A/N: We can see the main characters wearing their summer version of their primary outfits in 4thMIX and Spike is seen in a different outfit than his jumpsuit. Here is the next chapter of DDRMAX: Operation Protect Disco where they take another trip to Hokkaido.

Chapter 14: The Hokkaido Scavenger Trip

At EMTI, Garuda was watching all the students are in the campus and other high school students are wearing their summer uniforms.

It feels good to watch a lot of students are havin' a lot of time in the campus. As the director, this is my responsibility.

"Hey, Garuda..." Disco calls him for a moment he always visits his office (He wears his 2nd-3rdMIX outfit.)

"Hey, Disco... how's yer little vacation doin'?"

"Well it's pretty good. Maho's country is pretty nice too." Disco smiled happily as he requested. "Say, how about you take me to Hokkaido? I've never been going to the northern part of your country."

Dang, I visited that place only once not twice. I think I have a better plan once we go there. Disco sometimes is very unpredictable?

"Sure, Disco." Garuda said finally agrees with him. "It's best that I can tour ya to Hokkaido. I've been there only once I visited that place."

"This is fantastic, Garuda. You're the best companion I've ever met." Disco smiled as he gives him a friendly hug as Garuda replies.

"Uhm... Is it okay if ya let go of me? I have to go out for a while.

Meanwhile, at the coffee shop near in Ni-Na's flower shop, Izam is seen wearing a baggy sleeveless denim shirt, tan capris and brown sneakers as he watches on Retsu who is playing space invaders game as he praises.

"Wow, man... you're pretty good on brick games."

"My mini-computer is able to find other games. Sometimes I always hooked in that game just to remove my boredom." Retsu said calmly.

"Unlike Rage who always dancing too much in the game, I can outdance him in that game no matter what?" Izam angrily smirked with a full of determination.

"You got guts, Izam." Retsu said as he snobbishly comments. "Reiji is much better than you if it's comes to a dance contest. Except for his confidence and his bad temper."

"You keep on saying about my temper, Retsu?" Rage arrives to see them much to both Izam and Retsu's surprise. (He still wears his summer version of his 4thMIX outfit but his pants and sneakers are in his 3rdMIX outfit).

"Rage, I can't believe you? You actually show up and tries to get angry on Retsu's comment." Izam said savagely.

"No, I just passed the two of you and I heard Retsu says that I'm better than you do, Izam." Rage smirked as Izam angrily snapped.

"Okay, Rage... I had enough of your arrogance? I think I can outdance with you would be a good idea for a ill-tempered guy like you."

"Don't get too cocky, Izam. I'm not going to lose with the likes of you."

When the two are bickering each other and Retsu shrugs to see them as he thought.

How long those two would stop arguing with each other? It's just like I'm the only guy who always keeps quiet at times.

"I'm finally came to see you, guys." Spike arrives to see them and he's seen wearing a blue vest with a sleeveless pale yellow undershirt, olive green pants and his yellow sneakers.

"Sup, Spike... what's with your new get up?" Rage asked as Spike answers.

"I have a two days time off. Guess that you actually saw me in a jumpsuit nowadays?"

"For crying out loud, Spike? You're a club staff, right? And you are no right to wear street casual outfit like us? This ain't like..." Izam badly mocks Spike as Rage shuts him up by punching him in the head. "Oww, that freakin' hurt...!"

"Now stop making trash talk at Spike, Izam. You should be ashamed of yourself." Rage said furiously as Spike shrugged.

"Geez, you two are definitely troublemakers."

Rage's communicator is ringing up as a red light glows on his right pocket as Rage picks his communicator from the right pocket of his green camoflauge pants and he clicks the button to see his grandfather's image from the monitor.

"I'm so glad that I can contact ya, Reiji." Garuda smiled happily.

"Sup, grandfather... why did you call me today?" Rage said calmly as he replies.

"I know this is goin' to be hassle, I'm takin' Disco in Hokkaido."

"Oh man, not that place again?"

"Now don't get too agitated. I heard Schubert has plans to eliminate him. He will take his men to follow our tracks. I want all of ya would clear up Schubert's cronies after I'm done tourin' with Disco." Garuda said raising his brow.

"Sir Garuda, you don't mean?" Retsu wondered.

"Well... I hate to tell ya, Disco urges me to go with him in Hokkaido just for another overnight. That's why I've been orderin' ya to deal Schubert's men." Garuda said as he tells them. "Just make sure you can follow us if you want too. I don't force ya not to follow me anytime."

"We'll try to follow, grandfather." Rage said as he hung up his communicator as he angrily thought.

I already vowed never coming back to that place again? Why would he needs to go back to that place?

"Well I've never been to Hokkaido, I wanna see that place too." Spike smiled excitedly as Izam happily smiles.

"Me too... I wanna see that place."

"Perhaps, Reiji and I were already been there once." Retsu said lowering his head as Izam cheers him up.

"Cheer up, man? There's no way you and Rage go to that place. Let's go there, I'm sure we could follow the old man."

"...Guess that we don't have a choice?" Rage sighed as he closes his eyes.

At the train, Rage and the group are sitting as they spy on both Disco and Garuda. Rage remembers how he tried to spy on his grandfather where both Emi and Retsu is with him as he thought.

Just like that time during the 4th Competition and before the 5th Competition, I keep on spying on my grandfather at that time. That is when Emi and Retsu are with me to follow him.

"So Garuda, is that train leads to Hokkaido?" Disco said as Garuda replies.

"This is provincial train, Disco. This train is goin' to take a long trip from Tokyo and takin' a long ride in the car to go to that place."

"So after this was land travelling. I just love to take an adventure, haha." Disco laughs as Garuda shakes his head.

"...you're unpredictable sometimes..."

At Hokkaido, it was a colder place for them and Disco seems to like it. Therefore, Rage and the group are spying on both of them just to protect him from Schubert's men. Rage could not forget those incidents happened in Hokkaido.

Flashback:

When Garuda visits the restaurant where he and his wife ate in Hokkaido, The trio are spying on him in which he was talking to the waitress in his prime.

"So this is first time here in Hokkaido, Rage. But the air in that province is pretty cold." Emi said happily as Rage replies.

"I know... we came all the way just to follow my grandfather, Ems."

"I can't believe you, Reiji. It would be a waste of time if we keep on spying on Sir Garuda." Retsu said complaining as Rage raises his brow.

"Now stop complaining about that, Retsu. I just want to know what he's up to. I need to find out who's that woman that he's been searching for?"

The trio saw Garuda is already out of the restaurant as he thanked the waitress about it as it leaves. It soon changes to where his grandfather visits the place where he meets his late wife at the edge of the cliff near in the deep ocean as he says to himself.

"Hey, sweetie... It has been a while since we've first met. I kinda missed ya so much."

After Garuda said this, we can see the trio are hiding in the bushes as Rage angrily raises his brow knowing that his grandfather has a woman that he was searching.

"What's got into grandfather's head? He even calls it sweetie without a companion, what a crazy old man?"

"Rage, you shouldn't say to your grandfather like that?" Emi said scolding at him. "You need to show him a little respect, will you?"

"She's right... you need to cool your head off rather than you lose your bad temper." Retsu said while pointing out his head as Rage angrily annoys at him.

"Now shut your mouth, okay? I'm just feeling dishonest to see him."

With that, the trio watches and Garuda has a bouquet of roses as he throws it at the bottom of the ocean as he leaves the scene. The scene also changes where they defeat Kaiser's men at the cemetery.

"Okay, grandfather... who's that woman you were looking for? I really want to know about it?"

"Now I easily get it, you three actually try to spy on me, haven't ya?" Garuda said as Rage angrily wants to admit it.

"Look, grandfather... I just want to know who's that woman you were hanging out with? Just tells us about it!"

"Now stop scolding at me, Reiji?! That person that I visited in Hokkaido was yer grandmother, ya jackass!" Garuda said angrily to his grandson as he was shocked to hear it. "I visited this place every year just to see yer grandmother. That is when you were not yet born at that time."

"You mean that you came here just for grandmother? I can't believe this..." Rage said sadly as lowers his head while Emi and Retsu are watching them.

"I never seen you came to Hokkaido for your wife, Sir Garuda." Retsu said calmly.

"Yeah... that's the first time I heard you're married, Mr. Itoh." Emi said and Garuda answers.

"That's why I can't tell everyone includin' you three that I'd always go to Hokkaido all by myself. Just to visit the love of my life which is Reiji's grandmother."

Flashback over:

I was totally an idiot and stubborn at that time. I didn't expect grandfather go to that place. But right now, he's in big trouble because Disco is with him and my enemies are now gone after him.

"You look pale lately, Rage?" Spike asked as Rage was surprise and he shakes his head as he shyly tells them.

"No, I'm not... I was just remembered something, that's all."

"Yeah your face is bright red, Rage." Izam said as he pointed out that he still with his girlfriend, Emi. "Don't tell me that you're still with your girlfriend, haven't you?"

"Now shut the hell up, Izam...? I hate if you keep on telling me about Emi."

"Just relax, Reiji. I think they need to know what we did in Hokkaido." Retsu said smiling.

The group then saw two of Schubert's men are spying on both Disco and Garuda and they decide to follow them.

With that two of Schubert's men are trying to make contact with their boss Schubert in their communicators.

"Sir, we found Disco in Hokkaido and Garuda is with him. How shall we proceed?" One of the men in black suits said as Schubert replies.

"Good, I will send my reinforcements then. Don't let the young ingrates beat the two of you up?"

"Yes, sir... we'll count on us." One of the men in black suits said as both were cornered by Rage and the group. "Aghhh! Not the young ingrates...?"

"I guess you idiots need to be taken down...?" Rage said angrily raises his brow while cracking his knuckles. "I'm gonna knock both of your faces to the ground!"

With that Rage manages to beat the two men in black suits with a single punch and a powerful kick to the face, knocking them down to the ground as the other three came to see them.

"Rage, did you find something in there?" Spike asked and Rage seriously answers.

"Yeah... I found these idiots are taking a rendezvous with Reinrich. Looks like he already send his reinforcements to kill Disco. We have to follow them and fast."

Retsu detects the enemy's movements from his mini-computer knowing that they are making their move as he saw both Rage and Spike.

"What happened, Reiji?"

"We have to follow grandfather and Disco. Reinrich is now making his advantage. We have to stop them quickly." Rage said as Retsu agrees and they ran to follow both Disco and Garuda as Izam follows them as well.

At the edge of the cliff near in the deep ocean, Disco feels the breeze of the ocean and Garuda still remembers his late wife.

"So, Garuda... this place looks nice and it's kinda dangerous in here."

"I hate to admit this, Disco. This is where I meet my wife decades ago." Garuda said nicely.

"Wow, really...? You had a wife in Hokkaido?" Disco said amusing.

"Yeah... she's a nice and happy girl just like Reiji's girlfriend when he introduces her to me." Garuda said reminding about Emi.

"That's amazing... your wife looks just like Emi. I've never seen Rage would fall in love someone like your wife." Disco smiled happily.

"Gahahaha... he was like that whenever he finds the right girl for him. That is when he meets Emi after he saw her blushin' in front of him when her brother teases him for that." Garuda said laughing.

On the bushes, we can see Rage and the group and Rage angrily flushes towards his grandfather who his actions before the 3rd Competition.

"Damn you grandfather...? You actually blew it up about how Emi and I had met each other?"

"Really, you actually met Emi before it happens in the dance competitions?" Spike said curiously and Rage became blushed as he tells her while laughing.

"Well, I met Emi in Burning Dome by the time I was moved in Tokyo and one of my friends introduce her to me. Until I saw his older brother teases him to think I'm her boyfriend, haha..."

"Wow... it's very nice to meet her like that Rage." Spike smiled happily and Retsu sensed the enemy's prescence and to see a sniper tries to hit Disco with a sniper rifle. He realizes Schubert is already making his move as he orders Izam.

"Izam, you have to hit your boomerang right now."

"But Retsu... it was far to hit from here?" Izam reacted as Retsu hurriedly tells him.

"Just do it?!"

With this, Izam uses his boomerang as he throws on the sniper directly to it's head as he falls off the ground as both older people were unaware of it.

"Garuda, I heard someone just falling behind us?" Disco wondered and Garuda knows it was coming from Izam's as he pushes him behind pretending that nothing has happened.

"Uhm, Disco... perhaps... I can tour ya some other place. Hehe..."

When the two now leave the cliff, Both Rage and Spike noticed of Retsu and Izam's actions.

"What just happened, Retsu?" Rage asked.

"You don't seem to know the enemy is almost engaging. So I tell Izam to hit that sniper who tries to snipe them with their rifles." Retsu said scolding at them.

"Gah, I didn't see that coming?" Spike said shockingly as Rage became dismayed by this.

"Dang, I didn't see the enemy was here...?"

Meanwhile, Disco and Garuda arrived at the tourist spots in Hokkaido as Rage and the group continue to spy on them.

"If only I can wear my jacket, I can feel the cold breeze in that place, brrgh..." Rage said while chlling in cold.

"Yeah... the wind is pretty cold." Spike said curiously as they noticed another of Schubert's snipers are trying to target both Disco and Garuda.

"I think we need to deal these guys..." Izam said gritted his teeth. "We gotta act now...!"

The snipers are ready to engage but failed as Izam manages to take down by hitting them with his boomerang. Both men in black suits were shocked by this.

"Dang, it didn't hit it at purpose?" One of the men in black suits said and both were surprised to see both Rage and Retsu who are ready to fight against them. "Agh, not the young ingrates...?"

"So Reinrich did to sent some reinforcements. Looks like you're going down at this rate." Retsu said angrily grins as Rage cracks his knuckles as he smirks while his brow is been raised.

"Prepare to get smacked down, you stupid idiots!"

With that two men in black suits are engaging against them but ends up being beaten by both Rage and Retsu with their fighting moves. Izam and Spike then watch to see them both.

"Garuda, I heard some noises again. Now I can hear someone falling down the bushes?" Disco wondered as Garuda sighs while shaking his head.

"...Maybe you were hearin' things, Disco?"

"You're probably right... this tourist spot is really nice too."

"Yeah..."

"One other thing, Garuda. Is it okay if I can see your wife?" Disco requested as Garuda answers.

"I can take you where she is."

At the cemetery, Disco was afraid of seeing the graves knowing that Garuda always visits this place.

"Uhhh... Why are we here in the cemetery, Garuda? Is this where your wife ended up here?" Disco said scarily and Garuda snobbishly replies.

"What do you expect to know that, Disco? This is where I always visited my wife in the cemetery..."

"...Huhhh..."

At the back of several graves, Rage and the group are spying on them as Rage lowers his head in disappointment.

"Grandfather... Sometimes you need to think of what you said? You're trying to scare Disco with your curse sentence."

"Gosh, Rage... you're some sort of a scary cat when you acted like that?" Izam commented as Rage angrily yells.

"Just shut your mouth, okay...?"

"Calm down, both of you... We're not here for some argument otherwise both of them would see us." Retsu said trying to stop them as both Rage and Izam became quiet and not looking at each other.

"I've never seen these guys were acting like that before?" Spike shrugged as they saw other Reinrich's men are trying to target Disco.

Garuda sensed Schubert's men are here in the cemetery and seeing that they were here to kill Disco as he thought of this.

For cryin' out loud...? Those idiots are here to kill him. Ya need to be serious Reiji? They are gettin' aggresive...?

"Garuda, is that your wife and her name is imprinted it on her grave?" Disco pointed his wife's name engraved on her grave and Garuda noticed this.

"Yeah..."

One of Schubert's men finally target Disco at the back of his head by gunpointing with their sniper rifle and it is ready to shoot until it was hit by Izam's boomerang knocking the sniper down as he falls on the ground.

"Uh... Garuda... I heard someone's falling on the ground?"

"Huh...? Wait, there's no one falls on the ground. They have no trees and anything." Garuda said pretending that nothing has happened.

"But I heard someone's fallin'? How do you say that, Garuda?" Disco said as another sniper tries to gunpoint on Disco only to be interuptted by both Rage and Spike.

"Hey what's that shake?" One of the snipers said as he was knocked down by Rage who intensively punches him to the face.

"Now that's a knock out for you, stupid idiots...?" Rage said in a confident manner as Spike cries in disappointment.

"How come I'm the one who shakes that tree, Rage? That wasn't fair..."

"I'm totally suspicious Garuda... You've been keepin' secrets or somethin' like that?" Disco said grinning towards Garuda as he shyly replies.

"I didn't keepin' ya some secrets, Disco. I'm serious..."

"Oh...?"

Another sniper tries to gunpoint at Disco for the third time only to be interuppted by Retsu who raises his brow.

"Sorry, big guy... but you failed..." Retsu smirked as he kicks the tree letting the sniper down to the ground as he manages to knock him with a punch. "Your plans are failed, Reinrich."

One of the snipers' communicator is ringing up as Schubert tries to respond their contacts but failed knowing that his men were beaten up by Rage and the group.

Grr... Those YOUNG INGRATES!

"Okay, Garuda... First is the cliff and now this... what's goin' on with you, man?" Disco asked.

"Those places that I take ya where me and my wife's memories are my keepsakes. That is why I showed it to ya." Garuda answered.

"Oh? So what happened to your wife? Why she's in her grave?" Disco tried to ask Garuda as he sadly answers.

"She died in leukemia when her cancer of the blood elapses..."

"..."

"She's the only one I have... Until that day when my son grows up as an adult. She tells me her last wish before she dies." Garuda said sadly as he continues to explain. "I already tell to Reiji, Emi and Retsu about this when they keep on spyin' on me. But Reiji urges me to know everything and he thinks that I have another woman but I'm remain faithful to my wife."

"Garuda..."

After they blessed, Disco became much better and wanted to explore more in Hokkaido.

"I guess it's time for me to go, Garuda. Now I know to explore this place."

"Yeah... good luck on yer travels." Garuda said as Disco leaves who waves goodbye to him. He knew Rage and the group are hiding in the graves. "Okay boys, you can come out now."

"Gee, professor... you almost told him about that secret already?" Spike wondered.

"Yeah, old man...? You almost getting vulgar about..." Izam said as Rage intensively punch to his head while scolding at him.

"Can't you respect to my grandfather, Izam? You're making horrible comments about it."

"Guess that Disco really got his attention to you, Sir Garuda." Retsu said as Garuda replies.

"Yeah I know... but I didn't tell everythin' that he was targeted by Schubert's men."

"Gee, you're still the knowledgable old man I ever knew." Izam smiled calmly to Garuda as Spike impresses to his actions. Rage and Retsu turned their backs on them knowing that they decide never come back to Hokkaido and Rage looked at the picture between himself, Retsu and Emi who are having fun at the park during his date with her.

"Guess that you keep that picture, Reiji." Retsu said nicely as Rage smiles for a moment as he replies.

"Yeah, that's where she and I were having a date while you were watching us trying to find the right girl for you."

"..."

"Anyway, I guess next time we'll never going back here again." Rage smirked happily as Retsu happily replies.

"Sure, I hate to come back here again."

With that both of them watches Izam and Spike continues to impress Garuda's actions.

Trivia:

*Emi makes her appearance in Rage's flashbacks but she was mentioned a few times by him in my previous chapters.

*This chapter revisits Garuda and his wife's keepsake during the scene in 4thMIX.

A/N: Now that the trip is over, it seems that Schubert's plan was backfired again. The next chapter where Disco and Garuda goes to Yuni's mansion for a visit and Rage and the group tries to fight against Schubert's men with her bodyguard Akira is with them. Have a nice reading... :D