Tubbo didn’t actually know if he would be sent home after purgatory. The other losing teams could have been killed after for all he knows.
So I don’t think he was taken back easily, when the eye workers showed up to take him back he stood in front of his team and took what could have been his final stand. He fought them with everything he had to ensure the safety of his team.
Eventually, enough workers showed up to subdue and restrain him only for his team to go ballistic and demand they let him go.
It isn’t until things start getting bloody in his teams end that tubbo calls for them to stop and struggles harder against the workers that hold him back.
He agrees to go peacefully if his team is granted safety and even though he has no was of ensuring it, he doesn’t want to watch his family lose their life over his own.
As he’s being taken back to the boat and away from his screaming goslings, he think about how even if this is the end it would be worth it to have lead a team like theirs.
