During the exam period, Haruhi comes up with a club emblem (that looks horrible). Haruhi actually looks very sad (and angry) when Kyon cannot recognise what it is. She decides to put the emblem on their site’s front page after she had given up on attracting visitors by erotic pictures of Mikuru.

 

Later on, Haruhi is expecting visitors because Kyon had put up a poster a while ago, saying that the SOS Brigade is a counselling group. Aside from that, Haruhi notices that their site’s homepage and logo are completely screwed up, and asks Kyon for help. Kyon tries to repair the files on the server, but the problem persists. Haruhi thinks it’s a hacker while Kyon thinks it’s some sort of network error.

 

Kyon tries fixing the problem for hours, but nothing works. Mikuru arrives after finishing her exams, bringing along visitor, Kimidori Emiri. She wants the SOS Brigade to search for her missing boyfriend. The girl had not seen her boyfriend for days, even went to his house but found no one there. It turns out that the missing boyfriend is the president of the computer club.

 

The SOS Brigade goes to the president’s apartment but the door is locked and no one is answering. They plan to ask the landlord for a spare key when Nagato places her hand on the door and stares into Kyon’s eyes, as if asking for permission, before opening the now unlocked door. The student is not inside.

 

Suddenly, both Nagato and Koizumi tell Kyon that they should leave at once, while Haruhi is jumping around playfully. Koizumi has a strange sensation of closed space. Nagato says that a dimensional rift exists and that phase conversion is occurring.

 

As the group is departing, Haruhi runs off. The rest of the group pretend to leave, but quickly regroup. Kyon tells Mikuru that the reason is because Nagato and Koizumi are concerned about the room they were in.

 

More Nagato gibberish… ‘A limited-area amalgamated (complex/combined) alternate timespace with non-corrosive tendencies is independently is occurring in restricted mode within this room.” Koizumi asks Nagato if the president’s disappearance is a result of this occurrence and Nagato replies with a ‘yes’. She raises her hand, makes some quick mouth-movements and suddenly the group is in the middle of a vast desert. Nagato explains that the closed space they are currently in overlaps the space outside.

 

Suddenly, (and I mean SUDDENLY) a gigantic monster of sorts appears behind them and the sky turns dark. It happens so suddenly that it’s funny. The monster turns out to be an enormous cave cricket, the creator of the abnormal space. Koizumi explains that his strength is only a tenth of what it should be in closed space. Koizumi forms a ball of fire in his fist. Nagato says that the president is inside the huge bug. Koizumi tosses his ball of fire into the air then whacks it at the bug while muttering ‘Fumoffu’ (from FMP). It doesn’t work very well and the insect lunges at Nagato. She creates a repulsion field and repels the bug. Koizumi attacks again, yelling ‘Second Raid’ (from FMP again). The bug disintegrates, leaving the president on the ground.

 

Now to the website problem. It seems that a life form that arrived on earth 280 millennia ago and went into a state of hibernation. When computers were invented, it reached a half-awakened state. Then, an enormous amount of data which was transferred from a parallel world caused it to awaken. This parallel world was the club emblem that Haruhi drew, which is about 436 petabytes in size.

 

After more explanations, the computer club president claims that he doesn’t have a girlfriend. Strange…