Tony empathized with Ned. It couldn’t be easy facing the blip (snap, whatever) and then showing up in Goodland. Hell, he came from moments after the initial finger-snapping and had wanted to drink himself into oblivion when he arrived. His family’s arrival gave him a reason not to. He didn’t want to imagine how it felt being “alone” in the strange dimension. Still, he’d make sure Ned knew he wasn’t alone. He had Peter and now he had the rest of their family too. Any friend of Peter’s and all that jazz.
He laughed when Ned mentioned the aisles; no one could accuse Tony of lacking a sense of humor about himself. However, he grew more serious when he answered the boy’s other questions. “There is some sort of barrier,” Tony explained, “I’ve been working on it with a few others, but…this place defies both physical and magical laws. No one seems to be able to break through. Cisco managed a portal once so we managed to get…” He decided not to tell Ned about the demons. “Some bad guys out, but no one could get through after that.”