Smartphone

Earth, Mount Paozu.

Son Goku and Piccolo were currently locked in a sparring match high in the sky.

Finding his daily training a bit tedious, Son Gohan sat cross-legged on the grass by himself.

Suddenly, as if struck by a thought, Son Gohan retrieved an ancient mirror from his system.

This was none other than the Heaven-Reaching Mirror.

Once the Heaven-Reaching Mirror was brought out, three figures quickly appeared upon its surface.

One was short in stature, with blue skin and a small round cap perched on his head.

This person was none other than the villain from the first Dragon Ball series, Pilaf.

The other two were his henchmen, Shu and Mai.

At this moment, the three of them were busy constructing a combat robot.

Although Pilaf had never managed to successfully collect the seven Dragon Balls, he had not yet abandoned his dream of using them to fulfill his ambition of world domination.

Upon seeing the trio, Son Gohan touched the surface of the Heaven-Reaching Mirror, and his entire body was instantly teleported directly in front of Pilaf and his crew.

Seeing Son Gohan appear so suddenly, Pilaf and his subordinates were immediately startled.

"Who... who are you?"

Son Gohan smiled and replied.

"My name is Son Gohan!"

"Son Gohan? Why does that name sound so familiar?"

"Yeah, his name is a lot like that guy named Son Goku!"

Shu said, rubbing his chin with his right hand.

"Son... Son Goku!"

As soon as they heard that name, the expressions on their faces changed in terror.

Son Goku was a nightmare for the three of them; if it hadn't been for him, they would have long since collected the Dragon Balls and ruled the entire world.

"Do you know my dad?"

"Your... your dad!"

Upon hearing this, the three of them immediately stumbled backward in fear.

"That's right!"

As Son Gohan spoke, he walked up to the robot they had built and asked.

"Is this a robot you made?"

"...Yes!"

"And what are you making this robot for?"

"N-nothing, just playing around!"

Pilaf said with a dry laugh.

"Right, just playing around!"

Mai added.

"Is that so? Then could you help me make a smartphone?"

"A smartphone?"

"Yes!"

As Son Gohan spoke, he picked up a piece of paper from the table and drew a smartphone.

The Dragon Ball anime was created in the eighties and nineties, so Akira Toriyama's concept of a mobile phone was limited to the devices of that era.

Therefore, there were no smartphones on Earth during the Dragon Ball Z era; they only began to appear later in Dragon Ball Super.

"What kind of phone is this? Why doesn't it even have buttons?"

"This is called a smartphone!"

"A smartphone!"

"That's right. It uses a touchscreen for input, so it doesn't need any buttons at all!"

"A touchscreen?"

Son Gohan nodded.

"By the way, I've been chatting with you for so long, but I still don't know your names."

"My name is Pilaf!"

"I'm Mai, like the 'mai' in dancing!"

"I'm Shu, like the 'shu' in repairing air conditioners!"

"King Pilaf, Shu, Sister Xiao Wu!"

"Wait, why do you call Xiao Wu 'Sister' but address us by our names?"

King Pilaf looked displeased upon hearing this.

Son Gohan looked at the two of them and said.

"You're about the same height as me, so I just assumed you were kids too!"

"What did you say!"

King Pilaf was immediately incensed.

"King Pilaf, calm down!"

Shu and Xiao Wu hurriedly held King Pilaf back.

"Forget it, King Pilaf, he's just a little kid, don't lower yourself to his level!"

"Exactly!"

King Pilaf snorted coldly and said nothing more.

"So, King Pilaf, Shu, let's continue talking about the smartphone!"

"Smartphone!"

"Right, besides the touchscreen interface, I want to tell you about the other functions of this phone!"

"Other functions?"

"Yes, this phone has Bluetooth, GPS positioning, internet connectivity..."

Son Gohan rattled off a long list of smartphone applications.

Originally, King Pilaf had intended to just cobble together a phone to appease Son Gohan.

But after hearing about the massive business potential of a smartphone, he couldn't help but feel tempted.

The only problem was that they had never made such a thing before, so it might take quite a bit of time.

"If you can make this phone, we can promote it extensively and develop a ton of mobile apps!"

"We can help make the phone, but how do we solve the issue of a mobile network?"

"Don't worry, I'll ask Aunt Bulma for help with that!"

"Bulma, you mean the heiress of the Hoi-Poi Capsule Corporation?"

Xiao Wu asked.

"That's right! Well, you guys keep up the good work, I'll be heading off now?"

"Mm!"

King Pilaf nodded.

He had been wishing for Son Gohan to leave for a long time.

Seeing this, Son Gohan used Instant Transmission and vanished.

"He... he disappeared!"

Shu was startled.

Xiao Wu nodded.

"So, King Pilaf, are we really going to help that brat make a smartphone?"

"Mm!"

King Pilaf nodded.

"But what about the Dragon Balls, King Pilaf?"

Shu asked.

"Of course we aren't giving up on them!"

King Pilaf said, tapping Shu on the head.

"If we can make a fortune off the smartphone that brat mentioned, we'll have plenty of capital to use for finding the Dragon Balls!"

West City, Bulma's house.

Bulma was lying leisurely on a chair in the backyard reading a newspaper when a figure suddenly appeared in front of her.

It was Son Gohan.

"Aunt Bulma!"

Hearing Son Gohan's voice, Bulma immediately lowered the newspaper she was holding.

"Gohan!"

Son Gohan nodded.

"Gohan, what brings you here so suddenly today?"

Son Gohan smiled and said.

"Aunt Bulma, I would like you to help me increase the gravity in the Gravity Chamber to five hundred times!"

"Fi... five hundred times!"

Bulma was startled.

"But Gohan, I only just helped you upgrade the Gravity Chamber to three hundred times not long ago!"

"It's alright, Aunt Bulma, I have already fully adapted to three hundred times gravity!"

"By the way Gohan, didn't your mother want you to focus on your studies? Is she no longer requiring you to study?"

Upon hearing this, Son Gohan let out a dry laugh.

Talk about hitting a sore spot.

"No, I have a clone at home studying for me now!"

"A clone?"

"That's right!"

As he spoke, Son Gohan plucked a hair from his head and transformed it into a clone of himself.

"Tw... two Gohans!"

Bulma was shocked.

Son Gohan smiled and said.

"Aunt Bulma, the other one is my clone!"

"Then Gohan, can this clone do anything for you?"

"It can, but it does have one drawback!"

"What drawback?"

"It isn't like us humans; it doesn't need to eat, drink, or use the bathroom!"

"..."

Bulma was speechless.

Is that a drawback? That is clearly an advantage!

However, upon second thought, if Son Gohan's clone were to be fed by Chi-Chi while studying, wouldn't it be very easy for him to be discovered!