So Steve or maybe Frank has some sort of inner demons manifesting itself through their dreams causing horrible nightmares. Fear of sleep eventually drives the character to madness till noone around can overlook the problem. Baby Cakes will optomisicly try to help, but make things just wierder. Pony will give sound advise thta will be prompty ingored. Dr. Cakes and maybe a few colleagues make some sort of crazy machine that is the bastard child of science, drugs/medicine and psychotherapy. The machine would be designed to flush or remove unwanted dreams or nightmares. Pony will be skeptical of this new radical untested dream therapy, and the dean will no doubt have some other balls to the wall bad ass yet horribly shortsighted and dangerous quick fix that probably has something to do with labotimy or trepaning. Probably they will get access into the dream world and meet dead presidents or persons of historical signifigence who gives them some advice at the last minute, just in time to save the day.