"I mean -" Tony shrugged, he'd made peace with being here. Was it his first choice? No, but he knew enough of this world that it didn't really freak him out anymore. "It's not my first night here, so I'm not really freaking out anymore." He reminded Steve. "Steve, Steve take a minute okay, here hand me that lighter." He held out a hand to take it and fiddle with it a little bit so that Steve could get a light, he looked like he needed the familiar act of something like smoking to help him deal with this while he got his head around it.
Tony nodded, "Yeah a little bit, before the Academy closed we were having to deal with things coming through the portals and ending up in our reality and we'd have to fight them back and you know it was a whole thing. But we handled it."
Yeah he was going to have to actually ask him what year he was from, that was going to be cool. Steve was going to love it, Tony could tell all ready. "So uh, what year are you from?" He asked, an attempt at pulling off a band-aid with just a little bit of a halting start to it. "Cause like - I'm from New York City right? But when I came thought it was 2019." He told him with a small sympathetic look, because Tony wasn't an idiot he knew what he was throwing at Steve now on top of everything else and he didn't exactly relish doing it to him.
"It's just you know, you don't really seem to have seen phones like these before, and if you were from anywhere from the last ten years or so they'd look familiar to you at least a little bit. And this whole multiverse thing - it can sometimes mess with time too, this place is sort of... outside of time really so it's not so much that you've time traveled as much as you've traveled between realities. It's just as likely that I traveled to the past - even with the addition of the phones." Maybe it was just that this place was aware enough to know that the majority of them would understand them and want that kind of connection.