Author's Note: I got the idea for this one from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so yeah... sick humor ahead!

"It'll cost you an arm and a leg."

Once there was a boy who knocked upon the Gate…

"Oh all-knowing Gate, tell me, what is THE answer?" he asked. In response to his request there came a voice, ominous, as though two inhuman persons were speaking at the same time, and it said, "THE answer? The answer to what?"

"The answer to life, the universe, and everything!" the boy replied.

"The fee for this knowledge is your leg. Is that acceptable?" the voice asked.

"Yes! Take it!" The boy replied. There appeared behind him a being known as 'Truth', also known as the 'universe', or 'God', or 'knowledge', or 'one' or 'all', and most importantly, it is as 'you'. Truth stepped forward, and as its foot hit the floor the boy's leg disintegrated from the knee down and reintegrated where Truth's leg should have been.

The boy fell to the floor grasping his stump in pain, breathing heavily but gritting his teeth. "So? What's the answer?" he asked, trying to keep the pain out of his voice. "The answer…to life, the universe, and everything, is … 42," the ominous voice replied.

The boy stared at the Gate in disbelief for a few seconds before he shouted, "What kind of answer is that? I want a refund!"

"It is THE answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest, is that you don't actually know what the question is," the voice said. "Then what is the question?" he asked in an agitated voice.

The ominous voice once more replied, to which the boy cursed under his breath: "It'll cost you an arm." "Damn."