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*Swish*

Jasper swung his fist on top of the castle roof, training for the mission that the king had assigned him. Given that he could simply be a slave instead of doing this, he didn't see this as a loss, rather this would be for the best.

He could use this as an opportunity to get all his power back to normal, and also get over his fear of Darkseid. The second thing was harder, everytime he closed his eyes Darkseid was in his vision, standing over him as a superior being.

"Damn it!" Jasper yelled, throwing out his fists causing shadow energy to fly into the sky as he dropped to his knees. "Crap..." Jasper fell down exhausted from the hours he hadn't slept due to continuously seeing Darkseid in his vision.

...

"You have failed... a weak demon has no place in the world..." Darkseid said to the kneeling Jasper who was being held by his servants. Jasper tried to struggle out of their grip but it was useless, he was too weak... too useless...

"All that you love is mine now..." Darkseid said as images of an apocalyptic earth filled Jaspers vision and caused him to scream in pain. "Pain, emotions... trauma and all other human things that you have... it all holds you back..." Jasper slumped over as Darkseid vanished in a puff of smoke revealing a child with black hair and also an 18 year old with purple and black hair, along with a shadowy creature with glowing blue eyes.

"Pathetic... number 2 shouldn't be in control" The child said looking down at Jasper who was studying them cautiously. The shadowy creature leaned forward, "After number 1 died we did this by default... but he's so useless... and weak... back in my days in the demon realm I was feared... but a weak guy like this inherited my power?... Pathetic indeed'' Number 4 said as number 3, the child leaned back in his chair letting number 5 come forward.

"All that talk about being a king... yet you couldn't beat one enemy?... useless, I should be in control!" Number 5 ghouled out letting his red tendriled Kagune come out staring down jasper as if to attack him.

"No!" A raspy voice said as Number 4 grabbed Number 5 and threw him backward jumping on top of him, "I'll be the one in control! I've waited too long!" Number 4 was then thrown off as Number 5 kicked him away immediately rushing towards Jasper.

"You 3 are so lame..." Number 3 said smirking and grabbing number 5 by the neck and slamming him into the ground. "I'm the one who deserves it! I keep us together! I'm the glue! don't get in my way you disgusting garbage!"

"None of you deserve it..." A voice said making all 4 of the split personalities look to the side, seeing a figure in a school uniform looking at them with disgust. "Number 1?" Number 3 said holding his teddy bear to his side and staring down his figure.

"we are all one in the same... what's the point in fighting?... I already lost... Number 2 is the rightful successor... besides the fact we have over 300 others waiting to be born... we're all pretty fucked up aren't we?"

"Fuck that" Number 4 said his shadoiws rising and his form gaining a darker glint to it, indicating his anger. "I went through the torture! Not any of you! For years I was stuck here without any consciousness of who I was until finally waking up only to see I'd created an edgy piece of shit shouting about being a king!? I will be in control! I will kill each and every one of you!" Number 4 put his hands to the side summoning hundreds of shadow spears and flung them every which way to the others.

Jasper still wasn't quite sure what was happening, but what else could be happening other than other personalities trying to take over. "Shut the fuck up for a sec..." Jasper said standing up and cracking his neck before ghouling out and showing them his mismatched eyes.

"All of you are separate... but I'm together... what makes you think you can take me?... I have it all... Shadow magic, Superior strength, invulnerability to normal bullets and knives... and a badass fight style... get the fuck out of my way" Jaspers piwer fliod throughout the room making them all kneel, even number 1, who Jaspeer used to call faker.

"I refuse to give up my spot... stay here in the background where you belong..." Jasper turned around before stopping as his stomach growled."On second thought..." Jasper said rushing towards them and killing them all quick;y devouring each of their strength and power that was then added to his own.

Jasper then left and woke up... completely forgetting the fact about the 300 others that Number 1 had talked about...

...

"These guys are... revolting..." Jasper said next to a few tamaranian soldiers and looked out at their enemy, who happened to be tentacle monsters that they were at war with. The story was that starfire was supposed to marry their prince to have peace, but because she'd ran away, they would never get it unless someone brought her home.

This was Blackfires obsession, except instead of finding her and bringing her back, she'd kill her younger sister who was always given the love she wanted. Starfire was better than her at everything, with the ability to fly they all normally had, except Blackfire didn't have this ability, outing her as a "Cripple'' as the others had called her in secret.

"What's wrong with them?" A male tamaranian asked looking at him in confusion, here they had several different kinds of races, making it normal to see these types of races where they didn't look close to humans at all.

Jasper just told him nevermind and sat down on the edge as the first wave of soldiers rushed forward to them. "How long did the king say I had to do this for?... well whatever... I can test this new shit out" Jasper said holding out his hand and clenching his fist.

He'd actually gotten stronger than before, and his healing factor was much faster and stronger, making him even more of a cockroach... there was still one thing that bothered him. He still saw Darkseid standing above him, a greater being he could never hope to beat... making his anxiety and fear rise every time he thought about it.

"I was told to lead you guy's or whatever... so let's just kick some tentacle ass ok?" Jasper said to the tamaraneans and dropped off the cliff in a freefall before bursting forward faster than most of them could see and appearing with his hand in one of the aliens chests, killing it sufficiently...