Fear.
Rose would have been sitting on the floor of her palace, still conflicted about the whole ordeal. It pained her further knowing that her poor baby could've been through so much more than what Blue described. But whats fucked her mind up more is the fact that White was gonna rip Stevens gem out. Rose had to act fast. She had to ensure that Steven was okay- Actually, there would have been no way of even doing that without a ship. And she'd have to get past White Diamond. Rose groaned, this was just like Era 1 all over again. Except she didn't have Pearl.. and White knew of her little trick already.
White already knew of the situation. She has ears everywhere.. lets just say Yellow was the perfect candidate for putting Rose in her place. In Whites world, she believed that Rose was just a bit defected and needed a few eons in the prison tower. Yellow Diamond had entered Roses Palace, unannounced without her pearl. “Pink?” Rose was startled by her fellow diamond, standing up to turn around and look at her. “Yellow. You could've knocked before entering.” She crossed her arms, staring up at the latter.
“Listen, I'm aware you've been.. gone, for awhile now. You played your little tricks on us Pink, but its over now. You can return to.. your usual form.” She pointed out the new outfit Rose had on. “You’ll be assigned a different colony, we don't want the samething to happen again.” Rose burrowed her eyebrows, scoffing. “Yellow — you are aware that I'm not doing any of this again, right?” She took a step back from the taller diamond. “I don't wanna be like you or White. Destroying planets.. ruining the lives of specimens who already resided on there; its just not right. I'm not doing it anymore.”
Yellow squinted her eyes at the smaller diamond, crossing her arms. “Do you really think you have a choice in the matter, Pink? Blue may make excuses and tolerate this behavior from you, but I wont!” Rose felt rage bubbling up, she struggled to keep it down. It was just like how the diamonds treated her millennia ago. “I. Don't. Care!” She stomped, cracking the floor. Yellow took a step back and stared at Rose as if she just said the most offensive thing towards her. “I will not torment myself with this whole...colony mess! That's the problem with Homeworld— the problem with you, and Blue, and White! You only care about yourselves and nobody else! You shatter anyone who wants to be free from your tyranny and dictatorship, your full of yourselves!” She screamed at Yellow who raised an eye, clearly offended. “Thats. It.” Yellow grabbed Pink, and dragged her out of her palace.
A sudden rush of horrid memories replayed in her mind as she realized where Yellow was dragging her to. “No! Stop!” She tried to wiggle out of her grasp to no avail as Yellow continued to drag her to the godforsaken tower. As they paseed through hall after hall, Rose saw White Diamond overseeing the situation from another room, smiling brightly just as she's pretty much always doing. “White! You- You put Yellow up to this, didn't you! You little bitch!”
“Pink! Watch your language. And watch your tone to White.” As lower ranked gems watched in disbelief at what was currently happening, Rose still struggled to get of Yellows grasp. Kicking and screaming, just like Era 1. And soon, they finally reached the tower Rose had dreaded all of her life. At this point, she was engulfed in tears and rage.
“And you can stay in here until that attitude of yours subsides!” She threw Rose in the Prision Tower and locked the cell immediately after closing it. Prior to that, Rose ran up to the door, trying to make it before it closed but utterly failing. She punched at the door snd screamed. “Let me out! This isn't fair!” Soon enough, the screaming died out to faint sobs that filled the tower.
“I don't wanna go through this again.”