We consider a 2-homogeneous bipartite distance-regular graph \(\Gamma \) with diameter \(D \ge 3\) . We assume that \(\Gamma \) is not a hypercube nor a cycle. We fix a Q-polynomial ordering of the primitive idempotents of \(\Gamma \) . This Q-polynomial ordering is described using a nonzero parameter \(q \in \mathbb {C}\) that is not a root of unity. We investigate \(\Gamma \) using an \(S_3\) -symmetric approach. In this approach one considers \(V^{\otimes 3} = V \otimes V \otimes V\) where V is the standard module of \(\Gamma \) . We construct a subspace \(\Lambda \) of \(V^{\otimes 3}\) that has dimension \(\left( {\begin{array}{c}D+3\\ 3\end{array}}\right) \) , together with six linear maps from \(\Lambda \) to \(\Lambda \) . Using these maps we turn \(\Lambda \) into an irreducible module for the nonstandard quantum group \(U^\prime _q(\mathfrak {so}_6)\) introduced by Gavrilik and Klimyk in 1991.