Monster Reunion

"They've been waiting here for her. They didn't want to leave her behind."

"Monster Reunion" is the 14th episode of the third season of Steven Universe and the 92nd episode overall.

Synopsis
An old friend returns.

Plot
The episode starts with Steven sitting on his bed, mentioning that his teddy bear (MC Bear Bear) has got a tear, Steven says that even though he's hurt, he'll look after him, Steven then kisses the bear's head and his tear gets fixed with Steven's healing spit.

Steven goes down stairs and tries to show the Crystal Gems that his healing spit is back by breaking a plate Pearl had in her hands and trying to fix it, but Pearl says she believes in him, stopping him from touching the broken plate. Then Steven thinks of healing Ceentipeetle, but Garnet says no before he can say anything. But Steven asks her if he can make her change her mind, which she does, so they go to the Burning Room. Amethyst grabs the bubble in which the Chaaaaps are preserved so Steven can give them to Centipeetle, and then Steven releases her gemstone from the bubble.

Centipeetle starts forming but before she can fully form corrupted again, Steven uses his healing spit on her gem. Centipeetle then fully forms into a more humanoid form, but still corrupted. She stands up, horrified and Steven says it worked and takes the Chaaaaps to Centipeedle, but she hisses at Steven before he can give her the chips. Amethyst tells Steven that she probably doesn't remember them, so Steven just puts away the chips. Steven then asks Centipeedle is she remembers him, to which she looks at him confused, and Steven realizes that it didn't work as he wanted it to work. Then he kisses her gem and she screeches at Steven in pain, and walks away from him. Garnet says this is the best they've seen of healing a corrupted gem, but Pearl says it didn't work and that it'll probably take more than a kiss to heal what the diamonds have done to this gems. Steven is confused because even though his healing powers are back, he couldn't fully heal Centipeetle. Pearl tells him that it's ok, since she's not cracked, but corrupted, which is different and nearly impossible to describe, then Garnet makes a comparison to MC Bear Bear, and tells Steven that corruption is like if the bear, instead of tearing his arm, it's like he would have a tearing of his mind, Amethyst then comments that it's pretty explained to her. Garnet then asks Amethyst to poof Centipeedle, Steven refuses and tells the gems that she's not a monster anymore, but is actually like them now. Steven then asks them to please let him keep her and try to heal her more, instead of just poofing her. To which the gems accept, Steven even tells them that she could stay in his room, and they accept too.

Later, Steven and Centipeetle, or as he calls her, "Centi." But he asks her for her real name, she can't talk so she just screeches, but he doesn't understand. Steven asks Centi if she really doesn't remember saving him from the seagulls, them adventuring on the ice cave, or even when he electrocuted her with the Cookie Cat freezer, but Steven tells her that it's better for her to forget that one. Steven then sadly opens the bag of Chaaaaps and Steven starts singing the chip's jingle, and Centi follows him, then Steven realizes that she does remember and she takes a chip and eats it happily and proceed to singing again with Steven.

Seeing that she remembers, Steven then tries to communicate with her through writing, but she seemingly draws a bunch of squiggles. Steven then asks her to draw her feelings, revealing she remembers being friends with Steven. She then shows her past, revealing that she was originally captain of a ship of Gems from Homeworld sent to Earth by her unnamed commander. Upon Earth she gets caught up in the Gem War, getting separated from her crew. Her commander then tells her to leave, and while frantically looking for her crew and ship gets hit by a white light, the memory of which causes her to cry. Steven then asks what caused it, Centi then drawing three diamonds with a black crayon, signifying that it was "The Great Diamond Authority".

Centipeetle then starts frantically crying, reverting slightly to her fully corrupted form. She then leaps toward the warp pad attempting to leave but can't due to being corrupted. Steven graciously takes her to the Gem Ship, causing her to cry again, and then run to her ship while once again reverting leaving only two human like hands on her right side. Upon reaching the ship she frantically tries to enter it with Steven's help, needing his hand to open it as her hand revert to more insect like legs. Upon entering we see two other Centipeetle's, who were her crew-mates who were waiting for her all this time. Upon reuniting them, Amethyst, Pearl and Garnet walk in revealing they followed Centi's note which was actually written in Gem language. They then decide to leave them in the ship as they are all happy together, and Steven asks Pearl if she could teach him how to speak Gem while wistfully looking at Centi's picture of the diamonds saying "I'm sorry."

Characters

 * Steven
 * Garnet
 * Amethyst
 * Pearl
 * Centipeetle Mother
 * Yellow Diamond (indirectly)
 * Blue Diamond (indirectly)
 * Peridot (Mentioned)
 * Other Centipeetles
 * Unknown Gems

Objects

 * Master of Ceremonies Bear Bear
 * Chaaaaps

Locations

 * Beach City
 * Beach House
 * Crystal Temple
 * The Burning Room
 * Ancient Gem Colony Ship

Music

 * "Blue Diamond"
 * TBA

Trivia

 * This episode reveals that Steven can repair inorganic objects, such as MC Bear-Bear, with his healing ability. This suggests that his healing ability is not genetically based, rather it reverts an item back to a previous state considered "whole". This classification of an item's fixed state may be based on Steven's mental state, as his healing powers were unavailable when he believed they were useless.
 * It is revealed that, prior to her corruption, the Centipeetle Mother was one of the gems sent to colonize the Earth, and she had some involvement in the war.

Cultural References

 * The crayon box Steven and Centi use is similar to the famous "Crayola" brand of crayons.

Continuity

 * Master of Ceremonies Bear Bear appears in this episode from its debut in "Mirror Gem", and additional appearance in "Future Vision".
 * Centipeetle reappears from "Gem Glow" and "Monster Buddies".
 * Steven's ability to float from "Steven Floats" makes another appearance when Steven floats to get Centipeetle's bubble.
 * The flash of light from Lapis' flashback in "Same Old World" is revealed to be a tool used by the Great Diamond Authority as a means of corrupting the remaining Gems on Earth, near the end of the war. This was likely so the rebellion could never threaten Homeworld again.
 * In "The Return", Greg's statement that Rose could only save her closest friends with her shield refers to this incident.
 * The Ancient Gem Colony Ship from Friend Ship reappears.


 * The box of crayons has a picture of Crying Breakfast Friends on it, a show Steven has watched in other episodes.
 * Steven's healing powers return after losing them in House Guest.
 * Centipeetle's multiple forms are seen in this episode, including not corrupted, half corrupted, and fully corrupted.

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