Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25

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Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
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AuthorRichard Paul Evans
LanguageEnglish
SeriesMichael Vey
GenreSci-Fi
Published Simon Pulse, Mercury Ink
Media typePaperback and Hardcover
Pages326
ISBN 1442475102
Followed by Michael Vey: Rise of the Elgen  

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 is a 2011 young adult/science fiction novel by Richard Paul Evans, the first book in a octology published by Glenn Beck's owned Mercury Ink. The story follows Michael Vey, a teenager with the ability to pulse or surge electricity out of his hands, as he ventures to California to save his mother from a mysterious organization.

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Michael Vey is a teenager with Tourette's syndrome and electrical abilities that allow him to shock through direct contact. He manages to remain inconspicuous and "normal" until his school bullies attack him, causing him to lose control and shock them in front of popular cheerleader Taylor Ridley. Michael worries that Taylor will tell everyone what she saw, but when she seeks him out over the next few days, Michael figures out that she also has electrical abilities. Michael, Taylor, and Ostin, Michael's genius best friend, form a small club called the "Electroclan".

Michael and Taylor discover that they were both born at the Pasadena General hospital in California within a few days of each other, and that many infants born in that same time in the same hospital mysteriously died. They also discover that Michael and Taylor are being tracked by a secret organization called the Elgen, who are also linked to the deaths at the hospital. Michael and Taylor receive scholarships from an "Elgen Academy". When Michael tells his mother about the scholarship on his birthday a few days later, she becomes frightened, and while making their way out of the restaurant they were eating at, a man attempts to rob them. Michael shocks him unconscious, and another man appears, accompanied by two teenagers. The man identifies himself as Dr. James Hatch, and he is aware about Michael's abilities. The teenagers with him also have special electrical abilities. They proceed to shock Michael's mother and make Michael pass out.

Michael wakes up in a hospital and is told that his mother has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, Taylor has been taken captive from her cheerleading practice by the Elgen and it taken to the Elgen Academy. She meets several other students at the school, all of whom have electrical abilities. While Taylor initially enjoys her time at the academy, she soon realizes that Dr. Hatch manipulates the electric children to prove their loyalty. When Taylor refuses, she is tortured and sent to Purgatory, a small cell in the basement with three other rebellious electric children.

Michael makes a deal with his bullies, who agree to drive him and Ostin to Pasadena to rescue Taylor and his mother. When they arrive, Michael and the others try unsuccessfully to free Taylor, but are ultimately captured by the Elgen. Dr. Hatch offers to let him join the school, but he must prove his loyalty by killing one of his bullies. When he refuses, he is sent to Cell 25 to be tortured. Eventually, Michael is released, and Dr. Hatch has one of the other electric children, Zeus, kill Taylor and Ostin in front of him to try to force his hand. However, Michael manages to overpower him, rescuing his friends and recruiting Zeus. They break the other electric children out of Purgatory, and a lengthy battles ensues between the Electroclan and the Elgen.

Michael and the Electroclan take over the control room and release the human captives, who then help to clear out the remaining Elgen. The electroclan is nearly defeated by Dr. Hatch's electric children, but Michael manages to overwhelm them. Dr. Hatch escapes from the academy with his electric children, leaving the Electroclan victorious.

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