When I woke up this morning, I had a simpler solution for this!
Delete the nulls. *You noticed my layers where all different colours? That way I can click the colour, and select label group, delete all nulls in one go.. or select all spikes etc!)
Parent spikes to body and apply this expression to the scale
sub=thisComp.layer(“body”).transform.scale-[100, 100];
value-sub
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