Disclaimer: I still don't own Sailor Moon, but if someone wants to gift the franchise to me, I wouldn't say no.

Had another plot bunny pop into my head. Not enough for a real story, but at least it was a silly train of thought.

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"You two own our trademarks?" Usagi exclaimed, definitely shocked at this sudden revelation. She'd been wondering aloud about how people were able to sell things like video games and toys of the Sailor Senshi, especially after all the times they'd used the Sailor V games as the entrance to their secret base, not to mention all of the plushies and kids shirts. Heck, she even owned a lunch box with Sailor Moon on it just for the novelty.

"Well it wasn't right that people were just able to make a profit off of you girls and you didn't see a cent of it, so we did something about it early on." Luna answered, tapping away on the control pad and bringing up several lists and documents.

"It took a bit of time," Artemis explained further as Luna brought up more visual aides, "and admittedly some clever manipulation of magic and some minor forgery work to get us identities as other than a pair of house cats, but we ended up setting up a dummy company to be the sole owners of the Sailor Senshi's branding and likenesses. All toys, clothes, games, pretty much anything that has your secret identities on it, we get a sizeable share of the profits on."

"But we didn't stop there. Since they really couldn't come forward on it, we ended up staking a claim in the villains as well. We've got control of the likenesses of everyone from Queen Beryl to Prince Diamond." Sure enough, pictures of various crane machine dolls of their fiercest foes appeared, and Usagi herself couldn't help giggling at some of them. "Made for quite a few amusing bits of merchandise," Luna said, clearly pleased with herself. "All of it owned by the Mao Corporation. Needless to say, you girls will have no problem affording to get into good colleges, though we still expect you to work hard on your exams."

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AN: My good friend Wyld came up with some additional silliness, and I couldn't help including it.

Basically an earlier take where Queen Beryl and company are dragged into the Japanese magical court of law for violating the Mao Corporation's copyright claim on their entire organization, and due to magic recognizing their right, end up losing everything, including control of their forces and the entire Dark Kingdom. This ends up with Usagi and company now somehow in command of legions of youma and other monsters and such. The bad news is, Usagi's Sailor Moon powers are majorly nerfed as her Mana now goes to feeding the new Dark Moon Kingdom. The GOOD news is, she has a literal army to send instead, who loves her for it.

An amusing idea, but I didn't really have anywhere to go with it. If anyone thinks they can do something with this, let me know, I'd be happy to let someone run with it.

JM4L