Zeph had used that "come to the principal's office" tone in his voice when ordering Norton Coats and Colby Shelby to come to the owner's office in the Quantum Wave Enchantress while calling them officers and not Administrators, so they moved rather quickly fearing they were in trouble or something bad had happened.
Whatever the cause, Zeph had said that the departure of the CV Poseidon's Nemesis was being delayed by an hour, after he had told Norton Coats and the other NEOs to prepare for departure without him as that he would catch up later in the Enchantress.
Norton Coats looked at Colby Shelby when they ran into each other outside of the Land Lover's Last Resort two minutes after receiving Zeph's call over their communication devices that were little more than small short-range two-way radios that could send and receive signals from the MCU up to a few miles away.
"What happened?"