You are a (A/T)

The problem is feeling invincible and actually being invincible are two very different things.

"Okay what happened this time?" Knuckles asked, arms crossed.

"What? Nothing! Nothing happened." (Y/N) replied waving her hands in a dismissive way, completely failing at avoiding the question.  

"So I suppose that bandage on your wrist is just for decoration." he asked pointing at her lower right arm.

Yet he ignored the two plasters of her face, the small bandage on her left ear and at the tip of her tail, plus the scabs on both her knees. Already knowing where they'd came from.

"Yes! Decoration! Your absolutely right!" she said glad he'd given her an excuse.

It didn't work though. She could only take a few seconds of his 'really' face before she told her tale.

"I was in town and some guy tried to run off with this woman's handbag so I ran after him, but after I got the bag back I tripped and scraped my arm on the pavement." she explained giving a huff. 

Knuckles gave a sigh, this was anything but new. (Y/N)'s middle name might as well have been 'clumsy'. Barely a day could go by without her having to go to one of the team and ask for help treat her accidental wounds.  

"Come on then." he instructed leading her to the base steps of the ME shrine.

This was practically routine for them. When (Y/N) treated her wounds herself she did so vey poorly and so when she came up to Angel Island Knuckles would do it for her properly.

"You'd think a Daredevil like you would be better at treating their own wounds." he said re-wrapping the bandage around her arm after having applied an ointment to the sprain.

Over the time Knuckles had known her and her troublesome personality he'd given her the appropriate nickname of 'Daredevil'. Because as much as trouble found her she went looking for trouble.

"Well I'm not very good at it and you are." she said.

"Is it any wonder why?" he challenged, referring to all the practise he'd had thanks to her. 

Her response was a pathetic laugh.

"So let's see, you burnt the tip of your tail on Tails' Bunsen burner, cut your face when you walked into a door and when your grip slipped on a butter knife, tore your ear when a badnik ripped out your earning and cut both your knees when you tried and failed to climb up the face of a cliff. And it's only Wednesday." Knuckles summed up her injuries of this week alone, barely giving her injuries of last week a chance to heal. 

"Hey I'm not doing to bad! No where near as many injuries as last week." she beamed with pride.

He just gave an irritated sigh.

"You should stop looking for trouble." he warned.

"But trouble finds me!" she argued.

"Yeah, after you do half the job for it. Your honestly a trouble magnet." he sighed. 

"Nah! I prefer the nickname Daredevil!" she giggled.

There really was no way of getting her to listen.

~A random day~

"Knuckles! Hey Knuckles!"

Looking around in the street he was walking down Knuckles couldn't see anyone who could have called him.

"Up here!" the voice called again.

"Oh no..." he mumbled under his breath.

Looking up he saw (Y/N) poking her head out of a window on the third floor of a random building. She gave him a big wave from the window sill.

"What are you doing in town!?" she called down to him.

"I came to see Sonic!" he called back.

"What's that!? I can't hear you! Hang on I'll come down!" she responded.

But unlike a normal mobian who would use the stairs she stepped on the edge of the window frame.

"(Y/N) don't!"

Too late she already jumped.

WHAM!

Hmmm, that was quite a soft landing. She thought.

And then she realised why...

"*Groan* Get off me you idiot..." Knuckles grumbled, who had acted as a crash mat.

"Oh I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Usually I can jump a height like that!" she stumbled over her words quickly getting up, before pulling Knuckles up to his feet.

He didn't say anything as he held an annoyed expression as he dusted himself off lightly.

"You idiot! Why did you jump from the window!" he suddenly scalded her.

"Well it was more quicker! And you jump off of buildings all the time!" she whined.

"I can fly, you can't." he stated.

"Whatever..." she grumbled giving a pout.

"Why were you even in that building?" he wondered, knowing the block of flats she had just been in wasn't where she lived.

"A boy nicked a girls teddy bear so I went to get it back for her then took her home, I jumped from the staircase window." she explained.

"I told you that you go looking for trouble you Daredevil." he said.

"Yeah well troubles a lot more fun!" she complained like a child.

"So you like getting an injury every time you find trouble?"

"It's a price I'm willing to pay." she said puffing her chest out in pride.

"Oh yeah? I'd like to see you go a week without getting a cut, bruise,burn or sprain." he challenged.

"Is that a challenge Knuckle-head?" she smirked.

And the wager was set.

For the next few days (Y/N) really did try her best to stay out of trouble and only keeping the injuries she had. But it wasn't easy, she couldn't jump off tall buildings, throw herself on the ground to stop someone or something from falling or be her usual adventurous self. Basically the only way she could be sure she wouldn't loose the challenge was to  sit about most of the day reading manga and listening to music.  

But even then, it got boring after a few days. However being a team member of Team Sonic, it wasn't long until she was needed in another battle against Eggman....

"Oh ho ho ho ho! You all seem to be struggling with my latest creation the Pyromaniac!" Eggman chortled, enjoying the sight he had of from his Eggmobile.  

"Sonic! Bust that water main there to put the fires out whilst Knuckles and (Y/N) distract that thing!" Tails instructed whilst he helplessly tried to shut the badnik down as he clung onto the open control panel whilst the dragon shaped robot wrecked havoc.

Like the name suggests this badnik had flame throwers in it's dragon shaped mouth, and was causing fires quicker than they could put them out.

"Hey 'Smokey' over here!" Knuckles yelled throwing a punch at it's side denting the metal.

With it's attention else where Sonic took the chance to dash towards the water main, whilst (Y/N) hung back slightly ready to help out Knuckles. With his well practised footwork it wasn't hard to avoid the flames, but this badnik had a trick up it's sleeve.

It withdrew another flame thrower from the end of it's tail and aimed it at the distracting echidna who didn't notice the extra weapon, but (Y/N) did.

"Knuckles watch out!" she cried.

But she wasn't as fast as Sonic.

His body ignited into a red pain as crimson as his fur, red soring, aggravating pain. Upon the contact of the flames he didn't even have the strength in him to scream in pain. Knees inexistent he stumbled to the floor, the desperate cries of his friends being the last thing he heard before everything in his world went black.

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"I-is he going to be alright?"

"Yeah, he'll survive. But only just barely..."

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It'd had been 4 hours since they'd brought Knuckles to the hospital and bandaged him up, if it weren't for the use of Chaos heal then he wouldn't even be breathing. His fur was all singed and would probably grow back rather dull, but that didn't matter, he was breathing which was all that mattered. That's what (Y/N) thought.

Sitting on a hard plastic chair next to the bed of the sleeping echidna, she thought about many things. She should have been faster, she should be stronger. If she didn't have her injuries, which were a pin prick compared to Knuckles' burns, would she have been able to prevent this from happening? what if-

"Ow...."

Her ears perked up seeing his purple pupils appear as he tried to sit up.

"No! No! You can't move! You'll make your burns worse!" She panicked.

"What, happened?" he asked slowly ignoring her instructions, regretting it as he was forced to stop moving wincing at the burns.

He felt stiff with all the bandages wrapped around him.

"Eggman's Badnik had another flame thrower in it's tail, I'm sorry! It's all my fault! If I had been faster!" she apologized desperately.

"It's Eggman's fault that good for nothing-

He was cut short by a pang on pain.

"Still, at least you won the bet..." he said quickly, trying to divert from the obvious pain he was in.

"Who cares about the stupid fucking bet! We should have set it for you!" she snapped her concern being translated into anger and hot tears that threatened to spill.

But she didn't give him a chance to say anything.

"And you wont have to worry about me injuring myself because I'm going to be here looking after you. It's my tern to practise my medic skills." she said sternly.

"Great (!) So I'm a practise dummy?" he said, a hint of humour somewhere amoungst the pain in his voice.

"Shut up! I'm not leaving your side till your all better. Got it!?"

"Whatever you say Daredevil."