He counted down the camera man’s fingers yet again before putting on a happy smile and looking at the cameras. “And welcome back to UN Live for another discussion centering around Gentek with me the American rep. Tom, Chinese rep. Yao-Ming, Japanese rep. Akio, Russian rep. Sergi and British rep. Lauren.” Each respective person gave a greeting whether it was a nod or a wave, all except one person that remained unnamed sitting at the middle of the table, drinking a glass of water, awkwardly held in hoofs.

“But today as some of you viewers might have noticed we have a very special guest in the studio. Please give a warm welcome to one of the Princesses, Princess Twilight! The pony responsible for all scientific funding for almost every project their country can think of.” Tom finished with him propping his head on his hands as he leaned towards said Princess. “So tell us your royal highness, what brings you here today, beyond us inviting you?

Twilight gave a nervous smile and set down her glass of water, casting a glance at the Russian who was glaring at her. “Well um, as you said already I’m in charge of funding any scientific operation and I’m going around to make sure all the Bureaus are up to code. That and Gentek told me they’d like to see me so I figured I’d more or less swing by.”

Akio arched his eyebrow when she mentioned the Bureaus, while Sergi’s glare had a scowl added to it but otherwise remained silent. “So you’re in charge of the Bureaus?”

Twilight shook her head. “No just in charge of funding, as much as I’d want to help with the application and creation I just don’t have any idea as to what goes on.”

“Frigging help the PER then.” Muttered Sergi. Everybody at the table minus Twilight shot him a glare to which he shrugged. “Hey I don’t exactly see these freaks doing anything to sto--”

“Sergi? Please do us all a favor and shut the bloody hell up? I don’t think any of us want a diplomatic incident on our hands.” Lauren said matter-of-factly. “Ignoring our friend’s outburst here, what makes you the one in charge of the scientific operations of Equestria and not say Luna?”

Twilight gave a small smile at the change in topic. “Well Celestia has decided to take up the diplomatic relations side of the table, which is a major job for her. Nopony was expecting to wind up on a different planet with countries you’ve never seen or heard of before, that all think you’re out to get them. Which would leave either me or Luna in charge of domestic affairs and Luna has a lot more experience with handling that, which also takes up all her time because she has to calm down the populace and re-assure them nothing bad’s going to happen. So naturally funding most projects, scientific or not, has fallen to me.”

Yao-ming nodded. “So how is your kind handling this, we can’t exactly see for ourselves like you ponies can just by walking around the cities. Considering how peace-loving your culture seems to be it must be hard for some of them to know that they’re the cause of innocent deaths.”

Twilight sighed and her ears flattened down against her head. “Some are taking it okay since there’s the Conversion Bureaus popping up everywhere and they rationalized it to simply humans taking the serum. Others… not so much. Some ponies think along the lines of a few humans as in we have no right to do what we’re doing.” She paused to drink the rest of her water. “They think that the Bureaus are nothing more than horror factories changing how people think, and annihilating a culture.”

Tom raised a finger to ask a question, but was cut off by Sergi who rushed into the conversation. “What’s the excuse for changing how people think huh? All the info we’ve been given is, ‘oh it changes some chemicals or something’, that ain’t enough to change a person’s entire personality.”

Twilight scoffed. “That’s what makes a personality, not just experiences but chemicals too. There’s enough examples of people in your culture where they go crazy from too much testosterone, not enough sleep or some mental disease eating away at their brain. The serum completely changes their physiology, including the brain which results in radically different chemicals sent and received throughout the body. To stay that they wouldn’t change is like… saying smoking doesn’t change how something tastes. Chemicals are one of the determining factors in every species.”

Sergi gave a mocking smile. “I thought you didn’t know what went on in the Bureaus and were just in charge of funding?”

“It’s common sense and common science for both our worlds that chemicals alter your perception of reality. I was absorbed in books like that when I was a child and I remember most of it.”

He scowled and leaned back in his chair. “Anyways let’s stop overlooking the elephant in the room shall we? You and the other Princesses seem to be in favor of the human race changing to ‘save’ us, so are you helping the PER with their operations?” Her eye twitched slightly.

“Sergi!”

“Shut up Tom it’s a good question whether you all agree or not.”

Twilight waited a few seconds to respond, stopping her twitching eye and gave him a smile. “What makes you ask that?”

“Because these PER are a lot more efficient, organized and supplied then any terrorist group has the right to be and your gover--”

Twilight interrupted him. “And the same can be said of the HLF who have access to dirty bombs, jets, a few tanks and some ships.”

“We’re fighting for our planet here,” Sergi said, placing his hands on the table and leaning forward slightly.

“And we’re trying to live here.” She said dropping her smile and looking at him with half-lidded eyes. “In fact you should be thanking us for what we’ve done to stop the PER in comparison to what the rest of the world’s done to stop their HLF.”

Tom interjected by throwing a wadded piece of paper at Sergi to make him stutter and quickly added his own bit. “Just for the record we’ve kept the lid on such busts in the US low, due to the nature of the operations and who’s involved. But may I ask what Equestria has done?”

Twilight brought her hoof up to her chin and tapped it in mock thought. “Well talking about the PER in anything but a negative way has been outlawed, we’ve turned away suspected members who have been asking for money for their companies, severely restricted anything that could be used as a weapon to anypony that’s showing interest in visiting the world. We also run background checks on anypony who tries to leave. Oh we’ve also locked down an entire town down due to certain theories, and knowledge that pro-PER were using it as a base.”

“Well in Britain we’ve started restricting any arms to only military and a few policemen added that possession of any illegal firearms now includes up to a hundred thousand pounds per firearm along with the before implications.” Lauren said with a smile.

Yao-Ming shrugged. “We are the country with the largest population in the world, with an influx of the Japanese government personnel who refused to be converted and brought their many weapons. Hard to keep tabs on all of them you must understand, along with how crime was before all of this started occurring. “

“Considering that my country has either been assimilated into a New Equestria or is co-existing with China we don’t have too much say in countering either PER or HLF operations, heck we’re still working out the kinks with China right now.” Akio said with a sigh.

They all looked to Tom to see what he had to say. “Hey like I said the busts we’ve done are kept quiet due to how we’re proceeding and we aren’t about to restrict the people’s second amendment rights. We are known for having one of the highest, if not the highest, gun to citizen ratio in the world.”

A few of them shrugged and commented slightly but otherwise kept quiet as they looked at Sergi. “What? We treat the HLF like we do any other terrorist organization.”

Twilight rolled her eyes. “From what I hear anybody who are thought to be PER are immediately thrown in jail, regardless of actual evidence against them.”

He dismissed her accusations with a wave and looked to the side. “Baseless rumors, besides if we are in fact treating the PER as something more dangerous than other terrorist organizations, it’s because they are more dangerous. Not just in goal but also due to the fact they’ve done more to Mother Russia by targeting our government heads.”

“Wasn’t an oil tanker blown to smithereens in one of your harbors?” Akio asked.

“Inconclusive evidence of what organization did it, or even if it was one.” He looked to Twilight, through his eyelashes as he drummed his fingers on the table. “So what theories were you talking about earlier?”

She gave a slight grin, her eyes darting to the right where the cameraman were busy waving at them. “Hey I think that they’re trying to say something.”

Tom looked over before looking back at her.. “Oh well that’s the signal for the commercial break, which means according to you earlier you had somewhere to get to after this talk. Well it was a pleasure talking to you Princess and we thank you for your time.” At that he turned to the cameras. “Next up, infamous or famous, depending on how you look at him, HLF member Johnson Senson is captured by a joint operation between Equestrian forces and Canadian Special Forces. We’ll go over how this operation went down as best we can, with the Canadian Representative.”

Author's Note

I have no idea what that news channel is, just though that UN would need a little Jingle.
Also points to whoever can tell what this story is about just from name, Crossover.

Hint it's in the name.