I'm doing my best

You don't drop the fact that Piper stole a BMW and drove it around in L.A. and Leo knowing how to pilot a helicopter via Hephaestus powers and NOT have a car chase in the BOOK SERIES! LIKE HUH!?

There's so much potential for this: imagine the Seven being chased down by a horde of monsters and they're so far away from the Argo ll like halfway across a European city. Looking around, Leo notices a car rental area and gets an idea.

Cut to Piper and him at the front of the car prepping it. Everyone is squished in the middle and back rows with their weapons ready to attack the enemy and in the trunk area of the car we have Coach Hedge got his pile of grenades with him.

"Uhm, Piper? Leo?" Jason spoke up, squished to the left seat with Annabeth and Frank. "Are you sure this'll work?"

But Piper waved away any concern. "Nah, don't worry about it. What could go wrong?"

Needless to say: everything goes to shit.

They went over the speed of 85. Shit gets tossed around, smacking people in the faces and stomaches.

Hallway through the drive Piper ending up wanting to fight the enemy too, making the others take over the driver's seat and the demigods gets swapped out multiple times that it somehow ends up with no one driving for like 3 minutes until Annabeth grabs onto the wheel.

What their car driving looks like (the other car is the enemy monsters):

There was so much carnage, chaos, and injuries. No one is coming out unscathed. Once they arrived to where the Argo 2 is docked, every single member is EXHAUSTED.

Everyone's clothes is messy with some blood stains from the monsters, the car is all kinds of fucked up, they all have a warrant out for their arrest. Hazel threw up once she stepped out the car, feeling really queasy. Jason now has a phobia towards seagulls (don't ask) he stick his head out the window when they went air born and suffered so much. Even Coach Hedge is tuckered out from the whole event.

Someone definitely got hit with a tree branch when they stuck out their head (five bucks on Piper)

No one uttered a single word until...

Left is MY FIC, right is the ACTUAL BOOK QUOTE IT WAS INSPIRED BY

(Mask context: masquerade ball / cinderella au)

It has been doing numbers EVERYWHERE and I only found out from this lovely person who commented on Ao3: