beat down our homies!"

"Jeah, blast them punk ass one-timers ninja style!" Ryder chimed in. "We crawling on them assholes like black widows! They ain't infecting our streets!"

"Okay," Sweet said. "So let's split up!"

So the Grove Street Families gangsters were going to scan the rooftops and take out the members of C.R.A.S.H. with sniper rifles. While the rest of the members spread out to find their designated locations, CJ hopped into the car with Sweet and Ryder and took the wheel.

"Where to, Sweet?" CJ asked his brother.

"We gonna go at Los Flores," Sweet answered. "Most of them hang out there. We gotta make sure none of them catches us!"

"They won't catch us, Sweet!" Ryder told him. "Because we gonna give them the silent treatment if you know what I mean."

"Hell yeah," Sweet replied. "So let's get ready!"


As they made it on the bridge of Los Flores, the members hopped out of the vehicle and looked down below to find the members of C.R.A.S.H. around the area taking down many gang members. CJ, Sweet, and Ryder were all welding their sniper rifles prepared to take out as many of the members of C.R.A.S.H. as they could. Sweet stared at the other two members.

"Y'all ready for this?" Sweet asked CJ and Ryder.

"You know me, Sweet," Ryder whispered coldly. "I'm the scorpion killing them softly. They'll be dead before they have a chance to react."

"I'm right behind you, bro," CJ added.

"Cool," Sweet replied. "Now we all spread out through the hood and snipe these assholes."

The three split up and hid into position. CJ decided to hide behind the bridge on top and saw a prolific amount of the members of C.R.A.S.H. around the street. CJ made no hesitation and aimed his sniper rifle at one of the members. He pulled the trigger and killed the member. This caused the other members of C.R.A.S.H. to disperse and run away. But they all caught a bullet each by CJ and the other two Grove Street gangsters and dropped dead one by one.

After every last member around the neighborhood was dead, CJ came down the road to meet up with Sweet and Ryder.

"Okay," Sweet said, "now that every member around this place is dead, we should go to Pershing Square to take out another team of C.R.A.S.H. But remember, we have to be inconspicuous! We can let nobody discover we're taking out the members there as well. So what we're gonna do is stealthily take out every member of C.R.A.S.H. there and burn up their headquarters inside to show them we mean business!"


So the trio ran to the Greenwood and hopped inside. CJ took the wheel and drove around the neighborhood. CJ knew he was facing a difficult task, but if he wanted Grove Street back on its feet and finally above his rival gangs, it was a task he was willing to risk.

CJ continued driving through the riotous city, avoiding the vehicles catching fire and blowing up, as well as pedestrians getting killed and beaten to the ground by each other. CJ could feel his heart thumping. He wanted to get closer and closer to Big Smoke and finally rid Tenpenny for good. The fact that C.R.A.S.H. was getting weaker thanks to his gang killing most of the members and very few of them were on Tenpenny's side was the first sign that CJ was getting closer to Tenpenny at the moment.


CJ finally made it to Pershing Square and parked the car in front of the building. He, Sweet, and Ryder looked around silently to see the guards were standing around the area. Sweet then started to explain the plan.

"Okay, here's what we're gonna do," Sweet told the other two. "We're gonna hide in different areas around here and snipe each of these C.R.A.S.H. members around here. Ryder, you the best burglar of the gang. So I need you to sneak inside the parking garage and distract those guards inside, and when you get their attention, you give us the signal. Then me and CJ are gonna take our flamethrowers and sneak into the office to burn everything inside."

"I got it, Sweet," Ryder replied. "I been robbing every neighborhood on the block. I know my shtick!"

"Good," Sweet answered. "Now it's time to get all these guards off the premises."

So the three gangsters hopped out of the car and scattered in different directions. There were only a few members of C.R.A.S.H. around Pershing Square. So it wasn't very difficult for them. They each hid in different distances and aimed at each of the few guards around the area. They zoomed in and shot and killed each member.


The three went to the trunk of the Greenwood and pulled out a flamethrower each. Sweet then turned to Ryder. "Okay, Ryder," he said. "You know the drill."

"Jeah," Ryder replied pulling out his silencer. "It's time C.R.A.S.H. gets burnt!"

CJ and Sweet watched as Ryder crept his way inside the parking garage. They both crouched behind the vehicle.

"Wait for the signal," Sweet whispered to CJ.

The Johnson brothers held onto their weapons and waited patiently. They were so determine to end C.R.A.S.H.'s reign of power in Los Santos and getting to Big Smoke that the best to have the plan succeed is with patience.

After thirty seconds of waiting, the alarm finally sounded, and before the brothers knew it, they saw Ryder dash out via police bike, with the others hot behind him.

"Y'all can't catch me!" Ryder bellowed shooting back at the guards. "I'm too elusive for ya!"

"Coast is clear, Carl," Sweet informed. "Let's get inside."

CJ and Sweet made their way inside the headquarters and navigated through the halls. They got their flamethrowers ready to burn the office.

"We're gonna torch the office and the camera room," Sweet said. "Time to end C.R.A.S.H. and their power!"

As CJ and Sweet made it to the office, they pulled the trigger of their weapons and spread the flames everywhere inside. The flames inundated the entire room as the brothers torched everything inside. The papers and wooden desks gradually began to melt. After a couple of minutes, the entire office was now burning.

"Okay, CJ, Sweet ordered. "You go search for the camera room to torch all evidence inside!"

"I'm on it, bro!" CJ replied.

He searched around the room to find the camera room and finally came across it. There, he saw many camera screens for every room around the building. The room was huge, about the size of the entire convenience store. CJ made no hesitation as he used the flamethrower to burn the entire camera room as well. He spent about one minute burning everything inside. He wanted to make sure all evidence was destroyed.

"Come on, Carl!" Sweet called. "Let's make like kangaroos and bounce!"

The two Johnson brothers took the elevator upstairs and made their way inside the second floor of the parking garage. They decided to destroy a few more things.

"Let's total some of their cars!" Sweet told CJ.

So he and CJ each picked up a crowbar leaning against the wall and used them to destroy each of the four vehicles one by one. After four minutes of destruction, all four of the vehicles were totaled. The tires were slashed and flattened. The windows were shattered and cracked. The doors were dented. The bumpers were nearly fallen apart.

"That's the last of them," Sweet announced. "Now let's jet!"

CJ and Sweet darted down the bottom and made their way outside, where they hopped inside the Greenwood and dashed away.

"Great work in there, baby bro!" Sweet told CJ. "We really fucked that place up!"

"Yep," CJ replied. "And now we free to take out the Ballas and Vagos and find where Smoke is hiding."

"Not to mention Tenpenny's gonna get his soon," Sweet added. "I wonder where his lackey ran off to. Fucking coward."

"Yeah, about that," CJ explained as he drove through Idlewood. "You won't have to worry about that. He's already dead."

"Really?" Sweet asked. "When was that?"

"Tenpenny had left him to shoot me in the desert," CJ told him, "and he started talking shit about our Moms and threatening to fuck Kendl and... well let's just say karma finally brought his ass to the grave."

"Shit," Sweet replied. "Well good riddance to that asshole! I would've killed his ass myself! That's one dirty cop down, another one to go!"


CJ finally made it back to the Grove through the tremendous explosions distantly, and as the gang were rounded up outside, Ryder was the last one to arrive. He was still on the bike armed with a rocket launcher.

"Yo Sweet!" Ryder called. "You should've seen it! I destroyed two tanks in a row and a chopper! I practically blew them assholes out the streets!"

"Great work, Ryder!" Sweet said giving Ryder a high five. He then turned to the rest of the gang.

"Okay, guys," he told them. "With C.R.A.S.H. weakened and no longer a threat on the streets, we now free to take back our Hood from these rival gangs. Now let's spread out and hit up every block in this city! Then we beat down every dope dealer and finally catch Big Smoke's fatass before we finally take down Tenpenny and put an end to this riot once and for all! We gonna show them this is Grove Street that's running things here! It's time to show an era of a new beginning!"

He put his hand up front and the rest of the gang followed suit. "Now "Grove Street 4 Life" on three!" Sweet announced. "One, two, three..."

"GROVE STREET 4 LIFE!" everyone else shouted as they lifted their hands high up the sky.

"Now let's spread out!" Sweet ordered. "We have neighborhoods to take back!"


So everyone scattered around to take over more territories around the neighborhood. C.R.A.S.H. was no longer able to hinder their prospects of taking their hood back from the rivalry gangs, and with Seville Boulevard and Temple Drive finally reconciled, they all had a great chance of eliminating the rest of the dope dealers and finding Big Smoke. Most importantly, this would also get them closer to Tenpenny now that the corrupt cop had no one on his side anymore and terminate the riot once and for all. So CJ proudly grabbed his weapon and headed out to take over another hood.


PS: For those who are curious, B.U.R.N. stands for Bangers Ultimately Reclaiming Neighborhoods.