Zoe Parker

**Zoe Parker** is one of the Rebel Knights. She is a student at Santo Domingo High School. Zoe was captain of the cheer squad before the town was invaded by evil space warlord, Lord Dreylock, and was dating LaShawn Devereux up until his death. Her, LaShawn, and Noodle Nelson were very close friends and she was devastated when both of them died one after the other. She had been at school the day of the invasion to attend her cheerleading practice along with Molly Costello. She had formed friendships with Natalie Callaway, the Flores twins, and Lori Tran. She has an antagonistic relationship with Jennifer Malone, due to her habit of keeping bombshell secrets and her connection with her father, but they became more civil towards one another. Other than LaShawn, Zoe had an brief attraction to Barrett before his death and began a relationship with Lori Tran in the fifth season.

She is portrayed by actor Meghan Rienks.

## Rebel Knights

Zoe is first seen with her boyfriend LaShawn Devereux, under the bleachers at Santo Domingo High School. She and LaShawn are interrupted by their friend Noodle Nelson, who wants LaShawn to come over and join him on the basketball court, along with Matt Walker. LaShawn agrees to come play in a few minutes and once he's gone LaShawn gets out his insulin and Zoe has to look away when he injects it.

When firebombs hit Santo Domingo, she is seen walking over to the court, hand in hand with LaShawn. They believe it is just a drill, and Zoe even goes so far as to make fun of Natalie Callaway for being neurotic and wanting to follow the rules, hinting at bad blood between the two. Then Mary Jones runs over to tell Coach that it isn't a drill, the town was under attack and there were aliens falling from the sky. It was reported on the radio that there was an alien invasion, and many adults are being transported off Earth.

Inside the school, most of the kids decide to risk dealing with the aliens and to head home mostly. Zoe wants to get home to her family, saying that her mom wouldn't be able to handle the situation and that she needs her. She also stated that her father is out of town on business. LaShawn thinks it isn't safe to go home, fearing that she'll be abducted as well, and forcibly stops her from leaving. His reasoning gets her angrier and angrier until Barrett McIntyre jumps in and calms her down enough that she decides to stay inside. She learns that aliens are abducting the adults firsts, but they are keeping the children on Earth. The town's Mayor Jack Malone is the only adult that is staying behind.

When many of Dreylock's foot soldiers approached the school, the group moves further into the school and Coach gives everyone something to do, while he tries to reason with them. Zoe along with the others watch in horror as the coach is vaporized before their very eyes when he refused to surrender himself to them, despite their word that they will spare the students. The foot soldiers then order the rest of the students to surrender as well where it is unknown where they are taking them. While Lyle, Addy, and Sam surrender themselves, the rest stay behind, not trusting the soldiers. Inside the school, Zoe, LaShawn, and Noodle head into the teachers' lounge looking for a radio. Zoe and Noodle try to get a signal with their phones while LaShawn tries the radio, but none of them have any luck. That night they all sleep in one room, Zoe and LaShawn get one of the couches.

Zoe and the rest of the group discuss what could have happened to the small children if the adults Zoe says that they smell as if they've been eating trash, and Noodle says maybe they have been. When Violet Adams suggests that maybe they came back because it was the only place left, Zoe gets upset that she's trying to scare everyone. Grover Jones reassures everyone that they can't know for sure about everyone outside. Coach tells everyone to go back to bed, and they all head out of the shelter. Zoe and LaShawn go back to sleep on their couch. The next morning Zoe heads into the bathroom and Natalie is already inside. She ignores her until Natalie asks when Zoe will get over their fight, and Zoe denies that anything has been going on. Natalie tells her that she didn't have a choice and Zoe tells her that she absolutely did. They argue about what happened, Zoe being upset that she was the one to get in trouble, Natalie says that her mother would never let her forget it and Zoe snaps back that since her own mom is a waitress it doesn't matter what she thinks. Natalie gets frustrated, saying the argument is pointless and leaves the bathroom. Zoe and LaShawn go into one of the supply closets looking for a new sweater for LaShawn, since his is starting to smell, and she jokes that they could start dressing a like. They talk about her family and LaShawn reassures her that they're probably fine. When they hear a noise they assume it's Noodle, and LaShawn jokes that he'll kick his ass when he finds him. They go to leave the supply closet and LaShawn gets attacked by the janitor, Mr. H. He tries to bite LaShawn but LaShawn is able to pin him down and kill him by pressing a book down on his neck. As Zoe and LaShawn leave the supply closet they hear another noise and Zoe freaks out thinking that it's another crazy person that will attack them. LaShawn grabs a pipe and heads towards where the noise was coming from, he heads around the corner, but nothing is there. They hear another noise behind them and LaShawn moves Zoe behind him and swings the bat but stops when he sees it's just Mary and Grover, who were heading down to the basement to bring the sick kids some supplies. Grover asks why he has a weapon and LaShawn explains that he just had to kill Mr. H. because he had gone crazy and attacked him and Zoe. Zoe and LaShawn start rambling that his eyes were crazy, and he was crazy strong and fast, and Grover cuts them off saying that need to tell the others and that they'll get Coach and talk about this upstairs. After Grover and Mary escape from the fallout shelter the group of survivors discuss what happened with LaShawn and Zoe as well as what happened in the fallout shelter. They all argue about what to do next, Zoe holds LaShawn back when he tries to get at Barrett. Zoe asks Barrett what they should do, and he tells them what they need to do to improve their chances of survival, while he tries to fix the radio so they can call for help.

### Season 2

Taking place one month after Molly's death, Zoe and the other knights struggle to continue with the fight against Dreylock and his army. Zoe is still grieving over losing Molly and reminisces to the day she became head cheerleader instead of her. However, everyone's grief was set aside when they learn that Molly's grief-stricken sister, Cleo had taken off with their arsenal, to go after her sister's killer, Dreylock. The knight opted to go after her before her quest for vengeance results in her death. With Natalie heavily pregnant, she is unable to join them, and another knight must remain behind to look after her, meaning only five Rebel Knights can go look for Cleo. Zoe suggests that she stay with Natalie, as they are best friends and she knew that despite being friends with Molly, Cleo had never liked her. Violet reminded her that Molly would want her to look after Cleo as they had promised her that before her death. Zoe reluctantly agreed to join the rest of the knights in their search for Cleo. Grover volunteers to look after Natalie while Violet, Zoe, Diesel, Barrett, and LaShawn go out to find Cleo.

While searching for Cleo all over town and being prepared to take out Dreylock's soldiers, Zoe and the rest of the knights meet identical twins Cassie and Caitlyn Flores, and they join them in their search for Cleo. They learn that the Flores twins were visiting their father Santo Domingo when the invasion happened. They also revealed that they used to live in Santo Domingo until their parents divorced. The twins' mother moved to L.A. after the divorce, taking them with her and their father stayed in town. On the day of the invasion, the twins came to town to spend time with their father, but when

## Season 3

Zoe, along with the rest of the knights draw out a plan to save Grover after he surrendered himself to Dreylock and his forces. Upon learning that Dreylock has planned to execute Grover in front of Mayor Malone and other residents, the knights raced to the location in an attempt to stop the execution. However, an unmasked stranger fires a rocket launcher to Dreylock's ship, destroying it, saving Grover's life and causing all hell to break loose. Zoe was the one who hugged Grover, relieved that he is okay, and the knights retreated in a huff. After the knights returned to the school, they inform him that they found out that Grover was set up and they apologize for turning their back on him. Grover accepts their apology and believes that Dreylock is trying to divide the knights to defeat them. Natalie doesn't think that as Dreylock cares more about conquering Earth than dividing the knights. She believes that whoever sent Collins and -- to attack them may have been the culprit who is tearing the knights apart. This makes the knights realize they have another enemy to contend with, not just Dreylock. A While later, Zoe, Natalie, and Grover went to --, when they returned, they meet a rebellious girl, who had stowed in their car after rescuing Grover. They learn that her name is Jennifer Malone, the town mayor's daughter. She was also Grover's ex-girlfriend, whom he dated a year before. Grover is angered to see Jennifer again. He revealed that he briefly dated her before finding out she used him to get back at her father for sending her to boarding school. Grover hasn't forgiven Jennifer for her actions, despite her apologies. The knights keep a reign on Jennifer, until she is trustworthy.

## Trivia

* Zoe and Natalie have been best friends since kindergarten.
* In the *Freakish* series, her mother was a waitress, she had twin brothers that are four years old, and she loses Noodle, Natalie, and LaShawn. But in *Rebel Knights*; her father is a Democratic Representative, her mother is a housewife, she has an older sister, and younger brother, and she loses Noodle, LaShawn, and Molly. Natalie is alive in the Rebel Knights series and Zoe is a godmother to both of Natalie's kids, daughter Molly and son Diesel.
* Zoe and Molly were the only two characters to know about Natalie's secret attraction to Grover Jones.
* She mistrusted both Barrett McIntyre and Jennifer Malone during their time as Rebel Knights. However, she only became more civil towards Jennifer.
* She was crushed on be fellow Rebel Knight, Lori Tran before becoming her new love interest.