Author's Note: I'm sure you guys have been wondering when I was going to continue with the first chapter, and here it is! I warn you, something very...strange is going to happen in this chapter. Let's just say, well actually, I can't say anything without ruining further episodes, so, read & review!

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The Melancholy of Kyon Part 2

Well, after the meeting, since it was late in the afternoon, Haruhi wanted to go ahead and get this over with. We reached the guys house. I still have a feeling I've seen him before. Oh, well. It'll probably come back to me after I see him.

We got to his place, and all was quiet inside. Haruhi jiggled the lock and saw it was locked.

"Oh well, c'mon, let's go around back."

Haruhi, if you're thinking what I think you're thinking, stop now. I'd really like to not have a criminal record before graduation. Or at all if possible.

Nagato then walked over to the door. I saw her mouth moving, so I knew she was using her bogus magic again. She then pushed in the door.

"Huh, I didn't know it was open."

Because it wasn't. Wait, this whole situation seems very familiar. Huh.

We walked in and saw how small the inside was. We could all barely fit inside.

"Well, I guess he's isn't here."

With those words, I got an uncomfortably familiar fellnig. Oh, right. I remember now.

The camel cricket incident.

"Um, I think we should search tomorrow." I suggested to Haruhi.

"Yeah, you're probably right, if he isn't here, it's going to be a better chance if we search town."

We all vacated the apartment.

"Well, dismissed until tomorrow. Get there at 9 a.m. Sharp! If not, Penalty."

At that, she looked straight at me.

I'm not always late, ya know.

Everyone split up. Once Haruhi was gone, I came back to see that everyone was back as well.

"So, I'm not the only one who noticed."

"No. It seems that that space has a feel similar to the camel cricket."

I still shuddered at the mention of that thing.

"What do you think Nagato?"

"..."

She simply stared.

We decided to go ahead and get this over with and headed inside. Mikuru had her hand to her head, which meant she was being contacted by her superiors. When she put down her hand, she looked confused.

"What's wrong?"

"I've been given permission to use deadly force."

"What does that-?"

"Commencing transfer."

Nagato then began speaking in her fast talking voice and an all too familiar flash of light blinded me.

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When I opened my eyes to a familiar scene. This was the place where the camel cricket was. The place Tsuruya had accidentally taken me on the day of the wolf spider. And we were back.

I knew something bad was going to happen.

"It is approaching."

What is?

At that moment, something burst from the sands. And, you guessed it, it was a camel cricket.

A shudder went through my body.

"Nagato, I thought you deleted this thing!"

"I did."

"Then why is it here?!"

"It is not the same entity we fought last time."

"Huh?"

"99.99997623% similarity."

"So it's like it, but not?"

"Exactly."

Great.

I looked around and saw Koizumi getting his powers ready, Tsuruya pulling the biggest gun I've ever seen out of her phone, and even Mikuru pull out some weird device that looked like a TV. Remote. And I'm standing here with no weapon.

I hate being normal.

That was when the camel cricket started to attack. Although the other one attacked in charges, this one shot a laser. A laser?!

And it was aimed at me.

I braced myself for death but the shot never connected. I opened my eyes and saw Nagato standing in front of me with her arms in front of her and her hand flayed.

"Thanks, Nagato."

"Not necessary."

I heard a few explosion and thought the cricket was attacking again, but it was coming from Mikuru's remote-thing. It was firing missiles.

Cool.

"Final Raid!" I heard Koizumi shout.

Multiple fireballs were launched from the one he was holding and hit the cricket. Then Tsuruya started firing.

At that point I thought, wow, between these guys, nothing can stop them. That made me feel somewhat better.

Nagato walked over to the cricket. It was defeated, but Nagato had to delete it so it wouldn't get anyone again. I saw her mouth moving at that fast pace. I knew we were okay.

"Everyone good? No injuries?"

Everyone nodded.

"Good."

I turned around and saw that the cricket was disintegrating. Then I heard something very ominous.

"Commencing virus corruption." I heard in a grindy mechanical voice.

Nagato feel over.

"Nagato!"

Everyone ran over and I picked her up.

"Nagato!"

She wasn't responding.

"Nagato!"

Her eyes flew open.

"Requesting virus deletion....Denied....Requesting virus removal....Denied.....Requesting virus protection....approved.... Commencing virus protection"

Her mouth started moving miles a minute. You could see that data flashing in her eyes.

"Error....Virus protection not compatible...Upgrading for compatibility"

Upgrading? That doesn't sound good.

Her mouth moved faster than ever. Then something weird happened. She suddenly made a huge gasp. That scared me a little.

"Upgrading complete....virus deleted"

Then she went limp.

"Nagato! Nagato are you alright?!"

Her eyes opened slowly.

"Nagato?"

"Yes, I appear to be okay."

She got up and dusted herself off.

"Are you sure? You said something about upgrading and then you gasped. That's unlike you."

"No, Kyon. I'm okay."

Well, okay then. Wait, did she just abbreviate? Maybe the upgrade gave her more normal speaking patterns.

"Well, is the cricket gone?"

"Yep."

This is kinda weird.

"Well, let's go."

Another flash of light and we were back in the room. And the person we were supposed to be looking for was on his bed. Wait. Now I remember! He's that guy Haruhi told off. What's his name? Shinichi? Huh. Wonder how he got involved with the cricket.

As we left, I bumped into the table with his computer on it. It flashed on, and on it, the SOS Brigade homepage. With the old image on it.

"Hey, Nagato!" I called to her.

"Yes, Kyon?"

She's not talking with her normal monotone voice. She actually sounded more like a normal teenage girl. That's....weird. Well, I guess it'll make her seem more normal.

"Um, look at this."

She looked at the screen at look puzzled.

"How can this be?"

She put her hand on the monitor and started speaking fast.

She reached back her hand with a confused look. At least, a Nagato confused look.

"It seems the entity from before re-manifested itself back onto this image. I've sent some programs to take care of it. No worries. C'mon Kyon."

Wow. This is a really drastic switch between the her now and her before. It's kind of uncomfortable.

After that, everyone split up and went home. Personally, I was exhausted.

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I woke up really early that morning. I don't know why. Especially it being Saturday! Sigh.

Oh well. Maybe today I won't arrive late.

I looked at the clock. 6:37. Damn.

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When I got to the train station at around 7, no one was there. Well, there goes my theory of Haruhi camping out here. But, it was actually kind of nice. It was still that time where the sun wasn't up too high and the air was still kind of chill.

I can't wait to see everyone's face. Good thing I brought a book.

I pulled that copy of "Hyperion" Nagato lent me and read it while I waited for the first person.

I got about halfway through it By the time the first person showed up. The book was actually pretty good.

"Hey, Kyon."

I looked up and saw Tsuruya.

"Hey, Tsuruya. What are you doing up so early?"

"You're ups early too, ya knows."

Got me there.

"Watcha readin's?"

"Oh, just a book Nagato lent me a while back. It's pretty good."

"Oh."

About 5 minutes later Haruhi showed up. I could tell because I heard her growling about not being here first.

"Hey, Haruhi."

"Be quiet. I have a headache."

Whatever.

She actually didn't interrupt my reading while we waited. Koizumi arrived next, the Nagato, and the finally, Mikuru showed up. Which I found odd seeing as how she always has impeccable timing.

We went inside and ordered. I put the book back in my bag and saw Nagato staring at me. She saw I had caught her and quickly looked away. Huh.

After eating, we got split into groups of two. Koizumi with Haruhi, Tsuruya with Mikuru, and me with Nagato.

When the bill came, Haruhi paid. Which was weird since Mikuru was last. Now I'm wondering what her penalty will be. Even though I have a good idea.

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With the time we were given, me and Nagato just walked around. She seemed kind of nervous. Which was odd in and of itself. She wouldn't stop looking at the ground.

"Hey, Nagato?"

She looked up with a quizzical look.

"Wanna go to the library?"

I saw a small smile appear on the edges of her lips.

"I would like that."

We walked to the library. Nagato kinda disappeared into the rows of bookshelves, while I just went to the waiting area and continued reading.

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About an hour later I closed the back cover of the book. It was really interesting. Me and Nagato will have to have a discussion about it. Noticing the time, I went to go get Nagato. She checked out her books and we hurried back to the square.

When we got back, Tsuruya and Mikuru were already back.

"Hey guys. Find anything interesting?"

"Not really. We endeds up walking around. Oh! Here."

Tsuruya handed me and Nagato a rock with a symbol engraved into it.

"They were selling these. I got one for everyone."

"Thanks."

"Thank you."

I put mine in my bag with the rest of my stuff.

"Where are they?" I finally said after another hour passed.

"There they are!" Mikuru said as she pointed. I looked over and saw Koizumi with his ever present smile and Haruhi with a scowl on her face. It's like looking at the masks of Comedy and Tragedy.

"Hey guys. Where were you?"

"N-none of your business.!" Haruhi said.

I saw she had a slight blush. Now what was this?

"Um, my headache is really bad right now. Let's go ahead and go home." She said.

With that, everyone was dismissed. I caught up with Koizumi afterwards.

"What happened?"

"I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about." He said with that grin.

"You know full well what I mean. Now what happened?"

"Well, a certain series of events occurred that put me and Suzumiya-san in an awkward situation that I would rather not talk about."

"You're dodging the question."

"Yes I am. Now, I'm dodging you."

He said as a group of people passed between us and he disappeared.

Well, that's not suspicious.

End of Episode 12

Author's Note: And now you will simmer! R & R! Ja ne~