(Part of the Doomsdayverse)

It’s audition day, and hardly anypony around even has a shot at cinching it. Mostly because they all bailed the instant they found out what the audition was for.

But Lightning Dust is different from those quitters, because if there’s one thing she isn’t, it’s a quitter. Another thing she isn’t is employed, so there’s that to worry about too, but it won’t matter, because by the end of the day, she’ll have a job and a new family (did I mention that’s what the audition was for?)!

Provided she doesn’t blow the audition, and given the gaggle of weirdos and numbskulls she’s trying to join, anything could happen.

Note: This story does not contain doomsday devices. Just thought you should know going in, in case that's a nonstarter.

This story is a sequel to Anypony for Doomsday?

Velvet Step is a mostly ordinary earth pony from Canterlot. She dances in the ballet, goes to night clubs, and has the best friends that any pony could ask for.

And then, her bathroom suddenly, inexplicably and incomprehensibly becomes a gateway to another dimension (that's where the "mostly" comes in, you see).

Now, trapped in a different Equestria, her only hopes of returning home lie squarely in the capable professional unlikely-to-wreck-anything hooves of a frustrated princess and a retired king with a penchant for dark magic. Will Velvet conquer the long journeys, dangerous missions, sleepovers and editing mistakes that stand in her way, or will this be her last (mis)step?

Find out by starting with the Prologue below, seriously, you'll be missing context if you don't.
Special thanks to goshhhh for her incredible cover art, and for being able to interpret what I wanted even better than what I myself was capable of.

Special thanks also to Crystal Wishes for allowing me to use her OC — Velvet Step — before she really understood exactly what it was that she was agreeing to.

(Part of the Doomsdayverse)

Nightmare Night. At the witching hour when the clock strikes twelve, Sombra "Pops" Crepúsculo tries desperately to prepare a midnight snack to stop his tummy rumblies so he can sleep.

But when an nth dimensional terror from Beyond (also known as "Out of This Dimension!") comes for him and the rest of Equestria, will he prevail and save everyone? Or will it be the Final Doomsday™?

(It's a comedy, so... we're guessing it probably won't be, but hey! Everyone was surprised by the quality of Equestria Girls, so you never know!)

(We have just been informed that not everyone was surprised by the quality of Equestria Girls, so hey! You really never know!)

(Oh, and perhaps most importantly of all, cover art by goshhhh, as usual!)

“All unicorns build doomsday devices!” Those five words were words that Twilight Sparkle never expected to hear next to each other and in that specific order in a sentence.

King Sombra has returned, and upon discovering that Twilight Sparkle has not even considered building a doomsday device, has given her an ultimatum: Either she builds a device that has the sole purpose of destroying the world, or he starts defacing her books.

The clock is ticking: Will Twilight be able to get in touch with her inner mad science and save her imperiled reading material? More importantly, is she really destined to bring about the end of the world? Are unicorns really nothing more than a cosmic reset button, poised to bring a halt to all existence at a moment's notice even in the face of past evidence suggesting that they're not very good at it? Will Twilight succeed where all others have presumably failed? Does she even want to?

Join in as we follow the journey to answer the question on minds the world over: “Anypony for Doomsday?”