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"To the right," Jasper said jumping right over one of the tamaranians and shoving his hand into another tentacle alien. Jasper smiled as he killed them, each one had the face of Darkseid on them, making him use more power than necessary.

"Thanks, commander!" A young tamaranian boy said with stars in his eyes at getting saved. Jasper just nodded and killed another, he didn't really care about them, but he assumed fewer deaths would be better for his life on tamaran.

He'd need to control this power as well, he kept using too much even on accident, making him waste energy and also chipped away at his fatigue.

Jasper decided to use this time as training if he was ever going to go back... He'd need to fight for it.

Jasper decided to start with his new power and focused on limiting it when striking, of course, this had its consequences when he failed to control it and wiped out half the people close to him, thankfully it seemed that he missed most of the tamaranians.

"I can do this later..." Jasper said and went back to the small battle. "Just kill them all!" Jasper yelled changing into his full ghoul form with mismatched eyes and flashing forward faster than he could control. As he literally ripped through the aliens by running he got ahold of himself and looked down with a shocked expression. "This..." he said to himself seeing that he's running that fast.

He had been pretty fast before but compared to this he might as well be the flash. Jasper looked around at the torn aliens as the Tamaranians looked at him in awe as they respected strong soldiers.

Some of them had been iffy about him being in charge to lead this battle, but now they had no doubts that he was chosen for a reason, even though he had actually been a last-minute addition due to their last commander dying in battle.

"What are you staring at?... Take the remaining enemies prisoner..." Jasper said sternly as he clenched his fist, promising to get control over this power.

As they captured and restrained the frightened tentacle Aliens, Jasper opened a portal to transport them, much to the confusion of the Tamaranians.

He didn't really think about it though and walked through with the commander of the opposite side and appearing inside the throne room as he teleported the others straight into a small prison.

"I'm done... I can live here now right?" Jasper asked looking up at the king. He'd already decided to stay here until his problems were over and done with. Especially when he was still scared of Darkseid.

He would never admit it out loud, but just the mere thought of Darkseid made him sputter out into sharp breathing out of fear.

This was why he didn't want to go back, it's embarrassing to be afraid, and the fact that he didn't know if Darkseid was now ruling the planet subconsciously caused him to think of anything else to do other than going home.

This was the true reason he'd agreed to do this mission, he really didn't want to go home. Not while he was still so fearful.

'King of Ghouls?... I'm so damn pathetic...' Jasper thought as he started to pay attention to the king and Blackfire who was in the middle of a conversation before he had barged in.

"Uh... very good, and yes, enjoy your time on Tamaran... and if you would like you can also continue this... you can even join our military... I'm sure no one will complain." The king said with a smile seeing the enemy commander on the ground.

With a snap of his fingers, the tentacle alien was taken away and Jasper was given property and a home on it. Nothing too big, especially not compared to his old mansion, but liveable nonetheless.

As Jasper left the king looked at his daughter with squinted eyes, "You know what to do... Either bring Koriand'r back or I'll have you marry the prince yourself... Maybe that demon boy can be your husband if things go well..." The king said to which Blackfire nodded with her head down and left, planning on getting people to go with her to find Starfire.

Jasper, now comfortable in his home, had finally sat down in a meditative position and breathed slowly in order to enter the space he was in not too long ago.

"Hello, guys..." He said opening his eyes and seeing the others strapped on walls with chains, this was his mental representation of their differences, it also kept him fine and wouldn't have him change in an instant as he'd done in the past.

"I'm having some problems with the extra strength from not being fucked up like I usually am, so I'm here to gain all your experience and knowledge from it..." Jasper said and stuck out his hand before closing his fist and 4 dark pulsing bulbs of energy came forward.

"Thanks!" Jasper said biting into each one, with each bulb of energy he gained more knowledge of his power and origin besides the fact he was brought into this world.

One thing had been the fact he was originally just a demon under a higher demon. This had changed when an exterior force had changed his DNA and caused his bloodline to act up, making him devour his elder demon and falling through a portal in the alleyways of Gotham.

After waking up it had been being controlled by a human boy, who so happened to be supernatural and had to eat humans to survive. Jasper had died at some point or been pushed so far back into the consciousness that he was never truly awake again, so creating his role as Number 2.

After the events with Tokyo Ghoul, he'd been merged with the first and that was Jasper right now, number 2 and also the "Real" one.

Jasper breathed out a sigh of relief as he came back to the real world sweating after learning tons of information and also now gaining the experience he needed to control his demon side, which had apparently evolved into a higher level demon, surprising both him and the others inside his head.

As Jasper lay down exhausted from all the knowledge he'd gained, he finally let himself drift off into a deep sleep...

...

2 months, that's how long he'd been on tamaran now, and he had gained full control over his powers now, along with a good reputation with the inhabitants.

Strangely he still hadn't quite got over the incident with Darkseid, even now he was terrified. That monster had broken him effortlessly, something that Joker had started years ago, but Darkseid finally finished breaking Jasper.

Every time he closed his eyes, blinked, took a shower, ate, he was there, ready to destroy him once again. "Get Over It!" Jasper yelled to himself slamming his fists into the table breaking it and causing pieces to fly every which way

'Fuck... I need to distract myself...' Jasper thought as he left his house and walked around Tamaran to clear his head.

Seeing a spacecraft getting ready to leave the atmosphere Jasper decided that being in space was better than staying grounded and with himself...

Jasper flashed into the ship before it took off and sat down on the floor as it left the planet's atmosphere. "We will start with the nearest planet..." Blackfire said walking in and seeing Jasper sitting there, realizing what this ship was for...

"What are you doing here!" She yelled as Jasper looked around at the ship with a shrug... this wasn't the best design he'd ever ridden...