Season 3

"Season 3" is the third season of Steven Universe. There are currently 26 planned episodes in the season and began airing on May 12, 2016, with "Super Watermelon Island" as a part of the "In Too Deep" event. After a short hiatus, the "Summer of Steven" event will begin airing from July 18, 2016, with a fifth bomb, called Steven's Summer Adventure.

Provisional Titles
The following titles of additional unaired episodes were at one time in August 2015 posted on Cartoon Network's website, but according to supervising director Ian Jones-Quartey, they should not be relied upon as they were not officially announced and not in the correct order.

Summary
When Steven learns that he can possess his own creations in a dream, the Watermelon Stevens, in "Super Watermelon Island" he finds that Lapis Lazuli has lost total control over Malachite at the bottom of the ocean and is now running rogue in Mask Island. The Gems leave Steven and a very concerned Peridot, who's stressing that the Cluster has begun to generate small tremors, at the barn. Steven falls asleep again and possesses another Watermelon Steven, and he sees that the Gems have formed Alexandrite and are now fighting, but the Crystal Gems' fusion is too weak, so Steven gathers a Watermelon Steven army to rebel against Malachite, and are able to subdue her, while Alexandrite pierces her with an arrow. Malachite comes undone and Lapis and Jasper are free, as the gems celebrate. But an earthquake hits the island, signaling that second warning, the Cluster is forming. The Island divides in half and an unconscious Jasper slides into a crack in the ground. The Gems tell Steven to wake up and destroy the Cluster with Peridot and the drill. He does so in "Gem Drill", where the two friends activate the machine and start drilling towards the Cluster's coordinates. After another gem mutant attack, Steven realizes he doesn't really want to hurt the Cluster or any of its Gems, but Peridot is determined to destroy it, especially once they make contact. However, when the drill hits the Cluster, Steven starts to feel its pain and this culmination of feelings cause him to enter in contact with the Cluster's psyche. He learns that the Cluster shards don't want to form but instead want to feel whole, so Steven talks them into enjoying each other's company and bubbles the entire Cluster, with the help of the shards themselves, returning back to the surface to find the Gems with an unconscious Lapis, who wakes up in "Same Old World", where she realizes she has no home anymore, as she hates Earth and can't go back to Homeworld. Steven then tries to convince her that she can stay on the Earth. With Lapis, the two fly around the world to seek a place for her, but when Lapis sees the Galaxy Warp, she becomes upset and tells Steven the story of how she was abandoned after being mistaken for a rebel Crystal Gem and placed in a mirror so that she could answer for the rebels. She was left and broken within the hurry of the evacuation, but Steven convinces her that she can stay on Earth and learn to love it. However, when she learns that Peridot has reformed and has decided to live in the barn too, she isn't too happy about it because Peridot made her prisoner way back when and brought her back to Earth. So in "Barn Mates", Steven helps Peridot find ways to be friends with Lapis, all failing, until Steven talks to her and the two Gems are united by a common goal. Suddenly a Roaming Eye appears, sent by Homeworld to get Peridot, but Lapis destroys it in order to protect her, signifying she cares about Peridot. Out of the vessel, come a troop of five Ruby soldiers, and, in order to distract them from Peridot, Garnet unfuses to allow Ruby to infiltrate the troops, and the gang ends up playing a game of baseball for the barn's ownership, pretending to be humans. However, Ruby and Sapphire, now separated, can't stop flirting and end up fusing again, throwing the Crystal Gems' disguise away. In order to prevent damage, Peridot throws herself in, but the Rubies reveal they want Jasper, not her, and fly off when Steven lies to them telling them she's on Neptune.

Trivia

 * Season 2 and Season 3 were originally formatted as 52-episode seasons, however, for unknown reasons, Cartoon Network re-labelled the second half of the second season as Season 3 and then split the original third season into Season 4 and Season 5.

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