A/N: These are a few scenes I wrote prior to seeing the movie that I ended up cutting or changing. Instead of scrapping them completely, I decided to put them in a bonus chapter. None of these are canon with the actual story.

***Buildup to an alternate version of the Crystal Prep spy mission***

One two snare four one two snare four one two snare four one two snare left one -

"Aagh, damn it! This is impossible!" I hate this thing!

"Hi-hat pedal again?"

I look at AJ. "It feels like trying to kick a ball with your dominant foot immediately after kicking one with your other foot."

"Then try kicking with both feet at once."

"Both feet at once?"

...

Maybe...

One two snare four one two snare lift one two snare four one two snare lift

"It worked! Thanks, AJ. Don't know how I never thought of that."

"I am never spying with her again!" Rainbow and Pinkie walk into the garage. Rainbow's clearly upset.

"How'd it go?" I ask.

"Rainbow blew our cover," Pinkie says.

"That's because Pinkie was being as unstealthy as possible!" Rainbow says. "She has no indoor voice!"

"Of course I have an indoor voice. It's the same as my outdoor voice!"

"That's the problem!"

"Did you get any info?" I ask.

"Other than the sound of somebody doing sit-ups?"

"Maybe you could try again tomorrow with someone else."

"No way! They're probably expecting us now."

"Well, what about the day after?"

"I guess I could try, but they already know what I look like. I'm pretty sure if they find me again, they'll put 2 and 2 together."

"Then I'll go. This doesn't have to be a 2-person job."

A/N: While I was thinking of how to include him in the shorts, this was one of the ideas I came up with. The actual spy mission wouldn't have been very exciting this way, but I was hoping I could at least use the drum part somewhere.

***Unfinished alternate version of Twilight investigating the statue and being chased away by Sunset and Cloudflare***

I notice something in the corner of my eye. I look in that direction, and there's somebody in a greenish-blue hoodie standing at the statue. They're holding some type of purple device in their right hand and their left hand is on the spot where the portal would be.

"Hey!"

They turn around. It's a girl.

"What are you doing?"

She starts running away.

"Wait!" The two of us give chase.

"Get back here!"

As we're about to cross the street, a car drives past us and cuts us off. I quickly check both ways and hurry across the street as a bus pulls up.

"Wait!"

The girl gets on the bus, and I follow. The doors close behind me and the bus starts moving. I follow her to the back.

"What were you doing to the statue?" I sit down.

"I-I was just looking."

"You were touching the side facing the school, and you were holding that purple thing."

She stays quiet.

"Who are you?" I pull the hood back. She's wearing glasses, and her hair, dark blue with purple and... light red, I think? ...highlights, is tied back in a bun, and she has bangs. She has a hair clip of what looks like a six-pointed star. Her eyes and skin are purple.

"Huh..."

"Is something wrong?"

It's gotta be a coincidence. "It's nothing."

She sighs. "My name's Twilight Sparkle, and I go to Crystal Prep Academy." Twilight? A Crystal Prep student? "You attend Canterlot High, right? Have there been any strange occurrences this school year?"

As confused as I am by there being another Twilight... "Why should I tell a Crystal Prep student anything?"

"I don't care about this dumb rivalry our schools have. I just want to get to the bottom of everything. A lot of unusual things have been happening, and they all seem to be connected to your school."

"Then why don't you find out for yourself?"

"That's what I was doing until you and your girlfriend chased me away."

"She's not my girlfriend!"

She sighs. "Just tell me what's up with the statue."

A/N: I never intended to use this one. I was curious to see how an interaction between the two of them would go that early in the story.

***Original version of Cloudflare reuniting with Olivia***

I see a girl standing at the snack table. Is that her? Anybody could have brown hair, but she's the only brown-haired girl I know who wears socks that cover her knees, but don't go all the way up her thighs.

I walk up to her. "Olivia?"

She turns around. "Cloudflare?"

Yup, it's her. I smile. "It's been a while."

"Oh my gosh, I knew it was you!" The two of us hug.

"I didn't know you went to Crystal Prep. I thought you moved away."

"I did. It was just to the other side of town."

"Why didn't you at least come to visit?"

"Because I didn't want any of the students here to recognize me." She looks around. "But from what I've seen, they don't remember me at all."

"You could've called, at least."

"I never got your number."

Wait, really? "I never gave you it?" How could I have forgotten? "What kind of crappy boyfriend doesn't give his girlfriend his number...?"

She holds my hands. "You weren't a crappy boyfriend. You were the only person here that wanted to be my friend. That was the happiest I felt all year. I could overlook something minor like that." She tightens her grip slightly. "You know, since we're not in the same school anymore, maybe we could pick up where we left off."

I sigh. As nice as that would be... "I don't know... I'm trying to sort out my feelings for someone else. Plus, you and I haven't talked since October. Jumping back into a relationship doesn't seem like it'd work."

"Oh..." She lets go of my hands. "I understand. We can still hang out, right?"

"Of course." She smiles. "I'm glad to see you're doing better. Do they not know about your leg?"

"Oh, no. I'm much more careful to remember where I put my prosthetic. I got an extra one after I moved away just in case. No way am I going through all that again. So what about you? You look much happier than when I left."

"It's a long story."

"Hey, Cloudflare." I turn around, and Sunset walks up to us. This isn't good.

"I gotta go."

I grab Olivia's wrist as she tries to leave. "It's okay. She's changed."

"I don't wanna be anywhere near her."

"Who's this?" Sunset asks.

"Olivia. The girl I used to date, remember?"

"Please let go of me."

I take ahold of her other wrist. "Do you trust me?"

"Well, yes..."

"I know it's hard to believe, but Sunset Shimmer isn't like how she used to be. She's really nice now."

"Olivia," Sunset says, "I'm so sorry for putting you through all that. That was the old me. I can't take back what I've done, but maybe we can put the past behind us."

"After what you did to me? To him?" Olivia looks at me. "I just... I really don't want to be around her."

"It's okay," Sunset says. "I'll leave you two alone..." She walks away.

"Sunset, wait!"

...

I feel bad for her. No matter how much she tries to forget it, her past keeps creeping up. At the same time, I understand why Olivia wants to avoid her.

"I'm sorry. I just don't see how someone like her could've changed her ways so quickly," she says.

"I thought the same thing. Then I saw first-hand how she changed. If you actually get to know her..."

"Hey there, Olivia." The Crystal Prep student with light blue hair walks up to us.

"Hi, Sugarcoat."

She looks at me. "Is this the boy you told us about?"

Olivia nods. "This is Cloudflare."

Sugarcoat looks at me. "What did you see in her that the rest of this school didn't?"

"My old friends said everybody would either tease her or avoid her because they were afraid of being teased themselves. I thought everybody needs at least one friend, and I didn't think Sunset would be cruel enough to ruin my reputation if she saw me with her."

"Olivia told us about that girl. Total b****."

As much as I want to defend Sunset, I know how true that was.

"Olivia should be thanking you. Your actions got her out of this hellhole."

"Well, things did eventually get better." I look at Olivia. "For both of us, by the looks of it."

"Sugarcoat! Olivia!" The green-haired girl walks toward us. "Stop flirting with the competition. We need to discuss our game plans." She looks at me. "This the boy?

Olivia nods.

The girl whispers something to Sugarcoat.

"Olivia, go back to the rest of the team," Sugarcoat says.

"But I still want to chat with him."

"You two can catch up later," the green-haired girl says.

Olivia sighs. "See ya later."

"See ya."

After she leaves, the two girls turn their attention to me. "So you're on the Wondercolts team, huh?"

I nod. "Yes I am."

"Why?"

"What do you mean?"

"Everybody at CHS made your school life and your girlfriend's a living hell," Sugarcoat says, "yet you're representing them in the Friendship Games."

"And on the same team as Sunset Shimmer, no less," the green-haired girl says. They smile.

I recognize their tones. "No."

"Excuse me?"

"I know what you two are trying to do. I'm not falling for it this time."

"We're not trying anything," the green-haired girl says.

"You worry about your team. I'll worry about mine." I head back to the rest of my team.

A/N: I actually like the way I wrote this, especially since it shows he's no longer easily manipulated and Olivia is still afraid of Sunset, but it didn't match up with the actual events. In my pre-movie draft, Olivia became friends with the Shadowbolts girls (minus Twilight) as a result of her hating most of the students at CHS.

***Unfinished epilogue involving Discord as the superintendent***

Sunset and I leave my locker and head for the exit.

"I'm glad everything's back to normal," she says.

"Yeah. For now, anyway."

"You think Olivia would want to come back to CHS?"

"I asked her yesterday. She said there are too many bad memories at this place. She thought it'd be easier after being away for half a year, but nope."

"It's a shame. The students would probably be more accepting of her now."

I notice a man walking through the hall.

"Superintendent Discord? What's he doing here?"

"Discord? He's the superintendent?"

"Were you expecting someone else?"

"I wasn't expecting him. In Equestria, Discord is -"

"Hello there." He walks up to us. "I presume you two are... Cloudflare and Sunset Shimmer?"

"Yeah..."

"Oh, good. If you don't mind, I'd like to have a word with the two of you. It won't take long."

"We're not in trouble, are we?" Sunset asks.

"No, not at all," Discord says. "I just want to talk about the last couple school events."

Sounds like we are. "Okay, fine."

"Great! Follow me."

He leads us through the halls, and we walk into Principal Celestia's office. In there, she and Vice Principal Luna are sitting in two of the chairs closest to the door. Sunset and I sit in the other 2 chairs, and he sits at the desk.

"I thought you only wanted to talk with me and my sister," Luna says.

"I did, but I saw these two on my way here, and this matter also concerns them." Yup. Definitely in trouble.

"I've received several reports during the school year of unusual incidents occurring on school grounds and at the local amphitheater." He looks at Sunset. "According to school records, the night of the Fall Formal, Sunset Shimmer made a hole in the school entrance roughly 200 feet in diameter."

Sunset looks very uneasy. She was really trying to forget that.

"How one student was able to do that, I can't fathom, and she should've been expelled for it. But I digress. Destruction of school property is typically committed by students with a lengthy rap sheet, yet this is the only thing Miss Shimmer has been written up for." He looks at the principals. "The administration offices have gotten a few e-mails and phone calls from parents about her, in their words, running the student body."

"It's true that Sunset Shimmer was a bit of a troublesome student," Luna says. "However, she never broke any school rules until the Fall Formal."

"Since it was her first offense," Celestia says, "I let her stay at Canterlot High if she fixed the hole and sat through a week of in-school suspension."

"I see..." Discord looks at Sunset again. "Exactly how did you take out the entire front entrance?"

She sighs. "I turned into a demon using a magical crown from another world and destroyed the front of the school with a magic blast." Every time it seems like she's gotten past that, someone makes her bring it up again.

"Well... I like practical jokes as much as the next guy, but there's a time and place for them."

"But I'm telling the -"

"I'll find out the real story later." He looks at me. "Anyway, on to Cloudflare. I looked through your files, and I see you came to Principal Celestia's office several times this school year. What were those visits about?"

And now it's my turn to remember something I'd rather forget. "The other students were picking on me every day."

"What for?"

"Somebody saw me hanging out with a girl they made fun of for being handicapped."

"Who saw you?"

Damn it, I was hoping he wouldn't ask that. I look at Sunset, who's nervously looking at me. I'm sorry...

"It was Sunset Shimmer."

"The same Sunset Shimmer who's sitting next to you?"

I nod. "She saw the two of us together after school one day, then uploaded a video showing us and sent it to the entire school."

"Where is this video?"

"I deleted it a few months ago," Sunset says. "Trying to put my past behind me."

He looks at the principals. "Celestia, Luna, were either of you aware of the video?"

"It was never brought to our attention," Celestia says. "If Cloudflare said something about it, we might've acted sooner."

If I said something about it?! "I told you about it several times! I came to your office 10 times in 4 months, and each time you said, 'Oh, I'll look into it', yet nothing happened!"

"When you stopped talking with me, I thought the problem resolved itself."

"That's because I was fed up with you doing nothing! Sooner or later, you realize it's not working, so you stop wasting your time."

"Why didn't you talk to me about it?" Luna asks. "I would've tried to stop it."

Does your sister not tell you anything? "I thought about it, but I was so fed up with your sister not taking it seriously, I assumed you'd do the same."

...

"Now that I think about it, how are both of you so out-of-touch with what goes on at this school that neither of you noticed Sunset was ruling the school the entire time she was here?"

"That's enough!" Discord interrupts.

I sigh. "Superintendent Discord, please go easy on Sunset. She doesn't act anything like how she used to. She helped save the school twice this year."

"I assume the first time was during the musical showcase that turned into a band competition?"

I nod.

A/N: I fully outlined this scene, but scrapped it when I was almost finished writing it. No one would receive any punishment right away, and I would've left the result ambiguous.