Right now things are set up for Iron Man to be the hero. The Wasp is now a living bomb and has caught the heroes and Skrulls in some sort of energy field. Iron Man flew back to Stark Tower to get a new armor because his was about to fall apart. But it also means he's not caught in the energy field holding the other Earth heroes (and villains) captive.
Now, part of me wants to say Tony grabs a new armor, discovers Jarvis is a Skrull, says "you're fired" while lasting him with a repulsor saving Luke Cage's baby. He then flies in, grabs the Wasp and lifts her out of the atmosphere where she explodes (but he is out of the blast range), thereby saving the day, being the hero and getting rid of a crappy character in the Wasp.
But it sounds too good to be true. And that's why I dont think it will happen.
Marvel is keeping things under wraps, not even local comic shops have the images for post SI covers, meaning some real nasty stuff is probably going to happen.
One of the few things we know of in SI's wake are the Dark Avengers, who's picture (albeit shadowed" can be seen here:
Who it seems in that picture are Ms Marvel in her original red costume; Spiderman in his black costume, possibly even re-attached to the symbiote, Hawkeye who you'll remember grabbed the Young Avenger by the same name's bow and arrow and starting killing a bunch of Skrulls, and finally Wolverine in what appears to be his old brown costume.
The guy in the Iron Man armor? The only thing we know is he's called the Iron Patriot, and Marvel said the questions people should be asking is "who is the Iron Patriot?" (again, that worries me). He's got an armor that looks like Iron Man's but with a red, white and blue paint scheme. That's it. It may be Stark, it may be the current Captain America Bucky Barnes, or it could even be the return of Steve Rogers (possibly not fully healed from his wounds and needing the armor)? We just dont know, and no one at Marvel is talking.
We also dont know much what Dark Reign is going to be about, only it deals with the fallout of SI. It's widely speculated the villains take over, even if for a short time, following the possible decimation of Earth's heroes during the invasion. The Dark Avengers may be an underground team fighting to free the world from the villains control. Are they a team that works for the villains? They may be the characters we know whose personalities were changed due to the Wasp's energy field.
Guesses, guesses, guesses. That's all we've got.
Sadly, the way Iron Man has been treated over the last few events, not to mention how disappointing those events were (remember, a crappy ending can kill a story no matter how good the rest is), I just have a bad feeling us Iron Man fans are going to hate how this ends.
Let's hope I'm wrong and Stark comes out as the big hero after all is said and done.
