User blog comment:Neowitch/676 - End of the Party/@comment-4754162-20120802021735

Say... if INDEED devil fruit was created in the way we saw and speculated (Smiley died and the closest fruit around absorbs the power and turned into devil fruit), then Ace's Mera Mera fruit will be somewhere at Marineford !!!

Which means the marines got their hands on Ace's fire powers!!!