[ P l o t ]

The cultural festival has ended. Time has been slipping through the fingers of the SOS Brigade and North High has just begun it's second semester. January is a cold, tedious month to trek through but Suzumiya-san has been keeping the whole community on it's toes with her elaborate schemes and getting everyone into trouble. In short, life has gone on simply and normally for the SOS Brigade members; as simply and normal as it usually does.

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Not all has been well with the organizations watching Suzumiya-san though. The espers have been getting impatient and rivalries between the agencies of both Koizumi-san and Asahina-san have been boiling. The aliens have tried their best to stay out of the fight as they continue their research in quiet silence but more malfunction attacks on Kyon have been plotted for and carried through often ending in failure to the luck of the Brigade.

Making matters worse, is Suzumiya's increasing wishes for something abnormal to occur. Her mounting irritation and impatience with this world has been slowly escalating and more closed spaces have appeared than usual. She has recent talk of mostly a giant hole like a crater appearing somewhere out just off the road a way outside the city; something under a bridge in which strange creature come out of. This very space has been found to exist and is now kept under constant scrutiny despite Suzumiya-san's obliviousness to it.

A theory circulating through the esper agency as to the cause of Suzumiya-san's sudden increase of impatience and irritation is attributed to the fact that Kyon and Asahina-san have been steadily growing closer. The two have obviously started to think about things a little differently whilst the rest of the brigade is suffering from the drastic tension of the triangle. Jealousy is riding high on both sides as Koizumi-san is dragged into the problem playing the part of Suzumiya's chess piece. Plots have been thought up, interferences will be made and time is running out before someone really snaps.

What will happen if the crater does appear? What will cause the disastrous thing? Will the Brigade be able to work out their problems in time? Worst of all, what kinds of unknown creatures will come out of the unusual thing?