Ben's earlier battle assessment event and his approach and solution towards jean's phoenix problem is way to similar (almost EXACT COPY) of what transpire with the fic "A Third Path to the Future"! It's kinda disappointing really.. cause i really thought at first that what you did was pretty awesome. Until! I've found and read a third path to that future.

I've read this fic first before i discover ATTTF and It's honestly pretty hard to say that it's nothing but a simple coincidence specially knowing the fact that those exact scenes happen to that fic, 4-5-6 years earlier than this fic... So... Overall, it was a dissatisfying experience. A blatant copy with minor changes/dressup just to made things look new.. You, you... should be ashamed doing this. Anyway DROPPED!

This is a review I received.

I realized there were similarities between my story and others, including Vimesenthusiast. But the amount of similarity had not occurred to me until it was pointed out by this reviewer.

I went and actually read through the first chapters of their work, something I had not done since first reading it several months beforehand when I first stumbled across their work. When I realized how similar they actually were, I was ashamed. Both with the level of similarity and the fact I missed it.

I reached out to Vimesenthusiast explaining the situation and here is their reply:

As i don't read Ben 10 works, I have never noticed LOL. As for directly taking from my works, honestly, so long as the romance aspect and how I deal with the main girls is different, take as much inspiration as you want from my work.

So yeah, they were really cool about the situation and I could have let things lie there. But it still bugged the hell out of me.

I intend to go back and fix it.

You guys come seeking fresh stories, new looks on things.

To me, it's like I gave a shoddy piece that looks like a knockoff of a great author's work and for that I apologize.

I will rewrite this, and I will do better.

Some things will remain, Ben is going to make steps to improve the world using a company built with his technology. He's from a world with advanced tech and space travel capabilities, of course I'm going to use that. So there will be some similarity to the work done there between the stories but I plan for his methods of achieving that goal, and the roads made in that direction, to be hugely different.

I hope to make a better work for this, and I hope you all stay to enjoy the ride.

I already have three chapters done and will be posting soon for your chance to compare and let me know if it was worth the time and effort.

Thank you.