Absurdly Long Ago...

...there was a small wombat who was fried. Sadly, this wombat died because of the frying, and did not return. The wombat was very forgetable and had no family whatsoever (no one knew where it had come from, or if it even had been properly born). Naturally, our story is not about the wombat.

Absurdly Long Ago a seerseer (seerseers are twice as impressive as seers, they can really see--they have x-ray vision--plus they're just really intimidating) seared a pair of her mocassins when she accidentally discovered that she has laser vision along with the traditional x-ray vision.

In general, laser vision is not a good thing to have. Look at Scott Summers (also known as Cyclops), who is one of the X-Men. He had laser vision, and where did it get him? In lots of trouble. He can't go anywhere without wearing sunglasses. (Not that sunglasses would help much, anyway. Even if they did work, they wouldn't be much help in this story, since it happened absurdly long ago.) The only kind of laser vision that is good to have, is vision that has been fixed by lasers. That's not very cheap, though, and I doubt they had it back A.L.A., either.

Anyway, this seerseer discovered that she had laser vision when she fried her wombat shoes (which, I have just discovered, were actually made from the skin of the wombat that this story is not about that got fried to death). Of course, she had no clue what a laser was, since lasers didn't exist A.L.A. She looked very surprised (thankfully just surprised, since her shoes had not been on her feet) and cried out. "Hagala!"

And from then on that's what lasers were called. Which, of course, would change the history of the world in drastic ways no one could ever imagine.