What is an example of Freak the Mighty doing something daring?

Freak the Mighty is created when Max places Kevin on his shoulders. Together they accentuate the positive qualities in each other. For example, Kevin has a disease that makes it difficult for him to grow properly and requires him to use crutches, but he's a genius. Max, on the other hand, is large and strong, but has a difficult time with education and socializing. When they work together, though, they are able to run, walk,...

Freak the Mighty is created when Max places Kevin on his shoulders. Together they accentuate the positive qualities in each other. For example, Kevin has a disease that makes it difficult for him to grow properly and requires him to use crutches, but he's a genius. Max, on the other hand, is large and strong, but has a difficult time with education and socializing. When they work together, though, they are able to run, walk, play, socialize, and think their way through anything. Kevin feels like a knight when he is hoisted up on Max's shoulders because it reminds him of stories of King Arthur and knights slaying dragons. Along with that thinking, Kevin comes up with a daring adventure that he and Max can do together.

One day, Kevin tells Max to meet him at 3:00 a.m. dressed in black so they can go on an adventure. What they end up doing is fishing out a woman's wallet from the sewer grate to discover to whom it belongs. Kevin had seen Tony D's gang drop it down there, so he decided it would be fun to find out whose it was and return it. They end up taking the emptied wallet to Loretta Lee, who lives in a tenement. This is really daring, because here are a couple of twelve-year-old boys walking across town and into a dangerous neighborhood all alone. They meet Iggy and Loretta, who know Max's dad who is in jail, which suggests that they are criminals, too. Max describes how he leaves the situation as follows:

"I don't say a word, I just run us home, thumping the short way back around the pond, and my big feet never even trip me up because I'm on automatic, I'm this running machine" (72).

The above passage shows how scared Max is to have done something so daring. Fortunately, Kevin's sarcastic and confident attitude shines through and Max ends up laughing about what they've just done.