Carl T. Vey

Carl T. Vey

Dr. Carl Travis Vey was the father of Michael Vey and the husband of Sharon Vey. Formerly a medical advisor to Elgen Inc., he is the secret leader of the resistance against Dr. Hatch. Despite this, he was presumed dead by his family, and operated behind his agent Dr. Coonradt, who poses as a supervisor to the resistance.

Biography

During the early 1990s, Carl Vey met a woman named Sharon, whom he fell in love with. In 1994, he had got a job as a research manager at the Pasadena General Hospital. When Elgen Incorporated began a partnership with the hospital, Carl became friends with a man named Dr. Hatch, who became his boss. When he and Sharon were married in 1995, they had a baby boy they named Michael. Over the course of eight years, Carl would be promoted to head of radiology before his death.

During this time, Vey, Hatch, a man named Dr. Coonradt, and his assistant, Anna Ferguson, designed a Magnetic Electron Inductor machine they called the MEI. When Michael and at least fifty eight other babies were tested in the machine, only 17, including Michael, had survived. Hatch was ordered to find the other children who survived, to see if they started dying as well. As Hatch tried desperately to find Michael, Carl Vey faked his death on October 16, 2004 (as his death certificate states) and fled, as he knew how bad the Elgen Corporation was becoming. After Dr. Coonradt faked his own death, he and Coonradt, known as the Voice, formed the Elgen Resistance, appointing Simon Kay (one of their colleagues) as chairman of the organization. Coonradt and Vey also hired Joel Ferguson, Anna's brother, as a resistance fighter. It is unknown where his organization gained the money and resources to become as powerful as it was (although not as powerful as the Elgen).

Possibly during the events of the first Michael Vey book, Vey found Cassy, a Glow born from the MEI, and sent her to live with The Voice.

In Hunt for Jade Dragon, Hatch uses Tara's power to disguise himself as Carl. He reveals to Michael that he never died, and explained that his death certificate "wasn't hard to get when you work at a hospital". He convinces Michael that the Elgen were the good guys.

in The Final Spark, it's revealed that Carl Vey is alive and the head of the Resistance, much to Hatch and Sharon's shock. Hatch calls him and orders him to show himself to the Electroclan, Michael's group. He tries to coax them into throwing bricks at him, blaming him for this war. However, they rebel against Hatch and throw bricks at him. Michael arrives and kills Hatch by vaporizing him.

At the end of the book, Carl becomes chairman of the Elgen Corporation, and hires Welch, one of Hatch's former guards who defected, as CEO.