What the Heck Happened to you, Berrycream?

"What the Heck Happened to you, Berrycream?" is the fifth episode of . The episode premiered early to attendees of KalawaCon on October 1, 2023, then published to YouTube on October 2, 2023, and was directed by Robby (@ROBBYDUDE).
== Synopsis ==
As the School holds its annual Cultural Festival, Berrycream's big secret comes to light after losing a valuable item. Raven and Dark Shi fight to retrieve this most precious item for her.
== Summary ==
A menacing darkness fills the frame before the sun immediately rises over Berrycream's house. Berrycream wakes up at 7 am and crawls out of bed, unable to reach her slippers on her floor. She takes a shower and then walks up to her bathroom vanity. Just as she finishes brushing her teeth, she closes her cabinet and catches her reflection in the mirror. She is now a small, white rabbit, and no longer a human girl. She screams in terror and the opening sequence plays.
It's the Cultural Festival at School, an event where students and faculty can display their unique talents and skills, and where clubs can recruit new members. Now that new students from the Other School Down The Road have joined, the Cultural Festival is much more diverse and massive than before. Raven, DrillGirl, Dark Shi and Omen are holding a bake sale for Room 214 to raise money for an unspecified cause. Dark Shi, eating marshmallows on a stick, meets up with Raven near the bake sale and discuss the bountiful activities at the Cultural Festival. Berrycream's absence quickly comes up, as Dark Shi was led to believe she was with Raven at the booth. 
Upon suspicion, Berrycream is immediately heard crying for 17 seconds straight in the batheroom. They rise to the occasion, and correctly identify Berrycream inside the women's restroom. When they open the door, the two are shocked to see a very pitiful, bunny Berrycream. Dark Shi remarks that she turned into "a beast", but Berrycream explains that she lost the magical bell attached to her uniform, and transforms into her rabbit form without it. Dark Shi finds this "awesome", and Raven asks her how she lost it. Berrycream suspects she may have dropped it while preparing for the Cultural Festival. She mourns how she isn't able to be "normal like the other students". 
Meanwhile, DrillGirl confirms a very large order at Room 214's bakery, costing their customer $1700.38. Omen, wearing an apron and chef's hat, bursts through the wall holding a large platter of pastries.
Raven and Dark Shi vow to retrieve the bell for Berrycream, and know the first place to go and look for it- the Room 424 World Domination Club. They crash into the repaired door and call for Lord Albert, but are surprised to instead find a maid café. Albert creeps up on Raven, wearing a revealing Japanese maid outfit. He tells Raven that he isn't interested in having petty squabbles with her, that he doesn't need or want Berrycream's bell, and that he's using this maid café as a recruitment of new members for his club. He berates Raven's ignorance in thinking he was involved with the bell going missing, and offers her the option of either enjoying the café at a free booth, or facing their wrath. She tries to resist, but ultimately sucks it up.
We see Raven upset, Dark Shi with a Mondo Bev in hand, and Berrycream is hiding in Dark Shi's backpack at the booth. Raven realizes their quest will be harder than imagined. They are left with the option of just brute-forcing through every event at the Festival to see which place has the bell. Dark Shi pulls out a comically long list of the Festival events, frightening Berrycream and Raven.
In a montage, the group check out the Vegan Tokoyaki Stand, the Drama Club, the Scare Club, the photobooth, the Afterschool Blades Club, and Room 666. At the Audeytoryum, Strawberry is performing "Lunchtime Fun" for a concert. Raven approaches her mid-song and asks if she saw her bell, and Strawberry quietly shoos her off. They exit the concert and question several random students if they've seen the bell, including Ryan Sasuke who responds "yes"- which Raven ignores. Dark Shi tells Raven they should go back to talk to Ryan, and she begrudgingly agrees.
Raven and Dark Shi return Room 424 booth with Ryan, where Raven interrogates him. He begrudgingly tells them that he saw the bell as a prize being given away at the Collector's Club pachinko machine. He attempted to win it, but won $3,000 as a runner-up prize instead. Lord Albert Tensai briefly interrupts their conversation, and threatens his world domination on them.
With this new information, the trio pay a visit to the Collector's Club. They come across Puppie Doug trying to win the pachinko game but failing. Kipp, the titular leader of the Collector's Club, lazily laments her loss, and then welcomes the new visitors. Raven asks for three chances at pachinko, but Berrycream motions that she doesn't want to play as to not reveal her form, so Raven quickly backpedals for two instead. In his very condescending aura, Kipp tells them that they're "the last students [they're] letting in to give the board a try". He yells at his assistant Dawn to get the board set up. She trips and falls.
Raven is impressed by Kipp's collection. He explains to her that he started out with a small collection, and that his collection grew more rapidly once students joined from the Other School Down The Road. He had acquired and "collaborated" with the Lost and Found Committee to help grow the collection by seizing any lost item in the School that isn't claimed within 24 minutes. He gets rid of some of the "exciting items" by putting them up as prizes for the pachinko board. Dawn finishes preparing the pachinko machine, and lets the others now. 
Dark Shi is first to try the pachinko machine. As her ball travels through the machine, she asks Dawn what her story is. Dawn explains to Dark Shi that the club arrangement resembles a "majority-stake business acquisition". The Lost and Found Committee didn't merge through mutual agreement, but rather through a loophole when the School and the Other School Down The Road merged. Sadly, she and any other members of the former Lost and Found Committee have no say in the club's decisions anymore. Dark Shi's ball finally reaches the bottom into the "miss" slot, and loses.
For her turn, Raven transforms into her magical girl form. Raven confidently asks Dawn for a ball, and suddenly Dawn's face turns beet red. She looks at Raven through rose-tinted glasses, as if she were being more delicate with her request. Dawn loses her cool, starts awkwardly laughing and swinging around, only to say "pachinko moment" while doing jazz hands. This befuddles Raven. She throws the ball into the pachinko machine. Kipp, meanwhile, ponders why she and Dark Shi want the bell so badly. He figures that it may be valuable, magical, or even collectible. In a panic, he kicks the machine to tilt the ball into the "miss" slot so Raven loses.
==Characters== 
*Berrycream Frosting
*Raven
*Gentlemen Broncos Blu-ray (non-speaking)
*Milton Shake (non-speaking)
*Cooters Waitress (non-speaking)
*Mr. Ryu
*DrillGirl
*Crabella (non-speaking)
*Shino Bee (non-speaking)
*Dark Shi
*Omen
*Albert Tensai
*Takoyaki Girl (debut, non-speaking)
*Himeo (debut, non-speaking)
*Members of the Scare Club (debut, non-speaking)
*Angie (non-speaking)
*Ursula (debut, non-speaking)
*Slash Gonzalez (non-speaking)
*Lesbian Roronoa Zoro (debut, non-speaking)
*Red Saber (debut, non-speaking)
*666 (debut, non-speaking)
*Strawberry
*Sports Girl (debut)
*The Green Guy (debut)
*Ryan Sasuke
*Chupachups
*Bellboy (debut)
*Gibbons
*Kipp (debut)
*Dawn (debut)
*Puppie Doug (debut, non-speaking)
*Walking Talking Man (debut, non-speaking)
==Revelations==
*Berrycream Frosting is not human, and has actually been using a magical bell in her uniform to augment her physical form. 
**This reveal was originally made matter-of-factly on Twitter/X by the showrunner Robby, where he stated his favorite shot of the opening sequence was Chupachups', Reno Bee, Berrycream in her bunny form flying through the sky- claiming it was a transformation that the crew "haven't had a moment to use it yet".
*Omen is strong enough to break through walls.
*The room number for Raven and DrillGirl's classroom is revealed to be Room 214.
*Room 424's door was patched together with sticky tape following the last visit Raven, Berrycream and Dark Shi made there, only for it to be broken again.
*Multiple other clubs are revealed in this episode, including: 
** Cricket Club
**Fencing Club
**Clubs Club
**Enthusiast Coaster Club
**Drama Club
**Patch Notes Reading Club (only in notes)
**Scare Club
**Course Correctors Club (only in notes)
**LMAO and ROFL Club (only in notes)
** POOMP Club (only in notes)
** The Collector's Club
**The defunct Lost and Found Committee from the Other School Down The Road
*Angie (last seen in "DrillGirl Saves Santa Claus!") is revealed to have romantic feelings for Ursula.
**In addition to this, the school has a Japanese-style purikura photo booth. (Note: purikura is short for "purinto kurabu"; print club.)
*The rooms in the School go up to the number 666.
*The School has an auditorium.
*Strawberry is able to sing remarkably well.
*A loophole exposed during the merge of the School and the Other School Down the Road allowed for the merge of two clubs.
*Dawn is revealed to be attracted to Raven.
==Music==
The following music tracks are used in this episode.
Track title 	Source/Composer 	Usage
"OMOIDE IN MY HEAD - LAST LIVE AT SAPPORO" 	Number Girl 	Opening
"Exciting Date" 	Thousand Arms soundtrack, composed by ATLUS Sound Team 	Raven introduces the cultural festival
"Elegy" 	Super Mario RPG soundtrack, composed by Yoko Shimomura 	Raven and Dark Shi find Berrycream crying
"Skepticism" 	Muv-Luv Alternative soundtrack, composed by Hikaru Nanase 	Raven and friends confront Albert's maid café
"I'm Just an Ordinary Girl 4" 	Sailor Moon soundtrack, composed by Takanori Arisawa 	Montage of Raven and friends looking for Berrycream's bell
"Invincible Rainbow Arrow -Grand Finale-" 	AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES soundtrack, performed by A-set 	Performed by Strawberry as "Lunchtime Fun"; new lyrics and vocals by Mar Katoto
"The Warrior's Secret" 	Kirby of the Stars soundtrack, composed by Akira Miyagawa 	Albert's monologue
"Evil Scheme" 	Kirby of the Stars soundtrack, composed by Akira Miyagawa 	Raven and friends enter the Collector's Club
Untitled Stupid Mario Brothers background music 	Composer unknown, arranged by Nifty (@theniftytable) 	Raven and friends realize how Berrycream's bell got there
"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" 	Sailor Moon soundtrack, composed by Takanori Arisawa 	Raven transforms; "Sparkle on!" choir added
"Need Info" 	AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES soundtrack, composed by Keisuke Itō 	Kipp muses about the value of the bell
"Habara: Electromagnetic Anomaly" 	Contact soundtrack, composed by Masafumi Takada and Jun Fukuda 	Berrycream reveals herself to Kipp
"Last Boss BGM" 	Pac-Man Arrangement soundtrack, composed by Takayuki Ishikawa and Masahiro Fukuzawa	Kipp and Raven fight over the pachinko board
"Transformation" 	Sailor Moon S: The Movie soundtrack, composed by Takanori Arisawa 	Berrycream transforms; "Berrycream!" choir added
"Guts" 	Thousand Arms soundtrack, composed by ATLUS Sound Team 	Berrycream is back to normal
"ChuChu Lovely MuniMuni MuraMura PrinPrin Boron Nururu ReroRero"	Maximum the Hormone 	Credits
"Walkie Talkie Man" (Elite Beat Agents version) 	Steriogram 	The god damn Walking Talking Man
==Trivia==
*Meeks (@meeksnpoke), one of the series' animators and voice actors, had been asking to use "ChuChu Lovely..." as an ending as early as episode 2, but briefly also considered having Kipp dance to a jumpstyle song.
*The animation and voice acting from Raven's introduction in "The Perfect Perfect School Year", where she says "My name is Raven", is reused in this episode.
*Kipp's name is never uttered in the episode, as the crew forgot to write it into the script. His name can only be found in the credits.
*This episode is where the most content has been claimed to be cut.
*In a livestream with voice actor and artist Mar (@Markatoto), Dollip Daze revealed that the "Okay..?" reaction Raven gives Dawn to her awkward "pachinko moment" was, subconsciously, a reference to cadence with which Blake Belladonna said the same line in RWBY's third episode "The Shining Beacon, Pt.2".
*Robby has claimed that this appearance of the Walking Talking Man in an episode of the series would be his one and only.
==Errors== 
*The opening sequence's audio has a brief milisecond-long bump every time a new cut or effect appears. Robby has claimed on an October 8, 2023 livestream this was due to the editing being done on Magix Vegas and there being audio issues with the software.
*In the post-credits scene, the audio cuts in and out intermittently.
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