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"The Vacuum" is the sixth episode of RWBY Chibi. It premiered on the Rooster Teeth website on June 11th, 2016 for sponsors and June 12th, 2016 for registered users. It was re-uploaded on YouTube together with the fifth episode "Sissy Fight" on July 18, 2020.

Summary[]

"The Vacuum" consists of four shorts:

  • "The Vacuum" - After Weiss Schnee finishes vacuuming the dorm room, Zwei and Blake Belladonna come out of hiding and commiserate on their shared fear of vacuums.
  • "Cape Trubs" - Ruby Rose experiences trouble with her cape, including getting stuck in doors, Jaune Arc walking over it with muddy shoes and accidentally hanging herself.
  • "Book Swap" - Having finished her book, The Man With Two Souls, Blake notices its' sequel is one of the load-bearing books between the bunk beds. She manages to swap the first book for the second, and is pleased- only for Ruby to suddenly ask if she can borrow the book, now that Blake is finished.
  • "The Fourth Wall" - Team RWBY are chatting when Team JNPR shows up with Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie vehemently insists that "nothing bad ever happened".

Transcript[]

In a space of pure whiteness, the giant blocky title and a certain rose emblem drop from the sky to the ground, where the four miniaturized members of Team RWBY pop out from behind it to smile, wave and adopt poses for the audience while an unseen speaker announces the show as: "RWBY CHIBI"!


In Team RWBY's dormitory, Weiss is seen vacuuming enthusiastically and humming to herself. After she leaves the scene a fearful Zwei and Blake Belladonna come out of hiding.

Blake: (to Zwei) I know, right?


Team RWBY is seen returning to their dorm room from class, Yang visibly appearing annoyed as she opens the door.

Yang: Ugh, Oobleck is the worst!

Blake: Yeah, but not as bad as Professor Peach.

Weiss: I like her.

Ruby: Yeah, but she's not around very often.

After Ruby has entered the room, Yang shuts the door and Ruby's cape gets caught in it. The scene transitions to Ruby reading a Camp Camp comic on top of her bed.

Yang: Ruby! Time for class!

Ruby: Coming! (to herself) Ah, crazy kids.

Ruby closes the book and places it to her side before jumping down from her bed, but just as she is about to reach the ground her cape gets snagged and chokes her, leaving her hanging in mid-air as she slowly turns blue in the face.

Ruby: Not like this, NOT LIKE THIS!

At another scene Ruby is seen reading another comic as Jaune walks by and leaves muddy footprints on her cape, leaving her to make a disgusted but silent growl at him.

Ruby: Dude...


Blake Belladonna is lying on her bed reading The Man with Two Souls. She finishes her book and looks at another book that is supporting the bunk beds which is titled: The Man with Two Souls 2, The Man with Four Souls. She tries to find a substitute for the book which is supporting the bed. Her first choices are a thick book, one of the two gauntlets Ember Celica, a pillow, and then Zwei. She then finally settles on The Man with Two Souls. After making a tense swap, she sighs in relief and gets ready to read the book. However Ruby is revealed to have been in the room the entire time.

Ruby: Hey Blake! Can I borrow that book you were reading?

Blake blinks a bit before looking back at the books supporting the bunk bed. Knowing Ruby wants the book she swapped into the supporting pile, Blake clutches her book to her chest and falls over mesmerizingly in stiff and silent despair.


Yang: And I said, "Bumblebee? More like-"

Jaune: Hey guys! Check out who we found!

The rest of Team JNPR enters the scene, including Pyrrha.

Pyrrha: Hello again!

The entirety of Team RWBY gasp in shock at Pyrrha's appearance.

Ruby: You're okay! How are you even here!?

Pyrrha: What do you mean?

Ruby: I- I mean, I watched you di-

Nora jumps between the two teams putting her hands out.

Nora: Nope!! Never happened!

Ruby: But-

Nora: NOPE! Everything's fine! PYRRHA. IS. FINE. Nothing bad... ever... happened. EVER.

Moment of silence.

Ren: So, you guys wanna keep doing comedy segments?

Pyrrha: That sounds lovely!

Characters[]

Trivia[]

  • "Book Swap" was previewed during the Rooster Teeth "Summer of Animation" Live Stream on 9th June, 2016.
  • At RTX 2016, sound designer Alena Lecorchick revealed the vacuum noise is herself blowing into the microphone, because the only such archive in RT's sound library did not convey what she wanted.
  • The Achieve Men poster in Team RWBY's dorm room has been replaced with a chibi version. In this episode, it can be seen that Ray Narvaez, Jr. has been replaced by Jeremy Dooley, mirroring the real-life roster change at Achievement Hunter.
  • The comic book Ruby is reading in "Cape Trubs" is a reference to another Rooster Teeth animated series, Camp Camp. Later, Jaune hums the theme song of the show.
  • The two books in Blake's collection, The Man With Two Souls and The Man With Two Souls II: The Man With Four Souls, written by Ursula Berpdioloo, is a reference to the book Blake was reading in "The Shining Beacon, Pt.2".
  • During the "Book Swap" short, an instrumental version of "From Shadows" is used as a soundtrack.
  • Pyrrha's death in "End of the Beginning" is referenced in this episode.
  • Nora's insistence that nothing bad ever happened is a reference to some fans previously believing that RWBY Chibi is canon.

Image Gallery[]

Main article: The Vacuum/Image Gallery

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