Once Trixie brought Jackpot into the wagon she zapped him until he snapped out of it, "Who, what, where, why, how?!" Jackpot said looking around. "You went into some kind of love trance, but that's impossible since I was fine. What happened to you?"
"I don't know. The last thing I could remember was seeing a lavender alicorn then I was in a deep chocolate ocean, it was so deep, so warm, it felt so soothing..." He slowly started to drool but Trixie zapped him again, "Focus will you! We are on a mission to gather information for our hive, so we can feed off the love here and mother can take the rest of Equestria by force!"
"I know, I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me." He said shaking his head, "Let's just go over our list. Where to first?" Trixie pulled down a long scroll from the wall and looked at the map of Ponyville, "The best place to start is these farm lands, we need food after a long journey after all."
"Got it." They both jumped out and headed to the farm. They saw the sign was new despite the old wood that surrounded it, "Sweet Apple and Pear Acres?" Trixie asked confused and Jackpot shrugged. They walked into the farm and saw two older ponies. One was a male with a cutie mark of half a green apple with a star inside it and the female had a jar filled with pear butter as a cutie mark.
They were talking to the four slightly younger but still old ponies. They got close enough to hear them speaking, "Big mac, you and Sugar Belle take the North part of the orchard, Applejack you and Caramel have the East. We got the South and finally Caramel Pear and Big sugar you have the West."
"Looks like we are together again cousin." Big sugar said. Trixie looked him over: he was an earth pony, he had a purple coat, a curly carrot mane, green eyes, and a fruit cake cutie mark. Pear smiled at him, "There is no one else I would rather hang out with... Now grandpa do be careful. Zecora said if your joints are hurt, you should be alert, you need to take it slow, or your pain will grow."
He chuckled rubbing her head, "Only you can remember what she said exactly. Don't worry, I got my beautiful wife with me."
"Your too sweet Bright Mac, we are both old and you know it."
"And your still my Buttercup." The two kissed as Trixie looked at them, "Hey brother those two have an odd aura." She whispered looking at Bright Mac and Buttercup. Jackpot also looked, "Their aura reminds me of a dying or dead pony but they aren't that old to get those auras."
"Really weird. Let's go introduce ourselves before they scatter." Trixie trotted up to them, "Excuse me!" They all looked and Pear reacted, "Oh Trixie and Jackpot right? Glad to see your okay Jackpot."
"Oh thank you! Anyway we came because we are starving and those caramel pears, though delicious, barely filled our bellys." The whole family smiled as Pear and Big sugar lead the two into their house, "Well we can't have that. You guys go ahead and get to apple bucking, we will feed these two." Trixie watched them go. Earth ponies were some of the hardest to replace if they had too much strength. She got to see them buck a tree so hard that it shook the tree making apples fall into baskets right below the tree. Damn these farm ponies might be a tad difficult to replace, best use guard changelings...
Her thoughts were interrupted by a huge meal that the cousins whipped up for them. Sure changelings can eat food but it doesn't do anything for them, but when they tried the food it was filled with love. Love for the job they were doing, love for the trees, love for the apples, and love to make meals. The two changelings devoured the meals in seconds. "Wow you two weren't kidding about being hungry." Jackpot blushed in embarrassment, "Yeah and we can tell it was made with love." Pear smiled at this. "Um not to be rude but as a unicorn I noticed that Bright Mac and Buttercups auras were odd, is there a reason for that?"
Jackpot looked at Trixie oddly when she finished her question, but Pear just sighed, "Oh that. Well they died back when Apple Bloom was a baby. But when Twilight cured Celestia, Lucian, and Chronos from the Tantabus, Chronos felt bad for what he did when he was Dark Eternity. So he brought back Bright Mac and Pear Butter to show he was sorry for what he did. Mom cried hard that day and dad held her tight. It was such a sweet scene that he took a picture and we hung it on the wall." Both siblings looked at all the pictures on the wall. One was the scene that Pear told them about, it did look like a sickeningly sweet scene.
Three were wedding pictures, Big mac with Sugar Belle, Applejack with Caramel, and the third they had no idea who the two were. Trixie pointed, "Whose those two? I didn't see them with the family."
"Oh that's Apple Bloom and Pipsqueak. They aren't here, too busy running the Cutie Mark Crusaders Headquarters in town, along side Scootaloo who married Rumble. Sweetie Belle who married Button Mash and Babs seed who married Tender taps." Trixie smiled as she thought, more happy couples to replace. Maybe take the place of the males since the females might be trickier to replace. "They all look like very happy couples..."
Her thoughts were interrupted by loud rocking music that sounded far away, "What in Equestria is that sound?!" Pear lead them both back into town where the music was louder and ponies were screaming, "The Cutie Rockers!" Trixie looked at the four females on stage. One was an earth pony whose coat was white with brown spots, her eyes were brilliant gamboge and her mane was apple red with light tangelo streaks braided with a pink bow at the end. She was strumming an apple shaped bass and her cutie mark was the same, fans held up her cutie mark on signs screaming, "Apple Cord play that bass!"
On the drums was a light gray pegasus with electric purple eyes. Her mane was dark cerise with light cerise streaks, her cutie mark was a drum with purple sound waves coming off of it. Fans held up signs with her cutie mark shouting, "We love you Thunderous Beat!" A bright orange earth pony was playing a guitar. Her eyes were apple green, her mane was punk style with amaranth and mulberry streaks, her cutie mark was a guitar shaped like a music note. Fans held up signs of her cutie mark shouting, "Roxey Rhythm you rock!" The last one was a creamy orange unicorn, her eyes were sea foam green, her mane was moderate vermilion with moderate amaranth and brilliant amber steaks.
Her cutie mark was a heart with small music notes and a microphone on it. Fans held up signs with her cutie mark screaming, "Sing for us Sweet Sonata!" Trixie and Jackpot were drooling, being surrounded by so much love, "Thank you Ponyville! We are the Cutie Rockers and that's it for today!" The ponies wanted to rush them but two male ponies stopped them. One was a silver unicorn with violet eyes and an orange mane with gray streaks, the other was an amber unicorn with cornflower blue eyes and a mane that was turquoise with white streaks. "Sorry autographs are for later."
"Oh come on Silver Shield!"
"Just five minutes Amber Armor?"
"Sorry but no can do. Please move on until later." Trixie noticed that on their flanks their cutie marks matched their names but the shield was surrounded by an amber circle and the armor was surrounded by a silver circle. "The Cutie Rockers are exhausted and need some time to relax. There's a stall being set up for Cutie Rockers memorabilia right over there. Please go enjoy yourself while you wait." The ponies rushed to the large stall with tons of stuff and Trixie looked at her brother, "To bad none of the lower changelings are that good. Replacing the Cutie Rockers would have been like a gold mine for us." And Jackpot nodded in agreement.