Jungle Moon (episode)

"Jungle Moon" is the 12th episode of the fifth season of Steven Universe and the 140th episode overall.

Official Synopsis
Stevonnie finds themself alone on an adventure.

Plot
Stevonnie is left stranded on the jungle moon after their ship crashes due to an explosion during a fight with Emerald in space. Stevonnie adapts to overcome their new strange environment. After discovering a Diamond Colony planning base Stevonnie falls asleep in a hammock they set up inside.

Stevonnie starts to dream, waking up inside of Connie's house. Connie's mother, Dr. Maheswaran, is on the phone talking about an attack and colonization on the planet. Stevonnie quickly moves into interact with her. Dr. Maheswaran turns to face Stevonnie, and her eyes are yellow with black diamonds as pupils. It's revealed that the dream is actually a past conversation between Yellow Diamond and Pink Diamond. Pink Diamond (represented by Stevonnie) is pestering Yellow, asking questions like why can't she have an army, a fleet, and declaring that she was as important as she was. Yellow, enraged by Pink's pestering snaps at Pink to start acting like she's important. This ultimately makes Pink mad, storming away from Yellow's control desk. Pink Diamond stops to look at herself in the reflection of the glass, enraged by her argument with Yellow Diamond she smashes the glass in anger.

Stevonnie awakens, realizing that their dreams were an actual memory from the Diamonds, linked to the location. Stevonnie heads up into the abandoned control room, realizing that the console could be a potential way to reach Lars. Stevonnie manages to get a signal out to Lars and he comes to rescue them.

Characters

 * Stevonnie
 * Lars
 * Alien Creatures
 * Steven Universe (mentioned)
 * Connie Maheswaran (mentioned)
 * Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran (dream)
 * Yellow Diamond (pictured; dream)
 * Pink Diamond (dream)
 * Yellow Pearl (pictured)
 * Nephrite-XJ Cut-763 (dream; name shown)

Object

 * TBA

Location

 * Jungle Moon

Instrumental Song

 * "Yellow Diamond"

Trivia

 * This is the first episode where Steven doesn't make an appearance.
 * However, he is mentioned, and a fusion involving him does appear.
 * This is the first episode to show Pink Diamond, not in a mural or silhouette form.
 * This is the only episode where a Gem is fused throughout the entire episode, besides Garnet, Rhodonite and Fluorite.
 * This is the first (but only) episode where Steven's voice actor, Zach Callison, is absent, making every voice actor or actress absent on some or every episode in the series.
 * This is also the first episode where Stevonnie grows facial hair.

Continuity

 * TBA