"Loki! Where are you!"

There was no answer, the busy streets of London stayed busy, but also very Lokiless.

"I let him out of my sight for a minute! Why did he wander off? Why do they always wander off?!" The Doctor muttered to himself.

The streets did not give The Doctor an answer. With a frustratetd sigh, The Doctor rested his back against the tardis, looking at the familiar wooden side of his oldest companion.

"You wouldn't know old girl, now would you?"

The Doctor didn't expect an answer from his old girl, he usually didn't expect answer when he started talking to his ship, so the loud noise next to his ear took him by surprise and made him jump in alarm.

Grrriiiiingg!

The phone located by the tardis side rang again.

The Doctor hastily fumbled the receiver up against his ear, the cord twined between his fingers.

"Hello..."

"Oh wonderfull! It did work afterall."

The voice on the other end of the line was unmistakebly Loki. How Loki was suddenly calling him, The Doctor had no idea.

"Loki! What? How? Where are you? Where did you get a phone? Or this number?!"

"Oh, the queen gave it to me. The phone and the number."

"The queen! Have you been talking with Elizabeth! What? How!?"

"Well, I might have gotten a bit lost and..."

"thats why you don't wander off!"

"...and I ended up in this place, that I later heard is called the Buckingham palace. I don't realy see it, I mean for a palace it is a bit small and plain, nothing like at Asgard and the guards are absolutely incompete. I mean, I was able to get pretty far before the guards catched me. If I had been an assasin your queen would be already dead. Anyway, The queen of this realm turned out to be quite pleasant lady,-

"She's not the queen of the realm, only of the-"

-and when she heard that I was with you she offered me tea and we talked a bit and she gave me this phone and your number so I could locate you again. Where are you!?"

"Loki I...you can't... oh whatever. I'm with the tardis. Where you would have been too if you had been sensible and tought, Oh I'm lost on an alien planet, I should propably try to find The Doctor again instead of wandering off on my own!"

"Well, I was curious. Both you and Thor would swear up and down that Midgard is the most interesting realm in the universe and such a special place. It does raise my curiosity."

"Whatever. Are you still at the palace?"

"No. After the queen gave me a tour, by the way, the throne room is much too small to make any kind of impression. Well, On the other hand the thrones itself looked much more comfrotable than back home. Still, no amount of golden leaves can make up for the fact that there isn't even an echo in the room."

"Yes thank you, I'm sure that the Windsors will put all this into consideration, but where are you right now?"

"I was escorted out by the main gate, from there I made my way out to this lovey park straight ahead."

"Allrigh, don't move, don't wander any further away. Are you-?"

"It's not my fault that … wait hold on a second."

With that the line went silent and The Doctor was left to strangel the phone receiver in his hand.

On the other side of London, Loki was interupted by his converstation with The Doctor, by a voice to his side.

"Are you lost?" The owner of the voice was a young looking brown skinned woman, who had an weird looking hair messed in to several tubes and a bright yellow scarf holding them back from her face. Loki was still surprised at how different looking the midgardians were from each other and how willing they were to go the extra mile to make themselves stand out even more. It was like the complete opposite of asgard, where the common folk were all one grey masse and the lords and ladies competed with bespoke helmets and fancy battle armors.

"You have a starkphone," The woman informed Loki. "you could just use the google maps app."

the woman looked bored, which striked odd to Loki, as it had been the ladys choice to start talking to him.

He also had no idea what the lady was talking about.

"Where do I find this "google maps"? And what's so stark about my phone?"

the lady looked at him with the universal look gven to idiots everywhere. Loki ingnored the impulse to say sometghing nasty to the woman, as it seemed that he might, with any luck, get something out of the converstation.

"Which century do you live in? All starkphones have the map app made really easy. Just let me show you."

Riingg!

The Doctor lunged at the phone. "Loki! Is it you?!"

"Of course it is me. Who else. Where is the internet?"

"What!?"

"The internet? I was told, that it holds all the knowledge of Midgard. I got curious, but I can't seem to find it in this "laptop".

"Wait, hold on, backtrack a little, where did you get a computer? Why? And where are you?!"

"I'm sitting in a park with lots of birds and-"

"are there any pelicans in sight?"

"-and yes there actually are. So I borowed one of those computers, but how do I find the internet?"

"Borowed? Did you steal someones laptop!?"

"I'll return it. Eventualy. Maybe. Now, the internet."

"Click the downright wifi button in the corner...Wait, no you can't just run away and steal someones laptop because you are curious!"

"uhm, it keeps asking me a password."

"Okay don't move, I'm making my way to and we are going to have a very serious converstation in the near future."

"That's weird,"

"No it realy isn't, your disregard for the rules..."

"Not that. I meant that I can't translate one of these words. I have all-tongue, how can I not be able to read it?"

"Okay, just stay where you are, I'm coming to get you. Then you and me are going to have some very serious words."

The phone went mute as The Doctor hanged up on Loki. Loki smiled to himself, imagining The Doctor slamming the door of the tardis and working on the levers with frustation.

Loki snorted in amusement to his mental sight. They were in Midgard, what did The Doctor think could happen?

At the same time, inside an neat office room, workers were clicking on their computers like in any other office anywhere. Only thing noteworthy, might have been that every single one of the workers eyes were the same shade of blue.

"Ma'am would you take a look at this."

"what is it now?"

"we found a positive hit, but we can't find any kind of information about the user."

the middle aged woman with short dirty blond hair looked at the screen over her subordinates shoulder. The asian man, whose blue eyes shone unnaturally, gestured at the screen of the web camera picture where the pale dark haired man was sitting in a sunny park.

The laptop is not his and facial match cannot be found. Also seems to lack even the basics of computer skills."

"intresting, upload him."

Back at the park, Loki was getting a weird prickly feelilng on his neck.

The park had suddenly gotten suspiciously quiet. The tree under which Loki had situated himself had been far enough from the walk routes to offer loki some privacy, but he had still been able to hear everyone else in the park. Now it had become silent.

In his life, Loki had learned to trust his senses and placed the baffling device that went by the name laptop, down on the ground

Standing up Loki concentrated on his senses.

What ever was here with him was not The Doctor, of that Loki was sure. Walking few tentative steps ahead, Loki tried to make sense of the foreboding feeling.

He was afterall in Midgard, and even if his magic had been lost, that didn't mean that he would have anything to fear from the humans.

It was still better be safe than sorry, so when he heard steps behind him, he turned around fast and dropped into a battle stance.

His opponent was a little mortal girl in a white dress and hair done in a neat braid up in her head.

Feeling a little stupid, Loki dropped his stance and fixed his face for nonchalance.

"Hello."

"Hello."

expect that everything was not right with this human child.

"Are you lost?"

"I'm lost."

Like where did she come from, how could she have sneaked up to Loki in a silent and empty park without Lokis notice.

"How did you sneak up on me?"

"I sneaked up on you."

And he had seen her before.

"I know you don't I?"

"You know me don't you?"

there had been this book in the tardis library. Nothing special, a midgardian novel. Loki had been curious of what kind of literature they read in midgard and read it. Summer Falls by Amelia Williams. Very different in style than what he had gotten used to in Asgard, but surprisingly entertaining and clever. He also might have cried a little at the chapter eleven. Not that he would ever tell that to anyone.

This girl had been at the cover picture.

Taking a step towards the anomaly standing in front of him was not propably the smartest thing he had ever done, but he was curious.

"What are you?"

they weren't supposed to have magic like this in Midgard, he was sure of that. He was also sure that he should sense something from the creature, even if his own magic happened to be gone

Maybe he should have just ran. As it seemed to turn out, the girl was deffinetly not human as her neck started to rotate backwards.

The last thing Loki thought, before the blue light flashed on him was that maybe he shoudn't have wandered off afterall.

The Doctor was going to skin his troublesome companion when he would finaly find him. Who wanders off in an alien planet. Well, his companions actually did that quite often. Why didn't he have more sensible companions. Feeling that he was treading dangerous waters with his thoughts, it was a relief to the Doctor that the tardis decided to land just then.

"Loki!" The Doctor called out. seemed to be curiously quiet and empty.

"Doctor?"

The Doctor frowned. Lokis voice was not right. For one it sounded scared. Loki never sounded scared, he had this bad habit of thinking, that not showing anyone that you were scared, would make others actualy think you braver. It was of course rubbish, but that was something Loki would not believe from The Doctor anytime soon.

There was also something else wrong with Lokis voice. It just wasn't right.

"Doctor..I...I don't know where I am!"

skipping over the don't walk on the grass sign, running through the grass, skipping some rose bushes and jumping over bush hedge, The Doctor located Lokis voice. And his body.

Lokis body was laying on the ground in an ungracefull heap and his voice was coming from the...creature standing not a feet away from Lokis body. The creature had humanoid body but no face, just a gaping emptyness sizzling with electrical currents.

The Doctor set his jaw and pointed the sonic screwdriver at the creature. With only one thought running through his mind. Not his companion.

Loki didn't know where he was. Never before had he truly understood how lost could someone be. Normaly you would always know the most basic point of where you are. Inside your body. It was so simple, but yet so important. You wouldn't understand the comfort, the safety, before you lost it. Because he wasn't inside his body anymore. No, he didn't know where he was, he just..was. Somwhere lost, somwhere vast and endless and he wantted out.

But he didn't know where to go or how to even move. He was just a consciousness trapped into some kind of a web and he had never in his life been more scared. He was going to go mad any second now.

Then there was a pull and by valhalla did it hurt.

Never had Loki been happier to feel pain, but compared to the floating scatteressness of before, he welcomed the familiar ripping pain. And just before the blackness swallowed him, he could feel the web try to pull him back, In response Loki felt his being take a hold of a part of the web and ripping, taking a part with him. Then he was in his familiar body again and knew no more, as darkness claimed him.

The Doctor halted his fervent typing when he heard the blessed gasp of air coming from his companions lungs. He did it, Loki was back!

Quickly he abandoned the laptop and went to check The jotuns life singns. Luckily they seemed all be in order.

Feeling his hearts settle down, The Doctor gingernly kissed the forehead of his newest companion and started working on getting his frost giant back into the tardis.

But not before typing a short message to his new mysterious enemies.

Inside the office building, two plainly in black dressed workers, stared at the three words shining on the big computer screen hanging on the wall.

Under my protection -The Doctor.

Loki woke up to the smell of sun cakes. It was familiar smell of the little bright yellow cakes found in every asgardian market place. Sweet, made from honey, goat milk and leftover brans of brown bread, the sun cakes were the favorite treat of every asgardian child.

Blinking his eyes, Loki found out that he was in a bed and in the table next to him was a glass of water and a plate full of sun cakes.

Not yet awake enough to think clearly, Loki grapped one of the cakes and ate it.

It tasted just like when he had been a child running around the market place with Thor.

Blinking himself fully awake, Loki took a look around. Finding out that he was in the tardis bedroom, did nothing but raise a loadfull of questions.

He did not remember going to sleep, how did he end up in bed? What had happened in the time he lost? And where had The Doctor found sun cakes?

After some searching, Loki found The Doctor sitting outside the tardis. He had an portable chair, and little table, that was covered with some kind of a mechanical machine that The Doctor was tinkering with.

Hearing the tardis door open, The Doctor spun around and grinned at Loki.

"You're awake!"

"How did I end up asleep?"Loki countered and did not answer the smile.

"Ah. Now, that is a long story."

"We have time." Loki said and grapped the empty chair. (The Doctor had been waiting at him then.)

"Yes we have. How much do you remember?"

Loki concentrated for a moment. How much did he remember? it was all a big jumble inside his head.

"There was a girl in the park... no not a girl, some kind of a creature. I didn't fear it, not at first and then it did...something."

"You're right, it most deffinetly was not a girl. In fact the thing that attacked you is now lying down right here." The Doctor said while gesturing down at the mechanical mess scattered on the table.

Looking more closely, loki could see that the thing was roughly (Very, very roughly) the shape of a body. It had arms and legs. That was where the similarities ended.

"So it was using magic afterall" loki mumbeled to himself, but apparently The Doctor had heard him as he answered: "No, not magic, technology. Very advanced technology, deffinetly not from this century earth. This is not a living thing, this is a tool that someone send to harvest us."

"Harvest?"

"yes. You were using the internet, and there was something in the wifi. This whole world is swimming in wifi, the whole planet, living in the wifi soup. Suppose that something got in it. Suppose that there was something living in the wifi, harvesting human souls. Extracting them. Imagine that." the last part The Doctor whispered omniously. Unfortunatly, it was not yet impressive enough to impress Loki, who just raised his eybrow. The Doctor didn't care, he carried on with the same dramatics.

"Human souls, trapped in the world wide web, like flies. Stuck forever, crying out for help."

there was a beat of silence when Loki digested all that information.

"So basicly it's like twitter."Loki finaly concluded.

The Doctor snapped his head up from his work and stared at Loki.

Loki stared back.

The Doctors face took that far off look, that meant that those otherwordly brains had just found something.

"a computer can hack another computer. A living sentinent computer, maybe that could hack people, edit them, rewrite them. And maybe sentient brain could then hack into an sentient computer..."

"and you came to that conclusion because..."

"You're an asgardian that has never before been to earth and right now, you just made a joke about twitter."

The Doctor was right. Now that he stopped to think about it, Loki could feel how his head was swimming with information that by all rights shouldn't have been there.

He wasn't sure wether to be very impressed or pity the human race. He was pretty sure that nothing in the nine realms could even come close to the ingenious insanity that these midgardians called Tumblr.

"They have all the knowledge of their planet on their fingertips and they use their time for looking at cat videos and getting into arguments with people from around the globe."

"yeah, their ingenious, these humans, aren't they!"

The scary part was that The Doctor sounded perfectly sincere.

"I see."

"But back to the point. When they tried to upload you, you didn't just come back. You brought something back with you."

"Yes I did, didn't I..."

"that's my companion, always full of surprises. Always doing impossible things." The Doctor was grinning while saying that, but his grin fell from his face when both he and Loki simultaniesly noticed the same thing.

The lights.

"I highly doubt that all the humans decided to switch on the lights on their houses at the same time."

"No Loki, they didn't. But the wifi decided to switch on the people."

Something in Lokis peripheral vision caught his eyes and he quickly spun around. There was a man in suit standing under the street light. A man that didn't have a face.

"Doctor! It's here!"

Loki may not have had his magic, but that didn't mean that he was going to be caught unawares again. So he grapped the flimsy chair and threw it into the ground shattering it and then grapped two splintered chairlegs into his hands. Not exactly a weapons of his choice, but one must make do.

Even if his blood was pumping with adreanline, his brains kept wondering at creature.

"How does it take that shape without an aid of magic?"

"Not the time Loki!"

Oh, so he said it out loud then

But the creature did not move, or shove any signs of agression. It just stood there.

Apparently it didn't need to, as it became clear when all the lights in the city surounding them blinked out and only he and the doctor were left in a spotlight.

"They're going to throw a plane on us!" The Doctor shouted. Loki wouldn't have needed a warning as he could hear and see the roaring mechaninchal machine closing them from the sky. He most deffinetly did not need any prompting to jump to the safety of the Tardis.

The Doctor was already pulling on the levers befor Loki had even closed the door behind him. With the familiar wheezing noise and a great deal of shaking and trashing, they were off.

When Loki saw where they had landed, he had a great impulse to hit The Doctor in the head. Repadetly.

"YOU DID NOT!"

they were inside the falling plane. Of course they were.

"Don't worry! We just have to switch of the wifi and get the plane flying again!"

"We are going to die! IN MIDGARD!"

I's not like Loki actualy expected The Doctor to listen, it was just so therapeutic to rage for someone. Unfortunatly for The Doctor, he happened to be the only conscious one around to listen.

Loki knew that he could have retreated back to the Tardis and hope that The Doctor would survive on his own, but instead he found himself following the mad man. The Tardis would propably drop him back to the void anyway, if he let The Doctor get himself killed.

"I CAN'T FLY A PLANE CAN YOU!"

But he could definitely punch the man in the face if they survived this.

"I'M ASGARDIAN! WHAT DO YOU THINK! NO!"

"Great let's do it together!"

They were just seconds away from a fiery, crushing and painfull death and loki definitely did not scream like a girl, while seeing the ground come closer and closer.

He might have giggled a little undignifiedly when they rose above the ground, just meters away from the hard unforgiving ground.

And his walk might have been a tad shaky when they retreated back into the Tardis.

"You better have something realy good in mind to make up for what you just did," Loki panted, knuckles white from grapping the railing.

"Of course I do. Let's have breakfast." The Doctor cheerfully called back.