You search your body’s many compartments in an attempt to find something to fight with. You come across an especially heavy axe that you quickly hurl at the cloud. You hit it right where its head would be if it had one, and thus a burst of black letters and numbers come spewing out from the impact site.
Now that the beast is injured, you are able to escape from its grasp. When you regain your bearings, you can see that the spot where the axe hit has nearly completely healed, aside from being slightly lighter than it was before.
The swirling mass has changed its form yet again, this time into something that resembles a lion. It rushes at you, but you are prepared. You somehow find two six-barreled rapid blasters stored in your thighs, which you quickly aim and fire at the beast. However, you cannot catch it by surprise this time. The lion-shaped cloud is able to perfectly dodge all but one of your bullets.
You start running away from the lion in search of the small creature you had seen earlier. There’s a sizeable distance between you and the dark cloud before you can catch a glimpse of the little animal. You stop and take a closer look at the creature.
It appears to be a dog- chihuahua, perhaps?- which is dressed up in a detective costume. You feel an unexplainable but immense sense of dread upon seeing it. Once the creature notices you, it appears to grow in size. This allows you to notice a tag on its collar displaying an image of the dog itself. How strange.
As you are studying the creature, the lion-shaped cloud quickly approaches. It seems to be just as perplexed and confused as you are.
it’s a chihuahua with a picture of itself on its tag in a detective costume.
I would obviously verbally question this in-universe if I could, but I think the obvious answer is to pursue the matter fully… and then convince the lion cloud to gore it violently
You, the dog, and the lion are locked in a standoff for what seems like and eternity. The dark mass is the first to make a move.
It quickly lurches at you, but you are able to dodge the attack. Seeming disturbed by this, the snooping dog turns to run. The lion does nor appear to be pleased by the canine’s attempted escape. It morphs into a form that looks like a cross between an octopus and a bear.
The beast then starts dashing towards the dog, giving you a chance to escape…
You decide to not intervene in the matter and let nature take its course. The -if you forgive the pun- underdog puts up a pretty good fight against the beast. The two duke it out for what feels like forever until the swirling cloud seems to gain the upper hand. It latches onto the small dog with one of its tentacles and hurls it towards you.
You quickly dodge the incoming projectile, but you are quite shaken up. When the dog regains its footing, the abnormal tag on its collar catches your eye yet again. You wonder:
“Why is the snooping dog on a tag?”
This seemingly innocuous though keeps nagging at you for a reason you cannot explain
“Why is snoop dog a tag?”
And then it hits you.
Why Is Snoop Dogg ATag?
Why 1s 2noop Dogg ATag?
W12DAT
You then realize that the seemingly harmless animal before you is the thing you were created to destroy. There is no doubt about it, the virus is right in front of you.